FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1937. Manawatu Herald LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 4847, 8 October 1937, Page 2

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1937. Manawatu Herald LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Levin Borough Council is going into the question of installing a sewerage system hi the borough. 1 A new parachute allowing leaps to he made from low altitudes has been designed by a British firm and successfully tested.

Pleading poverty for the first time in. its history, the British Broadcasting Corporation has decided against before-breakfast broadcasts. The 8.8. C. claims an income of £3,000,000 but states that broadcasts and television service impose a severe financial strain.

On the eve of a wedding which he had journeyed from Wellington to Napier to attend, Joseph Smith, a waterside worker of Wellington, aged 67, was struck by a motor car and killed in Napier at 10 p.m. on Wednesday. He leaves a widow and grown-up family.

Jumping from a motor jigger when he was suddenly confronted with a train rounding the bend, Air M. Stratton, a signal inspector stationed at Aramoho, suffered head injuries and concussion. The. accident occurred south of Stratford. Although Hr Stratton jumped clear, the locomotive struck anddamaged the jigger.

It is understood that Herr Hitler will receive the Duke of Windsor at the end of his ten days’ visit to Germany, during which the Duke will inspect the workers’ homes erected in connection with Krupps’ works, one of the earliest housing schemes in Germany. He will also see the housing schemes of the Dye Trust and others. Workers in the Rotorua Public Hospital laundry made an unusual and unexpected discovery when a parcel of elothe's was sent in to be washed, reports a Rotorua correspondent. On going through the garments before placing them in water, an employee was astonished to find a roll of bank notes in a well-hidden place. The undoing of the bundle revealed a sum of £349, every note being of an old denomination, the oldest one issued in 1905. Inquiries were made, and it was later revealed that the clo*tlies were the property of an elderly woman who had recently been admitted to the institution. The patient was an old-age pensioner, and generally believed to be in poor circumstances.

A decision to close legal oflices in Auckland on Saturdays was made at a meeting of the Auckland District Law Society this week. The new hours will operate from the first Saturday in November. Legal offices in Wellington are already working to a five-day week. Despite the warnings issued by magistrates visiting Foxton that fines would be imposed where residents were charged with operating unlicensed radio sets, the Postmaster informs us that there are 59 such sets in the borough at the present time.

A storeman who had suffered injury at his work surprised the Arbitration Court at Auckland yesterday by his reply when asked what he first did when he Avent back to work. “I Avas just bookmaking,” he said. “Did you say bookmaking!” asked Mr Justice O’Regan. "Yes, bookmaking,” said the witness, “booking orders in and out.” ' During the Committee stages of the German Trade Agreement, Bill in the Legislative Council yesterday, Rev. J. K. Archer, \vho Avas speaking for the first time as a councillor, expressed regret at the inclusion of Avine in the schedule of reduced tariffs. “As far as I am concerned,” he said, “I avoliM not exchange one pound of New Zealand batter for a tun of the best Avine produced in Germany.” There Avas too much wine in Noav Zealand already, he added, and hundreds of young people Avert* drinking it sometimes in place of afternoon tea.

At the 51st annual dog shoAV> held in Wellington this Aveek, Mr G. WestAvood, of Foxton secured first prize in the open championship section and also annexed first place in the special open section Avith his entry “Ivan the Terrible, of Mana,” . The local dog, AA’hich is a Borzois (Russian Wolf Hound) of aristocratic breeding, proved himself no mean champion, beating dogs Avhieli had never previously been beaten, in his first appearance. “Ivan tilt* Terrible” is a particularly fine dog and although only fifteen months old, stands thirty-three inches high at the shoulders. He has been in Mr WestAvood’s possession since he jAvas three months’ old.