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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9811, 12 June 1914, Page 4

Miss E. Kirk, of Palmerston North, was successful at the Hamilton Show in securing Ist and 2nd prizes for point lace. Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M.. lined a first offender 5s on a charge of drunkenness at the Magistrate's Court this morning. The Manawatu branch of the N.Z. Poet and Telegraph Oflioerf' Association hold their annual dinner in the Empire Hall on Saturday. June 27. A howling gale brought up an enormous sea at Hokhika yesterday, causing considerable damage. The jiosition now is said to bo more serious than previously. Amongst thoso who assisted at the Ter-! race End (JJult'* hall on Tuesday were Mr and Mrs A. Turner and Mr and Mrs W. Adams. j

The Wellington City Council last night decided to add an item of £15.000 to the loan schedule for the establishment of a municipal milk depot, provided tho Government supplies the site. Mr Leys, editor of the Auckland Star, in the course of a happy speech before the Empire Press Union, in London, said ho had picked up many wrinkles in London. He was tickled at l>eing able to buy a 6.30 edition of tho evening paper at 5 o'clock. All Saints' Church authorities have arranged for the «fc of the Orange Hall, in Lombard street, each Sunday, and it is proposed to held a Sunday school there for junior children under 9 years of age. This will save the littlo once walking to All Saints. Prior to leaving Masterton for Napier, whether he has been transferred. Mr Roy Messenger was entertained by the Wairarapa Amateur Athletic. Club, and presented with a gold sovereign case. Mr Messenger is a well-known runner, and has competed at Palmerston meetings. The new concrete bridge over the Oroua River at Rangiotu is now rapidly approaching completion, and it practically requires only the approaches to be metalled for the bridge to be thrown open for traffic. It has been constructed by the Manawatu and Kairanija County Councils. Tho Health Inspector (Mr M. O'Brien) reported to tho Hospital Board yesterday that during the past month the following cases of infectious disease had been reported :—Palmerston District: Diphtheria 5, varicella 5, polyomyelitis 2, enteric 1, scarlet 1, total 14." Palmerston Borough: Diphtheria 5, chickenpoz 1. For two years past a good deal of the cheese manuafctured at Mr McDonald's factories, at Tiakit-thuna, R-angiotu. and Bainesse has been sold in South Africa. Mr McDonald informed a "Standard" reporter that there are good prospects ahead of this trade, as tho country is r.ot exactly suited for cheese-making. Freights, too, are less, and prices well sustained, so that there is a I market for New Zealand cheese there. j

The first mooting of the new session of the Baptist Literary and Debating Society wis held last night, in Church street Ari attracted syllabus lias been drafted, which includes one or two intcr-sooiety debate challenges. A character sketch of Lloyd George by the president, the Rev. Forde Carlisle, is the arrangement? for next Thursday night. The heavy rains of the post few days have made the roods near the Oroua bridge very heavy and sloppy. In several places the road badly ntcde repairing. At one particular s-jwt. there is a hole, quite inches deep and three or four feet in ammeter. In its present condition it presents a trap for unwary motorists or cvcliste. The carting of metal along the Longourn-Karere road for road-making going on in the estate lately subdivided there has cut that thoroughfare up also. The groat fertility of the land between Tiakitabuna and Bainesso may be gauged ! from iho fact that, when Mr fc. McDonald : commenced operations in his first factory there, i':vo years ago. the output was 80 tons. J This year tO2 tons of checco were manufactured. The value of the former was £4BOO, ,811(1 of the latter £40,000, approximately. Then there was only one factorv working. and now there arc three situated at Baines*o, Tiakitabuna, nnd Rangiotu. In some | instances, particularly on the first-class land, settlers have mode £9 per cow for the year's working on butter-fat alone. And it .has to be remembered that a good deal of the land served by the factories was. only a few years back, considered to be waste sandv land. Once the large blocks of native land around there are opened up there are great possibilities ahead of the district The newly-formed All Saints' Girls' Club held a social gathering in the club rooms at All Saints' old schoolroom last evening, when there were over a hundred young people present. The ncces*ity for such a club has been amply demonstrated by the largo membership already enrolled. The main room available wifl be used for lectures. Swedish drill, and other activities the club may take in hand. A partition between two rooms on the east side of the building has been removed, ami a nice comfortable club room made. This is now being papered and linoleum laid down, while a fireplace has been built in. Another room provides facilities for supplying refreshments. The club premises will be open all day. and should provide a. long-felt want locally— -a. place for jjirls who arc in town all day to go and spend a quiet, hour. A general meeting of the club will be held on Thursday, June 25, to consider rules for its management.

.bow week MM* of hurh-olass vau iiMjiialilierf will w opened to-mom.-* inf at ten o'dock at Mr Andrew \|. . During a dki—f'nn «i the River 1meeting this morning. Trustee Kyi* that ha ta£#*M"" **• H dock " ' tide of tilt iwer «© wet for ax years , Hie donors of tha cup presented t Manawitu A. and P. Association on I STw«* Maffl[i*Aft BUck v nuni) and B.H Slack (Taikorea), a:,.i Mr Q. & Bhek ** P**" 0081 * Bta,<Mi It ii understood that a pmfit of £2 was made on the Auckland Exhmii It k to be expended on the beautified:, the Domain, when* the - Exhibition w ... held. Mr Harry Lander waa the guru <,; New Bouth Waka Journalists' Assouan In the coune of a speech he appeals the pre** to use its mighty influence bettering conditions in the carry inp stock on the Australian railways. He ...... the existing methods were an a - .. disgrace to those in authority and am■.„.. Ed to cruelty of tha vilest nature. Poverty Ray paatoraliata. tempted by |ri f •.. prices ruling for fat stock for freeser> Ui season, disposed of too many younc *»i*. with the result that a shortage is being > perienced, and prices at yesterday* Gisborne were extremely nigh. R >in: • . wethers fetched the record price of 24* 6d, while Lincoln wethers Drought a jki i . less. Empty ewes made as high as 19? 2d, and shorn hoggets 17s. At the meeting of the River Board Um morning, thirty-seven letters were received from ratepayers regarding payment of rafa* In several instances cheque* for amount* were forwarded under protest, tome letters being strongly worded, special referenoe u ing made to the fact that one owner *<m]ii have to pay, and another, who had form ally objected, would not. In one case the. writer paid the amount, and had the receipt specially endorsed "under protest" Mr Win. L. F. Fetch, of FeiWing. wrote to the meeting of the Maoawatu-Kairanp River Board this morning inviting lie Board to inspect the willow planting work done on his property there. He had souk* two miles of frontage on the Oroua Rher which has been successfully treated by «x tensive willow planting. Trustee Nathan said that he believed the writer's treatment had been wonderfully successful, and moved that the engineer be instructed to pay a visit to the works with those members who can get away. Trustee Kyle seconded the motion, which was carried. The inspection will be made after the Winter Show. There was considerable perturbation among residents 'of Sydenham, a suburb of Christclmrch, on a rooent Saturday, and in tho afternoon several able-bodied male residents were to bo seen industriously cleaning out fowlbouses and drains, and tidying up their premises generally. The cause of all the bustle was a diminutive woman armed with a notebook and pencil, who had threatened all sorts of pains and penalties if her instructions were not carried out. To some people she passed herself off as a health inspector, to others as a City Council inspector, and to others again as merely a city inspector. But the was none of theso thing*. The municipal and health authorities of Christclmrch not only disclaimed any knowledge of the woman, but were surprised to find that fuch an inspection had been made." Children, drams, sinks, backyards, chimneys, fowl-runs, and other details were diligently examined, and in one house the z alous health enthusiast even arrested a piece of celery, en route to the soup pot After a brief inspection of the suspect, she allowed it to be used, while an awed house wife looked on in wonderment as to what might happen next The.explorer had a very good morning's fun, and it is understood that Sydenham looks and smells sweeter for the visitation. *