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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 491, 1 September 1922, Page 4

A London message reports that Sir Eric Geddos has accepted nomination for the presidency ol the Federation of British, industries. A memorial tablet to the late Mr William McLean was unveiled at the Spiritualist Church, Wellington, by the national president of the New Zealand Association oi Spiritualist Churches, Mr W, C. Nation. for trespassing on the Claudelands racecourse last February, being an excluded person under the Gaming Act, Henry Koely was lined £lO in the Police Court at Hamilton this week. It is the intention of Mr W. 11. Field’s supporters in Levin to entertain him at an early date in recognition of his work for that portion of his electorate. Under the alteration in the electoral boundaries, Levin is no longer a portion of Mr Field’s district, On August Ist there were 101 patients in the Palmerston North hospital. During the month 156 were admitted, 145 discharged and 8 died. To-day there were 104 inmates of the institution. The collective days’ stay was 3390 and the daily average of patients 109.4. An exchange says that the war against straying cattle which is carried on by the New Plymouth borough inspector is having embarrassing results as the animals impounded are costing too much to feed and the foes are not high enough to cover the cost. The Victoria College Debating Society invited Mr Potter, M.P. for Roskill, to lake part in a debate on the participation of University students in political and social controversies. Mr Potter (says the Dominion) has emphatically declined the invitation. Mr J. Horn (Wakatipu), speaking in the House of Representatives yesterday during the Budget debate, deprecated the party spirit which pervaded our politics and which blighted it at. every turn. He thought the remedy for the present unsatisfactory position was to go back to the National Government, In reply to a complaint by Mr Hawken that urines of well-known electors were being improperly removed from the main electoral roll, Mr Massey said in the House of Representatives _ yesterday that the greatest cave was being taken to get clean rolls and to prevent names being improperly taken off. It was the duty of every elector to see that his or her name was now duly on the roll. “If that isn't the test of love I don’t know what is,” said Mr Slipper at the Supremo Court, Wanganui, when Ivy Murant, who pleaded guilty to theft of jewellery at Tailmpe, came m> for sentence. Mr Slipper’s remark referred to a young man who was present and wanted to marry the prisoner. His Honour said he Had given the matter careful consideration. The prisoner had had a warning a year ago, when she was given probation for theft, but it did not have the desired effect, He was not satisfied that the proposed marriage would assist her reformation, and she would be sentenced to twelve months’ reformative treatment. The prisoner sobbed bitterly on receiving the sentence. “Having spent six months in New Zealand, I' have a great affection for ycur country,” remarked Professor W. T. Goode, during a lecture at Auckland. “Some of fho impressions I have gained here are very good ones, others are not. I intend to let them simmer in my mjad, apd later, perhaps, will commit them to paper. You have tilings hero which are unique, but which the Government does not make known. That should not be. Many things 1 have seen in the Dominion should be ‘boosted’ across the world. This country should be the playground of the world. In England they do not know enough about you—about your possibilities, your hopes, and your achievements. Indeed, some people over there seem to think that New Zealand >s a suburb of Sydney.” (Laughter.) Delicious fried, boiled or poached eggs; most wholesome and nourishing food. Preserve a supply while cheap with Shetland's “Moa” brand egg preservative. No unpleasant smell or flavour.—Advt. If you have au idea for the improvement of existing mechanical devices or processes of manufacture call and consuli us. We can offer sound advice and secure for you patent rights in all countries. Henry Hughes, Ltd., patent attorneys, 157 Featherstou street, Wellington.—Advt. Ladies and gentlemen I—The whiteness of your linen is an absolute triumph for "No-rubbing” laundry help.—W. li. Willoughby—Advt. As a reliable indication of the latest movements of fashion the first spring millinery display arranged for to-morrow by the C. M, Ross Co., Ltd., will prove most interesting and instructive, being thoroughly representative qf thp leading, productions from fashion centres overseas. The favour of a visit from ladies interested will be highly appreciated,—Advt,

There have been 107 bankruptcies a Auckland so far this year against 60 foil the whole of last year. In the billiards match in England PeuK is leading McConachy by 12,262 points to 9813. At the latest session McL’onachy made a break of 527. The Wbangarei Borough Council intends submitting proposals to the ratepayers to raise a loan of £46,000 for improvements to the town. Wednesday was the eighth anniversary of the landing at Eamoa of the advance guard of the Expeditionary lorco from New Zealand. Complaints are being made in golfing circles in Auckland of women players going on the links wearing shoes with high heels. Workers’ dwellings that are built by the Whangarei Borough Council,-equipped with electric light, hot and cold water, and town drainage, are sold for hi ou, including legal charges. Measles and mumps are widely prevalent, the sufferers including the crews of the warships, and the epidemic is materially affecting the school attendance (states a Sydney cablegram), _ Many adults are among the sufferers from mumps. At a meeting of ropresenatives of public bodies and others in Christchurch a special committee was sot up to launch a campaign to raise the £2OOO necessary to wipe out the debt on the proposed Bridge of Remembrance War Memorial, At the Wellington Competitions Society’s festival yesterday, the chief piaim solo was won bv Mr George Mackay, Wellington, with 187 points; Miss Eileen Woodtield, Palmerston North, was second with 185, and Miss Ivy Middleniiss. Levin, third with 183. Ball, the goal-keeper of the Hawke’s Bay hockey team, who defeated Auckland by 6 goals* to 5, is a returned soldier who lost an arm in the war. He is reported to have played a splendid game and was largely responsible fop the victory. At the close ot the match he was chaired off the ground. A fiiwirm of antiquated type, a single barrelled revolver with a couple of knife blades attached, has come into the hands of the local police. The revolver was found in a cave at Kai Iwi by some natives, and from appearance it dates back to the time of the Maori war (says the Wanganui Chronicle). A striking illustration of the distance a wandering child can travel in a comparatively short space of time was afforded in Auckland by a four-year-old boy’s adventure (states the Herald). _ He became separated from his parents m Queen street about 11 a.m., and at 5.30 p.m. was found on a beach near Point Chevalier, crying bitterly. “I have heard here and in the Manawalu that 160 lbs is about the average and I£o lbs is very good, but I don't know much of these matters,” was the comment of Mr Justice Chapman at the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, when bitteritit returns were under discussion. Information on the point was then supplied by counsel that the New Zealand average was 160 lbs, the Taranaki average 180 lbs and the Danish 300 lbs. Prices for beef at Westfield (Auckland) fat stock sales on Wednesday showed a slight improvement on last week’s rates in tiie case of medium weight prime steers, the values in other grades remained unchanged. Extra choice ox realised £1 _4s per 1001 b, other grades bringing from 15s to £1 3s. according to quality. Sheep showed a slight advance in price. Wetnors brought from £1 2s to £1 16s, ewes 16s to £1 10s, hoggets £1 to £1 9s. Thera was little demand for fat pigs, baconers realising from £2 Is to £3 ss. An illuminating homily on t he value of advertising was delivered by the president of the Manawatn Trotting Club, Mr L H. Collinson, at the annual meeting of tha) body last night. Racing clubs, A. and P. associations, and sports bodies generally stood, he said, to get a_ very good retain from newspaper advertising, Ibe club should not be afraid to launch out and spend another £IOO in this connection, ns it would pay handsomely. The extra, expense would easily be recouped in tno increased “gate.” The sumo thing applied to kindred associations. While at Pokako this week Mr W. A. Waters, engineer to the Manawatu-Ooua Power Board, was greatly interested in the big sawmill which the State is erecting there for the purpose of cutting timber required for the house factory, which the Railway Department is now building at Eranktou Junction. Supplied _ with timber from Pokako this factory will be utilised to cut and standardise building material required for houses, sheds, etc., to bo erected by the department at a minimum of inconvenience and expense. _ The department expects to commence milling operations during October. A neighbours’ quarrel, which led to the Supreme Court at Wellington, presented some unusual features. A wrong survey of the subdivisions of an old town acre, and the repeated demolition of a fence and brick waif erected on land the ownership of which was originally disputed, were not (relates the Dominion) entirely new grounds of litigation. But it is related that, as the space between the houses was too small to permit of broadside attacks on the wall, the defendants erected a battering ram hung from the ceiling, and broke down the wall by its aid through a window. Anotheunusual feature was the appearance in Court of counsel without a defence, _ because. he stated, his recently _ acquired clients had been acting, in breaking down the wall, on other legal advice, subsequently found not to be correct. •

lii {lit course of an interesting address to the Taranaki Law Society this week. His Honour Mr Justice Chapman stated that the present series of official Law Reports started in 1866. Prior to that date, the reporting in the various courts was done by individual members of the Bar, and the best series of their scattered reports was now consolidated in the reprint entitled “The English Reports,’’ npw continued in the Law Reports, and His Honour detailed the manner in which the English Reports dealt with their subject matter. The speaker also gave an account of the various changes in the constitution and nomenclature of the courts, and of the various systems of reports in the United States, and of the various British Dominions, especially Australia, where his father, later a New Zealand Supreme Court Judge, was also once a Judge. The Zealandia Hall will present a unique spectacle next Wednesday when, at 2.30 p.m., His Excellency the Governor: General will open the “In-as-much Fair.” The decorations are to be distinct Rom anything used previously in the Manawatu. The Bohemian Orchestra will discourse music in the evening, rendering an hour s programme from 7.30 a clock. Ihe tea rooms will he in the capable hands of Mrs Geo. Mutton, and will be open both in the afternoon and evening. There are to lie 12 stalls, among which will be an “art stall ’ arranged by Ensign Inglis. Th? side-shows will bo many and varied, including the “Old Ben Wall,” “Telegraph Depot,” “The Mu-, seum,” etc. In addition there arp to pe competitions of various kinds. The fair is to run three days and is in the interests of the Salvation Army’s social work. Sec window 8 for ribbon hat special, charming pull-on hat with small turned up brim and good fitting heads, made of pretty petersham ribbon and fipished fringed ends. These dainty hats in saxe, jade, grey, henna, marigold, old rose, cerise or mustard for 11s 8d only, Collinson and Ctinnmghame, Ltd. —Advt. Dependable worm remedy--Wilde’s Worm Figs, Children like thepi.—Advt. For children's Hacking cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure —Advt. Your boot repair bill can be practically cut out by using Gordon attachable leather soles. An Aucklander wore one pair of boots four years without a penny spent orj repairs and anyone can attach Gordon soles at home. Comfortable, do not draw the feet like rubber, alpiost endless wear. Children’s 3d, ladies’ 2s 6d, men’s 2s 9d and 3s. Collinson and Sou’s.—Advt. Eggs are at their lowest price. Now’s the tune to “put clavyn 1 ’ a plentiful supply for future use. Use Sharland’s “Moa” brand egg preservative. Effective, clean, economical. -Advt.

Tin) Customs revenue at New Plymouth during August was £5771, an increase of £2226 over that for the previous August. “Gastric influenza is very prevalent in Palmerston North at present,” remarked a local chemist to a “Standard” reporter ihis morning. It was pointed out to a “Standard” representative to-day that a considerable amount of work could be found for the unemployed in this district in cutting-back and trimming frees encroaching on the roadside in the Power Hoard's district m order to allow the transmission lines a clear run. This work will have to be undertaken before the board can commence ie erection of its network of wires, cm o Bunnythorpo-Kairanga road, for instance, the Government’s main transmission lints will take up both sides of the htghway, while in other parts of the district the Power Board’s lines have to be run on the opposite side of the road to the 1. anti i• wires The responsibility of cutting-back overhanging trees devolves on property owners, and it is understood that n c event of this work being neglected the board lias power to carry it out itse bill the defaulting occupiers with the cost thereof. The board had also powei cause the removal of all trees in danger of falling over its transmission lines. In the hope of being able to effect a saving of well over £SOOO in one item of expenditure alone— that of digging po^ holes—the Mumiwatu-Oroua Power Board has instructed its engineer, Mr atub ; ( ° proceed to Invercargill to inspect a post Lie-digging and erecting machine, and investigate its possibilities on the spo*. According 10 miormation already m pos Session of the board, the machine will dig a 6ft post hole, hoist up a 35ft Ironbaik pole drop it into the hole, move chain., end commence digging the nextt ho e all in the space of eight minutes. Mr Uateis told i “Standard” representative to-day that it was 'understood that the Southland Power Board had had an outfit in operation and tho results bore out the foregoing c aim. The local board lias estimated the cost foi hard labour at 11s 6d per hole, whereas it is claimed that the machine cuts the cost down to os 6d per hole, As fully 20,000 poles are to be erected m the Manawatu-Lh-oua district, the extent ot the prospecuvs saving-even, alter allowing for the cost of the machine—is very considerable. A motion was enthusiastically carried at yesterday’s big conference of Friesian breeders at Palmerston North, congratulating Mr Vernon Marx of Mangatoki, upon the great record established by Ins Friesian cow, Alcartra Clothilde Piotje, which was the first cow of any breed in Australasia to produce 10001 b of butterfat in one season. No cow of any othci breed had produced a similar amount of butter-fat in 12 months, whereas Mr Marx’s champion had given slightly more than 10001 bof fat in 10 months The -hairman (Mr C. E. Robertson) stated that he had recently inspected this fine cow in the company of Mr V. D. Hunt, the president of tiro Now Zealand Friesian Association. She promised to give 30 0001 b of milk and about 11401 b or fat in the full 12 months. Moreover, she would calve again within 30 days of finishing hoi test. This cow had never been housed, but van' out with other cows on her owner’s farm throughout the year. Under the conditions of this test her performance was a world’s record for all breeds. It was decided to endeavour to w ith the owner to have his cow on exhibition at the Manawatu Spring Show. Mention was also made of tho fact that a heifer in Taranaki, which had milked in only, threequarters throughout the year, promised to finish up her year’s tost with a production of about 8001 b fat. This would also be a record for all breeds, and was an astounding performance in the circumstances.