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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 931, 1 February 1924, Page 4

A movement) is on foot to hold a winter show and a motor show and industrial exhibition in Wellington at an early date. The question of the wages of shop assistants, who are seeking a Dominion award, has been referred by the Conciliation Council to the Arbitration Court together with other important points. A six-roomed house in Masterton, owned by Mr J. Ingram, and occupied by Mr J. Stevenson and family, was gutted by fire and the contents completely destroyed yesterday afternoon. An election to fill three vacancies on the Otaki Borough Council, caused by the retirement of Messrs Cockrell, Kilsbv, and Kilmister, was held this week, and resulted in Messrs W. 11. Bowden, A. W. Broadway, und W. J. Barlow’ being elected. At the Police Court at Auckland. Stanley Harvey, aged 21, was fined £2O for taking odds on tho Takapuna racecourse, and was ordered to come up for sentence in two years for similar offences in connection with two other races at the same meeting. “Don’t think because you have taken up Christian healing you have no need to go to a doctor any more,” said Mr Hickson in Invercargill. “Use a little sanctified common sonso. You don t leave your breakfast in the morning because you have said your prayers.” No action will be taken in connection with the proposed removal of the dental school from Dunedin to Auckland until the Dunedin people who are interested in the matter have had an opportunity of seeing the Prime Minister personally on the subject. “Postal business at tho Palmerston North post office is now about back to normal after the holiday season rush,” Mr R. Martin, postmaster, informed a “Standard reporter to-day. “Telegraph work is keeping up wonderfully well though,” he added, “and bears a distinctly comparison w'ith this period of last year.” Little interest was taken in the poll conducted yesterday by the Kairanga CountyCouncil of ratepayers of Fitzherbert riding in connection with the proposed loan ot £2OOO for the erection of new culverts and the re-construction of bridges. The proposal was carried by 16 votes to 6. There are 260 ratepayers on the roll who have the right to exercise approximately 500 votes. ■V well attended meeting of the council"of the New Zealand Football Association at Wellington last night unanimously decided not to participate in the tour of the Canadian team. All present strongly denounced the action of the Australian Association in going behind the back of the New Zealand Council in completing arrangements with Canada without reference to the Dominion as negotiations were first opened in New Zealand. An official inspection of the Otira tunnel by the engineers of the Railway Department is to be made next week to see that everything is in order before the department takes over this section of the line from the Public Works Department. The Minister of Public Works (the Hon. J. G. Coates) states that .traffic, both goods and passenger, is coming forward very well indeed. _ The handling of the traffic is working satisfactorily. Sir George Fenwick, who lias left for Groat Britain and the United States, will lecture on New Zealand during the tour, lie will have a large number of lantern slides of the principal cities, farm life, industries, New Zealand scenery, Maori life, and so on. The Minister in charge of Health and Tourist Resorts (the Hon. W. -Nosworthv) supplied tho slides and is taking a great interest in the task Sir George has. set himself of telling the Americur. people* as much as possible about New Zealand.

Recently a party of motorists from Bulls had an unusual experience when travelling up Mount Stewart. A hare which was probably sleeping on the bank was suddenly awakened and jumped into the rear seat of the car. -It hit a -lady on the head and fell into the lap of a gentleman sitting alqngsicle of her. The happening was so sudden that, before the gentleman had realised what it was, he had picked the animal up and thrown it out of the vehicle, when it wa* noticed that the long-eared intruder was galloping off at a record speed. Speaking at a function held at Levin on Wednesday in connection with the liorowhonua A. and P. Association s show, the Hon. R. F. Bollard stated that he did not believe in looking for new markets for our produce. The thing to do was to take care to send only good stuff Home. Britain never turned us down like other countries did. He believed in a stable price rather than fanfiv ones such as had caused the land boom and the slump which followed. There had been too much speculation in land. Through ibis for land nine miles out of Gisborne—which was noted for its isolation —±1100 per aero had been asked, though it was no better than land at £6O in the Levin- district.—Chronicle. “Singapore is an island where there is no income tax and no Customs dues,” declared Mr T. M. Wilford, in addressing the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at Wellington on Wednesday upon the possibilities of trade with the East. The Government of Singapore imposed an income tax for two years during the war. The people, however, had .called a mass meeting, and had demanded a balance-sheet from the Government, in order to see that the tax was justified. The Government had been unable to show that they had not a huge surplus, and the tax was removed. (Laughter.) Air Wilford declared that, as a result of there being no harbour dues steamers came from Penang, Batavia, and other ports, and laid up at Singapore whenever tnsy were idle. Air Alatheson. flow does the country obtain its revenue ? Air Wilford: By licenses. Every business in the country must have a license to trade, even the tobacconists. If you are making school shirts for your boy, there’s a Very fine English cambric shirting now showing at the store for value. You will find a good range of clean, fresh looking stripes to choose from apd it is to clear during sale lime at lOJjd yard net cash. All 31 inches wide at the C. M. Ross Go. Ltd—Advt For bath room use have you seer, our new fixtures i White enamelled in eggshell finish on brass, they are attractive in appearance, sanitary in service and can never rust or stain damp towels or brushes. This new ware includes towel holders, holders for tooth brushes, soap, sponge and_ tumblers, clothes hooks, towel rings, toilet paper holders, bath seats, etc.. You are invited to see these delightful fixtures at Collinson and Son’s. Broadway.—Advt. |

Subscription, to the radium fund now total £8072. It i* * hold public meetings in many parts of i le province in the near future, inducing Palmerston North and Foildmgr. Wilfred King, aged 13 years, was drowned in the Woolston school baths on Wednesday . Ho was noticed floating m , R t ?? Cl ' i!Indv 1 ndv out ner and another boy brought tli«> bothy out of the water, but artificial respiration fail . The Hon. W. Doivnie Stewart told a Farmers’ Union deputation at Wellington vesterdav that the Government did not favour granting subsidies to shipping companies to develop trade with the Fast. The middleweight wrestling championship of New Zealand was at Auckland this week when Jawala, an Inman, bea“Nugget” Thompson in two bouts witn successive falls. Each bout occupied hall an hour, being a tedious but strenuous struggle, lacking in science. “In other words, it means that when you buv a motor vehicle you buy a. road, too. I think the toll-gates are the fairest system, but I don’t think New. Zealand will ever have the toll-gates,” said the Hon. J. G. Coates, when addressing the executive or the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. The chairman of the Wheat Board, Mr G. W. I.eudley, states that the average vie d of wheat per acre this seasofi will'probably be nearer 25 bushels than 30 bushels. Mr Leadley gave instances, states the Ashburton Guardian, in which it was shown that some of the best yielding land was not returning anything like the amount anticipated. A distressing fatality took.place at Waitoa, Waikato, this week, when a lad, a member of the Auckland Methodist Home named David Clark, 10 years of age. fell oil a milk lorrv. Both wheels of the. vehicle passeu over him, and lie was killed instantly. Clark was on holiday, and was staying at a farm in the district.

When Mr and Mrs James Watt, and their son, of St. John’s Hill, Wanganui, were returning from the theatre at about 11 o’clock on Wednesday evening, a service car collided with the car diiven by Mr Watt. Mrs Watt alone of the party received injuries, and is still under the doctor s care. Both cars were considerably damaged. The Marine Department received advice on Wednesday that some 80 tons of black fish had stranded at Kuponga, in Golden Bay, on Monday. The biggest of the fish weighed up to three tons. Mr L. F. Avson, Chief Inspector of , Fisheries stuted that the black fish were probably led into the death trap by a leading fish. It is probable that they will be towed out to. sea again. The terrible shooting tragedy of Friday, October 19, at Waikino, when two school boys were shot dead and several other persons wounded or injured in escaping, will reach a further stage during the coming criminal sessions at the Auckland Supreme Court next- week. John Christopher Higgins, farmer, of W aitew’hcta, who has in the interval been held in the Mount Eden gaol, will then be indicted on two charges of murder. “I may state that this is the_ biggest fee ever charged by any council in New Zealand or Australia,” wrote Mr G. L. Petersen, advance agent for a circus, in a letter to the Dannevirke Borough Council in reference to its license fee of £2l. He stated that he did not think that the circus should be charged more than the fee that was paid on the previous visit —ten guineas. It was pointed out that the increased fee. was in accordance with a new by-law which had been made. It is probable that next year the band contest will be of a Dominion character, and that it will be held in the North Island (says the Wanganui Chronicle). The following contest will be of a Dominion character, and that in 1926 will be held at Dunedin. An effort is being made to get the 1927 Dominion contest at Wanganui, although in this connection it is feared there would be a difficulty about accommodation as with 20 bands there would be at least 600 visiting bandsmen, to say nothing of extra visitors. With the coining of dawn on Wednesday, the large crowd which had gathered at a big blaze in Thompson street was seen in rather startling attire (says a Wellington paper). Women in paper “curlers,” in nightattire, and with hair down, were caught by the sudden advent of dny. Men were there with slippers on, or with coats hurriedly thrown over their pyjamas. The light appeared to bring home to many their unconventional wrappings, for of a sudden the large crowd dispersed, to take what sleep remained to them. At the Police Court at Auckland yesterday, James Wilson, aged 32 years, town clerk of Devonport, and Greta Tin Ingham Faulbaum, aged 21 years, borough cashier, pleaded not guilty, reserved their defence and were committed for trial on a charge of theft of the Devonport Borough Council funds, totalling £750. Evidence was given to the effect that Wilson got money from the girl, giving cheques, which he told her not to bank. The present shortage is stated to be approximately £364. Bail wa» allowed. A warning to all traders to keep propar books was given at the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth when Charles \\ illiatn Roch, a bankrupt plumber, was fined £5 and ordered to pay costs amounting to £U Hs for having failed to keep proper books for three years immediately prior to his bankruptcy.” “I hope traders generally will realise that it is absolutely essential that, in addition to the ability to carry on their business, vhey must have ability to look after their books,” the magistrate (Mr A. M. Mowlern) said. “It is essential,” he added “where credit is given and obtained that a proper record should be made m the books daily.”

A reorganisation scheme for the Department of Health, as outlined by Sir Maui Ponmre, provides that as from April 1, 1924. the Dominion will be regarded as divided into four health districts, having district headquarters at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin respectively. Each district office shall supervise and co-ordinate all the activities of the department within the health district. The medical officer of health shall be departmentally administrator for the district, and shall exercise general supervision over all departmental activities and officers working in liis district, except in the case of the consumption sanatoria at Otaki and Pukeora, King George V hospital at Rotorua and Queen Alary hospital at Hanmer. Recently a cheese was sent out by the Papatawa Dairy Company’s factory in which the manager, Mr D. Pryde, enclosed a letter. Mr Pryde has now received in reply a missive from Air S. Aliller, a member of the staff of J. I>. Marsden, Ltd., of Queen street, Mansfield,' Notts, (Eng.), in which the writer eulogises the quality of New Zealand butter and cheese. He remarks that his employers own 40 shops in the Nottingham district, and that largi quantities of New Zealand produce are Aid In a covering note the principal of the firm. Air J. D. Alarsden, said that c.ne striking indication of the excellence of New Zealand butter and cheese was the fact that he never hesi tated to buy 10CO boxes of butter or 5( tons of cheese without -a. sample. lie re quested a report on the conditions in tht district covered by the New Zealand factory, Incidentally he mentioned ihit the annual turnover of his firm was £6C0,3G3. Among local candidates who paired the senior free place examination held lecenlly was Keith John McMahon. - Don’t throw away an idep because it seems very “simple.” Fortunes were made from the safety-pin, penknife, boot-protec-tor, etc. If you have an idea for an invention come and discuss its protection arid development with us now. Henry Hughes Ltd., patent attorneys, 157 Featherston street, Wellington.—Advt. *' N Mirror-iiko polish quickly pnd eaß jl v achieved with liquid “Tanol.” Fi ne f o ' r floors, furniture and leather goods. Aiso In paste-form-—Advt. Ladies’ zephyr frocks being cleared at Coihnson and sale for IQ* 9d usually 14s 6d - with srtiall ‘collar and revers, mset vest of white organdie, magyar shape with three-quarter sleeves, finished sash belt; colours are rose,, helio, saxe or lavender. Salvage sale of Skinner’s stock starts 10 o clock Alonday; men’s wear and Acf S t Dack '" to ‘ schooi clothing for » song. A sure and pleasant specific for removin'* worms is Wades worm figs. .Advt. °