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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 975, 26 March 1924, Page 4

A number of racing pigeons liberated by the Onehunga Pigeon Club at Palmerston North on Saturday arrived at their lofts suffering from shot gun wounds. The Ilawera Star understands that the Railway Department has begun operations in tlie direction of providing a new railway station, for Hav'era.

Authority has been given by the Hamilton Borough Council to a committee to have plana prepared for new municipal offices, and arrangements are being made to raise a loan of £25,000 for the work. In extending thanks to the ManawatuOroua Power Board for the invitation to be present at yesterday’s official visit to the Mangdhao hydro-electric works, Mr W. A. Veitch, M.P. for ’ Wanganui, couched his remarks as follow: “You have asked us not only to sit up and take notice but also to sit down and take nourishment.”

Two beautifully bound books which are to contain the names of all those men of the Ashburton County who fell in the Great War were on view at the Soldiers’ Club annual meeting at Ashburton. One book is to be buried beneath the Ashburton war memorial, and will be encased in some imperishable material so a 3 to preserve it probably for all time. The other book is to be deposited at the club house. Statements controverting the impression that the drapery trade offered no inducements to young people sotting out in life were made at the Drapers’ Conference in Auckland. Mr J. R. Rendell said modern developments in retail distribution provided excellent opportunities for the exercise and liberal payment of real ability in department stores and drapery businesses. The Apprentices Act seemed to be an honest attempt to place boys and girls where their capabilities could _ best be used, and the Drapers’ Federation should take advantage of this. He suggested that it was advisable for the federation to take measures likelv to induce a larger proportion of the boys and girls who, on leaving school, gave promise of haying more than the average ability, to join the trade. These views met with the approval of the conference, and the matter was reforred to the Advisory Board with power to act. Men’s boots and shoes ore half regular marked prices from Collinson and Cunninghame with your cash purchase of any Collinghame or Lynx suit. This Easter outfitting offer is good until 12th April only further details being advertised oil page 1. Collinghame suits in puro wool tweeds worsteds and fast dye indigo serges range from £5 17s 6d to Bgns with footwear half price. “There’s no added cost for Collinghame quality.”—Advt.

“Welcome —season of smiles !” —Haye. Despite the friendliness of the summer weather, colds and coughs are always imminent. Don’t risk catching one. Keep Baxter’s lung preserver always handy. “Baxter’s” is the ideal family medicine. Keeps colds and ’flu at bay—drives coughs, bronchial and chest troubles right out of the system. Invaluable also as a building-up tonic. You can get a generous-sized bottle from your chomist or store for 2s 6d; or. better still, get the family size at 4s 6d. —Advt.

The Lower Hutt. Borough Council is having a fire brigade station erected at a coat of £2686.

A lady who had just previously cashed a cheque in a bank at Wanganui yesterday lost four £lO notes in the street.

A movement is afoot by the local Y.M.C.A. to conduct a Grandmothers Day in May in conjunction with the Council of Christian congregations. The body of Leonard Allen, who was drowned in the Waikato river at Atiamuri, near Rotorua, on March 9th, was found last evening near Ongaroto. During last week one case each of diphtheria, tuberculosis and pneumonia was notified in the Palmerston North health district.

The Education Department has decided that it is not in a position to pay a subsidy for the purchase of gramophones for school use. -

The body of Mrs Raymond Wedde, of Waipawa, who had been missing since Wednesday night, was found in the Picton harbour last night. The men employed at the Mangahao hydro-electric works at the present time number 650, which is a good indication of the manner in which the Government are pushing on with the work.

At Island Bay on Monday night an illuminated address was presented to Geoffrey Heal, the 18-year-old youth who, in January last, saved a man from drowning during the wreck of a launch at Island Bay.

To-day is the 28th anniversary of the explosion of fire damp in the Brunner coal mine on the West Coast, when 67 lives were lost. The disaster caused a tremendous sensation and the funeral scenes were very touching. The two Whakatane residents, Messrs F. Brideaux and 11. West, went by aeroplane to the Muriwai motor racing sports on Saturday, and returned by aeroplane to Wliakatane at 10 o’clock on Monday morning. The actual flying time was three hours, against a head wind. The prisoner, Robert Herbert Scott, who was condemned to death for the murder of the little girl, Gwendoline Murray, at Makaraka, near Gisborne, was taken to Auckland by the Arahura, which arrived there on Sunday. He was at once removed to Mount Eden gaol. One of the largest gatherings of members of the Supreme Court bench held for some time is at present taking place in Wellington. The majority of members of the bench are at present in the city to take their seats on the Appeal Court, which commenced last week, and is likely, to last for about a month.

The usual Easter tramp of a party from the Palmerston North Y.M.C.A., will this year take the form of a visit to Mts Ruapehu. Tongariro and Ngauruhoe and the neighbouring lakes. Mr_ C. Woods, physical instructor, will be in charge of the holiday-makers, who are expected to number about fifteen.

The seventy-sixth anniversary of First Church, Dunedin, and of Otago was celebrated in First Church on Sunday, when special services were held. In the evening His Excellency the Governor-General, Viscount Jellicoe, was present, whilst the Mayor and city councillors were also in the congregation. While attending a Boy Scouts’ camp at Tuhikaramea, near Hamilton, on Saturday, ' a boy named Frederick Ladd, aged 15, son of Mr T. J. Ladd, of Hamilton, was injured. He was climbing a fence when he fell on to a sharp stake, which entered his body. The patient was taken into the Waikato hospital, and was operated on.

That the Dargaville district is doing its duty as far as keeping up the birth rate is concerned is quite apparent by a coincidence which happened in a nursing home there last week, writes a correspondent. Three babies arrived, the mothers of whom had brought into the world 15, 16 and 18 babies respectively. liti. the last-mentioned case 17 out of the 18 children are alive and well. A mean theft took place at the Christdhurch District Nursing Office (Nurse Maude Association), when the sum of £l6 was taken. The office is situated in Madras street, and the funds collected are for the use of the poor and needy. Apparently the money was taken by some one who was acquainted with the working of the office.

An unusually large specimen of the gray nurse shark was recently enclosed in the trawl not in a catch taken off Tiri Island, Auckland, by a trawler. The shark is stated to have measured about lift in length, and the captain of the trawler, who trawled for some years in the North Sea, states that shark in question is the largest' specimen of that particular species ho has seen in New Zealand wateVs.

According to an exchange a very interesting controversy was settled at the Wairoa racecourse as to the relative speeds of a racing motor cycle and an aeroplane. Captain Fowler piloted the aeroplane, while Coleman rode the motor cycle. The aeroplane was able to keep ahead of the cycle when flying with the wind, but against it Coleman easily led — to such an extent that after a few' laps the aeroplane gave up the attempt. It must have been an old and out-of-date “bus.”

“I notice that in the new English Divorce Rules is one which we should have here,” remarked Mr Justice Salmond at the Supreme Court at Wellington. “It provides that the petitioner must state on affidavit the nature of all proceedings taken against respondent in any court. Although we have no such rule here, it is the duty of solicitors to ascertain whether tfier© have been any proceedings in either the Magistrate’s or Divorce Courts, and to inform the court.” When the question of a public library for . Devonport was being discussed by the Waitemata Chamber of Commerce, it was mentioned (says the Herald) that there was no possibility of getting assistance from the Carnegie Library trustees toward establishing a library in the borough. It was then pointed out that tile matter of a library in Devonport had not made much progress, for the old records of Devonport showed that the first free library in the Auckland province was established in Devonport in 1874. An accident of a somewhat unusual nature befell L. Harris, a farmer of Taradale, yesterday while driving a small car on a country road (states a Napier telegram). Harris smelt fire, and as he looked round he lost control of the car and it crashed into a telegraph pole, which snapped off and fell over the hood of the car. Had the driver been sitting up straight when the pole fell instead of leaning out he would probably have been injured. As it was ho just had time to get out before the car was enveloped in flames. Mr Massey’s views on the question of publishing Cabinet’s message to the Home Government relating to Singapore was the subject of comment by Mr Massey during a conversation with an Auckland Star representative. “The people at Home say they are going to publish my telegram on the subject of Singapore,” he remarked. “If that is so, I want them to do it, and if they do so I shall have something to say.” “You might as well say it now,” suggested the pressman. Mr Massey looked the. reporter full 'in the face, winked knowingly, and opened the door.

The weekly euchre and dance will be held in the Foresters’ Hall to-morrow night in aid of the R.S.A. football Club. Good preizes are offered for the euchfe tournament.

Good news from the C. M. Ross Co. Ltd. Very special values in all wool white blankets, single beds, 26s 9d pair. ■ Good quality, heavy all wool grey blankets, single bed size, 27s 6d pair; three-quarter, 36s 6d; full double bed size 42s 9d net cash prices —all manufactured in New Zealand. —Advt.

Speoial saletime cash discount at Collinson and Sons, include 4s in the pound of popular Pyrex ware, the finest glass ovenware over produced. 6s 8d in pound off all their wonderful range of electroplated ware. Prams carry. 2s in the pound oash discount. All aluminium waro is less 4s in the pound. Judge brand saucepans carry 4s in the pound discount, while carpenters’ tools are all specially dicounted.— Advt.