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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1009, 7 May 1924, Page 4

Arrangements are being made in Hamilton to celebrate the jubilee of the town during this year. A. party of eight guns shooting on the W&irarapa Lake' at the opening of the reason secured 312 swans in t\yo davs. This excellent bag is within a few birds'of the maximum allowed by the regulations. A telegram from Blenheim states that the launch that had been missing from Titiraugi since Sunday was picked up yesterday in Cook Strait by the steamer Corinna. and the whole party has returned safely to Titirangi. "It is the usual balance-sheet,"' stated Mr A. Donald at West School (Masterton) when .discussing the committee's debit balance. "We have spent more than we received. The Education Board does not provide enough for us to carry on with, but all committees are the same." There is a family of six in Auckland the aggregate of whose ages totals 490 years. The eldest is only six years off the century and the youngest is 69. The family is not only long-lived, but is also extremely virile and two whose ages are 82 and 69 respectively stijl play tennis. At the annual meeting of householders of the Eketahuna District High School, it was stated that eight changes in the staff of the secondary department had taken place in the last 12 months. This departs ment was without a teacher for six weeks at- one time. "Wo have no power to collect tax from the Maoris for dogs," said the Manawatu County Council's inspector at yesterday a meeting of that body. It was decided to make application to the Minister . r or power to collect tax in respect to native-owned dogs. "They breed many dogs in pahs and they become a nuisance," commented Cr Barber. Ordinary Seaman B. T. Brissenden, of H.M.S. Danae, is a son of Stoker Petty Officer R. T. Brissenden. of the Antarctic Expedition ship Terra Nova, who was accidentally killed on August 17th, lQlg, while the Terra Nova was surveying French Pass, the oody being interred ashore. "During the railway strike the tram kept up its service with Foxton. running both goods and metal. OvPing to the shortage of coal wo succeeded in purchasing 15 tons from the Railway Department at Foxton, at a cost of 64s per ton.—Extract from the report of the manager of the Sailson tramways presented at the Manawatu County Council meeting yesterday. It was announced at yesterday's meeting of the Manawatu A. and P. Association that Mr D. F. Wilbur, formerly United States Consul-General at Wellington and a strong supporter of the local association, had notified his intention of presenting to it a handsome cup, 43 inches high, and costing 350 guineas. 'I he announcement was greeted with applause. A fortunate escape from injury was experienced by a son of Dr. Stowe, of Palmerston North, when returning from Wangariui yesterday in a light two-seater motor car. When some five miles from Pajmerslon North the front axle snapped at the left wheel. The machine was quickly pulled up by the dragging axle without capsizing, and Mr Stowe escaped injury. The Mayor qf Wellington (Mr R. A. Wright, M.P.) stated this week that there • had been no further information received on the subject of the Government subsidy to the Wellington radium fund. A deputation from, the C'ity Council and the committee was to wait upon the Finance Minister in connection with the matter, but he (the Mayor) had not yet been able to get ah appointment with Mr Massey. In the course, of an interview with an Otago Daily Times reporter, a Yeoman of Signals on H.M.S. Dunedin said that during the war the small trawling vessels, oarried bombs oiiid a machine-gun. and were ostensibly engaged in trawling. While off Yarmouth on one occasion a drifting trawlpr was hailed by a German submarine which had oome to the surface. Some of the crew stood en the submarine's deck, ■ and-asked the trawler if she had any fish. The reply was "No." and the Germans I then asked the fishermen if they had any tobacco, and the reply was in the afhrma- < tive. Bending down in the trawler one of I the crew picked up n packet, supposedly i containing tobacco, which he threw on tothe submarine. Exit the enemy. 3 Whit* fiotton initials for embtoid«ir>g your linen are a perfectly new line shown by Cpllinson and Cunninghame's art needlework section. Scut out by then- London buyers who are ever on the lookout for the new and original. Your linen can be , easily quickly and effectively embroidered with your own ititials at a trifling cost by the use of this new device. By the way, wool will rise shortly—better buy this week.—Advt. i

A jumble sale held in yesterday in aid of the . W illard Home funds realised over £l4. ,i.i To-day marks the ninth anniversary of the torpedoing of the mammoth Cunara liner LusiPania, off the Old Head of iUn sale, Ireland. There- were 216 Q *° lUi aboard at the time of the disaster 91 »'«ou. only 658 were savedA memorial cross has been presented to St. Matthew's Church. Auckland, as a thanks offering for the healing ! mission conducted by Mr J. M. Ilickson last October. A local gentleman has received advice by letter that a serious outbreak of influenza has been raging in* England. Writing in March, the correspondent stated that the epidemic was more or less general but particularly so in Yorkshire, and 42 deaths had been recorded in one week in and around Leeds. At the Wanganui Magistrate's Court yesterday Ruby Lilian Ford and Louisa Minnie Wilson, on charges of shoplifting, were admitted to probation for a period of 18 months, conditional upon the restitution of the stolen property and their reporting to the police once a month. An application for the suppression of their names was refused. A tally of all motor vehicles passing through Sanson on Easter Monday from 9.15 a.m to 11.15'a.m. was taken by the Manawatu County Council's traffic inspector. During that time, he reported to the council yesterday, 621 motor vehicles went by. He thought that constituted a record for Sanson for the periodThe first of the fortnightly series of card tournaments to bo conducted by the Takaro Bowling Croquet and Tenuis Club was held last night, when a large attendance of members spent a thoroughly ei.joyable social eyenjpg. Fjrst and second prizes were won as follow: —Ladies, Mi.-s B. McFarlane and Airs Bartlett; gentlemen, Messrs T. Mitchell and Jl organ. The accounts of the Sanson tramway, as presented to the meeting of the Manawatu County Council yesterday, showed a credit of £99 6s 3d for tho month, but included in the receipts was £126 for the sale of rid rails, etc. The chief items of traffic were : General merchandise 132 i tons, minerals and manure 169$ tons, cheese 60 tor.s, stock 35 trucks and metal 710 cubic yards. When returning thanks to the Wellington Boxing Association for electing him a life member, Mr A.' P. Whatman, of Masterton, who came to the Dominion from England as a young man and was a great sportsman in his day. paid a nice compliment to the land of his adoption. "It is a very good couptry this," he said ; "if a man only bucks into it he will not go far wrong." The value of clay put on roads in conjunction with metal to keep the latter in plape was stressed at the meeting of the Manawatu County Council yesterday bv Cr Barber. It was decided to endeavour to Secure about two acres of land suitable for a clay pit, which would give supplies of clay for'roads which at present were some what too far distant from available supplies. In his lecture to W.E.A. students last evening, Mr A. E. Mander said: The Polish and the majority of the Russian Jews are not Semitic people at all. Ihev are Jews only in religion, but mainly Mongolian (Turco-Tartar) in race. They are the descendants of one of the Asiatic tribes that drifted into Europe about 1000 years ago and adopted the Jewish religion in the course of their wanderings. A communication was received at last night's meeting .of. ihe Manawatu Rugby Union from the New Zealand Union advising that tjie team to tour New South Wales would leave for Sycjnoy on June 20, returning three days before sailing- tot England. It was desirable that all players selected to take part in the English tour should place themselves at the disposal of the union for the Australian tour. Rural advertising was the subject of £ letter received at the meeting of the Manawatu County Council yesterday fron the secretary oi the New Zealand Counties' I Association. It was suggested that, 4: I rural advertising affected roads unt|ei i county jurisdiction and the landscape generally,' the council should act in conjunction with motor unions and use al.' means in its power to prohibit the practice of advertising on hoardings and similjit devices. In referring at yesterday's meeting of the Manawatu A. and P. Association to the improvements being effected to the oval at the Showgrounds, the retiring president, Mr IS. W. Dalrymple, stated that lie had been surprised at the quality pf the soil which had been uncovered, it more closely resembling a roadway than ordinary soil. However, a band of 400 boys wits to be employed collecting and removing the stones from the ground. Following the practice adopted by leading musical artjsis when on tour, the Palinerstpn North Orchestral Society had fur the convenience of patrons at its concert last night artistically printed programmes giving a. concise and authoritative summary of each of the items presented, thus enabling evory member of the audienie to follow with ease die varying themes of the different works, the knowledge of the conductor, Mr M. Cohen, proving of great service in compiling the programmes. As souvenirs of the first concert the programmes were distributed free.

The final meeting to wind up affairs in connection with ttie • Manchester Block jubilee celebrations was. he'd in Feilding last evening, when the Mayor (Mr J. S. Tingey) presided. The . balance-sheet showed an excess of receipts over expenditure of £147 17s 7d, which it was decided to distribute in the proportion of 63 per cent to tue country queen, for un object to be decided upon by her committee, and 47 per cent, to a joint committee representing the two town queens, the Beautifying Society and tne Progress League, for establishing a children's play ground. "My increasing deafness must be \ety inconvenient to' you, and before the next election of councillors I would like you to consider whether someone else should not be chairman," said Sir James Wilson, chairman of the Manawatu County Council, at the meeting of that body yesterday. "You must not consider nast services or think that I should be elected to the position again because I have held it for so many years; you must consider whether you would be justified in so doing," ho added. Before the council proceeded with the business of the meeting, Sir James mentioned that the time was not far distant when he would cease to be a canuT date for county honours Addressing the local W.E.A. class last evening, Mr A. E. Mander said that when they read what the Romans had to say about the savagery and doslructiveness ol the Teutonic tribes (th s Goths and Vandals) and the Asiatic Huns, they must remember that those charges were made by a wretched, craven-spirited, panic-stricken people who realised that the Shadow of Doom hung over them. "We. must remember that these ravings and wailings about the savagery of the thins came from a people whose own favourite amusement was the gladiatorial show, and whose only remedy for unrest or insurrection wes wholesale crucifixion,'' said Mr Mander. "As Wells says: 'The Roman could lie about his ensniies with a freedom and vigour which must arouse the envy of even the modern propagandist."" "It has given us a shock to see tfce way in which the roads have been cut about by excessive motor traffic during the strike. Tho latter gave a great impetus to motor traffic which is not likely to be recaptured by the railways, so that we will be involved in still further expenditure on roads," said Sir James Wilson, chairman of the .Manawatu County Council at the meeting of that body yesterday. No doubt readers will have noted the big knitting competition announced • by the C. M. Ross Co.. Ltd. Those who intend entering will be wise to make an immediate start, as time slips quickly along, and interruptions are often ■ numerous. Only Rosco -jygols may be used for this competi-tion-.—Advt.

The aid .-original AYttlg'wood potteriej still continue to" turn .-"tout those beautiful articles which Josiah Wedgwood spent his life to perfect, some new examples shown by Colhnson and Son beinp; in basalt, a replica of the black marble found in Ethopia, Exquisite vases, bowls and ornaments with the typical Wedgwood Agues in bas-relief pquitiay Greek deities, the whole being of Gree'U influence. China lovers should see this exhibit.— Advt.