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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1075, 23 July 1924, Page 4

" A -Sydney message states that extensive ram has fallen over the eastern portion of New South Wales.

The shop of Doinonic Delgrosso, tobacconist, of Auckland, was broken into this week and £SO worth of tobacco stolen. During last week one case each of enteric fever and pneumonia and six cases of diphtheria were notified in the Palmerston North health district.

A motorist was fined 15s and costs 7s at the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui this week for failing to go round the “silent policeman” stationed at the intersection of two streets.

It is stated that both moose and wapiti are flourishing in the Otago Sounds. One head of wapiti was recently secured w’th a span of 54 inches, which is within four inches of the world’s record.

Owing to the All Black team having experienced a rough trip froni Australia to Auckland, the membefe will not now leave Auckland I ill Thursday evening, arriving in Palmerston North on Friday morning. Advice was received at- last night’s meeting of Ihe Marmwatu Rugby Union’s management committee from tho New Zealand Union slating that it was desired that the All Blacks mutch in Palmerston North be played under strict English rules.

An intimation that the Mayor (Mr FJ. Nathan) would be pleased to accord the Chinese University soccer team a civic reception on arrival at Palmerston North on July 28 was received at the .meeting of tho Manawatu Football Association last night. "It was left to the secretary (Mr J. It. Dick) to make suitable arrangements. William McDonald, a wood hawker, who was charged at Christchurch with disobedience of a maintenance order, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment without the option of a fine. The magistrate said that the accused was £250 in arrears and of no use to his family. . At the Magistrate’s Court at Temuka yeestrday, Mr Mosley, S.M., ruled as unreasonable and therefore invalid two seations of the Teinuka borough laws with reference to the speed which cars may travel in the borough. One limited tho speed across street intersections to siv miles an hour, and the other restricted the pace on certain streets to 10 miles an hour.

A New Plymouth message states that a motor fatality, involving the death of Charles Evans, aged 72, a married man, of New Plymouth, occurred last evening. While he was crossing tho road at about 6 o’clock tho deceased was struck by a car driven by Henry McNeill, and when picked up ho was dead. The driver of the car said he wa3 going at about 15 miles an hour.

The 1923-24 competition for the Islington Challenge Cup between cadet corps and secondary schools’ cadet units was won by A Company, Nelson College, with 108.5 points; Scot’s College. Wellington, with 107.6 points, was second ; A Company, St. Andrew’s College, Canterbury, with 102.fi was third; No. 20 Company, Auckland, 5717 was fourth; No. 4 Company, Thames High School, 91.6, was fifth: No. 113 Company, Masterton High School, with 88.5 points, was sixth. “The great advance made in surgery in recent years, especially during the war, has to some extent been the cause of the increased expenditure in hospitals all over of the Dominion.” stated Sir James Wilson in his annual report to the Palmerston North Hospital Board. “Modern demands necessitated new expensive methods of treatment, namely bacteriological, physiological, electric-therapcutic and X-ray departments. The average cost of these alone in New Zealand is £7 per bed.”

The south-bound Main' Trunk express, which was delayed by the breaking of an axle of an eight-ton coal waggon near Te Awamutu " early yesterday morning, was over seven hours late on arriving ta Palmerston North, the! train steaming in a few minutes after 5 p.m. Several passengers

en route to the Hawke’s Bay district missed their connection, but they were able to proceed as far as Dannevirko last night, the evening train for that town being delayed until tho arrival of the express.

During the past six weeks several cases of breaking and entering have boen reported in Wellington erty and suburbs. Oriental Bay and Kelburn have come under the notice of burglars, and at the weekend marauders paid a profitable visit to Eastbourne. A tobacconist’s shop, conducted by Mr Manning, was broken into on Sunday night, and an examination next morning showed that money and goods to the total value of £4O had been stolen.

The Minister of Education stated in Wellington on Monday that- he had appointed a committee of educationists to report to him on the possibility of improving the mothods of teaching history in the primary, secondary, and technical schools of the Dominion. As a preliminary tho committee will consider specific suggestions made by tho Minister, each member setting out his own opinion on the points, and, finally, a meeting will bo hold at which decisions cun be reached and the recommendations submitted to the Minister.

Judging by a remark passed by Mr E. R. Winstanloy at the meeting of the Manawatu Football Association last night the coda must be gaining much in pcpularity at Foxlon. “We have taken a £4O gate at , Foxton for a soccer match,” lie stated. “The young players there are becoming interested. At Soccer we have already played a team of Rugby men for a dinner and now they are asking us to mix some of our soccer players with a side of theirs jin a return association match. If the {hnwbers-Marist Brothers match is played ‘at Foxton a big gate could be guaranteed.”

Probably few local residents are aware that Palmerston North’s only large trophies ’of the Great’’War —two pieces of artillery—arc lying in a borough section in Church street. The guns have remained there, exposed to the weather, since they wore allocated to the town by the Government on the decision of tho general distribution committee of war trophies over two years .ago, and aro now in an exceedingly rusted and dilapidated condition. The mechanism, which would always bo an. object of interest to the layman, is rapidly deteriorating, and even tho ban-els are partly blocked with shingle and dirt. The, pieces era of different calibre, one being considerably larger than the other, but the identification marks are obscure.

At Coilinson and Cunninghame’s sale starting Thursday, at 10 o’clock, boy 3! ltoslyn tweed suits, smart greys, sizes 3 to 10, only 343 6d ; sizes 11 to 16, only 39s 6d. Boys’ tweed shorts, dark grey railway laddie tweed, ail sires from 3 to 16 only hi 6d. Boys’ tweed shorts, strongly lined, is lid. Boys' Fox serge shorts, all sizes, ,nly 8s lid. Those are very substantial ,avings foV mothers at boys.— Advt.

An Auckland, telegram states that the weather is fine for the football match this afternoon between the All Blacks and Auckland, and that there indications of a record attendance.

The Output of butter-fat from Waihi Plains for the 1923-24 period ended May 31 last showed an increase of 20 per cent over the previous milking season. The butter-fat sent by tail by one factory totalled 177,0181 b, which is equivalent to 96 tons of manufactured butter.

Two special trains beaming immigrant* for the South passed through Palmerston North this morning. Among the number were 41 domestics bound for Wellington. Ono of them informed a reporter that the majority were assured of employment and those who had no positions were to stay with friends.

An 'bight-roomed residence in Epsom, Auckland, owned and occupied by Mrs AWilson, was extensively damaged by lne last night. Three rooms were gutted and a good deal of furniture was destroy? The cause (states a Press Association tolegram) was an electric iron beWff on a table with the power switched _ on. The insurances on the house and furniture amounted to £550. /

An amusing incident was witnessed on the local railway station this morning. A telegraph messenger was endeavouring to locate the addressee of a telegram and a new arrival to the country beckoned o him. The boy, after a few minutes endeavour to understand the immigrant s dialect, gave up the attempt, and, turning to a companion, remarked in a di9gustea tone: “It’s no use, they can’t speak Enffbsh.” Tho action for damages in the Supreme Court at Auckland in which i'eter Andrew Nairn Smith claimed £llsO damages and medical expenses against Augus Brackebush, masseur, and Dr. George ue Clive Lowe for allegod r.eghgence in X-ray treatment, resulted in the special jury failing to agree on a verdict. -the jur'v was discharged, His Honour remarking that the plaintiff could it he chose institute another action.

Each bathing season at Timaru brings at its end a quota of enthusiasts who take all manner of vows that they will bathe right through the winter. This autumn found 4 group of about 20 who daily took a dip, but when the frosts began to appear the ranks of the bathers were raked fore and aft, and all ways, many finding their enthusiasm leave them under the lniniencG of a nine degrees frost (says the Timaru Post) So the number of bathers dropped till at present there are only two— one ladv and one man. These two never fail to put in an appearance, though their dip does not last above three or four minutes. Talking of inflated language, which is one of the cultural evils of the time, a Taranaki paoer -reports that 4 Maori called at tne Huwera station and pompously asked for his luggage, which, he said, consisted of two suit-cases and a wicker basket. lno station hands searched for the luggage described, but could not find it Then the traveller made the discovery himsell. Pointing to two corn sacks on a barrow he informed a porter that they were his suitcases. The remainder of the luggage was still 'missing, however, and urged by the native, tho railway people located the “wicker basket’’ at the Waitotara station. It was an old flax Maori kit containing a pumpkin. But why blame the Maori ? (remarks a North Island paper). He takes his tone from the European to whom all concerts are “grand,” cabins “state rooms, and “yes’s” “answers in the affirmative.” ,

A record that- must stand for some considerable time has been achieved in Palmerston • North ill regard to the booking for the AH Blacks match on Saturday, every seat in the grandstand at the showgrounds having been booked. The box plan closed at 6 p.lll, yesterday, but some time before that hour the best available seats of the 25C4 had been reserved. Applications for seats were still being received at a late hour yesterday afternoon, but these had to be refused. Many requests for reserved seats came from country residents, and this morning a few verbal applications were still bewig made. On enquiry at the booking office at the Ivosy Theatre to day a “Standard" reporter was informed that up till 10 o’clock this morning sixty additional seats could have been reserved had they beon available. There is some talk about reserving seats in the passage ways on the stand. An hour after the box plan was opened last Thursday 1000 seats had been reserved. One Wanganui resident has booked a block of 42 seats. There have been about 700 more seats booked for tho All Black match than for the Springbok game in 1921.