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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1180, 1 December 1924, Page 4

Five small steamers engaged in the coastal trade in tho north are to be fitted with wireless. About 15 whales were seen by the crew of the Waihemo when the vessel was 470 miles off the New Zealand coast one day last week.

An Oamaru message states that at a clearing sale on Saturday a line of about 650 ewes in wool with lambs realised 35s 10s all counted, which is believed to be a record for the Dominion.

"There is any amount of good coal in South Africa, ’’ said Mr J. Horn. 31. F., to a Dunedin reporter. The coal was only 9s per ton, and every city was lighted by electric light, the coal being used in place of water.

Relicuhuion of the Manawatu County by the Manawalu-Oroua Power Board is reported to he well advanced, although delivery of some ICO transformers is 119 W overdue. On Saturday the Rangiotu high tension line was charged from Taikorea. as far as Cooper’s line and two new milking plants were put, into operation by the new source of power. A sum of £3f9 was required to run and maintain for one quarter three motor vehicles which are used to curry children to ami from the Pio Pip consolidated school. The Education Department remarked upon the high cost, and in reply it was stated that the breakage of springs was particularly heavy during the winter. The vehicles were being called on to carry a greater load than the chassis was designed tor, and the roads were bad.

That the sand dune reclamation work now being carried out at Oroua Downs by the State Forest Service has more than a. Dominion interest is evidenced by an Interesting descriptive article on the subject which was published in the October issue of the Scientific American, a cojfy of which was lent to the “Standard” by Mr J. 41. Johnston. The work being carried out is reviewed and the article is illustrated with three photographic plates showing the scene of operations.

In an interview at Wellington, Mr C. E. Robertson, who has returned from a visit to South America, said that the country in the Argentine was an amazingly rich agricultural one, and there were many very lurge concerns working huge tracts of land. Cue company, for example, run 1,200,000 sheep, the largest cattle breeder owned 200,000 breeding cows, and quite a number of flic Shorthorn breeders bred and sold 1000 bulls und over a year; one pig breeder bred and fattened 12,000 pigs anmiully. Lines of one-brand steers fat at 2 years and 9 months had been sold by one breeder in successive years in drafts of 10,200 and 12.500. The Shorthorn cattle were the finest in the world, but the dairy cattle and sheep could he vastly improved upon.

Although each Sunday morning a large number of people gather outside the “Standard” waiting for the result of the football match in which the All Blacks participated on the previous day, there was an oven larger attendance yesterday than usual. When the scores were announced there were many demonstrations of jubilation at the success of the New Zealanders. The telephone calls received at the “Standard” office yesterday inquiring for the result of the match were also much more numerous than usual and the receipt of the news of the win by a substantial margin by the New Zealanders was almost invariably followed by a remark denoting pleasure at the result!

Mr Samuel Barry, Auckland’s foremost Optical Specialist und of the-firm of Barry and Freeman, Ltd., the Square, visits Pal-, merstwi North on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 3rd..4th and.sfh.pf December, - and in conjunction with Mr Freeman may ho consulted during the above dates. Persons with weak or' failing sight or who require new and up,tO:dute glasses should secure the services of New Zealand’s foremost Optical Specialists.— Advt.

Dainty floral voiles for cool frocks are only 3s 3d yard net cash at Tho C. 4L Ross Co., Ltd. Those have backgrounds of white, grey, sky, saxe, maize, lemon and rose, all 33in wide. Smartly striped fugiettes on creme grounds, 38in wide, 2s 6d, 3s 6d and 3s 9d yd net cash.—Advt.

JLZ2L 2S -i “w«n S »»”~ £‘fis recently when api ope J , changed ta3, b ai I *&"*' t—> U °' minion). i William John Hull, -a 31, a motor cyclist, died m the result of .injuries received bj colliding with a cow in Marshlands l oad teleday night • (states a Christchurch tele gram). - , While climbing a tree on Saturday, t „ boy named Archibald Spicer of b . fell to the ground and sustained i • tured forearm. He was conveyed to Pal merston North Hospital for treatment an is reported to be making satisfacloiy progress. . A visitor from the south recently inspected a' block of bush within an houiis walk of Te Aroha. and so pleased was ne with the result of the inspection that be na taken up a block of a thousand acres wtnen contain milliner bush sufficient for P bably twenty years’ cutting. Yesterday was St. Andrew’s Day, but the occasion was observed to-day by tn banks and legal offices, which were closed. Not being a Government holiday, Uio State departments were open as usual, and business houses and shops were likewise unaffected.

Pedestrians in Queen street,, Onehunga, had an alarming experience shortly alter five .o’clock on Saturday afternoon, when a motor lorry collided violently w'ith a tram cai*, and after careering down the street foi about 600 yards came to a standstill on the footpath. The impact with the tram resulted in the whole of one side of the- lorry being . stripped off. There was no merchandise in the vehicle.

A Wanganui resident is much impressed with the improvements that have been effected to the Maiiawatu Gorge, and reports that it is now possible for two cars to pass in safety at practically any point in this once treacherous road (states the Chronicle). The work is being pushed ahead with expedition, and there only remain about 20 or 30 chains of wall to be erected at the Woodville end of the gorge.

A littlo girl who strayed on to the railway line at Utiku the other day had a narrow escape from death. She was a tiny tot under two years of age, and she wandered on to the railway line just as a train in charge of Driver Atkins, of Taihape, was coining into the station. The child stood in the middle of the track in front of the oncoming train. Fortunately, the driver observed the child, and applied the brakes immediately.

The Taihape district has been favoured with ideal weather for trie past three months, and there is abundance of feed available for stock. Dairy fanners especially are experiencing an extraordinary favourable season, and supplies to the dairy faetory are greatly in excess of any previous year. Some indication of the mildness of the season may bo gauged by the fact that a local butcher recently put through a line of lambs which averaged over 341 b in weight, the heaviest being 421 b —which is something extraordinary for the .Taihape district. ■ Residents of Rongotea whose places have been connected up with the power • lines of the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board will have electric light available for the first time from that source ro-night. Hitherto, Rongotea consumers have been supplied with electric light from the Rongotea Dairy Company, which has now sold its reticulation to the board. This morning Workmen commenced operations in connecting up the consumers to the new wires which had been fixed in readiness, and the supply as from to-night will be on the three-phase system instead of direct current. All the meters had to be disconnected, as with the alternating current of the new supply they will not record, thus necessitating other meters.