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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1189, 11 December 1924, Page 4

The All Blacks play Warwickshire toduy and ,a match ugainst the Combined Services on Saturday.

A'sitting of tlic Arbitration Court at Blenheim yesterday granted an application by the local furniture workers to have the recent Dominion award brought into force in Marlborough. At the inquest at; Taumarunui concerning the death of Augustus John McGalm, who was found hanged at Matiere, the coroner returned u verdict of suicide by hanging. About 100 applications have been received by the Hawke’s Bay Education Board for appointment as pupil teachers and probationers next year. The vacancies to be idled number 31. A truck of lime was sot on lire through rain getting beneath the tarpaulin which covered the vehicle while it was standing in the railway yard at Westport. The services of the lire brigade were obtained to put the lire out. A Grevmouth telegram staies that representatives of locai bodies of the Grey, Westland and Inangahua districts met there last night and decided unanimously to set up local committees to arrange for a joint West Coast court at the Dunedin Exhibition. Amongst the welcomes to be extended to the new Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergussoii, will be one from the Presbyterians of New Zealand. Tile moderator of tbe Presbytery is going to Wellington from Dunedin, and will, with representatives of churches here, present an address to Sir Charles. On bis return from a tour abroad, Mr A. J. Hutchinson, secretary of the Auckland Rotary Club, suid that it was most extraordinary how Rotary Clubs in England anils America were increasing, and the greilt' work which they were doing. Another characteristic which he noted was the enthusiasm of members. At a special meeting of the Manawatii Sub-Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association last night, held for the purpose of discussing the matter of representation at a conference of subcentres witli the Wellington Centre at Wellington on Saturday, the president and treasurer, Messrs C. M. Stugpoole and I’. Skogltmd respectively, were appointed delegates. The Rewainii Stale mine was idle yesterday owing i'O a dispute between the firemen and the management regarding wages (states a telegram from Greymouth). The men claim that as they are in charge of boilers, they are entitled to firemen’s rale of pay. hut the management is contending that they are assistants, and is paying at assistants’ rate of pay. A Conference is to be held.

The irreverence of some schoolboys was referred to by the chairman of the Wanganui Education Board at yesterday afternoon’s meeting. He pointed out that lie had noticed when funerals passed along the street that some of the boys had nog lected to pay their respect by standing and removing their hats. He considered that the matter should be brought up in the schools. “That spirit is typical of the age,” remarked another member. It was resolved to refer the matter to the Teachers’ Association. Lieutenant E. Mourier-Petorsen, of Denmark. who is on a world tour investigating dairying conditions in many countries, was in the MatiawaUi yesterday and inspected several farms in this district. Li his search for information for the Danish Royal Agricultural Society ho has already visited China alid Japan, and after visiting the South Island will proceed home via Java. Singapore, France. Sweden, and Belgium. lie has been accompanied bv Mr Sorensen, who has been commissioned by tlie Govtu-hhient of Denmark to report upon dairying in Xew Zealand, Australia and the Argentine. When a county council receives a request from a buckbloeks settler it is usually in regard to either a road or a bridge. That there are exceptions was proved at a meeting of the Waitotara County Council. when a settlin' made a request for a boat. It was explained that he paid £BO a year in rides, was beyond teach of llh.V public road, and that a boat was necessary for crossing the Wanganui river at Kiriniti. the ptist arrangement of seeking the loan of a eatioe being by no means satisfactory. Under the special circumstances the council decided to vote £lO towards the cost of a boat. For results ill your garden you must keep your lawn, flower and vegetable garden well watered. To enable you to do this cheaply we can sell you a coil of £in. 3-ply rubber hose, 50ft. long, already to screw on your tap, for 27s 6d a coil. We also have good stocks of lawn sprinklers, syringes and water cans. Call in and see these to-duy. —Collinson and Soil, Broadway, Palmerston North. —Advt. Hayward's ‘‘Military” pickles tickle the palate and add rest to appetite. All grocers; must be ‘‘Military.’’—Advt.

There Is still an acute shortage of housing accommodation in P L,p .‘: tJl , n n i fc last house that was advertised to ,MW week the owner received 42 through the post in the space of a da>. “It might be a strange idea, b $J, never had a bank book m "ty a bankrupt at a meeting of hi, in Auckland. “I have always kept a m.V money in my bedroom. I in keeping old letters and nnpets showing records of money." The cosmopolitan crews carried 011 tisb ships can be judged by the ' on two vessels in Auckland. The Pak ; paki has all West Indian nogroes m lie stokehold, and the remainder of l-ni ciov are Europeans. Oil the lllingwoitll stokehold hands arc Arabs. Owing to the driver of an outward hound train mistaking a signal this morning-, the guard was left on the station. The train was stopped in. the Square, however, to allow the guard to catch up and another hold-up in street traffic occurred. Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., has been advised by Mr Gray, Secrelary for External Allans, ttint the Samoan chiefs at present iu New Zealand will pass through Palmerston North on their way to Wellington by (he Main Trunk express on Saturday morning. “If you were in the room at the time, how is it that you did riot know what was actually said?" was a question put by counsel to a witness at' the Timum Magistrate’s Court. “There were several ladies present, and they were all talking at once,” was the ready response. The Magistrate smiled sympathetically, and promptly accepted the explanation. An interesting comment on immigrants was made by Mr Justice Frazer during the hearing of an engineering dispute at a recent sitting of the- Court of Arbitration in Grevmouth. His Honour considered that they wore not “good all-round men.;' “Immigrants are very highly skilled in their own line,- no doubt,” his Honour observed, “but their scope is limited. They are specialists, and I don’t think any inspector or union official would object, to such persons working us under-rate operatives for a few months until they became used to the full work.” • At this week’s meeting of the Wellington Board of Education the Levin School Committee notified that steps were being taken to establish a )|i<di school at Levin, in lieu of the District High School. Mr Darkness said it- was really an inquiry as to the future policy of the board. At present there were 800 pupils at the District- High School, and it was a question what should be done. It was proposed to establish a district high school at Shannon, for the train services did not enable children to get to Levin and back. The chairman stated that the Levin District High School wus quite a good institution. Mr London consinerecl Uiat an important town like Levin should have u high school. The secretary said the conveyance difficulty might be got over by using both train and coach. The matter was held over.

Questions of law relative to a borough council’s liability on a claim for monetaryrecompense, in lieu of accumulated holidays were discussed before Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington, when Robert B. Witty, formerly general manager to the Eastbourne Borough Council, took proceedings against the Mayor, councillors and burgesses of the borough for the recovery of £66 6s lid. The amount was made up us follows Three weeks’ salary in lieu of leuve for the year ended August 25, 1922, at £4OO per annum; three weeks’ salary in lieu of leave for the year ended August 25, 1923, at £450 per annum; and two weeks’ salary in lieu of leave for the period from August 26, 1923, to May 10, j. 924, at £450 per annum. Decision was reserved.

Several cases of infantile paralysis have been reported to the Health Department, in Wellington, 14 eases having occurred in a fortnight. So far there have been three deatiis. Dr McKibben, Director of Public Hygiene, states that the cases are in the Lower Hutt, the suburbs and in the city. They are of varying severity. The department is taking prompt action in the matter, aiming at firm isolation in the first eases (states a Press Association telegram). Past, experience has proved that infantile paralysis is infectious, mainly through the nose. It is believed isolation is the only known effective remedial measure. There is no cause for alarm, says Dr McKibben. The department, is making every effort to subdue the outbreak and the numbers are small. At a civic reception yesterday at- Gisborne the lion. C. J. Parr, Minister of Education, made .an important statement in regard to secondary education. The Minister said that New Zealand was ahead of any country in the Empire in the provision made for post-primary education. The high schools had become the people’s schools, and over 20,000 children were in these secondary schools. It was necessary to take stock to see how westood. He pointed out that only one in twelve pupils went from high schools on to the • university, and that the professors’ university examination was not the right objective. It gave a bias the wrong way. There was ii serious overlapping between secondary and technical schools and it would do to review the position. He Had asked Mr Frank Tate, Director of Education in Victoria, the strongesteducationist in Australia, who would ho visiting New Zealand in February, to give the Government a report on the whole subject.