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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1197, 20 December 1924, Page 4

The Waikato railway line was extended from 'Ngaruawahia to Hamilton 47 years ago on December 19. A tender for £8420 has been accepted in Dunedin for the erection of a war memorial column in reinforced concrete faced with Italian Carrara marble.

In the Supreme Court at Auckland, Harold Keith Jones, aged 23, a clerk in the Bank of New Zealand, for the forgery of a cheque for £450, was sentenced to two vears’ reformative treatment.

“If parents won’t take care -of the children, and they fail to bring them up properly, then the State must estop in and take a hand,” said Mr H. V. Widdowson, S.M., in the Juvenile Offenders’ Court, at Christchurch.

A boy named George Dudley, 11 years of age, while bathing with numerous other children in the Vfaiarohia stream, North Auckland, was unfortunate in striking a piece of broken glass when he dived. The fragment entered his chest, cutting it badly, and he had to be taken to the Whangarei Hospital to have the glass extracted. • '

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that at a meeting of shareholders of the New Zealand Hardware Company, a resolution was confirmed to go into voluntary liquidation. This company, with branches at Invercargill and Timaru, is one of the oldest hardware enterprises in the Dominion.

Nine delegates, whose average age was slightly over 81 years, gathered in Palmerston North yesterday at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Association of Maori War Veterans. The oldest present was 86 years of age, while the two youngest were 77. As is usual with annual meetings of this association, considerable time was spent in reminiscences, some veryenjoyable stories of the Maori Wur being related.

A young man named "Robert Hugh Dixon was charged at Invercargill with speeding and failing to stop when requested, and being drunk when in charge of a motor car. The evidence for the prosecution was that the accused was drunk, was travelling at 35 miles an hour and collided with another car, doing serious damage. The Magistrate said it was a very bad case and sentenced Dixon to one month’s hard labour.

The king of the New Zealand forest, the kauri, is regarded as not only indigenous but peculiar to New Zealand, and although a tree known as the Queensland kauri exists in Australia, it is not the true kauri. It was mentioned by Dr. J. hi. Steward, Bishop of Melanesia, on his return from the Solomons this week, that a forest of kauris had been discovered in the island of Yanikoro, which is in the Solomon Islands protectorate.

The present and past pupils of the Feilding High School held a service in the Redding parish hall last evening for tiie purpose of saying good-bye to Miss Porter, who is leaving for her home in Ashburton. During the evening several presentations were made to the guest, Miss Rose llenaghan presenting a set- of Kipling's works from Oroua House; Rae Broad a suit-case from the school, and Miss Tui Mayo an inkstand from the old pupils. Miss Porter suitably acknowledged the gifts.

At the Police Court at Auckland y esterday, two Communists, Oswald Bourbeau anil Evan John Thomas, were charged with having sold to a constable a book, “The A.B.U. of Communism,” which encourages violence and lawlessness. They were found guilty and Bourbeau was sentenced to three months in gaol, and Thomas, who previously had been lined £25, to two months in gaol. “This book is a long-sus-tained shriek of the usual Bolshevik pitch, said Mr Povnton, S.M.. in sentencing the accused. “It might have been written by a homicidal maniac, so mahv are its incitements to violence and threats of massacre.

Christinas conies but once u year and it’s a poor heart that does not rejoice at such a time. One of the most joyous factors is the merriment of the little children, and it is a happy thought to give the unfortunate children in orphanages a bright and memorable time. I) or this purpose retiring collections will be taken at both services in St. Andrew’s Church tomorrow to provide gifts for the little ones in the Berhmnporc Homes. No doubt the usual generosity of Presbyterians will again assert itself.

Exquisite velvet or silk bags, French novelties just in, .will make delightful gifts. These are designed with steel beads and finished with a fringe. Fitted with mirror and erinoid tops. In navy, grey, black or nigger. Christmas carnival price--213, 23s 6d, 27s 6d to 33s 6d, at the C. M. Ross Co., Ltd. —Advt.

The gift problem solved by glvihg Ixayser silk hosiery. Collinson and Cunningliame have seven qualities in “Ixayser” silk hose, priced from 15s 6d to 21s pair. Kuyser Milanese silk hose, lisle tops and feet, in black and white, I7s 6d pair, ov with woof feet 21s pair. Ixayser pure silk Milanese stockings, with slipper heels in black, white and liew shades, 21s pair.— Collinson and Ciinninghame.—Advt.

A clerk named Thomas Dolan was sentenced at the Wellington Magistrate s Court yesterday to three months’ imprisonment: for failure to account for £lB 10s to .Vlamaku Forests, Ltd.

“Nobody talked of psychology’ in education when 1 was young: they brought Us up by luck or machinery,_ declared Archbishop Julius at a prize-giving ceremony.

Five Chinese stowaways on the steamer Kaivrarra from Suva were charged at the Auckland Police Court yesterday with unlawfully attempting to enter New Zealand without paying- the poll tax and were remanded until Tuesday next.

There wore 31 deaths from external causes in the Dominion during November. These included eight cases of drowning, two on railways, and two by automobile. 1 ' There? were eight suicides among the number.

Rabbits appear to have multiplied with unusual rapidity in Canterbury this season, and in all the river beds and other waste lands, as well as in more hilly district, there arc abundant evidences that swarms of young rabbits are threatening potential loss to pastoralists and farmers. In addressing the scholars at King’s School. Auckland, at their annual prizegiving ceremony, Bishop Averill said that while attending a similar ceremony at Hamilton the day previous lie had been shown certain work done by the boys of that school towards building a chapel. Over 14,000 bricks had beon made by the pupils, an achievement, he thought, wonderful and absolutely unique. Discussing the recent parents’ day at the Hokowhitu School, a member of the committee said that in his opinion the innovation was of great benefit to the School. It brought the parents in closer touch with the teachers and gave them an idea of what Work was being done. It did a lot. of good to have the parents working in perfect harmony with the teachers and Hokowhitu was fortunate in this respect.

In a court case at Foxton yesterday, in which aii application for the issue of a prohibition order was being opposed, a police officer mude a statement that defendant had not paid a fine imposed on him last court day. This waa in support of evidence that defendant .allegedly squandered his money in drink and which was denied. Counsel for defendant parried the police statement with one that “in Foxton nobody paid a fine until he had to.”

The Arbitration Court delivered judgment in Auckland in a case heurd in Wellington on November 27th in which Arthur Brown claimed from the Union Steam Ship Co. compensation iii respect to an injury received on September 16tli, 1924, Plaintiff left work at Miramar wharf at 3 p.m. Within ten minutes he trod on a loose stone and jarred his knee, and sinco lias been unable io work as the result of the injury. It was contended that the accident arose out of and in course of his employment. The company exercised an option under the award of paying travelling time between Miramar and Wellington instead of providing a conveyance. In the judge’s opinion the application failed because the accident did not arise in the course of bis employment. Judgment was for the defendant company. Leave was reserved to apply for costs. At the end of tile prize-giving gathering of the Auckland and Epsom Girls’ Grammar Schools, held in the hall of the Auckland Grammar School on - Wednesday evening. the whole of the gas lights went out suddenly. The chairman of the board was speaking when the hall was plunged in darkness. Loud laughter greeted the interruption, and was renewed when the chairman struck a match and was seen to be conferring in the gloom at the end of the hall with the Minister of Education. The gas had been turned off at the meter mid it was impossible to restore the light; quickly. Fortunately the large audience remained quiet, and after a few minutes the chairman announced the National Anthem, and when this had been sung, the crowd dispersed “lowly. Then difficulties arose, for the whole building was in darkness, and parents hud to find their daughters, who had been sitting together in tho hall. One or" two tapers lit the way to the entrances, and after some groping families managed to get together.