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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 140, 18 May 1925, Page 4

The flashing of an electric light inside the Caledonian Hall in Christchurch, one night recently, deluded somo public-mind-ed person into the belief that the building was on fire and he gave the firealarm.

On Sunday tho Point Halswell _ road was opened and many Wellington citizens took advantage of tho opportunity to visit Mr Massey’s last resting pluce and admire the cairn-shaped monument of wreaths erected there.

While attempting to leave a special race train from Ilawera at Mokoia station on Saturday night, A. Williams, a single man, fell on tho track before tho train stopped, a wheel of the passenger car passing over his foot and severing the toes. Williams was admitted to the fatea hospital.

Wild swans are reported to bo fairly abundant throughout tho Manawatu Line district. Several good bags have been taken front aikanae to Foxton. In two days, it is reported, one gun managed to secure 36, while a party of fivo at Otaki shooting on Air Simcox’s property averaged about tho same each gun.

Steps are being taken by a Napier syndicate to float a company for building an up-to-date hotel on the Marine Parade, states an exchange. It is to be of palatial design and constructed on the latest principles. Provision will be made for over 100 guests; also tennis courts, palm courts, spacious lounges and reception rooms. The explosion of a detonator, with which ho was apparently playing in a workshop, resulted in a seven-year-old bov, Henry Webster, son of Air W. L. Webster, of Carterton, suffering injuries which necessitated the taking off his right hand and lower portion of the arm. His eyes were affected by the discharge, states tho Wairarapa Daily Times, but it is thought that permanent injury will not result.

A brief sittiny of the Juvenile Court was held this morning at which five boys, for using insulting language in herguson street, and for throwing stones, were brought before the Magistrate, Mr J. L. Stout who adjourned the cases for eix months, the boys to bo under the supervision of the juvenile probation officer during the meantime. Another boy, who admitted having ttolen apples, was admonished and discharged.

A remit from the Wellington' branch approved at the annual district conference of the Returned Soldiers’ Association on Saturday was us follows: “Hint it is desirable that a conference be arranged with Maori War and South African veterans to consider tho establishment of a veterans’ home in each district.” Another remit from Wellington to the effect that the Dominion conference should be recommended to take steps to arrange for a conference of South African veterans and all ex-servicemen, with a view to the amalgamation of such bodies, was rejected.

A member of the crew of the collier Canopus, which arrived at Tiniaru last week from Wes-port, states that the vessel, when olf Akaroa, passed through a reboot of whales which numbered many hundreds. Tlie cetaceans were visible as far as the eyo could discern. Olio huge whale passed under tho ship, evidently thinking the Canopus one of the school, but becoming frightened lashed out with its tail, anil sent a cloud of spray over the onlookers, drenching some of them to the skin. Considerable anxiety was felt lest the monster might cause soir e damage, and great relief was felt when, tho school took tfieir departure. Speaking on. the subject of the manufacture of artificial limbs at the district conference of the Returned Soldiers’ Association on Saturday afternoon, Air W. JFascoe, of Wellington, mentioned that a British firm would shortly, so he understood, be taking over the factory at Wellington, with the proviso that-the disabled men who were working there now would have their services retained. Somo of these men-had the impression that their services possibly not bo retained after a period <f several months, and he moved that the following remit be sent to the Dominion conference for approval: “That this conference is strongly of the opinion that the manufacture of artificial limbs in New Zealand ought to be controlled by the New Zealand Government.” This was agreed to.

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A first offending inebriate who appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., at. the Magistrate’s Court this morning, was convict* a and fined ss, in default 24 hours ippriso iment.

At the Supreme Court at Wanganui tie jury disagreed in the case in which ;; McCaiil, an ex-solicitor, was charged c sixteen counts of the misappropriation <‘ clients’ funds. A Christchurch telegram stales tin t William Stefford. one of the passenger in a motor-car which was struck by a train near Rangioru on Thursday nigh , died in hospital at 4.15 p.m. on Saturday. lie had had his left leg amputated.

“Women will live in the town, insteal of going to the country with their hut - bands,” remarked Mr F. K. Hunt, S.-M. in the Auckland Magistrate's Court, whe l Adjutant Gordon reported, after confei - ring with a young wife, that the woma i absolutely refused to live with het husband, who was “on the land.”

“One cannot help noticing .that, Sydney is becoming very Americanised,” stated Mr Id. S. Dcttmann, headmaster of th j Sydney Grammar School, speaking 1,1 Auckland on Thursday evening. “Till people are very fond of the pleasure o: life and far more demonstrative than th’ people of New Zealand. I think this is a pity.”

At an election of the Board of Appea under the Publio Service Act, 1912, hek on May 4, the following votes were recorded:—Harold Clive Hulme 3009 Charles de Rant Andrews 2774, Pierce Fleming 1284. Messrs Hulme and An drews having received the highest numbei of votes, are elected as members of the Public Service Board of Appeal. It is incumbent now, under the Motoi Vehicles Act, for motorists who beconu involved in an accident to report the matter to the police, whether or not the accident is of a serious kind. Failure tc report entails a prosecution, and the firsl of its kind took place at tho Christchurch Magistrate’s Court recently when the defen; da.nt, John O’Brien, was fined lCs and costa. 4

The first meeting of tho Borough Council since tho municipal elections will _ be held this evening when a matter for discussion will be the question of the negotiations With the Manawatu-Oroua, Power Board for the supply by the latter to the council of electric power. At the last meeting of the board it was, decided not to entertain, the council’s counter-proposals to the board’s latest offer.

At about four o’clock yesterday morning, fire practically destroyed a building in Maknraka, near Gisbcrne, occuj-ied by Messrs R. Bell, blacksmith and C. Jensen, wool-skin buyer. The amount, of the skins and hides in tlio store is not known, but it is not believed to bo considerable (states a Press Association message). The building was owned by Mr J. C. Parker, formerly of Hawke’s Bay, but now of Wellington.

During the progress of the fourth grade Rugby match, Jaekeytown versus High School, at the showgrounds on Saturday afternoon, James Anderson, of Foxton line, a member of tho former team, suffered a fracture of tho left wrist. He was sent to the Palmerston North hospital for medical attention. Anderßon lias been particularly unfortunate in the matter of accidents for two years ago he suffered a fracture of the right arm.

At a meeting called by Mr Will. A. Lo(wrie, United States Consular-General, and Mr Humberto Bidone, Argentine Consul-General, for the purpose of forming a Consular Corps in Wellington, at which practically every consul, vice-consul, or consular agent was present or represented, a sub-committee consisting of Messrs Lowrie Bidone, and Dyer was appointed to go fully into tho proposal, draw up rules, and report to a later meeting.

“During the ensuing year some attempt will be made to combat the rat menace, which from observation and complaints received, has become serious,” stated Mr G. A. Baker, sanitary inspector, in his annual report to the Napier Borough Council. As evidence of the prevalence of rats in one particular business place, it waa stated, a new concrete floor, two hours after being laid dawn, gave tho appearance of having been raked over with a garden rake. This was due to the traffic of rats -over it while the cement was soft.

To go homo to his house and find a drunken man, in dirty clothes and boots, lying in his best bed, was tho unpleasant experience of a resident of Matnwhero, Poverty Bay. The intruder appeared before Mr E. C. Levvy, S.M., at tho Magistrate’s Court next clay, on a charge of drunkenness, and was lined 10s, and costs 15s. The police explained that the man was a statutory first offender. Tho door cf the house had been left open, but there was' no indication that the accused had entered for any criminal purpose, and drink was evidently the cause of tho whole trouble.

“That the time is now opportune for the Dominion conference to impress upon the authorities the question of establishing half-wav houses or convalescent homes for mentally deranged men on the lines of Ra-Utu (the adjunct to Porirua) with the stipulation that such places shall be entirely removed from main buildings, which have a very depressing effect and only tend to retard the recovery of the patient,” was a remit from tho Wellington branch which was carried without discussion at the annual district conference of the Returned Soldiers’ Association on Saturday afternoon, the chairman (.Mr B. J. Jacobs) stating that the association had been pressing for it.

Since the official opening of the shooting season, 813 licenses have been granted by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. This (says a Wellington paper) is a very good number, and although it does not constitute a record, is most favourably commented upon by the officials of the society. The duck season gives promise of of being a record one from the point of view of tho slioote:.*, and thousands have made themselves apparent in the Horowhenua and other districts. Thero is a good sprinkling of. pheasant through, to Horowhenua, running from Paekakariki to the Manawatu river, along the marshlands near the coast. It is reported by the ranker in this district that several fine begs have been secured. Three guns br <rgod 87 in two days at Waikanae, two guns 126 in two days, two guns 37 in one morning, and two others got 23. One lady who was all alone in the Horowhenua took 17 ducks recently with 15 shots.

“That the district conference urge headquarters to advocate to the Government the giving of power to county councils to review all arrears in rates owing to them, on the basis that all rating should be on a sum no greater than that at which the farm is revalued, and that it date back to the time from which revaluation takes effect; and, further, that county councils be given additional power to write off further sums in cases that they consider necessitous,” was the text of a remit from the Palmerston North branch considered at the annual district conference of the Returned Soldiers’ Association on Saturday. Tho chairman, Mr B. J. Jacobs, in explanation, said that the remit was intended to apply to returned soldiers only. Colonel A. H. Herbert (Eketahuua) commented that the proposal was quite a fair one. Mr G. I>. Hamilton (Levin) stated that thero were two sides to the question, if rates were written off other settlers would have to make good the reductions. The chairman: All we ask is that the legal bar be removed. The remit was approved without further discussion.

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