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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 285, 5 November 1925, Page 8

The wonderful Country Party fared badly yesterday. Its leader, Mr A. A. Ross, only obtained 271 votes out of the 6778 polled at Thames. Naturally he loses his deposit. The weakness of his supporters is shown in the case of Captain Colebeck, the leading controversialist of the Party, who could only find 180 voters to stand by him in the whole of the Rotorua electorate out of 6889 who recorded their votes. Mr It. D. Duxfield again, • with 211 votes, was at the bottom of the poll for Raglan. Only in Tauranga and Bay of Islands were the C.P. candidates able to put up anything like a light. In the former ceonstituency the only opposition to Mr C. E. MacMillan came from the Country Party candidate, Mr Coulter, who gathered unto himself the votes of all the disgruntled Liberals and Labourites who had no other opportunity, of showing their part of appreciation of the Reform Government. Mr Coulter put up the more respectable total of 2875, but Mr MacMillan's 5101 gave him the substantial majority of 2226. In Bay of Islands Mr H. J. Sweeney, the Country Party candidate, was also soundly beaten by Colonel Allen Bell with 3039 votes against his 1057. The C.P. Party might bo aptly described to-day as the Party of Lamentations. An experienced sheep farmer estimates that the wet and backward season will cause a shortage of 21b per fleece. He reckons the North Island will be 60,000 bales short and the South 40,000. “Very few engineers arc pliysiciany,” said Sir Ernest Rutherford during the eburse of a lecture given liy'him before students in Canterbury College. “If you take my advice,” lie added, amidst laughter, “the more physics you know the less engineering-you need.” The number of. absent voters who exercised the franchise in respect to the Palmerston electorate yesterday was 644, as compared with 326 at the 1922 polls. It was expected that these votes would bo counted by a late hour this afternoon, as telegrams were still arriving throughout the forenoon. During last month the Dunedin telephone exchange linked up with 230 new subscribers. There had been for some time a long waiting list of residential applications which had to be set aside in favour of more urgent applications from business houses, but the department has now satisfied the requirements of them, all. “In all my visits to the schools I see most splendid children,” declared His Excellency the Governor-General Sir Charles Eergusson -at the opening of the open-air school at Cashmere, Christchurch. “There is certainly nothing to touch the children of New Zealand at Home in England, or in any part of the world that I know of. Their extraordinary physical development, their brightness, their happiness, I am quite sure are due to their environment, to the healthy open-air life of the country, and to the generally good conditions.” The incentive to prompt payment of rates held out by the Takapuna Borough Council—an offer of a rebate of 0 per cent, on all amounts paid j before November I—has proved very | effective. Although only a month luus j elapsed since the issue of rate-demands was completed, more than half the amount levied lor the current year has reduced the municipal treasury—over £14,000 out of the total of £25,870- The result is a very material reduction of the bank overdraft arranged by the council in anticipation of revenue and a corresponding saving in interest.

“Ono of the rumours circulated about me is that I threw my teeth away to get off Gallipoli,” said Mr W. JO. Loadley at a returned soldiers’ meeting at Christchurch. A striking proof of the falsehood of the rumour was forthcoming (says the. Press).. Lieutenant Crumpton, who was present, arose and said: Mr Lead ley was my sergeant on tho Peninsula, and when he lost hia teeth 1 ordered him back to the base. He refused'to go, and 1 have seen him sucking bacon, and grinding biscuits between two stones, and moistening the crumbs with jam. All I can say is that the statement is a damned lie! (Applause.) During the month of October the estates of the following deceased persons in the Palmerston North district were accepted for administration by the Public Trustee:—James Brown, Mary Wesley Bowe Mallett, Alexander McMaster. For tko convenience of country visitors it has been decided not to close any day during Show Week, with the exception of the usual Wednesday half-holiday. Following are the business hours to bo observed : Monday, Tuesday, Thursday! Friday, 3.30 a.m. to 5.30, Wednesday 8.30 a.in. to 12.30 p.m., Saturday late night) 8.30 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. —Collinson and Cuhninidnunu.— Collinson and Son will accept a deposit on any of their numerous lines, suitable for piosents, and will reserve same until Christmas. China is the chief line; but, then there arc pictures, crystal, toilet goods, perfumes, marquetry, glassware, stationery, brassware, pyrex, leather goods, pottern, IC.P.N.S. mounted goods, cake stands, and a myriad other, lines, all admirably suited for presentation purposes.— Collinson and Son, Broadway and Kingsway.—Advt.