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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 6

Eleven out of the twelve members at present constituting the New Zealand Cabinet are native born, Mr Anderson being the exception. The Auckland Education Board decided on Wednesday to dispense with the services of a number of uncertificated teachers in the board’s district as there are certificated teachers now available.

An accumulation of litigation over the holidays was responsible for the appearance of nearly 30 solicitors at the weekly civil sitting of the Hamilton Court on Wednesday. In all well over 200 cases were called, the majority going by default.

When speaking at the meeting of tlie recently-formed ManawatuOroua branch of the New Zeale id Pig Breeders’ Association held yesterday afternoon, Mr C. Dald, Danish ViceConsul at Palmerston North, mentioned that Denmark exported £7,500, 000 worth of eggs every year, and that for each member of the community thero was an average of Gi hens.

Last week-end several Gisborne Harbour Board officials, accompanied by Mr A. Stewart, assistant resident engineer for Wairoa, visited tho port of Waikokopu, where they inspected the work being done in connection with the sinking of the Talune, which is to form part of a breakwater there. Tho information and experience gained, states an exchange, will assist them in the sinking of tho Monowai, which the Gisborne Harbour Board recently purchased. A deep-sea sportsman, Mr P. It. Gardner, of Kamo, from long experience on the known grounds, was convinced that mako sharks, swordfish and hammerhoaded sharks would all bo found in the deep water off Whangarei Heads. He has proved his belief to bo right. Among catches made by him at the week-end was a mako shark 10ft. long and weighing 386 lb. Hfjlf a mile off, under Bream Head, he saw in two hours four other mako sharks and three swordfish, one of the latter of the broadbill species. Never in his experience, he said, has ho seen so much indication of good sport offering.

Ladies’ frocks in tho now nil crush linen, round neck, short sloevos, trimmed drawn thread work, finished narrow belt; usual price 425; Balo price 32s 6d; colours,-, white, mauve, cinnamon and saxe. —Collinson and Cunnighamo, Ltd. —Advt.

A meeting of the New Zealand Polo Association was held last night, when it was decided to hold the Savill Cup tournament at Feilding at the beginning of March. It is anticipated tlnft ten teams will compete. An invitation is to be cabled to the Australian Association to send a team. At the Police Court at Auckland yesterday, Arnold Bridge Moody, aged 19, who pleaded guilty to a charge of absconding from tlio licensed service' of the Whakarongo Dairy Company, was remanded in custody at Mount Eden prison, pending his transfer to tho Borstal Institute at Invercargill. Under the will or tlio lato William Francis Barraud, of Wellington, tho Sargent art collection at Wanganui will be considerably added to and enriched. Comprised .in the 45 works bequeathed to the gallery are pictures by such well-known artists as Lee liankey, John Gully, Yeend King, G. Breanski, A. B. Simpson, R.A., Burlpight Bruhl, C. D. and E. N. Barraud, M. Monnikendam, and others.

“I travelled by ca|r from Napier to Wellington a few days ago, and I have no hesitation in saying that the worst stretch of road encountered on tho whole trip was between Napier and Hastings," remarked a motorist to a Napier Telegraph reporter. The motorist added that the best road to Wellington at present was via the Manawatu Gorge, which had lost all its terrors since it had been mado so safe, Shannon, and over Paekakariki Hill. The water supply at Seatoun, Wellington, went off on Tuesday evening for some hours. It was off from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Wednesday, and yesterday the residents had none at all. The Mayor of Wellington (Mr C. J. Norwood) stated yesterday that the trouble was apparently mainly due to tho Gas Company (whoso works aro at Miramar) having mado an extraordinary demand on the supj 'y available to Miramar and Seatoun. Water carts yesterday wero despatched to Seatoun to relieve immediate necessities.

According to notice in the Gazette licenses have been granted by tho Gov-ernor-General to Gerald Fitzgerald and others to use for electrical purposes water from (1) the falls, rivers or streams discharging into Deep Cove, or any other part of Smith Sound; and from (2) Lake Manapouri, in the Fiord County. No 1 is expected to be the basis of an immediate development of 50,000 horse-power, while from the lalio (No 2) it is expected to ultimately derive 250,000 horse-power, making 300,000 horse-power in all —“tho largest water power scheme in the Southern Hemisphere,” it is claimed.

A collision occurred on the Evans Bay road, Wellington, on Wednesday night, between a five-seater car driven by- J. Eastwood, of Porirua, and a three-seater car driven by Richard Stanley 'Bagby, horse-trainer, of Woodville. "Eastwood had with him as passengers Miss Annie Donaldson and Mrs Julius, of Tawa Flat. Bagby’s passengers were Alfred Creamer, clerk, of Sydney, Miss Lilly McGavin, of Dunedin, and Miss Ailsa McCombc, of Christchurch. As a result of the accident Mrs Julius was removed to the Wellington Hospital suffering from head and leg injuries; the others escaped with slight injuries. Both cars were severely damaged.

“The question of the propriety of allowing a young surgeon of 13 months’ experience and another of seven months’ experience to perform a major operation is one for the opinion of medical men. The question must depend upon the nature of the operation. At any rate it would appear desirable that a surgeon of longer experience should be in attendance.” The above remarks wero made by tho coroner, Mr E. Page, S.M., in tlie Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when the circumstances surrounding the death of Haiward Sigfried Ccderholm, aged five years, who died under an operation in the Wellington Hospital on January 18, were investigated.

A youth named Roy Edward Ralph, who was hired out to work by a Woodvillo farmer from an industrial school, commandeered his employer’s car and cleared out to Masterton, where he abandoned tho car. He loitered round there for a few days, and then took another car and drove on to Petone. At the Wellington Court accused admitted two charges of unlawfully converting cars to his own use, and a charge of theft of a tin of benzine valued at Ss Gd. On the charge of theft Ralph was ordered to bo detained in a Borstal institution for a period not exceeding three years. On the other two charges ho was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence, when called upon within three years.

A report was made to the Auckland Hospital Board this week concerning the case of a young woman who arrived from England eleven months ago and was admitted to tbe hospital last November suffering from tuberculosis of tho hip. It was stated she was likely to be a charge on tho institution for some years, that she was refused an assisted passage to New Zealand on account of her infirmity, but that she was permitted to come out by paying her passage in the ordinary way. indignation was expressed that the case should have been thus overlooked by the authorities in England, and it was decided to call the attention of tho Prime Minister and the Minister of Health to the seeming luxity in administration of tho regulations.

A visiting teacher in conversation with a Wanganui Chronicle reporter yesterday commented favourably on the action of tho Wanganui Education Board in providing every facility, within reason, for country teachers. The teacher lapsed into reminiscences, and recalled his early days in tho profession. On one occasion ho was stationed in the Wanganui Board’s district, and a copper boiler was the only thing in which he could' have his weekly ablution. His custom was to light tho copper fire and have his bath while the water was warming up. One day, however, lie had rather a burning experience. His bath was nearing an end and the water was rapidly boating up when his wife, who had been entertaining a friend, appeared at tho back door, which was in full view of tho washhouse. Tho teacher was faced with tho alternative of remaining in the, steaming water or hopping out, clad only in nature’s garments, in full view of the visitor. Ho preferred tho former course, and as a consequence he resembled a boiled lobster when lie was able to safely cmergo from his crude bath.

Attention is drawn to the notice that tho butchers will hold their annual picnic at Ashhurst Domain on Monday next, 25th inst. The chief attraction will bo the baby show which is sure to draw, keen competition. Trains leave Palmerston North at 9.50, departing for home at 5.40.

Now is the time to buy your silks. Outvalues in natural fugi silk are absolutely unbeatable. A spocial 6alo clearance is now being made at 2s lid, 3s 3d, 3s lid yard. Striped all silk fugi, light and dark grounds with tho very latest in stripes, special now at 3s lid. 4s 6d yard sale price; both lines 29in wide. —Tho C. M. ltoss Co., Ltd.—Advt.

Wellington will shortly have a troop of kilted scouts, the first to be organised in New Zealand. A decision to form such a troop was reached at a meeting of directors of the Wellington Caledonian Society.

It is stated by Sir James Parr, Minister for Justice, that the announcement of Sir . William Sim as chairman of the Prisons Board, in succession to Sir Robert Stout, is absolutely incorrect. “The Government,” states Sir James, “lias not yet even considered the appointment.” “I submit wo are entitled to costs,” said counsel in the Auckland Police Court, when a charge against a motor bus driver was dismissed “Not at all,” said the magistrate, Mr Hunt. “You were lucky to get out of it at all.” Counsel stated the law on the point was quite' clear. “I know all about the law,” said the magistrate. “The question of costs is entirely at my discretion.” “I do not see eye to eye with them on all these matters,” said Mr R. G. Clark, chairman of the One Tree Hill Road Board, when the objections of motor bus proprietors to the proposed regulations were under discussion at a meeting of the board. “I think the bus traffic in this city wants controlling,” continued Mr Clark. “Regulations are in force in Australia, while in all the States of America omnibus traffic is under strict control. The city tramways are unable to move without an order-in-council.”

Two small boys, Richard McKenzio and Eddie Mcßay, were in danger of drifting to sea at Kaikoura recently. They hud been playing with a raft owned by the Swimming Club, which drifted out to the Nino Pins rocks. Mcßay, who could swim, endeavoured to tow the raft to safety, but it was too much for him, Mr Thomas Reardon noticed the plight of the boys, and fully clothed, swam out about three chains and brought the lad McKenzie to shore, the other lad being able to make shore himself.

There is a Hastings borough by-law, states an exchange, that makes it illegal to wheel a bicycle on the footpath, and under a strict interpretation of the by-law it is unlawful even to wheel a bicycle across a footpath from a gate to a roadway. This fact was brought to mind when two lettercarriers, employed at the Hastings Post Office, appeared to answer charges of riding bicycles, in the performance of their duty, on a borough footpath, and were fined £2 and 7s costs. Nobody appeared to defend tlio boys, and they were left entirely to their own devices in attempting to defend themselves, and had been informed, when applying to their chief for his support, that they were allowed the bicycles, but were not given permission to ride on footpaths.