Mr F. J. Nathan, chairman of the Manawatu Gorge Jload Board of Control, has received advice from the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) that he will bo pleased to perform the opening ceremony in oonnection with the highway at a date to be arranged. A five-seater motor car, belonging to the Raglan County Council, was destroyed by fire last week at Waahi, near Huntly. The car suddenly burst into flames, and the occupants ; county engineers, nud to make a hurried exit.
Mrs Sutherland, the victim of the Awahuri sensation, who has been an inmate of the hospital ever since, continues to make slow progress, but there is no immediate prospect of her being discharged from the institution.
A school of blackfish, or dolphins, were stranded on the bathing beach in Half Moon Bay, Steward Island, last week, and were promptly secured by two fishermen for their oil. There were ten altogether, the largest measuring 22ft in length.
Apparently thero is an epidemic in Wanganui at present of persons taking the bicycles of others that have been left in the streets and then abandoning them later, states the Herald. At the police station there are over 20 bicycles awaiting owners. Otto Barr, an elderly farmer at Tarata (Taranaki district), was found drowned in a creek on his property last night by neighbours, who became alarmed when he failed to return to the house. Lately he had not been enjoying good health.
A tale of a Scotsman narrated by. the Governor-General at the civic reception yesterday delighted the large assemblage. A Scot, he said, was once asked what would he rather be if not a member of that race, and the instant reply was: “I would be ashamed of myself.” "Well,” said His Excellency, “I will vary that. Were I not a Scotsman I would prefer to be a New Zealander.” Laughter and applause greeted His Excellency’s humour.
Fatal injuries were caused 'to a sawmill hand, Charles Kirkland, through a log rolling on him when working in the Catlin’s River district (Southland). Deceased, who lost an arm about two years ago, as a result of an accident, leaves a widow and four children.
Laurence Suckling, who was injured at Templeton on Saturday afternoon in a collision between his motortruck and a goods train, is still in a serious condition, states a Christchurch Press Association message. He regained consciousness on Sunday. Twenty residents petitioned the Dannevirko Borough Council at its last meeting asking that the council put the old cemetery, now closed, into decent order. It contained, they pointed out, the remains of many of the pioneers of Dannevirke, and its present condition was no credit to the town. The matter was referred to the works committee for attention. Atlantic salmon are now sufficiently numerous in the Southern Lake district for the eggs to be collected for the purpose of distribution to other Streams. The Government piscatorial expert is visiting Lake Te Anau and the streams nearly in connection with the Atlantic salmon fishing there, and arrangements will be made for the collection of eggs this season.
The Stockton mine is idle as a result of a dispute between the miners and the management over the employment of some men, the management having, it is alleged, given preference to some late-comers (states a telegram from Westport). The miners contend that the men unemployed and waiting in the district should have been first considered. Apparently all was right on Friday to resume work, but a hitch occurred on Saturday and the mine is 6till idle. “It would pay the club to engage a man for a year to try to eradicate it,” said a member at the annual meeting of the Maungakiekie Golf Club at Auckland, in referring to paspalum grass. The member went on to say that salt did not appear to have any effect in killing the grass. Another member said the salt would not kill paspalum the first time, but would ultimately have the effect. “I might montion,” said the president, Mr G. Lawrence Taylor, “that our caretaker is engaged practically all the time in killing off the paspalum.”
“Let the children come and sit on the steps of the band rotunda,” remarked the deputy-Mayor at the civic reception accorded the GovernorGeneral yesterday. The little ones, anxious to get a closer view,, readily complied but characteristically became restless and amused themselves while His Excellency was speaking by climbing up to his feet, one tiny tot even venturing to look up to and address Sir Charles. The latter smiled with the crowd and said: “It is not often that one’s audience attains such a pitch of enthusiasm that members of it want to come up to speak to you.” When two other children fell over at the top of the steps he invited one of them to hold his hand, but the child was more concerned about the bump it had received.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 30 March 1926, Page 6
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