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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 30 March 1926, Page 6

The name of the boy who delivered the address to the Governor-General at the West End School yesterday was Master Jim Woodland. The Palmerston North Chess Club intends sending a team to Wellington to play two matches against the city representatives on Friday and Saturday. next. The two-year-old son of J. S. Williams, Temuka, was found drowned in a barrel in which there was two feet of water. The child had been playing nearby. Two statutory first-offending inebriates, who app .ared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, were each convicted and fined ss, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. Fire at 2 o’clock on Sunday morning destroyed the store-room of the Club Hotel at Marton, and also stock estimated at over £7OO. The cause of the fire is unknown. The store and oontents were covered by insurance. When last he was. in Palmerston North as a lad, the Governor-General stated at the civic reception accorded him yesterday, the town just emerging from the bush. Now it happened that on his return to the Dominion after a lengthy absence ho visited this borough as the centre of a most, prosperous agricultural country, and Her Excellency and himself were trying to “get into touch with conditions here.” The catering for passenger luggage presents some difficulty to proprietors of motor service cars but one driver, to meet the position, has attached to his car a miniature vehicle, closely resembling a dray, but mounted on pneumatic wheels, which is trailed behind the motor. While such scheme has been tried with success with lorries, the practice of employing a trailer on a comparatively light car is still somewhat novel. The collections at the recent anniversary services in connection with the Cuba Street Methodist Church amounted to £lO5 17s 3d. At the public meeting held on the following Wednesday a further £ll 6s. 2d. was raised, and £l9 15s. sd. was obtained for the produce from the harvest festival. The total sum, with the exception of a small allbtment, will be devoted to the church building fund. “Sixty years ago the word of a rangatira would be accepted without question anywhere,” raid Mr Justice Heed in the Supreme Court, in New Plymouth, when the veracity of a witness was called in question. The Judge added that it was plain that lying was going on in the case and it was difficult to say which side was speaking the truth. They appeared to be well divided and the pity of it wa* that there were rangitiras on cither side. Before Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., at Nelson, yesterday, Leonard Farnworth (who did not appear), was charged with failing to comply with the terms of Ins probation license. Defendant, for a breach of a maintenance order in respect to his wife, some months ago was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon and to report to the police monthly, and also to notify the police if he left the district. Senior Sergeant Barrett said defendant had not done so. and his whereabouts were unknown. The Magistrate imposed a sentence of six months’ imprisonment. At the inquest in Wellington concerning the death of Paul Jones, aged five years, who died of injuries received in Vivian street, on Bth March, the evidence showed that the child when seen was in an injured condition and died soon after. Witnesses saw a lorry disappear round the corner, but all efforts to trace it failed. The coroner, Mr Page, in returning a verdict that the child was run over, but there was not adequate evidence to identify the vehicle or the driver, added that it was desirable that instruction be given in the schools as to the danger of fast moving traffic in the streets. Ex S.S. “Rotorua” and “Alhenio” dozens and dozens of smart new model hats unpacked and ready for Easter shoppers". Mostly in felt and velvet, all with variety of trimming that makes selection a joy. Price range is a wide one from 35/. to 65/- net cash. Ever so many new felts in too. Splendid choice from 10/6 at the C. M. Ross Co., Ltd. —Advt,