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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 108, 7 April 1926, Page 6

A local resident had his car stolen last evening from the parking area in the Square near Coleman* place. The matter has been placed ,in the hands of the police. The northbound Limited express was 55 minutes late in leaving Palmerston North last night, due to engine trouble. The night Limited express from Auckland, due at Palmerston North shortly after 6.30 a.m., did not arrive this morning till 7.35 o’clock. Hundreds of dead trout floated down the Avon yesterday afternoon (states a telegram from Christchurch). Some poisonous substance which found its way into the river took a heavy toll, and the spectacle of the fish floating down stream attracted a largo number of people - to the bridges in the city. The curator for the Acclimatisation Society stated that he had made a brief inspection, but had not ascertained what, length of the river had been affected or the nature of the poison. A. few years ago the fish were affected in a similar fashion.

The Methodist Bible Class Camp in Wanganui, at which young ladies from Manawatu, Taranaki and Wanganui districts attended, concluded yesterday. There is a certain Christchurch citizen who displays an amazing zeal in the prompt payment of his quota towards the expense of city administration (states the Press). For the fifth year in succession, last week he paid a deposit on the next year’s rates, and for the last five years he has been the possessor of the first receipt from the machine in the rate collector’s department at the City. Council’s office. A Wellington Press Association message states that the Crown Law Office has decided that both Messrs McCombs and Lyons (who were concerned in the recent enquiry with regard to the Lyttelton electoral seat) are entitled to receive Parliamentary honoraria as from the date of the general elections, that of Mr Lyons to cense at the date of the Electoral Court’s decision. At the annual dinner of the New Zealand Dental Association held atr Dunedin, Mr M. Donniston, honorary secretary, stated that ho was satisfied that the Prime Minister would keep his word in regard to the admission of unqualified men to the register—that consideration would only be given to those men who, owing to war disability or other* circumstances, had suffered hardship in connection with the opportunity to qualify by examination. “So far as I can find out only one incident, by no means regrettable, of our stay in New Zealand seems to have caught the public eye, and that was the ceremonial greeting that I exchanged with the famous Maori lady guide outside the mpeting-houso in the Maori village of Whakarewarewa,” stated Lord Burnham at a dinner given in London by Sir James and Lady Allen in honour of the Imperial press delegates. Deferring to tho past method of employing temporary clerks on census compilation, Mr Malcolm Fraser, at the Economic Society’s meeting at Wellington last night, said that each clerk used to put through about 500 cards per day, but now the girls employed disposo of 250 cards per hour. In answer to a question Mr Fraser said that the cost of a census in Now Zealand was about £30,000, not more than it cost in 1911. Tho resourcefulness of tho Maori was illustrated in a rather humorous manner at Taumarunui tho other day. Having had tyro trouble, which affected both his temper and his purse,' tho Maori decided to bo free from both in future. Hastening to a disused sawmill ho obtained four trolley wheels and affixed them to his motor car in place of tho ordinary rubber-tyred wheels l . An idea borrowed from tho railways by the Manawatu.; Golf Club is the cattie-stop, allusion to the installation of one of which on the roadway at the entrance to the links was made during the progress of the Easter tournament. Desiring to eliminate the fences on both sides of the drive, they were terminated at a suitable point and a cattlestop, the beams being placed crosswise, iufculled. Motors are driven across with the greatest of ease. Incidentally, the innovation serves as a reminder that this is the age’ of tho motor, for, of course, the stop is not negotiable by liorso traffic, which lias to pass through a gate. Leicester Stoddart, aged 12, is in tho hospital in a serious condition, suffering from a fractured skull as a result of falling from a springcarfc lie was driving at Willowby, on Monday (states an Ashburton telegram). He is now only partially conscious. His father, I,co. Stoddart, is at present a patient in the hospital, and it is only a few months since his mother was killed in a gig accident at the Ashburton traffic bridge. Surprise was expressed by a Sydney coroner that a boy .under 16 years of age should have been able to get a motor cyclist’s license. The father explained that the boy was 6 feet 1 inch high. The boy, Hugh Ijeckie Gemmell, died following a collision with a motor car near the corner of King and Australia streets, Newtown, New South Wales, in February 28.

The work of dismantling the Coronation memorial in the Square is proceeding slowly, this being accounted for by tbe extrome care which must be exercised in sawing through tho cemented joints, for tho stone is very brittle. Quito a few people spending a leisure hour in tho town’s central beauty spot pause to note progress and master tlie modus oporandi ot dismantling.

While proceeding to Paraparaumu on Monday night to take a patient to the Wellington Hospital a mishap occurred to tlie ambulance. The driver, W. Turnbull, was negotiating McKay’s Crossing, near Paekukariki, where the recent fatality occurred, and overran the corner, with the result that the ambulance was capsized into a ditch. The driver, who was unhurt, at once mado arrangements for the patient to bo taken into the hospital by. a motor car, and the patient duly reached tho institution at 10 p.m. The ambulance, which was slightly damaged, was taken back to the city yesterday. A traveller who has returned to Auckland from Honolulu tells of the practical application of civics as now universally taught in the schools. They have there gone a step beyond the instruction given to New Zealand children with regard to behaviour in traffic. Whereas our youngsters are taught the negative principles of avoidance and vigilance; the Honolulu kiddies have emphasised the positive virtues of control. Outside every public school in the recess hours two schoolboys', are placed on duty as traffic controllers, and their “stop-go” signals are obeyed by the thronging motorists, the proportion of which in Honolulu is one to every five of the population. At the dinner given this year by the High Commissioner and Lady Allen in honour of tho delegates to the recent Imperial Press Conference, writes a London correspondent, Lord Burnham said that New Zealand had impressed the delegates as the most homely and the most homo-tied of all the British Dominions. “Although, as Sir Robert Stout, the old and respected Chief Justice, said a quarter of a century ago,” he proceeded, “ ‘a national feeling is rising,’ which may in time evolve a new typo of citizenship, Home still means Great Britain, and a Home boat means a ship bound for these shores. The children in tho schools of New Zealand, I am told when they write ‘Home’ with a capital ‘H,’ always mean to refer to tho Old Country. The Union Jack remains their only flag, and I cannot believe that, happen what may, they will ever seek to change it for another.” Lord Burnham concluded by referring to the two Governors-General, Lord Jellieoe and Lord Liverpool, and to the distinguished New Zealand-born scientist, Sir Ernest Rutherford.

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