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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 174, 24 June 1926, Page 6

The New Zealand branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association has accepted an invitation to send four delegates to the annual gathering in Australia, from September to December. Severe head injuries and abrasions were sustained by E. S. Postleweight, an employee of tlie Chelsea sugar works, when ho slipped from a stack of sugar and fell a distance of twelve feet. He was taken to the Auckland Hospital, and succumbed following an operation.

A London cable, states that in the appeal to the Privy Council in the case of Lysnar v. the Gisborne . Harbour Board, the appellant’s solicitors have notified respondents that the proceedings are abandoned. Therefore the case will come before the Privy Council for formal dismissal.

Mr A. Harris (Waitemata) proposes to ask the Government ‘.‘if it will take steps to prevent well-to-do persons dumping their aged relatives into homes for the benefit of the aged and needy, to the exclusion of bona fide indigent people, who ore prevented entering the homes in question through lack of accommodation.”

Another extension of pension benefits was sought in the House of Representatives yesterday, when Sir George Hunter (Waipawa) gave notice of his intention to ask the Minister of Pensions whether ho would introduce legislation to extend the pension benefits to those having tlie care of orphans and deserted children.

Mr T. Forsyth (Wellington East) presented a petition to the House of Representatives yesterday, bearing the signatures of 40,120 Wellington residents, wliq stated their conviction that the operation of the motor bus regulations would cause the 70 local buses to cease running. The petition asked that the House pass a resolution of disapproval in the matter.

For every pound earned in England, the Rev. Dr J. D. Jones told an Auckland audience, sixpence goes toward the liquidation of the debt to America incurred in the advances which Great Britain made to the Allies during the war. He mentioned this as an instance of the way in which post-war burdens weighed upon the people of Great Britain.

A Westport telegram states that adverse comment is made on the efforts to work the whole of the West Coast with one magistrate and warden, it being pointed out that Mr Meldrum, who deft Greymouth yesterday at 6 a.m., sat up till 11 o’clock last night, and then had to leave this morning for Hokitika, leaving an important mining caso only partly heard. “In my opinion some of the nurses are worked too hard,” said the Mayor of Christchurch, Rev. J. K. Archer, at a meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday. “They are worked too many hours, and as a result suffer in health.” He thought that the nurses should be freed from polishing brasses and sweeping floors. Other members said that they were not satisfied by a long way with the treatment meted out to junior nurses. An echo of a recent allegation was heard in the House of Representatives yesterday, when an Auckland member (Mr J. A. Lee) announced his intention of asking the Government if it had made inquiries into the statements of a social worker that New Zealand boys and girls were readily yielding to the drug habit, and that, if the charges had not been substantiated, would the Prime Minister make a statement to that effect.

A middle-aged man named Lancaster, a seaman on the Gale, was badly gored by a bullock while were being loaded on to the ship at Wanganui last evening. The animals were being penned in the steamer’s hold when the bullock rushed three seamen. Lancaster endeavoured to help his mates, and ivas tossed into an adjoining pen. The other men escaped. The injured man lost much blood and was generally knocked about. He is not in immediate danger.

South Island legislators held a preliminary meeting yesterday in Wellington to consider questions of South Island interest, and referred the question of the size of electorates to a committee for report, states a Press Association message. It was decided to send a deputation to the Union Company regarding the reinstatement of the Mararoa in the ferry service. Other questions discussed will be brought under the notice of Ministers concerned. ' ,

The necessity for caution in regard to expenditure was stressed by the Director of Health, Dr. Valintine, at a meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday. Dr. Valintine waited on the board to outline his policy with respect to expenditure on country hospitals. He said that he was absolutely against any extension of country hospitals, but on the other hand he was very much in accord with the ideas of the board to extend the maternity accommodation'for the people of their district. “We don’t want any more country hospitals,” Dr. Valintine declared, emphatically. A settler at Seaward Downs, Southland, and his wife had an alarming time one recent Sunday afternoon and for 20 hours thereafter. They walked over to the Seaward Bush, which forest they entered for the purpose of a look round. Somehow they lost their healings, and had to stay out throughout a long, weary, cold night, taking refuge beside a big tree on if damp surface. They did not find their whereabouts until the middle hours of the following morning, when they ■'emerged on a public road. Although somewhat famished, the couple soon recovered.

One hundred and fifty years ago tomorrow. Captain Cook, one of the most illustrious British Maritime explorers, sailed from England on the last of his three famous voyages. This was undertaken with the object of discovering tho north-west passage. The first of these three voyages was commenced in 1768, when Cook explored the Society Islands and then circumnavigated and charted the coasts of New Zealand, but owing to the hostility of the natives was unable to explore the interior of the country. His second voyage was made in 1772, when he visited New Zealand and explored the islands, of tho Pacific and South Atlantic oceans, where ho made numerous valuable discoveries. During the explorer’s third adventure he landed at Hawaii, where ho was killed by hostile natives. His body was partly burned by the natives, blit some of his remains were afterwards recovered and buried by his sailors.

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The steamers Joan-Craig and Cono, well known in New Zealand trade have been sold to Eastern buyers, states a Press Association message from ? ya {y y ' The annual conference of the xsew Zealand Railway . Officers’ Institute opens at Wellington to-morrow. It is expected that approximately 20 officers will be present from all parts of the Dominion. The proceedings will bo opened by the Minister of Railways. Mr J. W. Fergie will be the-delegate representing Palmerston North. Alexander Kirkland, aged 51, a retired farmer, died suddenly (states a Dunedin telegram). The evidence a the inquest showed that he had been working in his gardenand saw a neighbour Mias Swallow, fall from her cycle. On going to her assistance lie found that she had broken her leg. Mr Kn tland assisted her home, where he collapsed and died before assistance, could be summoned. He had served m t 1 Great War. A verdict of death from heart failure was returned.

Mr W. T. Penny, secretary of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, has received from Hon. I). F. Wither, .late Consul-General for the United States of America in New Zealand, one hundred dollars to head the Wellington donation list' in connection with the Manawatu Spring Show. - Mr W liber, who was recently travelling in ew Zealand with his friend Mr Wlnpple, is now at his home in the United States, after having experienced an enjoyable trip. Mr Wilber intimate to Mr Penny that, later, when he was not so extremely busy with affairs, ne would be writing more fully. Three members of the commission which has been appointed to inquire into and report on the necessity_or advisability of establishing model villages on town-planning lines on the sites ot the present Maori villages in Rotorua travelled north by the Limited express last evening. These were Messrs O. JMcKenzie, acting-ongineer-in-chief ot Public Works, J. T. Mair, Government architect and H. B. Hammond, townplanning consultant. At Rotorua the party will be joined by the other two members of the commission, Dr. J. M. Buck, Director of Maori Hygiene and Mr H. T. Mitchell, of Rotorua. Some days will be spent by the members of the commission in inspecting the villages and taking what local evidence is necessary in connection with the improvement scheme.