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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 199, 23 July 1926, Page 6

The balance-sheet of the Masterton Competitions Society for the year shows a credit of £sl 17s. The New Zealand. League football team’s final match, on January 30, 1927, against England will be played in Paris. An attempt at theft was made at the Sacred Heart Church, Addington, Christchurch, this week, when a man made an effort to open the tabernacle in the altar, states an exchange. His efforts were unsuccessful, but the door was slightly damaged. Animal toys are just as easy to knit at jumpers, with the aid of the simple direrv lions in “Leach’s” Book of Knitted Toy*. All the children’s favourites are in tin'* book, including Felix, Jumbo and the Three Jolly Bears of Fairy Tale Fame. This shipment lias just arrived by par-el post, direct from London, but as they nro in tremendous demand, get vours. iciimodiatoly at the Wool Counter.—Collinson »ed Cunninghams.—Advt,

•The D r 3, which is the annual classification list of the Government railway staff throughout the Dominion, and which has been eagerly awaited, came to hand yesterday and has created - much interest.

A movement of protest against the high cost of living in general has been decided upon by the Spreydon (Christchurch) branch of the Mothers Union, which will call a combined meeting of other societies interested. In the House of Representatives yesterday, Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, announced that Mr H. D. Acland, barrister, of Christchurch, had been appointed a commission to inquire and report.on the position of unregistered dentists.

A mail car went over a bank at O’Kains’s Bay, Banks Peninsula. The driver, J. Reed, broke a collarbone. The only passenger was uninjured, though the car overturned thrice, states a Christchurch Press Association message.

Heavy frosts are the order just now, states a Press Association message from Invercargill, eleven degrees (the highest recorded so far this vear) beijng experienced yesterday. 1 nor to July there were very few frosts, the worst being six degrees on June 3.

At a conference of sports bodies delegates at Wellington last evening, Mr J}’. Wilton stated on behalf of the Now Zealand Amateur Athletic Association that the balance of the R. A. Rose fund (estimated at £500) would he available for tho expenses of New Zealand’s next Olympic team.

It was dcllnitcly decided at Auckland last evening that tho New Zealand League football team for England would leave by tho Aorangi from Auckland on August 3, instead of by the Tainui from Wellington on August 14. This alteration of plans moans the abandonment of the proposed match in Wellington for August 4. Whilst driving over the Rimutaka road on Monday afternoon in a closedin car, Mr H. F. Toogood, civil engineer, had the misfortune to collide with a cow which veered rather suddenly, on to the track. Tho result of the impact was that the car completely capsized, and its sole occupant received a rather severe scalp wound. The annual Dominion conference of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand, which is being held at Hamilton, decided to obtain a ruling by the Supreme Court on the question of the amount of commission to be allowed on sales by order of a registrar; whether commission is to be on the equity only, or on the whole price of the property sold. It also decided to take steps to prevent the operation of touts, who, owing to their character, are unable to obtain land agents’ licenses. “I do not think any Government will ever agree to this,” said tho chairman of the Power Boards Conference, Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., at Wellington yesterday, when discussing a remit to bar “plumping.” “Everyone must be free to vote as he wishes. A You will often see announcements that a voter must vote for a certain number and neither more nor less, and it is stated that other voting will be considered informal, but it is not informal at all if the matter were challenged.” The remit was almost unanimously rejected. Distinctions which fell upon Wanganui in the early days were that it acquired the first gaol in New Zealand and the second or third church,, which was Christ Church, built in the Avenue on the present site of Selwyn buildings. The gaol, erected where the Customs Office now stands, was built by the simple expedient of taking out labour, instead of fines, from those who drank not wisely but too well. These things were touched on by Mr J. H. Burnet in an address to the Rotary Club recently, says the Wanganui Chronicle. A burglarious entry to the cycle shop in Main street of Mr C. A. Hosking was effected on Wednesday night, the intruder breaking a window to unlock a rear door, and stealing 8s 5d of the 9s sd' change which had been left in the till. By a lucky circumstance Mr Hosking, when going home on Wednesday evening, recollected that he had left £lO in notes in the till and returned to get them, leaving the small amount of silver named. Nothing else was missed from the premises. .

The log-hook of the British tramp steamer. Alariston is an interesting document, if only for the number of ports visited since last February (says an exchange). Since that date the vessel, which arrived at Auckland from Alakateo. Island on Friday, has completely circled the globe and returned to the Southern Seas. On her recent trip the steamer encountered very rough weather. While at Makatea Island she was forced to stand out to sea several times until conditions improved. Mountainous seas were met with and the ship was hoveto on two occasions. Large quantities of water were shipped and two heavy tarpaulins and the ladder leading to the lower bridge were washed away.

Protesting that the cash on delivery postal system, under which the Post Office acts as agents for English firms is detrimental to Wellington retail business, a deputation representing the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Drapers’ Federation, booksellers and watchmakers’ organisations, waited on the Postmaster-General yesterday, to ask that it should be discontinued. “I cannot see my way to make any change in the direction you ask,” the Postmaster-General in reply said. The Postal Department was for the benefit and convenience of the whole of the people of the Dominion and the Government could not take up an attitude hostile to the greater number of people who availed themselves of the cash on delivery system.

The Government’s policy in regard to the _ consolidated country school scheme is referred to in the annual report of the Education Department, which points out that its development must be gradual. ‘‘The transport problem in New Zealand,” adds the report, ‘‘i3 more difficult than in America. School buses are double and petrol treble the cost in America, roads are more primitive, and population more scattered. Again, the Government cannot scrap useful buildings, nor can it in a few years find the cost of _ providing new central school buildings to replace them. At the present time there are about a hundred conveyances, mostly motorbuses, employed in the conveyance of children, and as roads are improved, and the cost of transport reduced, the policy is to extend the system.”

There are three things to remember at Collinson and Son’s big salequako: (1) The goods are all new; (2) the quality is assured; (3) the price \ reductions are genuine. A few lines we’re reducing to bedrock:—Solid steel saucepans, English, to clear at, 8 pints now 2s 6d; 2 pints now 1« each; English tinned frying pans with hollow. 6teel handles, in three sizes, your pick Is lid each. Now’s the time to prune your trees. Hero are the shears that will do the work well, excellent value, good cutters, Ciin., new selling at 6s lid pair; roso pruning shears, nickle plated, now 3s lid pair; spare springs 4d and fid each; hedge shears (Brades) English, 12inch blade, now 7s 6d; long handled lawn edge shears, now 13b 6d each.—Advt.