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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 75, 25 February 1927, Page 6

The advance show of new season’s goods is now announced by Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd. Their buyers have scoured Europe, America and the Continent to procure the latest styles and here they 'are. Don’t miss this display in the showroom. Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd. —rAdvt.

Fireblight has appeared in the Wairarapa.

In Christchurch* the sum of £16hj647 10s 2d is still outstanding on the current year’s rates.

A message from London states that Trinity College has appointed as music examiners for New Zealand Messrs George Vincent and Adolph Mann. The launch being used by the Duke of York in the pursuit of big. game fish iu the north is the Mason 8., the property of Mr W. Mason Bayley, of Bay of Islands, and formerly of Palmerston North. The launch has been specially fitted up for the occasion and wherever possible New Zealandmade tackle is to be used.

During the war a seaman, who is now a resident of ' Port Chalmers, served on two ships whicli were torpedoed by German submarines, states a Dunedin correspondent. He was fortunate enough to be rescued, on . both occasions, but each time lie lost his kit and all his belongings.- Now, ten years later, he has been recouped by the Imperial Government for his losses, being awarded £SO. A motor-lorry driven by Mr George Warren, farmer, of Okoroire, met in collision with a mixed train at the Okoroire railway station- on Wednesday evening. The-train was entering the station at the time of the jmpact. Mr Warren sustained a fractured skull and severe body bruises. It was stated that the view of both drivers was obscurpd by the goods sheds and trucks in the yard. The lorry was completely wrecked.

The offer of Mr T. Allan, technical inspector of the Health Department, to attend to the installation of a wireless plant at the Otaki' Sanatorium was accepted at a meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board yesterday. It was also decided that a sum not exceeding £BS be allotted out of the Brown McWilliam fund account, to cover the cost of the material required for the installation. Mr Allan is to build the plant in his own time, and without charge either to the Hospital Board or to the Health Department. “Single American visitors,” stated a Franconia tourist in- an interview in Wellington yesterday, “find no difficulty in accommodating themselves to New Zealand hotel conditions, but those who happen to be travelling with their wives find the ladies far from satisfied. The lack of heating is one matter that calls for attention. I saw a notice in my hotel, that I would be charged 2s 6d a day for a fire, but there was no fireplace in the rooin. Would a charcoal heater be put in? They are dangerous things.” Questioned in regard to the jjrevalence of influenza in the city, Dr. D. M. Wilson, medical superintendent of the Wellington Hospital, told the Hospital Board yesterday that, although there had been a few cases of the mild form of influenza admitted to the hospital, there had been no signs of the form of the disease which had been so prevalent in Europe. A month or so ago more cases of' the mild disease had been admitted than was now the case, and there were no signs of any epidemic, of influenza in the districts

Realising the need for manures to help the farmer to increase production, Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., has communicated with the Prime Minister suggesting that the Government should secure a largo supply and sell to the farmers on exceptionally easy terms. The money could be collected by dairy companies for the Government, and it would be the means of assisting many who are not in a position to pay cash. Mr Nash feels certain that if the Government adopted the proposal they would get handsome results in increased production. Patrick Michael Hannan, aged 22.‘ a seaman off the Port Brisbane on Wednesday afternoon entertained a great crowd in Queen Street, Auckland, by shadow-boxing in front of a large mirror.' A constable warned him. but later found him still Tn Quee-n Street, crawling along on his hands and knees and growling at the people like a dog. “Have you anything to say” asked the magistrate. “Yes, your Worship, I just had a drink with the Duke yesterday. That’s all.” He was fined £1 or 48 hours for being disorderly while drunk.

Writing with reference to a horse which had been found straying on a public thoroughfare, the owner advised the Hawera Borough Council that the animal had gained the road as the result of a gate having been inadvertently left open by some children. The fact that it was at large had been noted within a few minutes, but as the owner was unable to catch the horse immediately a passing rider had been requested t-o drive it to an enclosure where it could be held in the meantime. “This proved to be the ranger,” stated the letter. The explanation was accepted by the council.

Pickpockets have been active among the large crowds in Auckland during the past few days, and numerous cases have been reported of thefts of wallets and bank notes. A man who was waiting on the Auckland railway station for his train last evening had an exciting experience, when he caught a pickpocket in the act of removing his purse from his pocket. The thief immediately dropped the purse and wrenched himself free. A chase along the station platform followed but the man mingled in the crowd and disappeared. A number of notebooks and purses stolen have been recovered, lying in city hotels and elsewhere, by the police, but in every case the money they contained has'been removed.

On the advice of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research the Meteorological Office is to be reorganised and given better equipment for carrying on its work, which is of special importance to the farming and shipping communities of the Dominion. As a result of the recent visit to Australia of Dr. Marsden, arrangements have been made to increase the number of weather reports received by the Dominion Meteorologist. Since the beginning of the month “meteorological balloonists” attached to the Wigram Aerodrome at ' Christchurch have been making constant aerological observations, associated witli the calculation and intensity of the winds at various altitudes. Sockburn is, for the time being, the only place in New Zealand where such observations are being made.

. “AYo find this a difficult,country to spend money in,” stated an American tourist when interviewed. “There is nothing distinctive to buy. We all like to take away something with us. but I sent my wife out to buy some little thing, and she came back with nothing. It seems to me that all the genuine Maori work is in the museum, and what little there is outride that is too modern, too much made for trade, to have any value. People dpn’t seem to have the idea of assisting us. Now in Rio last trip, I wanted a Brazilian stone, a good one. 4 wanted a fair deal, so I went to an Englishman. He , had not what I wanted, but he offered to get it for me. Four months after I got home, having left the money with him, I got the stone, good value at 0000 dollars. We want to spend money here and we can’t.’'