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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 221, 16 August 1927, Page 6

The number of the Christchurch City Council’s outdoor staff constituted a record last week, the total being 656, or 314 more than the ordinary staff.

“Every person in Honolulu seems to own a motor car,” said Mr W. McA. Duncan, who returned to Auckland this week after a trip to Honolulu. The lady soloist at the Rotary Club yesterday was Miss N. Whalley, whose items were very much enjoyed and wiio was accorded a vote of thanks for her contribution to the entertainment.

Matthew Ledger, a taxi-driver residing at Marama Crescent, dropped dead in Stepney Place, off Vivian Street, Wellington, at about seven o’clock last night. The cause of his death is not known.

The Whangarei County Council decided at its meeting last week to celebrate the jubilee of its inauguration by the erection in the council meeting room of a brass, tablet bearing the names of the members of the first council.

The Railway Board of Appeal met to-day in Palmerston North. To swell the library collection of Te Aute Maori College, the Manawatu A. and P. Association will shortly forward a number of books promised by members of the association.

A party of 30 Maoris from Orakei (Auckland) went by bus to Kohanga Pa, near Tualcau, on- Saturday, to play a football match, negotiations for which had been going on for two years.

“The science of taxation is to extort as much as possible from a ratepayer without making him bankrupt,” said the Mayor of Morrinsville, Mr S. S. Allen, at a council meeting. “That no reduction be made in the fee payable by. the Hindoos holding street barrow licensee,”, was a works committee recommendation adopted by the Borough Council last night.

The opinion was expressed in Auckland yesterday by Sir George Fairburn, formerly Agent-General for Victoria, who is on nisi way to Australia, that Great Britain is making a splendid recovery from the trade depression and that the advisability of developing trade with the Dominions is now fully recognised.

To enable traffic to negotiate the corner with safety, the Borough Council decided last evening to ask the Agricultural and Pastoral Association to set back the corrugated iron fence at the Cuba and Pascal Streets for a distance each way of 33 feet from the corner.

There was a fair attendance at the weekly meeting of the Palmerston North Chess Club last evening, when the fourth round of the tournament was commenced. The round will be concluded next Monday evening. As yet no final results have been reached.

Mr W. McA. Duncan, the well-known Wanganui sportsman, who reached Auckland this week after visiting Honolulu, said that baseball was the national game there and the players made it particularly strenuous. He also saw some fine games of polo there and the ponies were of a good class.

Owing to many complaints having been received concerning cyclists riding without lights, neglecting' to place both hands on the handlebars, ana using the wrong side of the roadway, etc., the Borough Council last night instructed the traffic and Borough inspectors to see that the traffic by-laws relating to bicycles are rigidly enforced in every resipect. An amusing skit is being enacted in connection with the.coming visit next Saturday of a Rugby team representing the Palmerston North Y.M.C.A. to play a friendly game against the Wanganui Y.M.C.A. A trophy ready for the journey north now hangs in the association lobby labelled the “Ranfurther Shield,” and consists of some battered boards rough-hewn to the shape of the shield so much disputed, having upon it a skull and crossbones and other impressive insignia. One hundred and ninety-five boys of Palmerston North are now members of the Y.M.C.A. boys’ division and new boys are joining at the rate of four and five a week, according to a report of the secretary, Mr F. M. Keesing, M.A. No boy is excluded through inability to pay the small yearly fee, and all classes of homes are represented. This is easily a record year for the division, and proves what fine work is being done quietly and devotedly for the boys of the town.

“I don’t think your Bible knowledge is as accurate as your law,” said Mr Justice Macgregor to counsel in the New Plymouth Supreme Court, when the latter was saying that he did not want to follow the example of the Pharisees in throwing stones at other people. Counsel replied that possibly his knowledge was not what it ought to be, and amidst general laughter he admitted that he could not give His Honour chapter and verse for the reference.

There is money in the industry of collecting waste goods, especially if the element of thrift is applied to the job, states the Wanganui Herald. An instance of this can be gathered from the fact that a local company shipped and railed from Wanganui last week over ten tons of this class of goods, which were distributed between Auckland, Wellington and the Bluff. The goods ranged from old rags, sacks, broken glass, • motor parts, to high grade copper.

The Borough Council decided last night that accounts covering half the cost of construction of footways, and owing for a period exceeding two years, be handed to the borough solicitor for collection; Mr Cooke to inform those concerned that if they were prepared to make payments of at least £1 per month in reduction the council would withhold legal proceedings .

The measure of success attained in tree propagation work may be gauged from the fact that 1,068,000 sturdy trees, from one to three years old, now are in stock at the Darfield nursery, states the annual report of the Selwyn (Canterbury) Plantations Board. Fortunately, the prolonged dryness throughout the growing season had not prejudiced the development of the plants, but, on the contrary, had rather tended to produce more wellbalanced stock trees. Some 400,000 trees were transplanted into lines in August and September. Of this number over 100,000 were Oregons, which had made vigorous headway, but, unfortunately, the destructive grub was beginning to make itself felt again after an absence of about three years, and it was reasonable to expect a loss of some thousands of trees from ringbarking by the pest. Before the end of this month the dairying industry in the Waikato will be in full swing. On some of the farms the cow’6 are coming in at the rate of three or more a day (says an exchange). Large milking plants, capable of handling sixty or seventy cows, will soon be in action in dozens of sheds. Already a small beginning has been made. " Pigs which have had a lean time during the worst of tire winter months are reaping the benefit of a more plentiful supply of skimmed milk, and a few little heifer calves, selected for the future improvement of the herds, begin to thrive in cosy farm sheds. Everywhere the farmers and farm-hands go around in gum boots, and there is more than the usual amount of mud, because of the inclement season. Above such discomfitures, however, stout hearts rise triumphant, and the 1927-28 dairying season is viewed with a surprising amount of optimism.