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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 306, 28 November 1927, Page 6

The inaugural reunion of Mons veterans in Auckland was held on Saturday evening. It is estimated that there are about thirty of the Old Contemptibles now living in Auckland.

Auckland’s wool sale which concluded on Friday should bring into the sheep farmers of the province within the next few weeks somewhere in the vicinity of £425,000, says the Star. “In these days if you wait until the parents are consulted as to the doings of our young people, in my experience you will wait to all eternity. The question of consulting one’s parents was a very fine, old fashioned idea, but I am afraid it has long since died out,” stated Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., in the Hastings Police Court.

A surprising measure of support was accorded the week-end excursion from Napier and Wanganui to Wellington on Saturday, some 500 passengers making the trip. On arrival at Palmerston North on Saturday afternoon at 2.47 o’clock the two trains were combined into one which left for Wellington shortly afterwards. The latter express consisted of 16 carriages drawn by two engines. Between 50 and 60 local residents made the trip.

The control lever of a motor-cycle ridden by W. Harrison along Makara Road at four o’clock yesterday aftornon broke, and Harrison and a passenger, Charles Neilson, were thrown to the ground. Both men wore admitted to Wellington Hospital for treatment, suffering from head injuries. Neilson, who is 21 years of age, was badly hurt and underwent an operation. His condition last night was reported to be serious.

“A strong British Empire is a guarantee for the maintenance of the .permanent peace of the whole world,” said Mr I. Tokugawa, Japanese Consul in Australia and New Zealand, in a striking address at Auckland. He had been refenring to Mr Amery’s visit and pointing out that the unity of the British Empire was much more than our domestic concern. He regarded the relations between Japan and Australia and New Zealand as an important factor for permanent peace among the nations of the Pacific.

The last jumble sale of the year will be held at the Y.W.C.A. club rooms, Broadway, on Tuesday. It offers bargains in clothes for holiday wear, men’s clothes for farming pr gardening, women’s and children’s clothes for holiday wear, and shoes and boots for holiday tramps. Patrons are asked to shop early and not to miss this opportunity.

Waipukurau may well feel proud o its health record. For the past 66 weeks not a single infectious case or disease has been reported as having occurred in the borough.

A well equipped quarter-acre playing area for the children of -Avondale, presented to the district by Mr ”• Tait, an ex-Mayor, was officially opened on Friday afternoon by the Mayor or Auckland.

The condition of Jack Shortt, who was injured by the bursting of a shell at Foxton last month, is still reported to be serious. The hospital authorities to-day stated that the unfortunate lad had spent an easier night, but that no change had been revealed in his condition.

When playing with a motor-cyc.e which stood outside the gate of his home at Northland, Wellington, yesterday afternoon, Reginald Case, aged seven years, pulled the machine ove r on top of him. Early lost night he was admitted to the Wellington Hospital with a fractured left leg.

“There seems to be a _ tendency creeping through to territorial and cadet companies of youths regarding officers not as the King’s delegate, but for the purpose of a joke,” stated Sergeant-Major Harvey, at the Magistrate’s Court this morning when cases of alleged insubordination on the part of senior cadets were being dealt with.

A large number of local residents took the opportunity yesterday to visit Dr Elizabeth Gunn’s health camp at Turakina. There were also many visitors from other localities. As far as could be seen, one of the visitors said to-day, the children were looking very well; a tribute to the dieting system and healthy camp life ordered by Dr Gunn. While the visitors were present the children had tooth-brush drill, which they executed with zeal. To conclude the day they gathered round the flag and sang the National Anthem. Throughout the world tour of the Right Hon. L. S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Dominions, Captain Brass, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, who is acting as Parliamentary Secretary to Mr Amery for the trip, has been busily engaged in taking an extensive series of cinematograph and photographic pictures, it being his intention to lecture on the Dominions on his return to the Motherland. AYhile in this neighbourhood, the Flock House institutions at Bulls and Awapuni furnished him with splendid material for his camera. The Japanese Consul-General, Mr I. Tokugawa, made it clear 'in an address in-Auckland last week that he is an ambassador of international peace and goodwill. When he remarked “there are wicked people in the world,” the application was not evident until he added, “I refer to those people who speak of the possibility of war between the United States and Japan.” He asserted his own belief that there was no possibility of such a thing occuring, and mentioned as one commercial reason the fact that the export of silk to America stood at the top of Japanese exports- Japan had nothing to gain by fighting, but much to lose.-

An adventurous voyage across the Tasman was experienced by the 35ft. yawl rigged lona, which left Auckland on September 3 for the Queensland coast. The only members of the crew were two Auckland men, Mr R. Tange and Mr L. Eide. It was their intention to call at Norfolk Island en route, but this plan was abandoned owing to severe head winds and rough seas. Finally the lona reached Mackay on October 17 and later proceeded up the Queensland coast to Cainis, via Bowen. According to the latest advice they intended to remain at Cairns until the hurricane season was over, and then try their luck at trading in New Guinea.

There was humour aa well as interest in a lecture which Mr Iyemasa Tokugawa, Consul-General for Japan in Australia and New Zealand, delivered at the University College (says an Auckland paper)i Showing a lantern slide depicting a bridge near the Imperial Palace at Tokio, ho made no remark for a moment, then said: “A bridge—as you have already noticed.” Explaining that there was another bridge in the background, he said the second was really a double bridge, because one had to “double back” over it alter crossing number one. Mr Tokugawa showed a number of pictures of native costumes, and explained, inter alia, that the word “kimono” did not mean ‘any particular garsnent, but simply “what you wear.” Showing a picture of two Japanese maidens, one in ancient costume and the other in modern garb, he said: “Here you see the kimono of old Japan—very voluminous. Also you see the modern kimono of the West —or what there is of it I”