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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 45, 20 January 1928, Page 6

The “Standard” will be published as usual on Monday next (Anniversary Day). The Palmerston North Technical School is desirous of having for its colours maroon and gold on a navy blue ground and formal notice regarding the registration of the colours appears in this week’s Gazette.

The following local loans have been authorised by order-in-council in last night’s Gazette: llangitikei County Council, £SOOO, for Turakina bridge; Nelson City Council, £BOO, bridge loan; Fcatlierston Borough Council, £IOOO, street improvement; Makerua Drainage Board, £5000; Inglewood County Council, £550, road loan; Wellington City Council, £05,400, city and suburban highways.

Godwits in thousands are to bo seen along tho Ninety-mile Beach and in other coastal quarters of the Northern Peninsular and since the season opened many excellent bags have been secured (says the New Zealand Herald). Tho birds, which migrate from (Siberia, reach New Zealand about November and again leave these shores in April for the other side of the Aordl, by which time they are in excellent condition.

Mr Alfred Joseph Briggs, a wellknown citizen of Dunedin, was killed by a motor-lorry at 8.30 o’clock yesterday mdrning. The lorry is said to have been travelling slowly, but i lie accident does not seem to have been witnessed by anybody but tho driver of the vehicle (says a Press Association message). Mr Briggs was a single man, aged 59, and was well-known in musical circles. He was also a prominent Oddfellow. An inquest was opened yesterday and was adjourned till Monday next.

! Five calls received by the Wanganui ! Fire Brigade yesterday brought the total for the 19 days of the new year to

The appointment of a meter-tester was decided upon at a meeting of the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board on Thursday. A member remarked that it w,as very evident that a number of people were not- paying half what they should for their power. A child, Peter Kruger, aged 2J years, whose parents reside at Grafton, fell down a bank near St. David’s Church, Kyber Pass Hoad, Auckland, on Tuesday evening. He was .admitted to the hospital suffering from a fracture of the skull, his condition being reported as fairly serious.

Out of eight calls to fires which Ihe Newmarket Brigade has received recently, no less than three have been false alarms. This fact formed the basis of a report by the brigade captain to the Borough Council. The council agreed to do all that was possible to check this menace.

“For some time past there has been a slackening of interest in pigs,” remarked a Wanganui stock salesman to a Chronicle reporter yesterday, “and the demand at the present time is small.” Ho added that some had expected interest to become greater in the new year, but so far,_ their anticipations had not been realised. “The registration scheme is a lot of bother—one does not know the number of one’s own car. It is always being changed,” remarked Mr G. V. Pearce at a recent meeting of the Wanganui Automobile Association. “You dan see what the thing is: they had to put New Zealand on it tire first time to make sure it was New Zealand.”

The New South Wales golfers, who arrived at Rotorua on Wednesday, had some practice on the links yesterday morning. In the afternoon they engaged in four-ball matches with members of the local club. The visitors expressed delight at the fine sporting conditions of the link and they are remaining in Rotorua until Sunday night. They are showing fine form and intend practising daily. The Taranaki Herald states that owing presumably to the by-pass being used at times, and tiro water consequently not passing through the filters, there is a certain amount of aqueous growth coming through the water supply pipes in New Plymouth. Two residents at least have just recently had garden hoses burst because this green weed had accumulated and blocked' the rose, while in one case water drawn off a tap for household use was found to contain some of the weed.

The stealing of bathers’ clothing from the vicinity of bathing pools on tho Waipoua River Iras been prevalent for some weeks, says the Wairarapa Age, and several parties have recently returned to their improvised dressingrooms on the river bank to find various garments missing. On Wednesday afternoon a party of young girls was encountered sorrowfully making tlieir way home in their bathing costumes, all of their clothes having been stolen.

The question of pedestrians using concrete roads at night time was before the Newmarket Borough Council in the form of a letter from the Local Bodies’ Association asking if the council would favour the passing of .a bylaw compelling such pedestrians to walk upon tlie “wrong” side of the road, so as to face oncoming traffic, especially motor traffic. Mr Hardley presented a report from the streets committee, recommending that the question be referred to the Municipal Association in the form of a remit for consideration at the next conference. The council decided to reply in terms of this recommendation.

Danger which threatened in the Raetilii district where fires had gained a strong hold early in the week has now passed, the wind having dropped yesterday and conditions remaining calm last night' (says the Wanganui Chronicle.). Unless" the wind springs up agajn there is little fear of extensive damage, and what fires at present exist are serving the useful purpose of ridding the ground of tho fern and rubbish, which, in the event of the fire being fanned by a gale, would provide a real menace to life and property. The recent fires have been confined to country through which the timber mills have worked, fern, scrub and stumps being burned in a conflagration fanned by a strong south wind. Under the auspices of the New Zealand Student Christian Movement, Mr T. Z. Koo, China, had arranged to visit New Zealand in March and April, 1927. Plans for the visit of this wellknown young Chinese leader had already been begun when developments in China compelled him to cancel the visit. Efforts will be continued in an endeavour to secure an outstanding representative Chinese leader to visit New Zealand. In 1926 the movement was responsible for the visit of Dr. John R. Mott to the Dominion; in 1924 Rev. E. C. Dewick, of India .and Britain; and in 1923 for Dr. S. K. Datta, one of the most representative Christian Indian leaders of the present day. The hearing of an unusual action, in which a fishmonger contended that her stock and trade had suffered as a result of the shop window being smashed in a motor accident, was commenced in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The plaintiff was Mrs Hilda Coyle, fish dealer, of Broadway, Newmarket, and the defendant was S. M. August, dairyman, of Favona Road, Otahuhu. Mrs Coylo alleged that early on the morning of August, while delivering milk along Broadway, defendant so negligently drove his car that it crashed into her shop, smashing the window, tiling and shop sign. The shop was closed for a week for repairs, and while it was closed plaintiff said that she lost a quantity of stock besides trade. She assessed tho damage at £62. An adjournment was granted to enable a witness to be called.

Referring to Mussolini in the course of an interesting address to the Gisborne Hotary Club recently, Mr L. T. Burnard, who recently returned from a trip abroad, said that, from what ho could gather in England, it was held that the Italian dictator had saved Italy, and perhaps Europe, from Bolshevism. Mr Burnard went on to remark that tire grip which the Eascisti had on Italy was remarkable. Everywhere- one went —in the post offices, railway stations etc., —Mussolini’s photograph was to be seen, usually a picture in which he was posing in the fashion of Napoleon. It was hardly safe for a foreigner to breathe the name Mussolini. Cases had, indeed, arisen when strangers had been locked up, pending enquiries, for doing so in the most innocent way, ‘listening policemen not having understood the _ context. Whether Mussolini would continue long in (lower was quite another matter, he added.