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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1928, Page 6

Commencing on Saturday next, May 12th, the ‘‘Evening Standard” will issue a Sports Edition devoted chiefly to I the results of sporting and athletic events throughout the Dominion, in addition to particulars of all local fixtures. The special edition will be available from 7.30 each Saturday evening. An American shipping company with cargo boats trading to Australia intends extending the service to New Zealand. ' The weekly meeting of the Palmerston North Chess Club was held last night, when arrangements were made for the opening of the season next Tuesday with a match between players living in the northern and southern halves of the town. According to ah Auckland paper, an unauthorised vendor of number plates has been busy in some of the city and suburban streets numbering houses on a system of his own, which is entirely , at variance with the established one. The result has been confusion. Owing to. a grass fire on a hillside at Sumner seven houses were in danger of destruction, and only after a stiff light was the local fire brigade assisted by cadets, able to quell the flames. One house caught alight at one corner; the others were scorched. The Borough Council met last evening at the Hokowhitu Domain Board for the purpose of .considering the annual statement of receipts and expenditure. This showed a credit balance of £35. The work done during the year, the Mayor explained, consisted chiefly of fencing. Fishing in the Tongariro River at Tokaanu, the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergus son, landed six beautiful trout. As the result of recent heavy rains the Tongariro River is now ’ teeming with fresh-run fish and many anglers have no difficulty in securing the limit of 15. Mr ’S- C. G. Lyo has definitely decided to contest the Hamilton seat against Hon. J. A. Young. Mr Lye is a farmer at Matangi and a member of the Waikato County Council. At the last election lie stood as a Nationalist in Raglan and was defeated by the late Hon. It. F. Bollard. Mr R. D. Duxfield, Auckland provincial secretary of the Farmers’ Union, arrived home from Wellington, where he attended a meeting of tho Dominion executive, swathed in bandages. He and Captain Colbeck were crossing a road oil their way to Thorndon railway station when they were knocked down by a car. Mr Duxfield suffered injuries to his headi and the muscles of his arms and legs, while Captain Colbeck was cut about the face. Both are progressing well. Six persons summoned to serve as common jurors for the local quarterly session of the Supremo Court applied this morning for exemption and three were successful—a dairy farmer with 17 cows to milk, a hairdresser with no assistants and a joiner who had to closo his shop. A juror who did not appear when his name was called, was fined £2 unless he could provide a reasonable explanation. The juror appeared later, and, as he was over 60 years of age, he was excused from service and his fine was remitted. “To-day, though not an optimist by temperament, I feel we are near our goal, tho thirty class, and thereby the transmutation of tire life and purpose of the school,” said Mr F. L. Combs in his presidential speech at the annual meeting of the Educational Institute in Wellington last night. “Only one thing is wanted. No one connected with education as a service is reluctant to make a big forward move. What is waited for? It is a public uninformed and therefore indifferent. Half this public is comprised of parents, and its amazes one to see how provident these parents are of the child in its own home, and how oblivious or indifferent to the sort of school and instruction the sanio child is sent to. It is almost as if the parental instinct, intense and tender as it is, did not function beyond tho front gate.” Dancing patrons are reminded that the Athletic Football Club will hold their first annual dance in the Soldiers’ Club on Wednesday, May 9th. Have you chairs, etc., that would look all the better for a fresh covering of shadow tissue? Specials at . the O. M. Ross Co., Ltd’s include some very attractive designs at just 2s 6d a yard. The usual price is 3s lid. All 30 inches wide.—Advt.