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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 165, 12 June 1928, Page 6

A shock of earthquake was felt in Palmerston North at G o’clock this morning. Two small boys of ten and twelve years appeared before tire Children’s Court at Auckland on a number of charges, including the theft of 720 detonators. These they scattered around a field next to the Mount Albert Grammar School. Only 500 have so far been recovered. Sir James Parr, High Commissioner has sent to the Otago Early Settlers Association for its portrait gallery a copy of a photograph of Pi.sliop Selwyn and Sir ’William Martin (Netv Zealand’s first Chief Justice), taken at Lichfield in 1878. The original photograph was sent to Sir James by Rev. S. J. Sehvyn, grandson of the bishop. ■When the Wellington School Committees’ Association discussed the question of staff changes last night, it was generally felt that recont conferences had not achieved very good results, and the view was expressed that the department would bo quite willing for outside bodies to discuss salary schemes for the next year or two, and then forget the matter, putting the reports in the Avastepaper basket. About February or March of next year will see one of the most important native gatherings held in the neighbourhood of Gisborne since the great “Welcome Home” hui tendered to the returning Maori warriors after the Great War (says the Poverty Ray Herald). There is an ambitious scheme afoot to raise funds for a memorial to Sir James Carroll, the deceased Maori statesman whose famous influence for co-operative effort was so great a factor in the relations between pakeha and Maori, and the hui mentioned above will be held in connection with the unveiling of a memorial. It is proposed to secure the Park racecourse for tlie gathering which may number four or five thousand.

The mails despatched by the R.M.S. Niagara, via Vancouver, on May Bth, arrived at London on tiro - Gth inst.

The report of the rangers submitted to the meeting of the Kairanga County Council this morning showed that a total of 214 head of stock had been impounded during the past month.

The district nurse, Sister Alexander, reported to the meeting of the guild yesterday afternoon that as an expression of gratitude, the sum of £5 had been received from an anonymous donor.

The Argentine training ship Presidanto Sarmiento will pay a brief visit to New Zealand toward the end of next month. She is expected to arrive at Wellington from Sydney on July 22, leaving for Tahiti on July 26. “Tire importation of rabbit skins into America from Australia and New Zealand amounts to not less than three hundred million per year,” declared Mr M. Cohen when addressing the Rotary Club yesterday. “The time is opportue now that the elections are coining on,” said the chairman, Mr Jos. Batchelar, at the meeting of the Kairanga County Council this morning, in suggesting that the council send a deputation to the Government to voice a request concerning the Manawatu Gorge Road. “I see Heeney is matched to fight Tunney, and I hope he licks him for he hails from New Zealand,” wrote Hon. 1). F. Wilber, formerly United States Consul in New Zealand, in the course of a chatty letter read to the general committee of the Manawatu A* and P. Association at this morning’s meeting. An explanation that he shot at a cock pheasant and brought down a hen bird was offered by Willitm Smale in the Police Court at Auckland when he was charged with killing a hen pheasant near Birkenhead. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., said that if two birds rose so close together that there was any risk of hitting the hen it was incumbent upon sportsmen to forego tlieir shots. Defendant was fined 20s. “I would like to come home and vote for Mr Nash early and often, but can’t make it this year,” wrote Hon. D. F. Wilber, formerly United States Consul in New Zealand, to the monthly meeting of the Manawatu A. and P. Association’s general committee this morning. “Tell our friend Mr Nash I will he there any way in spirit and vote for him, and, if lie does not get a big majority, it won’t be my fault.” People often asked him how lie liked being attacked in the newspapers, said Hon. R. A. Wright, Minister of Education, when responding to a toast at the Advertising Club’s dinner in Wellington last night. “Invariably I reply,” said Mr Wright, “that I like it very much—it’s when the Press doesn't take notice—that’s the time to wonder what’s wrong. For it’s the newspapers that are the chief medium for advertising.” According to the last census return there are approximately 240,000 wageearners in New Zealand. A Government return on the subject of employment shows that a sharp and sudden improvement in the industrial situation took place early last spring, a total of 1597 more wage-earners being recorded for September than in the previous month, 'file rate of recovery was not maintained in October, but December showed a distinct improvement, nearly 3 per cent, additional workers finding employment in that month. The 42nd anniversary of the Tarawera eruption fell on Sunday, In the eruption over a hundred natives were killed, three villages were destroyed, and the famous pink and white terraces near Tarawera were obliterated. The explosions were heard as far away as the South Island, and volcanic asli fell on the decks of vessels hundreds of miles out at sea. Since the eruption various attempts have been made to locate the lost terraces,. but without success, opinion differing as to whether they were blown up or buried deeply beneath a mass of volcanic debris.

' The first numerical survey of religious professions of the Maori race shows that there .are 63,670 natives in New Zealand, the religious beliefs being:—Church of England, 21,738; llatana Church, 11,567 ; Roman Catholics, 8558; Hauhaus, 4540; Methodists, 4066; various missions, 3804; Mormons, 3461; Presbyterians, 638; followers of Te Whiti and Tohu, 375; Maori Church, 90; Seventh Day Adventists, 84; Seven Rules of Jehovah, 71; other Christian churches, 335; indefinitely specified, 699; objected to state any belief, 3193; non-Christians, 12. The percentage of Church of England adherents is 31.14.

The transfer of the fields division of the Department of Agriculture to Palmerston North to become part of the Government plant station in connection with the Massey Agricultural College is a matter of .considerable interest to the business people of this town. Thirty members of the staif arc involved in the transfer and their advent to Palmerston North, a number no doubt being married men with families, means a large yearly sum added to the spending power of tho community. In addition there are the students at the college itself, numbering 44, and members of the staff. The important part that the institution is to play in the town and district’s advancement cannot be too highly stressed.

“The best sight that I ever saw in my life was Rangitoto showing up through the rain,” said one of the police constables who returned to Auckland from Samoa yesterday. Some time ago six young Auckland constables went to Samoa to keep law and order in that disturbed country, and three of them—Constables Callaghan, Shields and Young—have now returned, coming back by the Tofua yesterday afternoon. The Auckland constables said that they could not talk of the official side of their visit, but of the personal side and the social side they said cpiite a lot. “It’s a great place, but it lias a rotten climate and centipedes a foot long,” said one of tho constables. “Give me Auckland every time. Plenty of sport down there,” he added. “The football season is just over. Wo had a few games, and I can tell you that they play better football than you see m Auckland.”

In America, said Mr J. E. Staples at the Advertising Club’s dinner at Wellington last night, they were marvels at forming well-rounded phrases and weighty utterances. Out of all the utterances ho had heard when lie attended as New Zealand’s delegate to the World’s Convention of Advertising, there came the expression of determination that advertising would overcome its two greatest enemies—fraud and ignorance. But, said Mr Staples, there was one quotation that even the Americans could not equal, and that quotation came from an Englishman, Mr H. G. Wells. It ran as follows:—“Advertising is too big a thing for lying, much too big a thing, ft iS\tlio web of modern life; it is the call of the flock. For most pooplo a flat statement in an advertisement is an absolute warranty.” '•And.” said Mr Staples, “it ought to be. They take it as they take the news in the adjacent columns.”

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