Untitled

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 168, 15 June 1928, Page 6

Shooting on Wednesday at the Hastings Gun Club, Mr H. Best, of the Palmerston North Gun Club, divided tlio two £25 sparrow matches, and also secured the president’s aggregate trophy for the best score over the two days’ "shooting. The weather was fair, but the wind was very cold. While crossing the road at Masterton yesterday ,at the junction of Opaki and "To Oro Ore Roads. Thelma Parsonson, a young girl, of Lansdowne, was knocked down by a motor car, driven bv Mr C. Price, builder, of Lansdowne. She was admitted to hospital, but her condition is not serious. A Wellington telegram states that two groups of parties who were out searching for the young man, Mr Mervyn Hodgkinson, who was lost in the Wainui bush, have returned. They report that they reached the palace where Mr Clarence Pdynter said he parted from Mr Hodgkinson, hut there was no sign of the latter. The search is being continued. Giuded by his master’s whistle, a blind sheep dog gave an extraordinary exhibition of cleverness at tlio Marlborough sheep dog trials. The conditions were that the dog should go 500 yards to a hillside, head three sheep, bring them hack to its master, and then yard them. The dog went out on a good line until it was halted by a 'whistle. Relying on its powers of scent, the dog took up his position, and from thence on was guided by its master’s whistle. The dog successfully .achieved its difficult task, much to the astonishment of the spectators. A great future for New Zealand’s forests was predicted by the Prime Minister in the course of his public address at Wellington last night. Mr Coates had been referring to the directions in which the Government had assisted industry, and he mentioned that forestry had been advanced many years not only by the State, but by private enterprise. “In our State Forestry Department,” he said, “over 700 moil, in addition to normal requirements, are being employed during tlie planting season. The scheme is well-designed, and the people of our country rn.ay rely upon a 100 per cent, return for the expenditure. Within the next fifteen or twenty years New Zealand’s forests will be one of her great assets. Wood pulp alone will, if statistics can bo relied upon .to give an indication, yet play an important part in our industrial undertakings.”

The Maunganui loft Sydney yesterday afternoon for Wellington. The whole machinery of the Supreme Court, with judge, a jury of twelve, Crown Solicitor, and Court officials, was engaged at Hamilton on Tuesday over the alleged theft by a native named John Hoke of a purse valued at ‘2s. The alleged offence occurred at To Awanmtu on May 21. Accused was found not guilty.

A decision to write off £7715 of patients’ foes outstanding was arrived at by the Palmerston North Hospital Board yesterday afternoon. Much of this sum was in regard to accounts several years old, while portion was for treatment of staff members. It was explained to the board that every endeavour was made to get patients to pay, summonses being issued where it was thought that there was a chance of recovering the money. A gift of £SOO has been made to the Coromandel Presbyterian Church. Information has been received from a firm of solicitors in Scotland forwarding a cheque on behalf of Mr Colin Fraser, at one time a resident of Coromandel. The conditions are that the money is to be invested and held in trust in order that the income or revenue derived may he regularly paid towards the stipend of the minister for the time, being of the Presbyterian Church at Coromandel. Little did a settler think when, some 40 years ago, ho carved his initials on the ba.-k of a pine tree in the property recently acquired by the Girls’ Flock House, that they would be revealed in the timber to-day. This morning, a “Standard” reporter was shown a section of the tree in which the initials “A.M.” were as clearly defined as they were when originally cut. The marks had filled with gum and, for some 30 years, had been covered with successive layers of growth. It was by a coincidence that, when the tree was felled and split, it should break in such a manner as to reveal the initials.

“Industrial peace in this country is a factor and something to he envied,” said Mr Coates, when addressing a meeting at Wellington last night. “Strikes and disturbances bring unhappiness to the working community and distress and worry to those dependent upon the industry. As it retards the individual, so it affects the wholo State. I say that everything will be gained by industrial peace. Probably this Government, more then others, has managed to permeate that feeling of good fellowship and understanding between employer and employee, which means so much to our future prosperity.”

“The Government is to be congratulated on the highly successful flotation of its fivo million 4i per cent loan issued at 94 J in London last month, the loan was for one million less than that of the two previous years,” said Sir George Elliot, chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, at the annual meeting at Wellington to-day. “In view of the heavy programme of loan replacements which faces the Dominion during the next few years, it is most reassuring to find that the Dominion’s credit stands so high on the London money market. In this connection it is satisfactory to note that the surplus of revenue over expenditure of the Dominion for the year ended 31st March last was approximately £IBO,000.”