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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 102, 30 March 1929, Page 8

The Naigara arrived at Sydney this morning from Auckland. A chimney on fire at the Public Hospital last evening was responsible for the Fire Brigade being called out. The outbreak was extinguished without any damage being done. It was announced on Thursday that a contract had been signed between the Wellington Citizens’ War Memorial Committee v and the successful tenderers for the erection of the very handsome war memorial on the triangular site between Bowen Street and Lambton Quay.

Mrs C. J. Lewis was knocked down by a motor-cycle in Kent Terrace, Wellington, just after 9 o’clock on Thursday night. She suffered a fracture of the left collarbone and a wound on the forehead. Mrs Lewis was attended to by the Free Ambulance and taken to the hospital.

About 50 moulders and fitters at Addington Railway Workshops will be transferred to Hillside in the coming winter, completing the department’s scheme of centralisation. Their departure has been delayed pending the erection and equipment of a new foundry at the Hillside Workshops..-

Rivers and streams throughout the Nelson district were swoll en with the heavy rain this week and minor washouts and damaged culverts are reported .from various parts. The river cut into the temporary works at the Wairoa bridge, Brightwater. A considerable amount of timber was carried down stream,, but most of it was recovered. The Wakamarina overflowed its banks at Canvastown, and water overflowed the main road to a siderable depth and held up traffic for a time.

The damage caused to tlj.e eastern extension male at Tiraaru Harbour by the severe storm on January 25 last was discussed by the board the other day. The chairman, Mr G. P. Dawson, who, on account of illness, had been absent from other meetings since the storm, said that the damage was noir'' so great as was at first feared, and at the outside the board would have to face a loss of only £6OOO. The storm had washed away a good deal of the staging, but it was not necessary to replace this, as the mole would be built up to its full height. The portion of the rock wall which had been brought down was so located 'that it could be made the foundation of the new wall. , /

“I get tired of the talk that New Zealand is spending a great deal of money in education and then finds that many of her sons go abroad,” said Sir George Fowlds at Auckland this week, apropos of the fact that Professor J. B. Condliffe had. been educated here and was now using his talents abroad. “New Zealand has no cause for complaint,” Sir George said. “For many years we depended on other parts of the Empire for men to take the leading part in shaping our destiny. I want to see our education system broadened so that a great many more New Zealanders will he trained .not only to become leaders in the Dominion, but also in the outside world,”

The Corinthie has arrived at Southampton:

During the harvesting operations on Wednesday; Mr H: tanner, of Karere* fell, from a dray and suffered injuries which necessitated his entering a private hospital for treatment: The steamer passenger service between Auckland and Tauranga, which has been maintained by the- Northern Steamship Company for over forty years, will be discontinued next week (states a Press Association telegram.) In the last two years the Railway Department has reduced _ the number of its steam locomotives in the South Island from 273 to 249. Included in the latter number are six engines which are now obsolete, and will be used shortly in connection with schemes for protection of railway embankments.

The Wellington Education Board estimates for the year ended December 31 for maintenance of buildings and furniture nmount to £18,846. Of this amount £2OOO in wages, £I7OO for salaries, £I6OO for replacement of furniture, £4500 for general maintenance, £6746 for all services and £3OOO for contingencies.

The party of 44 English public schoolboys who have been touring New-Zea-land sailed for Sydney from Auckland by the Maunganui yesterday en route to England. ' A number of the boys called on the Governor-General prior to their departure to express their thanks for the consideration they had received in the Dominion. The Government has increased the grant for the erection of the new Malte Brun hut at Mount Cook from the original £IOOO to a sum which will permit of the erection of a hut the same size as Ball Hutt. Nothing definite has been arranged regarding the employment of some of the Byrd expedition dogs, at present at Quail Island, to transport the material to the site. A Press Association message from Hamilton states that a company for passenger flying was formed there on Wednesday, known as Hamilton Airways, Limited. The De Havilland Moth machine, already purchased was flown from Christchurch to Auckland on Thursday, and will be stationed at Auckland until a landing ground is provided at Hamilton. Captain McGregor, D.F.C., has been appointed chief pilot. As the result of being kicked by a horse, Mrs J. C. McKenzie, of Waharoa, Waikato, sustained severe injuries to her face and head and extensive bruises. During Mr McKenzie’s temporary absence from his team of horses, the reins became tangled round the forefeet of a horse in the team. In endeavouring to extricate the reins Mrs McKenzie was struck by the animal during its efforts to free itself. A donation of one hundred guineas to the Mayor’s fund for. the relief of the famine stricken in China was made by the Auckland City Council on Thursday night after spirited sectional opposition. The mover of the motion to make the gift said it was small, but it was a gesture of friendship. “Charity begins at home, said one member. There are men hungry in this city to-night.” An amendment to hold a citizens’ meeting to discuss the question was defeated, and the grant was authorised.