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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 6

The 'Marama arrived at Sydney .at five o’clock this morning. While playing in the Opotiki School grounds, Hoy l' orbes, aged 11, son of Mr A. Forbes, Otara Hoad, Opotiki, fell and broke his arm. At the quarterly meeting of the Hamilton Baptist Church Pastor Bycroft announced that the church had within the past two and a-lialf years, not only liquidated a heavy overdraft of £4OO due to unforeseen expenditure, but had also reduced its church mortgage by some £350. Opposition to the proposed erection of municipal tepid baths in Hamilton at a cost of £14,000 is Contained in a petition at present being circulated, in Hamilton. At the last meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council it was decided- by a margin of one vote to ask the Local Government Loans Board to sanction the raising of the money. The scheme is opposed on the grounds that it is unduly expensive. . ■ . When prisoners appear in the Suprewe Court for sentence testimonials and recommendations as to their previous good character are often placed before tiro Judge. Included in a number submitted to IVIr Justice Herdman in the (supreme Court in Wellington was a lengthy letter from a member of Parliament. His Honour glanced at the document and then put it aside, with the remark: “I do not like these letters from members of Parliament.” “There is something _ about _ New Zealand as a whole that is individual. If is New Zealand, and that is its greatest charm. There is so much freedom everywhere. Everyone speaks to everyone else whether you are fighting for. a sandwich at a railway station or in a tramcar. This was a most delightful revelation. No one must feel a stranger in New Zealand.' But then no one can.” So said one of the English public school boys at Auckland before the party left the other day.

When Mr Peter Hunter was travelling from Ngaruawahia he collided with another car, driven by Mr George Fearn, of Arapuni, proceeding ip the opposite direction near the entrance to the Te Rapa. racecourse. As a result of the collision • four people, passengers in Mr Fearn’s car, and residents of Arapuni, were admitted to the Waikato Hospital for treatment. Their injuries were not of a serious nature. Mr S. ltapson sustained. a cut over one eye, Miss Clark, facial injuries, Mrs Strolen shock and a scalp wound, and an infant child of Mr Fearn a slight scalp wound. Both cars were extensively damaged.

The Maunganui arrived at Sydney at five o’clock yesterday morning from Auckland.

Two Chinese who had overstayed their permits in New Zealand were each fined £25 in the Aucldand Magistrate’s Court by Mr McKean, S.M., who said that the fines in future cases would be much heavier. Wong Dwin was two years four months over his time, and Young Ming exceeded his time by ten months. A Whangarei telegram states that a boardinghouse of about twenty rooms, known as The Mount, occupied by Mr Alfred Ahlquist, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. Twenty boarders lost all their belongings. Owing to the holidays most of the local fire brigade were away. The insurances on the house amounted to £2OOO and on the furniture to £3OO.

The rainfall at Wellington last month made up much of the shortage of January and February. The total rainfall for March was approximately 4J inches, of which more than half (218 points) fell during the 24 hours ended 0 a.in on March 6, another half-inch being added next day. Since the beginning of the ye’ar the rainfall in Wellington has been_ about 7J inches, compared with 5.15 inches during the first quarter of last year.

A lease of Everybody’s Theatre, in Lower Queen Street, Auckland, has been acquired by a Sydney organisation, known as Woolwortlis, Ltd., which carries on business on lines similar to the five and ten cent American stores. Mr T. O’Brien, who owned the lease, states that the price was £6OOO. The lease has six years to run. The new firm takes over in August, when the premises will bo converted into an open warehouse. At a meeting held at Cromwell iast evening the following motion was carried: “That this representative meeting of citizens of Cromwell and settlers of Upper Clutha Valley is of the opinion that the progress of the district has been arrested by the present aggregation of land and the refusal of the Otago Land Board to promulgate any definite policy of closer settlement; and that an association, to be called the Upper Clutha Progressive League, be formed with the object of urging on the Government the desirability of resuming lands suitable for subdivision.

In spite of the fact that two men lost their lives on Friday through being swept off the end of the New Plymouth breakwater by a wave and drowned, four boys were seen on Saturday morning going out to the end of the breakwater under practically similar conditions. After dodging breakers en route they reached the end of the breakwater, where a big wave broke over them and one boy was knocked down by the rush of water. An eyewitness described the action of the boys as foolhardy in the extreme and one that might easily have been attended by further loss of life.

The making good of the old reservoir on Mount Eden, Auckland, which burst on March 4, will not be an expensive matter, the city engineer, Mr W. E. Bush, advised the City Council the other evening. A party wall to serve the new and the old reservoirs will cost £1240 and the replacement of the floor back to the temporary brick wall, which it will not pay to dismantle, will involve a charge of approximately £BBO. Mr Bush said also that with a divisional wall in the new reservoir, the combined tanks would be divided into three parts, any one of which could be emptied for cleaning without interfering with the water services. When the work was completed it was intended’ to subject the old reservoir to a thorough test. Eighty-eight years ago last Saturday the pioneer immigrant vessel, the barque William Bryan, arrived off the coast of Taranaki, and Sunday marked the anniversary of the landing of the first settlers. The settlement was an enterprise of the Plymouth'Company, which despatched the William Bryan from Plymouth (England) on November 19, 1840, with some 140 emigrants on board, drawn chiefly from Devonshire and Cornwall. The vessel arrived ac Cloudy Bay on March 19, 1841, and when furnished with a pilot from Wellington by Colonel Wakefield, sailed for Tarauaki, ariving at New Plymouth on the evening of March 30. The settlers disembarked on the following day. The boundaries of the province, which was known then as New Plvmouth, were defined by proclamation in 1852, but six years later the name was changed to Taranaki by an act of the General Assembly of New Zealand.

“Coffee was made by the early settlers of Otago,” relates a pioneer, “but this coffee never saw the coffee tree, but wa3 made out of peas or wheat. The peas were roasted over the fire until of a dark brown colour and were then put through a small hand-driven coffee mill. I remember, that on one occasion we had a call from two men from Dunedin, who were on a Maori curio hunting expedition and, as usual after a chat, refreshments were put on the table. On being asked whether they would have tea or coffee, coffee was preferred, and on being supplied with a second cup they were asked how they liked the coffee. ‘Very fine indeed,’ was the reply. On being told that it was made out of roasted peas one of the men who at that time was a prominent Dunedin lawyer, but is now a retired Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, said that he thought the first mouthfuls had a flavour of peas, but he declared that he would not have\ suspected that the drink was made from anything but the finest coffee.” As the train from Rotorua was drawing out of the Hamilton station the other evening a Maori named Walter Hunter, of Mokai, was seen running with the evident intention of trying to get aboard. Someone on the platform tried to stop him, but he broke away and grabbed the iron rail attached to the first of two luggage vans at the rear. The train was going at such a pace that the man was thrown agaiust the side of the van. Then,' losing his grip, he fell to the platform and was rolling off, in serious clanger of being run over by the following van, when Rev. P. R. Paris grasped him and drew him to safety. The alarm having been given to the engine-driver, the train was stopped and the Maori was able to go aboard. However, he was arrested at Prankton. When he got on board the train, Hunter used obscene language and abused train officials. He was charged later in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court and was fined the amount of his bail, £3, for disorderly behaviour, and was remanded on the charge of boarding a train, while it was moving. 1

A meeting of represntatieve ratepapers of the Manawatu-Oroua River Board's district was held at Palmerston North on Thursday last. The meeting unanimously resolved to oppose the carrying out of tho proposed modified scheme in connection with the Manawatu River. It was also decided to cal a mass meeting of ratepapers for Saturday next, 6th inst. at 11 a.m.

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