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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 270, 14 October 1929, Page 6

It is proposed to form a Cornish Association in Auckland. A start is to be made this week to level off portion of the site for a landing ground at Wanganui airport, and the first ’plane will be ordered at an early date.

The jubilee celebrations of the Waimate borough, the first council of which took the oath on October 13, 1879, were commenced yesterday with religious thanksgiving services and the festivities will be continued upntil Saturday next. A Napier traveller encountered a unique sight when returning from Taupo a few days ago sighting a herd of deer quite close to the road at Opete. The. animals showed no signs of fright and watched the car go by with no sign of alarm.

With a view to encouraging power connections in country districts where service costs are often high, the Auckland Electric Power Board has decided that, where the' cost exceeds £2O, payment may, at the board’s option, be spread over a period of five years. The 87th anniversary of the arrival of the ship Duchess of Argyle and the barque Jane Gifford and other pioneer vessels in the Waitemnta, which fell last Thursday, was celebrated with a record gathering of old colonists at the New Zealand Old Colonists’ Association’s annual reunion in Auckland.

In response to a request from the Otaki Maori Racing Club, the Horowhenua County Council, on Saturday, agreed to pay half the cost, up to £lO, of constructing a gravel footpath along the entrance to tho racecourse. The matter had been raised by the Racing Conference as increasing motor traffic was making the road dangerous for pedestrians. “Two years ago (August, 1927) a report was tabled showing that there were 109 milking plants within reach of existing power lines, using oil engines. Since that date we have connected 247 milking plants, the bulk of them being new cowsheds, stated Mr W. A. Waters (chief engineer) when reporting to the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board to-day.. The Salvation Army’s activities in the interests of tho sorrowlul, unfortunate and downcast are legion. Statistics prepared by the Government Statistican .show that the Salvation Army’s responsibility in volume ranks next to that of the hospital boards of the Dominion. Over £50,000 had to be raised in New Zealand last year to, maintain the Army’s social work. As the excursion train from Wellington was leaving Koputoroa station last evening, it was brought to a sudden stop. The innocent cause was a little child who was playing alongside the line. A passenger, seeing the child running after the train, arrived at the conclusion that it had been left behind and notified the guard. When it was realised that the child was not a passenger, the train continued on its interrupted journey.

There is to be no change in the old form of hymns used in the services of the Anglican Church. . At the session of the Auckland Diocesan Synod last year Archdeacon Averill suggested that a selection should be made from “Hymns Ancient and Modern,” as many hymns at present in the hymn book were unsuitable. The matter was referred to a committee for'consideration, but, at the meeting of the synod in Auckland, the committee reported that the expense which would be entailed would make the publication of a new hymn book in New Zealand impracticable. Some years ago the Indians resident in the King Country petitioned Parliament for permission to burn their dead instead of burying, on the ground that burial was repugnant to the religious beliefs of the Indians. Tho request was. declined. Apparently, however, some regulation has been framed to meet the wishes of the devout Indians, for the young boy, Balwant Singh, who was found shot, was burned on a specially constructed funeral pyre at Tatri (Qhura district). The ceremony was carried out by permission of the medical officer of health, and was witnessed by the inspector of health (Mr S. B. Reed), says an exchange. “I for one am getting fed up with this continual reference to new members,” declared Mr C. A. Wilkinson (Independent member for Egmont) in the House of Representatives (says a Parliamentary reporter) following a remark by the Minister of Public Works (Mr E. A. Ransom) that some of the members, particularly the new ones, did not seem to be familiar with the Highways Act. For their information, Mr Ransom read a section of the Act. Mr Wilkinson said he wanted to point out that even the new members were just about as old in their experience as the Ministers were in theirs. Even some of the Ministers were new members, and new members were entitled to be treated with respect. An inquest was held by the. Coroner (Mr A: J. Graham) this morning into the death of an infant child, William Charles Cumming, at Palmerston North on October 11. Evidence was given by the father, Clive Hamilton Cumming, labourer, that the baby was born ou February 2, 1928, and suffered from haemorrhage. He had not been strong from birth. Dr Cyril King stated that he had conducted a post-mortem examination arid found the child developed. There existed an abnormally large thymus and increased size of the lymphatic glands. The cause of death was malnutrition owing to the lack of ability to assimilate food. The child had been properly fed. Tho Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. Two small but ancient Maori ornaments made from whalebone were seen in Auckland the other day. One was a matau (hook) or manaia. It figured in the old-time ceremony in connection with a first cutting of the hair of a first-born male child or boy of rank. On such a day the community fasted until the special task was performed by the tohunga, who carried out certain incantations and* prayers (karakias) and cut the hair with obsidian flakes (mata tahua). The matau was used in this operation, the tufts of hair being gathered in a loop in much the same way as the modern barber holds the tufts between thumb and first finger for the purpose. Another curiously carved trinket is the pekapeka, in the shape of a bat, and revealing on its face side two figures back to hack. These relics show that the old Maoris were craftsmen as well as artists.—Star.

The influence of the home should be paramount in tbe 1 life of the child, and it was the duty of the Church to inculcate that fundamental principle in the minds of children, said Archbishop Averill at the Anglican Synod at Auckland. 'He was inclined to think that the Church was “beating the air” unless it suggested remedies dealt with home and parents as well as children. Unless the atmosphere of the home was Christian and sympathetic, the work for the children and young people generally must be to a large extent ineffective. The problem to-day • was not more machinery for interesting children outside their homes, but the strengthening, and, in some cases, the conversion of homes themselves, so that the children could have the opportunity of growing up in an atmosphere which made what was true, pure, lieautiful and noble in life.

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