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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 297, 14 November 1929, Page 6

Mr D. Hope Johnson, of Sydney, has presented to the New Zealand Government a set of 24 pictures depicting the founding of each Australian State, painted by John Allcott. After enjoying seven- months’ liberty since he escaped from the Rotoroa Inebriates’ Home last April, Thomas Anderson Francis Hughes, aged 49, was arrested at Blenheim.

A change in the system of selling graded apples has been made by Auckland retail fruiterers. The fruit is now sold by number, according to the graded size, and not by weight. While participating in a mock sparring bout on the Devonport Steam Ferry Company’s Wharf, Auckland, Mr Albert Baker, married, aged about 60, fell backward over the wharf and struck his head against the fender of a ferry boat alongside. His skull was fractured and he died shortly afterwards.

A Press Association telegram from Gisborne states that at the Waipiro Bay Court, before Mr Harper, S.M., a Maori named Tuhera Maraki, charged with the theft of two sheep, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years. He was also fined £25, and ordered to pay costs, £8 7s.

A cablegram has been sent to the Prince of Wales requesting him to become patron of the Auckland Cornish Association. As Duke of Cornwall, the Prince has. many interests in the “delectable Duchy,” and his farm at Stoke Climsland is one of the finest agricultural holdings in the Old Country.

At a meeting of the ladies’ and men’s committee of the West End School, last evening, it was decided to call tenders for the construction of swimming baths and plans and specifications of a design similar to the Terrace End baths were approved. It was reported that the sum of £750 was in hand.

“What is the object of the board?” asked Mr J. E. C. Harrison during a discussion at the meeting of the Manawatu-Oroua River Board this morning. “To put its scheme through,” replied a member. “Well, then, it will fie the next 50 years before anything is done,” added Mr Harrison.

Some months ago an 'agreement was entered into by the Waitotara County Council with the Main Highways Board to barrow £IO,OOO to speed up construction and widening work on the Auckland-Wellington highway between the Wanganui city boundary and the Waitotara Itiver._ It was reported at this week’s meeting of the council that it had been arranged to receive the money from the board in two instalments of £SOOO each, and steps are to be taken to obtain the first £SOOO immediately. The concluding evidence was heard yesterday before the Coroner (Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M.) concerning the deaths of Mrs William Trembath and her daughter Moira, who lost their lives when the Carriers’ Arms Hotel at Riverton was destroyed by fire early on the morning of October 28 (states an Invercargill telegram). The Coroner’s verdict was as follows: “The two deceased, Barbara and Moira Trembath, met their deaths by misadventure on October 28 by being burned to death in the fire which destroyed the Carriers’ Arms Hotel, the origin of the fire being unknown.”

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The Manuka arrived at Melbourne this morning from Wellington. The sum of 37s 6d has been subscribed by the pupils of the West End School towards the cost of the Christmas dinner provided for the poor children of London by the Church Army. Advice has been received by the collector of customs at Gisborne, Mr W. Cameron, that no magisterial inquiry will be held in connection with the stranding of the cargo steamer Kahika, which went ashore on Waikanae Beach on the morning of Thursday, October 24, and was subsequently relioated and towed to Wellington. It is believed that Captain AV. D. Gardner, who was in command of the Kahika when she stranded, and the crew have been exonerated from any blame in connection with the vessel’s stranding.