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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 74, 22 February 1930, Page 8

It is expected that the Public Service classification list will be available for publication on Monday. The urgent need of a traffic bridge at Paremata to shorten the distance to PUumierton was stressed by Cr. R. L. Button, of the Hutt County Council, at a meeting held yesterday afternoon.

Four young men were charged ill the Magistrate’s Court at Waihi with wilfully giving a false fire alarm, and were convicted and fined £lO each or one months imprisonment. The Bench emphasised the seriousness of the offence, and refused counsel’s application for the suppression of the names and time to pay the fines. Stewart Leary, a telegraph messenger, aged 16, experienced a remarkable escape from serious injury at Invercargill yesterday. He was riding a bicycle, with a pea rifle slung over his back, when the rifle accidentally discharged, the bullet entering the upper portion of his right arm. The bullet was removed later at tire hospital. Through being accidentally struck on the head by a winch handle at his work at Invercargill yesterday afternoon, James Fitzpatrick. a railway employee, aged 54, received a compound bisceral fracture of the skull and laceration of the face. His condition before he underwent an operation last evening was reported to be serious.

A serious accident happened to Mr John Glass while cutting sleepers and poles in the bush at Kakapotahi, South Westland. He slipped while cutting vines from a tree and his axe caught his foot and pinned it to the log. When liberated it was found that he had lost three toes. He only recently left the Westland Hospital, where he had been under treatment for a considerable time for injuries to his leg. The inaugural meeting of the TownPlanning Institute will be held in the Wellington Town Hall oh Thursday next. It will be remembered that a provisional committee was set up to take the preliminary steps in connection with the formation of the institute. On it were representatives in equal numbers from the civil engineers, the surveyors and the architects. The meeting on Thursday wul probablv be opened by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle. The weather at Wellington yesterday was overcast and mild, with a light northerly, but the possibility of rain could not be forgotten. The weather at Auckland was dull and cloudy, and light showers fell during the afternoon. The wind was light from tire west-north-west. The weather at Christchurch was dull and threatening in the forenoon, but the afternoon was very clear and bright and much warmer. Although weather conditions overnight were not very promising yesterday proved bright and mild at bunedin.

Do not delay to see the half price remnants at C. and C.’s sale. The sale ends on Saturday 22nd, so you have no time to spare. Remnants suitablo for many uses but especially children’s clothes.—Collin6on and Cunninghame, Ltd. —Advt.

The Maheno left Melbourne yesterday for Wellington. On Thursday morning two short but sharp earthquake shocks were felt ■in Waipukurau at 6.47 and 7.10 o’clock. Gladys Keene, aged 12 years, who fell from a bicycle at Whangarei, sustained five fractures of the right elbow. Herbert Handley, the prisoner who jumped from the daylight Limited express at Ngaruawahia on Tuesday evening, is still at liberty. With a gift of £IOOO Mr S. Hooper, New Plymouth, has founded a bursary for New Plymouth boys at the Catholic Seminary at Mosgiel. With a total of 420 teachers in the Taranaki Education Board’s district there were no fewer than 225 staff changes during the past year. The annual picnic in connection with St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church was held to-day at Ashhurst, a large number leaving by train at 10 a.m. A collection of old German machineguns has been lying in the basement of the Auckland Town Hall for a long time, unwanted. Local bodies near Auckland are to be asked whether they desire any of the guns. Eight miles of preliminary construction work which were laid down 18 years ago north-west of Parnassus, on the route of the new South Island Main Trunk railway, have been scrapped as it has fallen into a bad state of disrepair. Speaking at a field day of the Auckland branch of the National Beekeepers’ Association, Mr Earp„ chief apiarist, said that so far as he could gauge the honey crop throughout New Zealand would be only about one-third of what it was last season. The sum of £417 has been raised by Mr E. C. Wiltshire, of the Bay of Plenty, from used stamps. This money, which has been produced from stamps saved from the waste paper basket, has been raised for the Manurewa Children’s Home, Aueklani. Shortly before 9 p.m. yesterday the corner of Wood and Featherston Streets was the scene of a collision between cars driven by Mrs J. A. Donne and Mr F. G. Chesham, both of Palmerston North. Although some damage was done, the drivers were not hurt. Brilliant flashes of blue and white flame in the vicinity of Hokowhitu were the cause of speculation in Palmerston North last evening. It was revealed that some electric welding was being carried out to the gravel buckets attached to a crushing plant at the riverbank. The Cornwell Cup contest was concluded at Dunedin in excellent sailing conditions. In the morning race, Wellington won. The ruling race in the afternoon which was sailed over a triangular course of about nine miles in strong north-east breeze was won decisively by Auckland, who thus retains possession of the trophy. The young son of Mr G. Johnson, of Karamea, had a narrow escape from death a few days ago. While playing he inhaled a celluloid toy into his larnyx. He was taken with all haste to a doctor, and as he had already ceased breathing a traclietomy operation was performed. The patient recovered and is back to normal health. When they returned to the parking area in Church Street last, evening after attending a boxing match in the Opera House, two motorists found that their cars had disappeared. The mutter was reported to the police. Withir an hour the car owned by Mr Strachac Goldingham, of Palmerston North, was recovered in Te Awe Awe Street, where it had been abandoned. Cne mudguard was dented. At 12.30 a.m. the other vehicle, owned by Mr Alan Coles, of Palmerston North, was found undamaged in Church Street.

Fifty-one years ago yesterday (Friday, February 21, 1879) will be remembered by those * connected with mining as the day on which cne of the great mine tragedies in the history of New Zealand occurred. The Kaitangata coal mine was on that day the scene of a terrific explosion which buried all the miners (with one exception) who were working at the time. One miner was driving a horse with coal boxes out of the mine when the explosion took place, and he was hurled many yards along the ground, as was also the horse, through the force of the shock. This man died, and no one in the mine returned to tell how the tragedy was caused, although after extensive inquiries a verdict of manslaughter against one of the miners who was found with a pipe in his mouth was brought in. The number of deaths was thirty-four.