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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 77, 26 February 1930, Page 6

A single man named William J. Douglas, aged 29, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital yesterday morning with a severely lacerated leg, which has since been amputated. The injured man is employed at Hillside workshops, where he was run over by a crane. The danger that can arise from the promiscuous throwing away of articles by motorists when travelling along the road was forcibly illustrated near Opunake. A peach stone thrown by someone from a passing motor-lorry went through the open window of a service bus and struck a lady passenger on the face just under the eye, inflicting a nasty cut. The lady was sitting just behind the driver. Yesterday was a particularly bright sunny day in Wellington, and there was only a light southerly. Heavy showers fell in Auckland at an early hour in the morning, but afterwards the day was fine, the wind being light from the south-west. The weather yesterday was cloudy at Christchurch, but warmer and brighter in the afternoon, with intermittent sunshine. At Dunedin the weather yesterday was bright and warm with little or no wind. Statements not infrequently made in Australia and New Zealand that Canada is in danger of seceding from the Empire and joining with the United States were discounted by Major L. Andrews, a member of the Canadian timber delegation, which arrived from Sydney by the Marama yesterday. “There is no more joyal and pro-British part of the Empire than Canada,” Major Andrews said. There was no danger that she would ever break away from the Empire or from England, which had given her the chances for real growth and development. The belief that Canada was pro-American, and that she was more partial to the United States than to Great Britain, was founded upon a complete misunderstanding. If you realise that you are not adequately insured against fire loss the Mercantile and General Insurance Co., Ltd., is a New Zealand Company with all its capital invested in New Zealand end thus can assure you prompt settlement. R. W. Priest, Times Buildiugß, Broadway, district agent. —Advt-

The Niagara has left Honolulu for Auckland.

Five deaths owing to motor accidents have occurred in Hell Street, Wanganui, within the past eight years. The New Zealand Society of Accountants has decided to offer 100 guineas for a thesis on the financing, accounting, and costing of the dairy industry. There lias been no appreciable erosion at the Arapuni spillway since the occurrence last August .states the Minister of Public Works (Hon. E. A. Ransom). Definite advice has been received by Mr J. Linklater, M.P., that the Government has granted a £1 for £1 subsidy of £IOCO for protection work in the Koputiroa area.

Mr J. Linklater, M.P., has received advice from the Minister of Education (Hon. H. Atmore) that he has made a grant for an additional classroom at the Opiki School, near Karere.

Mrs Barbara Davidson, who was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Friday, suffering from a broken thigh caused by a fall down some steps, died yesterday. She was 92 years of age.

Only four Canadian member.B of the Empire Farmers’ patty are stated to be among the quarantined passengers on the Aorangi, and it is understood that the large party will adhere to the original itinerary. At the meeting of the finance committee of the Wellington City Council on Monday night authority was granted for Mr H. Baillie to proceed with the compilation of the municipal history of Wellington. At a meeting of the Auckland Cricket Association last night, the treasurer reported that the profit to the New Zealand Council from the third and fourth Test matches would bo approximately £BOO. Seven girls for Awapuni Flock House landed from the Itemuera at Auckland yesterday and arrived in Palmerston North this morning. They are all sisters of girls or boys sent out previously under the scheme.

Albert Edwards, aged 65, Henry William Burroughs, aged 46, Victor Tolchester, aged 41, all waterside workers, were yesterday at Wellington fined £lO each for theft of meat and butter from the liner Rangitane. •

Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., addressed political meetings at Takapau and. Napier last week, when he explained the Reform Party’s organisation and dealt with general political questions. Votes of confidence in the Reform Leader (Hon. J. G. Coates) were carried. Three persons in South Taranaki have taken out miners’ rights for gold prospecting. “Undoubtedly there ie gold there,” said a Taranaki man who has covered much territory on the southern slopes of Egmont. “The only question is whether it can be found in payable quantities.” The Hawera Hospital Board has entered a strong protest against the action of the Local Government Loans Board in delaying consent to the board’s effort to raise a loan of £60,000 before the recent increase in the bank rates. The money could have been obtained at 5J per cent. In the Supremo Court at' Gisborne Mr Justice Blair commented on a bribery charge, in which a constable is alleged to have accepted a bribe to quash some proceedings in which a man had been accused of breaking and entering. “I mav say,” remarked His Honour, “that I cannot recollect having heard of a case similar to this. These cases are so rare that it reflects great credit on the police force.” The Palmerston North railway station nresented a scene of unusual activity this morning, when in addition to the usual volume of traffic, three special trains passed through within a short period. An eighteen-car train conveyed school children from Pahiatua for a picnic at Paekakarilci, arid an eleven-car train accommodated Foxton children on a trip to Ashhurst. In addition, a special that left Palmerston North for Dannevirke races was well patronised. “The number of crimes committed by young people is getting notorious judging by the number of cases which come before the Court,” stated Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., at Christchurch yesterday when sentencing three young men who appeared on charges of theft. "Too many crimes of all kinds are being committed by youne people. A method must be devised to protect the public from the depredations of young men of this type. It is very hard to know what to do with them. We may onlv take the remedy tho law allows, and that with no uncertain hand.” At St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Wanganui, on Sunday night, Rev. John Paterson, ALA., was very outspoken on the way in which parents, particularly men, evaded their responsibilities. “Our orphanages are always full,” said Mr Paterson, “and many of the children have parents who should support them. Our old people’s homes, too, are being supported by charitable people when the proper place for many of these old people would be in the homes of their sons or daughters. This careless disregard of responsibility is an unpleasant trait,” said Mr Paterson.

It is a well-known scientific fact that sound carries well across water. Even so it may come as a surprise to learn that the human voice can be heard across the Waitemata harbour. An old Devonport resident, whose hearing is still wonderfully acute considering his years, tells the story -of how he heard the voice of a friend in Auckland as he himself was sitting on the chore of Devonport. When the matter was mentioned to another veteran Aucklander, ho pointed out that there was much less noise in those days than now, and such a happening was easily possible with the wind in the right direction.

Reciprocal trade relations and a readjustment of tariffs to encourage a freer interchange of goods is sought by the Canadian timber delegation whose members arrived in Wellington from Sydney by the Marama yesterday. The delegation, which is to tour New Zealand in order to confer with commercial interests and representatives of the Government, comprises Mr J. McDonald (chairman), Major L. Andrews, Mr J. G. Robson and Mr T. T. Gadd. Tliev were met on arrival by Mr C. M. Croft, of Auckland, Canadian Trade Commissioner. Members of the delegation yesterday morning met the Commissioner of State Forests, Hon. W. B. Taverner ,and the Minister of Customs, Hon. J. B. Donald, and discussed questions regarding the importation of timber. In the afternoon they were the guests of Ministers., and inspected the Parliamentary Buildings. An itinerary has been mapped out for the delegates, who will visit, among other places, the West Coast, Christchurch and Dunedin.

Form the North Cape to the Bluff housewives continue to extol the merits of No Rubbing Laundry Help for washing clothes clean without rubbing or injury. Eight washings Is. —Advt. Your best remedy for coughs, .'olds, asthma, bronchitis, hay fever and all such complaints of the throat and lungs is “Nazol.” Powerful, penetrating and effective. 60 doses for Is 6d. —Advt.

Reminder—last days of sale are here—our great summer clearance ends this Saturday, Ist March. Women’s one-bar shoes. Assorted, English glace kid in pretty shades of fawn, beige and grey. Smart new styles, with self-covered Spanish and Louis heels. All good fittings—some half sizes. Usually 33s 6d. Sale price 12s lid pair. Tho 0. M. Ross Co., Ltd—Advt