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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 99, 24 March 1930, Page 6

The gate takings at the annual meeting of the Sandon Sports Club on Saturday amounted, to nearly £6O. The unemployment registrations at the Dunedin Trades Hall are still piling up, 254 persons with 487 dependants having registered up to noon on Saturday. One hundred and fiftytwo are married and 102 are single.

As a result of catching his right hand in a mincing machine in nis father’s butchery at Waiuku, Roy Barnaby, aged 20, had four fingers severed, while his hand was severely lacerated.

Mr Alfred Octave Oudaille, aged 73, collapsed in a billiard saloon at Christchurch on Saturday afternoon while playing a game, and died on the way to the hospital. At the inquest a verdict of death front heart failure was returned.

Stated to have attended only one drill out of seven, Francis L. Tood was fined £5, with 10s costs, when he appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., to-day, charged with his second offence in failing to fulfil his military' obligations. Haydon C. W. Greening, who had attended four drills out of sev en, was fined £2, with 10s costs.

“Apparently there is some possibility of the father being found,” it was stated in the Magistrate’s Court, today, when Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., granted an adjournment of an application against Thomas Lloyd, horsetrainer, of Riccarton and Mrs A. Maire, boardinghouse-keeper, of Taihape, requiring them to contribute towards the support of their two grandchildren.

Last week a somewhat novel school class was held when the headmaster of Longburn (Mr Hills) took Standards 5 and 6, per medium of Madge’s bus, to Tiritea for the day. The weather conditions were favourable and a most enjoyable and profitable day was spent studying native trees and shrubs, and exploring miniature gorges and streams. From an educational point of view the trip was worth while, and is recommended to others.

When a lady from England was told by a farmer at Tatuanui that 97 cows on the farm were being milked by only two men, she expressed surprise ana said: “Will you please put that down in your own handwriting, for if I told that to the people in England they would not believe me.” Milking machines are used in the Old Country, but they are not so efficient as the types used in New Zealand, where from necessity this useful adjunct to dairying was developed quickly to a high degree of efficiency. “This is just another case where foreigners have come to New Zealand, have received a fair deal, and have become very worthy citizens,” said Mr J. K. Hornblow at the Sandon sports, on Saturday, when presenting a trophy to N. Botoroff. who was adjudged the champion school girl runner. Mr Hornblow 6aid the girl was a pupil of the Foxton School and they were very proud of her. She was a fine little sport and her win was a popular one. Her parents were Russians who had taken refuge in New Zealand after the Great War.

“Even in distant Ceylon I had heard of New Zealand’s famous wapiti herd, and it is with the desire of not only seeing the Dominion again, but also of trying my luck at stalking in these parts, that I have made a second visit here,” said Mr G. M. Crabbe, a prominent tea planter of Ceylon, in the course of an interview at Dunedin. Mr Crabbe comes to New Zealand with the reputation of being a noted big-game hunter, who has shot in all parts of the world, but more particularly in Northern Rhodesia, the Himalayas, and in the jungle of South America.

Claiming that “mechanical noises” from Wellesley Street and large classes had had an effect upon his health, an instructor at the Seddon Memorial Technical College, Auckland, sought leave of absence from teaching in a letter received by the board of managers. “All rooms in front of the building are affected by the noise and it is a question whether this would entitle a teacher to claim leave under the provision dealing with loss of health owing to working conditions,” said tire principal, Mr G. J. Park. It was decided to ask for a ruling from the supervisor of technical education.

After spending five weeks’ intensive training at Trentham Camp, the special force of military police organised for service in Samoa will be disbanded to-day. A total of 228 men will be paid off, the cost to the Government in pay being in the vicinity of £2736. The staff officers and n.c.o.’s will remain in camp in the meantime to await further instructions. In addition eleven privates will be retained for service in the Samoan Police Police Force, under the supervision of the Internal Affairs Department, relieving members who are returning from Samoa. They will report for duty to-day in Wellington. The men to be paid off will receive railway warrants to their home towns.

The workmen have now settled down to work' at the Kotemaori tunnel on the Napier-Wairoa railway line, and three shifts are engaged. The first heading in the Mohaka tunnel was completed some time ago; that is, the hill has been pierced, apd the men are now engaged in enlarging the tunnel, ■after which the concreting will be put in hand. The deviation of the road to the north of the Mohaka bridge is progressing slowly. The idea is 'to cut out another level crossing. This, with other deviations in hand, will make the Napier-Wairoa-Gisborne railway one of the safest in the Dominion from a level crossing point of view.

Twelve years ago last Friday, the Germans launched their great offensive in France with the object of dividing the British and French forces and forcing a conclusion of the war before the Americans were'able to throw their full man-pQwer into the conflict. The New Zealand Division was in reserve undergoing training ■and refitting, after having spent the winter in the Ypres salient. The transfer of the division to the general headquarters reserve and thence to the Ancre sector, although involving some arduous marching and subsequent fighting, was hailed as a welcome relief from the prospects of duty across the Gheluvelt Road, Ypres, to which considerable attention was devoted ’n the daily summaries of enemy artillery and trench mortar activity.