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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 110, 5 April 1930, Page 8

An application for a hoarding license was refused by the Hamilton Borough Council' at its meeting this week, and i)j was decided to instruct the inspector to take action' in ' cases of unauthorised use of fences, etc., ae hoardings. Advice has been received in Wellington that “Daytona beach has been in persistently bad condition. Kaye Don s car is now right and he is only waiting for a favourable opportunity. He lias no intention of abandoning the attempt on the world’s speed record. The Wanganui district secretary of the obstetrical appeal. Dr. Helen Deem, yesterday received a cheque for £2oo 12s 6d from the Marton and Bulls committees. The sum of £6l 15s 9d was also received from Hunterville. Both these amounts are considerably in excess of the quotas. Treasure trove recovered from the Timaru harbour suggests that a burglar had an embarrassment of Tithes, or found the swag rather h'ard to get rid of. The water near-the boat landing on No. 1 wharf is very shallow at low water, and one day recently a man on the wharf noticed some glittering things on the bottom. He told the police, and the result was quite a haul of jewellery, including gold bracelets and chains. The police had a suspicion as to where the things came from and are following it up. “That ordinary road signs should'be removed is intolerable,” said Mr It. W. Tate, S.M., ill the New Plymouth Court, when two young, men were fined £3 - and £5 respectively for removing six sign boards, the property of the Taranaki Automobile Associatipn, between Tatarainiaka and Okato. Senior-Sergeant-Sergeant McCrorie said that the two young men removed the sign posts, placed them in a car in which they were driving and changed ohem at various points. Counsel for . one defendant asked that the offence be regarded as a silly prank or horseplay. The defendants, •in addition to -the fines, were ordered- to pay the cost of replacing the signs. .

It is -understood that an.- electric knife will be in use' at the Wellington Hospital shortly. At present there are five machines' in New Zealand, the New Plymouth and Christchurch Hospitals having one each,, while • three private practitioners each Have one. Installations are also to be made at the Wellington 1 and Auckland Hospitals. In the 'Medical Journal and rtecord for July-, 1925, Howard ■ A. Kelly, M. 1)., says: '“We have here a remarkably startling invention and innovation, for probably the last thing any one of us ever anticipated was that the time-honoured scalpel, badge of our office as surgeons, as it were, would ever find a successful rival 1 How unsafe it ie to prophesy 1” Objection to the proposed appointment of a woman teacher as heatf teacher of a. school was made in a letter received from a school committee by the Auckland Education Board this week. The committee requested that a married man should be appointed. Mr H. S. King said that the woman was the highest graded applicant, and she was. entitled to receive the post. The difficulty was that there were not sufficient men. The unfortunate. part of the case Was that the teacher would gd to a place.where the committee was antagonistic. The chairman, Mr A. Burns, .said that in previous cases he board had notified the teacher of the objection, and the decision as to accepting the position was left with the teacher. It was decided to adopt this course. When the new Governor-General was chairman of tllb Sugar Control Board during the war, he had a billet that required all the ..tact alid resourcefulness he possesses. For instance, on one occasion,'the .beekeepers demanded more sugar, because Lord ; B'.edisloe’s strict . rationing was starving' their bees. Bees ,make honey, and,/honey saves sugar, so he Complied, but later on the.fruitgrqwors. protested strongly, complaining that owing .to the sugar supplied tho bees iemaincd in their hives, and did not go abroad to seek their supplies, with the result that there was little or no fertilisation, of tho fruit trees.' Those who have heard His Excellency since he arrived-in New Zealand will realise that lie 'would eventually find a way of satisfying both beekeepefs and orchardists, says an exchange. " ;; I Mistaken identity gave Mr A. E. Smith, a well-known Christchurch motorist, an insight into human nature. Crossing the . Atlantic, .ho wirelessed for rooms at . a big ..(New York hotel, and on arrival, was given a wonderful reception, and was shown (by the proprietor himself) into a princely suite. A .minute or two after a bellboy arrived with bundles of letters. v “Your mail, sir,” he said, with an air of serving royalty. On looking over the first letter or two, Mr Smith discovered that lie had been taken for another Smith, who happened to bo on board the same steamer —Mr Al. Smith, the Governor, whose initials were the same as the New Zealander. When Mr Smith explained the Smith he really was, the change in the manner of the proprietor was las good as a play, changing from servility to aloofness, almost scorn, with a rapidity that would make a movie actor’s fortune. In addition'to having, tho same initials as the famous Smith, the New Zealander was strikingly like him.: A distressing case came before the Christchurch Court one day last week. The mother of seven children; who war. before the Court, said she could not afford to buy them clothes sufficiently decent for. them to go to school. - Witnesses said the' mother, a middle-aged woman, did not look after the children, and allowed them to go begging for food among the. neighbours. The Child Welfare officer said the children were living under terrilbe conditions; the bouse, was dirty, there Was no proper bedding, and the surroundings were so bad that She hnd to call in the health authorities. It was a wonder that there had not been 'an outbreak of .typhoid, said the officer. It was stated that the mother- was separated. • The house was shared by a married couple, trouble being caused by jealousy between the two women. The magistrate said the conditions disclosed were shocking, and he committed the children to the care of the Child Welfare officer. 1 \Then things* were more satisfactory in the home, some or all -of the children could return to their mother.