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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 119, 16 April 1930, Page 8

Plans for an indoor sports building at Christchurch, costing £38,000, -have been prepared by an architect in connection with a.proposal to erect a twostorey building with a roller skating rink, two tennis courts, a bowling green,, a ballroom, a concert hall and •perhaps an.ice skating rink. A large portion of the building is to be available for exhibiti'ns. If > you realist that you are not adequately insured against fire loss the Mercantile and General Insurance Co., Ltd., is s' New Zealand Company with all its capital invested in New Zealand and thus oan assure you prompt settlement. R. W. Priest, Times Buildings, Broadway, district agent.—Advt.

Nineteen new dental clinics oosting £5600, have been erected in the Auckland education district in the last twelve months, or are being erected, making a total of 28. A raijway shunter, Mr P. Fennessy, a married man sustained severe cuts to his -head while engaged in shunting operations in the Huntiy railway yard. He had been shunting a rake of trucks when he lost his balance and fell between two trucks. . Harry Mangham, who has been one of the most consistent and popular riders since the opening of the Dunedin broadsiding speedway, and who is well known locally, this week leaves for Germany where ho has received an important engagement at a handsome retaining fee. The Mount Albert Methodist Orphanage, Auckland, will benefit to the extent of £SOO under the will of Mr Daniel Daily Haves, of Waiuku, farmer, whose death took place on March 29. For Purposes of' probate the value of Mr Hayes’s estate is estimated at £20,000. Mr G. A. Troup, Mayor of Wellington, announced at a dinner arranged by the Chamber of Commerce that the affairs of Wellington were flourishing. In the case of the general account, there was a surplus of £11,941, and departmental profits were .as follow : Tramways and ’buses, £1454 (after a loss of £14,000 on the ’buses alone); electric light and power, £60,301; milk, £6800; total profit, £80,496. ,\ The commission appointed by the Government to investigate cases of hardship arising out of the imposition of the super land tax is expected to conclude its sittings in' Christchurch to-day. Oral evidence in Christchurch Is being heard from about 40 objectors. The total number of objectors from Canterbury was 247, the majority of the cases being determined upon the documentary evidence submitted to the commission.

A sad occurrence took place at Paraparaumu on Monday evening, in the death of Edith, the 14-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs John Buckley, after a very brief illness. Her parents are well known in the district. Another member of the family, the youngest son, has been a sufferer from the same disease that proved fatal in the case of his sister, but lie was able to leave the Wellington Hospital a week ago, and is now recovering. “Broadsiding, not on the cinder track, but on the public highways, is a grave danger to motorists at present,” stated the president, Mr J. L. Passmore, at a meeting of the Otago Motor Club. In all parts of the town, he added, motorists suddenly came upon boys on bicycles practising broadsiding, and ho had narrowly escaped running over a boy recently.. He mentioned the matter as a warning to motorists, and he thought that it should be given publicity so that parents would be able to exercise some restraint over their boys and prevent them from bging injured. “We have to deplore the death of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, upon whose suggestion this society was formed,” states the latest report of the New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society. “The enumeration of the services that our late president rendered our native birds in many ways all his life would make indeed an honoured history. One of his last acts on his death bed, when he was no longer able to act personally, was to send a messenger to convey his wish that a certain action in the interests of our native birds should be taken. His loss is not only to our native birds but to New Zealand.”

The midgets competition in connection with ltugby matches in the Alanawatu district has been' the means of creating a fund of interest among the “lightweight” players. This season the local and district schools will play for a handsome cup which has been donated by Messrs. Millar and Giorgi. Another trophy which has been offered to the Manawatu Rugby Council is the shield which was last season competed for by cooperage and railway teams. This competition will not be continued this year, hence the offer to the council. The offer was accepted, but no decision was arrived at as to what the trophy would be devoted # to. At the Magistrate’s Court at Te Aroha Hector Howell was fined £5 and costs for placing obstructions dangerous to human life on a main high-; way. The police evidence was that Howell motored two companions to a dance hall, apparently for the purpose of pelting the roof of the hall ’with apples, to the annoyance of the dancers. Later, Howell „and his companions. drove hurriedly away, and placed some concrete pipes _ of large diameter in an upright position across the road in a position highly dangerous to motor traffic. Howell refused to disclose the names of his companions, saying ho would accept the blame.

Reporting to the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon, the chairman (Mr M. H. Oram) stated that Mr L. J. Schmitt,’ the recently appointed New Zealand Government Trade and Tourist Commissioner, to Australia, had visited Palmerston North on April 9, arriving at about the same time as a letter advising his intentions, and consequently a meeting with the chamber could not be arranged. On the motion of Mr Oram, the chamber decided to explain the circumstances to Mr Schmitt and state that any lack of courtesy which might have seemed apparent was due to the late arrival of the letter carrying the intimation of his visit.

Among birds recently secured in the Ross Sea were Emperor penguins. The New Zealand Bird Protection Society, in its latest report, suggests that where they have ' died, it has been through their being unskilfully tended and fed. The Emperor penguin, which is to be found in the Antarctic where the Department of Marine has jurisdiction and where the Byrd expedition and whalers operate, is said to have only one nesting ground' in the world, and rears its young in the dead of winter amidst blizzards and ioe. . The Bird Protection , Society emphasises that it is essential that care should bo taken lest the Emperor penguin follows in the wake of the Great Auk, which was exterminated under similar conditions in ihe Arctic.

“We do not get enough money from our tourists,” remarked Mr H. S. Dadley at Auckland on his return from his sixth tour of the East. “Visitors coming to New Zealand on sight-seeing bent are .anxious to spend money, but lack both opportunity and encouragement. The first thing many tourists ask when • going to a new country is ‘What can you buy there P’ but in New Zealand there is very little indeed that is typical of the country to buy. We really need to manufacture something that can be sold to visitors at a good figure—something they can take ay-ay and prize as a memento of their visit. _ In the basement of an hotel in Tokio there are 20 shops selling goods purely to tourists, and many people spend, hundreds of pounds there buying curios and articles of Japanese manufacture. There is nothing like it in New Zealand.” New arrivals to New Zealand will bo delighted to hear that the famous No Rubbing Laundry Help can be procured from .stores throughout the Dominion. - Large packets Is. —Advt. . , Put a lasting shins on your furniture, floors and linoleums with "Tan-ol”—the' labour-saving, economical polish. Alt' grocers,—Advt.