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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 146, 20 May 1930, Page 6

The Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand to-day advised the Manawatu West Coast A. and 1 . Association that Mr D. Buchanan had been added to the list of dairy judges. It also stated that the council had in 1924 parsed a resolution establishing the principle of one judge. The Borough Council decided last evening to inform the Manawatu Automobile Association that it would maintain the lighting point to control a device giving warning to motorists when the Gorge Road is blocked, and would supply current free of cost provided the association defrayed the cost of installation. If you realise that you are not adequately insured against fire loss tho Mercantile and General Insurance Co., Ltd., is a New Zealand Company with all its capital invested in New Zealand and tlius can assuro you prompt settlement. It. W. Pjmcsl, Timos Buildings, Broadway, district agent.—Advt.

A benzine war is raging in Los Angeles. The price ha 6 been cut as low as ten cents. (Ixl) per gallon and deeper cuts are expected. The Borough Council last night accepted a tender of £ll7 for the supply of tho necessary recording apparatus for tho pumping plant at the artesian bore. Palmerston North will bo visited by a party of jAuckland farmers towards the end of June. It is expected that tlie number of visitors will bo about seventy. Proceedings at the Borough Council meeting last evening were of a protracted nature. There was a considerable amount of business and the deliberations occupied till midnight. Owing to some extent to the heavy rain which fell on Friday and Saturday, the Wellington waterfront yesterday was exceptionally busy, there being in port during the morning ten big overseas vessels with an aggregate tonnage of 90,000. Reference was made by the Mayor at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council to the question of unemployment. The Mayor said he realised the position was very acute, but ho was very averse to a special loan for unemployment funds. Fines ranging up to £o and costs were imposed by Mr Wyvem Wilson, S.M., upon a number of settlers of To Awamutu for failing to take steps to clear their properties of ragwort. The Magistrate said that ragwort constituted a grave menace to the settlers on neighbouring lands. Tho Palmerston North Borough Council last evening decided not to grant a subsidy to the Workers’ Educational Association this year. The Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. were granted subsidies of £lO each, while an amount of £3O was voted to the Technical School. Prior to proceeding with the ordinary business last evening, the Borough Council sat as the Palmerston North Domain Board. The chairman (Mr A. J. Graham) stated that there was a cash balance of £63 4s 4d, the onK expenditure from the funds being a small bank charge during the year. The Manawatu Automobile Association advises that heavy traffic from Palmerston North to AVellington should go via Shannon. The Moutoa Drainage Board is erecting a ramp at Whirokino and has made a deviation for traffic which, though fit for light traffic, will speedily cut up if the weather becomes at all wet. “I am given to understand that this man plays billiards and pool every night for money,” observed counsel in tho Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court, this morning, when a debtor was being examined. ‘‘lf he can afford to do that, he can afford to pay his grocer’s bill —it is three years overdue.” The Magistrate made an order. Charged with having failed to comply with tlie terms of an order for the maintenance of his son, issued at Tiinaru, n labourer, Desmond Thomas Rodgers, with several aliases, appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Palmerston North Police Court tins morning. On the application of the police he was remanded to appear at Timaru. “There is not much beauty in them, anyhow. They remind me of the women with their hair cut off. Even the birds will not come and sing in them,” stated Cr. Clausen at the meeting of the Borough Council, last evening, when he urged that all trees dangerous to motor traffic should be cut down. Hopes are entertained by the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association of making arrangements for the exhibition at the spring show of Sir Henry Segrave’s speed car, “The Golden Arrow,” in which he broke the world’s record speed. It is at present in Australia and is expected to be landed in New Zealand, in September next. “This is not a memory test; it is a test of good work,” was Mr Bryou Brown’s terse reply to a woman interjector at the Masterton competitions yesterday. A placed competitor had missed out several words, but tho judge made it plain that it was not his practico to penalise competitors who erred in that manner. The competition was not a memory test, and it was tho interpretation of the piece that mattered. The Palmerston North Borough Council last evening decided to strike for the current term a general rate of 2 o-6d in the £1 on the unimproved rateable value of all property within the borough, a library rate of 1-9 ,and water rates of 8s lOd where the annual rateable value does not exceed £l2 10s, with a similar rate of 3 1-3 per cent of the value where that figure is exceeded. The hospital rate will be 4-7 d and the sanitation fee 17s 6d.

A suggestion to provide assistance to returned soldiers m need was made to the Auckland Real Estate Institute by the Returned Soldiers’ Association. A letter from the association stated that such returned soldiers could be employed on repairs and improvements to the properties they occupied. Their wages for that work could be credited against their arrears in rent ana m that way they and their landlords would benefit equally. “I do not see how we can do anything in the matter,” said the president, Mr T. Mclndoe, and the letter was received. Reporting to the Palmerston North Borough Council last evening, the librarian stated that Mr H. IV. Ashworth, of Boundary Road, had presented the reference department with four splendid large volumes entitled “Musee Erancais,” containing engraved illustrations, copies of famous works of arte, sculptures, pictures, etc., preserved in the Louvre Art Gallery, Paris, together with explanatory footnotes (Crouch and English versions sido by side), by Duchesne, the Elder. It was a very valuable donation, added the librarian. The council passed a vote of thanks to the donor. The works committee informed the Borough Council last evening that a communication had been received from the general manager of Railways stating that the department fully appreciated the desirabililty of obviating the crossing of trains between the Square and the cemetery railway crossing, and that definite instructions already issued to the staff should practically eliminate such happenings when trains were running to schedule. The committee added that a further c."§e of a train on the southern crossing’ of the Square and another passing at the same time was reported to have taken place on a recent date, and it had been decided to inform the general manager accordingly. A strange fish recently beosmo stranded ■ in shallow water wnilo chasing small fish in Wliangaruru Harbour, North Auckland. It was captured by two boatmen, who supplied information which was forwarded to the director of the Dominion Museum, 'Wellington. The fish has been identified as a yellow-finned albacoro and is said to be the first long-finned albacore to be caught in New Zealand. The fish weighs about 1801 b. Its body is round and 15ft Sin in length. Its greatest girth is 3ft lOin. The colour is bluish-black on the back and of a lighter shade beneath. Projecting knobs between the dorsal fin and the tail are yellow in colour. The mouth is small and the flesh is of a red colour. The home of the fish is between Hawaii and Japara