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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 253, 20 September 1930, Page 8

The principal fixtures in the field of winter sport having concluded, the final sports edition of the “Manawatu Evening Standard” for the 1930 season will be issued to-night. Complaints made bv members during discussion of the railway estimates in the House of Representatives yesterday that passenger accommodation on trains was in iirgent need of improvement drew from the Minister of Railways, Hon. W. A. Veitch, the statement that it was intended to improve all second-class carriages by bringing them up to the standard of seating in the old first-class cars. After giving judgment in the Arbitration Court at Dunedin yesterday in a ease in which the court was asked to defino the duties of a cjiief cook in a restaurant, Mr Justice Frasier remarked: ‘‘The members of the court are agreed that we do not want to have the court bothered with cases of this kind, which are purely cases of fact which any Magistrate is as competent to deal with as we are. AVo are a busy court. \\ r e are so crowded with work that we cannot overtake it, and. it is not. going to help the court if we have cases like tins brought before us.” Many a prosperous business nian to-day may bo a ruined man to-morrow. Fire insurance is protection that cannot safely be ignored,; Consult the Mercantile and General Insurance Co.,- Ltd. R. W.. Priest, Times Building, Broadway, District Agent.—Advt. , .

An earthquake of fair duration, but not of great severity, was experienced in Palmerston North‘at ten minutes to five o'clock this morning.

Dominion Day will be observed throughout New Zealand on Monday. New Zealand was proclaimed a Dominion on September 10, 1907, the change taking effect on September 26, 1907.

After being severely buffeted by a southerly gale on the West Coast, the Union Company's steamer Kiwitea developed a leak in her forward ballast tanks, and she had to return to Auckland for repairs last night. The Dunedin headquarters of the Shipwreck Relief Society has authorised Captain G. P. Hall, acting superintendent of Mercantile Marine, Wellington, to grant a limited amount to members of the crew of the Tahiti, the relief to take the form of orders for clothing. Arrangements are being made by the Veteran Wireless Operators’ Association to present awards to the wireless operators of the Tahiti at the Radio World Fair, to be held in New York on September 24, according to information that has been received in Wellington. The Tahiti’s wireless officers were : —Chief, Mr F. N. Davidson ; second, Mr R. A. Patchett; third, Mr C. McCaskey. Twenty-six hampers of homing pigeons arrived at the Palmerston North railway station last evening. The greater proportion of the Jjirds were from the Auckland and Northern (Auckland) Clubs, and these were liberated this morning at Johnsonville and Paekakariki. Pigeons for the Port Chevalier and Petone Clubs were released at the Palmerston North station to-day. The Palmerston North Pigeon Club sent two boxes of birds to Hunterville.

Objection to the practice of eggs from cool stores being released on the local market as “fresh,” is entered by the Auckland Egg Producers’ Association, which advocates that the eggs so stored should be branded “chilled.” The executive contends that, in addition to the unfairness to poultrykeepers of stored eggs being allowed to compete with eggs that are actually fresh, the policy is prejudicial to consumers. Eggs removed from cool stores for public sale should carry a uniform indication that they have been stored.

• “Maoris who are brought before the Court, although evidently good English scholars, often ask for a Maori interpreter to state their case in Maori,” said Mr P. Smyth iq ,an address at the University College at Auckland. “This is often scathingly commented upon, which I do not think is quite fair, a t s the Maori feels that he can state his* case better in his own tongue,” Mr Smyth continued. “We English-speaking peoples ourselves know how much easier it is to express our views in our own language than in a foreign one.” So few donations have been forthcoming to lessen the loss of over £IOO incurred by music week in Christchurch that a call has been made on the 30 guarantors. Some will have to pav £2 and others slightly larger amounts to meet the deficit. In Nelson and Auckland music week was a financial success. There was a deficit in Wellington, but public subscriptions altered this to a small credit balance. With the help of the guarantors the Christchurch committee expects to have the financial side of . the venture straightened out very shortly, says an exchange. The establishment of Auckland' as the capital of New Zealand was marked by the hoisting of the Union Jack at Fort Britomart on September 18, 1840, 90 years ago on Thursday. Two unsuccessful attempts to establish settlements had been made by Captain Hobson, the Governor, the .first at ltusselltown, near Kororareka, the present Itussell,' and.then at Churchill, on the Hokianga River, before -he selected the * Waitemata. Hobson named the new site after Lord Auckland, then Governor-General of India. The removal from the Bay of Islands was completed early in 1841, and the first sale of town sites was held in April. Auckland remained the capital of New Zealand until February, 1865.

The years which have intervened since the formation of the Returned Soldiers’ Association in tho Dominion have naturally brought increased home ties to many of the original members, and a question recently arose in respect to active membership of the Palmerston North branch. It appeal's that many of those former members who had allowed their membership to lapse were under the impression that to again link up they would have to pav the annual subscriptions for the intervening period of non-membership. However, the president, Mr B. J. Jacobs, has pointed out that such is not correct and that an ex-serviceman can rejoin on payment of only the current year’s subscription. The local association has rendered splendid service in many directions and is well worthy of support from all returned men.