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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 27, 2 January 1931, Page 6

Owing to the prolonged dry weather the water supply at Gisborne is in a rather serious position. The value of buildings for which permits were issued in Invercargill during December was the lowest since June, 1927. The works undertaken were three dwellings, £2449 10s; ten alterations to dwellings, £384; seven alterations to business premises, £948 5s 3d; total, £3781 16s 3d. . While engaged in ensilage making Mr W. A. Wright, of Manawaru, near Te Aroha, received very severe injuries to his right leg. He was operating an ensilage sweep with two horses when two of the long metal prongs fouled the ground and upset the machine. The driver was thrown between the plunging horses. The sweep was riglite.d again, but the frightened animals, by tneir behaviour, caused one of the prongs to enter Mr Wright’s leg in three places before he was finally extricated. He also received minor injuries to his head and arms. There was an accident at the Manawatu Speedway last evening, when one of the attendants, Mr Herbert Robertson, was struck by a racing machine and sustained a fractured right ankle. The mishap occurred on the edge of the south-west bend of the track. F. B. Appleyard (Wellington) was leading in the final lap of the fourth heat in the New Year Handicap when for some reason his machine struck the attendant’s leg. The injured man was removed in the ambulance to the Pajmerston North Hospital, where he is reported to be progressing favourably. Delicate colouring of youth recaptured by regularly eating Yeaston Tablets which purify blood. —Leary’s Pharmacies, Ltd. — Advt.

The Auckland City Council is en-' forcing a by 1 law against all-day parking of cars in some of the main streets. The fine spirit of community nterest manifest amongst the summer dwellers at Wainui Beach was in evidence when a grass fire broke out near Mr Holden’s residence (says the Gisborne Times). From all directions campers speedily appeared and, with a will, beat out the conflagration, which had spread with alarming rapidity. A motor car owned and driven by Mr G. Bowmer, of Tangarakau, Taranaki, fell over a bank''at Harapepe, near le Awamutu, and turned over several times. Mr Bowmer’s son Lioned, aged seven years, had his jaw fractured, and Mrs Bowmer received abrasions . and injuries to the face and back. Mr Bowmer and another child were not hurt.

After 34 years of service as a cable and lighthouse ship, the old Government steamer Tutanekai is shortly to' he scuttled. Built on the Clyde in 1896, the Tutanekai was a specially designed steel twin-screw cable steamer. She was constructed with v a view to being used in the coastal lighthouse service also, and was fitted with passenger accommodation. Under the will of the late Miss Ellen Falkner, who died at Napier on November 30, 1930, provision is made for the following charitable gifts : (a) Half the residue of the estate to the St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Dunedin South; (b) remaining one-half of the residue for the Christian Brothers, Dunedin, for the general purposes of the school run by them. A prompt rescue from drowning' was effected in a creek at Te Hoe, 15 miles from Huntly, when a party of schoolgirls were bathing. One small girl got out of her depth and was in difficulties when her plight was noticed by Mavis Thompson, who swam to her aid and rescued her just in time. The smaller girl was unable to swim and but for the promptness of the rescuer must have lost her life. A narrow escape from serious injury through jumping from a train in motion was experienced by Winnie Hudson, a Maori, aged about 13 years, of Tahowai, near Katikati. The girl was on the express train which did not stop at Tahowai, but wishing to get off at that place she jumped from the train. She suffered facial abrasions and was taken to the Tauranga Hospital for treatment. ,New Year’s Eve passed off gaily in Palmerston North, and large crowds thronged the specially illuminated streets on Wednesday night. Squeakers, bugles, trumpets and other noisy instruments maintained a merry discord about the city, -while many youths paraded in masks or grotesque hats. The advent of 1931 was celebrated in the customary manner, but there was no rowdiness. According to a Dunedin paper the ripening of winter-sown wheat in North Otago is considered to be later than usual by about a fortnight and spring-sown by times weeks. The present warm and moist weather is bringing on the crops very fast and nobody can yet foretell the date of the general harvesting in that important wheat-producing district, but it cannot be before February. The prospects for the yield are hopeful. A particularly heavy crop of hay has been harvested on Mr A. Topham’s farm. Ivereonc, Waikato, a total of 942 bales being obtained from less than 10 acres, or slightly over four tons to the acre. This is about double the quantity per acre gathered on the farm ten years ago in the early days of the Kereone soldier settlement. The contractor who baled the hay stated that only once previously had he handled a crop of over four tons to the acre, and on that occasion it was damp, while Mr Topham’s was quite dry. A bowser-pump attendant at Westshore, Napier, received an unexpected shower of benzine, says an exchange, when the glass container at the top of the pump which he was operating splintered under the heat of the sun. It is possible that the mishap may have been caused through the glass being too tightly fitted, without sufficient allowance for expansion under abnormal conditions and another factor is that the glass may not have been strong enough to withstand contact with the cold liquid pumped up from below the ground. When the Manawatu cricketer, N. Gallichan, was given his first turn with the ball during the Blanket Shield match at Wellington, late in Otago’s second innings, many of the spectators apparently considered that he had been unduly passed over by the Wellington captain, T. C. Lowry, and there were ironical interjections and applause for the local skipper while he was making the change. Gallichan’s third ball took a wicket, and Lowry, who was fielding on the long-off boundary, was subjected to more barracking by the spectators in his vicinity. “Why didn’t you put him on before, Tom ” called out several voices. Lowry eanie over and replied : “They can’t all bowl at once.” However, a wag capped the incident with the remark: “Is he in for his singing?”