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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 42, 20 January 1931, Page 6

A now arrival at the Wellington Zoo is a baby peccary (Soutli American wild pig)" said to be the first of its kind ever born ,in captivity. The Mayor (Mr A. J. Graham) . has received a donation of 6s 8d from the Manawatu Highland Pipe Band. The money is the result of a collection taken up in the Square when Mr W. Thomson spoke recently. In an effort to assist its consumers during the present period of depression the Wqitemata Electric Power Board yesterday decided to make rebates in its charges amounting to £2300 by way of increased cash discounts. Considerable inconvenience was caused Mangatainoka farmers during the milking period recently when the electric current was switched off for two hours. This was due to a fault on the high-tension line, caused by insulators being damaged by rifle bullets. Police action is being taken again the persons responsible. Excellent progress has been made with the preliminary work in connection with the construction of the H,okowhitu School baths. The actual swimming basin has already been excavated. It is anticipated that the concreting work will be put in hand to-morrow, when the number of men engaged will be increased to 16 or 17. The appreciation of Mr Dewe, of Feilding, of the care taken by the Hospital authorities of his wife, was voiced at yesterdav’s meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board by Mr V. Smith, a Feilding representative. Mr Smith said that Mrs Dewe had been seriously ill and for a time her liffe had been despaired of. She had recently been discharged in good health, and Mr Dewe had asked that his deep appreciation of the care and treatment Ins wife had received from every member of the staff should be conveyed to the board. The chairman (Mr J. K. Hornblow) said that similar sentiments had been expressed by Mr Morgan, of Foxton.. T.B. 1 Promote resistance to T.B. by taking British Yeast-O-Cod Vitaraine Tablets. 3s and ss. Leary’s Pharmacies, 1 Ltd. —Advt. .. '

The Marama arrived at Sydney this morning from Wellington. Christchurch City Council levied £358,704 in rates for the current year. Up to Saturday Last only £411(535 had been paid. Sixteen largo whales of the humpback variety were seen yesterday morning in the upper reaches of Thames Gulf. The Governor-General Lord Bledisloe, has presented to the Mayor and councillors of Wellington a 601 b cheese from his farm in Gloucestershire, England.

The Palmerston North Hospital Board decided yesterday to charge the Manawatu Speedways, Ltd., 25s a night for the attendance of the ambulance.

The children of the Biongomai and Pleckville districts are to be conveyed to the Eketahuna District High School each day so as to' avoid the expense of schools at the former places.

Mrs Rehitoto Mataia Nicholls, wifeof the late Hon. W. G. Nicholls, has given a site for a church at Paeroa under the control of a Maori minister of the Church of England and also £3OO towards the cost of the building. “District nursing guilds and many citizens who wish to remain anonymous, in all parts of the board’s district, have also made splendid efforts to bring cheer to those m indigent circumstances at this Christmas season,” he added.

Three young Englishmen, finding it impossible to obtain employment in New Zealand, stowed away on a Homeward bound liner, only to be transhipped at Panama and brought back to Auckland oa the lonic, which arrived last week.

While shooting rabbits from a car on Friday, MK William James Taylor, of Tuakau, was inserting a cartridge in the breach of his gun when the pin struck the cap, which exploded. Mr Taylor’s thumb and part of his index finger was blown off. During last December 108 cases were dealt with by the social welfare officer, Air W. H. j. Watson, in the- Palmerston North Hospital Board area and 6C2 rations were issued. Of this aggregate, 37 cases related to Palmerston North, where 225 rations were issued. To have perfected a solder and flux that is thoroughly successful in repairing aluminium ware, is the claim of a Christchurch plumber, who in the course of experiments carried out during the past year has made and tested 23 different kinds of.solder and 11 types of flux. , j' • It was reported at to-day’s meeting of the Kairanga County' Council thht several requests had been received from unemployed men for permission to cut cocksfoot on the roadsides. Save in one instance, where the area had been reserved, permission had been given. Steps are being taken by the Lands and Survey Department to proclaim as an historic reserve an area in the Weka Pass, Canterbury, which contains examples of Mabri, or possibly Aloriori, rock paintings. They. are situated in a cave winch was discovered comparatively recently. The Palmerston North Hospital Board decided yesterday afternoon that a provision of approximately £l6O be made on the capital estimates for next year to enable an additional room to be added to the Old People’s Home for sleeping quartets for a night nurse. In the Police Court at Wellington two men were sentenced to three months’ imprisonment each for having stolen a rug from a motor car. They had also, it is alleged, planned to steal a lady’s handbag and their undoing was due to their conversation being heard by a passer by, who had notified the police.

A nest of six fish was found in wet mud under a Log on Mr P. Thomson’s farm on Bond lload, near Stratford. They were four to eight inches long and had the form of fish, rather than of eels, and were coloured much like trout. One has been sent to Air Hefferd, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, for identification. s

“Grateful acknowledgment is made of the kindness of the Mayor (Mr A. J. Graham) and citizens of Palmerston North who have brought pleasure to many homes through the Christmas Cheer Fund,” stated Mr W. H. J. Watson, social welfare officer, in _Jiis report to the Palmerston North Hospital Board yesterday afternoon.

The fact that there were only two cases of infectious disease at the Palmerston North Hospital during December, 1930, was favourably commented upon by members at yesterday’s meeting of the board. The managing secretary, Mr Pliillipps, stated that the figure was the lowest for four years. The chairman, Mr Hornblow, expressed pleasure at there being no cases of diphtheria. A memorable anniversary in Nqw Zealand history fell last Saturday, for on January 17, 1853, the Governor, Sir George Grey, proclaimed the Constitution Act, passed by the Imperial Parliament the year before, by which the colony obtained representative institutions. The Act provided for a General Assembly for the whole colony, consisting of a Legislative Council and a House of Representatives.

Acting on the recommendation of the social welfare committee, the Palmerston North Hospital Board decided yesterday afternoon that letters of appreciation be forwarded to the Mayor of Palmerston North, the Palmerston North district nurse, the Mayor of Feilding, and the Feilding district nurse, congratulating them on the splendid work done at Christmas in alleviating distress and assisting poor families. The remarkable tameness of the native Ijirds on the Kapiti Island sanctuary was shown in a series of beautiful slides exhibited in the conclusion of a lecture by Mr Johannes Andersen to the Teachers’ Summer School. Mr Andersen said that nearly all the photographs were taken from a • distance of three feet. One picture of the caretaker, Mr Wilkinson, showed him with a tiny bird perched on his hand, another on the crown of his hat and a third sitting unconcernedly on the stem of his pipe which was in his mouth.

A suggestion that all local bodies should suspend the ten per cent penalty for default in the payment ■of rates in order to assist in relieving distress has been made by Mr W. H. Field, M.P. for Otaki, in a letter to the acting Prime Minister, Hon. E; Ransom. Mr Field said he first stated his opinion to the Minister of Public Works, Hon. W. B. Taverner, and that his communication on the point had arisen from that conversation. In his reply, Mr Ransom promised to give the question, together with others raised, every consideration.

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