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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 180, 2 July 1931, Page 6

"While attempting to board a ferry steamer as it was leaving the Northcote Wharf for Auckland a young man fell into the harbour. He was hampered in swimming by an overcoat and the strong tide, and so was unable to reach a lifebelt thrown from the wharf. However, the ferry steamer was put back, and the man was helped on board, being little the worse for his experience .

There is at least one boy in Palmeiston North lamenting the recent clothes drive. He had his best trousers pressed and left on the table overnight before the organised collection, but next morning found they had disappeared, and the mystery was not solved until it was discovered that they had found their way into the clothes depot. At the meeting of the Central Relief Committee last evening one member commented that with, some dismay he had found his Sunday suit of clothes missing, but had later accepted the situation philosophically. Another member said all his old boots, a collection upon which he prided himself, had disappeared, but he had a good idea where they went.

Mr C. A. Wilkinson’s Silver and Copper Coinage Bill, providing for New Zealand minting her own money, was introduced and read a first time in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr Wilkinson said that quite a lot of Australian coinage was circulating in New Zealand. If New Zealanders attempted to circulate in Australia money minted hero they would be lined anything up to £2O. Had he his way lie would liar Australian coins, for there was no reason why New Zealand should not have the profit on them. A two shilling piece was worth onlv fourpence. Mr Wilkinson asked the Government to give careful consideration to the proposals in his Bill. If it became law it would bo a. profitable proposition for New Zealand.

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Arrangements are in hand for the erection of a memorial at Waitara the late Sir Maui Pomare. It was as cold in Auckland at 9 o’clock on Monday morning as anywhere in the North Island, according to the official reading taken at the G.P.O. (says the Star). The temperature was 40 degrees, the coldest it has been for years. The recent rain has brought big slips down on the "White Rock (South AYairarapa) Road and it is now practioally impalpable to no)toy traffic, according to a Press Association message from Masterton. In some eases the road has subsided and it will be necessary to cut back into the lull.

The practice of removing tyres from parked motor cars in Palmerston North continues. The most recent case involved the removal of a spare rim from a vehicle in the Square, when the owner, Air A. Williams, of Apiti, was in a store. Tyre-stealing in the city is not a new epidemic, but has been prevalent for a considerable time.

Following a fine day yesterday the weather was again unsettled to-day, though comparatively little rain fell overnight. There were from six to nine inches of water on the main Foxton Road at the Whirokino Bridge last evening, according to a report by a Palmerston North motorist, who stated that the road was showing signs of disintegration in places, and might not bear heavy traffic.

Tlie outward and visible sign that Parliament is at-work has for many years been provided bv a flag flying from the tower over the old wooden portion of the House in "Wellington. At night three lights showed from the flagpole. From yesterday the flag will fly from a pole over the main entrance facing Aide-worth Street. The group of lights will also be located on this pole. It is customary for the flag to be flown when the House is sitting in the day time, and it is taken down as soon as there is an adjournment. Similarly, at night time, the lights are extinguished as soon as the House rises.

“It is remarkable that tlie Governo - - General’s speech avoided the problems of the primary producer,” commented the Leader of the Opposition, Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, yesterday, in referring t-o the Government’s legislative programme for the session. “1 do not know whether this was done purposely or inadvertently, but I believe there should have been sume indication in the Speech of how the Government is going to deal with the awkward problems the primary producers have to face at the present time. I recognise that tlie difficulties of the Government are great just now, but this is one of the things which cannot be overlooked.”

Picturesque phrasing usually distinguishes Aiaori petitions presented to the House of Representatives, but one now before Parliament, in addition to tlie usual wealth of fine-sounding passages, finishes with a touch of gentle irony which loses nothing from the fact that it is not intentional. In the course of the petition, written in good Aiaori, 95 aboriginal Natives of Hauraki, the area embracing the Thames, Coromandel, and Oliinemuri goldfields, ask for the payment to them of the mining rights revenue for the goldfields extending from Te Arolia to Moeliau, a;nd having finished their appeal append the single word “enough,” doubtless as an oratorical effect. The Government may come to the conclusion that it is too much.