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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 183, 6 July 1931, Page 6

At Saturday’s meeting of the Alanawatu provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union Mr Kent gave notice to move at the next meeting that the Parliamentary election should be postponed for three years, and that no poll should he taken on the licensing question for three years. “The Unemployment Bill will be before the House to-morrow night,” stated Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., at this morning’s meeting of the Unemployment Committee, “and I think it will go through—with one exception I hope—that of the registered unemployed being required to pay the levy. These men should not be required to pay.” Even Government Departmental reports rise to literary heights at times, it is reported at Taihape (writes a correspondent) that when making a report on a railway cottage some distance up the line,' an employee forwarded the following:—“House 62 rotten right through.—Signed .” If all official renorts were correspondingly terse, there would be an immense saving ill paper.

A Press Association message from Chrivtchnrch, last week, stated that Charles S. Irisley, the Canterbury College student who disappeared on June 26, had been found, and was reported to be in good health at liis home in Auckland. The homo of the missing student is at Cowes Bay, Waiheke Island, and, according to an Auckland exchange, his relatives expressed surprise at the message, saying that they had no information about Mr Insley’s return. His parents then were'in Christchurch.

Mr J. Linklater, M.P., lias given notice in the House of Representatives to ask tlie Minister of Health to take into consideration the advisability of selling the fat ewes now held in cool store by his department for the relief of the distressed and of investing tire proceeds in prime beef. Mr Linklater pointed out that fat beef was a drag on the market to-day, that fat ewes were selling well on the London market, and that action in the direction indicated would prove of benefit to all concerned. There are still 20,000 fat ewes held in cool store by the department.

Encke’s comet, a body reported to have been seen by the Cordova Observatory some time ago, was seen from the Wellington Observatory for the first time about seven o’clock last evening. The comet appeared as a very-faint object and it was rather disappointing seen through the telescope. In the half-hour that it was under observation there was -apparent movement, but apart from that there was little resemblance to a comet. Its position was noted, the right ascension being nine hours seven minutes one second, the declination 12 degrees 10 minutes 43 seconds south.

“With wool at 5d a pound and fat ewes at 7s Bd, and many fat ewes were, a few weeks ago, selling for little over half that sum, it would take the gross proceeds of the wool of over 1350 sheep, or 550 ewes, to pay' one relief worker a wage rate of 15s 4d a day, for five and a-half days a week, for fifty weeks,” said Mr 11. D. Acland, in his presidential address to the Citizens’ Association in Christchurch last week. He stated that at the same dailv rate of wages the gross proceeds of the total clip of the Dominion would at present pay the wages of less than half the unemployed for a year.

In a special supplement to Tho Times a whole page is devoted to “unappreciated facts” of Great Britain’s achievements since tin? war. Her total oversea trade in 1930 was valued at £1,702,373,000, and exceeded that of any other nation.' If judged solely by visible exports British oversea trade was surpassed only by that of the United States. Moreover, the percentage of her manufactured goods to total exports ‘was higher than that of any of her rivals. Great Britain still owns one-third of the world’s shipping, which is estimated to produce in a normal year gross earnings abroad of about £120,000,000. Her investments abroad yield a yearly dividend of £285,000,000. Even when we shudder at the news that she has two and a half millions of unemployed, we should remember that the United States, with her coffers spilling gold, has 5.000,000. and Germany 4,500,0CX). Her biggest present difficulty is tho fact that she alone among all the nations presents an open market to the world, and has therefore experienced the full shock of forced selling by those nations which must, at any cost, provide surplus funds for debt payments.

The popularity of the Fire Brigade dances’ is more pronounced than ever and it is distinctly gratifying to, the members to see the hall filled with dancers. Wednesday’s joy night dance should bo another success ful function. Have you seen or heard about “Peldo” . . . the invisible glove? Peldo is a croam which when nppliod to the' hands, quickly evaporates, leaving an invisible film on tho hands. It can scarcely be felt, yet it is there, protecting the hands against the penetration of grease and dirt into tho skin. Buy a tube to-day and you’ll never mind doing any dirty work. Peldo’ed hands wash spotlessly clean and the price is only 2s 6d a tube.—The C. M. Ross Co., Ltd. —Advt.

Specimens of remarkably ear L, •„ som from plum trees have been o ed in Avondale South, Auckland.

While Mr B. Jones was driving » motor car from Tauranga to ie J. the other afternoon a hen pheasan flew into the windscreen, shattered t glass and fell into the rear seat or i car. Mr Jones had his sister and another young lady in the front seat o the car, and they were both cut abon the face by broken glass. An instance of the rapid disapearance of the Maori tribes was evident recently in the death in Hawke s Bay of Hamuera Waitere, who was pominently associated in founding the Katana religious movement. Waitere is believed to have been the last full-blooded member of the once-powerful Ngati Apa tribe, which possessed considerable areas of land in the Rangitikei district.

A suburban garden not far from The railway line is hardly the place wheie one would expect a wild pheasant to make its home, but a Mount Eden, Auckland, resident has recently _haci one of these beautiful birds added to the attractions of a charming old garden. The bird, a fine specimen of cock pheasant, made its appearance there about a month ago, and may frequently be seen feeding on the lawn or about the shrubberies. It has gradually overcome its shyness so that now it will come to be fed from the verandah, and at times will follow the lady of tlie house at a discreet distance down the path.