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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 197, 22 July 1931, Page 6

When playing in a Rugby match for a veterans’ team in Paeroa, a married man, Mr Herhert Hounslow, received minor injuries which were not at -the time considered serious. It was later found that he had suffered three fractured ribs, and as the result of the ribs penetrating the lungs, he contracted pleurisy and later pneumonia. He was taken to hospital. In response to a request by the Central School-Committee to the Minister of Education (Hon. H. Atmore) for the fixing of the date when alterations and new construction will commence at the school, the chairman (Rev. J. D. McArthur) has received the following reply: —“Now that a decision has been arrived at you may rest assured that steps will be taken to give the matter the earliest possible attention.”

“I-am really distressed at having to put off some of these country fixtures,” commented Mr Justice Lrazer at the opening of the Arbitration Court at Auckland, when-a Gisborne case was mentioned. “Perhaps they will get a new court one of these days and then we will be able to get through the work.” The court has a longer list of fixtures to attend to this session than is usually the case for the reason that in addition to a large batch of compensation cases- close on 40 applications tor exemption from the wages “cut” have to be disposed of.

Speaking at the Reform Party rally at Stratford, Mr A. E. Ansell, M.P. for Chalmers, said that it had been hie experience that some of the Dominion’s finest citizens were those who had fought their way through from the bottom rungs of life: When a boy whose parents could not afford to put him on a place of his own had had the grit to battle his way through agricultural classes and to serve a subsequent period of practical training on a farm, he deserved some incentive to continue his life,on the land. Mr Ansell believed there were thousands of farmers in the Dominion to-day who would be prepared to train boys and give them a good home and food-. Speaking in the House of Representatives last evening, Mr F. Waite quoted figures showing that in naval defence expenditure, Great Britain paid £1 2s 6|-d a head, Canada Is 6d, Australia 5s 6d, New Zealand 9s and South Africa 10s 7d. The proportion of expenditure of the different parts of the Empire upon naval defence in relation to the total import and export trade was: —Great Britain 3.04 per cent., Canada, .15 per cent., -Australia 1.06 per cent., New Zealand .77 per cent., and South Africa .043' per cent. “Whichever way we look at these figures,” Mr Waite continued, “we find that none of the overseas Dominions is taking its share of the responsibility in the defence of the Empire.” '

Smokers ! We have Just landed a shipment of the latest non-fumo ash receivers. In these no cigarette can smoulder! Just drop the cigarette in and .it goes out! No ash to blow about ! No burnt' or dirty fingers through putting '...e cigarette out! Also no cleaning, it is untarnishable. We have a range of these in assorted colours. Price 4s 9d each, while supplies last. Procurable only at Gollinson and Son’s. — Advt.

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When a house at Paeroa was destroyed by fire a few days ago,_ the occupier, Mrs Coibome, lost £'io in bank notes.

The Christchurch City Council will this year make reductions to the ratepayers of over £16.-000. equivalent to over 10 per cent. After having been discharged from the Auckland Hospital and conveyed home following upon his recovery from a broken left ankle, Mr James Osborne, a farmer, of He’.ensville, was readmitted to the institution on the same evening suffering from a fracture of the left thigh.

Notice of his intention to introduce the Defence Amendment Bill was given in the House of Representatives by the Minister of Defence, Hon. J. G. Cobbe, yesterday afternoon. It- is understood that the Bill extends the age which privates in the volunteer force may remain in training from 25 years as formerly to 3-5 years before transfer to the reserve.

Oranges were piled up 3ft. deep after a disastrous rainstorm which swept Norfolk Island a few days before the steamer Hikurangi arrived there from Auckland last- week. The orange season is now almost at its height in the island, and the trees, many of which are planted on the hillsides, are heavily laden. "When the storm struck the island thousands of ripe oranges fell to the ground and rolled down the hillsides to pile up in the gullies. It was unfortunate for the islanders that the storm came when it did, as the fruit on the ground could not be used for export-.