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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 21 August 1931, Page 6

The installation of an automatic telephone exchange in Whangarei is being carried out.

That settlers in the Whangamomona district, within a few miles of the township, have been living on their sections for 26 years without road access, was shown by a deputation of settlers that waited on the Whangamomona County. Council this week. They had access only by a track, and since the floods of 1924 the track had frequently been impassable. Authority was given by a meeting of the Greater Chapter of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Hamilton, this week, to proceed with the expenditure of about £3OOO by the late Miss Annie _ McPherson for the erection of additions to the cathedral. The work will involve the construction of a choir vestry the extension of the present tower, and the installation of a bell. It was stated at the Wanganui Education Beard’s meeting on Wednesday that at present there is no definite information as to whether the newly established health camp at Castlecliff, which lias been made possible through the generous gift of land made by Dr. A. H. E. Wall, will participate in funds raised by the Government. The chairman and The secretary of the board are to wait on the Minister of Health with detailed plans of tire scheme.

“Ycur functions are very much higher than mine,” said Mr Justice Blair when addressing a common jury at New Plymouth. As far as he was concerned as judge, he said, his duties were merely to help them as far as he could bv focussing their attention on the facts and directing them on points of law. They were the sole judges of the facts. “And.” he added, “if you go wrong. I know of no court in the country that can undo the wrong. But if I go wrong there are several courts that can put me right. So from that point of view your duties are higher than mine.”

Attention is drawn to an advertisement on page 1 of this is3ue ' informing readers that the Palmerston North City Band rafflo will bo drawn in the Cosmopolitan Hall on August 31st at 9 p.m. Sale of tickets closes on 29th August.

Instead of using a “dead” comb, a comb of bone or celluloid, which does little more than pull your hair out, use White’s electric comb which puts new life and strength into your hair every time you uso it Hair which falls,out, turns grey or has dandruff is lacking in vital electricity. This may be restored by using White’s Electric Comb. Obtainable only from Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd.—Advt.

Primary and secondary schools in Palmerston North closed this afternoon for the vacation at the end of the second term.

A well-laden motor lorry, owned by Mr W. Carvell, junr., of Wanganui, caught fire near Kakatahi when on its way to Wanganui, and was totally destroyed.

The Wanganui Education Board is employing Id men under the No. 5 scheme, the majority being engaged in levelling work at the health camp site at Castlecliff.

Speaking at Kaponga the other night, the chairman of the Kaponga Dairy Company (Mr A. V. Tait) said he could recall, forty vears ago. getting two pence per gallon for milk and doing quite well.

The Taranaki Education Board’s view that it is desirable that school head teachers should live in the residences provided was embodied in a resolution to the effect that in calling for applications for positions as head teachers in schools to which residences were attached, the advertisement was to state that preference might be given to married men.

A Maxwell farmer, after attending a meeting in that township on Tuesday evening, found to his dismay that his motor car, which had been parked close to where the meeting was held, had disappeared. Shortly after noon yesterday he was advised that his ear had been found stuck in the mud on the side of one of the Springvale roads, where it had been abandoned after a futile attempt to extricate it. A housewife near the loealitv observed five young men. by the car on Tuesday evening, and when no one appeared to claim it on Wednesdav morniim she telephoned the police and the car was subsequently restored to its rightful owner little worse for its use.