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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 110, 9 April 1932, Page 6

Knocked down by a cycle on Wednesday evening, William George Weldon Small died in the Dunedin Hospital yesterday afternoon. It is reported that there are large numbers of quinnat in the headwaters of Lake Wanaka. Two anglers recently landed two splendid fish weighing 3311 b and 23Jlb respectively. During the last few days (says the Southland Times) several parties have gone to Makarorn in search of sport.

As tlio result of the latest action of the Government in the interests of economy, Dunedin and its surroundings will be deprived of a valuable educational asset that was just beginning to receive the recognition that was due to it (says the Otago Daily Times). On the grounds that the expense of his salary is more than the Marine Fish Hatcheries Board can afford Mr David H. Graham, biologist at’the Marine Research Station at Portobello, lias been notified that his appointment is about to bo terminated and while the station will continue to’remain open, there will be no one capable of carrying on the valuable work that Mr Graham has been doing in lecturing to University and Training College students and school children. This is all the more unfortunate, as the station has been coming into prominence a good deal lately as a showplace, and was visited, by over 1000 persons during the month of March.

It was stated at the annual meeting of the Palmerston North Y.M.C.A. last evening that 32 boys had been placed in work as a result of the efforts of the association’s officials.

Owing to the prevailing financial conditions, the Manawlienua Rugby Union decided at its annual meeting last night that there shall be no tour of the South Island this year by a Manawhenua representative team.

The town clerk at Dunedin, - Mr Lewin, stated yesterday that much of the Dunedin city’s loan money was domiciled in New Zealand and the interest reductions suggested in the Financial Statement would benefit the corporation by about £13,000 a year. “There has never been a period in the world’s history when there was such a call for the church to exerciso its three qualities—faith, hope and charity. The world would then be a much better place than it is to-day,” said Mr A. E. Mansford when speaking at the welcome to Rev. D. J. Davies at St. Peter’s Church, Terrace End, last night. Maori trust boards continue to follow the example of the Arawa Trust Board in giving portion of the moneys due to them from the Government to the Consolidated Fund. The TaranaTil Trust Board has now intimated that it is willing to donate 10 per cent, of the Crown’s grant to it for the current year. This offer means a saving of £SOO to the Government.

Among the discoveries made in the river-bed at Hamilton during the lowwater level was what appeared to be a petrified egg. Although nearly black it was the exact replica in shape of an ordinary hen egg. On examination it was found to bo formed from waterworn rhyolitic rock, with particles of felspar crystals, through being moved for a long period in a circular cavity of a rock.

Signs of the exceptional mildness of the season in Auckland are to be seen by the roadside between Panmure and St. Helier’s Bay. The hawthorn bushes are loaded with masses of red berries, as one would expect, but most of them retain their leaves, quite green, and several of them are even putting out little heads of pinky-white flowers. By this timo of the year the original hawthorn flowers have long since perished, and this second flowering shows how warm the weather has been this autumn.—Star.

Referring to the statement that the Wellington City Council had effected economies amounting to £30,000, the Mayor of Auckland, Mr G. W. Hutchison, said that the present Auckland City Council, in the financial year just closed, had made savings, through the salary cut of 10 per cent, and in a number of other ways, amounting to £31,000. It had reduced the general rate by 2jjd in the pound, and had been able to devote some of the proceeds of the wages cut to providing additional relief work under No. 5 scheme.

“I see you are going on the principle that a reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog, because it keeps his mind off the tact that he is a dog,” said His Honour, Mr Justice Frazer, in the Arbitration Court at Wellington yesterday when a doctor, in evidence during the hearing of a worker’s compensation claim, gave it as his opinion that an injuiy which could be put to rights by exercise would be better exercised in the course of a man’s work. Dr. W. S. Robertson who was in the witness box, replied that every normal human being tended to recover more quickly from an injury when his mind was occupied by his work. Kapiti Island, for some years the home of the bloodthirsty f ie Itauparaha, is now one of the abodes of the arts of peace. A visitor to the island this week was Mr J. W. Henderson, of Khandallah, ex-inspector of Native schools, who was charmed at the many attractions this island possesses as a sanctuary for all forms of native bird and animal life. Ho was considerably surprised on visiting the Webber homestead at the northern end of the island to find Mrs Webber, formerly a Miss Parata, engaged in hand-spinning woof —their own wool—and was still more surprised to learn that Mr John Webber had made the spinning-wheel, “lock, stock,' and barrel,” so to speak. —Dominion.

“We English-speaking people enjoy a remarkable privilege when touring on the Continent; almost everyone in Europe speaks English, while few of us speak foreign languages. I think we should be relatively ashamed of ourselves,” said Professor It. M. Algie, of the Auckland University College, during an address at Auckland. Professor Algie, who recently returned from an extended tour overseas, remarked that it was quite a fallacy to say that the French and German taught in New Zealand was useless. “Wo may not understand the French and Germans verv well,” he said, “but they will understand every word wo say to them. We experience difficulty because they speak more quickly than we do and our ears are not accustomed to their speech.” A story was narrated recently of an Otago resident who won a race with a horse which he used on his milk-run. A correspondent of the Christchurch Star forwards another story on similar lines. Some years ago, it is said, a milk-cart horse was entered for a race, and he justified his owner’s confidence in him so far that he was coming up the straight well out in the front. But when the horses were passing the stand someone with a pecuniary interest in the second horse shouted “Milk!” and the leading horse stopped dead. This story may be apocryphal (comments the Star) but there is no doubt that horses will obey signals. Potchin, the Australian horse, for instance, raced to win at the blowing of a whistle, but a Christchurch grocer, many years ago, bought a horse at auction, and the first time he drove him out found that he would stop dead as soon as he heard a postman’s whistle or anything like it. Inquiries showed that the horse had been a tram horse for a couple of years, running to Brighton, and every time the conductor whistled the horses stopped. Complaint that Mr J. A. Lee (Labour, Grey Lynn) had failed to rise in acknowledgment of the receipt of a message from the Governor-General was made by Mr H. S. S. Kyle (Government, Iticcarton) immediately after the National Expenditure Adjustment Bill was introduced in the House of Representatives Inst evening. “Point of order,” called Mr Kyle, “I want to draw attention to a breach of the Standing Order 423 committed by the member for Grey Lynn. That standing Order states: ‘When Mr Speaker announces the receipt of a message or messages from His Excellency the Gov-ernor-General members shall rise in their places in acknowledgment thereof and shall remain uncovered during the reading of such message or messages.’ ” Mr Speaker asked Mr Leo whether he rose. Mr Lee: I did not rise. I was attending to something on my desk at the time and I was oin my way up when the others wore on their way down. Mr Speaker: I think I have only to draw the honourable member’s attention to the matter. There were several protests from Labour members at the alleged triviality of Mr Kyle’s action, but the Speaker called for order and the incident closed. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for children’s hacking cough.—Advt.