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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 142, 18 May 1932, Page 6

As the result of a simple but unusual accident, Mr E. Rooke, huntsman to the North Taranaki Hunt Club, received a broken collarbone. He was riding on slippery ground when one of the hounds ran between his horse’s legs, bringing the ' horse down and throwing Mr Rooke heavily. The first Anglican Church built exclusively for the use of the Maori race in the Waikato diocese has been completed at Paeroa. The building of the church has been made possible by the generosity of Mrs Nicliolls, of Paeroa, who gave the site and £3OO toward the cost of the building. Maoris in tliedistrict contributed the balance required, about £IOO, and many articles of furniture have been presented. The churches of New Zealand in their overseas work spend on an average £90,000 a year and support at least 365 missionaries, besides sharing in the work of several of the great British societies whose headquarters are in London, stated. Rev. David Calder at the annual meeting of the Taranaki branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society at New Plymouth. The world expenditure on missions to the heathen by the Protestant churches averaged £11,000,000 a year. Visiting Wanganui at present is a Sydney resident who contemplates leaving Australia to make his future home in Now Zealand. “Things may improve over there now that Lang has been put out of power,” he said, “but at present' life is very difficult there and people are taxed almost out of existence.” There was scarcely any private enterprise from which the Government did not get a “rake-off” of some kind, and even the housewife who sent a few eggs to the nearby grocer’s occasionally was taxed Id a dozen for them. A young man’s action in showering a pound of pepper into a picture theatre from a ventilator was recounted in the Stratford Court, when Charles John Parsons was fined £1 with costs 10s by Mr It. W. Tate, S.M. A police sergeant said that Parsons, on the evening of the offence, bought one pound, of pepper at a store, and later climbed on to the roof of the Tangarakau Theatre and emptied the pepper down a ventilator. He expressed regret at having doue it, his only reason for his action being that some of his mates had dared him to do it, and he had done so out of bravado. A cordial invitation Is extended to visitors to our city ‘for the Competitions Society festival, to walk through the various departments of this store. You will find bettor values hero, and die selection shows “Up to the moment” styles. Dainty morning and afternoon, tea is served in our tea rooms. —Collinson and Cunninghamo, Ltd.—Advt.

A bequest of £SOO has been left to the Hastings Memorial Hospital by the late Mr A. M. Georgetti, of Hastings. Nine cases, •including one of a fractured leg, were admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Saturday as a result of injuries sustained in football matches. “One is glad to see that Palmerston North shows fewer signs of the depression than other towns do,” said His Honour Mr Justice Frazer during the course of a judgment delivered by him yesterday afternoon as chairman of the Transport Appeal Board.

Schedules of proposed unemployment relief work to be undertaken by tho Palmerston North City Council this year are now being prepared, it is understood, action having been deferred pending the allocation of expenditure under this heading in the annual estimates.

Bones of many moas, long dead, were recently found among the sand dunes in the Far North by Mr E. T. Frost, of Ohia Bay. Another interesting find recently was that of some bones on Mr F. E. Mcßobert’s farm at Marakeke, Hawke’s Bay, discovered in a lime quarry, and believed to be a whale’s vertebrae.

“A lot of us don’t get our livelihood by good looks,” said Mr Justice Blair to a jury in the Auckland Supreme Court, when referring to tho question of the amount that should be allowed for injuries to a bov’s face. His Honour, added amid laughter, that if the position were different from that which ho bad indicated some people would have a hard time of it.

The value of the game of Rugby football as a test of character was emphasised by the president of the MeriClub, Christchurch, Mr A. E. White, at a jubilee dinner last week. “If he plays the game on the field a man will plav it off the field as well,” he said. “After you have played football with a man for a season or two you can tell whether you may trust him or not.”

A Zogling type of primary training glider, similar to those used in Germany, constructed by Mr W. M. Angus, Timaru, is being acquired by the Canterbury Glider Club. When delivery is taken of tho machine, the Canterbury Club will have two gliders suitable for primary training and one will be convertible for use as a secondary machine, and will be suitable for launching by motor-towing. In recording tho evidence hoard during the sitting of the Christchurch tramway strike tribunal, the board’s stenographers, were called on to face a marathon in note taking. From 10 a.m. on Thursday they were kept busy until 1.30 p.m. on Saturday, and during that time made a shorthand note of all the evidence that was tendered. They took it in turns of half an hour each and piled up a sheaf of notes that presented a formidable task in transcription. That the funds available from tho Unemployment Board be paid direct to public bodies to be expended at the Unemployment Board rate of 12s 6d per day for men who can be employed, and that for those who are unable to work a fund be set aside from which hospital boards can provide relief, was the tenor of a remit which the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board decided onJMonday to forward to the Hospital Boards’ Association for consideration at its annual conference of delegates. A novel and liighlv topical excuse was advanced at the Magistrate’s Court in Blenheim by a defendant charged with failing adequately to spray his orchard, or rather, his wife’s orchard. “Wo run pedigree stud cattle,” he told the magistrate, “and it is the custom to tie the calves under certain of the trees in tho orchard. On that account we liavo have to be careful with the spray, for we don’t want them nibbling at sprayed leaves and meeting the same fate as Pliar Lap.” “I’m afraid I know nothing of Pliar Lap,” commented Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., in imposing a fine of £2 and costs.