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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 204, 29 July 1932, Page 6

Operations at the Tiritea reservoir reoeived a check yesterday when a serious blockage developed just at the stage when success seemed imminent. Another subsidence of silt completely blocked the disabled outlet pipe and the water behind the dam was repoited to be rising again. “Tell me the name of a single person in Blenheim who could produce £5 at short notice,” thundered counsel in cross-examining a witness at the Supreme Court, and the Court grinned incredulously. “Don’t give kirn too many, names,” interposed His Honour, addressing the witness; he seems to be anxious to find someone with some money.”

A frost of 17 degrees was recorded in Cambridge this week. Tho Dunedin Jockey Club passed a resolution that representations be made to the Government to permit of double totalisators being used and of bets being telegraphed to tho course. The work of constructing bridges across four streams near Otoko, between Gisborne and Opotiki, is now under way. They will be the last links in an all-weather route on the northern outlet from Poverty Bay. A loan issued by the Dunedin City Corporation at 51 per cent, fell duo recently and the total amount to be renewed was £350,000. With the exception of £50,000 the loan has now been taken up, mainly by previous holders.

Figures released for publication by the Kailway Department show that the revenue for the four-weekly period ended June 25 last amounted to £408,781, as compared with an expenditure of • £389,037. The net revenue was thus £10,744.

ITourteen applications have been received by the Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Relief Association from boys, the sons of soldiers who were killed or disabled at the war, for training at Flock Houso, with a view to going on the land. Tho Auckland allotment of boys is 18, and it is anticipated that this quota will be filled this month. Faith in the opinion that a real start toward recovery would be made at Ottawa, and that if this was achieved a definite lead would have been given to tho world generally, was expressed by the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) in an interview on the economic outlook. “I think wo are a step nearer a solution of our difficulties,” he said. Tho big total of points registered by the All Blacks in the final match of their tour of Australia recalls the fact that Mr W. J. Wallace, the manager of tho 1932 tourists, played in the 1905 All Blacks side against Tho Hartlcpools when 63 points were scored by tho wearers of the fern leaf. On that occasion Mr Wallace played in the position of full-back and converted eight of tho tries scored.

No action will be taken by the Government to remove the present duties on wheat imports, according to a statement made by the Prime Minister when discussing the proposed legislation for next session which will probably open in about the second week in September. Tho Prime Minister said the Government had no intention of interfering with tho present wheat duties. The present level of duties would remain.

Although the general fire alarm at the central station sounded twice between 7 and 9.30 o’clock last evening, there were no outbreaks of a serious nature. On the first occasion, passersby in Cuba Street, noticing smoke and a glare, believed a warehouse to be ablaze, but an investigation showed that the glare had been caused by tho reflection from an electric sign. Later, the brigade was summoned to a boardinghouse in Cuba Street, where a chimney had caught alight.

An Auckalnd business man who contemplated taking his motor car with him on a visit to Australia has changed his mind. He took the precaution of writing to the Collector of Customs at Sydney, asking what the duty on the car would be. In the particulars supplied he stated that the car was valued at only £6O. He received a reply stating tlxat tho duty for a car with a sedan body was £2lO, and for a car with a double-seater tourer body £164. “There is no limit to the marvels of science,” said Mr D. E. Parton in the course of an address at Canterbury College, Christchurch, “but we must remember that man’s scientific knowledge and mechanical skill should not be allowed to outstrip his social wisdom. The engineer must keep his position between the scientist and the people—otherwise the old Indian adage that ‘we can swim in the sea liko fish and fly in the am like birds, but how to live on tho earth we do not yet know,’ will hold true.” It was reported at the annual meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Y.W.C.A. last evening that the balance-sheet disclosed a loss of £305 3s 9d on the year’s operations, including a loss of £lsl Is Id on the hostel. It was pointed out, however, that the latter figure had been accentuated by the acceptance of boarders in necessitous cases at much reduced rates. Furthermore, £l3O of the total had had to be written off a mortgage through circumstances over which the association had had no control.

The unusual circumstance of a householder being robbed and not knowing it until he had been informed by the police was disclosed in the Hamilton Police Court. A householder gave evidence that he was asked by the police whether he had lost a gold watch and a gold cigarette case and other articles valued at £2O. He went to the place where he had kept the household valuables, and then found that his property was missing. The man who had admitted having committed a series of robberies had given the police information with respect to the householder’s loss. Thought to be one of the largest Maori meres in existence, a basalt weapon, 19in. long and 6in. across the broadest part of the blade, has been submitted to the Akarana Maori Association for an opinion regarding its origin. The mere is obviously of ancient workmanship, and, except for slight chipping on the striking edge, is in perfect condition. It is known as Raparahara, a' name signifying the flashing quality of the weapon, and it is believed to have come from the Ngati-Toa, the tribe of the famous leader Te Rauparaha, residing at Kapiti Island. The mere must have been used by a warrior of abnormal strength, says the Auckland Herald. Its size is such that it would have encumbered an ordinary man engaged in battle.