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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 244, 14 September 1932, Page 6

Regarding the flood depth indicators on the Whirokino Road, the Manawatu County Council yestorday raised no objection to a suggestion that the Manawatu Automobile Association should take over the erection of the posts to replace those washed awaj, ami also to put in additional ones. The fact that the minutes of the Terrace End School Committee s meeting for August contained the record of achievements by scholars in life savlast swimming season gave rise to a “brief congratulatory mention by the chairman (Mr A\ . B. Cameron) of the excellent manner in which the secretary (Mr C. R. Luke) keeps the minutes, and of the value they will be in future years from an historical and statistical point of view. Mr Cameron remarked that the children might not realise that their successes were recorded in the committee’s minutes which were a valuable and complete record of the school; Mr Luke said the purpose of entering the successes was for future reference. After years of scientific research we have at last produced “Nazol” in pastille form. Most effective in relieving colds, sore throats, catarrh, etc. Remember Nazol Pastilles. Price only Is 3d box. —Advt.

An eclipse of the moon mil tak© place to-morrow morning, the first phase being at 5.85 a.m. At a special meeting of the Palmerston North City Band last evening it was decided to enter for tho Masterton Brass Band Contest on November 19. The notorious white butterfly, which lias gained an evil reputation on account of its depredations in kitchen gardens, has made an early reappearance in Paliiatua.

The damage done to roads in the Masterton county by the recent storm and flood will cost £ISBO to repair, according to a report made to the Masterton County Council yesterday by the overseer. Reports received by tho Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. A. Hamilton, from tho Government rangers in the Rotorua acclimatisation district indicate that the native birds there are now noticeably more plentiful than in past years.

The Manawatu County Council yesterday decided to allocate £2O toward the cost of the survey of the Makowliai drainage scheme which is being carried out by rolief workers, the money to be recovered from the maintenance levy. A hill at tho small settlement of Turiwiri, about two and a-lialf miles from Dargaville, is stated to contain a huge quantity of puro white sand suitable for glass making and plaster work. Tests were made and a contract has been signed for a regular supply for glass making. On the motion of Crs. Boyce and Moroom, the Manawatu County Council yesterday decided to urge upon the Government the necessity of continuing the subsidy' of 12i per cent, on county rates, and to forward a copy of the resolution to tho member of Parliament for the district, Mr J. Linklater.

“The statement that in Japanese banks the tellers are all Chinese, because the Japanese will not trust Japanese with their money is a monstrous slander,” said Mr F. Milner at a meeting of tho Historical Association at Canterbury College. Tho gross exaggeration met with throughout the Pacific as to Japanese aggression had not a jot or tissue of truth in them.

A report was made at yesterday’s meeting of the Manawatu County Council by the rate collector (Mr Anderson) that the response to the rate notioes sent out on August 19 had so far been very satisfactory. The amount of rates received to date was £906 8s lOd and the arrears of rates received since March 31, £270 10s lOd. “The practical support and co-opera-tion extended by the chamber towards the local effort that is being made in this important work is very much appreciated by my committee,” stated the Manawatu Youth Employment and AVelfare Committee, in a letter to the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon, acknowledging a donation of £1 Is. Only about 11 hours were required the other day to make a journey by aeroplane that with the other means of transport available would have taken at least three to four days. Leaving Mangere aerodrome, Auckland, at six o’clock in the morning, tho aeroplane made the final landing at Lake Hawea, 10 miles from Pembroke, in the dark shortly after 7 pm. Following upon the resolution passed by the Palmerston North Unemployment Committee on Monday protesting against the action of the Unemployment Board in reducing the allocation to the committee, a deputation consisting of the Mayor (Mr Mansford), Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., and Mr J. Lowden, Inspector of Labour, visaed Wellington to-day to place the position before the Commissioner of Unemployment. “The Brazilian Government, like the Mexican, has informed the Japanese that they are welcome as immigrants ” said Mr F. Milner, addressing the Christchurch Historical Association, “but there are only about 22,000 Japanese in Brazil, and the yearly emigration from Japan does not exceed 6000. The Japanese, as a matter of fact, are an intensely liome-loving people, and more Japanese are returning home from Hawaii than ever before.” Business has improved in the case of many Christchurch firms, according to a statement made at a meeting of the Boys’ Employment Committee by Mr H. P. Donald, organiser of the Youth Campaign. He said that his finding was based on the remarks of the principals of firms who had decided to employ extra boys. The processions in connection with the campaign had drawn many people to the city, with a corresponding increase in trade. Support for the Palmerston North chamber's advocacy of a reduction with multiplicity of local governing bodies in this district and “tho scandalous waste of publio expenditure in administrative costs” was expressed in a letter received by the former body from the Foxton Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon. The letter was received,, the chairman commenting that it followed Vnon the action taken by the Palmerston North chamber in supporting the Dunedin chamber’s representations. The New Zealand Rugby team in Australia this season achieved the distinction of scoring more points than any other Rugby team which has visited the Commonwealth. It was also the cause of another record-breaking performance, this one in tho nature of an endurance test off the field of play. It was on the occasion of the team’s visit to Ipswich, and is referred to in that section of Mr W. J. Wallace’s report dealing with the reception to the team as follows: —“So enthusiaßtio was this gathering that proceedings did not conclude until thirty-five speeches had been delivered.” According to a Napier business man, Mr J. Lambourne, who lias returned from a holiday trip to Fiji, the small island of Beqa, about 60 miles from Suva, is the only one in the group where the natives practise fire-walk-ing. The natives there prepare and heat stones for about three days, and when they are white hot walk over them without pain, and are unharmed. He said that they once told a wdiite man to follow them when they crossed on the stones and he would not be harmed. The European was afraid to make the venture. The manager said that no one had ever been able tp learn from the natives how they did it, since they were extremely uncommunicative on the subject.

“I think you have shown a sporting spirit,” said Mr Justioe Smith in tho Hamilton Supreme Court, when an objecting creditor in the bankrupt estate ot Samuel Harold Baggarley, engineer, Hamilton, withdrew liis opposition to bankrupt’s petition for discharge. The creditor, a carrier, said that he had lost £54 as the result of a collision in which he and Baggarley wore involved. He had obtained judgment against Baggarley, but had not even reoeivod his out-of-pocket expenses. When counsel for bankrupt explained that his client was an old man and a relief worker, with no prospects of being able to pay his past debts, the creditor said that ho would not press his claim. Mr Harold Fletcher has been appointed grocery manager at Watson Bros.’ main shop in the Square, and Mr R. A. Parlano succeeds Mr Fletcher as manager of the Rnngitikei Street branch (late Knight and Bay).