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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 306, 24 November 1932, Page 6

Tributers working in the Hauraki mine area at Coromandel have obtained over £IOOO worth of gold since the new scheme started. The decision of the Government to close the Courthouse at Bketahuna is causing dissatisfaction in that town, and a public meeting of protest is to be held. “We do not want to encourage unsightly hoardings; in fact, I would like to see them eliminated,” said the chairman of the One Tree Hill Borough Council finance and legal committee, when the question of charges was under consideration. A case that will appeal to dog-lovers was attended hy the Animal Welfare Association free clinic recently (says an Auckland exchange). A small urchin, bare-footed, visited the depot and asked for a “pass,. saying that his little dog was very sick. When asked where the dog was, the boy opened up a sugar bag which was lying across his arm, and produced a small sick terrier. The clinic officer diagnosed distemper, and the necessary treatment was given. The latest bulletin is that the patient is doing as well as can be expected. Although opened only two weeks ago, the clinic has dealt with thirty “cases.” •In returning a verdict of accidental death at the inquest held at Morrinsville concerning the death of Mr Frederick Lingard, the Coroner, Mr Wyvern Wilson, said that deceased lost his life as the result of a pea rifle being accidentally discharged by his companion, Mr William Wiliams. Mr Wilson added that the case was a sad one of a young man’s life being cut off through the careless use of a firearm. He expressed the opinion that users of guns and rifles should not only have licenses, but they should be obliged do hold * a certificate showing that they had been instructed in the handling of weapons. A loaded weapon should never be pointed in the air, he concluded.

While chopping wood, Mr G. Johnson, of Eeatherston, practically severed the thumb of his right hand. He received medical attention, and it was found necessary to amputate the member.

The Union Steam Ship Company’s steamer Waitemata, which has been laid up in the Auckland harbour for some time, has been purchased by the William Crosby and Company Proprietary, Melbourne. —Press Association. A whale 27ft long was washed ashore on the-- beach between Reporua and Tuparoa, on the East Coast. The Maoris lost no time in cutting up the carcase and obtaining the oil, which will be utilised in the feeding of weaner calves. The Government, according to a reply given to Mr A. Harris in the House of Representatives yesterday, will not make available to members of the Legislature free of cost copies of sets of the reprint of the New Zealand Statutes. Decisions regarding the replacing of the wrecked mission vessel Southern Cross must rest ultimately with the supporters of the Melanesian Mission in England, according to Mr H. S. N. Robinson, secretary of the mission, who returned to Auckland from Sydney this week. “If tlris practice does not stop, there will be no fine in future,” said Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, this morning, when inflicting a penalty of 40s on a young man for converting a bicycle to his own use. “It will be prison in future,” he added. At about 10.40 o'clock last evening the Fire Brigade were summoned to the premises of Mr Hutchins in Cuba Street where a small fire had broken out in his tyre shop. The brigade quickl3 T extinguished the outbreak, which was in some rubbish under the stairway.

Mr Janies Roche, of Dunedin, has secured a six months’ renewable option over the claim of Messrs Bell and Kilgour at Kawarau, says a Dunedin message. The purchase price is £ls,<Juo and 15 per cent, of the gold won. The claim measures seventeen acres in extent. On Thursday last five dishes were washed which yielded ooz. sdwt.

The satisfactory total of 50 entries has been forthcoming in the Manawatu district for the competition for pens of lambs for export. The districts represented include Raumai, Karere, Kairanga, Tokomaru and Fitzlierbert. Each farmer is limited to an entry of two pens, and, as most of them have entered this number, the competitors total about 30.

An amusing incident took place at the opening of the Haupiri Bridge, at Kopara, on the "West Coast. Just prior to the ceremony of the cutting of the ribbon being performed, a wellknown West Coast identity, an Irishman, galloped up on a horse, and, with a dramatic sweep of a stick, severed the ribbon across the bridge and triumphantly galloped over it. The action of the amateur “De Groot” caused much laughter among those present.

In the House of Representatives yesterday, replying to Mr W. A. veitch, Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes said it was not proposed to set up a committee during the present session as suggested by Mr Veitch to examine each unfinished hydro-electric installation, railway and other public work for the purpose of recommending whether the completion of such work would be profitable or less costly than its abandonment; to what extent completion would promote prosperity and ways and means of finishing such works as were finally- approved for completion.

Cargo handled at the port of "Wellington during the year ended September 30 last was about a quarter of a million tons—ls. 9 per cent. —less than the total amount handled during the preceding 12 months. General cargo exports to English and foreign ports show an increase of 13.0 per cent, and the exports of wool, hemp, tow, cheese, and frozen meat have risen by various percentages between 3.5 and 35. Coal, timber and oils in bulk, on the other hand, all show smaller figures this year than last.

In the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr A. J. Stalhvorthy asked whether steps would bo taken against the action of the Unemployment Board in sending returned soldiers against their will to unemployed camps. Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes said no discrimination was made between returned soldiers and other unemployed men in regard to placing them in camps. A certain amount of preference had in fact been extended to ex-soldiers by arranging special camps for them and also in not taking into consideration disability pensions not exceeding 17s 6d per week. The fact that the whole of the work in connection with the additions to the Hokowhitu School baths had been carried out by men on the No. 5 scheme was mentioned at the opening ceremony yesterday by Mr G. D. Rattle, the chairman of the School Committee. “The work was well and faithfully done, and I pay a tribute to the men. Generally speaking, they have worked well and we owe them a debt of gratitude,” said Mr Pattle. “Mr Rattle’s remarks have given a flat denial to the statements that a lot of the work under the No. 5 scheme is wasted,” commented the Mayor (Mr A. E. Mansford) when speaking later.

The fact that the Public Works Department was not particularly rapid in its construction work on railways was mentioned by Mr E. F. Heming; way, the chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, when speaking at the Hokowhitu School baths function yesterday. “If education boards were abolished,” Mr Hemingway said, “it was proposed to build schools by the Public Works Department, which recently finished the Stratford Main Trunk Line of 89 miles in 31i years. If the Public Works Department had had the building of the railway from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, 6550 miles, and had started at the time of the Crucifixion, at the rate they had built the Stratford Main Trunk line, they would not have finished their job yet. Had they to build the Canadian Grand Pacific line at the same rate as the Stratford line they would be 750 years on the job,” said Mr Hemingway.