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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 15, 15 December 1932, Page 6

Officially Arthur’s Pass has passed out of existence, and Arthur Pass has taken its place. There are now sixty men, non-union labour, engaged on the slaughtering board at the Longburn freezing works, including a further gang of twenty who started work this morning. There was a sharp firming in the prices of fat lambs at the Addington live stock market in Christchurch yesterday. Values at other sales in the Dominion were generally steady. The environment of the Palmerston North Boys’ High School is at present being considerably enhanced by the painting of the rooms. The gymnasium, agricultural laboratory and a detached classroom are particularly attractive, while the caretaker’s cottage has also been painted.

Comment was made by Cr W. Howell at the meeting of the Pohangina County Council yesterday that New Zealand and Danish butters were being retailed at Is and Is 2d respectively in England, but there was a difference of 40s a cwt. in the wholesale prices, and the wide disparity between the wholesale and retail prices was, in the circumstances, difficult to understand.

A letter was received at yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington Education Board from the Eketahmia Chamber of Commerce drawing the attention of the board to the remarkable speech recently given by Mr Stanley Baldwin in connection with disarmament. The reference was to the notable fear from the air” speech. The letter recommended that the speech should be posted up in every school. On the suggestion of the chairman, Mr 1. l'orsvth it was decided to write to the Education Department suggesting that the speech should be reprinted in the School Journal. While carting logs from a property at Kumeroa on Thursday morning a lorry came to grief, the driver and sole occupant, a Maori, W. \\ ereta, formerly of Bulls, being badly injured. A steep hill was being negotiated when the engine stalled. The vehicle carreered backwards and capsized. Ihe cab of the vehicle was smashed off low down on to. the chassis and. the steering wheel ripped off. The driver was jammed behind the steering rod, and luckily a settler who happened to be further along the track saw the crash and rushed to the driver s assistance. The Maori was extricated with great difficulty and taken away to hospital suffering from a crushed chest and badly bruised back and body.

The first cricket eleven of the Palmerston North Boys’ High School, which played Napier Boys’ High School this week, returned home by the express at noon to-day. One of the fastest and most modern light aeroplanes in New Zealand, a blue sports model Avian, was flown from Wellington to Auckland in three hours 45 minutes this week by Mr R. A. Kirkup. The Manawa.tu Racing Club advised the Wellington Acclimatisation Society at a meeting last evening that it was agreeable to having the Awapuni lagoon proclaimed a sanctuary under the Animals and Game Act, i 921-22.

The business conditions in the East are more or less on a par with those in occidental countries, was the opinion of Mr W. H. Shepherd, a company director and tea expert who has just returned to New Zealand from a comprehensive tour of the Ear East.

The executive of the New Zealand Bowling Association at its meeting on Monday received an invitation to visit Tasmania in the event of a New Zealand team visiting Australia during the coming season. A reply is to be sent that no official visit will take place this season.

The Eitzlierbert Bridge combined committee, representing the Palmerston North City Council and the Kairanga County Council, met this morning, but proceedings were not open to the Press, and no announcement will be made before the City Council meeting on Monday evening. A company with somewhat unusual objects has been registered in Auckland. One of the purposes outlined in the memorandum of association is “to. promote, advocate and establish by all lawful means, and to undertake for remuneration, or gratuitously practice, the burial of the dead in mausolea or above ground.

The recent decision of the Government to reduce the amount of opossum revenue paid to acclimatisation societies came in for strong criticism at the meeting of the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society last night, the Government’s action being characterised as an unjustifiable raid. It was decided that a sub-committee should interview the Minister of Internal Affairs, and place the society’s views before him.

The danger of exaggerating the importance of passing examinations at an early age was emphasised by Mr A. W. Don, principal of Hadlow Preparatory School, Masterton, speaking at the annual prize-giving ceremony at the school. In outlining what he considered a preparatory course should be, Mr Don said a boy might be hurried through with the idea of fitting him for entrance to a higher school by laying great stress on the academic side. There were those who wished their boys to pass their final examination at the earliest possible age and many people judged a school by its ability to do this.