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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 62, 9 February 1933, Page 6

Struck by a rising ball when playing cricket, a mill lrand, Mr Robert William Naylor, had his jaw fractured at Mangapeehi, King Country. Tlie Thames cricketer, Mr R. Cleave, who plays for Tararu Club and has been attracting attention by his succession of “centuries” in club matches, has performed the unusual feat for a country player in New Zealand of having made a thousand runs for the season. Included in his record is a run of six innings in succession in which he has made a hundred runs.

The party of English schoolboys who arrived at Auckland, this week, will leave for Hangatiki on Friday morning and will visit the Waitomo Caves. They will go on to New Plymouth, Wellington, Picton, Christchurch, Timaru, Mount Cook, Queenstown, Invercargill, Oamaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Palmerston North, National .Park, Rotorua and Hamilton, returning to Auckland on March 22. The unusual spectacle of a child sleeping under the trees in the small area adjoining the Athenaeum Building in Invercargill was noticed at a late hour on Friday night. A little boy, aged six, had evidently wandered away from home and had been attracted by odours emanating from a night restaurant and had gone to sleep nearby. He was able to give coherent particulars of his name and address, and no difficulty, was experienced in returning him to his parents in Teviot Street, about a mile distant.

When the House of Representatives met yesterday, Mr IX McDougall asked whether it was a fact that just prior to the raising of the exchange rate a group of financiers in the Dominion, including some of the most ardent advocates of the increased rate, purchased the unsold exchange in London or a large portion of it at approximately £llO per £IOO. Rt. Hon. J. G. Contes said the Government had no evidence to show that action was taken along the lines suggested, nor was there any evidence that there had been any improper dealing in exchange.

Bathers at Wainui Beach near Gisborne were considerably 7 alarmed by 7 the appearance of a large shark in the surf, accompanied by 7 two smaller sharks. The larger shark swam to within a few yards of two women bathers, but fortunately, they had the presence of mind to splash about in the water, with the resuit that the shark was scared off, though one of the women fainted when she loft the water. The three sharks were followed along the beach by other bathers, and were seen to be feeding on a school o'f fish near the rocks.

Although the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union is still awaiting a reply from the South African Rugby Football Board to the invitation to send a team to New Zealand next year, private advice received from Capetown (says the Southland Times) is to the effect that the Springbok footballers will not be coming" to the Dominion next year. New Zealand's invitation was considered at a recent meeting of the board in Capetown and was “regretfully declined.” The decision, it is reported, was unanimous, and the main reason advanced against acceptance of the invitation was the frequency of tours. The board agreed .to add in its reply to New Zealand “that the whole question of future tours, including finance, would be thoroughly 7 considered by 7 the board.” The president, Mr A. J. Pienaar, hinted that drastic alterations might he proposed. Radical changes were made in the Australian team’s itinerary for this year's tour of South Africa.

A good story was told by Mr W. Bargrove, who has been appointed manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Patea, at a valedictory social at New Plymouth at which Mr A. C. Thompsefc was the guest of honour. Mr Bargrove said tliat a Native who had a £IOO deposit entered the bank after an absence of some months and askod to withdraw the amount. The Maori after being furnished with a cheque book presented a cheque for the whole amount and stipulated that the payment be in £1 notes. This presented some difficulty, as tile bank’s business was small and a hundred £1 notes were not easily collected, but after some changing of notes of larger denominations with local tradespeople tlio £IOO in singles was handed over. The Maori retired to a cubicle and after laboriously counting them through several times was satisfied that his £IOO was complete, (le then returned to the teller and handed back the notes. He said he had just wanted to be certain that his account was O.K. He then departed, leaving the startled teller with the hundred £1 notes that had been collected with so much trouble.

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The president reported to the meet mg, night, of the council of the Wet ling ton Acclimatisation bociety tha during the holidays he had Shannon Anglers’ Cub, the momUn of which were very keen. H lors’ clubs were as enthusiastic y would do good service for the society. W. Pago . ... Becoming involved in a coHisKm with a motor lorry when riding his motor cycle along the main road near * Otaki yesterday, Mr Herbert Brown, aged 24 of Taranaki, sustained a compoum fracture of the left leg. He was con veyed to the Palmerston North Hospital, where ho underwent an opera tio.n, and was reported to be in a s isfactory condition to-day. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr H. E. Holland) has given notice in the House of Representatives to ask the Prime Minister whether, in view of the complete inability of relief a other workers to meet current liabilities, and the danger of insurance policies lapsing, lie will introduce login.ation to provide a moratorium csp«c - ally for industrial policies and also for ordinary policies. Mr 0. W. Hamilton, of Levin reported to last night’s meeting of the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society that a tame hind which had been running on Mr Richard Hooper’s property on the northern bank of the Waikanae River for many years had recently been .shot, nothing being left but the head, backbone and skin. Mr Hooper was so incensed that he had stated that in future he would not allow anyone to trespass on his prch perty. The ranger was instructed to inquire into the complaint. Mr C. 11. Chapman gave notice in the House of Representatives to ask the Minister of Finance whether it was with the consent of the Treasury that the trading banks in New Zealand reduced their stocks of coined gold and silver from £0,857,884, as at December 31, 1931, to £5,407,611 on December 31, 1932; and if so, what were the reasons advanced by. the trading banks in justification of its export of these metals. Under existing law gold could not be exported except by permission of the Minister of Finance, said Mr Chapman.