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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 18 September 1933, Page 6

Tt was stated definitely on Saturday that the winning ticket, DK2233, i.ll the St. John Ambulance Art Union had been produced by Mr L. P. Evans, of Kaiapoi, a member of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, who thus wins the car.

To assist youths in search of employment the Tauranga Borough Council recently decided to create cadetships for one year terms in the clerk’s and borough engineer’s offices, and invited applications for five vacancies. At a meeting last week only three applications were received, and of these applicants two were appointed. Owing to the fact that several accidents have occurred in recent years on bridges where two narrow rows of longitudinal planking have been used, the Public Works Department lias decided that the longitudinal decking on bridges shall he placed the .lull width of the roadway or shall be omitted altogether and only transverse deck planks used. During the past two years, amazing development has taken place in the construction of outboard motors for speed boats, and the latest of these productions is capable of driving a boat at 50. miles per hour, says the Levin Chronicle. A Palmerston North speedboat enthusiast who visited Levin recently stated that it was his intention to equip his boat with one -of these motors when they are available, and to test it on Lake Horowhenua. Because of an order which prevented their making hot tea for their noon meal, 30 men from the Forestry Department’s No. 3 camp at Irwell struck and made their way back to Christchurch by bus, bicycle and on foot. It is stated that the order prohibiting the making of hot tea was on account of fire risk, but the men, who assembled in Christchurch to interview the officer in charge of the Unemployment Bureau, said that it savoured of pinpricking, especially as they were receiving only 10s per week. Mr Johnston heard wliat the men had say, and advised them to call on the Conservator of State Forests.

“Regarding it as a strange commentary on the lack of Australian alertness, people passing Australia House view with ironic amusement two display windows filled with newspaper photographs purporting to illustrate ‘recent’ events in Australia (states a London cable to the Sydney Press). Few of the photographs are less than six months old, while some are such back-numbers that they show, for example, Mr W. M. Hughes departing to attend the 1932 League of Nations Assembly. These are on a par with the pictorial antiquity of Australia House decorations displayed in other windows, showing the inhabitants still wearing pre-war fashions and farmers of the Steele Rudd type, and giving no indication of any progress in the past 20 years.” When the matter was brought under the notice of the Australian Prime Minister (Mr Lyons) he expressed astonishment at the reported state of affairs. “There is evidently something wrong somewhere,” said Mr Lyons, “and we shall have to have inquiries made to ascertain the reason it,”

The Dunedin Queen Carnival concluded on Saturday night, the Civic Queen being first with £1628. The total amount raised was £4860.

The Fire Brigade answered a call from the alarm box at the corner of Main Street and Fitzroy Street at 8.21 p.m. yesterday. The fire was in a house chimney, but the services of the brigade were not required. One day last week Lake Pupuke, Auckland, presented an unusual sight, when a small area, on the shore was thick with carp, which has been besieged by eels. Nearly all day the carp were almost thick enough to walk on in this area, and a semi-circle of eels, some of them 6ft long, made a protracted breakfast. Fears are entertained at the Auckland Zoological Park regarding the fate of nine eggs upon which an emu has been sitting for 63 days. The hatching period is from 50 to 60 days, but there is no sign as yet of the appearance of the chicks, and the keepers believe they have been killed in the shells by tire concussion of explosives of gelignite on neighbouring road works.

The war sloop Laburnum, which has returned to Auckland from a ' three months’ cruise in the Pacific, had instructions to look out for an unidentified vessel which, according to reports recently received from the Islands, had been visiting lonely islands on a secret mission. Being very fast, it eluded inspection by the authorities. Although the Laburnum received reports of the vessel no trace of her was discovered.

The Government is not offering a bonus for the production of sfigar beet in New Zealand, nor is there any likelihood of it doing so, according to a letter the Auckland Farmers’ Union has received from the Hon. C. E. Macmillan, Minister of Agriculture. “1 may sa.y,” the Minister states, “that the question of establishing the beet sugar industry in New Zealand has received consideration from time to time, but the view of the department’s officers is that the proposition is not sufficiently attractive to warrant its adoption.”

The raising of the present minimum legal marriage age for girls of 12 years is at present being investigated by the Government, according to a. statement by the Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young) in reply to a questioner in the Lyttelton election campaign. Ho added that sentiment should not be allowed to intrude if and when the question was considered as a matter of public policy. Any alteration of the la.w might possibly make the system more complicated, but if there was a demand for a change the matter would be thoroughly investigated before legislation was introduced.

Of the six Wairoa local bodies involved in the proposed amalgamation, three—the .Power Board, Hospital Board and County Council —have ratified the decision of the recent conference to ask the Government to bring dowji the necessary legislation authorising the taking of a poll of the ratepayers on the merger proposal. The Harbour Board voted against the scheme. With a majority of the local bodies favouring the project it is expected that the poll will be proceeded with. Ratepayers only will vote under the postal system, and a three-fifths majority will be required to carry the poll.

Mr E. D. Andrews, the former Palmerston North resident a.nd well-known tennis player, who is engaged in a commercial undertaking at Home, lias had the misfortune to have his personal effects and confidential documents stolen. In a letter to his mother, Mrs Oscar Andrews, of Palmerston North, Mr Andrews states that on August 14, when shopping in Piccadilly, London, he left his car, containing his baggage, for about four minutes, and on his return found that his property had been removed. This is a particularly severe loss to Mr Andrews, who was leaving London for a tour and had a great deal of irreplaceable property with him. xlbout two years ago Mr Andrews was the victim of a similar robbery. Two accident cases were conveyed to the Hospital on Saturday evening. The first was a hoy, Colin Langridge, agid 7 years, who received a fracture of the right leg. He stepped from a lorry iu Chelwood Street about 6.50 p.m. and came into collision with a passing car. He is a son of Mr and Mrs B. Langridge, of Feathers ton Street. At 8.30 p.m., James Henderson, who lives at 18 Worcester Street, fell and received injuries to liis head. Ho was attended by a doctor and taken to the Hospital by the Free Ambulance. The Hospital authorities reported at midday that the condition of both patients and of James Trow, who was admitted earlier on Saturday with scalp injuries received when he fell from a tree, was satisfactory.

One of the effects of the depression in the United States noted by Mr Ulrich S. Mackay, who arrived in Christchurch from London on Wednesday, was at the World’s Fair in Chicago. To enable visitors to get round the fair there were vehicles similar to rickshaws drawn by young men taking university courses, who adopted this job to make some money. He was impressed by their politeness. “In fact,” Mr Mackay added, “right through the trip across America I met with more politeness and courtesy than I have experienced for many a day—one of the results of the depression.” Under the National Recovery Act the American people were striving wholeheartedly to regain their losses, and to get away from the depression. In Chicago Mr Mackay was shown 11 big buildings the owners of which were all bankrupt.