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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 256, 26 September 1933, Page 6

Encouraging signs pointing to decreased unemployment among women and girls were revealed at a meeting of the Christchurch Women’s Unemployment Committee. It was reported that during the last month 77 girls had been found permanent employment.

Memories of the days when the Australian miners came in their thousands to Otago are revived by a find made by Mr It. S. Thompson during mining operations at his claim on the old school site at Lawrence (says a Dunedin paper). The find took the shape of a coin closely resembling a penny. One side bears the inscription, “Peace and Plenty,” with a kangaroo and an emu, and on the other side there is the inscription, “Melbourne, Victoria,” and a figure holding the scales of justice. The coin bears the date 1858. It is only one of a number of coins, including Chinese, which have been discovered by Mr Thompson.

Tliat he found the boys and girls great sports in their calf club competitions was a statement made by Mr.W. J. Croucher ivlien addressing the children of the ltongotea School yesterday. Mr Croucher said that he had more trouble ivitli the parents than with the children. (Laughter.) He had never heard a boy complain yet over being pushed out of first place by the entry of another competitor. They Avere the best of sports. There ivere 19 entries from ltongotea this year for the calf club competitions, 16 from Oroud. Doavus and 4 from Glen Oroua; but out of 80 children attending the Kopano School there ivere 46 entries of calves.

“Why not save the Maori names until H.M.S. Diomede and Dunedin are scrapped? The English people do not know how to pronounce them and, what is more, do not understand their meanings,” said Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson at a meeting of the Canterbury branch of the Navy League, when the proposal from the Wellington branch that two Avarships jioav being built should be named Kupe and Turi instead of Eclipse and Esk Avas being discussed. Members agreed that the names would be more fittingly attached to ships continually in Neiv Zealand Avaters, and it Avas decided to notify the Wellington branch accordingly.

“Many folk say Avhen prizes aro presented that the boys and girls avlio have not Avon prizes Avill groiv to be greater men and Avomen than those who liavo Avon, but I do not believe that,” said Mr L. H. Yarrall, chairman of the Rongotea Town Board, Avhen the W. Stuart Wilson Cup Avas presented to Master M. Lind at the ltongotea School, yesterday, for his performance in groAving a champion crop of mangels in the Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Club competitions. Mr Yarrall amplified his remarks by saying that nothing succeeded like success, and that the boy or gill avlio had Avon a prize had a certain standard to maintain, and Avas thus spurred to effort to do so. They had the desire then to Avin other prizes and come top again thus they made more of life than they Avould have done if they had not won the prize.

“Owing to the rise in wool prices and the tlirittiness displayed by the Australian people, I think there will be a trade boom towards the end of 1934,” said the representative of a Sydney firm at a function last week. The Prime Minister has intimated that, as soon as the Address-in-Reply debate is concluded, he will table a report on the World Economic Conference, with particular reference to the work of the New Zealand delegation.

A player at the Fitzroy golf links (New Plymouth) whose tee shot from the first tee stopped dead in the fairway near the clubhouse on Sunday morning found that he had hit a hare only a week or two old. The lia.re was badly injured and was destroyed. Ono of several defeats suffered by the rebel chief To Kooti toward the close of his long campaigning took place on September 25, 1869 (64 years ago yesterday) . On that date Te Kooti, with a force of 300 men, attacked the Tokaanu pa, Lake Taupo, which was occupied by 240 friendly natives. Further improvement has taken place in the condition of Constable E. E. Stewart, of Auckland, who was seriously injured through being thrown against a parked motor-car while standing on the running-board of a stolen motor car in Grey Lynn, at midnight a week ago No trace of the driver of the stolen car has been discovered. Tlie first frost for September in Palmerston North was experienced this morning. Although it was definitely a white frost it was not severe and Mr T. It. Moore “Waimarama, Terrace End, states that it was approximately three degrees on the grass. Last year there was only one frost in September also, said Mr Moore, but on that occasion it was much earlier in the month. The bus services at present conducted by the Auckland Transport Boa.ri are to be operated next month by private interests, contracts being alloyed for the purpose. The arrangement, it was stated at a meeting of the board, would result in a saving to the board of £4044 a year, and, as a consequence of readjustment of staff, would also result- in a further annual saving of £403 thereafter. Mr A. J. Stall worthy (Eden), Mr R. A. Wright (Wellington Suburbs) and Mr W. A. Veitch (Wanganui) are apparently permanently lost to the Coalition Party (says a lobby correspondent). The case of Mr Veitch was previously considered doubtful, but his action in introducing the banks Indemnity (Exchange) Repeal Bill indicates his irreconcilable antipathy to the high exchange policy and his determination not to remain in the party and agree to differ, a course several other Coalitionists have presumably decided to adopt. “New Zealand has a variety of trees, shrubs, flowers and ferns that can be equalled by few other countries,” said Sir Edwin Mitchelson at the opening of a native flower show at Auckland. “The kauri is the finest timber tree in the world, but it is rapidly diminishing in quantity. Unless the people throughout the Dominion bring pressure to .bear upon the Government to preserve the great State kauri reserves they will soon be a memory. Permission is being sought to cut the dead trees in the kauri forest in the Dargaville district. If this is conceded by the Government it will be the end of that forest.” Some 28 years ago lie had seen one of the first crops of mangels grown in the Rongotea district, said Mr L. H. Yarrall, when speaking at a presentation ceremony at Rongotea yesterday. Two brothers had grown the crop, said Mr Yarrall, and farmers had come from far and wide to see it. Some of the mangels had reached the “phenomenal weight of 351 b,” he said. The Government had then been urging the growing of mangels, but farmers had not taken the suggestion seriously. Mr Yarrall said that he had a photograph to support his story. Mr W. J. McCulloch, fields superintendent of the Department of Agriculture, thought that it was the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs that had really taught the farmers of the district liow to grow mangels. Regret that the Federal Government of Australia was unable to accede to the request of the Argyle Ministry for amending legislation to exempt from Federal income tax Sir Macpherson Robertson’s centenary gift to Victoria of £IOO,OOO, was expressed in a letter from the Prime Minister (Mr Lyons), which has been received by the Victorian Premier (Sir Stanley Argyle). As the gift was made to the State free of taxation, the taxation will have to be paid by Sir Macpherson Robertson himself. It is estimated that the Federal taxation on the gift will amount to about £40,000. “We stand at the parting of the ways. Whether so-ca.lled democracy, as we have understood it during the last 30 or 40 years, is going to justify itself under conditions, I will not venture to express an opinion,” said His Excellency. Lord Bledisloe, in an address at Wellington yesterday. “The longer I live the more certain I am that it is not merelv physical strength and certainly not mere wealth that is going to make any nation predominant above other nations in the world. In the long run it is faith in God, faith in one’s self, and ill one’s countrv, and a determination that, whatever governments may do, each person can contribute his own part in building up the welfare of a. nation that is going to tell its tale in relative superiority among the nations of the world.” The annual Dominion Day reunion of the Wellington Early Settlers and Historical Association was held yesterday. The oldest member, Mrs Fanny Gornford, of Karori, who is now 100 years old, was unable to attend, but the person who is known as the oldest settler in New Zealand, Mr George Judd, was there as usual and looking very well, in spite of the fact that he will be 99 in May (says the Dominion). A settler who came out in the Minerva in 1854, just in time to be in the Hawke’s Bay earthquake of ’55, Mr John Rice, was among those present. He will be 92 next Christmas Day. Another interesting attendant was Mr Joel Foley, the first New Zealand circus man. His mother was an acrobat, and ho was born in a circus tent in New Plymouth 81 jmars ago. Remarkablo figures of the water required by mangels were quoted by Milt. P. Connell, fields instructor for the Department of Agriculture, at a function held at Rongotea, yesterday, when the W. Stuart Wilson Cup for the champion crop of mangels in the Dominion grown by a member of the Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs was presented to Master Murray Lind. Mr Connell said that in a crop of 163 J tons to the acre, such as-Master Lind’s had been, between 6000 and 8000 tons of water would pass through the leaves of the plants. That would be moisture drawn from the soil. From an acre of an ordinary crop of mangels, say 60 tons, from 3000 to 4000 tons of water would pass through the leaves. That amount was equal to 30 to 40 inches of rainfall. The rainfall for the district was actually 35 inches. In conversation after the function Mr C. M. Lind, father of the cup-winner, said that the crop had been grown on land below a spring and when the area had been first worked for the planting of the crop it had been very wet indeed. He attributed the extra moisture in the soil to the seepage from the spring.