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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 258, 28 September 1933, Page 6

Power to make by-laws for the control of side-showmen is given agricultural and pastoral societies under the Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Amendment Bill, read for the first time in the House of Representatives yesterday.

Clad only in trousers and singlets three Kaikoura pig-sliooters had an unenviable experience on Sunday, when, after they had lost their way in dense fog and' a heavy snowstorm, they had to spend the night in the bush in Aniseed Valley. Search parties were being organised early next morning when the men came oftt of the bush.

While digging in liis garden at the corner of Nile and Collingwood Streets, Nelson, Mr C. F. C. White unearthed what appears to be a most interesting relic—a Victoria Cross. These medals are made of gun metal, and the one found by Mr White, though probably buried for a great many years, is almost intact, only a small portion of two corners being missing.

The report appeared in the “Standard” last evening that a polyanthus flower bearing the amazing total of 113 blooms on a stem an inch thick was being shown in Pahiatua. However, this record lias been easily beaten by a similar plant from the garden of Mr W. T. Riddell, in Pahiatua Street Palmerston North. It carries the big cluster of 153 flowers on a stem one and one-tenth inches thick.

“The science of the game is what is needed to-day,” stated Mr J. J. O’Shea at last night’s dinner of the St. Patrick’s Rugby Club, “and it is only keen training that will bring a player to the front. Intensive and correct coaching is essential, as is evidenced in Wellington where practically every team is in the hands of an ex-All Black. Further, keenness on the part of the player is essential and only the man who is prepared to turn out twice a week for training should be given consideration.” The difficulty of protecting any but the commonest sorts of trees from the depredations of vandals was emphasised by Mr Orton Bradley at a meeting at Christchurch which discussed a scheme of roadside tree planting. Several hundred flowering red gum trees had been planted out beside the Cliarteris Bay Road, he said, but only one had been allowed to reach the flowering stage. Most of the others had been taken by passers-by, and the sole survivor had lasted only a week after flowering, for its branches were torn off.

The accidental drinking of a liquid which they thought to be pure water, but which really was an arsenic solution for use in the treatment of foot rot in sheep, resulted in the admission to the Napier Hospital at the week-end of three young men, Messrs Frank Smith, John Wilson and Max Hartley, all residents of Haumoana. The men decided to boil a billy for lunch, and the water used was taken from one of the station tanks which, unknown to them, was used in connection with the treatment of foot rot in sheep. . Provision for taking opossums from scenic reserves is made in the Scenery Preservation Amendment Bill, which was read for the first time in the House of Representatives yesterday. The Bill also increases the penalties for damage to scenic reserves by fire. Another provision allows a landowner to apply to have an area of land declared a private scenic reserve to which the provisions of the Act would apply. Under another clause, steps can be taken to obtain the value of any timber unlawfully removed from a reserve.

The Auckland Automobile Association has forwarded to the local Superintendent of Police, Mi- S. Till, a cheque for £5 for Constable E. E. Stewart, in appreciation of his pluck and devotion to duty, and of the services he rendered in attempting to arrest a car thief recently, when he was seriously injured. The association also offered a similar sum as a reward for the detection of the offender. A citizen has also offered to donate £SO as a reward. It is expected (by the Star) that an announcement will be made by the police, after the matter has been before the Commissioner of Police. Ono has a recollection of having read poetry about the Arab and his steed, but the New South Wales Minister of Transport, Mr M. F. Bruxner, quotes wartime experience for the assertion that Australians are the best horsemasters in the world, and the Arabs are the worst. Addressing jockey apprentices at Randwick, ho said on September 11 that no fewer than 480,000 horses that left Australia were doomed never to return. They were shot when the war was over, and he had seen soldiers with tears in their eyes as though they had shot their best friends. “And,” added Mr Bruxner, “so they had.” Referring to the picture of a througlibred that went right through the campaign in Palestine, he said: “Look at that head—there isn’t anything better looking, even man or woman, anywhere. And note the intelligence.”

The Fire Brigade were called out last evening to premises in George Street, but on arrival it was found that their services were not required.

At a cost of approximately £60,000, a new block to accommodate 80 beds, 40 private and 40 public, is to be erected for the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Mountain Road, Auckland.

The trustees of the Dunedin Savings Bank have made a grant of £IOOO toward the cost of the proposed new maternity hospital, for the building of which the authority and assistance of the Government is being sought. Mr P. A. de la Perrelle intends to ask the Government, in the House of Representatives, if, in view of the reported fact that the Imperial Government was already committed to a quota, the Government will take steps to establish new markets for dairy produce. Advice has been received that the monoplane which Squadron-Leader T. W. White, chief pilot of New Zealand Airways, will fly across the Tasman Sea in December, in company with the Southern Cross, is almost completed. The monoplane, is being built at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. The National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum Amendment Bill, which was read for the first time in the House of Representatives yesterday, gives the Wellington City Council an additional representative on the Board of Trustees. At present the council has only one representative. Mr R. Semple has given notice in the House of Representatives to ask the Prime Minister whether the Government will this session bring down legislation restoring cuts to the civil servants, and all pensions; also empowering the Court of Arbitration to review the industrial agreements, with a view to increasing wages. An,accident to two photographers, who were burned when their flashlight powder exploded, occurred at a fancy-dress ball held in Auckland. The attempt to take the photograph did not succeed, the flashlight powder failing to ignite and a few seconds later it exploded in the faces of the photographers, causing burns. When hot porridge was spilled on his leg yesterday morning, Neville O’Leary, who lives with his parents at 167 Lyndhurst Street, received burns for the treatment of which he was admitted to the Hospital. He was burned on the calf of the right leg and had a small burn on the left leg. He was taken to the Hospital by the Free Ambulance and was reported to-day to be progressing well. Evidence was given before the Tariff Commission in Dunedin on September 12 by Mr Roland Ellis, who supported a request that the present duty of twenty per cent, on quilts should be retained. Mr Ellis explains that his critical remarks concerning a certain class of English down quilts, which were circulated in a Press Association message, referred only to the lowest grade productions, and not to other and better grades of quilts imported from England.—Press Association.