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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 24 May 1934, Page 6

There was a record placement of 120 boys during April by the Wellington Boy Employment Committee. At the request of the Taihape Borough Council, Mr It. Worley, borough engineer for Hamilton, proceeded to Taihape this week to inspect and report upon the new municipal reservoir, which has developed several leaks. ' As a measure of relief to Central Otago orchardists who lost their fmit crops last season in consequence of frosts, the Government has decided to postpone the collection of this year’s water rates, and to spread the ultimate payment of them over the ensuing two years. Up to the date of the imposition of the statutory 10 per cent penalty, at May 21, the Wanganui City Council had collected just on 86 per cent of the total rates levied for the current financial year. This is just on 5 per cent better than the total collected for the 1932-33 period. The pa at Oeo, Taranaki, where preparations are being made for the celebration of a jubilee on June 1, has for some weeks been the ' centre of keen activities. Fifty years ago on July 13 the pa was 'Opened by Titokowaru, a well-known figure in Maori history. It was built originally to accommodate Maoris travelling from Wanganui, Patea, and Hawera to Pariliaka. Citing the position of Great Britain, where river pollution has been unchecked and is now causing considerable heartburning, the annual report of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society urge 9 that the purity of New Zealand’s system of lakes and rivers must be zealously guarded. “In the Wellington district there is undoubted evidence of pollution, particularly in connection with the milk industry, together with flax milling and wool scouring establishments, and boiling-down works,” it states. The opinion that a more efficient system of controlling the transport of relief workers in the district could be devised was expressed by Cr. P. G. Mildon at the meeting of the Kairanga County Council, yesterday afternoon, when he said lorries urgently required for carting metal were being used to carry men. He advocated a reorganisation, and suggested that a fast economical transport vehicle be purchased. It was agreed to defer the matter for consideration at the next meeting. Of the three State directors appointed this week to the board of the New Zealand Reserve Bank, one is to retire on July 31, 1936, another on July 31, 1938, and the third on July 31, 1940, the order of retirement to be decided by ballot. Thereafter each State director will be appointed for a term of five years. One of the four directors appointed on behalf of the shareholders is to retire on June 30, 1936, and one on June 30 of each of the three succeeding years, the order of retirement being also determined by ballot. As each retirement of a shareholders’ director takes place, the election to fill the vacancy will be in the hands of the shareholders. On the Rugby fields of Auckland (says the Star) there plays a prince. He appears on the Eden Park programme as John Dovi, but his real name is Prince Madraiwiwi, of Thakobau’s royal family of Fiji. Dovi is now on the medical staff of the Auckland Hospital, and at the present time plays five-eighths for University senior B. In his younger days lie played for Wanganui Technical College, and later, when studying medicine, played at either first or second five-eighth for Otago University. He has also been a New Zealand University boxing champion. It has been suggested that the Fijian prince should be given a trial at five-eigth in the Auckland University senior A team.

Prospectors employed under the Unemployment Board’s subsidised scheme in the Thames-Coromandel district won over £2OO worth of gold during April. A set of art teaching equipment, including about 200 books, has been allocated to the Auckland University College by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. A profit of £703 on the year’s working was reported by the chairman, Mr M. O. Grainger, in liis annual report to the Dannevirke Electric Power Board. The board budgeted for a deficit of £305 for the year. Owing to the large number of persons who have studied medicine in New Zealand in recent years, the University of New Zealand has agreed to limit at the intermediate stage the number of students admitted to the professional portion of the medical course. To crawl over 40 yards up a steep garden slope with a broken thigh was the ordeal experienced by Miss Annie Mason, aged 76, of Auckland, on Monday. While picking fruit in a gully at the foot of a garden, Miss Mason slipped and fell, breaking her right thigh. “I have no hesitation in saying definitely that I consider the minimum penalty too heavy, but I have no option but to inflict the fines,” said Mr G. M. Morris, S.M., in the Whangarei Police Court in inflicting fines of £lO each on two men for obstructing a ranger. Expressing considerable interest in the work being carried out, the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes), prior to his departure from Palmerston North for Wellington yesterday, inspected the flax experimental plots at Massey Agricultural College in com. pany with Dr. J. S. Yeates and Mr A. Seifert (chairman of the Flax Research Committee).

“Not only are attendances surprisingly poor,” said Professor Maxwell Walker speaking on the subject of public lectures at a meeting of the Auckland University College Council, “but some of those who do some along have peculiar, characteristics, Old ladies come with their knitting, and others come just because they can spend a cosy evening there.” Finality has been reached in negotiations to afford the use of the facilities of the_ physics laboratory of the Auckland University College to Dr. Kreielsheimer, one of the Jewish scientists who have been driven from Germany by the policy of the Nazi Government. Dr. Kreielsheimer is a research scientist in wireless transmissions and is expected to reach Wellington on June 26. To have almost decimated its indebtedness within a single year is the proud achievement of the Egmont Agricultural and Pastoral Association, in November last the association celebrated its golden jubilee, and at the end of the financial year the balance-sheet presented to the annual meeting showed that it was in the fortunate position of having wiped off most of the debt on its property, having, through the generosity of a number of donors, reduced its indebtedness from £IO,OOO to £I2OO. “I got the shock of my life when I was on the slopes of Mt. Egmont between-, the Waiwakailio and Mangorei Rivers recently,” said Mr Robert Burrows, of Egmont Village, a few days ago. It was three years since he paid his last visit to tlie locality. Then the country was clear of goats, due to the work of the board’s rangers. Now from the radius line to the top of the various ridges he saw mobs of goats, young and old. They were attacking the flora of the forest, and unless they were soon shot he feared for the future of the plant life of the mountain. The honour conferred upon Captain Cook by the Royal Society of England was not for his survey work in New Zealand waters, but because he discovered a method for the mitigation of the ravages of scurvy, remarked Professor R. Speight in the course of Iris presidential address in Wellington to the Royal Society of New Zealand. “Captain Cook was, therefore, the earliest member of the New Zealand Board of Health, and with powers of enforcement of his orders not possessed by the chief of that department now, or even by the Minister in charge.” When a mob of bullocks was being driven past the Marlborough Power Board’s office the other morning one huge brute, after seeing its reflection in the plateglass window and failing to recognise it, calmly entered the door, apparently with the idea of lodging a complaint against the detention of one of his herd mates in the showroom. The visitor was intercepted just as he was about to mount the stairs leading to the board room, and after a masterly piece of persuasion by the staff was induced to leave the premises without doing any harm.