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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 209, 3 August 1934, Page 6

“We are inclined to think in this country that we are most up to date, and far ahead of the older countries, but in respect to tree planting we have a lot to learn,” said Mr Hope Gibbons, at one of the tree-planting ceremonies in Wanganui on Arbor Day. “In France, England and Germany the roads and by-roads are planted with trees of all kinds; these countries are miles ahead of New Zealand.”

Demonstrating the construction of the latest type of microphone in use at the new 3YA broadcasting station to the Canterbury College Engineering Society, Mr W. L. Harrison, the Broadcasting Board’s South Island engineer, stated that microphones of this type cost £IOO. “Their mass production value,” he added, “would be about £5 each; but when these things first come out, you have to pay for their development.”

The fact that 150 years had elapsed between the time of the death of Christ and the occasion of the erection of the first actual church building was recalled by Rev. H. W. Newell, M.A., of Wellington, in his address in the Emmanuel Congregational Church, Palmerston North, last night, when Rev. R. Simpson, formerly of Gore, was inducted. Prior to that time the “congregations” had met in groups in places not specially, designated, and this splendidly illustrated the spirit of the church, he said.

The section of the Bulls-Te Kuiti Road between Taihape and Hunterville is reported to be in a bad condition. buggestions were made recently by the Manawatu and Wanganui Automobile Associations that improvements be made with tiie aid of unemployed. The Rangitikei County Council, on being asked to take steps in the matter, wrote to the Public Works Department at Wanganui, suggesting tiiat the Main Highways Board, the Unemployment Board, and the council should contribute for the work to be carried out by unemployed. At a meeting of the Wanganui Automobile Association yesterday, a letter was received from the County Council reporting on the steps taken and stating that the foreman had been instructed to put the road north of Mangaweka in order immediately.

The death of an ex-soldier who was found dying on the roadside between Waharoa and Matamata was the subject of a question recently asked in the House by Mr J. O’Brien, who said it was reported that the man appeared to have been destitute. He asked Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Minister in charge of Pensions, whether steps would be taken to have work found for returned soldiers, or a pension provided sufficient to keep them from destitution. Replying yesterday, Mr Cobbe said the man concerned was granted a war pension for the partial loss of finger joints from the date of his discharge on May 20, 1918. His pension was made permanent at the rate of £1 a week from November 1, 1919, and remained in force until his death. There was no evidence that his death by exposure was caused by his pensionable disability.