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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 August 1934, Page 6

New South Wales hairdressers are seeking legislation providing for their registration and the appointment of a board of examiners.

The quarterly session of the Supreme Court ended at Palmerston North yesterday. His Honour Mr Justice Ostler, with his associate (Mr G. Orossley), left for Wellington this morning.

Among the signs of an early spring in To Arolra are the breaking out into leaf of willow trees, while this week several residents in the Ruakaka portion of the borough were able to gather mushrobms, an exceptional occurrence for what is practically midwinter.

The beautiful Dawaon Falls on Mount Egmont will be transformed into a brilliant cascade if proposals made this week are carried out after investigation by experts. It is proposed to place coloured floodlights at the bottom of the falls, giving a rainbow effect at night. The suggestion came from Mr W. G. Walkley, chairman of the south committee of the National Park Board, who expressed a desire to give the public something new. The falls will bo built out a.t the top if necessary, to protect the apparatus at flood times. There is no similar lighting scheme in New Zealand.

No decision has yet been made by th© Government on the subject of future town planning policy, it was stated last evening by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon J. A. Young). The subject was raised m the House or Representatives yesterday morning when Mr W. J. Jordan asked the Minister whether lie* would anange for the attachment of a qualified officer to the Town Planning Board and whether he would consider the appointment of a technical officer and that several local bodies had spent large sums preparing town planning schemes which they could not pursue until a regional plan was prepared.

A London cable message states that tlie late Sir Henry Wigram, of Christchurch, left English, property valued at £43,847.

Hundreds of dogs have been maliciously poisoned in the suburbs and residential areas of Sydney in the last few months.

A further consignment of New Zealand coinage, comprising florins and shillings to the value of £60,000, was brought to Auckland by the Ra.ngitane this week.

The Palmerston North Fire Brigade received a false alarm by telephone at 0.25 a.m. to-day to Frederick Street. The firemen’s annual ball was in progress at the time. A groat, the English fourpenny coin long withdrawn, was received with the takings of a Putaruru office this week as a threepenny piece. The coin, dated 1840, bears the head of Queen Victoria, then two years on the throne.

After conferring with Mr L. J. Wild, of Feilding, president of the Royal Agricultural Society, the executive committee of the Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society decided yesterday to undertake the Royal Show in Hawke’s Bay in 1935.

Advice has been received by Mr G. N. Boulton, secretary of the Wanganui Education Board, that the Education Department has decided to restore the 5s boarding allowance for primary school children where they are obliged to board away from home. Owing to the depression, the outstanding amount of Commonwealth income tax at June 30, 1933, was £6,164,320, and of land tax £1,452,545. The Federal Commissioner reported last week that income tax collections fell from £13,604,374 in 1930-31 to £10,878,718 in 1932-33.

Notice of a motion that the Government be requested to abolish all totalisators in operation in New Zealand was given by Mr J. T. Kent (Waikanae) at the meeting of the Manawatu provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union in Palmerston North today. He urged that the Farmers’ Union should be consistent in its attitude towards gambling.

As a.n outcome of the large number of prosecutions of motorists in Palmerston North for not displaying on their vehicles on June 1 the new registration plates, the Manawatu Automobile Association executive committee decided last evening to submit to the annual conference of the North Island Motor Union in Napier, this month, a remit that the Transport Department be asked to permit the affixing of registration plates on May 30 of 31 and to advertise the regulations in a similar manner to the annual advertisements of the Land and Income Tax Department.

Three light aeroplanes that have been flown from England to Australia were teen in company at the Te Rapa (Hamilton) aerodrome when Miss Jean Batten, the New Zealand girl flier, arrived from Mangere in her own machine. Two of the local aeroplanes flown out to meet Miss Batten were the Auckland Aero Club’s blue Moth, ZK-ACK, formerly owned by Mr Oscar Garden, and Mr S. J. Blackmore’s De Soutter monoplane, originally the property of Flying-Officer O. E. Kay and H. L. Piper. Both the Moth and the De Soutter, as well as Miss Batten's silver machine, have contributed to the history of aviation by being flown successfully from England to Australia.

While the Melbourne centenary celebrations towards the close of the year are likely to attract an unprecedented number of overseas visitors to that city, there is more than a possibility that a good many, having come as far as Australia, will extend their trips to embrace New Zealand, considering that very little extra time and expense will be involved. With the object of attracting as many centenary visitors to New Zealand as possible, the Government dispatched one of its officers to London two or three months ago. Since his arrival in England he has taken up his headquarters at the High Commissioner’s office, and has arranged special publicity showing the relative positions of New Zealand and Australia and the cost at which trips in New Zealand might be made. In anticipation of a rush of business, the department’s Melbourne office staff has been increased.

“Tlier© is a great deal in the contention that business is suffering from lack of enterprise and initiative and that all classes are looking for safe investments and safe jobs (says an English paper). It is not reassuring that so many young men to-day are eager to get into the Civil Service, insurance companies, bank and big institutions, where they think they will be safe, and so few are desirous of winning glittering prizes with their sharp swords, as the late Lord Birkenhead once so eloquently expressed it. The reason is not to be found in lack of virility in the younger generation, but in the modern uncertainty of business under modem conditions, the terrible collapses of recent years, high costs and the difficulty of meeting labour requirements. It is generally agreed that industry must be organised in big units and selling effected in concert with others, since the waste incurred through competitive and overlapping activities is obvious, but it is clear mat in the new order of things the small concern is at a grave disadvantage. It is not therefore surprising that young men are choosing the path of safety, though it is to be feared that the result will be to create a dearth of men fitted to occupy important administrative positions in large concerns. Rationalised industry to-day can select its leaders from the men trained in its constituent units; but we have always recognised that vast organisations are not the best training ground for the lenders of to-morrow.”

In the Hakareamata Range, which runs along by Ngaruawahia on to Pirongia and then on to the high lands of the King Country, there are many caves as yet unexplored (says an exchange). From time to time adventurous spirits enter them, and are amply repaid by the wonders that Nature has been building through the ages. The other day a party entered one of these art galleries of Nature in the Karamu Valley, only a short motor run from Hamilton. Although not anywhere near the size of Waitomo, and short of the beauty of the Glow Worm Temple, this cave has some beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. The entrance is a small hole high up on a limestone bluff, and then inside comes a slide down on mud. The first feature that strikes one is the flat limestone roof, built seemingly of huge flagstones. In small side chambers are pretty statuettes of a chocolate colour and every conceivable form. At one point, about 15ft. up on the nail, through an orifice of perfect white alabaster, there is a deep brown stalactite in waterfall formation for about 2ft., and then spreading out with a stalagmite beneath, making a model of some Oriental temple 6ft. high. In another oorner is what looks like a charming model of a Greek temple with Corinthian columns. Right at the top of the cave is the finest piece of all, a natural memorial cenotaph, standing 12ft. high with a centra! pillar going up to the roof, and all stained a chocolate colour and surrounded by clusters of thin crystal tubes The visitor has to be careful and needs a good light, as there are many deep crevices and holes, and also mud without end.