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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 280, 24 October 1934, Page 6

To mark the centenary of the arrival in Kawhia, on November 22, 1834, of Rev. W. Woon, who founded a Methodist mission, a memorial church is to he built in Kawhia, Land totalling nearly 50,000 acres along the Eglinton Valley and Hollyford Valley road to Milford Sound, which is at present a State forest area, is to be set aside as a, national park area. Provision for this is contained in the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill introduced to the House of Representatives last night and read the first time.

“I think education should be based on the study of man and the earth,” said Professor Shelley at a meeting of the Society for Imperial Culture at Christchurch. ‘‘l believe that the most important subjects are history and geocrapliy and that when these two are mastered the other subjects that make up a general education should fall into place,”

The intentions of the Government in connection with a recent recommendation of the Industries and Commerce Committee that it was of the opinion that the sale of bread on consignment was an undesirable practice, and that an investigation into its operation should be made by the Industries and Commerce Department, was sought by Mr J. A. Nash in a question he asked the Prime Minister, (Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr Forbes said instructions had already been given for this inquiry to be made and it was at present proceeding. It is often said —and not in boast—that New Zealanders are the most “governed” people in the world. Regulations exist for this, that and the other thing, until it seems there is little in our daily life which is not governed by regulations. Nevertheless, New Plymouth Post Office officials received a surprise last week when they consulted “the hook of rules” to see what should be done in the event of trouble occurring with the flagpole which surmounts the office tower. And, sure enough, says the Taranaki Herald, a governing regulation was there. 1 revision was made for the payment of 30s to anyone who would climb the pole to right the trouble.

Among the many lines of cotton fabrics we are featuring is a guaranteed wash gingham in checks, small and large. The shades are all chosen in good taste. Ideal for ladies’ and children’s' wear. 36 inch Is vard. —Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd. — Advt.

Morrinsville is celebrating its jubilee this week.

The Poverty Bay provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union has decided to urge the amalgamation of county councils and, as a first step, for the Main Highways Board to take control.of all main and secondary highways.

Arrangements had been made for Dr Martin Tweed, medical adviser to thd Plunket Society Council, to address the Palmerston North branch of the plunket Society yesterday, but owing to Dr Tweed being called to Dunedin, the lecture was postponed till a later date.

The ambergris season is in full swing again at Stewart Island, something like old times when prices were high, remarks the correspondent ot the Southland News. The recent rise has given the industry a fillipj and several parties have been out scouring the lonely remote beaches on the western shores of the island.

A donation of £4OO, the balance required for the erection of swimming baths at Hnnterville, has been made by Mr T. A. Duncan. No conditions are attached to the gift. Mr Duncan asked only that the work be started at once so that the baths may be used this summer.

_ An example of the Parsee attitude to sin was given to the Christchurch Diocesan Synod by Itev. H. F. Ault, who recently returned from missionary work in India. “The Parsee has very little jdea of sm as the Christian understands it,” said Mr Ault. “He will award 90 strokes as punishment for murder, but 200 strokes for giving bad food to a dog. Offences against ritual are most important to him.”

At a meeting yesterday of the Dannevirke Power Board a statement was presented for the six months period up to September 30 showing a profit of £346 5s 4d, compared with £237 14s Id for the corresponding half year in 1933. The expenditure totalled £13,747 11s sd, and the revenue £14,093 16s 9d, as against £13,497 10s 5d and £13,735 4s 6d respectively for the same period last year. The whitebait is probably the tiniest of New Zealand’s edible fish, but it is important in the latest Gazette. It has a whole Order-in-Council to itself, thus rivalling the distinction once accorded to Pelorus Jack. It is decreed that “no person shall take or fish for whitebait between one hour after sunset arrd one hour before sunrise.” Whitebait catchers, liko gold miners, henceforth must respect one another’s claims. It is ordained that “no person shall use a hand-net within a distance of two chains from the net of another person already engaged in fishing with a handnet except' on the Grey River, where no person shall use a hand-net within 12 yards of another person already fishing for whitebait.”

“Speaking as a country vicar, I cannot emphasise too strongly the need for some scheme of cliurch reunion, especially in the country districts,” said Rev. A. H. Aeheson, vicar of Waimate, in the course of a sermon at a Synod service in the Anglican Cathedral, Christchurch. Mr Aeheson declared that it was his opinion that reunion had been sought along wrong lines in the past; would not the hope of reunion have been nearer if an attempt had been made to organise a universal church as a big family. He had heard it said that they should wait for a lead from the mother churches, but he saw no reason why New Zealand should not take a lead. In such a small country it would be considerably easier to come together and understand each other. It seemed that in all their deliberations they should have before them a vision of the churches of the world as one big family. A stone taken from the Glastonbury Church in Somersetshire, England, has been secured for the Christchurch Cathedral by Mr John Booth, who is at present visiting Great Britain. Bishop West-Watson, presiding at the opening of Synod in Christchurch, said that he had received advice from Mr Booth of the shipment of the stone for the Cathedral. Mr Booth, a cablegram from whom he read, was also endeavouring to arrange for other relics, especially from Jerusalem. Glastonbury is a most historic borough. It is claimed that it was to Glastonbury that Joseph of Anmathea came bearing the Holy Grail and there founded the first Christian Church in Britain. The main ruih of early churches and abbeys was purchased by the Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1907, and became the property of the Church of England in 1909. In 1914 a beginning was made with a scheme for making Glastonbury a home of legendary drama.