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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 29 October 1934, Page 6

In a simple ceremony at Auckland yesterday morning, General Sir Alexander Godley deposited a wreath at the foot of the cenotaph at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Specially illuminated for Show Week, the business area of Palmerston North presented a bright appearance on Saturday evening, when the coloured lights with which the streets have been festooned twinkled merrily against a sombre background of darkness accentuated by the wet weather. There was a large crowd of shoppers. The completion of 50 years’ membership of the Whangarei Lawn Tennis Club by the president, Mr F. Higginson, was referred to at the official opening of the club’s new season. On behalf of the members, ,Mr L. T. Pickmere, vice-president, made a presentation to Mr Higginson, and announced that the club had elected him a life member.

Applications for discharge in bankruptcy were granted by His Honour Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at Palmerston North to-day to Herbert Alfred Seifert, farmer, of Palmerston North (Mr J. M. _ Gordon), George Richard Gill, freezing works employee, of Palmerston North (Mr Gordon) and Henry Bigham, cordial manufacturer, of Dannevirke (Mr M. H. Oram).

A very severe rain storm centred over Aliipara and the southern end of the Ninety-Mile Beach one afternoon last week The rain was confined to a rather restricted area, and in the three-quar-ters of an hour during which it fell 1 Sin were recorded. Residents of the locality state that it was the heaviest downpour that they had ever witnessed. In one flock of sheep that had just been shorn, five died through exposure to tl»e storm.

A proposal to provide all school children with free milk daily was diecussed by the Woodville School Conimittee, when the New Zealand Farmers’ Union sought its opinion. It was agreed that a reply should be sent pointing out that the committee was in favour of the proposal but that Woodville School was in the middle ot a dairying district and most of the children could get plenty of milk at tlieir homes, and many of the townspeople kept a cow; further, that the committee already had a scheme tor the free distribution of cocoa made with milk, which was thought to be better than milk for the Woodville School.

A story to illustrate the need for some degree of Government control of trade was told by the Australian Trade Commissioner, Mr R. H. Nesbitt, at an Auckland Chamber of Commerce luncheon. A'n Australian firm had sent a shipment of excellent tinned peaches to China, but no repeat order could be obtained. The label bore the picture of a bird, an ibis. Inquiries eventually showed that when Chinese customers bought the tins, misled by the label, they thought they were getting “pigeon,” and were much disappointed to find fruit. The Government now required that the label must be such as definitely to disclose the contents, and not to confuse the mind of the buyer.

Have you seen tb* new checks in silk linen? The fabric is quite a new one. Has more weight than a cotton —is fast in colour and wears excellently. Some checks are large and others pin checks. Makes a smart summer costume or frock. 30 inches wide, 2s lid yard.—Collinson and Cunmnghame, Ltd.—Advt.

To commemorate their association with the original ship AVaiwera, which took the first two New Zealand contingents to- the Boer War, the South African War Veterans’ Association have made arrangements to present a suitably-inscribed braes plate to the second vessel of that name which is at present in New Zealand waters. A case of a juror having to leave his place and retire on account of illness occurred during the progress of a criminal trial before Mr Justice Bair in the Auckland Supreme Court. At this stage, Mr Hubble, for the prosecution, announced that Mr Herd, who appeared for accused, was prepared to continue the trial with only 11 jurors. His Honour made an order accordingly, and the Court proceeded. The death of probably the last of the old fighting women of the Waikatu, Mareana Horomona Hetaraka Tioriori, occurred at Kohekohe, near Waiuku, a few days ago at the age of 101 years. Deceased was known as Pareaututu, and was born in 1832 at Maungatautari, near Cambridge. During the fighting in the Waikato in 1864 she was one of the women who remained by their chief, ltewi Maniapoto, in his stand against the pakeha. Pareaututu saw the fighting at Orakau and Rangiwahia, near Te Awamutu.

Sixteen years ago yesterday, less than three weeks after the signing of the Armistice, the Czechoslovak State came into existence. On that day the National Council took over the government of the Czechoslovak countries, including Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia, which had belonged to the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. On November 14, 1918, the National Assembly of the new Czechoslovakia met in Prague and formally declared the new State to be a republic, with Professor T. G. Masaryk as its first president. Two occupants of a four-seater sedan motor-car escaped serious injury when the vehicle plunged into a mangrove swamp by Lake Road, Northcote, Auckland. Mr E.. Jordan, aged 79, of Northcote, who had as passenger Mr W. H. Gee, aged 56, Northcote, was driving the car, and was about to cross the bridge' spanning a stream when the car skidded and somersaulted three times. It landed on its wheels in the mangrove swamp 10ft below the road. The occupants received cuts, and were attended by a doctor before proceeding to their homes.

A man who bought an old copy of Robertson’s History of Ancient Greece lor a shilling from a second-hand shop in Auckland was surprised to find, on leaving the shop, that the flyleaf bore in faded ink the inscription, “Presented to the Reverend Samuel Marsden by Simeon Lord, Paramatta, N.S.W., July 4, 1813.” A subsequent investigation at the library revealed that Simeon Lord was a well-known Sydney merchant who had chartered the ship Boyd, on the ill-fated voyage which ended in the fire and massacre at Whangaroa harbour. In view of its previous ownership, the book is probably worth several pounds. The discovery was made on Saturday that intruders had gained _ access through a back window to the joinery and timber mill of Messrs Coutts Bros, in Church Street. Gelignite had been used to blow open the safe, but the unlawful visitors received but little reward for their efforts. Over £3 in cash was stolen, also a cheque. A cashbox containing £9. in silver was removed by thieves from the home of Mr P. T. Jamieson at 43 Featlierston Street during his absence on Saturday. There has been a frequency of burglaries of late and it is a pity that greater success lias not attended the efforts made to apprehend the persons responsible. The dramatic story of the wreck of the steamer Wairarapa, which ran ashore upon Miners’ Head, Great Barrier Island, in a thick fog shortly after midnight 40 years ago this week, was retold to a reporter in Wellington yesterday by Captain W. A. lullock, of Parnell, who was fourth officer of the vessel at the time. A passenger vessel of 1786 tons, the Wairarapa was bound from Sydney to Auckland. The wreck was one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of New Zealand. Of the 230 persons on board, 135 were either drowned or died from exposure. Two of the vessel’s six boats were safely launched, one of them under the charge of Mr Tullock and in these 60 persons reached the shore. Some clung to the rigging of the practically submerged vessel throughout the night, and were able to get ashore at daybreak on a land-line, but many were swept from the rigging by the heavy seas. A majority of the survivors reached Auckland in the steamer Argyle, bringing the first news of the disaster to the mainland.