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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 286, 31 October 1934, Page 8

Pineapples have been successfully grown again this year by Mr W. S. Higgins, of Frankton. Mr Higgins has had the plants in a glasshouse for six years, and during the last two years they have borne excellent fruit. Mr St. Clair Jounneaux, of Kamo, and formerly of Whakarongo, has announced himself .as an Independent candidate for the Marsden seat at the next general election. Mr Jounneaux, who is a farmer, has been a member of the Wliangarei Borough Council for the past four years and headed the poll for sitting members at the last borough election. The New Zealand Alpine and Rock Garden Society has initiated a scheme to collect and propagate the rare species of New Zealand flora and to distribute these amongst the public parks and gardens throughout New Zealand, thereby saving them from extinction, which would otherwise be the fate of many owing to the ravages of impoited pests, the progress of settlement and unscrupulous collection fox* commei’cial purposes. The first distribution under the scheme has just been made, states an exchange. As the result of an arrangement reached yesterday between the Unemployment Board and the Wellington Citizens’ Boy Employment Committee, the Penrose training camp for boys is to open about the middle of January. Mr R. H. Nimmo (chairman of the committee) said the board had authorised the committee to proceed with the camp for three months, commencing about the middle of January, on the basis of 25 boys per month, each batch to receive a month’s training. the board is undertaking to meet the expenses necessary for the conduct and administration of the camp. —Press Association. The unusual charge of selling camphorated oil containing less than 19 per cent, of camphor, contrary to the requirements of the British Pharmacopoeia and Food and Drugs Act, 1908, was preferred against Adam Nielson Thompson, chemist, of Hamilton. The police said a sample taken by the lxealth inspector showed 14.5 instead of 19 per cent, of camphor. Mr W. J. King, for defendant, explained that the latter had made the oil two years ago, and could not account for the deficiency. Both oil and camphor were cheap* products, and there was no motive in reducing the quantity. A fine of £1 and costs was imposed.

Four young men have returned to Bluff after spending a few days’ deerstalking on Stewart Island. In four days 80 deer were counted, and of these a dozen were shot. The number of men on the unernplayment register in Cambridge at present is 61. This is less than half the number registered at the same time last year, when the total was 112. It was reported at last night’s meeting of the Manawatu Head Centre of the ltoyal Life Saving Society that the work of erecting the dressing sheds at the Manawatu River, adjacent to the motor camp side, would be undertaken within the next week or two. Eighty-three years ago on Sunday the si lip Margaret, with 144 persons on board, most of whom were among the earliest settlers to arrive at AVaipu, North Auckland, left St. Ann’s Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada. In commemoration of this important event and the arrival of the settlers at Waipu 80 yea.rs ago, a special service was held in the Waipu Presbyterian Church on Sunday. Gold in a quantity which indicates a very rich reef has been found on the West Coast by a miner, Mr W. A. Newcombe. When he found the reef, Mr Newcombe was prospecting for alluvial deposits near Ahaura. He wanted to climb some difficult country and had to make a foothold with an aze. He knocked a piece of stone away and, purely by chance, located the outcrop. In an interview at Melbourne Mr C. W. A. Scott, who with Captain Campbell Black won the Centenary Air Race, said that ho and Captain Black kept up their - strength by eating condensed foods —grape nuts, meat extract and coffee. Most of their eating was done in the air. At the landing grounds they attended to their machine and stood by during refuelling operations. They collected meals just as they were getting into the cockpit. The most valuable pdstage stamp in the world is shortly to be brought to Britain from America. An English buyer is said to be ready to pav £lO,000 for it. The stamp is the one-cent British Guiana, of which no other specimen exists. The famous American collector, Arthur Hind, bought it for £7OOO just after the war. Since his death his collection has been gradually dispersed, realising many thousands of pounds. Now his widow has decided to part with this unique specimen, and is herself crossing the Atlantic to take it to the prospective purcharer. The Raukawa children’s health camp a.t Otaki has been re-opened. Some 32 children have been admitted, 21 from Wellington and others from Dannevirke, Hawera, Shannon and Hastings, Those children will remain at the camp for a period of approximately six weeks, and it is hoped, if funds permit, to place 100 children in the camp over the Christmas holidays. The Wellington Children’s Health Camp ciation has been advised by the school medical officer that she has a waiting list of approximately 80 children in need of the care and treatment which are given by the camp at Otaki. Enterprise was shown by a deputation representative of some of the potato growers in South Canterbury, which wished to meet the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes). Knowing that Mr Forbes would' be visiting the Waitaki hydro works on Saturday for the official opening function, the members of the deputation arranged to board the train on the way down and so state their case. The interview took place while the train was travelling between Studholme Junction and Ivurow, and apparently by its enterprise the deputation was able to have a much longer discussion with Mr Forbes on the subject—the export .of New Zealand potatoes to Australia —than would have been possible in other circumstances.

Several stone adzes of ancient Maori construction were turned up recently by workmen on the Pelorus Bridge Reserve, when obtaining some soil for top-dressing, states the Marlborough Express. Fnom time to time Maori curios, including some articles of the valued greenstone, have been found on various parts of the reserves. The old Maori name for the locality is Titi Raukawa, and there are fragmentary traditions of a big fight or massacre that took place in pre-European times, when it was occupied by the Ngaitara tribe, wluo were forerunners to the Ngatikuia, the tribe that held it when Te Rauparaha invaded the district. The relics were found about a foot under the top soil, and are interesting mementos of the early Maori occupation of the Pelorus.