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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 November 1934, Page 6

A proposal for an international exhibition in Sydney in 1938, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the city’s foundation, lias been made. The road from the Chateau Tongariro to Tokaanu, which will be used daily by the Duke of Gloucester and Ins party to gain access to Lake laupo for trout-fishing, is being transformed into a fine highway. Deconstruction work has been in progress for some time. . . An indication of the Dominions annual requirements in the way ot footwear is given in the latest monthly Abstract of Statistics. It is stated that last year 2,604,810 pairs of footwear were imported, 2,282,522 were produced in New Zealand factories, and 3312 exported, leaving a balance of 4,884,020. White Island was very active on Tuesday morning, an enormous white cloud of vapour hanging above the island. Since thermal activity increased at Rotorua the island has shown greatly increased activity. At one time on Saturday afternoon last the vapour cloud reached a height which was estimated at nearly two miles. Shipments of chilled beef to the Home market are now being made almost every fortnight, and this month will see two further consignments leave the Waingawa works. The first, which will comprise 1000 quarters, will be forwarded for shipment on the Port Dunedin. The stock for this shipment was largely drawn from tho Wairarapa, with some from the YVooclville district. Another shipment of 600 quarters will bo made on the YVaiwera on November 20. The cruelty ot dehorning adult cattle is the subject of a letter received by Rev. C. Carr. M.P., from the Royal Society for the Prevention ol Cruelty to Animals, London. The secretary of that society (Captain b. MacCann) says that in England dehorning is illegal if the animal is over one month old unless the operation is performed under complete anaesthesia. After poining out that the dehorning of adult cattle was probably the most painful operation one could perform on an animal, he said his society could not believe that the Legislature in New Zealand would wish to pass legislation imposing the severe suffering entailed by the dehorning of full-grown cattle when it was quite simple to dehorn the animals as calves. Lieutenant-Colonel P. J. Simpson, D. 5.0., who last year was president of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain, expressed a similar opinion as to the pain inflicted by tbe operation.

The warships Dunedin and Diomede left Melbourne to-day on their return to the Dominion after participating in the Centenary celebrations. The Legislative Council met at 2.30 p.m. yesterday, but in the absence of legislative measures from the House of Representatives, an immediate adjournment was taken. A memorial to the late Sir Maui PoMare will be erected over his tomb at Manukorihi Pa, Waitara. A full-size figure statue, to be executed by A. J. Tretlienay, of Christchurch, will stand on a granite base. The total height above the ground will be 21 Jft. The work will probably take 12 months to complete. Mr M. H. Oram, member of the Wanganui Education Board, has advised Mr H. E. Edmunds, president of the Manawatu Aero Club, that the board has granted a half holiday to all the local schools in order to permit the pupils to be present at the McGregorWalker civic reception, welcome home, and air gala day at the aerodrome on Wednesday next. The ordinary business at the present sitting of the Supreme Court at Palmerston North was brought to a close to-day, His Honour Mr Justice Blair then entering upon the consideration of 142 applications for relief under the provisions of the Mortgagors and Tenants Relief Act. It is expected that tho consideration of the applications will occupy several days.

As the result of a detonator accident Raymond Given, son of Mr and Mrs Graham Given, of Maungatapere, Whangarei, received injuries to his legs and fingers. He found the detonator in a shed, and, not knowing what it was, he struck it with a pair of fenoe pliers. The detonator exploded, and the casing entered the boy’s leg above the knee, also the fingers of both hands.

A passenger who returned by the Wanganella from his seventh trip across the world is Dr H. It. Hogg, who is the oldest medical practitioner in Invercargill. His first trip was made in a sailing ship. Steady progress was still being made in cancer investigation in many clinics in England by radium treatment, and Dr Hogg said he was confident that a cure would eventually be evolved.

A memorial church is being erected at Kawhia by the Methodist Church of New Zealand to commemorate the arrival of the first missioner in Kawhia in 1534. It has been decided to present to the church the bell of the first mission. During the Maori wars the bell was hidden by some Maoris who desired to save it from destruction. Eventually it came into the possession of the town board. It will be formally presented to the church when the foundation stone is laid on November 24, exactly 100 years after the arrival of the first missioner in Kawhia. “The opportunities which I had while a member of the Imperial Committee of Defence for four years only confirmed my oft-expressed opinion of the Singapore Naval Base,” writes Sir Thomas Wilford in a letter to the Wellington branch of the Navy League. “'When a prominent Japanese statesman on one important occasion made the statement that liis people did not like Great Britain building a naval base at the gates of Japan, I pointed out that Singapore was 3000 miles from Japan, and that to bring the position clearly before the British public it was well to remember that Singapore was the same distance from Japan as Plymouth was from Boston. It was very difficult to imagine that tho construction of a naval base at Plymouth could be considered as being a menace to America. I am sure that the Singapore Naval Base is an insurance against aggression.”