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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 294, 9 November 1934, Page 6

A report has been received from the Tourist Department’s representative in the High Commiesioner’s office, Eondon. to the effect that half a dozen of the leading travel agencies in botii Edinburgh and Glasgow have been appointed booking, agents for New Zealand In practically every case agents have offered window space for displays, and a campaign of newspaper publicity is by now well under way. At its last meeting the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research expressed by means of a resolution its Son that the whole question of forestry in the Dominion should be surveyed, possibly through a competent Royal Commission. Concern r€ BWj‘ the y location, suitability and ultimate utilisation of exotic timbers ) pressed and it was decided to again refer the matter to the Prime MimsThe Thames Borough Commissioner Amendment Bill was introduced in the House of Representatives and lead the first time late last night. The general purpose™ the Bill is to give legislative iffcct to proposals contained in an agreement reached at a confeieni principal parties relative to the Thames Eorough held at Wellington on July 24 and 25 last and subsequently ratified at a public meeting of ratepayers at Thames and by pi actically all Thames borough debenture-holders. The Bill provides mainly for: (I) Extension for three years of the period of commissioner control 9 f Thames which would otherwise end in May, 193 o; (2) adoption of the 1931 valuations for rating purposes, thereby excluding mqividual revaluations; (3) reduction ol interest and sinking fund payments tor three years by one-third of the statutory rates. Ladies! You will look much smarter in that little summer frock with a neat little handbag to match. These bags are all the rage in London, and the colourings are brown, grey, rod, blue, black, and green, each trimmed with colours to match. The bag is envelope shape, size 4£in x Biin, with a strap at the back, and fitted with mirrors and purses. They are dainty, fashionable, and smart. Price, 4s lid each. Only at Collinson and Son, Ltd., toilet counter, opposite tobacco counter.—Advt.

About £2OO in notes, part of a large sum kept in Mr M. C. Soger’s house at Ashburton, disappeared during the week end. A puzzling circumstance is that only part of the money was taken from a large envelope in a desk. It was reported at the recent council meeting of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research that a conference had been held between the Dominion Meteorologist (Dr. E. Kidson) and the officer in command of-the New Zealand Forces with reference to a scheme of meteorological services for civil aviation. Dr. Kidson had drawn up this scheme, which had been approved by the G.0.C., and had also been submitted to the Treasury, the Public Service Commissioner, and the Prime Minister.

An exhibition of photographs taken by Hm Excellency Lord Bledisloe was opened yesterday by the Mayor of Wellington (Mr T. C. A. Hislop). Mr Hislop stated that this large collection from the Governor-General’s own camera had been thought so impressive that it would have been a pity to let it go out of New Zealand without the public having an opportunity to admire it. His Excellency had agreed to the exhibition provided that a collection for charity should be made in connection with it.

In the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr W. Nash asked the Minister of Railways if he was aware that employees at the railway workshops were met at the gates by two members of the first division staff for the purpose of searching the bags and clothing of employees and, if that were so, would he make arrangements for the introduction of some other system of preventing a loss of stores. Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes said that he would be pleased to confer with the Railway Board on the matter.

Those who patronise the swimming pool in the Manawatu River beyond the camp site will this season find that the winter’s freshes have made a considerable change, and in many respects one for the better. A shingle bank.between the swimming hole and the main current beyond has extended downstream for a chain or more with a consequent lengthening of the pool, although the additional still water is more or less shallow. In its lower section the pool is now suitable for children. The river and the various baths in the city are now being freely patronised by swimmers. Acquaintanceships which dated from before the days of the Manawatu Railway were renewed by Mr J. W. Chapman, of Hamilton, who has been spending a holiday at Levin. Among Mr Chapman’s early memories are the wreck of the Hyderabad and the commencement of the Manawatu Railway, most of the directors and shareholders of which Mr Chapman numbered among his personal friends. He made many trips along the coast on horseback as far as f oxton and was surprised on this occasion at the number of seaside resorts which have come into existence and flourished within the past 30 years. Mr Chapman refuses to look upon the present time of stress as a slump. He says when one could buy butter at 3£d per lb. and legs of mutton at 3 for Is there was a slump on and yet the country lived through it.

When Squadron-Leader M. C. McGregor and Mr H. C. Walker arrived at Melbourne to finish fifth in the air race, only New Zealanders were present at Laverton Aerodrome to welcome them, says the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P.), in a letter to the Christchurch Town Clerk. With Rev. E. T. Cox (Mavor of Dunedin), Mr Firth, the New Zealand Government representatives in Melbourne, and others, they greeted the fliers before they were out of their machine. The only clothes the airmen had were those they stood up in—a leather vest, shirt, pants, socks, and shoes. They bad to be rigged,out, and as it -was Sunday morning, some difficulty was experienced. However, the officers of the New Zealand Association managed to get a warehouse open and make them look presentable.