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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 304, 21 November 1934, Page 6

A loss of £416 12s 9d for tlio year just closed was reported at the annual meeting of the Wellington Competitions Society last night. A total deficit of £11,257 for hoth Waitemata and Manukau harbours for the year ended September 30 is shown in the statement of revenue and expenditure presented at a special meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board. Although the deficit the previous year was £7568, the amount during the year under review is considerably less than was anticipated. Advice has been received by the Manawatu Bowling Centre that there is every prospect of a large and enthusiastic party representing the South Auckland Centre travelling from Hamilton to Palmerston North shortly for an inter-centre match. No definite date has yet been fixed. The Wellington Centre will pay its annual visit to Palmerston North on December 5.

If everybody else forgets the Melbourne Centenary . celebrations, the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy will remember them, because for the 17 days H.M. ships Dunedin and Diomede were in Melbourne, officers and men were treated to more hospitality than they had ever imagined was possible. The citizens of Melbourne were so good to "the ships that the commanders had to adopt the expedient or naming certain Melbourne citizens Public Enemies No. 1,2, 3, and so on, because their good-heartedne.ss was a menace even to the fine traditions or the Navy in accepting hospitality. A drop throughout the Dominion of 998 members is recorded in the twenty-sixth annual report of the Boy Scouts’ Association. The total now stands at 13,154 and the decrease is general through the various sections of the movement. An optimistic outlook, however, is held by the association, as it is thought that the drop was only to be expected through the economic conditions in the Dominion. The year began with a surplus of ( assets over liabilities of £1437 6s lOd, of which £9BB 3s 9d was in cash. After the year’s working this had been reduced to an excess of £1175 4s Id with £777 7s 9d in cash.

The Railway Department’s advertisement in connection with the issue of cheap fares and. train arrangements to the races at Devin on Saturday, November 24, appears in' to-day’s paper. The special trains provided to and from Levin at suitable hours for race patrons wiLl be much appreciated.

Wellington has had almost a perfect springtime for horticulture. Amateur and professional gardeners say the season, so far, lias been the best for many years. There is unusual activity in all the sawmills on the West Coast at present, and there are sufficient orders on hand to keep the employees engaged full time until Christmas.

The Governor-General Lord Bledisloe, has intimated, to the New Zealand Aero Club that he desires to present a trophy for competition among clubs affiliated to the New Zealand Aero Club.

Owing to the prevalence of stealing stock and wool by night, the Hawke’s Bay County Council has decided to prohibit the transport of stock by lorry at night, except under special license, says an exchange. Five overseas liners, all of over 20,000 tons gross and two of them the largest merchant steamers to enter a New Zealand port, will visit New Zealand between now and next March. They will bring to New Zealand altogether probably up to 4000 tourists. The flowering of the beautiful white clematis at Stewart Island Eas been remarkable for its profusion this season. Everywhere one sees patches of white on small shrubs and up to the tops of the giant rimus, where it hangs in graceful white billowy masses.

Upon the understanding that an air board is formed at Napier, and that the Napier Borough Council shall be associated as lessee, the Napier Harbour Board this week decided to offer 160 acres to the Napier Aero Club, so cutting one of the first steps in the creation of a modern airport at Napier.

The hope that during the visit to New Zealand of the Duke of Gloucester, native flora would not be used for decorative purposes, was expressed by the president of the Wellington Horticultural Society, Mrs Knox Gilmer, at the opening of the society’s rose show yesterday. “We hope our native flora will be preserved, and not cut down uselessly for decorative purposes,” she said. As a means of preserving the periodicals in the reading room of the Municipal Library, cardboard covers have been introduced wherein the weekly and monthly journals are placed, being held in position by a string fastening. The covers bear the title of the periodical and, in addition to preserving the contents, the innovation assists in a large measure towards the tidiness of the tables whereon the books are placed.

Taxation payable to the Government by the Canterbury Jockey Club for the hew Zealand Cup meeting amounted to £11,202 14s ll)d, as compared with £10,132 8s lid last year. Details are as follow:—Totalisator tax, £5189 0s 4d ; dividend tax, £5043 8s stakes tax, £502 10s; amusement tax, £467 16s 6d. The aggregate attendance for the four days’ racing at Riccarton was 28,381, as against 26,272 last year, and 22,564 in 1932.

Despite his coming departure from the Dominion, the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, was unanimously reelected patron of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association at the annual meeting last night. In moving Lord Bledisloe’s re-election, the president (Mr R. W. McVilly) said he had never known a representative of the Crown in New Zealand identify himself so closely with the life of the community as His Excellency has done.

The Government intends to send early in the new year six additional cadets to the Royal Military College at Duntroon, Australia, for training, which will qualify the boys for commissions in the New Zealand permanent forces. An arrangement exists between the New Zealand Government and the Commonwealth Government for the training of cadets for commissioned rank. In the year just closing, four boys were selected in the Dominion and are now well on .their way to becoming professional soldiers. A new street constructed in connection with the subdivision of property at Fitzherbert Terrace, ■Wellington, is likely to be named Katherine Avenue. It was mentioned at a meeting of the City Council that this was in honour of Katherine Mansfield, the novelist, daughter of Sir Harold Beauchamp. The suggestion had been made that the street should be called after Sir William Fox, four times Premier—but it was considered that Katherine Mansfield was much more widely known, and had indeed made New Zealand famous.

Reference to the prayer which hangs in the private rooms at Sandringham, and which His Majesty the King once said should be taught to every public schoolboy, was made by Mr W. G. Fern in an address at Invercargill. The prayer runs: “Teach me to be obedient to the rules of the game; teach me neither to cry for the moon, nor over spilt milk; help me distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality, cleaving to one and despising the other; help me neither to proffer nor to receive cheap praise. If I am called upon to suffer, let me be like the well-bred beast, who goes away and suffers in silence. Teach me to win when I may, and if I may not win then, above all, I pray make me a good loser.” A step toward Mr Bernard Shaw’s idea of free milk for all school children in New Zealand was taken last night at a meeting convened in Wellington by. the Smith Family organisation. Representatives of educational institutions, medical men, the hospital board, city council, and members of Parliament were present and a committee was set up to formulate a definite plan on a national basis, Mr W. J. Poison, M.P., who presided, being appointed chairman. Points considered were whether the scheme should be a State-administered and financed plan entirely free to every child attending all schools, and whether parents able to do so should contribute, while the milk was provided without cost to the children of the poorer people. —Press Association.