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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 4, 1 December 1934, Page 6

“T know sportsmen in this area who go miles to bring down a cock.ftouses but would not walk from their houses to their front gates to shoot a iabbrt stated the inspector to the East Wai kato Rabbit Board (Mr E. Loid), at a meeting at Putaruru. While operating the Goldfields dredge at Big Beach (says a Queenstovm correspondent), the crew bruught up t ie skeleton of a man m one of the buckets, which had been digging at a depth of 20 feet. The remains were fanly badly mutilated through the action ot the dredging. The nether limbs were encased in gumboots, and the socks were found to be in a reasonable state ot preservation. So far no light has been thrown on the identity of the human remains. "In view of the Dairy Commission’s warning that the need for financial relief and readjustment for fanners was a matter of great urgency, Parliament should not have adjourned until, at least, temporary financial reliei had been provided for those who are in difficulties,” stated Mr M. J- Savage, M. P., Leader of the Opposition, when delivering a policy address in the Opera House last evening. “Even that involves a departure from orthodox hues, and Parliament should be prepared to take any course which would serve the common welfare, rather than to stick to the old methods which have outlived their usefulness. When the farmer goes over the precipice the mortgagee will not be far behind him.”

The Duke of Gloucester will lay the foundation stone of the new Wellington railway station on December 17. The North Auckland Electric Power Board has decided to take the necessary steps to place before ratepayers early in the new year loan proposals involving £290,000 for reticulation of the district. The Miles-Hawk monoplane piloted by Squadron-Leader M. C. McGregor, who had with him Mr H. C. AValker, left Palmerston North for Christchurch at 1.30 p.m. yesterday in continuation of its tour of the Dominion. Cargo shipped on the steamer Cornwall this week, at Port Chalmers, included 67 cases of bullion consigned to the Royal Mint, London. Every case contained £SOO in, English silver coins that have been superseded by the recent New Zealand coinage. The 11 coaches which are to constitute the Royal train to be used by the Duke of Gloucester in the North Island, are now ready for service. The train has been assembled at Otahuhu railway workshops, and will be sent to Wellington next week to await the arrival of His Royal Highness. As a result of investigations made in country surrounding Te Anga, in the Marakopa Valley, west of Te Kuiti, a large portion of the skeleton of a moa of the smallest species has been recovered for addition to the collection at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. The remains of three other moas also were found. Only one bankruptcy petition was filed in the Palmerston North district last month, the petitioner being a labourer, of Levin. While there was not a single petition filed in the corresponding month of 1933, the aggregate for the 11 months of the current year shows a substantial decrease, the comparative figures being 22 and 15. An unusual freak in flora is growing iu the garden of a Kelvin Road, Invercargill, resident, where a foxglove in full bloom displays at its apex a flower resembling a single dahlia with a growth in the centre like the seed pod of a Shirley poppy, states the Southland News. All the other blossoms along the stem are of natural development. An iron framework, about six feet long, has been washed up on the Cobden beach near Greymouth. Fixed to the framework is a small plate, on which are several German words and a group of figures. It is thought that the framework is part of an old type of German machine-gun. How it came to be washed up on a New Zealand beach is a mystery.

Emphasising the national and all round character of the New Zealand educational system, which he warmly defended, the chairman of the Wanganui Education Board (Mr E. F. Hemingway), at the official opening of the Linton School yesterday, stated that one great feature was that it did not breed class distinction, which might otherwise be termed snobbery. “There is nothing worse than snobbery,” added Mr Hemingway. “I think that I would as soon be regarded as a thief as I would a snob.” The death at Sumner, Christchurch, this week, of Captain Edward William Hayter, at the age of 82 years, recalls a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in a 19-foot lifeboat 64 years ago. In 1870 Captain Hayter, who was then 18 years old, and a friend, named Primoray, crossed from Liverpool to Boston in a lifeboat, the whole voyage taking 82 days, and in the following year made the return trip ill 38£ days. When the tiny craft reached the Mersey after the return trip, its arrival was greeted by 40,000 people. In the gardens of Mr J. F. McKelvie, at Carnarvon, there is growing a most uncommon plant which attracts the close attention of all who have seen it, says the “Standard’s” llongotea correspondent. Known as the Queensland spear lily, it is showing its crimson blossoms for the first since it was planted eight years ago. Botanically it is called Doryantlios guiijoleyi (from doru, a spear, and anthos, a flower). The tapering stem rises above the foliage, carrying the large cluster of bloom at the top, thus the name spear lily.

“There are people who believe that the Parliamentary machine itself is obsolete. I am not one of that number, said Mr M. J. Savage, Leader of the Opposition, when speaking at the Opera House, last evening.” It is a human institution, and I am not going to saythat it is perfect, but it can • alter its methods its ’ standing orders, in fact anything, and there is nothing to stop it from doing as it wills. However, 1 would sooner see people make mistakes and have the power to correct them than have an autocratic body which makes blunders and very little else, though it has absolute power.”

Forty years ago the pupils attending tlie Linton School were “rather big boys”—in fact, many were close to manhood, and when not receiving instruction’ in school were quite useful at bush felling. This statement was made by the chairman of the school committee (Mr T. Lynch) at the official opening of the new Linton School building yesterday afternoon. Whereas boys attending school nowadays were punished for not polishing tlieir boots, those of forty years ago were frequently caned for not having shaved on a Monday morning, lie added, amidst laughter. “It will be quite clear to those who have given any consideration to the subject that at some time or another a complete readjustment of the relationship between capital sums invested in land and other aspects of the economic life of the dairy industry must take place,” stated Mr M. J. Savage, Leader of the Opposition, when speaking at the Opera House, last evening. “Onder present conditions,” lie observed, “the farmer may invest a substantial sum in his farm as well as a life of labour, and lose the lot because of the ‘impropriety’ reducing the principal of his mortgage. It appears as if a readjustment is inevitable and would be in the interest of both mortgagee and mortgagor. Unless prices are lifted suK stantially principal must be reduced.”

A strict application of the election laws allowed some ploughmen of the Mount Somers district, in Canterbury, for a joke, to put a school committee out of office, states the Christchurch Press. Mr W. Syme; a former chairmain of the Kimberley School Committee, explained at that school’s diamond jubilee how he became appointed a scrutineer for the Mount Somers district. The election regulations were that a householder eligible for local elections must own a house complete with a chimney. The local ploughmen promptly added sod chimneys to their tents, and so claiming a vote, overthrew the sitting school committee. “The money system of this country is going to be controlled by you if we Labour Party is elected to power,” said Mr M. J. Savage, Leader of the Opposition, to an audience in the Opera House at Palmerston North last evening. “It is well,” lie added, “that the people should understand now that if Labour is given the opportunity all existing State lending institutions_ will become integral parts of a national monetary system which will administer the people's credit for the common good. The proposed National Mortgage Corporation is to take over the investments of the State Advances, Lands Department, and the Rural Intermediate Credits Board. It appears to be another attempt to head off the definite movement on the part of the people to establish a national banking system.”