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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 88, 12 March 1935, Page 6

There are at present 365 barristers and solicitors practising in the Wellington Law Society’s district. After having an abundant supply throughout the dry season Temuka is now threatened with a water shortage owing to the absence .of rain. The Palmerston North Rotary Club, at its weekly luncheon yesterday, passed a resolution placing on record its appreciation of the wonderful generosity of Lord Nuffield in providing £60,000 for crippled children in New Zealaind.

Plant for the separation of irqnsand ores for shipment to Sheffield is to be installed immediately at Patea, according to a letter from the AngloAmerican Steel Company received by the Patea Harbour Board. Concessions granted the company by the board will expire in May, .Car thieves operated actively in Hastings and Napier over the weekend, three cars and one motor-cycle being removed from their respective parking places. All four vehicles were later recovered by the police, one in a wrecked condition in the Napier Hill area, and the other two undamaged. Members of the College Street School Committee, in holding their meetings in a room in the infants’ school, have, at a number of their monthly gatherings, found the blackboard embellished with a simple picture or series of pictures used in illustrating a lesson. At last evening’s meeting of the committee the members had in front of them a scene about four feet wide and eighteen inches deep showing a farmland view with a haystack, trees and brown hills beyond. The picture was executed with a considerable amount of skill and was carried out with a. sympathetic understanding of colour values that made it most effective.

“I have crossed the Rockies four times and been in most of the large parks of two Continents, but having been given the opportunity of renewing my acquaint©, no© with th© scenic beauties of New Zealand, its thermal districts, and snow-capped Egmont and Ruapehu, I have found no more Isanti ful country in the world than this,” stated Mr J. W. Collins, New Zealand Trade Commissioner in Canada and the United States, to the Palmerston North Rotary Club yesterday. - “1 am impressed with what I have seen of mv homeland,” added Mr Collins, “and I think that this country has not suffered so much as others from the economic conditions of the past four years. lam going back to help the sale of New Zealand goods, and foster goodwill between New Zealand and the United States.”

The past few clays of dry weather have caused fresh outbreaks in the Waikato of the grass and peat fires, which were a serious menace during January and February. The members of the Woodville Domain Board met at the Gorge domain during the week-end and decided to establish a motorists’ camping ground adjacent to the sports ground.

At the present time the personnel of the teaching staif of the Hokowhitu School is the least in number since it was opened. Due to a declining roll, the school last month lost the services of an additional assistant.

The Christchurch Press says that in the last 20 years the population of the city has increased by 50,000, its area lias been almost exactly doubled, its capital value more than doubled, and its unimproved value very nearly trebled.

Deer cullers are still operating in the Tararua Ranges. A party of two have made their camp near the Mount Holdsworth Hut, while two others are working in the region of Baldy. It is reported that they are getting good results.

The Minister of Finance (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) stated yesterday that no permits for the export of any class of silver coin would be issued and that the prohibition at present in force would bs rigidly maintained. —Press Association.

The management committee of the Wellington Cricket Association decided last night to write to Mr A. M. Ongley, of Palmerston North, selector of the Country cricket team, which last week defeated Wellington by three wickets in the annual Town v. Country match, congratulating the country players on their victory.

Following the collision on Sunday afternoon at Paraparaumu between a motor-cycle and a motor-car, one of the injured men, Ronald Seddon, son of Mr and Mrs It. Seddon, Levin, died in the Wellington Hospital yesterday morning. The condition of his companion, Clifford Hayes, of Hokio, has been reported as satisfactory. An intimation was given, at the sitting of the Magistrate’s Court in Palmerston North, to-day, by Mr J. L. Stout, S.'M., that in future when consents to orders on judgment summonses were submitted, lie would require a signed undertaking from the solicitor that the defendant was not a relief worker or in poor financial cir cumstances.

News of the death of Judge John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross and of the Board of Governors of the League of Red Cross Societies, has been received at the New Zealand headquarters of the society, Wellington. Judge Payne, if he had lived a few days longer, would have entered his eighty-first year this week.

Strong objection to a circular announcing a reduction in school capitation was taken at last night’s meeting of the Wellington School Committees and Educational Federation. As a result of a decision at the meeting a deputation will wait on the Minister of Education to ask for sufficient capitation for the needs of individual school committees.

Polling in the election of the reconstituted Dairy Board is to close at 7 o’clock this evening, to-day being the last- opportunity for the mailing of votes by dairying company directors. The election is on a tonnage basis. Two of the candidates for the middle ward representation are Messrs C. G. C. Dernier (Cheltenham) and N. Campbell (Awahuri). Radio has recently been installed in a large Auckland millinery, factory in an effort to increase the contentment of the staff, and so encourage greater production. Hearing that production has been increased up to 23 per cent, in English and American factories by this means, the manager of the Auckland establishment has had loudspeakers pieced throughout the workroom and offices of his business.

Headquarters of the New Zealand (C'turned Soldiers’ Association are trying to obtain a special Act of Parliament to provide adequate compensation for prematurely aged soldiers. Those whom it aims to help include men of other forces beside the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The effort is described by the association as the most important it has made and it has appealed to all re-, turned men to support it. In the course of the discussion at the meeting of the Manawatu-Oroua Power Hoard, yesterday, it was stated thai, based on last year’s figures, the extra cost to the city for current bought, if a proposal by the board was agreed upon between the two bodies, would be between £4OOO and £SOOO. In reply to a question, the chairman (Mr C. G. C. Dermer) said the total cost would be over £19,000, if the same amount of current was used as last year.

The claim of being the oldest fireman in New Zealand is made by Mr James Maguire, of Picton, who attended the Dominion fir? brigades’ deinonstration at Blenheim. Mr Maguire, who is 91 years of age, has been connected with the fire brigades in New Zealand for 70 years, first joining the Wellington Brigade in 1864. His memory is very good, and in spite of his great age, he can still talk with enthusiasm of his experiences in the early days of fire-fighting. He is an honorary member of the Picton Fire Brigade.

Arrangements with the banks to accept lor a further short period the British and Australian coin still in circulation were announced last evening by the Minister of Finarfce (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates). After mentioning that in the proclamation published on November 1, 1934, .British silver coins were declared not legal tender in New Zealand after February 1 last, Mr Coates said he had been informed that some British and Australian coin was still in circulation. In order that those people holding such coin who had not been informed of the position should not be penalised, he had made arrangements with the banks to accept these coins for lodgment, or in exchange for New Zealand coins, for a further short period.—Press Association.

According to a paragraph appearing in a Wellington contemporary a large fish, believed to be a shark, caused consternation among bathers at Paraparaumu beach on Sunday as it swam close inshore at noon. A number of people were in the water, the report adds, when the alarm was given. A local resident who was at Paraparaumu beach on Sunday informed a "Standard” reporter that he was swimming in the sea with others members of his family shortly before noon and there was no sign, at all of any big fish. The sea then was rising after a calm of the previous evening. During the” afternoon there was a good surf running with a southerly set, and numbers of people were again in the water, so that it was highly improbable that this beach, known for its safety, was visited inshore by a shark. During the summer numbers of porpoises have been observed swimming some hundreds of yards from the beach, and it is possible that these have been mistaken for other big fish. Furthermore, he added, there arc several sand banks where the water is comparatively shallow even when the tide is in, and it was most unlikely that a shark would venture across them into the deeper water closer to shore where most people indulge in 1 bathing.