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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 176, 25 June 1935, Page 6

The National Playing Fields Association in Britain proposes, in at least 75 localities, to provide public parks or playing fields to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George. Three Thames prospectors who have been engaged on the Unemployment Board’s subsidised scheme in that district, and two from Coromandel, have been selected from a number’ of applicants by a goldfields company for work on its areas in k iji. The opinion that there was every likelihood that British live stock owners might soon bo exporting again to New Zealand was expressed by Viscount Bledisloe to a representative of the Farmer and Stock Bleeder within a few hours of his arrival in London. He thought that restrictions on imports to the Dominion would soon be very considerably eased, if not removed altogether.

In his speech at the Jubilee service in the Albert Hall, in London, in May, Lord Bledisloe, after saying that the King was the only personal link of Empire, added that three things had done more than lie personally had been able to do in New Zealand, and they were the sound of the King’s voice in the Christmas broadcast of peace and goodwill, the broadcast ceremony of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Kent in Westminster Abbey, and the solemn occasion, w-hen the Duke of Gloucester knelt with Lord Bledisloe and his family at the Christmas Communion in Auckland Cathedral.

The London Times states in referring to the Jubilee celebrations There were cheers for the King at a very different gathering in Westminster; a dinner and entertainment arranged for the homeless and destitute by the “Silver Lady” and her helpers. The “Silver Lady” is Miss Baxter, who in a period of six years has become known to thousands of “down and outs” through her free coffee stall and her distribution of tickets for a bed and a meal at recognised centres. She earned her other name by a private distribution of silver coins to sleepersout on the Embankment. A realisation of the extent of destitution led to the enlistment of support from sympathisers. Her Jubilee guests included young and old, some who must have known easier conditions of life, and a number who wore War medals.

Nearly 600 objections to new valuations in the Rotorua borough (including about 360 from native owners in the Whakarewarewa, Ohinemutu and Tarawa areas) are being placed before the Assessment Court sitting in Rotorua.

A contract for the supply of 10 cranes, valued at about £40,000, has been secured by the Clyde Crane and Engineering Company of Northend, Lanarkshire,' from the Lyttelton Harbour Board, New Zealand. English, Continental, and other Scottish firms tendered for the ordei.

It is understood that the Palmerston North City Council, sitting as the works committee, last evening, discussed the latest developments in the dispute with the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board over the supply of electricity to the city, but no statement was subsequently made for publication.

One serious effect of the recent snow storms and strong winds on Banks Peninsula was that ngaio trees were badly damaged, large boughs being broken off. Cattle, especially on the higher levels where the snow lay, ate the leaves, which are very poisonous, and this resulted in the death of several valuable animals.

The mystery, regarding the identification of the girl who was found murdered under a culvert at Albury (New South Wales) has been solved so far at least as the suspicion that she might be a Dunedin girl is concerned. The parents of the latter girl have lately received a letter from her stating that she is quite well.

While non-committal about his travels in America, Mr T. J. Mahony, an executive officer of the New South Wales Railways, who returned on the Maunganui yesterday from a business trip in Canada and the. United States, ha 6 a good word for New Zealand newspapers. People in New Zealand had to go away before they appreciated the standard of their own Press, he said. Whether or not the proposed drainage of Lake Forsyth, Canterbury, will interfere with their fishing and their food supply is a question which is disturbing the minds of some of the Little River Maoris. A deputation of Maoris waited on the Wairewa County Council and protested against the drainage of the lake. They claimed that it would ruin their food supply, which was guaranteed by the Treaty of Waitangi. At an inquest held at Turakina yesterday concerning the death of Rex Ernest Carter, aged 18, son of Mr and Mrs E. W. E. Carter, of Wanganui, the District Coroner, Mr F. C. Wilson, expressed sympathy with the parents in the loss of such a fine, manly boy. His career as a student had been apparently full of promise. The verdict was that death had been caused by a rifle-shot wound in the head accidentally self-inflicted.

The decrease of £47 in the gate takings at the National Dairy Show, on Saturday, after the three preceding days had brought increases aggregating nearly £SOO, was attributable to the fact that on the final day of last year’s fixture a buck-jumping competition was held for the first time and, with a magnificent day so far as the weather was concerned, drew a very large crowd. This year the attractions were basketball and Rugby football. A 12-year-old boy had an unenviable experience at Wangafiui on Saturday night when he was savagely attacked by a rat. "While sleeping the boy was bitten on the ear by the rat, which proceeded to inflict further injuries by using its teeth on his face. The boy was rushed to a chemist to undergo treatment for the wound in his ear. Beyond suffering from the shock and tlie loss of blood he appeared to have come through his trying ordeal without any further ill-effects. In the course of the sitting of the No. 6 Transport Licensing Authority in Palmerston North over the past week it was suggested by counsel from Feilding that in future, when a number of applications were coming forward from his district and areas north of Feilding, the Authority might sit there. It was maintained that there rvere about 40 carriers for whom Feilding would be a more convenient venue for the sitting. The chairman of the Authority, Mr G. A. Troup, intimated that the suggestion would be given consideration.

The annual conference of the National Dairy Association, which is to extend over three days, concluding on Friday, will open at Palmerston'North to-morrow. During its sessions problems of outstanding importance to the dairy industry are to be discussed, there being a lengthy agenda of remits for consideration. Addresses on subjects of particular interest to the industry will bo delivered by Dr. E. Marsien (secretary of the Department for Scientific and Industrial Research), Mr A. J. Murdoch (chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board), and Professor W. Riddet (Director of the New Zealand Dairy Research Institute). The conference will bring to this centre several hundred dairy company delegates from all parts of New Zealand.

“Our thanks are due to the authorities at Massey College for their assistance in giving tuition to young men anxious to take up herd testing work,” stated the report of the president, Mr G. H. Bell, of Oakura. Taranaki, of the Dominion Herd Testing Federation, at the annual meeting, which was held at Palmerston North to-day. “At the herd testers’ course held 'in April last 20 students gained their certificates. It is most gratifying to note that in nearly all cases students are either farmers’ sons or young men working on dairy farms. The question of withholding certificates until a testing or sampling officer has proved himself capable in the field has not been lost sight of. Whilst nothing can be done in this direction at the moment, there are possibilities of safeguarding the position before the next course is held.”

The last English mail brings interestin" accounts of walking and other feats at°the end of April. These feats (says the Manchester Guardian) have been a notable rebuke to those who predict that if mechanism . makes as great strides in the next 25 years as in the last, by 1960 the human leg will be obsolete. Apart from the motley regiments of modern hikers, walking athletes continue to achieve big feats. Mr A. A. Plumb on Saturday, April 27, set up a new record of inside 2 hours 50 minutes for 20 miles over roads. Nearly seven miles an hour for 20 miles makes a reasonable f till day’s march for normal hikers into an afternoon stroU. At the same time Mr W. Archibald won the Surrey Walking Club’s 18i miles road contest in 2 hours 41 minutes, and Mr H. A. Hake, for the second year in succession, won the Stock Exchange London-Brighton walk in 8 hours 42 minutes for the 52 miles. In him the brokers have a worthy successor to the famous T. E. Hammond, who took to walking after retumng tvom tiekking the veldt with 'he City Imperial Volunteers. His record of IP2 pries and over in 24 hours, a c eat winch vu uid tire most people on a push bike, is not likely to be challenged easily. When Mr Hammond gave up competitive walking he handed over to his Surrey Walking Club comrades his wife’s recipe for embrocation. This is talked of by walkers as a remedy for leg strains, and was d’Artagnan’s mother’s miraculous balsam for sword thrusts. There will still be sturdy walkers in 1960.