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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 210, 3 August 1935, Page 6

While lie was in hospital, a Ballancc fanner had several young calves stolen from a paddock not a hundred yards from the Ballanee Valley factory recently.

Over 20 canaries of good strain were released wantonly from the aviary of a Putaruru fancier, Mr D. J- Henshaw, on a recent evening. Though most of the birds were fame enough to alight on Mr HenshaAv’s hand, five were lost.

On Monday morning Mr L. G. Lakey and Mr J. C. Schofield will leave Auckland lor Wellington, the one pushing the other in a wheelbarrow. The journey of 492 miles, which will he made via Palmerston North, is expected to occupy 31 days. The barrow is especially equipped. At the Taihape Magistrate’s Court yesterday Victor Joseph lord, a single man, pleaded guilty to a charge ‘•that on June 15 at Moawhango with intent to defraud, ho did attempt to obtain £SO from Harold Edward Taylor by falsely representing that a letter selecting members of the 1935 All Black football team was posted before 6 u.m. on June 15, 1935.” Accused was admitted to probation. The value of increased co-operation between parents and teachers was strongly emphasised by tho secretary of the New Zealand Educational Institute, Mr G. R. Ashbridge, in an address at Marlborough last night. “The growth of a spirit of mutual understanding and co-operation between parents and teachers is one of tho most striking and promising features of world education to-day,” said Mr Ashbridge. “It is being recognised everywhere that parents and teachers aro partners in tho business of education, and that only confusion and harm can result through a lack of understanding or if the influences of the home and the school pull in, opposite directions.”

During his reply to the farewell tendered to him by the younger members of tho legal profession and law students at the Auckland Supreme Court, Sir Alexander Herdman related an experience ho had in his early career. He was sent to li provincial town to defend a local hotelkeeper charged with a criminal offence. “The man was something of a hero in the town ; ho owned racehorses,, and was regarded as a good sport,” said Sir Alexander. “I was young, but bad plenty of law ready to quote, However, the evidence was so irrefutable that 1 saw the accused’s case was hopeless. When the time came to address the jury 1 had forgotten all that J. had intended to say., but I made an address—no doubt a lot of nonsense. To my surprise the jury returned in 10 minutes with a verdict of not guilty. They cheered the mail outside the Court.”

Yesterday was the first anniversary of the death of Field-Marshal Von Hindenburg. “I think Maori will be a dead language in less than a century,” said Bishop H. Williams to members of the' Hawke’s Bay branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand this week. He added that he had known many instances where Maori students were unable to translate parts of the Bible from English into Maori. Heavy falls of snow on the northern side of Egmont National Park Recently made necessary the use of tli« new snow plough for the first time. The plough, attached to the front of a heavy duty lorry, operated most efficiently in soft, heavy snow that extended for some distance down the track used by visiting motorists.

Support for the newly formed Palmerston North 50,000 Club was assured at a meeting of the executive of the Manawatu Hockey Association last evening. Mr C. Lawson proposed that a letter be forwarded to the club saying that the association was in full sympathy with its objects. Mr W. H. Wilson seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously.

A further slip of several hundred tons of rock and earth occurred on Bluff Hill, Napier, at 11 o’clock yesterday, but no further damage was done, beyond increasing the task of the two shifts of 28 men who have been working all day and night in an effort to clear the lines at the railway junction at the port. Further minor falls occurred later in the day.

Representations made to the Government Railways Board regarding the inclusion of Hawke’s Bay in the proposed rail-car service of the North Island have elicited a reply to the effect that the request will receive consideration when the question of an extension of the proposed service is under consideration. Th service is at present of an experimental nature, it was stated. That recent public inquiries held by the Auckland Hospital Board were having a bad effect upon the medical and nursing staffs at the hospital was the opinion expression by Dr J. W. Craven, superintendent of the institution, yesterday. “So bad an effect have the inquiries had that the staff now think that whatever they do is wrong,” said Dr Craven. “They are getting nervy and jumpy, a thing that is to be extremely regretted.” “Whether defendants appear voluntarily or on summons in these charges in future, they will be fined a minimum of ill and costs,” said Mr F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Thames Magistrate’s Court, when hearing a case of a defendant charged with riding a bicycle at night without lights. Some people, said Mr Levien, looked on a voluntary appearance as a means of saving themselves something, but in future the minimum fine would be 20s, which would perhaps help to put down the dangerous practice of cycling at night without lights.

Writing to his brother in Wellington, Mr Alfred Hill, the well-known musician and composer, says that many things have happened to him in recent months. He was recently knocked down by a motor-ear, and then, to make matters worse, his own car was stolen. Mr Jlill is now the head of the Alfred Hill Academy of Music in Sydney, which enterprise was “going along nicely.” “As 1 grow older the urge seems to come sharper to me to compose that which is in me,” writes Mr Hill. “I have completed four string quartets and heaps of other music, and hope to write still more before 1 pass on.” To-morrow is the 2lst anniversary of the declaration of war by Great Britain on Germany, the British Empire, on August 4, 1914, emtering into the most sanguinary conflict, lasting for four years, that the world has ever known. At 3 p.m. on August 5 (New Zealand date) 1914, when 12,000 citizens of Wellington were gathered in front of Parliament House, Lord Liverpool read a cablegram from the King, stating that war had broken out with Germany, and New Zealand’s reply: “The Empire will stand united, calm and resolute, trusting in God.” Arrangements were immediately made to raise the Expeditionary Force. National honour was maintained, with a free Empire under a free flag, yet there were other legacies—those of war deaths, partial disablement, premature age and enormous pensions bills, besides misery and suffering.