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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 244, 12 September 1935, Page 6

"With tlio object of providing port facilities equal to any other in the Southern Hemisphere, the Auckland Harbour Board is planning the construction of a wharf to cater especially lor passenger vessels, at a cost of approximately £200,000. “It is absurd to suggest that you can establish any institution which the Government cannot interfere with, said Professor Murphy, of Wellington, speaking oil banking and finance at Hamilton. “A certain amount of political interference is inseparable from any institution. Majority rule is extremely objectionable, but minority rule is more objectionable still.” A record passage from Wellington to Auckland was made by the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s new motor ship Wairangi, which arrived yesterday morning. She travelled the distance of 537 miles from Wellington Heads to Rangitoto Beach in the fast time of 1 dav 8f hours at an average speed of 16.65 knots. The Wairangi is one of the fastest vessels trading ro New Zealand.

When the Maunganui left Wellington for San Francisco she carried a consignment of rainbow trout of both sexes to be forwarded to Dr. F. W. Thompson, of the International Fisheries Commission at Seattle, Washington. Dr. Thompson will make a scientific investigation on the fish at the University of Washington and will later report whether the fish are true rainbow or a species of steel-headed trout. The consignment has been taken from Lake Alexandria. Nearly 50 years ago the Marine Department sent a man to America and he procured a consignment of rainbow trout, which was liberated in Lake Rotorua. Since then many lakes and streams in the Dominion have drawn oil these supplies. It was not until a lew years ago that the authenticity of tlio original stock was doubted.

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During the past six months jobs for some 400 unemployed boys have been found through the activity of the boys’ employment bureau of the Wanganui Y.M.C.A.

The Fire Brigade received a call to 445 Main Street, the residence of Mr and Mrs W. G. Tiddy, at 8.19 a.m. to-day. The outbreak was of but a minor nature, being caused by a, defect in a pipe leading to a gas ring. It was soon subdued with damage to the ■wall-paper only. It is unlikely that there will be an A and P. Show in Auckland this year, says the Star. This will be the first interruption of the series of annual summer shows since 1918. A contract was let this year for reforming the Showground, but the work has been retarded by wet weather and it is unlikely, that the ground will be ready in time.

Candidates bearing the banner of the New Zealand Liberal Party will contest several seats at the general election, according to Mr, AV. J. Palmer, Auckland, who is visiting AVellington as Dominion organiser. He told a reporter the party had been formed two years ago and was steadily building a sound organisation with the idea of reviving the Liberal Party as it was under R. J. Seddon. Evidence of the depredations of the kea was seen by members of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club - who climbed in the Mandamus ltiver district during the week-end. On the way up Organ Creek some of the party saw a sheep with severe wounds, apparently inflicted by the birds, and at Island Hills Station they were told that “killer” keas had caused the loss of a considerable number of sheep recently.

During the force of a gale blowing one night last week a woman residing iti a small house on the heights of Titirangi overlooking the Manukau, fearing the gale would blow her home lrom its studs, gathered up a blanket or two and took shelter in the bus waiting shed on the Titirangi Road. About half-past one o’clock m the morning a man found her sound asleep and snugly huddled up in a corner, says an Auckland paper.

An anomalous position existing in Auckland at present of a serious shortage of houses on the one hand and of a disinclination to build for letting purposes owing to risks involved on the other was commented upon by several leading Auckland house agents Experienced men, it was said, were not prepared to build for a number of reasons. AATiile rents were rising they were not yet high enough to give a satisfactory return on an investment of this nature.

A record that may be unique in New Zealand cricket umpiring is held by Mr AV. Tooniath, who last evening retired from the position of chairman of committees of the AA'ellington Cricket Umpires’ Association. In the last 32 years lie has missed only one playing Saturday, and on that day he was ill in bed. Once he umpired cricket for 21 consecutive days. He has umpired every style of cricket, English and Australian teams, Plunket Shield and Hawke Cup, grade and Boy Scout cricket. Democrat Party candidates for the general election will not be announced, it is expected, until after leading members of the organisation have visited the South Island (says a AA'ellington paper).' Several branches of the organisation, it is stated, have made requests that Mr T. C. A. Hislop, the leader of the party, should stand in their electorates, but this question will bo decided by the national executive and an announcement made at the same time as a full list of candidates is published. A visitor to Palmerston North yesterday was Mr I. L. Thomsen, of the Dominion Observatory staff, who lectured before the local branch of the Royal Society on the planet Jupiter. While in Palmerston North Mr Ihomsen took the opportunity of inspecting the telescope housed in a building ill the lakelet on the south-eastern side of the Square, when it was found that the instrument was in a much neglected condition, although still serviceable. The local branch of the Royal Society proposes going into tbe matter of having the instrument brought into commission again.

A sea lion, of a friendly disposition, has been taking a keen interest ill the regions beyond his domain of the St. Clair beach, Dunedin. Yesterday morning it decided to take a walk and made its way up Beach Street to the St. Clair tramway terminus, depositing its bulky form on the tramline. It took little" heed of the clanging gong of the car that was ready to leave tor the city and had to be chased off the lines before tho tramcar could proceed. On its return to the beach via Bedford Street it upset a young man on a bicycle, but halted to accept tit-bits from women and children. Later is was seen accepting a drink of cordial out of a bottle.

Arguing that as investment in various sweepstake tickets sold in New Zealand could not be stopped, Hon. A. Burns, when speaking in the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon, suggested that such gambling should I*3 controlled in the same way as the liquor trade was controlled. Every year, said Mr Burns, thousands of pounds were going out of the country, and though it was being done illegally, it could not be stopped. It was difficulty to put into operation a law that was not regarded favourably by a great majority of the people, and in that case he suggested that the position should be met by controlling and limiting the investment in sweepstake tickets.

The growth of the dental clinic work in Palmerston North was mentioned to a “Standard” representative to-day. It is proposed by the committee in charge to provide a new clinic at the Terrace End School, for which facilities are available according to a decision made by the School Committee on Tuesday evening. This it is planned, will provide lor the needs of several city and country schools. At the meeting of the Ten-ace End School Committee it was mentioned that the College Street School clinic was being closed down. This was not cori-ect as the Dental Clinic Committee pi-opose continuing this as usual. If facilities are established at Terraco End for the treatment of school children, the city will have its central clinic and two branch clinics.

“Some unions in the North Island seem to think that there are very few unions in the South Island which should be allowed to compete for the Itanfurly Shield,” said Mr Alan A. Adams, a New Zealand Rugby selector and manager of the West Coast team which played Canterbury on Saturday for the Ranfurly Shield, when speaking at a dinner held after the match. “I am not going to beat about the bush concerning tins attitude,” he added. “I think it is entirely wrong. For instance, the West Coast has proved that it is as capable of making as good a showing in the shield match .as any North Island union. Why any 'North Island union should think it has a prior right Ido not know. The shield was never intended to be exploited in that way.”

British railways carried 84,000,000 more passengers in 1934 than in 1933. Many counties in England have rateable values of more than £3,000,090.