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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 247, 16 September 1935, Page 6

An English setter pup which was exhibited at the ribbon parade of the Hutt Valley Kennel Club on Saturday has the distinction of having been transported to the show by aeroplane from Blenheim.

If the Government’s intentions are carried out without a hitch, the Budget will bo presented in the House of Representatives to-morrow evening by the Minister of Finance (lit. Hon. J. G. Coates;.

Comment on the wide loading of lorries in the Poliangina County war made at the monthly meeting of the County Council on Saturday. Or VY. McKay thought that the regulation width (10ft) was too wide for country roads. Several car owners had had the hoods of their vehicles ripped in passing loaded lorries recently, he said. Cr W. Howell remarked that when some lorries passed there was no roadway left. In connection with the soil survey of the Hawke’s Bay district which is to be undertaken, arrangements have been made for Flight Lieutenant Gerrand and Mr Piet Van Asch, of the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club, to make an aerial survey of the district as soon as weather permits. They are to operate from a height of 10,000 feet and provided conditions are suitable should be able to secure some excellent photographs which will reveal soil variations.

The opossum trapping season in the Gisborne district has been the most disappointing for years (says an , exchange) and a number of trappers gave up the work on account of the poor results. The position is due to exceptionally bad weather during three months of the open season, none of the trappers making large catches. Last month only 1027 skins were stamped by the Government officer at Gisborne, compared with 5787 in August last year, while for the first twelve days in September the respective figures were 1043 and 4505. Prices so far have shown little variation on last year’s, but an improvement is expected later in the season.

“We meet to-day under better conditions than have "existed during the past four years. On all sides we see signs of improvement. The most gratifying is with our primary products,"” commented Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., when officially opening the Palmerston North Horticultural Society’s Daffodil Show on Saturday afternoon. “We have very largely to rely upon the prices we receive for our exports,” he added. “We find butter to-day equal to a pay-out of Is IJd per lb. to the farmer. Wool has advanced and the same may be said of cheese and all classes of meats. If this continues, it means bringing more money into circulation and increasing the purchasing power of the people. I feel confident that we are now leaving the depression behind us, and that our ■ prospects for the future are very much brighter.”

A bigger, brighter, and better dance is scheduled for to-morrow night at the P.D.C. in aid of the Garrison Band. Lovers of a good dance should not, miss this opportunity of a pleasurable evening.

A commission is visiting Australia from Batavia to purchase nearly 300 horses for the military forces in Netherlands Indies.

One hundred more men are to be placed on the Lewis Pass road construction job in Canterbury immediately, bringing the total number employed there to 260. The carvers at the Ohinemutu School of Maori Arts and Crafts, Rotorua, have been busily occupied for some months on cai'vings for a new meetinghouse, which is to be erected at Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay. Drawn by two A.B. engines and having 14 cars, an excursion train from New Plymouth to Wellington passed through Palmerston North late yesterday afternoon on the return journey. It had about 500 passengers. It appears to be certain that reference will be made in the Budget to the preparation of a national housing scheme, and also to the introduction of a short-range scheme for placing large numbers of unemployed men on public works at standard rates of wages.

Over a fortnight’s fine weather combined with almost constant easterly gales has created an unprecedented position on the West Coast for September, and bush and scrub fires have been burning from Karamea in the north to the far south of Westland. Much damage has been done, including the destruction of a sawmill. Suffering from severe burns to his mouth and throat from caustic soda, a child, David Dobson, 18 months old and the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Dobson, of Pakowhai Road, Hastings, was admitted to the Hastings Memorial Hospital yesterday in a serious condition, but responded to treatment, and is now progressing in a satisfactory manner

In one feature, this year’s Budget will be outstanding. This is the time taken for its preparation. Mr Coates arrived back from England on August 18, and within a month he has completed wliat is probably the most important individual task of the Parliamentary year. In the same period he has had many other duties to attend to in connection with the various departments under his control.

Operations of the Wellington Aero Club during the year ended on June 30 resulted in a further loss of £315, a figure which is £ll6 less than that of the previous year, according to the club’s sixth annual report and balancesheet. “As has been the case in past years, this loss is duo to the crashing of machines, repairs under this heading amounting for the year to approximately £600,” says the report. The membership of the club stands at 310.

“There is a lot of talk about pacifism in our universities, and if the younger generation will not fight an aggressor, then this country that is ours will belong to someone else,” said Captain W. Palmer, at a reception at Auckland given by the Legion of Frontiersmen to Captain Roger Pocock, the legion’s founder. Captain Palmar said the Legion of Frontiersmen was composed of men, past their youth, who believed their country was worth fighting for. Unless signs have been misleading, civil servants may expect some degree of salary restoration (says a lobby correspondent, in commenting oil the coming Budget). There is a difference of opinion, however, as to the extent of the prospective restoration. It is said confidently that a restoration of at least 5 per cent, will be granted and probably made retrospective to April 1, which, of course, would yield a useful lump sum to the recipients. On the other hand, with almost equal confidence, it is predicted that there will be a restoration of 7\ per cent, as from the beginning of October.

“We pay out £9 a year, and no one appears to be able to enlighten me as to what benefit we as an association derive from the Royal Society,” observed Mr T. V. Caverhill at the monthly meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association, during the course of a discussion as to whether or not the association derived any benefit from its affiliation with the Royal Agricultural Society. Mr P. M. Compton said that from a national viewpoint the society was doing good work, but he could not see that it was of any benefit to the Masterton association. It was pointed out that the society was acting as Supreme Court Judges over all shows in New Zealand, but it could not muster 45 affiliations out of about 150 associations.

The increased prosperity of England was one of the wonders of the world to-day, said Captain R. G. Briscoe, AI.P. lor Cambridgeshire in the House of Commons since 1923 in an interview at Auckland. Ho had imagined that last year was the peak of prosperity, but recovery had gone on and England now employed more people than ever before in the history of the country. The manufacturing output was higher than ever before. AH this had been done when .world trade was at a standstill and it had also been done without decreasing the standard of living of the people. “This recovery is of great importance to New Zealand,” said Air Briscoe, “because New Zealand’s prosperity depends upon the prosperity of Britain.”

Referring to British statesmen in an interview at Auckland, Captain R. G, Briscoe, M.P. for Cambridgeshire, who is visiting New Zealand, said the new Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Samuel Hoare, is one of the ablest statesmen in England. His effort m getting the Government of India iiill passed was the most brilliant and exhausting achievement in the history or the British Parliament. “He has proved himself capable of handling the delicate Abyssinian trouble. The personal charm of Mr Anthony Eden, British Minister in Charge of League of Nations Affairs, has captivated the statesmen of Europe and has enhanced the prestige of British diplomacy. It is to him and Sir Samuel Hoare that the British Empire looks for peaceable settlement of the Itaio-Abyssmian dispute.”