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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 257, 27 September 1935, Page 8

Irrigation schemes that will serve 17,900 acres ot the poorer class of farm land in South Canterbury are in course of construction by the Public Works Department under its Canterbury irrigation officer. The New Zealand-owned freezing companies in the South Island have forwarded, to Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates (Minister of Finance) a message of appreciation in connection with the part lie played in the meat negotiations at Home. The waiving of the charge of £1 for reconnecting telephones which have been relinquished was sought by Mr T. D. Burnett in the House of Representatives this week. Mr Burnett said that during the depression many subscribers had been compelled to give up their telephones, and that many would come back if the department’s charge were waived.

A copy of an exceedingly precious ecclesiastical manuscript, a thirteenth century -psalter valued at £15,000, has been received by the dean and chapter of Christchurch Cathedral. The copy, which itself cost £25 to produce, has been given by Mrs Emily Stannus, formerly of Christchurch, and has been sent from Canterbury, England. It is one of a limited number- which have been made by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, and contains the autograph of the Archbishop of Canterbury, with his good wishes.

“It is obviously absurd that in a sparsely-populated and undeveloped country like New Zealand there should be unemployment at all,” said Mr J. S. Dawes, who presided at the annual meeting of the Auckland Provincial Employers’ Association. “Instead of our people being trained for the life prospect before them—the development and settlement of the country—they have been encouraged to settle in the towns and cities which, by lavish expenditure and borrowed money, have grown out of all proportion to the development of the land.”

“Unless we have more close seasons it will not bo worth while taking out a license, for the oppossum is becoming very scarce in most localities,” declared Mr T. Andrews, ranger of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, in a report to last evening’s meeting of the Palmerston North branch. “The opossum season has not been good regarding the number of skins taken by trappers, but the quality has been much above the average,” he stated. “It was usual a few years ago for two trappers to take anything from 750 to 1200 skins m a six weeks’ season, and I have known •men to clear from £2OO to £3OO in that time.”

“A remarkable increase in the development of motor transport in the Dominion is revealed in the registration of private motor vehicles for 1935 which totalled 93,438, compared with 80,290 for 1934, an increase of 13,148,” said the president (Mr D. J. Wesnev), at the annual meeting of the Automobile Association (Southland). “It must, therefore, appear that the present is an opportune time to consider such important matters as a national safety first campaign, compulsory action against glaring headlights and faulty brakes, and the lighting of overhang or loads on motor vehicles. These matters will receive consideration by the South Island Motor Union.”

| A two-storeyed flat-roofed house in I course of erection in Palmerston North, tile architecture of which differs materially from anything yet seen in thi,s city, is a source of interest to passing | people. ! _ The 1935 health stamps will be on I issue but a few months, and are expected to be eagerly sought by philatelists throughout the world. Used sixpenny Jubilee stamp,s are said to be unprocurable at Is 6d. | The puawananga and the pikiarero, two of the native clematis, each climb- ! ing round the long fronds of graceful mamaku trees, are striking features iof the hill-top home of Mrs T. It. i Moore, “Waimarama,” Terrace End, j where the members of the Townswomen’s Guild were recently entertained. In the. House of- Representatives yesterday Mr j; A. Nash, M.P., gave notice to ask whether the PostmasterGeneral would arrange with the Broadcasting Board to exempt B stations from copyright charges for gramophone records. Unless some action was taken certain B stations would have to go off the air, Mr Nash said. An opinion that the coming angling season would prove satisfactory to Manawatu fishermen was expressed at last evening’s meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society by the ranger (Mr T. Andrews). “I think most of the streams will fish very well, especially the smaller ones, and the Kahuterawa in particular. I will not say they are big fish, but the streams are well stocked with fair fish,” he stated. There lias been an increase in the circulation of Hansard, the official record of Parliamentary debates, accordling to the annual report of the Printing and Stationery Department, 'presented in the House of Representatives. For the year ended last March .the number of subscribers was 134, and the amount received from subLscribers and sales was £156; for the previous year the number of subscribers was 115, and the revenue from sales £ll7. Many interesting, relics repose in Parliament Buildings, Wellington. They include a rose given to Queen Victoria by the Prince Consort, and which she pressed, a lock of her hair, cut in 1829 before she ascended the Throne, in an Almanac de Gotha presented to her on her coronation day in 1838. Among the other relics are the pen and seal used by Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey at the signing of the Peace Treaty at Versailles in 1919, and a wall ash-tray made of timber used in the reign of Richard II in the roof of Westminster Hall. Business houses throughout the Dominion are making excellent use of the facilities provided by the appointment of Mr R. H. Nesbitt as Trade Commissioner for Australia'in New Zealand. Mr Nesbitt said at Christchurch that since he had been appointed to the position he had received about 1000 enquiries from various commercial houses in New Zealand, all of them being interested in the development of trade with Australia. He felt that the plan for the improvement of trade relations between the two countries was working out as had been intended.

In beautiful words the Poet Laureate, Mr John Masefield, spoke recently of the higher reality, he said: — The world is only a shadow of a reality, so beautiful that words cannot tell its beauty, so wise that words cannot disguise its wisdom; so glorious that man can hardly bear to think of it. At certain moments of illumination the reality of the world becomes apparent and its glory so magical that you have to cry aloud what you can of its wonder. At great times of the world men have driven over its confines and have walked with divine companions who have come through into Jiie. “There is no charity more worthy of the interest of kindly-hearted people than the building-up to healtn and strength of undernourished and sickly children,” said Mr Byron Brown, vice-president of the Wellington Children s Health Camp Association, who presided at the annual meeting in Wellington. Dr. Gibbs referred to the extreme difficulty of carrying on the Otaki camp during last year because of financial problems. The camp was not run anvwhere near its capacity for 100 children, the average having been about 40 or 50. It was hoped that the forthcoming health stamp campaign would place the camp, and others, on an improved financial basis. Though it has been noticed in New Zealand that a number of returned soldiers are only now beginning to feel the full effects of their war service, there lias been a distinct improvement in the health of “nerve” cases among English returned men in the last few years, Dr D. Arnold Lyndon, 0.8. E., who was medical officer in charge of one of the war hospitals from 1914 to 1918, told a Wellington reporter yesterday. There were certainly a very large number of men who would never be able to work again, said Dr Lyndon, but there had been a distinct improvement in the condition of many “nerve” cases, and it had been noticeable that an encouraging proportion of them had been absorbed into work. The worst period for these men had been the first 10 years after the war.