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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 303, 20 November 1935, Page 6

It is expected that the Dominion War Memorial Museum and National Art Gallery, at Wellington, will be opened next Juno or July. A suggestion that memorial plaques of some type should be affixed to the various premises in Britain which, during the war years, served as hospitals for the treatment of New Zealand soldiers, was made in Gisborne by Dr A. L. Singer, who addressed Rotarians on his impressions of a recent visit to England. Approximately 10,000 electoral clerks will be employed by the State on the general election day, November 27. There will be 3641 polling places throughout the Dominion with 4610 booths. It is estimated that the cost of taking the Parliamentary poll and the national liquor licensing poll will be £70,000. “It is to be hoped that all representations made will receive just as prompt attention,” commented the president (Mr A. J. Graham) at the annual meeting of the Chamber oh Commerce, yesterday afternoon, when the intimation (published in the final edition of the “Standard” last evening) was read that additions to the savings bank branch of the Palmerston North Post Office were to be undertaken. He commented that the information was very gratifying, as improved facilities were badly needed.

An unaccountable falling-off in the supply of eggs from her flock of hens puzzled a suburban housewife in Christchurch recently, and the shadow of the cooking pot crept closer as day succeeded day without eggs. One day, however, the owner collected a bowl full of eggs and left it by the door while she went about her duties. Returning she found the eggs had disappeared and put the loss down to rats. The mystery was solved when a neighbour caught her fox terrier carefully carrying away an egg to bo eaten at leisure. A special egg, containing the timehonoured mustard and pepper mixture effectively cured the dog of stealing the neighbour’s eggs. An hotel which cost £1,000,000 set in grounds which cost £1,000,000 —such is Gleneagles, wher Mr John Humphries and Miss June Humphries, of Napier, stayed during their visit to (Scotland. Mr Humphries stated that Gleneagles was a centre of sport, there being three separate golf courses, each perfectly maintained, tennis courts, swimming baths, and facilities for every game imaginable. He was particularly impressed with the fact that children of all ages played golf enthusiastically and well. It was the usual thing to see children of eight years swinging clubs and hitting drives which would be the envy of adults several times their age who had taken up the Royal and Ancient game at a later stage in life.

A total of 6408 ounces of gold was produced on the West Coast and entered for export from New Zealand during September, 1935.

An average of more than ono new house per week for Napier has now been maintained for several years, and from present indications it would appear that this figure is likely to be increased in the near future. For a number of years the children of a Wellington family have donated the proceeds of their Guy Fawkes collection to the Red Cross Society, the total monetary gifts being more than £3. The society has received 7s this year and has'warmly acknowledged the gift.

The service officer of the Manawatu Automobile Association (Mr V. Crichton) brought to the notice of that body last evening the fact that the name “Pahiatua Track” conveyed a wrong impression to visiting motorists. The use of the word “track,” said Mr Crichton, led motorists to believe that the road presented nothing more than an unmetalled surface.

During his stay in Melbourne, Mr F. J. Nathan, who returned to the Dominion this week, visited the Royal Show, which was held in the Victorian capital from September 19 to 28. As a memento of the occasion he brought back with him a catalogue containing no less than 560 pages which had been retailed at ono shilling. Special train arrangements were made for the transport of intending patrons and one could travel from the heart of the city to the showgrounds, some seven miles out, for two shillings, tho fare including the cost of admission to the show itself.

The opinion that if Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s ’plane had crashed in the Burmese jungle on its recent flight to Australia there was little hope of the pilots being discovered alive was expressed by an officer of the British steamer Mandalay, which is berthed at Castlecliff (Wanganui). The officer, who has spent many years in Burmese waters, said that the jungle was impenetrable and was infested with snakes and tigers. If the ’plane had crashed, the force of the impact would probably carry it well into the bush and it might be years before the wreckage was discovered. A hint that there might be an ulterior motive to Italy’s campaign in Abyssinia was given by Miss Phyllis Brodie, of London, in an address which she delivered at the annual meeting of the Timaru Young Women’s Christian Association. Miss Brodie, who was in Egypt in 1929 and 1930, said that King Fuad’s advisers had been educated in Italy, and he was friendly to the Italians. At that time there had been a rumour that Italy had her eyes on that part of the world. “Even now I am not so sure that she still has not, but is approaching from a different direction,” remarked Miss Brodie. Substantial bequests for the building of the Anglican Cathedral at Wellington and to the Wellington branch of the Salvation Army are provided for in the will of Mr Martin Elgar, late of Kelburn, who died recently, which was yesterday sworn for probate at under £34,001). After certain legacies and bequests a life interest in the remainder is given to the testator’s widow. On her death the whole residue of the estate is given as to onehalf to the Wellington Diocesan Board of Trustees upon trust for the fund for building the Anglican Cathedral, at Wellington, and as to the other half upon trust for the Wellington branch of the Salvation Army.