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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 304, 21 November 1935, Page 8

The Waikato County Council is preparing a scheme of renewing bridges and tar-sealing roads at a cost of £70,000. ‘While ploughing his farm at Paraparaumu recently, Mr E. Richardson dug up an unusual medal. The medal is made of a silvery material, and is inches in diameter. On one side arc the words: “Presented to Jonas Woodward bv his Father,” and on the other: “A Reward of Merit for Arithmetic, Christmas, 1823.” A remark made by Mr Justice Callan during a discussion oil the speed of motor' cars at the Auckland Supreme Court may be worth making a note of by. motorists. His Honour said it was something of a general rule in arriving at the speed of a car over a short distance to multiply the number of miles per hour at which a car was travelling by one and a-half and the answer would give the speed in feet per second.

The “Standard’s” Rongotea correspondent writes: —“'Not all relief workers in the country consider that the present Government has been unfair to them, as was evidenced at the Labour candidate’s meeting at Rongotea last night. When quiestion time came a lady rose in the audience and proceeded to eulogise the Government in all that it had done and the many benefits it had conferred on those less fortunate in life. She considered there was very little to complain about. This is certainly a change to wliat one usually hears and reads in the newspapers.”

The chief poultry inspector of the Live Stock Division of the Department of Agriculture (Mr J. Cussen), who was present at the annual meeting of tlie North Island Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Association held in Palmerston North yesterday, was given a cordial welcome on behalf of the association by the president, Mr C. G. Thornton. In reply, Mr Cussen said that the association could count on the unqualified support of his department. Prior to his arrival, a motion to appoint Mr Cussen honorary patron of the association had been carried. “The Labour Party claim that they would have prevented the fall in incomes and prices by guaranteeing prices at the level they held before the depression,” stated the Minister of Finance (lit. Hon. J. G. Coates), when speaking at the State Theatre in Palmerston North yesterday. “However, if we take the average prices for the years 1926-27 to 1928-29, and the quantities actually exported between 192930 and 1934-35, the cost at current rates of exchange (i.e., 110 and then 125), would be £136,000,000. At par of exchange, the cost would he £200,000.000.”

]t was decided at a meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, yesterday, to send a letter to the City Council expressing the opinion that the old barn situated on the board’s property in Cuba Street, Palmerston North, should be removed, as the board derived no revenue from it. The matter arose out of a letter received from Mr A. Jensen asking that the barn remain, as he would like to rent it. Colonel Whyte asked what the position had been in the past, and whether they were going to get any revenue. Mr G. N. Boulton (secretary) pointed out that, although the building was on the board s property, the council had collected any rent accruing.

Christmas cakes! Now is the time to prepare for your Christmas cooking. We have a range of cake tins, in round and square shapes, with non-burn bottoms from 3d each. Sponge roll tins 9d and la 3d each. Biscuit cutters in all designs. Bridge cutters, hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades, etc., I'd ’each. Icing sets. Ice your own cakes, pure aluminium complete with 4 different shaped tips. Easy to use. Our price Is 6d each. Procurable only at, Collinson and bon, Ltd., Broadway.—Advt.

The total amount raised in the Salvation Army’s self-denial appeal this year was £22,029, an increase of £750 on last year’s figure. At 10.36 a.m. to-day the Palmerston North Fire Brigade received a call to the Royal Hotel, but, though the alarm was justified, it was found that tile brigade’s services were not required. “People in New Zealand take a great pride in their fences,” said Mr Michael Johnson, of Manchester, when interviewed at New Plymouth. Mr Johnson said he had been through the United States, Canada; the Argentine, Britain and South Africa, and he considered that the fencing in New Zealand was better than in any other part of the world.

Swept from his horse in a flooded stream at Waimatenui, 38 miles from Dargaville, a Maori had a narrow escape from drowning. Particularly heavy rain, had fallen, more than an inch being recorded in an hour in some localities, and the man was trying to ford what a short time before had been a small creek. He was found some time later clinging to the bank.

Taking advantage of the interest schoolboys generally are showing in the All Blacks’ tour, several Taranaki school teachers have placed an outline map of the British Islesj on one of the walls of a classroom at the Lower Mangorei School. As each match is played the town is marked in its correct position on the map and at the same time indelibly imprinted on the minds of the pupils. No further slips have occurred in the Manawatu Gorge, but rocks continue to roll down periodically, and the face of the cliff where the trouble has occurred recently is subject to close surveillance as vehicles are about to passi Boulders lodged in precarious positions are being removed by workmen before they crash on to the road, and on account of the risks many motorists are using the Pahiatua Track in preference to the Gorge Road. In January members of tho Boys’ Ethnological Club attached to the Auckland Institute and Museum will spend some days at Opitu, Mercury Bay. The object of the camp is to give the boys an opportunity of studying Maori life, and the birds, shellfish and plants used as food by the Maoris. There will bo carried out a search for Maori artifracts, and the numerous old pas on the hills surrounding Opitu will be visited and studied.

“Tho world depression hit other countries as well as New Zealand, and Denmark, who cannot produce butter under Is 3d per lb., has been hit very hard,” remarked Dr. H. E. Annett, Democrat candidate for Waikato, when speaking at Morrinsville. He added that in his opinion Denmark would not for some time be able to compete as seriously as before, and with Germany buying greater quantities of butter there was every prospect that the price would not drop materially for some time.

The arrangements being made for tho expedition to observe the total eclipse of the sun at the Phoenix Islands (Pacific Ocean, about 600 miles north of Fiji) in 1937 were described at the annual meeting of the Kaitaia Astronomical Society by Mr C. B. Michie. of Kaitaia. Air Michie said that he was in communication with scientists in various parts of the world, arranging for the necessary authority, equipment, and transport. The Scientific Research Department and the British astronomers, as well as others, were giving valuable assistance and advice. He had recently received cabled advice that Sir Frank Dyson and Professor Stratton, eminent British astronomers, were supporting his application for the large British camera which was used by the New Zealand party in 1930, and which would be sent on after the approaching eclipse in Japan. Air Alichie had the experience of erectin'- and using this instrument on the former occasion. There would be several smaller instruments which would be used in special supplementary work. The New Zealand authorities, said Air Alitchie, had already promised the loan of various equipment, including a portable radio, which was desirable, as the Phoenix Islands were, now Uninhabited.