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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 8, 7 December 1935, Page 6

Wednesday was an outstanding one in the history of Raglan, electricity being switched on in the district tor the first time.

A statute passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth was invoked in a case heard before, Mr Justice Reed in the Hamilton Supreme Court, when a motion to declare a mortgage void was brought before the Court by. the Official Assignee.

Organised by the British National Union in association with the Overseas League, a round-the-world tour of Empire primary producers is to be organised early next year. The tour, which will embrace New Zealand, will open on January 10, when the liner Mooltan will leave London. The tourists will reach Auckland on February 28 and Palmerston North on March 7. A sad misfortune has befallen the Christchurch Cathedral, says the Church News. The great bells of the peal have not been rung for some months past, because there are insufficient, if any, bellringers left to ring them. For some time before that, the Bellringers’ Guild was active, chiefly because of the help of English lingeis settled in the city. Unhappily they have drifted away one by one to other parts in pursuit of work, and the remnant of the guild is insufficient to carry on.

Keen interest in the seating arrangements in the House of Representatives is beinv evinced by some of the new Labour°members of Parliament. In several'cases they have already ticketed with their names the desks which they desire to be reserved for them. Under Parliamentary tradition the allocation of seats on both sides of the Chamber is invariably left to the respective whips of Government and Opposition. In the event of any dispute between members who may favour the same desk, the question is referred to Mr Speaker, whose decision must be final.

What is said to be a coincidence in connection with the new Prime Minister of New Zealand and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, (Mr Baldwin) has been discovered by one who is interested in such matters, says an exchange. Recently pictures of both statesmen which appeared at different times in Auckland papers show that both wear boots and not, as might be expected, shoes’ It is known that Mr Savage always favours boots, but the picture of Mr Baldwin sitting at the fireside of Chequers wearing boots came as a surprise to manv, who had been reading in the Home papers that shoes were rapidly replacing boots by city dwellers, and that for one person wearing boots nearly twenty people wore shoes. The New Zealand Labour Leader and the British Prime Minister have at least this one thing in common.

Christmas cakes 1 Now is the time to prepare for your Christmas cooking. We have a large range of calm tins, in round and square shapes, with non-burn bottoms from 3d each. Sponge roll tine 9d and Is 3d each. Biscuit cutters in all designs. Bridge cutters hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades, etc., lid’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 Collmson and bon. Ltd., Broadway. —Advt.

Wanganui is to celebrate its centenary in 1940 and plans are already in shape for the purpose of building up a centenary fund with the object of making fitting celebration when the occasion arises. It is the intention of the new Government to pay a tribute to its former leader, the late Mr H. E. Holland, by the unveiling of a monument to his memory at the head of his grave in Wellington. A well-known Auckland sculptor is engaged on the work of preparing the monument. The extremely strong south and south-east winds which have prevailed practically throughout the past fortnight caused most lakes to he totally unfishable at times, and prevented anglers from operating in many of the favourite places in the Rotorua and other lakes, states the conservator of fish and game. The Free Ambulance received a call yesterday to attend Mr Horace Payne, aged 58, a labourer, who was working on a bet of discs on the property of Mr Jamieson, on Flyger’s Line, when he was jolted off the seat and had his leg caught under a knife. The calf of the leg was painfully gashed and Mr PaYne was conveyed to the Hospital. Wellington possesses a family of enthusiastic chess players and five of the nine members were included in the city team which met the Horowhenua Chess League at Levin. They were Mr J. L. Goldsmith, his wife, two sons and one daughter. All save the latter, a girl of 12, who was matched against an old and experienced player, were successful. To pick 1100 lemons off one tree and still leave about 50 on its branches has been the experience this season of Mr G. R. Wright, Of Wellington Street, Pukekohe. Mr Wright decided to count the lemons when he heard of a grower taking 500 from one tree. Ho has been astonished at the result. Lemons have been extremely plentiful this year throughout the Franklin district.

The police report that Anselm John Howarth, aged 17, has been missing from his home in Featherston Street since 12.45 p.m. on Monday. He is sft Bin in height, of slim build, sallow complexion, with dark brown hair (fairly long and brushed back and parted in the centre), blue-grey eyes, sharp features, arid walks with a slight stoop. He was dressed in dark grey trousers, brown and white cheek tweed sports coat, black shoes, but no hat. Great overcrowding exists in Hong Kong, where the only home of many of the people is a bunk six feet by 27 inches m one of the large five-storey houses, said Rev. L. N. Watkins, who lias been doing missionary work in China, in an address at Christchurch. He said that a monthly rental of about 3s 6d was paid for these hunks, which were about four deep on the walls. The person who occupied the lowest bunk would generally let the ground space below it at a rental of about Is. The occupants would keep all their belongings in the bunks. Many people, too, slept out in the open, and 600 persons had onoe been counted in an area half a mile square. All Ministerial secretaries who served under the last Government will retain their rank and status with Labour in power. Owing to the different allocation of portfolios a different grouping of secretarial posts has been found necessary in cases where Ministers have more than one secretary. Only one 'additional appointment has been made to the secretarial corps, that of Mr H. O. Holland, son of the late Labour leader, Mr H. E. Holland, who was private secretary to both his father and Mr M. J. Savage during their respective terms as Leader of the Opposition. He lias been retained as an additional private secretary to the Prime Minister.