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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 42, 18 January 1936, Page 6

It is estimated that workers in New South Wales have lost £5,000,000 in wages through strikes in the last seven years.

Estate* valued for probate at more than £25,000,000 passed through the offices of the Australian Registrar of Probate during 1935.

During the strong wind at Thames on Tuesday evening a 30ft wooden demonstration tower on the foreshore reserve used by the local fire brigade, collapsed. The structure had recently been repaired in view of the forthcoming South Auckland competitions to be held at the gold centre.

Difficulty is being experienced by the Vocational. Guidance Association at Dunedin at present in securing employment for boys and girls. The secretary reports that shops have dispensed with most of the extra employees engaged for the Christmas rush period, clothing factories and manufacturers are not yet fully under way and the fruit-pickers appear to require fewer hands than last year.

An exceptionally large Maori food howl, or kumeti, has been presented to the ’Auckland Museum by Mr C. C. Munro, of Clevedon. One of the largest in the Museum’s collection, it has been carved out of a solid block of wood, possibly puriri, and is believed to be over 100 years old. Another of the Museum’s recent acquisitions is a wooden cultivator, or timo, with which the Maoris would squat alongside their kumara crops and grub the soil. Interesting deep-sea exhibits have been presented to the Auckland War Memorial Museum by Mr W. Foster, chief engineer of the cable steamer Recorder. During the Recorder’s recent work in the Tasman Sea on the Australian coast Mr Foster gathered a number of specimens of marine growth which were picked up by the ship’s grappling iron. One is a piece of rock formation, a manganese nobule, taken from the ooze which lies 2750 fathoms down and about 200 miles from the coast of Australia. There are also some beautiful pieces of -delicate lace and fan coral from a depth of 45 fathoms. The great “Lavac” sanitation crystals. Campers and picnickers!! Include a tin of these wonderful crystals in your sundry kit. Removes all odours by chemically consuming the refuse, eliminating flies and other disease carrying insects from garbage tins, closets, drains, etc. Take a tin to the beach cottage. Is 3d tin only at Collinson and Son, I.td., Broadway. Palmerston North.—Ad vt.

,! A bottle believed to have been thrown from a South African troopship 35 years ago was found on the Western Australian coast. A sight witnessed in the main street of Woodvilie .yesterday morning had not occurred for about sixty years — that of cows grazing on the vacant site previously occupied by the Club Hotel, which was burned down. Piloted by Flight-Lieutenant S. BurI veil, the Vickers-Vildebeeste torpedo bomber, an Ah' Force machine which was here last Wednesday, returned from Gisborne yesterday, and at 10.20 a.m. to-day left Milson Aerodrome for its home base at Christchurch. Two fire engines were called out when a motor car skidded and struck a telegraph post carrying a firm alarm in Thorndon Quay, Wellington, last night. The force of the impact broke the post, which fell to the ground, thus putting the file alarm into operation, and within a few minutes the fire engines were on the scene. At the reception to the New South Wales bonders at Parliament Buildings, Wellington, yesterday, a speaker remarked on the intrinsic value of such a tour to the country. Between two and three thousand pounds would be spent in New Zealand during the month they were in the Dominion. There were 25 in the party. In entering a plea of guilty on behalf of Cecil Simpson, a shopkeeper, charged on summons in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court with Sunday trading, Mr Fawcett complained about an old provision in the Police Offences Act, which stated that only milk could be sold on Sundays. “My client sold eggs and that is why he i 6 charged here to-day,” said counsel. The Magistrate (Mr R: McKean) declared that “it really does seem an absurdity that milk can be sold and not cream, eggs and butter. Surely, dairy produce includes eggs and cream and butter?” However, he imposed a fine of 10s. Mr Philip H. Ross, a former South African policeman, was ordered by his doctor in 1928 to go for a long walk. That was in order to get his nerves put right after having been mauled by a lion. His walk, which he began with 15s in his pocket, has carried him 38,000 miles to various parts of the world- —19,758 miles on foot. And in his nerve-settling travels he lias had the most nerve-racking experiences. He arrived at Napier, New Zealand, at 9 a.m. on February 3, 1931. At 10-.47 ail earthquake killed ‘zso people. Near Rangoon, in the jungle, a 16ft python dropped on him and started to squeeze him to jfiiip. His rucksack, however, took the greater part of the pressure, and when the snake shifted its hold Mr Ross was able to shoot it. Then he fainted. In Chicago he found himself between two parties in a gang fight, and lie lay, unharmed, in the middle of the street, while machine-gun bullets hummed over his body. But his “nerves” have been cured!