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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 43, 20 January 1936, Page 6

Mushrooms in and around Wanganui have made, an early appearance this year as the result ot recent warm rains. As yet, growths are isolated.

Keen interest in the handsome D.H. 86 airliners was.evinced by the large crowd which visited the Milson airport yesterday to inspect them, and many enjoyed pleasure cruises over the city.

The Sunday excursion trains between Palmerston North and Wellington have been very popular of late and it is estimated that 700 passengers came from Wellington yesterday, while the remarkable total of 500 went from Palmerston North south.

Employees in the Pahiatua county have, in the past, received a- half-holi-day on race days and show days, but at Saturday’s meeting Of the Coiinjty Council it was pointed out by Cr. Lasserf that a half-day was of little use to employees who lived some distance out of town, and he moved that a full day be granted. Cr. Hodgins seconded the motion, which was carried.

In attempting to swim around a river steamer moored at the Hamilton wharf, Sylvia Hill, aged 11, was drowned 1 in the Waikato River yesterday afternoon. The child wa6 swimming with friends and disappeared at. the rear of the boat. She has not been seen since and the dragging of the river has so far been unsuccessful.— Press Association.

Despite the fact that the Christmas and New’ Yepr holidays are now over and many people are settling down to work again,* the Railway Department is still feeling the pressure of holiday travel. As indicative of this the express from Napier to Wellington today had an extra two cars to cope with the traffic, and both of these were taking capacity loads. At a meeting of the Pahiatua County Council, on Saturday, a letter was read from the Unemployment Board stating that the board would assume responsibility under the Workers’ Compensation Act in cases where men are engaged in eradicating rag-, wort and other noxious weeds. It V as noted, however, that this ruling did not apply in cases where the relief labour was being used by State Departments on Crown lands, which carry the risk themselves. The letter was received.

The opinion was expressed by the chairman of the Pohangina County Council (Cr. S. J. Strahan), at the monthly meeting of the council, on Saturday, that the present generation of ratepayers had paid a just amount in many districts for roading amenities, and that any further costs should be borne by those who would reap the greatest amounts of good from improvements, which were of. a, permanent nature. The present ’ generation had provided the rates for the building up of reserves and buying of plant, and lie did not see why the cost of permanent improvements should not be undertaken bv those who would use them most, through the raising of loans. The sealing of the road between Kim bolt on and Cheltenham was cited as an instance by. the speaker. The road was in another county, but was an example of work being done for the future and, not so much for ,the present.

Attracted by a squealing noise in their garden recently, seme Levin residents, upon investigating, found a stoat in tile •’■rip of the family cat, in direct opposition to the theory that cats as a rule are more than respectful of these vicious animals. In this case the cat soon made short work of its victim.

Ten chains of willow planting, done at Hamilton’s Bend by the ManawatuOroua. River Board recently for protection work, has produced a most favourable result so far. it was reported at a meeting of the board to-day. 'I he frees had made an excellent strike, said Mr J. Callesen, and the whole plantation had been fenced.

“We are charmed with Palmerston North,” stated Mr T. W. Heath, president of the New South Males Bowling Association, when replying to the welcome accorded by the Manawatu centre to the visiting party of Australian bowlers this morning. “The city appears to be quite alive,” he •added, “and the shops are the equal of any in our own country, I like the city’s outlook generally.” The appeal of a London girl to the Mayor of Dunedin (Rev. E. 'l'. Cox) that he should help her to find a husband has resulted in complications. It would seem that the suggestion that the Mayor’s office resembles a “matrimonial agency” has been taken seriously. Several New Zealand girls have requested introductions to men who replied to the London girl’s inquiry. Welcoming the ladies travelling with the visiting New South ‘Wales bowlers who played at the Palmerston North green, this morning, the president of the Manawatu Centre (Mr J. A. Nash) said the wives of bowlers were good mascots. Their presence on the bank had a stimulating effect on their husbands, who knew that if they did not. play well, thev would hear about it later. (Laughter.) Dissatisfaction with the standard of the doctors’ degrees of the University of New Zealand other than those in medicine and dentistry, is indicated in a notice of motion given to the University Senate by Professor H. G. Denham. The motion that. Professor Denham p:oposes is that the Academic Board be asked to report upon the steps necessary for raising the standard of doctors’ degrees other than those in medicine and dentistry. When in conversation with a member of the New South Wales bowling party which arrived in Palmerston North yesterday a “Standard” reporter was informed that Hon. F. Langstone, the new Minister in charge of the Tourist and Publicity Department, was taking a very keen interest in the work of the department. It was the Minister’s hope to cater to an even greater extent lor the overseas tourist and to make tours in the Dominion even more attractive.

At the monthly meeting of the Pahiatua County Council, on Saturday, a letter was received from the Minister of Finance informing the council that the Mortgagors Final Adjustment Act expressly bound the Crown, and that priority in favour of rates accordingly applied to ail mortgages, whether Crown oi' otherwise. Tne council decided that the county clerk make direct representation concerning the payment of the current year’s rates in all cases where stay orders had been granted by the Mortgage Commission. The generosity and sympathy of those who themselves know what it is to be in want has often been commented on, and an illustration of this is afforded by an incident in the campaign to raise funds for the’ endowment of the Wilson Home for Crippled Children, Auckland. An appeal oil behalf of these children to the No. 1 branch of the Franklin Unemployed Workers’ Association lias brought a contribution of £3, to which over 30 members of the association contributed. A number of these men have been on relief work for three or four years. A direct weekly air connection between ’Wellington and Sydney by Sikorsky Clipper flying-boats for the first three months of the service, as an experiment, is part of the plan of the Trans-Tasman Air Service Development Coy., Ltd., now being considered by Cabinet.. The company plans to fly twice weekly in each direction. The headquarters of the company’s flying operations will be in Auckland, and the intention is to fly the service in each direction on Tuesdays and Fridays. During the first three months, one flight will be to and from Wellington, and on the alternate day to and from Auckland.