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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1936, Page 6

The New Zealand National Flower Show will be held at the Ellerslie lacecourse this year. For the 11 months of 1935, ended November 30, retail sales in New South Wales showed an increase of 6 per cent upon those for the corresponding period of 1934. An ambitious glider flight, to Dunedin from some point in Canterbury yet to be decided upon is contemplated bv Mr Frank Rutherford, of Sheffield,” 40 miles from Christchurch, and plans are now being laid for the event. Air Rutherford proposes to use a glider built some time ago in Chnstc.itirch by Mr B. Owen. While training on the Waikato River Hamilton Rowing Club’s senior had an unpleasant experience, ikiff they, were rowing was swainp- . ~y the wash of a passing river steamer. To save the skiff, which is valued at £l2O. from damage, the crew and coxswain jumped into the water and, by swimming alongside, managed to land” a mile further downstream from the place where the mishap occurred. It is believed that the reason for the cessation of work at Onepoto, Lake Waikaremoana, is a fear that the tunnelling and other operations which were designed to stop leakage from the lake might have the effect of weakening the soil structure at the outlet, and that under pressure the lake might precipitate a major calamity. The waters of the lake are penned up hv a slip from Panekiri Bluff. Fears have been expressed that the operations in progress might cause the lake to break through, and it is understood that it was in order to secure first-hand impressions of the position that the Minister of Public Works (Hon. R Semple) inspected some of the shafts which had been sunk.

There are over 9000 names on the waiting list for employment in the railway service.

No trace has yet been found of the small car which was unlawfully removed from Palmerston North early last week. The New South Wales Main Roads Board, in its 10 years’ existence, has spent £29,124,000. Of this sum, £12,960,994 came from motor taxation, and £5,457,119 from the petrol falx. Of the expenditure, £13,889,854 has been spent on the construction of main roads and bridges, and £9,393,469 on their maintenance.

“We were perfectly amazed to find such countries at this side of the world,” 6aid Mr R. L. Brackett, of Oregon, a through-passenger by the Makura to San Francisco, after a tour of New Zealand and Australia. “New Zealand scenery, on the road down by Wairakei and Rotorua, is the most marvellous we have seen.”

Australian opinion is'not in the least antagonistic to the extension ot world mail and passenger services to New Zealand, but merely indifferent. New Zealand was expected to arrange its own connection and when it so wished, said Mr S. E. Neilson, secretary of the New Zealand Aero Clnb. who has just returned from a visit to Australia.

Though it was thought wool thefts had been checked, between 500 and 6001 b of wool were stolen from • a shed on the property of Mr Hamish A\ ilson, at Bulls, on Sunday’ night. It would probably require a lorry to remove this quantity’, which is valued at £2O, and farmers would be well advised to keep their sheds securely locked at night.

There is to be great rejoicing at Ratana pa next Saturday when, coincident with Ratana’s birthday, a niece of his from Hawera is to be married to a Hawke’s Bay resident. A big gathering is expected. Decorated lavishly in Ratana colours of blue and gold^the wedding cake is on view in a Wanganui window. Made in tiers the cake stands about three feet high.

An intimation has been made to the authorities concerned by Mr W. Howard Booth, of Wairarapa, that lie is prepared to donate a prize in the way of a cup for annual competition among Maori choirs. Last year some live or six such choirs took part in a competition at Torere, in the Bay of Plenty, the contest being intended to be the forerunner of an annual fixture.

On the mdtion of Cr W. G. Shannon, seconded by Cr. T. IX Lynch, the Kairanga County Council to-day decided to make representations to the Government that any future rebates of per cent on rates should apply to returned soldiers’ holdings. Cr Shannon explained that the rebate was not operative at present because the men secured work elsewhere. They had to do that because they’ could not keep a family on the few acres they had.

Owing to several delays caused by the exceptional size of the train, the Limited express from Auckland this morning arrived in Palmerston North approximately one hour late. The brakes had to*be attended to at Papakura and Mercer, and some time was lost at National Park. The train was some minutes late leaving Auckland and lost time steadily until Marten was reached. The weight of the train was approximately 370 tons. Tristan da Gunlia, the lonely island in the South Atlantic, midway between Capetown and South America, will receive a visit this month from the British cargo steamer Auditor. The ship, the first to call at the island for nearly a year, will leave Durban for South America, and has been ordered to call at the island by arrangement between her owners and the British Government. She will carry mails and gifts, including parcels of food and clothing.

That the establishment of a medical school at Auckland is essential if there are to be sufficient doctors available for hospital work in the future is the opinion of Mr AV. AVallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board and also chairman of the Hospital Boards’ Association. It was stated by Mr AA’allace that before tbe holidays the superintendent of the Auckland Hospital had sought 10 resident doctors and the number he had been able to obtain was only four.

Piloted by Squadron-Leader G. L. Stedman, the club’s pilot instructor, the Miles Hawk aeroplane, flown byMessrs McGregor and AValker in the centenary air race, arrived at Rongotai from Palmerston North at 5.45 p.m. yesterday, to join the fleet of the AA’ellington Aero Club. AA’ith the entry number “2” still in the rudder, a silent reminder of the part which the machine took in that great contest, the trim little low-wing- monoplane will be used for advanced training work.

Matters pertaining to the Kairanga County Council’s share of the cost of the new Fitzherbert bridge were discussed at to-day’s meeting of the council. It was stated that the agreement as to the cost had been made and could not be altered, but the council had paid a portion of the cost of that part of the bridge devoted to carrying the city’s water supply pipeline. However, the City Council had borne a portion of the cost of the new road formation on the county’s end of the bridge. “Business in Holland is bad, bad!” said Mr B. J. Baars, a Dutch man at present visiting AA’ellington. “AVe have cheese to sell, and we Have apples to sell, but we cannot because ot the high tariff walls. ‘ The whole of Europe is grown poor through too high duties. That will still be so, as long as the statesmen pile up the tariff walls. trade we have got to have: if one people wants to buy from another people, they must be able to, or the country will continue to suiter depression. You in New Zealand think that you are out of the depression, but as long as there is a depression in Europe you will be liable to slip back into that depression. That is, until free trade comes. Long years it will last, I think, before that is so.”

A “Standard” reader who usually spends his annual holiday at the seaside commented on his return to-day-on the conditions existing at sdm-e of the resorts. One would think in these advanced days of civilisation, he said, that sanitary conveniences would be more definitely marked at the various seaside resorts. “There are dozens of these popular watering places in New Zealand, most of them situated at a reasonable distance from the towns, and in only rare circumstances has this matter been looked into. Surely if the local inhabitants and the owners of these seaside cottages collaborated something could be done about the matter, which would enhance the popularity of the places and eliminate to ail advanced degree the risk of infection which 'is always present under such circumstances during the summer months. Prevalent at some ot the beaches this season has been a certain tvpe of infection which has attacked in the main the children. This has taken the form of small abscesses and, if not submitted almost immediately to medical attention, is apt to become rather serious, and at present there are -manv cases undergoing treatment in hospitals, particularly in \\ ellington. It has been attributed, m the opinion of one AVellington doctor, to a bite from an insect in the water.