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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 46, 23 January 1936, Page 6

New Zealanders have won the first and second prizes ill a Tasmanian consultation, which was drawn on Monday, January 6. “Sheep Oh.” Hastings, ticket No. 7.6.532, won the first prize of £12,000. r l he second puze of £2OOO was drawn by the “Unlucky Six Syndicate,” of ltangaroa Taumarnnui, witji ticket No. 190.439. There were no othei New Zealanders among the first ten prizewinneis. The New Plymouth Harbour Board lias received a request for from 10 to 50 tons of Taranaki iron-sand from the New Zealand agent of an English iron and steel manufacturing firm, r lie letter stated that successful laboratory tests had been made of iron-sand and as a result of these experiments it had been decided to make a bulk test If this proved as successful as was' expected it was proposed to establish a manufacturing plant in New Zealand.

A wedding which was to have been solemnised in Wanganui yesterday was postponed out of respect to the memory. of King George. An extensive sewerage programme, involving an expenditure of nearly £6,000,000, has been approved by the Sydney Water Board.

A catch of 90 trout in three days by two rods is reported from Taupo. The fish (says the Waikato Times) were in excellent condition, and the tally is believed t° be a record for the season.

Lord Barnby has described as “archaic” the prejudice against immigration that exists in some quarters in Australia. The problem, he says, needs intelligent study, and should be tackled in a thorough manner by the Commonwealth. A email Dutch boy who, in the course of his nine years of life, has already crossed the equator 30 times and has enjoyed *ll the experiences of a hardened globe trottef, arrived at Auckland by the Niagara. He is Jacob Grool, the son of Captain Grool. Many early settlers spent a pleasant afternoon exchanging reminiscences at the annual reunion of the Early Settlers’ Association of Wellington yesterday. The huge cake was cut by Mrs E. Irwin, aged 92, who displayed a keen interest in the proceedings. A special visitor was Mr John Kilmister, who is in his 100th year, and who came to New Zealand in 1841 in the ship Lady Nugent. After being accustomed for the past 26 years to observing June 3 as a holiday in recognition of the birthday of the late King George, the Empire will for the extent of King Edward’s reign celebrate the King’s birthday on Juno 23. The new date will make it necessary for a rearrangement of many official and sporting fixtures which have already been included in lists of events. This year June 3 will fall on a Wednesday and June 23 on a Tuesday. A plea for the widening of the study of history in schools to cover the whole history of the human race was made by Mr L. J. Wild when speaking in the University Senate at Auckland. “It is a mistake,” lie said, “to continue to begin the study of history with young people as though the only history worth studying was the history of the British race.’ I think they should have on the widest possible basis the history of the development of the human race.” A minor accident occurred at the intersection of George and Cuba Streets yesterday afternoon, when Miss Mavis Newman, of David Street, accompanied by Miss C. Eccles, of Lourke Street, who was on horseback, was involved in a collision with a motor car driven by Mr N. Williamson, of Waldegrave Street. Miss Newman was thrown from her bicycle and suffered numerous bruises. The horse was slightly cut on the leg and the bicycle damaged considerably.

fo-day a poll was being taken on the raising of £BOO by the No. 4 separate area of the Manawatu-Oroua River Board to be applied to the completion of banking at Hamilton’s Line and the erection of 27 chains of banking at llangiotu. The security for the loan will be an annual rate- of 2d per acre in the area, and the provision for the repayment of the loan is a sinking fund of £3 10s per cent. If the loan is authorised by the ratepayers concerned it has then to be placed before the Local Bodies Loans Board for their authority to proceed. Specimen sets of New Zealand, coins, including New Zealand’s first crown piece, dated 1935, have arrived in the Dominion and are being distributed to collectors and others. The design of the crown commemorates the Treaty of Waitangi and shows a Maori chief shaking hands with Governor Hobson under a Royal Crown, symbolising the joining together under the Crown of the Maori and British races. The Maori is holding a taiaha in his left hand and Governor Hobson is in full naval uniform. The Maori word Waitangi appears in the exergue, where the date usually appears. The date is 1935; Jubilee year.

Wlien the Governor-General Lord Galway, arrived at Parliament Buildings yesterday afternoon to attend the meeting of the Executive Council which had been made necessary by the death of King George, the flags flying above the main entrance were arranged in a manner which has not been seen in Wellington since the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. The black pennant and the New Zealand ensign which had been displayed were lowered and were then run up again after a Union Jack had been superimposed on them. This order of flags—Union Jack, pennant and New Zealand ensign—was run up as soon as Lord Galway arrived and was changed again to the pennant above the ensign as soon as he left. The firing of the Royal salute of 70 guns in Wellington harbour by H.M.S. ■Wellington yesterday, was loud enough to shake the windows of houses, rattle crockery and cupboard doors, and drive almost every' dog in that quarter quaking and whining to its kennel. Loud as the naval salute sounded, that of the military authorities at Point Jerningham was louder. The first gun took by surprise the occupants of one of the nearer houses, only about 100 yards away. The faithful watchdog, a cocker spaniel puppy, bolted into a clipboard. After the first half-dozen explosions, the occupants of the house hastily retreated to the shelter of Evans Bay, and did not return until after the firing, which ceased at 11.50. The firing of the whole 140 guns took two hours 20 minutes. The sight of a young woman whose baby car had stalled right on the line in the path of the oncoming express deliberately getting out of the car and pushing it to safety was one which staggered a number of Hastings residents who happened to be in the vicinity of the Eastbourne Street crossing on a recent afternoon. It appears that the car chose this most inconvenient spot at which to signal the exhaustion of the petrol supply, and the wheels came to a Standstill immediately on the line. A hurried attempt to restart the motor failing, the driver got out, leaving the car in neutral, and pushed it off the line. In the meantime the driver of the express had noticed and appreciated the plight of the motorist and applied the brakes. The car had been pushed clear, however, by the time that the express was brought to a standstill.

There are two explanations for an amusing letter addressed to Cabinet by a Wellington bootmaker (states the Christchurch Star-Sun). The first, and most likely, is that lie is blessed with a delightful sense of humour. The second is that he is deficient of humour altogether. Rev. A. H. Nordmeyer, M.P. for Oamaru, told the story the other morning when he passed through Christchurch on his-way south. The bootmaker addressed a letter to Cabinet following on Mr R. Semple’s remark anent providing running slioes for the many boards which, have been administering services in New Zealand. The bootmaker modestly informed Cabinet that he was acknowledged to be the best maker of running shoes in New Zealand, and he was ready to place himself unreservedly in the hands of Cabinet for the purpose of furthering Mr Semple’s plans. He would he pleased to hear from Cabinet regarding the matter of. those shoes.