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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 92, 18 March 1936, Page 8

Last season the Wairarapa Rugby Union suffered a loss of £sl.

Aeroplane transport was again used by a Cabinet Minister yesterday, when the Minister of Finance (Hon. \V. Nash) flew from Invercargill to Wellington in one of the. Vickers Vildebeest machines of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

The expansion of the Methodist Church in New Zealand was well .illustrated by Mr W. H. Brewer when speaking at the jubilee banquet of the Ashhurst Methodist Church last evening. He declared that during a century and a-quarter immense progress had been achieved, and today there were 460 churches, 600 preaching places, 200 ministers, 800 local preachers, 25,000 members, 30,000 Sunday school children and i 0.000 attendants at worship in Methodist Churches in the Dominion.

The need for efforts to preserve the individualism of New Zealand in the Far East was stressed and support for a request to the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Hon. D. G. Sullivan) for a small grant for publicity and other purposes in Shanghai, was solicited by Mr S. Hutchison, honorary Government agent there, in a letter received from him by the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last night. ‘We have suffered too long from the use of the word Australasia,” he said. The Mayor of Napier, Mr C. 0. Morse, is to interview members of Cabinet during his visit to Wellington in a fortnight’s time, with the object or securing city status for Napier. Mr Morse’s arguments in favour of this request will not be based on the figures of Napier’s population as shown m this month’s census, but he will urge the granting of this privilege as a recognition of iJ*e way in which the people of Napier have worked to recoup the earthquake losses, and the way in which they have faced the numerous problems arising out of that disaster.

With two-thirds of the cost _ being provided by the Parwits’ Association, and one-third by the Unemployment Board, arrangements have been completed for the erection of a cricket pavilion costing £3lO at the Palmerston North Boy;s’ High School. The contract was signed by the Board ot Governors last veening, when pains for a wooden building 34 feet long, with verandah, and 22 feet deep, were •approved. The location will be in the western corner of the citcket ground. It was decided to forward to the Parents' Association an expression of appreciation of their endeavours in this and other directions on behalf of the sclioi\l.

The official opening of the KingstonQueenstown road has been fixed for April 4. The official ceremony will be conducted by the Minister of Public Works (Mr R. Semple) at 3 p.m.

The winner of the £2OOO prize in the last art union was Mr Albert Belcher, a farm manager at Cardiff, near Stratford. He is 59 years of age. The winning ticket was a birthday gift from his sister.

By 14 votes to 13, the conference of the Federation of New Zealand Justices’ Associations last night withheld support from a remit from the Auckland association urging the inauguration of women police in plain clothes.

‘‘lf we had had no crashes we would have made a cash profit of about £3OO on the year’s working,” remarked the secretary (Mr S, I. Neilsen) at the annual meeting of the Western Federated (North Island) Flying Clubs. ‘‘Any suggestion of lower prices for flour under the recently-instituted control scheme is a myth,” said an Auckland baker yesterday. “Although the price appears lower the difference is more than made up by the withdrawal of certain privileges.” Similar statements were made by several other bakers.

The solution of an eight-year-old mystery of the restricted flow in the 10inch water main of the Hauraki Plains West water supply was revealed by the storm of February. According to a report before the Hauraki Plains County Council this week a slip caused by the storm broke the pipe-liue and disclosed a bag of cement, long since petrified, almost completely blocking the main.

A hint that he had been offered and refused a post which would take him away from his friends was given by Mr E. J. Howard, M.P., at a railway servants’ smoke concert in Christchurch. “The Prime Minister has been holding a job for me,” lie’ said, “and I have turned it down. I am ready to serve the party in any capacity whatever, but i could not bring myself to part from my old friends.” Driven by Mr G. Foote, a heavy lorry owned by Currie Bros., of Ashhurst, and a car driven by Mr Battey, of Moawhango, Taihape, were involved in a collision at the C.olyton corner cross-roads yesterday afternoon. Nobody was injured, though the impact was severe, and after repairs had been effected, the vehicles were able to proceed. The intersection has been the scene of numrous accidents.

Suggestions that Government assistance should be sought to enable more use to be made of the boarding hostel facilities, instead of requiring such extensive train travelling by country pupils, with consequent loss of school time, were made by Mr W. R. Bimie at a meeting of the Palmerston North High Schools Board of Governors last evening. The chairman (Mr J. A. Nash) considered that representations could be made in this connection, and this course of fiction was decided upon, on the motion of Mr Birnie.

Statements made in the newspapers some time ago that certain Stipendiary Magistrates had issued instructions that) Justices of the Peace in their districts should not be allowed to deal with such cases as motorists intoxicated while in charge of cars, were discussed by the conference of the Federation of New Zealand Justices’ Association last night. A remit from the South Canterbury association asking whether the Magistrates had pmver to do so and requesting the Minister of Justice to institute inquiries, was supported.

With the effluxion of time memories of pioneer settlers and workers are apt to become dimmed, but if a proposal made by Mr T. R. Hodder at tbe jubilee banquet of the Ashhurst Mtethodist Church last night were adopted a big step would be taken towards preserving their memories for the regard and esteem of future generations. Mr Hodder declared that in every church there should be memorial plates to bring to mind those who had founded the places of worship. In this way, too, an obelisk should be erected on Mt. Stewart to commemorate the deeds of the early settlers. “In the club games with few exceptions the play was vei-y poor and failed to interest the public,” says the annual report of the Wairarapa Rugby Union. “Although the senior teams were reduced by one on the previous year, there are still too many senior sides competing, causing weak teams, and if our standard of play is to rise a further reduction of teams is necessary. If clubs will not look at the matter in the right light then the Rugby Union must, irrespective of sentiment, take some action. We suggest that a grading of teams competing in the senior competition be carried out.” At the annual meeting of the Old Boys Rugby Football Club, last evening, Mr M. Heise advanced the suggestion that the committee should discuss the advisability of starting a fund for the ultimate erection of a club gymnasium and shed. He cited the example of the Kaierau Football Club in Wanganui, saying that their gymnasium was used only by the members of the club. The matter ivas referred to the incoming committee and Mr Heise offered to open the fund, if the project was thought worth while, with a donation of £1 Is. He was thanked for the offer by the president (Mr K. W. Eglinton).