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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 100, 27 March 1936, Page 10

A notice in the Gazette announces the reappointment of the existing district transport licensing authorities from April 1 to April 30 this year.

So far there has been no official intimation of the exact date of the King’s coronation in May of next year. Despite lack of information, people who can spare the time and money to travel are taking no chances. During the last month or six weeks there has been an extremely live!* demand for passage to England in February and March of next year. “Since I have been in New Zealand I have been most impreesed by the way everybody here treats the Navy and the knowledge they have of it. Citizens of New Zealand have much more knowledge of the Navy than the average citizen at Home,’’ said Commander J. B. E. Hall, officer commanding H.M.S. Wellington, in an address to the New Zealand Club, Wellington, yesterday. An excellent copy of an engraving giving an imaginary bird’s-eye view of Wellington Harbour and surrounding country, which was sketched about 1839, has been procured by the Wellington Harbour Board from a private source. The original was prepared from the charts and drawings made during Colonel Wakefield’s survey, which were at the time when the sketch was made in the possession of the New Zealand Company. Old residents in the Geraldine (Canterbury) district forecast an early and hard winter, and base this conclusion on the heavy coating of snow on the back ranges and the absence of the usual autumn- series of north-westerly winds. What is considered another indication of an early winter is that fantails are already entering homes near the Geraldine native bush reserve in search oi insects, and it is usually considerably later in the year that the birds pay their first visit indoors.

Love of the spectacular displayed by French importing enthusiasts was referied to by Dr. Wilton Henley, a 1929 Rhodes Scholar, in relating to mem i>ers of the Napier ltotary Club an incident which occurred during an English llugby tour of France in which he participated. - “Before the game commenced.'’ he said, “the National Anthem was played in a dirgelike manner, the rollicking ‘Marseillaise’ following. Again the National Anthem was played. . and while we stood fixed to the spot an aeroplane droned overhead and suddenly swooped. Although we were tempted to run, we stood firm and were very surprised when the ball which we were to use for the game was thrown from the o^ronlane.”

Unusual spectators during part of the wool sale at Auckland on Wednesday were a party of school children.

Two of the prizes in a recent Tasmanian consultation were secured by New Zealand residents, the 9th prize of £250 going to “L.L.,” Auckland, and the 10th prize of £245 to “Three Atta Boys,” also of Auckland. The manuscript notes of an address delivered to the New Zealand Club, Wellington, by Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe, during his term of office as Governor-General of the Dominion, have been received by the club. Presiding at a luncheon yesterday, Mr A. Leigh Hunt said the notes had been forwarded by Viscountess Jellicoe.

The passengers by the Union Airwavs liner Kotuku, which arrived in Palmerston North yesterday afternoon from Dunedin, were as follow: —From Christchurch: Mrs La Page-Robbie. From Blenheim : Mr and Mrs S. Bennett, Miss I. Armour and Miss M., Tremaine. Miss E. Inwood was a passenger by the Karoro, which left this morning for Blenheim.

There was a little interlude in inquest proceedings at Palmerston North to7l ay when a constable, who had been balancing himself precariously on the edge of a chair, challenged the laws of equilibrium too far, with the result that he fell to the Courtroom floor. After a few minutes’ laughter at the incident, the atmosphere re sumed its normal placidity.

A tribute to the efficiency of the Japanese people was paid by the president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, Mr A. E. McPhail, of Christchurch, who accompanied the New Zealand University Rugby tcaiii on its tour of Japan. “No hurry, no bustle, no row; that is the way the Japanese are doing things to-day—a wonderful country',” lie said. Air AlcPliail combined business with pleasure on his trip to the East.

A resident of XVinton ' (Southland) has received cabled advice from England that he has drawn a horse in the Irish sweepstake on the Grand National, Steeplechase, to lie decided a.t Aaintree, Liverpool, to-day. The horse is Provocative (10.9), which is reported to he among the final acceptors. He has also received a cable from an English syndicate asking what price he would put on his ticket, and lias replied requesting the syndicate to make an offer.

Alost of the foothills of Canterbury were covered with snow on Wednesday morning, Alount Somers and Alount Hutt having a heavier coating than the hills further north. Old residents of Geraldine forecast an early - and hard winter. Another indication of this is that fantails are already entering homes near the Geraldine native bush reserve in search of insects, and it is usually considerably la.ter in the year that the birds pay their first visit indoors.

“This case serves to emphasise that too much stress canont be laid on the fact that it is necessary for the greatest care being taken by pedestrians when travelling on the highway,” commented the Coroner (Air A. J. Graham), when delivering his verdict at an in quest in Palmerston North to-day on a man who had met his death as the result of being struck by a lorry. Air Graham added that pedestrians did not exercise care sufficient to prevent tbeii becoming a danger on the roads. “I have just bad a pair of cottages built to my design near Chester, and on visiting them 1 found"that the glazing of the windows was completed, but that, owing to presumably trie severity of trie weather and the difficulty of obtaining their customary food, a flock of starlings had descended on the cottages and practically denuded the windows of the putty.” writes a correspondent to a London journal. “I ha.ve never come across a similar case in over 40 years’ professional experience.”

It was a fortnight yesterday since the police commenced searching for Stanley Charles Aiaisey, a young man wanted in connection with a shooting affray at Dalefield, in the Wairarapa, in the early morning of Thursday, March 12. Bo far no trace of him has been found. Air Anthony Comvell, father-in-law of the wanted man and victim of the shooting, was discharged on Wednesday from the hospital where he has been an inmate since the affray. A successful operation was performed on his jaw and a revolver bullet removed.