GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1936, Page 16

GENERAL NEWS

Yesterday the annual conference of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour opened in AA’ellington. The sittings, which are in private, will continue until Saturday. An announcement that Evans Bay was proposed as the AA'ellington terminal of the suggested Tasman Sea air service by flying-boats was made at the meeting, of the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last night. A claim that AA T ellington was at a disadvantage because it was not one of the places of call for machines on the air service from Palmerston North to Dunedin, made at the meeting of the council of the Wellington-Chamber of Commerce, last night, in a discussion on air mails, was met by the contention that other centres could not be blamed for providing up-to-date aerodromes in their territories and an appeal for a concentration of civic effort oii the improvement of facilities at Rongotai. The National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum, at AA'ellington, will be offipially opened on July 28. A distinctive New Zealand touch has been added to the building in the design of the hand-rail provided at the side of the rubber sheathed stairways. The rail itself is a solid one of walnutstained rimu, and is supported at intervals on the backs of bronze kiwis, especially cast at Auckland. “All scar tissue varies with the weather. Any soldier who has got a good scar on his leg will tell you that he is a regular barometer.” That was the reply made to counsel by Dr. AA’. C. McCaw, when giving evidence in a compensation case heard in the Arbitration Court at Auckland.

A question whether the Government intended to bring into being an electoral Upper House was asked in the House of Representatives on Monday by Mr H. S. S. Kyle (Opposition, Riccarton). Mr Kyle gave notice to ask the Prime Minister (Hon. M. J. Savage) whether, in view of the fact that the Labour Party had pledged itself to carry out true representative government, he intended to put into operation by proclamation the Act at present on the Statute Book which provided for the election of members of the Upper House. , Two sensational incidents occurred during the excitment and bustle attendant on the departure of the Strathnaver from Melbourne for London on March 24. An elderly man, hurrying along the deck in search of a friend’s cabin, took a short cut through vhat he thought was a lounge—and plunged into the swimming pool. The bath attendant helped him out, his dripping garments were passed through a mangle and he philosophically continued the search for the cabin. The vessel had cast off when an exicted woman passenger who had evidently tarried too long over shopping and farwells in the city, rushed down the pier. The Strathnaver was then 20 feet from the wharf. Friends grabbed her luggage and rushed to a Customs launch which had just arrived from a vessel in the hay. The launch was put about and the woman was put safely aboard the liner.