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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 6

Those conducting B class radio broadcasting stations are keenly awaiting an announcement as to the Government’s policy. “'The position is :so far absolutely unchanged,” said Rev. C. G. Scrimgeour, director of the Friendly Road broadcasting station, Auckland, last night. Two objectives which he hoped to promote for the spiritual welfare of the Church were mentioned by the vicar (Rev. F. S. Ranson) at the annual meeting last evening of parishioners of 'St. Peter’s Church Terrace End. He intimated that he intended shortly to call a meeting to discuss the formation of a branch of the Mothers’ Union, and ho also wished to establish a branch of the C.E.M.S. for the men.

The borough, of Cambridge is to celebrate its jubilee in August Advice that a stag was running on his farm was received by Mr H. G. Watson, of Waiotahi, near Opotiki. Mr Watson set out with a gun and shot a splendid 14-pointer. Basing his assumptions chiefly on the observation of sunspots over a considerable number of years, increasingly wet seasons between now and the end of 1937 are predicted by Mr G. V. Hudson, of Karori, Wellington.

During the intervening ten years since the 1926 census the population of the city of Napier has decreased by 264, the 1936 returns disclosing a population of 15,270 as compared with 15,534 at the previous census. The three escapees from Weraroa who were recaptured near Hawera were au fait with newspaper accounts of their doings. In the pocket of one was found a clipping from a paper giving details of their supposed movements. When a home-made sky-rocket exploded‘in his hand on Sunday night, William Coxon, aged 17, of Karori, Wellington had the second and third fingers of his left hand blown off and the remainder of his hand badly injured.

In the course of its inquiries the Auckland auxiliary committee of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society has discovered some children aged from 14 to 16, who by reason of their disablement have not been taught to read or write, or who have received practically no education. The Molyneux River is still running at a phenomenally low level, and it would appear that the hope of a big rise at this time of the year is now remote. A rise of between six and eight feet is required before it would be possible to float the gold dredges resting on the river banks at Alexytidra and Cromwell. Advice was received by the Palmerston North Hospital Board, yesterday afternoon, from the Department of Health that its application for authority to change the name of the Awapuni Old People’s Home to the King George Y Memorial Home had been forwarded to the Internal Affairs Department for transmission to the proper quarter. A large octopus was taken on a line by fishermen on the rocky shore near Balena Bay (Wellington) on Saturday afternoon. It measured six feet from tip to tip of its tentacles, and would have been an ugly monster for children wading beyond shore to have encountered. This is the second octopus taken in this locality recently. Following upon a request for a definition of its policy in respect. of medical attendance on indigent cases, the Palmerston North Hospital Board, yesterday afternoon, decided to advise each district nurse that where she is required to call on a medical practitioner to urgent indigent cases a fee not exceeding 5s per visit, and mileage of 9d per mile one way outside of the town area, will be paid by the board to the medical practitioner claiming it. The general committee of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association to-day decided that members’ admission tickets should be issued for five days of the Winter Show only, and that if a special debt reduction effort was arranged for the King’s Birthday, there be no free admissions on that day. It was decided that the charge on the members’ stand be Is on Wednesday, June 17, during the Winter Show, and after that free; also that the small stand charge be Is each day, all other charges to be the same as for the last Winter Show. The policy to be followed in admitting inmates to the Old People’s Home at Awapuni was briefly discussed by the Palmerston North Hospital Board, yesterday afternoon, whon an application for admission was received from the Taumarunui Hospital Board. Mr J. A. Nash moved that the ease be accepted while accommodation was available, and during the pleasure of the board. The chairman (Mr J. K. Hornblow) moved an amendment that the board, accept only inmates from within its own district, but the amendment was defeated by 8 votes to 7. A business man who arrived in Palmerston North from the south by the air-liner Karoro expressed his pleasure and surprise with the splendid appearance of this modern city. In referring to the dangers inseparable from the initial stages of the new art, he said they were chiefly in the kind of country over which they flew. In opjen fields the dangers of falling were negligible. From this, he said, he desired to place on record an immediate protest against the risk of flying over thickly populated areas, where a thousand people were subjected to unnecessary dangers several times a day, and where the flier had no hope of survival from houses, high tension wires, and other obstructions. Comment that he did not think members realised the real extent of the menace to the board’s farm property at Awapuni through erosion by the Manawatu River was made by Mr F. J. Ryder at the meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board yesterday afternoon. Mr Ryder added that unless the river bank was given early attention it would be ten times as expensive to deal with later. The matter was referred to the farm committee, the managing-secretary (Mr A. J. Phillipps) pointing out that the Public Works Department was providing an extensive protection scheme for its electric line towers. This would help to protect the farm, and there were also signs that the river __ was swinging across to the other side of its course. The opinion that the Hospital Board might make its charitable aid grocery orders available for fulfilment at any store instead of selected ones was expressed by Mr A. E. Mansford at the monthly meeting, held yesterday afternoon. He contended that in one instance goods supplied to the value of 4s 2d could have been purchased for 3s 2d at another store, and that in the last few years people had learned where their shillings went furthest. The managing-secretary (Mr A. J. Phillipps) said the orders were allotted to the stores by competitive tender over a period, which had proved the best method. It had to be remembered that prices had varied lately, particularly for potatoes and flour. The matter was referred to the social welfare committee for a report. A correspondent writes Improved facilities for travelling by road, rail, and air are bringing large numbers of visitors to the city of Palmerston North. The object of ninety-five per cent, of these is to see friends or to do business. They have been provided with excellent accommodation, roads, and local facilities for travel, but there is one comparatively inexpensive, though equally necessary convenience to travellers and residents alike, the omission of which by our enterprising councillors is the subject of universal remark—very few of our main thoroughfares have house numbers. In Cuba Street one-third of the houses are numbered, and of these some have original nuin- | hers, others the new or even both: The Square, Fitzhcrbert Avenue, and other streets have practically none. The councillor who brings this matter to a head will do great service at little cost. The electoral roll, the telephone guide, the directory and the advertiser give the numbers where possible, but when looked for on many gates or houses they are not found.