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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 139, 14 May 1936, Page 6

One hundred niul seventy students have been enrolled for tlio term at Massey College which commenced on Tuesday and will conclude early in August. The hostel is at present taxed to capacity, accommodating seventy boarders. The remainder are living in the city. Two slight outbreaks of fire wero dealt with by the Palmerston North Fire Brigade yesterday. The first occurred at a residence in Miro Street at 11.45 a.m. and the second in Church Street East about 4.15 p.m. No difficulty was experienced in extinguishing either of the outbreaks. Considerable historical value is attached to the recent salvage from the ruins of the Kawatapuarangi meeting house at the Makotu Pa, Bay of Plenty, of a number of carvings and poupous of panel slabs which formed part of tho building for over 70 years. The Kawatapuarangi meeting house was built about 1860 and was one of a notable cluster of five important tribal “whore runangas” erected in that famous Arawa stronghold. Interest in the poupou slabs is heightened by the fact that some.are parts of canoes captured during the fight at Waihi Estuary. A statement on where he stands with political Labour was made by the Hon. T. Bloodworth during the second reading debate on the Primary Products Marketing Bill in the Legislative Council last night. While supporting the Bill, Mr Bloodworth was critical of certain clauses and expressed the opinion that the measure contained inherent difficulties. “I don’t know a great deal of the Government’s intentions,” he continued. “I am not a recognised member of the party in power, and I am nob in the confidence of the Government to the extent that oither members of the Council are. All I know about its legislative programme is what the average citizen knows who reads his newspapers.”

Building permits issued in the Manawatu County during April covered a value of £785. Last year nearly 5000 cases of diphtheria occurred in New South Wales. For the first three months of this year there were over 900 cases. When and girls attending the cdu ; cational week drove out to Karere yesterday, it was remarked how well the toi-tois are looking this year. The feathery plumes presented a very graceful picture. Females predominate in the borough of Napier, according to the census figures whicn have just been announced. AVhereas the males number 7351, females total 7919, making a grand total of 15,270. The extensive repairs to the interisland steamer Itangatira are rapidly nearing completion. The vessel has been in the Wellington floating dock for 95 days, and it is expected that she will be floated out, if not this weekend, then early next week. A skeleton, believed to be that of a Maori, has been found on the shore of Little Oneroa Beach, Waiheke Island. Auckland. Heavy seas had uncovered the skeleton, which was lying across a large Maori oven. The skull held a full set of well-worn teeth. The Consul for Italy in New Zealand, Cav. Dott. M. Dessaules, called on the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) on Wednesday afternoon, a.nd communicated the text of the law promulgated by Signor Mussolini in Rome on Saturday, placing Abyssinia under Italian sovereignty. A piece of chain six or seven inches in length was found in the centre of a pine log he was cutting by a Stratford resident recently. The chain, which was of the type used to tie up dogs, had evidently been attached to the tree while it was a sapling and the trunk in growing had completely surrounded it. “My advice to you is to have your fingerprints taken. It can be done in your own home and filed there for reference. It might alleviate many hours of suffering and grief by relatives in time of flood, hurricane, or earthquakes,” said Senior-Sergeant H. C. I>. Wade at. a luncheon of the Napier Round Table Club. “New Zealand detectives have their methods, and some of their methods show a lot of ingenuity,” commented Mr Justice Blair, when summing up in a criminal case in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday. “These detectives are not the foolish people that some people think they are ; they seem to know a little bit about their work.” A proposal to amalgamate some of the local bodies in the Hutt Valley was commented upon yesterday by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. W. E. Parry) who said he was hopeful that it would be decided at the conference to be held in the light of what might be regarded as the Labour Party’s advanced opinion concerning local government. “Politically speaking, boards are in the discard, and I don’t know if any great enthusiasm could be raised for boards at present,” said the Minister of Education (Hon. P. Fraser) to primary, secondary and technical school teachers in conference at Wellington yesterday. 'The Minister was referring to a national board of education as a subject for discussion at the conference.

“The appointment of an Administrator for Samoa is at present under consideration,” said the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) in replying to a question by Mr \V. P. Endean in the House of Representatives yesterday. He said the policy of the Government would be to encourage and to deserve the co-operation of the Samoans in the development of the territory for the benefit of its people. “It would be a calamity if teaching were to be regarded merely as a living and a career for adults,” said Hon. P. Eraser (Minister of Education) during an address at Wellington yesterday. “The question of vested interests must not be allowed to militate against the interest of the child. The child must be in the midst of all our thoughts and all other interests must be submerged.” An old gentleman, in conversation with a “Standard” reporter yesterday, mentioned that he had six meals a day, three “wet” and three “dry.” He said that he thought it was lar better not to drink at meals, so he took food and drink at different times. For tiiirty years lie Had suffered no ailment, lie said, and the picture of helutii he presented, despite his years, bore convincing testimony that there was a good deal in what he said. People in many Christchurch districts are used to finding the annoying insects, earwigs, in me jam, crawling doggedly up irom the waste pipes of sinks, and baths, under the linoleum and in many other queer places, but two earwigs cost a Ricearton man his breaktast. The family depends on an electric kettle for boiling water. Recently Ihe kettle was switched on so that tea might be made for breakfast. The kettle refused to work. Tealess, but with the kettle under his arm, the householder went to town and handed the kettle over to an electrician. A little research showed that two earwigs had picked out the element of the kettle as a good place for a long sleep. At the cost of their lives, they short-circuited the clement and put the kettle out of commission.