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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 142, 18 May 1936, Page 6

A total sum of £170,024 in relief to soldiers, and their dependants has been paid by the Otago Patriotic and General Welfare Association since 1915. A true fish story.—A Palmerston North lad, aged fourteen years, while fishing at Resolution Ray, near Picton, last week, hooked a shark s|ft in length, and successfully brought it ashore. A certificate embodying the above was handed to him subsequently by the Government ranger. For the first time in history. South Westland milling timber js to bo shipped direct from Bruce Ray to Melbourne, which possibly will mark a new era in the development of the vast timber resources of far South Westland. The experiment is to bo made by the Omana, which is to load approximately 175,000 super feet of white and red pine for Melbourne. A donation of £1 for the McGregor Fund was received from Halifax. England, yesterday.' The donor, Mr Louis J. Charncek, met Squadron-Leader M. C. McGregor and Mr J. AValker on the Aorangi while they were going to participate in the air race. He had just concluded a two-months visit to New Zealand. “It was a great shock to hear of Air McGregor s latal accident,” Mr Cliarnock said.

Four hill roads in the K:\iranga county arc- now closed until August 31 to' heavy traffic exceeding the 3ton limit. This action is necessary every year owing lo the damage which, would otherwise be done to the road foundations by 4-ton lorries _ carting heavy loads of firewood during the winter months. These vehicles, when engaged in this work, can break up the road in a very short time. A Temarkable escape from serious injury was experienced by a customer of a big emporium in the city this morning. when he mistook the door of a display window for the exit and walked through a large plate glass window. His attention diverted to the parcel he was carrying, the man walked on to the raised floor of the window, avoided the background pattern, and collided with the glass, sustaining nothing more serious than abrasions to one hand. Singing a salt-sea sailor song, In the slack of a sailing-day, We glide along for Old ilong-Kong, And we’ll soon be far away— Belay I Under each hatch in row below, A thousand cases are stowed --YOHO ! For bronchial ailments, that compound pure — Cough-proof Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure I —Advil.

A contract has been let for the construction of 21 modern self-contained flats in Dunedin, on a site in High Street. The cost of the flats, it is expected, will the £17,100. The executive of the North Island Motor Union met in Palmerston North to-day. The proceedings were not open to the Press, but arrangements were made for a statement to be issued. A tributary of the Tongarogi River is to be netted this year with a view to collecting information on the controversial questions as to whether the fish population in the Taupo fishing district is too large or too small, and whether the fish food supply is adequate. “Given a run of good weather we should be through with the bridge at the end of August; but if the weather is against us it might be the middle of September before we are cleaned up,” said Mr M. G. Templeton, the contractor of the Pa.reinata traffic bridge, which runs parallel with the railway bridge across the Pahautanui reach of the Porirua harbour, in an interview on Saturday.