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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 165, 13 June 1936, Page 8

Mr 0. F. Nelson, who was exiled from Western Samoa during the period of acute disaffection, will return to the mandated territory by the July voyage of the Maui Pomare. He will arrive at Apia on July 21. A sign marking the site of the depot of the Commissariat Transport Corps during the Maori fighting from 1860 to 1803, has been erected on the Great South Road, near \iestfield, by the Auckland Automobile Association. Reciprocal Trade, London, a copy of which ■ has been forwarded to the “Standard,” contains the history of the All Black-British Rugby tour for 1935-36, also an article on Rugby football, showing its origin and the romance of the game.

A bright spectacle awaits city and country residents who visit the centre of the city to-night, when the festoon lighting specially erected for Show Week will be in full use. These decorations, which have evoked admiration in past years, are on a scale even surpassing the previous illuminations. An inspection of the timber and hatch covers cast up on the Last Coast near Porangahau was made by Captain W. Stuart, of the Marine Department, yesterday, but nothing was found which links them to any particular vessel. He found that the timbers were old and had either been adrift for some time or were not cast up recently.

An English trade journal says:—“lt is said that Captain Cook took coffee beans down to New Zealand, but that the Maoris prized them more as ornaments, though there is a story oft’ told that at the siege of Orakau the Maoris, short of lead, used coffee beans as a substitute. We do not know whether a charge of coffee beans was less welcome than buckshot or slugs.” National ownership of the main watersheds of troublesome rivers was advocated by a deputation which waited upon the Minister of Lands (Hon. F. Langstone) yesterday. Spokesmen lor the deputation referred to the damage caused by flooding and erosion as a result of the denudation of steep hill country. Sympathetic consideration of the representations was promised by Mr Langstone.

A policeman at Lower Hutt was summoned urgently last night to unravel a human knot. Two well-known Lower Hutt residents, both keen lo - lowers of wrestling, experimented with Blomfiold’s muon-discussed octopus clamp. Guided by diagrams and instructions, one man tried to put tne hold on the other. Ho succeeded—and then, to las horror, ho found he was unable to loosen it.

'[’he theory, that the poisonous cffects of bites trom the katipo spider might be prevented by biting the allected part until it bled, then sucking the wound, alter which the .patient should stay ill the sea for IS to 30 minutes, was advanced by Bishop Bennett before members of the Hastings Historic*! Society. He said katipos were rarely found far inland. If the sufferer could not reach the wound, then some other person should bite until the blood came. The Maoris believed this method was quite effective.

Reporting to a meeting of the Massey College Council, this week, the principal (Professor G. S. Peren) stated that the enrolments for the diploma course in dairy manufacture were 70 as against 76 in the previous year. Sixteen students had been enrolled for the wool-classing course as against 11 last year. Tile dairy diploma enrolments had lieen made up as follow, those for this year being mentioned first and those for the previous year second: First year 29, 32; second year 14 28; third year 26, 15; fourth year l,’l.

Arrangements are now almost completed for the reopening of the Stuto sawmill at Manmku, which has been idle for the past three years, following the decision of the late Government to cease operations as an economy measure.

A growing tendency is discernible in Canterbury to go back to broad acres as an avenue for investment of surplus capital. This statement was made to a reporter of the Press by the representatives of several firms interested in tho sale of farm lands.

Practically every industry in England is sharing in better times, according to Mr G. Springhalt, managing director of a Wellington firm, who returned this week from a trip abroad. In an interview ho said ho was much impressed with the progress Great Britain was making toward economic recovery.

The Government has definitely shown its attitude toward the damage done in the native forests by deer, and the campaign of destruction commenced by the previous Government is to bo continued with renewed vigour. Next season the programme includes the combing of tho Itakaia, Waimakariri, and Hurunui watersheds, and also those on the*vvest side of the divide.

Reopened in March last and occupied properly by the students only last month, tho Wellington Teachers’ Training College has already proved unsatisfactory in some respects and it is likely that the Minister of Education (Hon P. Eraser; will bo asked soon if a new college can be built on a different site. The main objection to tlie present building is that there are no grounds at all for the students’ recreation, organised games, and physical training. His fine batting in first-class'cricket throughout the last season in blew Zealand has earned for J. L. Kerr, of Canterbury, the itedpath Cup, a trophy awarded annually by the New Zealand Cricket Council. Kerr played 13 innings in Plunket Shield games and in matches against the English team, and finished with the excellent aveiage ot 59.55 His aggregate was Goo, while that of the next batsman on tho list, M. Wallace, Auckland, was 532.

Owing to a typographical error, a misquotation appeared in an extract, published yesterday, from the address given by Sir George Elliot at the annual meeting of the Bank of New Zealand at Wellington. The extract should have read: “If due regard is paid to the manifest pertaining to a closer reciprocal trade relationship with the Mother Country and if that reciprocal trade relationship is wisely fostered, New Zealand, with its genial climate and fertile soil, should find that general prosperity is not unattainable.”