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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 17 June 1936, Page 10

An unusual incident occurred at Kensington Park, AVh<<Mgarci, during the playing of a senior Rugby fixture when the referee, Mr L. G. Miller was temporarily knocked out near the side line, two players colliding with him. Play was suspended for a few minutes, but the official quickly recovered and resumed control of the game. Approximately 200,000 feet of Southland beech is being shipped to Australia by the coastal trader Kiwitea, which left Bluff for Melbourne this .week. This particularly large shipment (says the Southland Times) indicates the increasing demand in Australia and even further afield for a timber that serves so many purposes in such an efficient manner. Timber mills in Southland have been busier of late, and this increased activity is expected to continue. There arc at present 582 part-time students on the roll of the Palmerston North Technical School, their various occupations lieing as follow: —Engineers and mechanics. 47; electricians, 9; plumbers and metalworkers, 1(5; woodworkers, 13; painters and plasterers, J; printers, etc., 2; agricultural pursuits, 25; professional pursuits, 23; clerical, 183; domestic pursuits, 87; dressmakers, etc., 13; shops or warehouses, 105; trades and industries, 34; labourers, 4 ; no occupation (part-time, day). 20.

To-day is tlio seventh anniversary of the disastrous, earthquake in Murchison, in which sixteen lives were lost.

The establishment of a seaplane base at Picton is being urged on the Government by tho Picton Borough Council.

The Government goodwill mission to Samoa, comprising tho Minister of Lands (Hon. F. Langstone) and Mr J. O’Brien, M.P., sailed by the mocotsliip Maui Pomaro yesterday. Many applications for exemption from the 40-hour week in factories are expected to come before the Court of Arbitration when it begins its sitting in Wellington on Monday next. Four pointsmen have been appointed to control traffic at the principal intersections of the city during the Show period, while two patrols are stationed in the vicinity of the Showgrounds. More' whales are about in Tory Channel this season. Mr J. A. iWano’s whaling party, which is operating in the channel, has so far made 10 catches, compared with two for the same period last year. A resident of Gate Pa, Tau range, reports that five thrushes’ nests have been found by him in his citrus orchard. The birds are sitting on eggs in three nests, while the remaining two nests are not quite completed.

“Judged by the results of proficiency and other examinations in both formal and applied work, the subject of spelling does not appear to be making progress,” remarked the inspectors in their annual report upon the work of the schools coming under the jurisdiction of the Wellington Education Board.

Replying to the recent invitation of the High Schools Board of Governors to visit the city to open the new classrooms at the Girls’ High School, tho Minister of Education (Hon. P. Fraser) has advised the board that he will accede to the request, but that it is not yet possible to allocate a definite date for his visit.

It is reported that the danger to the railway line in the Manawatu Gorge from falling rocks lias now been removed, and services are now running to the usual schedule. There was not a slip on the line, but owing to the danger from the falling rocks, it was deemed advisable to bold up the trains.

In an address given to members of the North Taranaki branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute Mr T. F. Warren (inspector of schools) made a. strong plea for a more important place in the school syllabus for the subject of music, for the purpose of cultivating in the children a love and understanding of music. The police reported to-day that the sedan motor-car, the property of Miss I. V. Karsten, which was reported to have been unlawfully removed from the garage of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. Distributing Coy., Ltd., Feilding, at the. week-end had been found abandoned in Fitzlierbert Avenue, Palmerston North. The vehicle is undamaged.

When Joey the sea-lion died at the Wellington zoo on May 5 it was announced that he had been poisoned. In spite of a careful analysis of the animal’s internal organs no proof was forthcoming to support this theory, and the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is now seeking a public retraction of the poison announcement.

“The regulation requiring cyclists to have bells on their machines dates from the time when bicycles were tho fastest tilings on the road,” said Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M. in the Children’s Court at A.aeldaud, w'lien a> boy was charged with riding it bicycle without a bell. The Magistrate added that bicycles nowadays, as contrasted with motor-cars, were comparatively innocuous to pedestrians. Large numbers of mourners at the funeral yesterday of Messrs Hector Sinclair Douald and Norman Murdoch McLeod testified to the esteem in which the two young men, who were drowned on Saturday night following an ill-fa.ted duck-shooting expedition up the Tauherenikau River, were held. The funerals were two of the biggest ever seen at either Miartinborongli or Featherston, there being about 600 mourners.

The days when the armed defence of lives and homes was a desperate necessity were recalled by the discovery at Moturoa, New Plymouth, at the weekend of an old rifle range, long since forgotten, where the early settlers of New Plymouth were taught to shoot. Relief workers excavating in the Ngnmotu Domain have unearthed scores of old bullets which had remained embedded in the clay of the hillside for over half a century. “In this country we are too insular.” Mr M. G. C. McCa'ul declared at the meeting, last night, of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce when he urged the need for greater population in New Zealand. “We 6it down here, a small corner of the earth a long way from the centre of things, and think our thoughts and speak our speeches and imagine that the whole world waits, watches and listens. It doesn’t do anything of tho kind. We are very small potatoes, really.”

The Maori love of the spectacular was evinced on the Taihape football ground on Saturday afternoon, when the native team Hula was due to commence its match against Mangaweka. A jersey of one of the members was missing. Could another one be .procured in time? As the team were about to file out on the playing area, the drone of an aeroplane was heard, and nil necks were craned. With increasing roar, the ’plane swooped down over the field, and a brown paper parcel descended in front ~f the grandstand! Amid roars of laughter from the spectators, the übiquitous small boy retrieved and unwrapped the missing jersey.

“An attempt is being made to deal with the problem of the late arrival of train and bus pupils. There are some fifty pupils who miss, some of them, as much as ail hour every day, through !»‘e arrival,” reported Miss S. J. Bobinson, acting-principal of the Palmerston North Girls’ High School, to the High Schools Board of Governor* last evening. “The city traffic manngei has been approached, and has offered to go into tfie whole question of bus services from the train and from the Square. All improvement here would be of very great benefit to the work ol the country pupils,” she added. Tin board is to endeavour to secure a bus service direct from the Square to the school.

At a. meeting of the management committee of the Canterbury Hockey Association last week J. Martin, of the Hart-wood Club, for refusing to obey the umpire, was severely cautioned. The report of the umpire said that, on the 'resumption of play after half-time, Martin remsed to put but a cigarette when requested. He was ordered off the field. The captain of the team, Goodall. then said that if the player went off the field the whole team would go off. Rather than have such an action take place, the umpire allowed the match to continue. When the umpire made a remark later about the offence, Goodall said that the umpire would not referee another match. The committee ordered Goodall to stand down for two playing Saturdays.