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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 183, 6 July 1936, Page 6

Seventy-eight boys have been placed, in positions, 57 in the city and 21 in the country, by the Auckland Bovs’ Employment Committee during the past month.

Delay in the appointment of a Public Service Commissioner has caused disquiet throughout the service, according to editorial comment in the July number of the Public Service Journal. “I do not think there is a man in this room who could understand it,” declared Mr W. W. Mulliolland, at a meeting of the executive of the North Canterbury district of the Farmers’ Union, when referring to the weather report given in code from a radio station. It would not take much longer to read the reports in English, Mr Mulliolland contended. There was one announcer who read the reports in full, but unfortunately he was not very often on the air. It was decided to request the Radio Broadcasting Board to have the reports read in a readily understandable form. “I have held many times in this Court that a torch docs not comply with rhe by-law,” commented Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, to-dav, when fining a cyclist who, charged with riding at night without a light, said he was carrying a torch, his lamp having been stolen in Palmerston North a week previously. The Magistrate commented that cyclists just flicked torches on and off at will, and that was not sufficient. Another cyclist, who was similarly fined, stated that he had been using a torch for a long time, and nothing had previously been said to him. The Magistrate told him that he was lucky.

It was a former Baptist minister in Christchurch who did more than anybody else to give Mahatma Gandhi that power of spirit which now commands the love of innumerable people in India, said Rev. C. F. Andrews in a university mission speech at Auckland. The minister was Rev. J. ,T. T)oak, who was once in charge of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church and had a reputation in Christchurch for his championship of the poor. At Johannesburg, where he went shortly afterward, he became a marked man for espousing the cause of the Indian immigrants in the racial hatred disputes there. Mr Doak, said Mr Andrews. was despised by his countrymen for taking up Gandhi’s cause.

The city health officer, Dr. Purdy, reported to the Sydney City Council Health Committee that rats in the metropolitan area of Sydney each year destroyed food and goods worth £1,333,000.

Mild consternation was caused at a recent soldiers’ reunion in the Waikato when, following a speech l>y a member who had had some hard things to say about Italy, one of the guests of the evening was called upon for a song. The guest obliged with a beautiful song in his native tongue—ltalian 1

With £B2 in hand and further amounts still to come in, including those from the membership campaign, officials of the Y.AI.C.A. are hopeful that £IOO will be netted as the result of Red Triangle Day on Saturday. The final result will be known later in the week.

Mystery surround the discovery in Oriental Bay, Wellington, yesterday morning of a dress suit and other articles of a man’s evening apparel. There was nothing among the clothing by which its owner could be identified and np till late last night no one had been reported to the police as missing.

A Rugby football match at Rugby Park. Whangarei, arranged between two Maori teams in conjunction with the Winter Exhibition, had an unexpected finish when one team walked off the fieild toward the end as a result of dissatisfaction with the referee allowing a try. Both the 1400 horse -power Diesel engines installed at the Tournee End power station lor the Palmerston North City Council have now been tested and are available to supply the city’s electrical requirements should there be a failure of the power from Mangahao, or should it ho found necessary to use the generating units in a supplementary capacity.

“Since we have been in office the Press has reported us very well everywhere, and, personally, I have no complaint whatever to make,” said the Minister of Mines (Hon. P. C. Webb) to a reporter at Dannevirkc recently. He added that the Government were naturally anxious that theih policy should be fully reported, so that the public could decide its value.

“Maintenance orders take precedence over debts,” stated Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-da.y, when a defendant pleaded inability to comply with' an order owing to the fact that he had to pay off liabilities which had accumulated. The Magistrate added, in dealing with one individual whom ho described as being “particularly obstreperous,” that some defaulters would not pay up until a warrant was issued for their imprisonment.

“It cannot too often be emphasised that the Government have no intention of paying sustenance to men who have left jobs in order to receive relief,” said the Minister of Public Works (Hon. R. Semple), on Saturday, at Auckland. “When the Government increased sustenance they did so in order to lift the standard of living of the bona-fire unemployed until they could find work. It was never thought there would be men who would descend to such depths as to ‘scrounge’ on the nation.”

Presenting an average of 24 performances a year since their formation in September, 1808, the Napier Frivolity Minstrels have raised no less, than £IO,OOO for charity. The troupe, which gave a performance under the auspices of the Palmerston North 50,000 Club on Saturday night, journeyed to Palmerston North by Inis and left again for Napier after the performance. An unusual proviso made by the club, which includes a large number of young performers, was that the hospitality be confined to the providing of tea and supper.

Charged with permitting a person to remain on the running board of a moving car other than lor the purpose of detecting a defect, Roger Alaria was fined 10s, with 12s costs, when he ax>peared before Air J. L. Stout, S.AL, in the Magistrate’s Court a.t Palmerston North to-day. SeniorSergeant Aloriarty commented that it was rather a dangerous practice. Defendant said he was unaware that it was an offence, but was informed by the Alagistrate that he would know next time.

A lucky escape front injury was experienced by Mr A. Honour, of Oxford Street, on Saturday , evening, when a light delivery van he was driving was involved in a collision with a car on the Ka.iranga-Bunnythorpo Road. Air Honour was turning off the road when the collision occurred, a four-seater car which was travelling in the same direction but behind him being the second vehicle concerned. The light van was turned about and thrown on its side, the body-work being wrecked, although the driver, who was alone, suffered only minor bruises. Stated to have scattered a flock of sheep and caused trouble to tlie drover, Frederick Thomafe Ford (Ongarue), was fined £2, with 16s costs, when lie appeared before Air J. L. Stout, S.AL, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, on a charge of entering upon the Ashhurst bridge, which was less than 16 feet wide, in a car when sheep were being driven along it towards him. Ihe Alagistrate commented that for a motorist to attempt to drive right through a flock of sheep might cause a lot of trouble. Where there were only a few a driver could stop his car on a bridge and wait till they passed.

Dug up with a meat saw on the morning of the last day of the evacuation of Gallipoli, the stump oi a rhododendron bush that once sheltered a New Zealand machine-gun section lias been presented to the Auckland War Memorial Museum by Mr T. Maxwell, of Pukekohe. The stump bears the number of Mr Maxwell, cut after lie had taken it as a souvenir, and the initials and marks of other soldiers, who carved them when the tree was growing on the enemy side of the trench. The bush grew at the top of Rhododendron Ridge, made famous by the feats of the Australians and New Zealanders in the attack on Gallipoli.' “It is unusual, I know, to disagree with the chairman, but J disagree with him entirely in his statement that prosperity is returning,’’ remarked Mr Jf W. Hobbs, president of the Canterbury Ghamber of Commerce, commenting on the address of the retiring president of the Canterbury Progress League (Mr F, W. Johnston) at the annual meeting of the league. “I believe that prosperity is here,” said Mr Hobbs. “Figures show that trade is as good as in the boom years of 1929 and 1930, of which we are so proud to boast. Prosperity is back again. The question is, how can we best use it to further the interests of the Dominion, particularly in the light of changes in the world economic situation?”

In the reference to the increase in timber prices which appeared in the “Standard” on Saturday the higher prices are now effective, having come into operation on June 26.

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