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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 202, 16 July 1936, Page 6

The four-lnindredth anniversary of the arrival at Geneva ol John Calvin, the great leader of the Reformation, falls this year. Relieved to have been caused by the short-circuiting of an electric cable, fire did a fair amount of damage to equipment and fittings in the electrical control room of the new Wellington railway station on Tuesday. A frost of 17.7 degree's was recorded in Pahiatua yesterday morning. The minimum temperature was 3.7 degrees lower than the recording on August 13, 1933, which had remained a record for the district for some years. Emptying a Waipukurau rubbish-bin an employee of the Waipukurau Borough Council was surprised to find a cashbox in excellent order. Inquiries from the business man to whom the garbage tin belonged elicited the fact that on Saturday night the' day’s takings bad been put in the cashbox and the latter then deposited in the rubbish tin for safety from burglars. That was the last the owner thought of the matter until his cash box and contents were returned to, him. “Gibraltar is the only place I know where wine is cheaper than water,” said Mr Norman Barrow, speaking at a tea held by the Christchurch branch of the Wellington College Old Boys’ Association. He said that the water falling on the surface of the rock was collected in a large reservoir. There was always sufficient for the British garrison, but the natives bought their water from receptacles carried by a donkey at 3d a quart. The price of a similar amount of wine was a penny. With no duties, Gibraltar was one of the cheapest places in the world to live in. A passenger on • the southbound Auckland-Wellington express had a narrow escape from serious injury on Monday night when he fell from the train between Kakahi and Owliango. 31 miles north of Ohakune. The express was on the up-grade and travelling at about 25 miles an hour at the time, but it is not known how the accident happened. The passenger received facial abrasions only and walked along the track to Owliango, where he informed station officials of his plight, stating that he was to leave Wellington next day in the! Ruahine, eil route to England. None the worse for his adventures the traveller reached Wellington in time to embark on the Ruahine and sail lor Home with vivid memories of his last night in New Zealand.,

Donations for services rendered liave been received by the Palmerston North Fire Brigade from Mrs D. McDonald, of Manapouri Crescent, and Miss Paisley, of Fitzlierbcrt Avenue. An indication of an early spring is to be seen in the early budding of fruit trees in the city. Similar evidence is noted in Han he’s Bay. On willows and other trees new foliage is noticeable.

Notice that, at the August meeting of the board, he would move that the Education Department be asked to provide iloor coverings for all schools was given by Mr J. J. Clark i t yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington Education Board.

Arrested yesterday for drunkenness, a first-offending inebriate had over £7O in his possession. He was convicted and fined 10s, the amount of his bail, in the Magistrate’s Court today, the Bench commenting that it was lucky for hint that he had been apprehended and placed in the lockup.

Passengers in a south-bound aeroplane received an ont-of-the-ordinary thrill yesterday when one of the Tory Channel whale-chasers harpooned a whale while the plane was passing overhead. The machine circled at a low altitude, the passengers being given a bird’s-eye view of the chaser making its mammoth kill.

The chairman (Mr E. F. Hemingway) reported to yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board that certain ineligible persons had been elected to the committee of the Tangimoana School at tlie recent meeting of householders. His action in deciding to hold a fresh election on J uly 29 was confirmed by the board. A remarkable incident occurred at the Opotiki Defence Rifle Club range when shooting was in progress. Four men were down ready to shoot five rounds “rapid fire” when a hawk, which was chasing a smaller bird, suddenly swooped into the line of tire. The smaller bird escaped, but the hawk was killed instantly and accidentally. A Canberra message states that, although Federal income tax and postage rate reductions are unlikely in the present financial year, remissions in other loans of taxation will be considered by the Government when the Budget is being prepared. Salaries of Federal public servants. as well as those of Ministers and members of Parliament, may be fully restored.

“There is not a vacant house in the village, nor has there been one for a considerable time past,” said a Paraparaumu business man, discussing a housing problem which faced him when lie was engaging a man with a family to work in the vilioge. There had been considerable building activity at the beach, but this was more than comfortable daily walking distance from tlie village. There are many married couples in Wellington who might well envy the contentment and mutual devotion of Mr and Mrs Edward Thomas Cutler, of 10 Normanby Street, Newtown, Wellington, says an exchange. They arc two of the oldest residents of Wellington, Air Cutler having celebrated his ninety-second birthday on March 25 last, while his wife will be 90 years of age on February 19 next. They both enjoy good health. A feat probably unparalleled in Taranaki Rugby was accomplished by tlie representative player J. Sullivan, on Saturday. When playing centre three-quarter lie scored five tries for Tukapa against Stratford. The match was a struggle for Northern Taranaki championship supremacy, and Sullivan’s 15 points constituted Tukapa’s score, none of the tries being converted. Stratford lost an exciting game by a single point, which may cost them the championship. Dairy production, in the Auckland province during the season ended June JO reached the record total cl 87,007 tons of butterrat. This exceeded by about 2000 tons the previous tecord of 85,079 tons in the J 933-31 season. Assuming an average pay-out to suppliers this season of Is a pound for butterfat the total dairy cheque tor Auckland province is about £9.750,000’, an increase of over £2,000,000 on the previous season when tt.c pay-out was less than 10d. a pound. Onlookers at a fire in a tall hedge in Broadway last evening scattered several times suddenly as a fire hose swung a stream of water in fhetr direction. The firemen were operating the hose from behind the hedge, giving it a thorough drenching to prevent any further outbreak, and as the water played on the top or crossed the burntout section it streamed toward the usual crowd of people on tlie roadway. The latter lost no time in moving to another spot, not relishing the prospect of a sudden drenching on a frosty night. At tlio monthly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board yesterday, an application was received from the committee of the Bunny thorp© .School for improvements to the school grounds under the Public Works Department’s scheme. The architect (Afr E. It. Hodge) recommended that the school should be included in the list to go forward to the department. The work comprised of laying of drains and the clearing and re-sowing of the hoy’s playground. There might be some difficulty in having the latter work carried out by the Public Works Department, lio added.

Not being noticed for a short time, a fire in a high lhacrocarpa hedge on the property of Mr 8. W. llapley. at 285 Broadwav, last evening, destroyed a section of the trees twelve feet long or more. The hedge is estimated to be about 40 years old and is six feet wide at the top. A friend informed Mr Rapley of the blaze and he advised the Eire Brigade. One engine was promptly on the scene and a lead of hose quickly had the flames under control. Several I fires in hedges of the same type have ■ been experienced in Broadway in recent years. The blaze last evening could be seen for a considerable distance across the city because of the height which the flames reached, and the heat burned through both the power and telephone wirus serving the residence. “New Zealand, with a population of only 1,500,000, lias 60 daily newspapers. One would assume that number quite enough, but everybody who runs a society wants to publish a book, and then they come to us business men and expect us to advertise in it,” said Mr S. H. Thomas, in an address to members of the Canterbury Advertising. Club. Mr. Thomas said that he considered newspapers as good a medium for appealing to the public as one could get in New Zealand. Most readers picked up a newspaper when their minds were in a receptive mood. Hence they assimilated its contents, and advertisers; had a reasonable chance that their advertisements would be read. Figures of circulation proved that one person in every two must buy a newspaper every day in New Zealand. The circulation of the leading newspapers was accordingly appreciably large. At one time newspapers' wore reticent about their circulation. To-day, however, the larger newspapers freely supplied their advertisers with audited circulation figures, and, -moreover, told them what districts their circulation, covered, which was a very important factor.

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