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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 8

There are now 400 members of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Defence League. . Dr. E. C. Beeby, director of the New Zealand Council of Educational Research, who is making a survey of the intermediate school system, is to leave Wellington next Thursday on a tour of the intermediate schools of the North Island. A gold nugget weighing 12oz. 3dwt. was discovered on Tuesday in the Wakamarina district (Marlborough) by Mr W. G. Watson, one of the miners working there under the subsidised scheme. With gold at present fetching just short of £7 an ounce, the nugget should be worth about £BO. Mr Watson also discovered a few smaller pieces, including one nugget weighing 14dwt. It was announced at a meeting of the Auckland Manufacturers’ Association that during the last 15 years the sum of £14,500 had been received as the association’s share of the proceeds of the Auckland Winter Exhibition. This year a sum of approximately £1000" had been received, and it was anticipated that another £SO would come to hand when everything had been “squared up.” Though the brigade’s pumping equipment, drawing 250 gallons a minute, were to operate for half an hour, it would only lower the level of the water in the lakelet in the Square by half an inch, it -was reported to the Palmerston North Fire Board, to-day, by the superintendent (Mr P. A. Milverton) in indicating the potentialities of the lake as a supply reservoir In'the event of a serious conflagration occurring in that locality. The water for the lake comes from the city water mains. Eleven million pairs sold for the American spring season! Fashionable Americans have lost their hearts—and feet—to Gabardines, the new sensation in spring footwear. The smart combination of dull and bright surfaces . . . bias woven fabric and lustrous coloured patent leather . . . placo tim new Gabardines in the forefront of favour for the well-.dressed woman this season. Before selecting your new shoes, do slip along to Collinson and Cunninghame’s and see theso novelties. Only 25s 9d a pair, and in excellent shades of navy, I black, and Indies brown. —Advt.

The Palmerston North Fire Board to-day decided to close the Terrace End fire station. The bell tower will be demolished and the equipment removed. Twenty years ago this week the New Zealand Division entered its first big engagement on the Somme, where it x-emained for 23 days of most desperate fighting. The committee set up by the Professorial Board of Otago University has selected Mr F. J. Lehany and Mr P. M. Lusk as the Otago nominees for the Rhodes Scholarship. Provision for grade improvements on the Turakina-Okoia section and Great - ford-Kakariki section is made in a vote of £162,475 under the heading of railway improvements and additions in tho Public Works Estimates.

The first prize of £2OOO in the “Lucky Joker” art union has been claimed, but in such a manner that the identity of the winner is not disclosed. it is understood (according to a Christchurch exchange) that he is a relief worker with a wife and three children, and that he is keeping his good fortune secret for family reasons. Entries for the season’s competitions in the Manawatu-Oroua division of the Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural! Clubs movement closed on August 15. At yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, the agricultural instructor, Mr E. H. Lange, reported that there were 441 animals as compared with 257 last year, and 243 plots as compared with last yeai’s total of 177.

Speaking at a social gathering of goiters, last evening, Mr G. Tremaine, chairman of the reserves committee of the Palmerston North City Council, said that at present the council had 90 acres of lawn to mow and with the inception of the 40-hour week other reserves would have to be brought into use and, possibly, other areas procured to cope with demands for playing grounds.