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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 260, 1 October 1936, Page 8

Owing to a mistake in the report of the meeting of retailers, yesterday, Mr M. Millar, of Messrs Millar and Giorgi, Ltd., was credited with the statement that “his business opened early in the morning and he would like to see the 8.30 closing retained.” At the time Mr Millar was speaking for Mr F. Smith, proprietor of a small goods business, who had just communicated with him on the telephone, and he said the latter was opposed to the change as they had to start at 6 a.m. Mr Smith, Mr Millar said, had ako told him that he preferred to keep his small goods shop open till 12.30 on Saturday instead of the extra half hour on Friday. Mr Millar’s firm is observing the hours of opening drapers’ shops which at present are 8.45 a.m., and next week will be 8.50 a.m. A portrait of King Edward specially autographed lor the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association by His Majesty, has arrived in Auckland. During his visit to the Dominion as Prince of Wales in 1920 the King was made a member of the Auckland association. None of the art of quick repartee has been lost by Mr F. M. 13. lisher, a former Cabinet Minister in a Massey Government, who spoke in support of the National candidate, Mr F. \V. Doidge, in the Manukau byelection, says the Auckland Star, lie was quick to reply to all interjectors, and revealed himselt as an old and shrewd campaigner. He indicated there was a possibility that he might enter politics again at the next general election.

An alarming experience befell a young woman spectator at a cricket match played at llechvood Park, Swanson. She was seated in a motor car watching the preliminary knockup of the players when the ball, soaring through the air from a big hit to leg, crashed through the glass windscreen in front of her face. She had a miraculous escape from injury, fragments of glass being scattered all round her and one piece actually lodging in her hair. “And they told me cricket was a dull game,” was her comment, after the alarm had subnded. In the course of a world-wide drive by the Methodist Church tor the improvement of international relations, a letter has been sent to the Prime Minister by Rev. E. P. Blamires, president of the Methodist Church of ISew Zealand, in which he “requests the Government to take action in the direction of an international conference being convened at the earliest practicable date, to grapple with the economic and territorial causes of the international tensions which threaten war, and to make a resolute attempt to prove to each nation that it will be treated with justice and goodwill.” .....

The fishing season was officially opened to-day and will operate until the end of April. On Saturday last tire destroyed approximately 100 acres of the State forest plantation in the vicinity of Reporoa, near Rotorua. Tenders have been called for the erection of a large two-storeyed telephone exchange building in Hamilton. The estimated cost is £6OOO. • The honorary collector for the Makogai lepers’ fund, Mr P. J. Twomey, of Christchurch, acknowledges donations now amounting to £505 11s 9d in the aggregate. No date has yet been fixed for the inquest on the late Bernard Edward Rogers, the Maori footballer who died from injuries he received on the night of the match between the New Zealand Maori team and the touring Australian team recently. With the general return of prosperity, marriage is 'regaining its popularity. During last month 221 marriages were registered at the Wellington city registry, making 1905 for the nine months of 1956. The figures for the same periods last year were 173 and 1646. A kea, thought to be the first found ill a wild state in ihe North Island, was shot recently on the property ol Mr C. W. Anderson, JYolnmarama Road, Auckland, where stud sheep are raised. Mr It. A. Falla, ornithologist at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, identified the kea, which lie considered had once been a pet. The possibility of having some restriction placed upon the erection of advertising hoardings throughout the countryside, was discussed at a meeting of the Wellington Beautifying Society, this week. It was decided to seek the cooperation of kindred societies in an effort to minimise “this growing evil,” and to invite the public to assist by supporting advertisers who refrain from using countryside hoardings. Mr A. Albrey, who is engaged in rabbit destruction work for tfie Manawatu Rabbit Board, discovered ten live shells on Mr K. W. Dalrymple’s property near Foxton on Tuesday. Three were “five-pounders” and tne rest much larger shells. Mr Albrey exploded the three smaller shells himself, but the remainder will be disposed by an officer from the Defence Department. They are relics of the artillery camps which were held on the Foxton racecourse some years ago. Procedure in the new- Transport Licensing Authorities’ sittings has been altered from that existing previously, and the hearings are now more like those in Court. As before, the applicant is, in the majority of cases, his own advocate, but a new departure, seen at the No. 2 Authority’s sittings in Palmerston North yesterday, is that any evidence given is presented on oath. Complete notes of all evidence are now taken by a stenographer where, before, notes were made only in special cases.

With her crew of 22 Marshall Islanders verging on collapse from starvation and thirst and tortured by the ravages of scurvy, a Japanese schooner, the Regina, which had lost her position and had been vainly sailing in the equatorial region for nearly eight weeks in search of land, reached Nauru Island on September 6. One of the islanders, in order to try to save his two adopted children, refused to eat or drink his rations and probably saved the children’s lives. He died soon after arriving at Nauru. The Minister of Industries and Commerce (Hon. D. 0. Sullivan) stated yesterday that the Tobacco Board had held a meeting at which, following upon a request made by the Government, it had formulated a long-range plan for the development of tobaccogrowing and manufacture in New Zealand. ’The Government had asked the board to consider in relation to the formulation of such a plan the most practical method to adopt to ensure that the highest possible percentage of New Zealand’s tobacco requirements was grown and manufactured in the Dominion within a period of five years. The advisability of co-operation between Australia and New Zealand on the question of defence was emphasised by the Commonwealth Minister of Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill) at a luncheon yesterday given by the Government in honour of the Australian and British delegates to the aviation and air-mail conference. The defence policies of the two countries, said Sir Archdale, were identical. “It is in the problems connected with defence perhaps that the two countries are most bound up with each other,” he added. “Even apart from their common participation in Imperial defence, their local defence problems are very similar.”