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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 264, 6 October 1936, Page 6

Provided the availability of a subsidy of £2 us per man week, which the city curator (Al l- P. Black) said had been promised, was confirmed in writing by the Labour Department, the City Council, last evening, gave the curator authority to proceed with the construction of a stopbank on the new golf links at West End. No provision having been made in the Public Works Estimates for extraordinary expenditure, only ordinary maintenance work is to be done in the Mamiwatu Gorge this year, it was learned from the authorities to-day. It has been felt for sonic time that additional work should bo undertaken oil the cliff face to reduce the danger from slips. in his monthly letter in the Waikato Diocesan Magazine, the Vicar-General of the Waikato Diocese, Archdeacon G. il Gavin, states that Bishop Cherrington will leave England on December 16 for New Zealand. Deferring to the bishop’s efforts to raise £S(X)O to liquidate the debts of six Waikato parishes, the archdeacon said he was afraid the amount would not be forthcoming. The bishop hoped to receive £I2OO all told. A motorist travelling between Porirua and Paremata recently found, on arrival at his destination, that he had been towing a cyclist all the way, hooked on with a piece of wire, stated Mr VV. A. Sutherland, at a meeting ot the 'Wellington Automobile Association last night. He pointed out that under existing regulations the motorist was held responsible, even if unaware ol tile cyclist’s presence.

Satisfactory results have so far been obtained in the testing of the new 2tin section ot water main laid from College Street to the Fitzherbert bridge. It has been under a full head ol pressure from Tiritea, the valves being closed against the pressure from the city end. The 48 hours’ test period ends to-morrow, when the new main may be brought into use Meanwhile, the work of laying the other section, on the county side of the bridge, has proceeded as far as the bottom of the l< itzherbert Road hill, where it joins the main highway. In making his point regarding the power for good which may bo exercised in the community by a national bodysuch as the New Zealand Institute of Secretaries, ol which he is a past president, Mr E. A. Wallace said at a gathering in Palmerston North last night that the power of suggestion, with its immense psychological influence, which sometimes became definitely physical in effect, could not be calculated. He refeiMvd to an incident which occurred in England when five persons agreed to experiment with a milkman who called at all their residences. The first asked the early morning caller if lie was “a little off colour” as he did not look well. The milk vendor laughingly denied this, suggestion, but when the second, third, and fourth party to the “plot” also, in increasingly serious terms, drew attention to hi’s alleged condition, his attitude changed. He did not call on the fifth member of the group, for hv this time he nas certain lie felt really ill and had made post haste for the doctor. Mr Wallace pointed out that the reverse was also the case, and by the rigid observance of the qualities which made for integrity, cheerfulness, and complete honesty in all dealings, both business and private, the result was the antithesis of that experienced bv the milkman of the story.

The annual street appeal of the St. John Ambulance Association in Auckland has yielded close on £IOOO.

By Sunday next the Victoria Drive at the Esplanade is expected to be almost at the height of its spring beauty, for the Japanese cherry trees will Jje practically in full bloom. From the first pinkish tinges, the trees have been steadily developing in their delicately petalled beauty, and, if the week-end is tine, the crowds of city residents and visitors at the Esplanade should be large. The Palmerston North City Council decided, last evening, to inform the Terrace End Progressive Association that, on account of the expense involved, it was taking no further action regarding the offer by the Railway Department of the southern portion of the Terrace End ballast pit for sale for £lO, on condition that the department retained the right to lay sidings on this land.

A further increase of 677 men placed in private employment was recorded bv the State Placement Service dining the week ended last Saturday. Since the service came into operation under the name of the Labour Department’s Placement Scheme it has been responsible for the re-employment of 8872 men. In Palmerston North 176 men have been placed in permanent employment, 79 temporary, and 27 casual.

Classes set aside for the reading of newspapers will be introduced next year at the New Plymouth Boys’ High School. The. principal (Mr \Y. H. Moyes) said recently that each class would devote one period a week to the reading of current newspapers. the object being to ensure that every pupil had a good knowledge of current world affairs. It was essential that every boy should have a knowledge of world affairs, and the best way of getting this was through the newspapers.

Of the 2J species of moa known to have existed in New Zealand, what is believed to be the first and only complete skeleton of one kind lias been assembled by Mr G. Shepherd, curator of the Alexander Museum, Wanganui. Its bead almost touches the ceiling of the second floor ol the museum, for it is I.oft ofin high. The bones were discovered last February at the Makirikiri deposit, where Mr Shepherd and his helpers worked patiently for months. “A start has been made on the dismantling of the old gas-holder in Cook Street,” stated a report by the gas manager (Mr J. W. Muir), which was received at a meeting of the Palmerston North City Council, last evening. “It will be cut into sections, carted to the power station site and suitable portions will bo used to build two fuel oil storage tanks.” It was explained that the top and the sections supporting it had been removed, also practically all the plates of the topmost movable section. In the opinion of the executive of the New Zealand Counties Association. the proposals of the Highways Amendment Bill, now before Ute House of Representatives, constitute a violent attack on the county system of local government, and the substitution therefor of centralised bureaucratic control. This is the core of a statement on the Bill issued yesterday by the association, following an interview on Saturday last between the Minister of Public Works (Hon. H. Semple) and a delegation from the executive of the Counties Association. “The executive feels the necessity for a chapel at the Hospital is an outstanding requirement, and decided that, together with the other activities, it would endeavour to procure finance to further the project, and a special committee was set up to go into the matter of its early establishment/' stated the report of the Palmerston North Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, which was presented at the annual meeting, yesterday. “We are greatly indebted to Mrs E. M. Griggs’s bridge club foi the initial donation to tl.e Chapel Fund,” the report proceeded. “The executive contemplates holding a garden fete in the hospital grounds ii. February of next year, when a percentage of the proceeds will go to this fund.”

During the bridge-opening ceremoney at Paremata on Saturday afternoon, the matter of providing ample space for playgrounds at l’limmcrton was referred to by more than one speaker, including the Minister of Public Works (Hon. It, Semple). The old proposal of converting the land between the new PlimmertonParemata road and the harbour into a reserve was revived, and with the opening of the bridge is almost sure to be discussed further. The block referred to (which includes the remains of the okl Porirua redoubt, and, before that, Geordie Tom’s whaling station) consists of some 40 acres, 25 of which belong to the ltuilway Department and 11 to the Walker Estate.

A recent speaker at a gathering who had warmed up to his sunject and felt the necessity ot offering a good example to round off the point he was making, utilised the householders of a small street in which he resided to demonstrate the different elements of citizenship which may he found in all communities. After giving unstinted praise to those ot his neighbours who. in the speaker’s opinion, deserved it, and a critical dissertation concerning those not so highly placed in Ins estimation, he suddenly realised the possible effects of his remarks should they become generally known and was most anxious that there should he no “chiel aniang us talon’ notes.” “I’m unpopular enough as it is,” lie concluded. He does not reside in Palmerston North, it may be added.