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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 304, 21 November 1936, Page 8

A party of Girl Guides will go into camp near the junction of the Pohangina River and Coal Greek on December 29 for a period of ten days. Money amounting to £4B was stolen from the offices of Messrs Bagnall and Keeble, Rangitikei Street, on Thursday night. Entry to the premises was forced and the money removed from the strong-room, the key of which was in the offices. Grass on the side of the railway line east of the Post Office was being scythed off this morning by employees of the Railway Department. For about a month the City Council lias had a horse mower attending to the grass on roadsides in the residential parts of the city and the mower will be kept going until the end of the summer. When a horse rubbed itself against a 6600-volt line power pole at Tipapakuku, Dannevirke, one day this week, the conductors overhead swung together and cut the power off for half an hour in Mangahei, Waitahora and coast districts. A very brief cut-off occurred in Dannevirke also. Shearing and milking operations were interrupted as a result of the horse’s activities. Three almost simultaneous outbreaks of fire at Messrs Wm. Cook and Sons’ box factory in Main Street, on Thursday evening, led to an assumption of intended incendiarism and the police are now investigating the matter. Fire extinguishing appliances were brought into play and the flames extinguished before they could spread to the large amount of inflammable material stacked on all sides. A correspondent forwards the following for 2>ublication : —“Regarding our adoption of cumbrous American vernacular in flying and motoring, I hope the authorities will change ‘automobile association’ to ‘motor_ club,’ and ‘aerodrome’ to ‘airdrome,’ just as we say airport. These and jriany other recently adopted words should be simplified and taught in schools as an example' to the flying and speeding world.” During the past fortnight a number of ex-servicemen possessed of artillery and machine-gun knowledge have offered to enlist in Auckland, suggesting that they might perhaps be useful in training young soldiers of the Territorial Army. It has not been possible, under present regulations, for their willingness to be turned to account. Only men between the ages of 18 and 26 are being enlisted, comments the Star. Neglect in the past in preserving historical, records of churches in New Zealand was regretted by a report presented to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Christchurch. .It was not to the credit of Presbyterians as historians that the actual date of the first Presbyterian service held in New Zealand was not known, the report stated. Neglect in the past accounted for serious gaps in the lists of records,,, and it was dismaying to learn that some congregations had allowed material of historical import to disappear. Missing volumes and papers were found at times in private houses, and at any moment they might be consigned to the fire. The records of a congregation were not the private property of any person. There should be a definite place where they were'stored, and they should be under strict supervision.

The general interest taken by all sections of the cornnjunity in the important subject of sociology is ' becoming increasingly apparent by the numbers. who hear Rev. Father Higgins's monthly lectures in St. Patrick’s Hall, Broadway. The Christian social doctrine as expounded hv tfiis convincing, clear and interesting lecturer is a welcome surprise to many who have been led to t hink., that.. Communism or Socialism is the only alternative To flic, capitalist system. An announcement of the next lecture on Sunday night appears elsewhere.

A candidate for Parliamentary honours, who had successfully : contested six general elections, was asked what he considered to be the secret-of sue-, cess in political, organisation. His answer was ' “secrecyi”' 'R* ’•' A fracture of the left arm was suffered by Howard Spiers, aged nine years, son of Mr l l '. Spiers, Bourke Street, when he, fell off the horizontal bars at the Central School. The lad was taken to a doctor by the headmaster, Mr E. Bary, and thence by Free Ambulance to the Hospital. Expectations are that the new rail? way station at Wellington will be finished early next April.. The district railway office, which for half a century has been in .the one storey wooden building in Featherston Street, is now being, moved to new quarters in .the western wing of the new building. 1 It has been decided by the United Kingdom Manufactuiers and -New Zealand Kepresciitatives' Association to. draw the attention of the Prime Minister to the association's belief in the necessity for immediate action to combat the influx of cheap Japanese Coronation emblems and other novelties. With a total staffing of over 900 men, the railway camps 011 the northern section of tne East Coast railway route present to-day scenes of action more impressive than those furnished in 1930, when the (Government of that day was providing funds and material for the line on a scale which gave no hint of any sudden stoppage. Enquiries are being ina.cle in the South Island as to rhe possibility or obtaining a Paradise duei: and urake or a sitting of eggs ior the purpose of reintroducing them to this district. Many years ago they were plentiful in the North island, but as by a sudden impulse they migrated soutn. Now they are never seen in this island. Speaking of church architecture at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in Christchurch, Rev. John Paterson said that the question was one of importance. There were too many ugly chapels and churches up and down the land. It was no more expensive to build a beautiful churchthan an ugly one. It was a disgrace to build churches that did not loster a spirit of worship. Support was accorded the proposal that the Tararua .Ranges be declared a national park, as a centennial memorial for the Wellington province, at a meeting of the Levin Waiopehu Tramping Club, tills week. In the course of a full discussion the view was expressed that it was most important to preserve the ranges in their natural state. Letters were read from the Tararua Tramping Club supporting the proposal, and from the Manawatu Tramping Club opposing it. Progressive relaxation of quotas and exchange control was advocated by Mr Norton Francis (Christchurch), in his presidential address yesterday, at Wellington, to the Associated Chambers of Commerce. . “Probably the most influential and certainly the most favourable factor during the past year toward the development of international trade has been the devaluation of the franc and the agreement between Great Britain, France and the United States for the stability of their currencies,” lie said.