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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 308, 26 November 1936, Page 8

A Wanganui resident states that since the whitebait season has closed there have been some excellent runs of the fish in the river.

Arrangements liavo been made by the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association to erect a headstone on the grave of Major Mario Dessaules, late Consul for Italy in New Zealand. A petition signed by 60 ratepayers, addressed to the clerk of the Papakura Town Board asking the members of the board to resign, as the petitioners wore dissatisfied with the conduct of the board’s affairs, came before the board at a meeting this week. The chairman (Mr H. E. McEntreo), after the petition was received, declined to allow any discussion. A new research laboratory to serve the whole of the Taranaki dairy industry is to be established at Eltham, as a result of a conference. The New Zealand Rennet Company is to provide the building, and the Taranaki Federation of Co-operative Dairy Companies will supply the equipment. Experts of both organisations will collaborate on problems affecting the two concerns. The federation will, however, maintain its separate identity. That speed is the keynote of modern business is the opinion of a local resident who this week received a newspaper from Honolulu. The paper, a Saturday afternoon’s issue, carried on the front page a picture of President Roosevelt’s arrival at Washington, D.C., after his re-election. The photograph had been taken on Friday in Washington, sent by the Associated Press wire-photograph service to San Francisco, whence jt was despatched by the Philippine clipper ’plane bound for Honolulu. The picture travelled approximately 4900 miles in 28 hours, at an average speed of 175 m.p.h.

Comment has been made at various schools in the course of '.the judging of this year’s entries in the Calf Club competitions on the desirability of carrying the animals on for several years beyond the calf stage. At the judging of the animals in the No. 2 group at Kopane, yesterday, there were calves of former years which are now herd milking cows. Well ■ grown and high producers, the cattle presented a very pleasing appearance, the judge commenting that he did not. know when he had seen such a superior line of young dairy cows, and he attributed this mainly to the way they had been looked after from birth. At a certain station on the Main Trunk railway a 50-gallon barrel of beer arrived by train and was deposited on the floor of the building. The local policeman decided that he would wait for a claimant of the beer, and for some hours kept vigil. Cold and weary, the constable decided to take a little exercise and walked up and down the platform, pasting a glance now and then at the barrel, for which no claimant had appeared. Going back to the barrel he found that it had lost its contents. Examination showed that a hole had been drilled from under the building through the floor, the barrel had been successfully tapped, and its contenfs had thus reached their intended destination.

At interesting personality aboard the Niagara on arrival from Vancouver, the other day, was Mr Samuel Tinsley, a retired business man, who was distinguished by tho fact that he was wearing the traditional kilts of Scotland. Ho revealed that he is a member of a Scottish organisation called Goinunn and Elieilidh, the members of which, descendants of old Highland families, are pledged to preserve the kilts as the national dress of Scotland. “1 am just taking a holiday with my wife after 524 years of work, said Mr Tinsley, “and 1 wear the kilts oil evety possible occasion because it is the national dross of Scotland, because I like it, and because :t is the most comfortable dress I know.

The receipts for 25 sessions; this year, of the Dunedin community singing season totalled £919 13s 4d, an increase of £253 10s over the previous year’s. After all expenses were met £6OO was handed to the Mayor’s relief fund.

The New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association Council, last night, decided to enter a team in the European Zone for the Davis Cup. It was announced that no overseas players will be competing in this year’s Dominion championships.

“Joey,” the late seal of St. Clair fame, has a successor. A seal which has worked its way up and down the Otago peninsula coast from Lower Portobello to Taiaroa Heads, has finally decided to make its headquarters at Harrington Point. The fact that there are over 30 different speed limits for the area surrounding Auckland, and including the city, was pointed out in a communication from the Transport Department received by the Mt. Eden Borough Council, it was stated that the aim of the Government was to simplify motor laws.

A vicious attack was made by a sow with a litter on Mrs Louisa Wellington, aged 50, at her farm at Ngunguru, Whangarei, on Tuesday. Sho was knocked to the ground and bitten severely on the arms and legs before she could escape through a fence. The injured woman was admitted to the Whangarei Hospital. For the first time since October 29 Pohutu Geyser, in the Whakarewarewa thermal reserve, again played on Tuesday, eight shots being given between 8 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. This was the longest period during which the geyser had been inactive for some months. Last month a record was created, when 201 displays were given. Work on the East Coast railway line is ahead of schedule, and satisfaction with the progress already made was expressed in Wellington yesterday by the Minister of Public Works (Hon. R. Semple). The Minister, who had just returned from a tour of inspection, was enthusiastic about the efficient manner in which the staff and workmen on the railway are doing the job. “I was certainly not charmed with their earth tremors. Personally, I would much prefer an old-fashioned New Zealand earthquake, with its undulating motion,” said Mr L. W. Ormandy, of Christchurch, in speaking of some of his South African experiences on his return to New Zealand. It was while visiting Johannesburg that Mr Ormandy felt not one but a succession of weird earth tremors, which give rise, he said, to a strange sinking sensation. A tribute to the manner in which manufacturers had been treated by Rt. Hon. J. G. Cates was paid by the retiring president of the Auckland Manufactuers’ Association, Mr J. A. C. Allum, in welcoming him at the association’s dinner on Tuesday. Although they had not always seen eye to eye, manufacturers had had a good friend in Mr Coates, he said. It had been necessary for Mr Coates to weigh conflicting interests and the decision was not always what they wished, but he had always done his best for them, and his attitude had been greatly appreciated.