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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 50, 29 January 1937, Page 6

A meeting of Boy Scout Commissioners for the North Island is being held in Palmerston North to-day to consider matters of importance to the movement.

On the recommendation of the senior inspector of schools, Mr A. F. McMurtrie, the Wanganui Education Board has awarded an Alexander Bcholarship to Alfred D. Long, a pupil of the Marton District High School. The pupil to whom the scholarship was originally awarded did not accept it. Several motorists who attended the Hastings Municipal Theatre on Thursday night discovered when they attempted to return home that the petrol tanks of their cars had been completely drained, apparently by means of a syphon. Two men who were stated to be on sustenance appeared before the Bench in the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North, yesterday, on a charge of drunkenness, one being a second offender within the statutory period. Both were fined, Mr W. Low Black, J.P., commenting on the fact that sustenance money had been spent on beer.

“The British public has got the Edward VIII souvenir complex, and we have no difficulty in selling ail our output of Coronation souvenirs. Some of the big London departmental stores have done a roaring traue in Corona tion souvenirs stamped with the name or photograph of the ex-King,” states a letter received by an importer from an English manufacturer. The Health Department has decided that only pasteurised milk will he used in the scheme which is being organised tor the distribution of milk to school children. The milk must be supplied in bottles, or in some other form of container. The cost ot the scheme will be borne by the department, and contracts will be let for the supply of milk in each centre. In order to create a small diversion ol the current where the waters of the Manawatu lliver are eating into the hank a little north of the Manawatu golt links, the Palmerston North River Board is carrying out blasting operations. Some thirty pipes have been uriven into the shingle bunk in a line pointing down-stream, and charges are dropped down these pipes. Tne object is to loosen up tlie shingle bank with the hope that the next fresh in the river will carry some of the shingle to the other side where the erosion is taking place, and shift the current nearer the centre of the river bed, as the immediate danger is that any further erosion will result in the river getting in behind a series of groynes protecting the bank lower down. After a lapse of nearly half a century the Canterbury Chess Club has regained possession of the trophy (the silver rook) associated with the winning of the Dominion chess championship. The honour was won at the recent congress held in Wellington. The ladies’ title is also held in Christchurch. In New Zealand, chess has been played practically since the time the pioneers came. Chess clubs came into existence as far back as the middle of last century. In this respect Christchurch took a prominent part. The Christchurch Chess Club, which later changed its name to the Canterbury Chess Club, commenced its life in January, 1866, so celebrated its 70th anniversary last year. It was the first club in the Southern Hemisphere to organise a telegraphic match. Liberty fabrics have a reputation that is the envy of most manufacturers. The bad summer lias made us reckless, so price stands for- nothing in our endeavour to quit seasonable goods. 36 inch floral Liberty cotton on white or cream grounds. Regularly 2s lid yard. Now offered at Is 3d yard, lees than half price 11 That will mako you anxious to (secure a length. So be early at Collinson and Cunninghame's great sale. —Advt.

Hon. W. E. Barnard, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Mr S. J. Bennett, of Palmerston North, who are cycling from Auckland to Napier, expect to reach their destination to-morrow. They have cycled on the principle of three days’ riding and one day’s rest.

Many acres of manuka and broom were destroyed by fire at Taupo yesterday, the outbreak seriously threatening many residences in the northern portion of the town, Several householders removed their furniture, but a band of workers fortunately subdued the fire just before the houses were reached.

Referring to the condition of the fishing reaches in the district around Pa.lmerston North, Mr R. W. Procter, secretary of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, intimated to a “Stan; dat'd” representative that the Makuri Stream was the most prolific stretch in this area, this season.

When the Canterbury representative cricket team travels to Dunedin to take part in the final Plunket Shield match of the season against Otago, it will be the diamond jubilee of games between the two provinces, and the southern association is making arrangements to celebrate the occasion in a fitting manner. An unusual insurance claim was recently paid in Dunedin. A girl working as a domestic, who was insured by her employer, was feeding fowls in the course of her duties and was pecked badly by a rooster on the elbow. As she was unable to carry out her work her employer made a claim on the insurance company, which paid the girl for incapacity for two weeks. Last year was a record one for. motor importations to New Zealand. Vehicles numbering 30,265 were imported, as compared with 29,166 in 1929. During 1935 21,842 were imported. The United Kingdom led in both numbers and value, comparative figures being. United Kingdom, 15.310 (£2,556,668): Canada, ' 5945 (£890,767); United States, 9009 (£1,099,659). The Minister of Education (Hon. P. Fraser) last year notified the council of Victoria University College, Wellington, that Cabinet had approved a grant for additional buildings at tiltcollege. Steps are now being taken by the authorities to have plans submitted to the Department of Education foi consideration. The extensions will probably cost £50,000. Reference to the record of Colonel G. E. C. Campbell as the Comptroller and Auditor-General in the Dominion was made by the president, llotanan E. Hitchcock, at the luncheon of the Christchurch Rotary Club this week. Mr Hitchcock said that the guest had been 04 years in the Government service, which was said to be unique for the whole of the British Empire. A name has been submitted for approval, through Hon. J. G. Cobbe, M.P., for the appointment of an additional Justice oi the Peace in Bunnytliorpe. Owing to the illness of Mr W. B. Duthie, whose services, until recently, have been available since AJr G. M. Ranson, J.P., left Bunnythorpe several years ago, anyone who requires an attestation has been obliged to make a trip to Feilding or Palmerston North. As there are now over 100 suppliers and about 60 workers at the Glaxo factory, another appointment is deemed necessary.

Records and papers accumulated over 30 years at the Christchurch Magnetic Observatory are to be given security from fire iii a concrete strongroom, which has been added to the observatory building in the Botanic Gardens. Hitherto these records, which embody practically the whole results of the observatory staff’s work, have been housed in the old wooden building and twice in recent years members of the staff have been called upon to fight small grass fires which might easily have destroyed them. Criticism of the grouping system latterly adopted by the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, whereby the Wanganui, Manawatu, Southern Hawke’s Bay and the Wellington central executives were merged and Mr Lloyd Hammond, Rata, was appointed their representative on the Dominion executive, was ventilated at a meeting of the Wanganui provincial executive this week. It was considered the system tended to place the provinces out of touch with the Dominion executive, and effected no real saving in expense. It was resolved to urge for a return to the old system. Teachers were receiving their pay in full and it would be no hardship for them to return to their districts and stand by for a fortnight before the schools opened on February 15, said the chairman of the Wanganui Education Board (Mr E. F. Hemingway), when the board received advice, yesterday, from the Education Department that the schools would not open until that date on account of the number of cases of infantile paralysis elsewhere. The chairman said that teachers might return to work from infected areas and it would be advisable for the teachers to come back to their place of residence a fortnight earlier. The board decided to forward a letter to the Minister of Education (Hon. P. Eraser) along the lines of the chairman’s remarks.