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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 1 June 1937, Page 6

Since April, the Placement Service has succeeded in filling 6938 positions, of which 2364 have been of a permanent nature. Of this number 297 are jn Palmerston North, there being 126 permanent positions in this number. A Waipukurau pig-hunting party found a tine specimen of kiwi on the Wakarawa ranges, beyond AVkareta, a few days ago. It is understood that kiwis have never before been discovered in the Wakararas and the find is of special interest. Prohibition of the export of white pine or kahikatea timber is imposed by a supplementary Gazette notice issued last night. The order, which comes into force to-morrow, is subject to the consent of the Minister of Customs and also to such conditions as he thinks fit to impose.

The Palmerston North Fire Brigade was called out on 10 occasions during last month, the calls being: To three dwellings (not serious}, one justified false alarm, three rubbish fires, one chimney, one motor van, and one hedge. During May, 1936, there were eight calls, none of a serious nature.

Without any official ceremony, the first train passed over the Mohaka viaduct on Saturday, indicating that what is believed to be the largest railway bridge in the Southern Hemisphere is now completed. It is expected that there will be a regular service between Napier and Wairoa by the end of the present year. The detailed programme has now been completed for the annual winter cruise to the Pacific Islands by the Achilles, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Drummond, states an Auckland Press Association telegram. The cruiser will leave Auckland on June 12, and will travel as far afield as Honolulu and Fanning Island, returning to Auckland on August 27.

A job that would be the envy of many young men has just come the way of a Canterbury- College student, who has been selected as a member of a party sent by one of the big oil companies to prospect for oil in New Guinea. Visiting many remote districts tlie party, which will be strengthened in Australia, will use aeroplanes extensively for transport As the result of an artillery battery using live shells for firing practice while in camp at Waipukurau last year, three of the unexploded misiles were found on the property of Mr A. W. Elliott by- a scrub-cut-ting party, recently. It is likely that more of these shells are in the vicinity and may be a source of danger when the scrub is being burned.

A bird destined to have a future as a museum specimen and one which has been aptly named “the Coronation pukeko,” was recently shot at Mareretu, North Auckland. The bird, which was shot on Coronation Day, bears in its plumage the national colours—blue and white breast, and a red coronet. Its wings are black, but the feathers on the back are mostly a pure w-hite. The general effect is one of striking beauty. The long extension ladder of the Palmerston North Fire Brigade was brought into use yesterday- to enable a painter to reach the wooden section of the Opera House directly under the roof on the tallest portion of the building, above the stage. The ladder was placed opposite the St. Andrew’s Church property, in the street, and the use of the ladder enabled the painter to reach a length 50 feet above the footpath at the top of a sheer concrete wall which would have earned considerable difficulty in approaching it by any other means.

“If we want to listen to music on the radio, I suggest that we first turn it off,” remarked Mr L. S. Adam, in an address on “Music in the Home” to the Dunedin Winter School. Listening was an art, and it was better to leave the radio turned off until one was ready to listen. He contrasted the dearth of musical opportunities of a generation ago with the present universal provision. People at present could be compared with “the lady who has rings on her fingers and bells on her toes and music wherever she goes.” But there was a lack of discrimination and of real listening. Cultivation of good music should begin in the home.

A marked decline in the first-day attendance at the Wellington Technical college was revealed yesterday by the director, Mr R. G. Ridling, when commenting on the reopening of the college after the enforced closure due to the epidemic of infantile paralysis. Mr Ridling stated that the records for the day showed that the attendance at the college had declined 11 per cent, on that existing before the closure of the schools. Of a total of 93!) pupils attending school before the outbreak, only 833 returned yesterday. A large number of those not returning had obtained positions in the city anddiad no intention of resuming their studies.

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