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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 June 1937, Page 6

At noon to-day the Palmerston . North Fire Brigade received a call to i a-rubbish fire which had broken out j in a premises at the corner of Ferguson and Colombo Streets. No : damage was done. The Government will soon give con- 1 sideration to a suggestion that Anni- ; versary Day, observed on different dates : in various parts of the Dominion should : be observed throughout New Zealand ' on January 2. Tiie Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand lias informed the Canterbury Chamber of commerce that it asked the Minister for Internal Affairs (Hon. W. E. Parry) to abo.ish the several holidays and introduce a national one following New Year’s Day. The Minister has promised that the suggestion will be considered. The New Zealand Government is hav-; ing its share ol' trouble (remarks the New Zealand Tablet) now that the more !' disagreeable features of its policy are becoming manifest. The workers have awakened to the disadvantages of rising costs, the B radio stations are wondering whether they stand or tail, the fanners are raising their voices on the i guaranteed prices issue, and Mr J. A. | i,ee is bu»y vainly attempting to • keep ; the cost of the Government housing 1 scheme within tire original estimates. Perhaps the members of Cabinet did not realise that its policy of higher wages with shorter hours'would react so quickly upon itself, but it is certain , che situation in the immediate future will require careful handling if the present rate of expenditure is to he maintained. It is evident that all efforts

to control the price of ordinary com-, modi tics have failed, and at the present I time there appears to be no limit to 1 the rise in living costs. The taxation level is a disturbing factor in . the general position and cannot be ignored .ldcfiiiitcly by the Government, i

Five children from a family in Frankton, their ages ranging from four to 13. have been admitted to the Waikato Hospital suffering from diphtheria. Suffering from severe head injuries received when knocked down by a motor-car in Otaki last evening, MiPeicy Dodds, aged 76, was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital. His condition to-day was stated to be satisfactory. The small box factory and timber dressing mill at Piop.o was destroyed by fire at three ,o clock on Friday morning. A transport driver who wa.s paining found the place in flames and informed the postmaster, but nothing could be done to quell the flames. While playing in a junior football match at Feilding on Saturday, W. H. Payne, a Massey College player, had the misfortune to suffer concussion and was removed to the Palmerston North Hospital, following an examination by a doctor. His condition is not serious.

Twice recently stones have been thrown at passing trams between Buck-

~-uid and r ukekoue. Une came hurtling through a window ot tue guards van of a mixed train passing north on n rida.y evening. It was a. piece of road metal such as lias been used to surface the road running alongside the line. The origin of Lyttelton Harbour was attributed to volcanic action by Dr R. S. Allan in a lecture at Christchurch. The harbour was, he said, an extinct volcanic crater, which had been flooded by the sea through a breach in one of its walls. Quail Island was possibly a subsidiary or parasitic cone thrown up in the floor of the crater, us oltoli happened in existing volcanoes.

The honours that were distributed by King George VI at the time ot the (Jorunation were merged with the honours that would otherwise have been awarded on June 9, the day set apart lor the observance of the'King’s Birthday. There w.JI, thererore, be no Lot issued on June 9, and the next list will come out at the New tear. In luture years the awards will be made not on the real birthday ol the King, December 14, but on June 9.

The necessity for transporting a patient oil a stretcher attached lo a bLUge over a track to the mam load arose when two members of tl\e VVlrangarei St. John Ambuiance Brigade went to Pataua, about 20 miles irom \Vhangarei. The patient was a mail who had pneumonia. The house in which lie was living was more than a quarter of a mile liom the main road, and the track was in such a condition that it was impossible to bring the ambulance to the house.

The officials of the A\ hangarei Rugby Lnion are making arrangements to provide additional seating accommodation in Rugby Park in anticipation of a record attendance when the Springboks meet North Auckland at the end of the iootball season. For some weeks the members of the management committee have been on bushfelling expeditions during their spare time, and have secured almost sufficient timber to complete the additional seating accommodation. Declaring that the board would require to safeguard itself from legal action arising out of property damage by flooding, Mr R. Tanner, at a meeting of the Manawatu Drainage Board, this morning, urged that, if necessary, the board clean the drains two or three times a year. Air M. AYilson (overseer; stated that in a number of instances drains were being made receptacles ffor fann reiu-.c, including coils of barbed wire. r l he chairman (Air P. G. Mildon) observed that if the drains required attention several times a year an increase in the rate levy would be inevitable.