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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 July 1937, Page 6

sections, each roughly of onesixtir of an acre, were offered for sale by the Dominion Auctioneering Company on the site in Rongopai Street on Wednesday afternoon. Three were sold, averaging about £IOO each.

Members of the Medical Corps and Nursing Service who served on the Hospital ship Marama will be interested to learn that a memento of the ship, in the form of one of the bells, has been presented to the council ol the University of Otago. The bell will be hung in a suitable position in the Maheno and Marama Hall at the University.

“No action of the Internal Marketing Department has been responsible for increasing the retail price of bacon by 3d per pound, nor has the director even fixed the retail selling price,” said the president of the New Zealand Association of *Bacon Curers (Mr C Hausmann) in a statement issued yesterday refuting the charge of the recent Farmers’ Union Conference remit. The statement was confirmed by the Director of Internal Marketing, Mr F. R. Picot.—Press Association. “I think it is a terrible thing to say that when other countries are going ahead we have to go back to No. G scheme,” said Mr T. McNab, Mayor of Mount Eden, at a meeting of the council, in commenting on an application for work for 25 men for eight months under the Government’s new scheme of subsidy at the rate of £4 a week for married men/ “To-day there are about 8000 men out of work in Auckland, and the position is as bad as it was at the peak of the depression. It is a disgrace to the Administration. They are making a terrible mess of it,” added Mr McNab.

Unlawfully removed from the rear of a garage in Fitzherbert Avenue at 8.30 o’clock last evening, a blue sedan car had not been recovered this morning. An effort to raise £IOOO to enable the Wanganui Garrison Band to attend the centennial band contest at fcydney in January next was decided upon at a public meeting held in Wanganui.

The Arbitration Court is to sit in Palmerston North next month for the purpose of hearing applications for provincial awards tor clerical workers, wool pack and textile workers and local body labourers, and several other matters.

Harry Pirihi, a Maori, of Takahiwai, Whangarei, was severely burned when a box of detonators exploded. He had placed the box on a table and a companion passed carrying a pan of hot ashes. A spark from the pan settled on the detonator's, causing them to explode. Pirihi had a miraculous escape. His condition is not considered serious.

the acceptance of the offer of an additional £30,000 by the Government to enable the Ngaruroro River works to be completed by manual labour instead of, machinery, the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board now has a hundred men employed on the works. It is anticipated that within three weeks about a hundred and eighty men will be employed. Inquiries at Government House yesterday elicited that the bundle of flags, which were referred to in a London cable as having been sent to Lord Bledisloe when Governor-General, no longer lies in the cellar there. All Gov-ernors-General to-day fly the special flag referred to by Lord Bledisloe, and ever since the present Governor, Lord Galway, arrived in the Dominion, the appropriate flag has waved over Government House, instead of the Union Jack.

Asked what was the Government’s attitude to the Church's desire to purchase the section on which stands the Prime Minister’s residence and other Crown property on the site selected for the Wellington cathedral, the actingPrime Minister (Hon. P. Fraser) said yesterday that he had been approached by the Bishop of Wellington, but that the reply would rest with Cabinet, and could not be decided until the return of the Prime Minister and Mr Nash.

As work on the State houses progresses. the Government has its officers busily engaged in the work of picking tenants from the many hundreds of applicants, and already those interviewed in Auckland outnumber by two to one the total of houses to be completed within the next few months. Altogether 1600 applications have been received so far Auckland office of the State Housing Department, the applicants being entirely city or suburban residents.

A number of prosecutions were brought yesterday in Wellington under the new regulations governing both pedestrians and motor drivers at lightcontrolled crossings and crossings laid down under the regulations. Convictions were entered in all cases, but no penalties were imposed. The Magistrate remarked that .lie could see the traffic officers busy for some time. Some people only seemed to read the Court news, and he indicated that the Courts would therefore have to do some of the teaching.—Press Association. It was reported to a meeting of the No. 5 District Highways Council in Napier that seven major works entailing overhead bridges or deviations for the elimination of level crossings in the Highways District are now in hand or shortly to be commenced, and it is anticipated that all of them will be completed by the end of the present financial year. Five of the crossing elimination works are on the NapierPalmerston North main highway, where, in addition, the renewal of a number of one-way bridges and old bridges is also being undertaken. The crossings include Oringi, Maharahara and Papatawa. Although the demand for tickets to the Springbok match at Auckland on Saturday is as keen as for any important game in previous years, there has been much less dealing in them by speculators than on former occasions. This lias been largely due to the methods adopted by the Rugby Union in the sale and allocation of the higherpriced tickets. By allocating blocks of grandstand tickets to clubs and affiliated or neighbouring unions and subunions, the union ensured that these were purchased by genuine enthusiasts who would prefer to use the tickets themselves rather than resell them at a profit on the original cost of 10s. When an offer from the Wairarapa Crippled Children Society to provide a swimming bath for the treatment of infantile paralysis cases at the Masterton Hospital came before the monthly meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board, the secretary-man-ager said he had interviewed * all the medical men in Masterton and they did not consider the bath was necessary. With one exception, the. few paralysed cases at Masterton could be treated in an ordinary adult bath. The Crippled Children Society did not have a great deal of money, and in two or three months there would be no further use for the bath. It was decided to acquaint the society of the position and to express grateful thanks for its generous offer. Particular attention was directed, today, to Wednesday, August 4—the day on which the Springboks play in Palmerston North—when the fixtures for the remainder of the Supreme Court cases at the current session at this centre were being set down. It was natural that Mr A. M. Ongk-y, who is president of the Manawatu Rugby Union, should ask His Honour, Mr Justice Ostler, that for the convenience of jurymen and counsel a half-day case be heard on that date. The position was appreciated by the large body of potential jurors at the back ol the Court (to-day’s jury not having by then been empanelled), when the reason for the representations was explained. His Honour arranged that divorce and bankruptcy proceedings be taken on the morning of August 4, which is expected to allow not only counsel but also His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, who will then be presiding, a free afternoon if they so wish it.

The request of the Eketaliuna County Council and the Eketahuna Borough Council that an ambulance to serve accident and emergency cases should be stationed in Eketahuna was not entertained by the Wairarapa Hospital Board, yesterday. Jt was decided, however, to go into the question of providing a trailer ambulance, and a com* mittee was set up to bring down a report. An investigation into a complaint from Eketahuna that there had been delay by the Pahiatua ambulance on the occasion of a recent accident showed that the delay had been due to the ambulance being under overhaul. The investigating committee expressed the opinion that: (1) The ambulance service at Pahiatua was being adequately maintained; (2) exceptional circumstances were responsible for the ambulance not being available on the occasion in question ; (3) in the interests of efficiency and economy, the npibulance should remain, as at present, in a Pahiatua garage, which was able to provide a driver at any time during the day or night.