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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 8

The Rotorua Borough Council has decided to remove the whole of the avenue of blue gums planted along either side of Whalcarewarewa Road, one of the main approaches to the town, when other trees to replace them have been planted.

The gift of a fine residence overlooking the township of Waipiro Bay. East Coast, and consisting of about 20 well-appointed rooms, has been made bv Mr and Mrs A. B. 'Williams- to the Waiapu Hospital Board, for use as a maternity home.

Thirty-nine pheasants for the Wellington Acclimatisation Society’s game farm at Paraparaumu are included in the cargo of the Rangitane, which sailed from London on Thursday. The pheasants are the gift of Mr Eric Riddiford and it is the aim of the society to raise 3000 game birds for liberation before the next shooting season.

By a notice in the Gazette, permission is given for the construction of a street off Albert- Street, having a width less than 60 feet but not less than SO feet, subject to a condition that no building, or any part of one, shall be erected on land fronting the street within a distance of 40 ieet from the middle of the road. The street is one which it is proposed shall he laid off opposite the Hokowliuu Domain, leading toward the Hokowliitu lagoon.

Snow fell on Table Top and ill the vicinity of Field Hut on Thursday night, and the weather at Otaki Forks is tine and clear, says a Press Association message. The slip on Otaki Gorge Road, which b.arred -access to Otaki Forks last week and gave a large Victoria College party an extra walk of one mile- aijd a. half,, has now been cleared, and heavy lorries can get through to the Forks. Last week snow rc.iched half-way to the roof of Kime Hut and,'with good weather, conditions this week-end are expected to be excellent. It is understood a Tararua Tramping Club party is 'attempting a tra.verwe of the crest,of the range from Kaitoko and Tauherenikaii to Otaki Forks. The party will be met at Kime Hut by .niot-her.'TA.raru.a- club party from Otaki Forks!

Pruning season is here once again; improve your results of, your gardening by a little' pruning. We have just landed a huge shipment of primers.) These are made from Shear steel (not card steel) and will not snap like tho cheaper makes. They are a more comfortable size .toe for ladies to use, being specially designed dor this work. These are offering at the ridiculous price of 9d each, procurable only at Collinson and Son, Ltd., Broadway and Palmerston North.—Affvt.

The blue sedan motor-car which was unlawfully removed from the rear of a garage in Fitzherbert Avenue on Thursday evening was yesterday recovered by th© Palmerston North polico half a mile on tlio Palmerston North side of Longburn. It was not damaged.

Despite tlio checking action of the Fair Rents Act, rentals in Auckland for dwellings are steadily rising with a developing aggravation of the housing shortage. Land agents point outthere is plenty of evidence that beside the normal increase in demand for houses from such causes as new marriages, there is a drift toward the city from country districts. The annual report of the Dannevirke A. and P. Association reveals that a profit of £319 7s Id was made on the year’s working, against a loss of £221 Is 6d the previous year. The annual show brought in a profit of £349 16s 9d compared with £125 6s in 1936 and £l9 3s 7d in 1935, and this notwithstanding the fact that the prize money had been increased to £BO6 12s 6d.

The administration of war relief funds in New Zealand, amounting to £750,000, is being investigated by a special committee, said Hon. W. E. Barnard, who is chairman of the committee, yesterday. The committee comprises members of Parliament and returned soldiers’ representatives, and it is expected that it will present its report to the Government before the close of the year. The sound of a revolver shot in the Reserve Bank at Wellington yesterday alarmed persons ifi the building where the bank is situated. Visions of crime were conjured up, but the true facts revealed nothing sensational. While one of the bank officers was handing his revolver to a. colleague, the hammer caught in his clothing and became cocked; he dropped the weapon, which struck the floor and discharged.

“What interests me in these cases is that in the days before motor-cycles and such things, when we all rode horses, we were being thrown off and having concussion occasionally, yet it did not seem to do us much harm,” remarked His Honour Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court yesterday. The medical practitioner giving evidence ns to possible after-effects of concussion remarked that there had been effects in a few cases, but the, subject. had had particular attention paid 'to it in late years.

. “1 do not know of any city with the same population with so dignified, beautiful and well-arranged a railway station,” stated a New York traveller, yesterday, in Wellington. “Except in the largest cities in America we have nothing to compare with it.” He visited the creche on the roof of the building. “It’s an eye-opener,” be said. “Such places may exist in other countries, but I’ve been travelling most of my life and I’ve never seen anything of the kind.” Auckland sportsmen are at present discussing a proposal, mooted by acclimatisation authorities there, to prohibit the shooting of sitting birds, cock pheasant on the grass, wild duck on the water. \ Commenting yesterday on the subject, Mr E. J. C. Wiffin, secretary of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, remarked: “It should be unnecessary to have to impose regulations in order to prevent that sort of thing. The primary supposition is that a man- who purchases a shooting license is a sportsman.”

The Wellington sessions of the New Education Fellowship conference, which opened on Monday, closed last night. In all there have been over 50 seminars and public addresses by the visiting educational experts, and it is estimated that the total attendance at these meetings has exceeded 20,000. The conference delegates who have been lecturing in Christchurch and Dunedin will arrive in Wellington this morning from the south. '1 he visitors will leave next week for the Australian sessions of the conference. Since the acting-Minister of Labour (Hon. P. C. Webb) suggested that the difficulties attendant on placing youths of 18 years and upward in skilled trades might be overcome in' many instances by using the adult apprentices system there has been a large number of applications to the Labour Department in Auckland from those desirous of taking advantage of the opportunity presented. Since April 1 there have been 25’ adult apprentice contracts approved and completed by the acting-Minister. A business property deal of some interest was effected in Hastings yesterday, when the section of the Bank of New South Wales occupied by the Community Banks during the earthquake period was sold lor £3200, or £BO a foot frontage. The section, which has a 40ft. frontage on Market Street and a depth of 60ft., is threetenths of the property owned by the Bank of New South Wales, and is situated adjacent to the new premises of that bank on the corner of Heretaunga and Market Streets. The purchasing party is the Bank of Australasia, which now carries on business in a leasehold property. “We watch our babies’ diets most carefully, expose them to the vital forces of fresh air and sunshine, tone their muscles with cold sponges—but as they grow up their digestions go to pieces on a diet of tea and fried steak, they are shut away from light and sun and fresh air. and cold sponges become Jew and far between,” said Dr Martin Tweed, of Heretnunga, addressing members of the Plunket Society at the Wellington provincial biennial conference yesterday “Travellers will tell you of the enormous popularity of keep fit movements at borne and on the Continent. In this it seems we rather lag behind” The British Office of Works is anxious to dispose of two hundred lions, and each has a crown on his head nnd another under his feet. They are the effigies that topped the poles used in the Coronation decorations. Original as such ornaments would be, one imagines a certain difficulty in fitting them tastefully into the average house (observes tiie Christian Science Monitor). You cannot keep a “pride” of lions in the parlour and merely a couple on the gateposts demand a carriage drive behind them. Even a single lion rampant about the home, though “a very gentle beast, and of a good conscience,” as all of these undoubtedly are, would be apt to overawe his surroundings. Returning home to encounter such a phenomenon, one might react somewhat as the Duke of Wellington is said to have done on revisiting the field of Waterloo and seeing the lion erected there, when he murmured sadly that it had “spoift my battlefield.”

Handling daffodil bulbs may cause a painful skin affection in certain persons; workers who constantly handle them often wear gloves as a protection.

Here’s good news! All our remnants of silk and cotton materials are now going at half the marked sale prices. Lengths suitable for trimmings, tunica, blouses, children’s wear, etc., can be picked up at practically your own price. The remnants are marked in plain figures, and you just halve tho marked price. A table of real bargains awaits your early selection in Collinson and Cunninghame’s dress section. —Advt,