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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 231, 30 August 1937, Page 6

“There is one thing about this country that a good many of us have a great deal of admiration for, and that is the stand taken at Geneva by Mr W. J. Jordan, your High Commissioner,” stated Mr Arthur Henderson, the British M.P., in the course of his address at Palmerston North yesteiday afternoon. The import of his remarks was appreciated by the audience, who accorded the announcement a round of applause.

Napier is to have a garden of remembrance or peace garden composed of collections of plants from many of tbe towns of Britain, if a scheme initiated by the superintendent of Napier reserves, Mr C. W. Corner, is put into effect. Mr Corner is at present re-visiting England after an absence of 25 years, aiicYis taking the oppor-. tunity of inspecting 1 many English townplanning schemes with a view to their application to the Napier reserves.

Describing the ease as remarkable, Mr Justice O’Regan lias found . for plaintiffs in separate actions brought in the Arbitration Court at New Plymouth on August 5, against Albert Ernest Goodacre, farmer, for compensation and funeral expenses in respect of a former employee, Leslie Jacklin Hurdgrave. Hard grave wns'trilled while driving a hay rake on defendant’s farm on March 30. 'J'he sum of £lO4 is awarded an infant, Robert Leslie Ferguson, who claimed through his guardian ad litem, Lily Agnes Ferguson, £572 as a total dependant. The father of deceased, Thomas Hardgrave, is awarded the amount of the funeral expenses,—Press Association,

The maximum temperature registered in Auckland on Friday was 63 degrees, the highest recorded for some months. During the recent fine weather spell the temperature seldom rose above 56 degrees. The Paliiatua County Council has received advice from the Public Works Department that the widening of the Makuri Gorge and elimination of several bad bends will be commenced immediately. The county is required to find £IOOO this year and a further £IOOO next year as its contribution to the work, which will cost £28,000.

The use of automatic or converted automatic shotguns for taking native or imported game was strongly criticised at a meeting of the council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. A resolution was carried advocating that the use of such guns should be prohibited in the council’s district. The resolution was not carried without a long discussion.

Stormy weather, which followed the welcome rain of the past few days, has lesulted in some losses of lambs in the Ormondville district. In the high country the losses were fairly serious. Itain continued to fall steadily at Waipawa on Saturday and will do an immense amount of good. Like the rest of Hawke’s Bay, Waipawa has experienced the driest winter for very many years.

Notice of motion for a meeting of the Auckland Education Board on Wednesday has been forwarded to the secretary by a member, Mr W. J. Campbell, to rescind the board’s resolution prohibiting smoking by teachers in the precincts of a school. The board had previously resolved to send a circular to headmasters, informing them that, owing to the danger of fire, no smoking would be allowed within the grounds of a school.

“It may be necessary to use military force in resisting aggression, though I believe that, if properly handled, the economic force of tile other countries would be sufficient,” stated Mr Arthur Henderson, the British M.P., in replying to a question after his address in Palmerston North yesterday afternoon. Mr Henderson said he supported the proposal for. an international police force, but only if it was accompanied by disarmament.

An announcement that Cabinet had approved in principle of the transfer of Crown lands in Molesworth Street, Wellington, to the Diocese of Wellington to complete the site for the new Anglican Cathedral was made on Saturday. “Cabinet’s decision will be a cause of rejoicing to all those who, whether members of the Church of England or not, hoped that the Hill Street-Moles worth Street site would be secured for the project,” said the Bishop ot Wellington, lit. Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland, in a statement. When extending a welcome to Mr Arthur Henderson, the British member of Parliament, at the meeting he addressed in Palmerston North yesterday afternoon, Mr J. Hodgens, M.P., who presided, jocularly remarked that he had been surprised to discover Mr Henderson was a member of the Royal Economic Society of Great Britain, although he was a lawyer and one of the legal advisers of the British Labour Party. “Economists are like lawyers,” Mr Henderson remarked in reply. “They all disagree with each other. And because I’m a member of the Royal Economic Society that does not mean that I’m an economist.

An amusing phase of the siege of Ruapekapeka, the last stronghold of the rebels in the Northern War of 1845-46, was mentioned by Mr C. E. MacCormick, Judge of the Native Land Court, in a lecture at the Auckland Officers’ Club. The British, he said, used mortars which dropped into the pa many round shells filled with gunpowder. These did not kill anyone, but made a great noise, and after the bombardment had gone on for several days the defenders found themselves becoming deaf. Also, they could get no sleep. When a shell failed to explode it was opened, and the powder inside was sufficient for many musket * shots. The harvest, in fact, was so good that when a shot dropped near him a native would pull out the “wiki,” or. fuse, instead of seeking shelter from the burst.