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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 304, 23 November 1937, Page 6

Pictures On Christmas Day. Picture theatres in Auckland are to be permitted to open for a night session only on Christmas Day on cqndition that no member of the staff is to be compelled to work if lie or she does not desire to do so, and no employee is to -receive less than 12s for the occasion. Legislators At Mt. Cook. Several members of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives visited Mount Cook during the weekend and spent an enjoyable time. The party went to the Ball Hut and on to the Tasman Glacier, where they had a splendid opportunity of seeing the grandeur of the alpine region. The party were much impressed with the scenery and the facilities at the disposal of tourists. Court Ceiling Damaged. Becoming detached from its foundation of battens, a section of the heavy plaster beading in the ceiling of the Dunedin City Police Court crashed to the floor some time during Thursday night. It was fortunate that the occurrence was not delayed by 12 hours, for the spot on which the large piece of hard plaster fell is that customarily occupied by constables waiting to give evidence during the Friday morning sittings, says the Otago Daily Times. Water-cart Valuable.

Strong gusts of wind caused some inconvenience in the course of the children’s day at the Showgrounds yesterday, not the least irritating being the lifting of dust from the gravel roadway and the cinder track. Early in the afternoon, however, a City Council water cart commenced operations and effectively dampened the loose arezts. In the small stand, before the water was applied to the cinder track, the amount of dust and grit reaching the seating area was considerable and it caused some trouble to those watching the events on the oval, who were looking into the wind.

The King’s Colour. The ceremony of the delivery of the King’s Colour to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy by the Governor-General, Lord Galway, at the Basin lteserv.;. Wellington, yesterday was the occasion of a naval pageant unique in the history of the city, and was watched with tense interest by a large gathering. The significance of the ceremony was the replacement of the old Colour by the new. After days of broken weather and high winds the weather cleared remarkably in the early afternoon and 300 ranks and ratings from H.M.S. Achilles and Leander, headed by the Royal Marine bands from both ships, paraded in the bright sunshine.

Sports Instructors. ! An interesting fact concerning tlie 1 jubilee inter-house ladies’ sports was I that all the instructors are members of the local Y.M.C.A. leaders’ Corps. llt was in no small measure due to i the keenness of the men that the varjj ous ball games, marching, and other features were carried out with such smartness and efiiciency. More Goods Traffic. An all-round increase in all classes of goods handled at the Palmerston North railway station is shown in the figures compiled for the week ended November 20. 1937. The ligures are as follow, the figures for the corresponding week of last year being shown in parentheses: —Cattle, 53 (29); sheep, 350 (184); timber, 8 tons (2) ; general merchandise 1410 tons (781) ; revenue, £1544 (£949). Local Housing Survey. Tlie housing survey undertaken by the Palmerston North City Council at the direction of the Government may not be completed for some time, as the work is being /carried out without any additional staff having been engaged, but a progress report is to be submitted shortly. Up to the present time 3628 houses in Dunedin have been investigated during the course of the Government’s housing survey. f Fire At Dannevirke. Fire broke out early on. Sunday morning in the boiler-room of .the Dannevirke Woodware Company's factory. The alarm was given by the nightwatchman, and the prompt arrival of the brigade prevented the spread of the flames, which had a good hold. There was no wind at the time. The fire was confined to the engineroom, the damage being estimated at iOO. The cause of the outbreak is unknown. All We Are Worth. “The value of the inorganic materials in a human being's body has been estimated at Is 4d,” said Dr T. H. Pullar, of the Palmerston North Hospital, during an address on “The Romance of Bio-Chemistry,” given to the Palmerston North Rotary Club yesterday. “That was in sterling,” he added. “You can judge what it would be worth out here.” There was, he added, barely sufficient iron in a man’s body to make a decent-sized nail. Beautifying Paraparaumu. That keen interest is being taken in the proposal to beautify certain parts of tlie highway and district surrounding Paraparaumau was clearly in evidence in the attendance of more than 60 people at a meeting held at Paraparnumu, on Saturday night. The object of the meeting was to discuss the formation of a beautifying society at Paraparaumu on the lines of that working successfully in Wellington. Steps were taken to form a society. Safety First. In a lull at the Showgrounds yesterday, when the children’s day of the Jubilee Celebrations was celebrated, the occasion w r as taken by the patrol officer of the Mauawatu Automobile Association (Mr Id. R. I). Browne) to give a short “safety first” talk to the children. “It is better to walk around in the street than to lie in the Hospital, crippled,” he said and gave a few simple directions—not to play on the roadway, to look to the right and then to the left when stepping off the footpath on to the roadway. Victim Leaves Hospital. Having made sufficient recovery, Mrs Una Thompson, the young married woman who was brutally assaulted when /walking home alone early on the morning of October 2, has been discharged from the Wanganui Public Hospital on Saturday. She was lying on a lonely part of Anzac Paraue with severe head injuries which had evidently been inflicted with a. blunt instrument. Tlie assault led to intensive police investigation, but so far the efforts to trace Mrs Thompson’s assailant have proved unsuccessful.

Ex-Servicemen In Sydney. So great lias been the response by ex-servicemen to the invitation to travel to Sydney by the Maunganui to take part in the special observance of Anzac Day on the occasion of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Commonwealth, that it was necessary to conduct a ballot among applicants. The question of an additional ship being available to take those who have been successful in the ballots is now being considered. Mr J. Spence, secretary of the Wellington R.S.A., stated that he was hoping it would be possible to arrange for another ship. “We could fill another boat easily,” he said, % Milk for Secondary Pupils. The extension of the milk-in-seliools scheme to include secondary school pupils was made this morning, when over 740 pupils received the ration of half-a-pint of fresh milk each. The schools supplied were the Palmerston North Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools and the Technical School. At the Boys’ High School, out of a roll number of 360, those who elected to avail themselves of the supply numbered 300, while at the Girls’ High ■ School approximately 200 out of a roll number of 240'are being supplied. The number of pupils receiving milk at the Technical High School is 240. About 50 gallons of milk will be used daily for this additional supply. A Favoured View.

In order that he might secure the best possiblo results, the 'camera-man now engaged in taking moving pictures of various phases of the city’s jubilee celebrations was extended two courtesies at the ' Showgrounds yesterday, when the children’s day was held. One of the City Council’s lorries, with the superstructure by which lights are attended to on the streamer lines in the Square, was driven on to the cinder track in order that tho camera might have a closer and elevated view. Unfortunately, the lorry arrived after the Swedish drill had been performed, so the children were put through the drill again to give the operator an opportunity of securing pictures from the new angle, although others had been taken with a smaller camera from the top of the main grandstand.