Unpleasant Week-End.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 231, 29 August 1938, Page 6

Unpleasant Week-End.

Developing late on Saturday night, a verv strong wind swept the Palmerston North district during the weekend, and accompanied by rain at times, made conditions thoroughly unpleasant. No damage was done to power lines, hut young shelter trees and garden plants in exposed positions suffered. Power Line Alterations.

It is anticipated that the installation of new and heavier cables between Puff’s Line and Bunnythorpe in order to supply power to the military aerodrome at Ohakea will be completed by next week-end. Yesterday afternoon employees of the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board connected a temporary line along this section and also another on Newbury Line to by-pass power during the operations. Work Appreciated. “I would like to pay a tribute to the excellent work that is being done at Massey College and the affiliated institutions under Professor AV. Itiddct and Mr Bruce Levy. Palmerston North has reason to be proud of being the home of'institutions of such value to the farmer,” declared Mr A. P. O’Shea, Dominion secretary of the Farmers’ Union, when addressing the Palmerston North Rotary Club, today.

Occupation of Samoa.

To-day is the 24th anniversary of the occupation of Samoa by the New Zealand Samoan Expeditionary Force. Timber Marketing, That eventually there will be a clash between Soutli Australia and New Zealand in competition for the Australian timber market is the view of Mr H. G. Parish, ltangiora. This impression was gained not only by personal observations while he was in South Australia recently, but also from talks he had with persons prominently connected with afforestation in the Commonwealth.

Imprisonment Without Option. “I happen to come from a district where cycle stealing is very prevalent,”' commented Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., during the hearing of a case in the Magistrates Court at Palmerston North, to-day. “It will be just as well to say,” he added, “that I look upon cycle stealing as a serious crime and, unless there are extenuating circumstances, the punishment will be imprisonment without the option of a fine in all cases.” Seamen In Parliament.

A plea for the direct representation of the searfaring profession in Parliament by appointment to the Legislative Council was made by Captain W. Stuart when proposing the toast of “Parliament” at the annual smoke concert of the New Zealand Company of Master Mariners in ’Wellington. The members of the searfaring profession were eager to render service to the State and their knowledge and experience were at its disposal at any time they were sought. Regimental Camp. A week-end camp for officers, noncommissioned officers, and men of the Wellington West Coast Regiment was held in the Drill Hall, Wanganui. It was inspected by the General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Forces, Major-General J. E. Duigan, C. 8., D. 5.0., and by Colonel I. T. Standisli, officer commanding the Central Command. The camp was under the command of Major G. G. Hancox, E.D., who had Captain J. W. Barry, N.Z., S.C. ,area officer of No. 6 Area, as adjutant. Industry Hampered. As the supply of crayfish to the Akaroa crayfish canning factory has not been sufficient, the factory will close this week. In the past tile factory has put through 1000 cases of fish in a good season, and at least four boats are required to keep it working. This year only one launch was engaged in fishing, although it is stated that the fish have been plentiful and the price good. The men engaged in fishing have found employment with the Public Works Department.

Spectacular Smash. Two cars collided on the Hutt Road at 10.30 on Saturday night about a mile north of Ngahauranga. They were both travelling toward Petone and one swung out to pass the other. As a result of the collision and the sudden application of brakes, the cars became locked together and skidded across the road, crashing through the railway fence, approximately 15 yards of which was canned away. One car finished up on the. railway lines near the road. The other car came to rest with its front wheels over the concrete sea-wall. The occupants were unhurt. Lower Railway Revenue. Deterioration amounting to £58,374 is shown by railway net revenue for the four-weekly period ended July 23 compared with the result for the corresponding four weeks last year, according to the railway working account, an abstract of which is gazetted. A working loss of £81,271 compares with a loss of £22.897.'F0r the equivalent period in 1936 there was a profit of £29,632, while in 1935 a loss of £663 was shown. The gross revenue tor the four weeks was £585,516, which was £3264 more than a year ago. Expenses were increased by £61.639 to £666,787. Plans for Emergency. Little that was reassuring was found by Sir Garrick Robertson, the Auckland surgeon, during a short visit to England from which he has just returned. Everywhere one turned, lie said, it seemed that fresh evidences of Britain’s preparations for an emergency were forthcoming. In Norfolk he had seen hundreds of acres of land under beetroot. Dutch hands were being employed to teach the English liow to cultivate this plant, which was of the type used in Holland for making sugar. He believed, too, that all over England similar areas had been planted for the same purpose. “Every night in London.” said Sir Carrick, “one sees searchlights.”

A Prolific Scorer. Scoring seventeen points for the Manawatu representative Rugby team against Oroua in the Wallace Cup match on Saturday, when he secured one try, converted four tries, and kicked two penalty goals, H. Carr, the Kia Toa player, brought his points points for the season to 101. Last season he contributed 59 points in games in which he participated. This season in the two rounds of the Manawatu Rugby Union's competitions, he earned 61 points for his side, all off of his boot. During the seven-a-side tournament he scored two tries and converted two. Carr first played senior football in 1933, though in' the following vear he was in the junior grade, and contributed 122 points to Kia Toa’s tally for the season. School Consolidation.

Representations were recently made to the Minister of Education (Hon. I’. .Eraser) by the Manawatu provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union that all persons qualified to vote at householders’ meetings should be qualified also to vote on questions of consolidation of schools, and at the monthly meeting of the executive to-day a reply was received from the Minister. The letter stated: “lhe practice is to consult only the parents of children of school age, as it is considered that persons so ' intimately interested are the better able to give a considered judgment on the advisability or otherwise of consolidation. I see no sound reason for departing from this practice.” It was decided to send a copy of the reply to the Rongotca branch, by which the subject was first raised. Dominion’s Destiny. “The topography of the country and the absence of mineral deposits of any size make it fairly evident that New Zealand was never intended by God to be any other than, mainly, a farming country, although secondary industries cannot be neglected. Further, the mountainous nature of the country makes it evident that the intention of Providence can further be narrowed down to the proposition that we should be mainly a stock-raising country,” observed Mr A. P. O’Shea, Dominion secretary of the Farmers’ Union, during his address to the Rotary Club to-day. “Farming supplies 65 per cent of New Zealand’s production. and 70 pet cent, of our farming production is exported, mainly to Great Britain,” Mr O’Shea added. “There are present in New Zealand all the factors necessary for a first-grade farming country. In fact, it may ho said that there are few countries in the world that can compare with New Zealand for farming facilities.”.