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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 52, 30 January 1939, Page 6

False Alarm. The Palmerston North Fire Brigade were called out at 12.37 a.in. on Sunday to the corner of Fitzrov and Ferguson Streets, the alarm being a false one. Salmon in Canterbury. Salmon have already appeared in Canterbury rivers, though the first small runs arc not expected till about the middle of February. So far the Rangitata has proved the most profitable river.

Bullet Through Window. An incident which might have had fatal consequences occurred on a mixed railway train travelling between Marton and Bonny Glen, on the Wanganui line, on Saturday. Passengers were startled when a pea-rifle bullet, fired from outside, shattered a carriage window and penetrated the carriage coiling. The incident occurred near a crossing.

Example of Self-Control. The opinion that the Minister of Customs (lion. W. Nash) was without justification in the complaints lie made at the Wellington conference on import control, and in his suggestion that he had been treated without duo courtesy, was expressed by a number of Auckland importers on their return. “I have never attended a conference conducted on such a high plane,” said the president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, Mr A. Ely. “I have never been at one where the delegates, many of whom were losing their livelihoods, showed such i>eri'ect self-control under very difficult circumstances.”

No Quorum Present. The monthly meeting of tlio Palmerston North River Board, which was to have been held to-day, had to be adjourned owing to there being no quorum present. Shortage of Labour. The "Wellington waterfront continues very busv and there was again a shortage of labour to-day. All last week there was an acute labour shortage on the waterfront, and the departure of a number of overseas liners iias in consequence been postponed. Car Overturns.

Mr 15. McGee, of Oamaru, who has l>ecn visiting Mr and Mrs D. M. Connor, of Konini, was admitted to the Pahiatua Hospital suffering with a dislocated shoulder. Mr McGee was proceeding to Napier when his motor car got out of control and swerved into a ditch. The vehicle was only slightly damaged. Boy Nurses. In other parts of the world the nursing profession lias many difficulties to contend with, and the missionary nurses attending the Nurses’ Christian Union conference in 'Wellington have between them coped with a wide variety of problems. Miss E. Templeton, who is on leave from an Abyssinian leper station, has to train boys as nurses, and there are also hoys in the Solomon Islands hospital, where M iss M. Stewart has worked Social Security Talks.

When the discussions on the health section of the social security scheme are resumed to-morrow the Government will he represented by Hon. P. Fraser and Hon. W. Nash. The representatives of the British Medical Association will lie the president, Dr J. P. 8. Jamieson, of Nelson; Dr W. P. I’. Gordon, of Stratford ; Dr P. P. Lynch and Dr T. D. M. Stout, of Wellington. At this meeting special consideration is to be given to tbo various general systems of remuneration. Whirlwind and Fire.

An unusual spectacle which lasted more than a minute was witnessed on Friday afternoon from the property of Mr S." J. H. Powell, which adjoins the Ruakura State Farm, in the Waikato district. A scrub fire, which started shortly after mid-day, spread to an area of ti-tree, and by three o'clock the blazo had assumed large proportions. Then, caught in a whirlwind, smoke and flame were carried into the air for a height estimated at 500 feet, with a roar that caused cows and horses in the vicinity to career around the. paddocks with fright. Mr Powell described the sound of the whirlwind as similar to that of flames rushing up a chimney.

New Zealand to Fore. Pleasure at the enthusiasm former members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who are residing in England still show was expressed at a recent meeting of the Dominion executive committee of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, it was noticed that in the minutes of the Empire Council of the British Empire Service League, under the heading of “Policing of Areas, Czechoslovakia,” one of the New Zealand representatives on the council, Mr H T. B. Drew, was reported as saving: “It was pleasing that everybody lind endeavoured to help during the crisis. New Zealand House was most gratified at the number of exNew Zealand Expeditionary Force moil who bad come forward and offered their services.”