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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 22 March 1939, Page 8

World Baptist Congress. No loss than three liners will be chartered next year to take delegates from England and other centres to the World Baptist Congress at Atlanta, Georgia. Escaped Prisoner. The Taihape police received advice that a man believed to he If. J. Huddlestone, a prisoner who escaped from Itangipo prison camp, near Tokaanu, had been seen at Kuril Road, on the outskirts of the Taihape Borough, last evening, hut an intensive search by Constables Hush and Chcstnutt failed to locate the escapee. Bully for Billy. To win a £SO wager a Mildura man built himself a £35 caravan, put his wife and three children on hoard, harnessed to it his hull Billy, and drove 400 miles to Melbourne in 73 days. The hull which wore iron s'hoes, still weighed a ton at the end of the trip. “We lost money,” said the man. ‘‘hut it was a fine outing. I may drive back. Billy can take it.” “No Stunts This Time.” “There will !>c no stunts this time,” said Mr Ernie Clark, noted Canterbury pilot, referring to a forthcoming trip to England. Mr Clark expects to he away from four to five months. When he last returned from a trip abroad he made a sensational flight from England, winding up with a Tasman crossing and a night landing at Wigram. This was in November, 1936. Mr Clark is not flying home this time. Technical School Baths.

The opinion that it was time such a large institution as the Technical School had its own swimming baths, particularly with the rebuilding of the school projected, was advanced by Mr J. A. Nash at the meeting of the Palmerston North Technical School, last evening, when he pointed out that ,-ri amount of £3OO in the gymnasium fund might be used ns a nucleus for that purpose. With the aid of a Government subsidy, he added, there should be no difficulty in raising the necessary funds. Consideration of the matter was deferred, in the meantime, until the next meeting. The director of the Technical School (Mr H. M. Scott) stated that the restricted use of the municipal hatha by pupils of the school, many of whom came from the country, was inadequate.

Naval Co-operation. H.M.S. Leander, of the Now Zenland Division of the Royal Navy, will toko part in gunnery and torpedo exer- | cises with the Royal Australian Navy in April.—Press Association. Health Camp Benefits. A party of three girls and six boys left yesterday Ironi Hastings to enter the Otaki Health Camp, where they will stay for six weeks. Twelve children from the Manawatu district also left for the same camp yesterday. New Private ’Plane. Mr E. C Franklin, of Porangahau, is importing foi his private use a Taylor Cub light aeroplane from the United States, and the levelling off of a landing ground and the construction of a hangar on his property are well under way. A Creditable Record. The fact that the number of girl pupils attending the Girls’ High School who could not swim had recently been reduced from over forty to nine was favourably commented upon at the meeting of the Board of Governors, last evening. Meeting of Germans. A report that a meeting of German people resident in Wellington had been called by the Consul-General for Germany (Herr Ernst Ramin) was current yesterday. “I had a few countrymen in liiv office. That is all,” said llerr Hamm when inquiries were made at the Consulate. Building Changes. A building which for many years marked the north end of the Wellington waterfront reclamation, the old Railways Department shipping store in Waterloo Quay, at the rear of the former Railways Head Office, is under demolition. The site is to be cleared for the election of the new Government Printing Office. Footprints of Moas. Footprints made by moas many years ago, which have been laid hare by erosion by the Rangitikei River at Tangimoana, were inspected on Sunday by Dr W. If. B. Oliver, Director of the Dominion Museum, who was accompanied by Mr C. Lindsay, taxidermist at the museum, and several Palmerston North residents. Work at Homer Tunnel.

The possibility of continuing work on the driving of the Homer tunnel heading during the winter was investigated by the Minister of Public Works (Hon. R. Semple) when he visited the Homer Saddle yesterday. Tlie Minister said in Dunedin that if it were found possible to keep the work going during the winter with safety, progress could be expedited to a great extent. A. and P. Association. A special meeting of the general committee of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association was held to-day for the pui-pose of revising the schedule for the coming Winter Show and to appoint judges for lioth the Winter and Spring Shows. A number of alterations were made to the schedule, all in the direction of making the fixture still more popular. Mr A. Burgess was in the chair and there were 15 moinlicrs present. Golf Club's Record. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Manawatu Golf Club, last night, the president (Mr B. K. Keillor) said that he believed the club was the only one in the North Island which liad stayed on its original ground all through its existence. They had been on file course for 44 years now and that took a lot of beating. It was extremely pleasing to him to see a number of older members still taking an interest in the club. He concluded with a few words of advice to members, requesting that they keep the course clean and replace divots. Coroners Act Amendment.

Comment on the fact that amendments to the Coroners Act were contemplated to bring it into lino with the provisions of the English Act was made by the Coroner (Mr A. J. Graham) at an inquest held in Palmerston North to-day. Mr Graham stated that the Minister had notified coroners that their function was merely to establish the time, place, and cause of death, and that inquiries into anybody’s conduct were not to be pursued. Even where there was evidence of negligence, it had been stated that it was not desirable for the coroner to comment or include any ruling on the matter in his verdict. Preparation of Greens. “One aspect of the care of the greens that cannot be overlooked is coring,” stated the report of the greens committee to the annual meeting of the Manawatu Golf Club last night. “With the trampling of the players on the confined areas of the greens, consolidating of the surface is one of the' worst problems that a greenkeeper has to face to-day. This problem can now be easily overcome through the constant nsc of the coring fork. All the greens were cored at least once last year, and will, if possible, be done twice this coming season,” the report stated. Technical School Enrolments. There are now 1203 pupils, 669 of them attending during the day, at the Palmerston North Technical School, compared with 1185 at the corresponding period of last year. Train pupils number 131, of whom 115 come from the Wellington line. There are 117 pupils coming hv bus. and the total weekly hour enrolments are 17,490. There are 227 day pupils taking the trades classes, 119 taking the domestic course, 184 commercial students, and 15 receiving art instruction. Evening students number 139 in the trades classes, 176 in the commercial classes, 38 receiving instruction for public examinations. 58 in the domestic course, and 5 taking art. It was reported to the Technical School Committee, last evening, that at present there is a great demand for shorthand-tvpistes. Besides the numbers mentioned, there are 118 paying pupils. Well-Kept Greens. The green committee, reporting to the Manawatu Golf Club last night, made comment on the fact that the greens wore in splendid condition and had been through the summer. This was to a great extent accounted for by the fact that at no time during the summer had the grass been cut too close. Close cutting in the summer meant ruination to any green, and it was owing to ’this not being done that the club had a splendid sole of grass covering almost all the greens. Watering and manuring played a part, but could do no good if the crown was cut out of the grass and there was no covering to protect the roots from the beat of the sun.