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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 194, 18 July 1939, Page 6

Generous Response. Receipts from a market held by the Returned Soldiers’ Association in Masterton total £7OO. The money will be used for entertaining Australian exservicemen on their visit next year. Social Security Tax. Business and commercial colleges have been classed as educational institutions within the meaning of the Social Security Act, and their students who are not in receipt of income, will be exempt from the levy. Popular Canine Dies. “Paddy the Wanderer,” an Airedale dog who made his home on the Wellington waterfront, died yesterday morning. Paddy was a great friend of mariners and made many trips in vessels trading around the New Zealand coast.

West Coast Gold. Gold valued at £26.941,735 had been produced on the West Coast of New Zealand to the end of 1937, according to a report supplied bv the secretary of the Westland Provincial Organisation of the New Zealand Centennial (Mr D. J. Evans). Infantile Paralysis. In the course of his report for June to the monthly meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board, yesterday. the medical superintendent (Mr. J. H. North) stated that one ease of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) had been admitted. Maori Settlement.

A plan to settle Maoris on farms on the Mahia Peninsula, Hawke’s Bay, is being proceeded with. Located about three miles from Waikokopu, the total area gazetted was 2854 acres, of which 363 acres are being farmed by five settlers. A further 450 acres of the Whangawehi Plateau are being prepared. Electric Shocks Sustained.

Charged with electricity from a radio mast stay which came in contact with a faulty house service, a wire fence around the house adjoining the Cast-or Bay store at Auckland was responsible for two persons suffering shocks. One of them, Mr. Thomas Arthur Lord, married, aged 24. was severely shaken, and a boy received a slight shock. Self-Contained Unit.

“The Wellington Harbour Board has practically its own fire brigade, its own ambulance, signal stations, lights and beacons, pilots, and a section of the police are practically under its control, stated the chairman of the board (Mr. M. A. Eliott), in an address at the weekly meeting of the Rotary Club yesterday, illustrating the functions and scope of the board. Less Diphtheria.

'l’he incidence ot diphtheria in the Wellington heal til district appears to be slightly less than last year, according to figures quoted yesterday by Dr. F. S. Maclean, medical officer of health, Wellington, in a review of the infectious diseases position in Wellington. For the first six months of 1939, he said, there were 117 cases of diphtheria and six deaths, compared with 136 eases and two deaths during the corresponding period of 1938. Theft Defined.

The fact that a little difficulty was frequently experienced by laymen—and by lawyers, too —in grasping where the finding of an article was converted into theft was commented upon by Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at Palmerston North, yesterday, v.len summing up in a case which concerned a charge of theft. “If you find something and you have reasonable giounds for believing that the owner could he found, and you decide nor to take these reasonable grounds and decide to appropriate the thing to yourself, that in law is theft,” added H s Hcnour. Swiss Reunited. Swiss residents living in New Zealand spoke by telephone with relatives in their homeland at the week-end' from tlio home of the Swiss Consul at Wellington, Dr. Walter Schmid, of Kliandallah. The call came from the Pavilion of the 400,000 Swiss Living Abroad at tlie Swiss National Exhibition at Zurich, comparable in scope to the forthcoming Centennial Exhibition at Wellington, and was arranged by the Association for Swiss Living Abroad in conjunction with the exhibition management. A Business Misfortune.

Laughter vas caused in the Supreme Court at Palmer.;ton North, jesurday afternoon, when a oeal in eyries was being gone into. Mr. Justice Blair, who presided, inquired of a dealer who was giving evidence how many purchases or second-hand machines were made. “In the last three years I have bought only three—and all of them had been ‘pinched’, and I lost ray money.” witness stated ruefully, amid laughter in which joined His Honour, who remarked that that was probably a reason why such transactions were unpopular with witness. Aeroplane Returns. The aeroplane belonging to the Middle Districts (Manawatu) Aero Club which made an emergency landing on a small flat Tira Ora in the heart of the hill country in Pelorus Sound, returned to Palmerston North yesterday afternoon. The ’plane was taken a distance of 12 miles by punt to Eli Bay, and a successful take-off was made. The machine later arrived al the Blenheim Aerodrome at 3.20. and then headed for Palmerston North, arriving at Milson, at 4.40 p.m. The club’s instructor set out by air for the spot where the landing had occurred hut when in • Wellington he recei* 1 advice that Mr Howell, the pilot, had taken off, and did not proceed further.

Rearing Pond. A division of opinion was provoked over the question of providing a pond, cither in the Square or at the Esplanade, for the raising of yearling fish, at a meeting of the committee of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, last evening. Mr. W. H. Ware reported that he had waited on the Mayor (Mr. A. E. Mansford) with the request that a pond be put into order by the City Council for tin's purpose. The Mayor bad said the council would be prepared to assist in any manner possible. The ranger (Mr. T. Andrews) advanced the opinion that it was not practicable to put yearlings into a pond in the Square because of the inadequacy of the water supply and the prevalence of water beetles in the observatory enclosure. Mr. Ware felt that the branch should try raising yearlings for itself. The matter was deferred until after the committee has inspected the hatchery at Masterton in August.