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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 8

Petition In Bankruptcy. During the, month ending to-day there was only one petition in bankruptcy, that of a motor'mechanic, filed at the office of the Deputy Official Assignee (.Mr F. C. Litchfield). Palmerston North. One petition was lodged also in the corresponding period of 1037. Fall - Into Harbour. Stepping out of a .motor-car which had been drawn up in the outside traffic lane on the Pevonport vehicular wharf, at Auckland, a young man, Marshall St. John Walsh, of Pevonport, stumbled and fell into the harbour. The driver of the car and a ticket collector used a lifebelt to pull him out of the water. Facade of Glass. The striking lines of the Australian Pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition, Wellington, are already apparent, though the building is not yet half finished. The northwest facade will be a semi-circular wall of glass <lO feet high, through which will be seen the artistic lines of a spiral staircase within, leading from the entrance foyer to the mezzanine floor .Sixty feet above the floor of the entrance hall will he the decorated ceiling, and behind the open balcony thirty foot above a glimpse of the great Australian cultural exhibit will be seen.

Unusual Experience. For the first time for 12 years snow fell at Taupo fast week. Tauhara Mountain was covered almost to the foot with a light mantle which remained for several days. Memorial to Dog. A proposal to e,rect a memorial in Wellington to Paddy the Wanderer, the Airedale friend of taxi-drivers and wharf workers, whose death occurred recently, has met with an enthusiastic response. A donation lias been received from Sydney. Plunket Medal Award. The Victoria University College Debating Society’s Plunket Medal contest, held in Wellington on Saturday night, was won by Mr B. M. O’Connor, who took as his subject the Irish statesman, Eamon de Valera. Mr R. U. Meek (Jidda Krishnamurti) was second, and Mr E. K. Braybrooke (the Earl of Strafford), and Mr A. L. McCulloch (Edmund Burke) were bracketed in third position.

Speed On Intersections. “Do you think it was the proper thing to- drive on to an intersection at JO miles an hour?” asked Mr IT. P. Lawry, S.M., of a defendant in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. “The brakes on the ear were good; 1 could have pulled up,” said defendant. “You should not have approached the intersection at 30 miles an hour,” said the Magistrate. “You know you could not have stopped at that speed.”

Gillespie Estate Offered. The well-known Gillespie estate, of 103 acres, with a mile frontage to Gillespie’s Line and about ten chains to Boundary Road, has been offered to the Government as a market gardening subdivision. This block is situated comparatively close to the site of the new railway station and is on one of the richest parts of the Kairanga. Small sections there have in the past been used for Chineso gardens. Millions of Feet of Timber. For the construction of the Centennial Exhibition building 7,500 000 feet of timber have been used. The buildings cover 15 acres approximately, and for the flooring matai was used extensivelv. The amount of matai and other New Zealand woods used was million feet. For the main beams, one million feet of Oregon pine was imported, as the Oregon timber has greater length than the New Zcalands woods available. Crude Pruning.

“The pruning hack of roadside or overhanging trees by lino authorities nearly always is crude in the extreme, unnecessarily severe and frequcntly liahle to encourage insoc-t attack.” writes Mr M. R. Skipworth, a qualified forester, in an Institute of Horticulture bulletin on roadside beautification in New Zealand. “A certain amount of trimming is undoubtedly necessary, but there is no justification, and frequently no legal right, for the excessive slaughter so often practised,” lie adds.

Traffic to Wanganui. .Sonic idea of the heavy traffic on the main Palmerston North-Wanganui highway may be gathered from the experience of a motorist who travelled from Wanganui to Palmerston North yesterday, a distance of 48 miles. Starting from the Town Bridge about 1 p.m., by the time he reached Palmerston North he had counted 500 motor-cars and lorries proceeding northward. In addition there were about 20 motor-cycles. As this was over a period of about an hour and a half, it might he estimated that approximately 1000 motor-ears visited Wanganui from southern districts during the week-end, the majority probably carrying sightseers who wanted to obtain a glimpse of the stranded Port Bowen.