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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 96, 21 March 1940, Page 6

Easter Holiday. The “Evening Standard" will not be published on Good 1' rid ay, but will be issued as usual on Easter Monday. The commercial office will be open on Saturday and Monday tor the transaction of business till 8 p.m. Stream Disappears. For the first time in memory in Dlasterton, the Town Creek, one ol the number of creeks which flows through the'town, has completely dried up. The cause of ita failure is not known. Refugees From Fiinand. The Wluingarci branch of the Farmers’ I'nion yesterday resolved to ask the Government to consider sympathetically the advisability of facilitating the immigration of suitable Finnish refugees with a view to easing the demand for farm labour. Leave For Teachers. Advice was received by the Wanganui Education Board, yesterday, from the Education Department that short leave on full pay could not be granted teachers going on active service, the hoard having asked for a direction on this point. The department’s reply stated that if this were granted it would have to extend to all other branches of the I’nblic Service. Patriotic Fund. Donations to tbe Nation il Patriotic Fund now total £37,324 11s 4d. Included are gifts of £250 from Woolwortss (N.Z.), Ltd., and £IOO from Mr and Mrs A. B. Gibbons (Wellington). The Master Bakers’ Association has donated £6O. being half the proceeds of a tarpaulin muster at the recent conference. The other £6O was allotted to the Finnish Belief Fund. Countries Unafraid. There are only two countries in Europe not afraid of Germany. They are Britain and France, said Mr l>. B. Grenfell, representative of the Tinted Kingdom branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association, at the New Zealand Centennial celebrations at a luncheon given in liis honour at Wellington by the New Zealand branch of the association. The German philosopy, iie added, was arms first and talk afterward. The new ideology was the brutal idea of conquest. Dangerous Poies. At a meeting of the Manawatu Automobile Association, last evening, re plies were received from Die engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department and the engineer of the City Council’s electrical department advising in each ease that the department would take the responsibility for phyntmg poles on corners that were considered to lie dangerous. It- was decided to thank the engineers and to arrange for Die patrols to report any poles reqh ring painting, such report to he passed on to Die engineer. Social Security Register.

The necessary provision for the compilation of Dio Social Security Register, as announced some time ago by the Minister of Social Security, is contained in Die Social Security (Supplementary) Regulations, 1940, issued with last night’s Gazette. The details required for the register are to he obtained by an alteration in part two of the form to be filled in by all persons ordinarily resident in New Zealand who are qualified or may become qualified to receive benefits under the Act.

Electric Trains. According to an announcement made by the Railways Department yesterday, the installation of electrical equipment on the AVollington-Paokakariki section of the Main Trunk will be completed in May. Storm Damage to Roads. In a report to the Kiwitca County Council, the overseer (Mr J. Hallinan) estimates the cost of repairing the damage done to roads by the recent storm in the Rangiwaliia and Hautapu ridings at £350. Potato Glut. As a result of the glutted market and the resultant low prices, potatoes are plentiful in tho Rangitikci district, and it is estimated that, if buyers could lie found, 1000 tons of potatoes could be placed on the rail at a moment’s notice. Record Broken. According to several officials of the Manawatu Rugby Union, the installation of the management committee at the union’s annual meeting last evening without a ballot was witnessed for the first time in about 20 years or even longer. Only the required number of members were nominated.

Freezing Charges. More than 100 farmers attended a meeting in "Wanganui yesterday and carried a resolution demanding that freezing charges at the Imlay works, Wanganui, on meat for export, be based, as from the beginning of this season, on the actual f.o.b. costs of the company in the 1938-39 season, us submitted to the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. Initial Connection. The first conviction under the new regulations governing tiie supply of liquor to soldiers was recorded by Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., at the Oamnru Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, when a barman Joseph Albert Dochcrty, was fined £2 for selling liquor at Georgetown to two soldiers in uniform for consumption elsewhere than on the premises where it was sold.

Central School Baths. “The reconstruction of the Central School baths is now well in hand,” stated Mr E. R. Hodge (architect) in bis report to the monthly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board. “The whole of the reinforcing wall has been set and the concrete work is well under way. To date the floor has been completed and the concrete work is nowrising above the perpendicular faces,.” Teams From Ohakea. Indications were given at the annual meeting of the Manawatu Rugby Union, last evening, that the men from the Uimkea Training station of the Royal New Zealand Air Force will be feihling one .or more teems m the union's inter-club competitions. The secretary (Mr G. A. h.aivn) reported that he had already forwarded advice that entries would be eligible and most welcome. Maori Soldiers Commended. Comment upon the smart appearance and conduct of soldiers from the Maori Battalion now on leave" in Auckland was made by several officer's who had not seen them since they enterd camp. “Their smartness and the punctilious manner in which they jsHuto passim' officers is particularly noticeable,” said one officer, “and it is a very great credit to them after such a short experience of soldiering.” Book-Covers For Library. The children who will have the free use of the new children’s section of the Public Library have made at least one contribution to its furnishings. 'l'llrough their efforts dozens of bookcovers, in grey cloth which matches the furnishings of the library. have been made. The children did this work in sowing classes at school. They have made the covers in many different sizes so that books can be conveniently fitted with them. Money For Schools.

Speaking at the monthly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, yesterday, the chairman (Mr E. F. Hemingway) said that it would be better, instead of the Education Department making grants to boards for individual works, if these were replaced by a grant of a lump sum at the heginning of each financial year. If the board then followed a wrong course it would itself bo to blame, and if urgent works were not done the hoard would have to shoulder the responsibility. Gifts For the Troops. When the -Palmerston North members of the First Echelon of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force left Palmerston North they were tendered a puhlio farewell in the Square and each man was presented with an engraved cigarette case, and every effort was made to sec that each member of the echelon from this city received his departing gift, whether present at the farewell or not. When those leaving with the Second Echelon are tendered a farewell next week they will receive gifts other than cigarette cases, as these arc now in short supply. For the previous occasion the gifts had to he bought from a number of other places in New Zealand. Show Association. The following nominations for the general committee of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association have been received: President, Mr C. E. Vile (Bulls), unopposed; lion, treasurer. Mr A. G. F. Lawson (Palmerston North), unopposed: committee (12 vacancies, hut only 11 received), Messrs Jos. Batchelar (Linton), W. A. Davison (Rongotea), A. J. Galpin ( Bunnythorpe), B. O. Gloyn (Bongotea), H. B. Green (Kairanga). C. CL Hayward (Palmerston North). V. Monrad (Palmerston North), W. J. Slack (Bunnythorpe). CL Dl. Whitelock (Newburv). N. Wilson (A’wapuni), Q 0. Wilson (Bulls). Mr M. A. Eliott did not seek re-election as lion, treasurer.