Found Their True Mark.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 212, 6 August 1940, Page 6

Found Their True Mark.

Mr Vernon Bartlett, M.P., the 8.8. C. commentator, revealed to-day that in the dropping of the Hitler’s speech leaflets by Nazi airmen over Britain, a large number of copies of the speech lauded in a sewage larin on the south-east coast. Helping Themselves.

Members of the Police Force stationed at Palmerston North recently formed a' “working bee” and cleared a considerable area of ground beside the new police station preparatory to the next stage in the provision of a tennis court. Rimu Butter Boxes.

A radical change has boon made by North Island butter-box makers, who have begun the manufacture of boxes from rimu timber. Considerable quantities of rimu have been shipped from the West Coast in the last six weeks for the purpose. Tunnel Fatality.

Injuries which later proved fatal were suffered by a tunncller, Mr Peter Martinac, when he was crushed between two sets of steel frames while working on the No. 6 tunnel of the Wairoa-Gisbornc railway. The injured man was admitted to the Wairoa Hospital, where he died. Escapades With Cars. Within a period of 14 days up to Saturday night 30 motor-cars were unlawfully converted by boys in Auckland city and suburbs, and when, in the near future, the Children’s Court is in session, the names of about 2o boys, the youngest 11, the eldest 16 will be called.

Premier and League. Advice lias been received by the League of Nations Union of’New Zealand that the Prime Minister of Britain (Mr Winston Churchill) notified the general council of the League of Nations Union in London on June 20 that he“would be glad to be elected an honorary president” of tlie organisation. Shale Oil in North. >

At a meeting of the Whangarei Commercial Vehicle Owners’ Association it was stated that there was one deposit of shale oil in Northland which was already being worked. The shale was so rich that it was being sold as fuel and was giving satisfaction as such. It, is stated that there are a number of shale deposits in the North. Magpies’ Depredations; An Ashhurst correspondent, writing to the Forest and Bird Protection Society, comments: “ I have a great objection to destroying life, but the magpies have become such a serious menace to my bird sanctuary that I feel something must be done. Two chaffinches have for some time past nested in the same tree near my portico. When the young were lialffledged, to my horror, magpies attacked the parents and killed the young. They chase the fantails, and the bellbirds have entirely deserted the garden. A few tuis remain and appear to hold their own.”

Bird Month. August is being observed as bird month in the Dominion, keener interest than norma] being displayed in birds during this period. Cold Nights at Waiouru. As evidence of the extremely cold nights experienced at the Waiouru military camp, an Auckland exchange publishes a photograph of a workman displaying a sheet of ice, threequarters of an inch thick, found at the camp. Stones thrown at it merely rebounded.

Tribute to Rotary. “I consider Rotary the greatest movement in the world to-day,” said Archbishop A. W. Averill, of Auckland, speaking to the Wanganui Rotary Club, yesterday. He said it was a tribute to its principles that enemy countries had abandoned it. His Grace mentioned that he had been a member of Rotary for many years. Oak and Ash.

If the British adage concerning oak and ash trees (if the oak’s before the ash, we shall only get a splash) applies also to New Zealand, Aucklanders should be assured of a dry summer. Oak trees at Avondale are already showing their bronze-green leaves, while ash trees still retain their strictly winter appearance.

The Queen’s Birthday. His Excellency Viscount Galway has received from the Queen the following reply to the message sent by His Excellency bn the occasion of Her Majesty’s birthday: “I sincerely thank you for the kind message of congratulations on my birthday which you sent on behalf of yourself, His Majesty’s Government and the people of New Zealand.” Horse-vans Survive. That the horse is still a factor in transport has been found recently by the Transport Department. The transport legislation does not take horsedrawn vehicles into consideration for licensing, and in some centres ho.rsc vehicles are still very largely'used for town carrying. It has been found impossible, therefore, in some'instances, to arrange tariff schedules for motor carriers where they are competing with horse-drawn vehicles. The situation is particularly difficult in Greymouth. Centennial of Akaroa.

Sunday next, August 11, marks the 100th anniversary of the hoisting of the British flag at Akaroa by Captain Stanley, R.N., from H.M.S. Britomart, forestalling the French colonists by a matter of only a few hours. The 5d stamp of the present Centennial issue depicts this event. Arrangements have been made for letters to be hand date-stamped on this day, and it is expected that hundreds of cover collectors will 6e.nd envelopes franked with the 5d stamp to the nostmaster at Akaroa to be stamped and despatched. A cover bearing the view on the 5d stamp, and date-stamped exactly 100 years after the event, makes an historically interesting addition to any collection, as well as providing welcome revenue to the Government.