Workman Injured.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 256, 26 September 1940, Page 6

Workman Injured.

Serious injuries, including a fractuied pelvis, were received by Mr G. «T'. Gray, of Marton, when lie was crushed against the cutting by an excavator while working on the Bonny GlenTurakina railway deviation on Tuesday. Salads For Soldiers.

A move is being made in the Waikato to combine the instruction of children in agricultural Avork with assistance to soldiers, thus linking the boys’ and girls’ agricultural clubs moA r ement Avitli the Avar effort. The aim is to encourage clubs to grow greenstuffs which Avould be welcome to military camps or hospitals. Boys As Wardens.

In an endeavour to stop the smashing of street lamps by boys the Sumner Borough Council has decided to arrange with the school committee and headmaster of the Sumner School for the issue of red badges labelled “warden” to six senior boys chosen through the committee. The boys’ duty would be to try to prevent other boys from destroying public property. Maori Hui at Levin.

An important conference among the leading Maori clans of the Manawatu district will take place at Levin on October 1 to arrange preliminaries toAvards the procedure to be adopted on the occasion of the enquiry that has been set doAvn for October 3 before a special committee of the Upper House, relating to the Otaki Maori College, Avhen it is intended that a strong deputation will go to Wellington. Relief For London.

Objection to money given for relief of air raid distress in London being diverted to general patriotic purposes was expressed by members of the Wellington Harbour Board last night. The board voted a grant of £250 to the Lord Mayor of London s Air Raid Distress Relief Fund, ivith the stipulation that the money should be used for that purpose, and not for general patriotic purposes. Scout’s Gallantry.

The Gilt Cross of the Boy Scout Association, for gallantry, has been awarded to Ralph Watkin, aged 13, of the Calliope Sea Scouts, Devonport, Auckland, for saving another lad from drowning. Oil April 7, Ralph Watkin went swimming at Devonport beach with his brother Colin. They swam out to a raft about 50 yards from the shore, through a choppy sea. A friend, Rex Cubitt, then started for the raft, but on the way tired and sank. After great 1 difficulty Watkin brought him ashore in an exhausted condition.

Anniversary of Lucknow. The anniversary of the relief of Lucknow fell yesterday. In 1857 the regiments of the Bengal army broke into mutiny, killed th-fir officers and marched to Delhi where they proclaimed the old Mogul prince as Emperor pf India. Hundreds of Europeans were massacred, and others were besieged at Oawnporo and Lucknow. At Lucknow a tiny force gallantly defended the Residency for three months against an army of 40,000 rebels and in the Punjab peace avus preserved bj' a prompt rlisarming of the native regiments. On September 25, 1857, the mutiny was finally brought to an end by the capture of Delhi'and the relief of Lucknow.

Reprehensible Thefts

Thieves have been helping themselves to scrap metal given by Napier citi- , uens to the recent campaign. Beauty of Native Flora. “This has been an early spring, Never have our native flowers been more beautiful, particularly the kowhai,” said Mrs Knox Gilmer, president of the Wellington Horticultural Society, at the opening of the society’s spring show yesterday. Historic Souvenirs.

Among the metal collected from Hash ings householders were two shcllcases which were accompanied by the following note: “These shells were presented to Mrs T. H. Lowry after the last war and given to my family. The cases are the original ■ ones fired from H.M.A.S. Sydney at the Emden when she was sunk. (Mrs) A. Halstead, St. Augby Street, Hastings.” Camp on Foxton Racecourse. About 50 men arc already at the Foxton racecourse preparing for the Territorial camp, to be held there from October 1. The first tents are now erected, and a cookhouse and shower building is being constructed. Water and sewerage connections are being laid by the Borough Council to the course. As soon as the races are over on Saturday, work will be speeded up. Defiant Courage.

“Who said London was in ruins?” defiantly asked a Jewish schoolboy who has arrived at Auckland from England. “A few bombs in the East End, a little damage to the Palace and the docks, and a ‘dud’ near St. Paul’s, but what’s that?” The boy treasures a few pieces of shrapnel which fell near his school in London. Accompanied by his mother and sister, he will live in New Plymouth.

Camp Again Closed. " Having enjoyed leave on Sunday after the lifting of the isolation ban on the military camp at Tc Rapa racecourse, troops of the Third Echelon units who have suffered from the measles epidemic rather more than soldiers elsewhere in tho country have been confined to camp again. Reimposing the ban, authorities, state that the camp was opened as a result of a misunderstanding. Housing of Canoe. Preparations for the erection of a building to house the largo Maori canoe which figured prominently in the Waitangi Centennial celebrations in February are now being made by the Public Works Department. The craft, which is a war canoe, was built by the five northern Maori tribes, the Ngapuhi, To ltarawa, Aupouri, Ngatikahu and Ngati-whatua, with the encouragement of Princess Te Puea. Special Troop Train. A special train is to bo run from Palmerston North next Tuesday to 'convey the Palmerston North, Feilding, Marton and Taihape units of the First Battalion, Wellington-West Coast Regiment to Wanganui for camp on the racecourse. It is intended that the first month of the camp will be in Wanganui and the remaining two months at Waioimi, but that will depend on whether the Waiouru camp is finished according to schedule. An Early Duel. The story of an early Wellington duel between one of his ancestors, Dr Featherston, and Colonel William Wakefield, was told by Mr Justice Johnston at a meeting of the New Zealand Founders’ Society in Wellington, last night. Pistols were the weapons chosen, said His Honour. Dr Featherston got in the first shot, after which Colonel Wakefield fired his shot into the air, with the comment that he would not shoot a man with seven daughters. “I believo Dr Featherston asked for another shot,” added the Judge, “but I don’t think he got it.” Juvenile Choice.

The penchant for fancy dress reflecting the martial spirit of the times, which lias found expression in many school functions in the city, was hardly apparent at the annual ball of the Russell Street School, last evening. The number of such costumes could be counted on the fingers of one hand, but the irrepressible romanticism of youth was given full rein in excellent representations of Red Indians, Robin Hoods, old-fashioned ladies, Spanish ladies, the inevitable fairies, and such other favourites. It was striking evidence of the unchanging spirit of childhood.