Samoan Loyalty.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 90, 15 March 1941, Page 6

Samoan Loyalty.

Residents of Western Samoa have contributed £SOOO for the purchase of a fighter plane. 12,000 Bottles Collected. Twelve thousand bottles have been collected by the pupils of the Takapuna and Milford schools, Auckland, as their effort toward a queen carnival in aid of the Fighting Forces Fund. Scrap From Rarotonga. In response to a public appeal a considerable quantity of scrap metal has been collected and is being forwarded to New Zealand, states the Rarotonga correspondent of the United Press Association. Islanders' War Service.

Volunteers from Samoa and the Cook Islands are to serve with the New Zealand Forces overseas. It has been announced that the War Cabinet has approved of the acceptance, until March 31, of voluntary enlistments from these Territorials, the recruits to be full-blooded whites and up to but not including persons of half Polynesian blood. Land For School.

The Wanganui Education Board, acting under the Education Act and the Public Works Act, proposes to take an area of a little over five acres of ground near the present Rangiotu School for the purpose of building another school, a matter the board has had in view for some time. The area is located about 12 chains on the Himatangi side of the present school grounds, on the mam highway. Katipo Spider's Bite. Writing to an exchange a correspondent says regarding the katipo spider's bite: The old Maori remedy still holds good. Smoke the wound at once. The Maoris used dry seaweed or anything else that would make smoke. The Red Indians also used smoke and fire for wounds caused by snake bite or a poisoned arrow- I use any old rags, or brown paper, sawdust, etc., to make smoke. Smoke is used to "cure" bacon and fish, which means the microbe is kept out of the flesh. Teachers' Conference.

The Dominion president of the Educational Institute, Mr D. Forsyth, announced iii AVellington last night that it had heen decided after consultation with branches to cancel the 1941 annual meeting of the institute. This was the first time in nearly 60 years the institute had abandoned its annual meeting, but it was felt by the executive that the war situation was of sufficient gravity to warrant such a step. The money saved would be used for some patriotic purpose, possibly in the form of a rehabilitation fund for soldier members of the institute.

Private Freyberg. A recent addition to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force is Private Paul Freyberg, who joined up immediately on leaving Eton to serve under his famous ( father, General B. C. Freyberg, V.C," now commanding the New Zealanders in Egypt. Freyberg, junior, is still in his teens. He is a strong, well-built lad, and remarkably like his father in looks. While her husband and son are serving with the New Zealanders, Mrs Freyberg is one of the supervisors at the New Zealand Forces Club, in Charing Cross Road, London, formerly the Italian Club.

Palmerston North Mayoralty. Cr. W. G. Black, on whom a deputation waited some time ago asking him to allow his name to go forward as a candidate for the mayoralty, ha 6 now advised the deputation that he is unable to accede to its request. Help Fop The Wounded, The 200 residents on lonely Pitcairn Island have made a gift of 344 walking sticks for maimed British soldiers. The sticks are beautifully made and to obtain some of the wood used the islanders had to sail, in their small boats, • 100 miles to another island.

Pig Dog's Tenacity. Estimated as weighing 3001 b, a large wild boar was killed after an exciting chase near Whangamata, Waihi. The pig was bailed up by a dog, which, although badly ripped , down the throat, held the boar until the arrival of the hunters, when it was dispatched. The dog then released its hold,, but died a few minutes later. Put the Tin Hat on It.

A story about a temporary portei who extinguished three incendiary bombs with a home-made tin hat is quoted by Lord Stamp, chairman of the London-Midland-Scottish railway, in a message to the staff. An official was amazed to see the temporary porter rush towards him and exclaim, "Here they are, guv'nor. I've put them out with my. home-made tin hat." The porter's only concern was that his ruined tin hat should be replaced, and this would be done. "111-Conceived Action."

At a meeting of the dairy committee of the Southern Hawke's Bay executive of the Farmers' Union members, in discussing the motor vehicle impressments, described the subject as ill-conceived. There would be commercial men and farmers who could spare their vehicles and others who could not, it was stated. A proper survey should have been undertaken first to ascertain the vehicles which could have been impressed with the least dislocation of business-.

Convincing Evidence. Greece is amused by the story of Captain Torino, famous as a Rome broadcaster in Spanish, says a Canadian correspondent. He received scores of letters from Spanish listeners, pointing out how far his radio tales of Italian victories were from the truth. Irritated, by such incredulity, Captain Torino announced the next day he would fly to Albania and broadcast to Spain from the front line. He flew to Valona, but Spanish listeners never heard the promised broadcast, as two days later the Greeks captured him.

Sounds Like Luxury. When the Magistrate (Mr W. H. Freeman) expressed amazement in the Morrinsville Police Court that a traveller could secure a license for 140 gallons of petrol a month, counsel said he was also astounded. The only people he knew of who could get such quantities were Ministers of the Crown and trade union secretaries. Counsel later said that the complaints regarding the excessive consumption of benzine alleged in the case arose from tittletattle of ' irresponsible people. Mr Freeman intervened that it was a pity there was not more tittle-tattle of the same kind. He added that the country was at war, and every gallon of benzine that could be saved should be conserved.