Aero Club's Fine Record.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 132, 6 May 1941, Page 4

Aero Club's Fine Record.

More than 70 members of the Hawko's Bay Aero Club are serving with the Forces. Ten have been killed. Theft From Hotel Safe. • The sum of £lO7, mostly in notes, was stolen from a safe in the offieo of the Metropolitan Hotel, Wanganui, on Sunday. Bitten By a Boar. Bitten by a boar while he was feeding it on his farm at Hoeotainui, Waikato, .Mr H. Cooper, aged 31, a married man, received severe lacerations and was admitted to the Waikato Hospital.

Crippled Children's Society.Mr H. M. Scott presided at a meeting of the Manawatu branch of the Crippled Children's Society held last evening. The Woodville and Dannevirkc subbranches forwarded copies of their reports and balance-sheets which were adopted. A report from the Girls' Club was also received. The welfare officer reported that 42 visits had been made, the number received being 13. Miles travelled totalled 551. Flood Humour.

A resident in the flood area fortunately situated on a slight rise was requested bv the police to congregate as many of his neighbours in trouble as possible in his bouse. Several homes were immediately advised of the position and were told to evacuate and make for this haven of safety. Shortly afterwards families of all sizes arrived and were welcomed but the seriousness of the night was relieved by the arrival of one neighbour with a squealing pig under his arm and several fowls seeking shelter!

Church Music. "Saint Paul gave ma my instructions, 'to do everything in decency and in order,' " saiu Mr J. Holmes Runniclcs (president) at the annual meeting of the Manawatu branch of the Society of Registered Teachers of Music (N.Z.), in acknowledging a tribute paid to bis services as choirmaster and organist at All Saints' Church for the last 25 years. "Whatever is done in a church in regard to music should be done in such a way as to ho unobtrusive and helpful and these are the instructions which 1 have endeavoured to follow." New Zealand Troops Praised. The following telegram has been received by Rt. Hon. P. J'Yaser from General dc Gaulle at Fort La my: "From the territory of Chad 1 have learnt of the warm welcome you so kindly gave to Governor-General Brunot. I wish to express my sincere thanks and to take this opportunity of telling you of my great admiration for the bearing of your troops in the Middle East in those splendid battles in which we have bad proof of the true feeling of comradeship which the Free French forces have for their NewZealand allies." Landmark Disappears.

The sandbag shelter in front of the Bank of New Zealand, which had become quite a landmark, has now been taken down. The sale of tickets in the shelter yielded £786 3s and from other sources £256 17s, a total of £1043, representing 20,800 tickets, which speaks eloquently for the ready and constant assistance of a large body of ladies who waited in the shel-' tor over the last six 1 months in both pleasant and unpleasant weather. It is also a sample of the all-round work which the ladies of Palmorston North are contributing to the war effort. Th" ticket sellers very much appreciatei] receiving morning and afternoon tea daily—a generous and encouraging contribution from the proprietress of a nearby tearoom.