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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 16 July 1941, Page 6

Gorge Slip Being Cleared. Although the Manawatu Gorge Road is open, care must still be exercised when ncogtiating the slip which came down in the Manawatu Gorge on Monday morning. Clearing work is still

111 progress. South Island Trout. More than l(J,OU0 trout have been counted and tagged in the Selwyn River in the live weeks by tno hsli curator lor the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. The average oi those weighed so iar is y.\lb France's Liberty. Enchained by , Nazi domination, Franco on Monday celebrated French National Day, marking the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille in 1789. Tins is the second observance of France's gaining her liberty si.nce the country surrendered to Germany. Home Guard's Protest. Because the Government has tailed to compensate a guardsman who was injured while on parade, the Pine Bush (Southland) unit of the Honva Guard has ceased holding parades., it is stated that resentment is strong ill the district and that if compensation is not paid within a short time parades throughout the area will also be stopped as a protest.—Press Association. Talking by Signs. Private W. J. Jarvis, who has been invalided homo from the Middle East, stated in an interview that the Greek people treated the New Zealand soldiers very well. They could not, however, speak English and any "talking" had to be done by means of signs. The climate was very similar to that of New Zealand and the Maoris stood very high in the estimation of the Greeks. Generally speaking, the women of Greece were very good looking. Rotarians' Visit. A delegation of 23 members of the j Palmerston North Rotary Club paid a j friendly visit to the Wellington Rotary j Club yesterday, joining in a luncheon. The president of the Palmerston North Club (Mr H. L. Cunninghame) took over the conduct of the proceedings after luncheon and certain lines wen; inflicted on his fellow clubmen for' minor offences on the road. It was i decided that the money so collected—it amounted to £',i Gs —should be de-j voted to the invalided nurses' fund. High Praise For Colonel. ''Pie took a rifle from one of the | boys and led our bayonet charges," said Private J. Xanana, who has returned to Auckland from the Middle I East, whe.i speaking of the officer commanding the Maori Battalion, Lieut.-Colonel G. Dittmer, M.C. "He was in every charge," added Private Tahana, "and we would go into anything with him." Another Maori, Private Remi Paid, said all the Maoris ! would iollow Colonel Dittmer any- : where.

Army Postmen Under Fire. A postal unit with the N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East relates in a letter homo that 25 postal sorters went to Greece with the troops, taking 40 tons of letters, parcels, and papers, and only six of the 25 returned, the others being reported missing, believed to be prisoners of war. While delivery was possible the postmen carried on under fire and one was wounded. When the position became hopeless, attention was turned to destroying undelivered food, most of which was made useless. Getting Even. "After what I saw in England, it gave us great satisfaction to shoot the German parachutists" stated Private W. J. Jarvis, who has returned injured from overseas, in an interview. 'The wanton killing of innocent people made our blood boil and we were out to get our revenge. White and red parachutists were our specialty", and though we lost our breakfast one day, wo gave them one of lead. Many of these fellows had packets of chocolate, and I must confess it was very good and very sustaining." Meat Board's Authority, A resolution that the Government be urged, in the crisis affecting the meat producers of New Zealand, to give fullest recognition of the Meat Producers' Board as the controlling authority of the meat industry, was adopted unanimously by delegates at tho Dominion conference in Wellington yesterday of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. This resolution, tho outcome of a remit from the South Canterbury branch of the union, was considered in committee, and was the iirst remit on a long order paper to be discussed. Curious Wellington Epitaph. Curious inscriptions on tombstones were the object of a brief discussion by tho Wellington Diocesan Synod yesterday while the control of graveyards was being considered. The censoring of inscriptions was opposed by a speaker, who said that New Zealanders did not tend to place over deceased persons tho comments that one found in English graveyards. This brought from ; Ven. Archdeacon W. Bullock the remark that near Wellington there was an inscription on the grave of a man or woman who had not got on well in married life, saying that the person buried there had gone "Where the wicked cease from troubling."