A Thought For To-day.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 203, 28 July 1942, Page 4

A Thought For To-day.

The Lord your God is Ho that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.—The Bible. Permits to Travel.

No fewer than 104 permits to travel distances of over 100 miles by rail were issued at the Palmerston North station yesterday, when the restriction came into force. A Narcissi Wonderland.

A further 12,000 narcissi, the gift of Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, were planted in the "Woodland near the Christchurch Hospital during June, bringing the total of bulbs to 358,000. Carriage of Beer.

Representatives of the liquor trade are to be asked by the Minister of Transport (Mr Semple) to meet him in conference at an early date to discuss the question of economies in the transportation of beer. Barley For Fowls.

A statement that the Internal Marketing Division had been successful in securing from Australia a considerable quantity of specially-clipped barley for use by poultry farmers was made yesterday by the Minister of Marketing (Mr Barclay). Motor Industry Manpower. A census it to be taken of manpower in the motor industry throughout New Zealand. This was announced by Mr O. R. Edmond (secretary of the New Zealand Retail Motor Traders' Association) at the annual meeting of the Southland branch of the association, i

Additional River Gauges. In addition to the river gauges which it is suggested should bo installed in the upper regions of the Manawatu River, the Palmerston North Biver Board has decided to place three extra gauges near the city. They will be in the channel at Fitzroy Bend, at Bergersou's, and Brightwater Terrace. Chinese Miners.

In the arid back country of Australia hundreds of Chinese are working to produce wolfram, urgently needed for hardening the steels of munitions. They are ardently pati : otic and fiercely anxious to defeat the Japanese; they work indefatigably, says the special correspondent of the New Zealand Press Association in Australia. Japanese Hospital Symbol. Japanese symbols, meaning hospital, are being painted on the roofs of some Sydney hospitals. The symbols are easily discernible from the air and are being used in preference to the conventional Red Cross sign. They are coloured sicrlet and painted on a white rectangle, about six feet long and four feet w'do. Picture Tells the Story.

"It proves once more the old Chinese maxim that a picture is worth ten thousand words," wrote Mr W. J. Broadfoot, M.P., to a meeting of the Waipawa County Council. He was referring to a graph that had been drawn up by the clerk and the engineer to illustrate the great rise in hospital taxation in recent years. Wagons Derailed.

Seven wagons attached to a southbound mixed train wi-re derailed at Cliff Road station, two miles north of Marton. shortly after midday yesterday. The track was blocked for three hours, but some of the damaged wagons were jacked clear and passing trains were able to use the loop through the station. Patterns In The Sky. Many citizens of Palmerston North gazed skywards yesterday afternoon when fascinating cloud patterns were to be seen. Flying at a high altitude, an aeroplane almost invisible to the eye traced the patterns when vapours from the exhaust condensed on passing through a cold air layer. A giant horseshoe formation was one of the most prominent. River Erosion. As the recent flood caused serious erosion at Stewart's Bend, Te Matai,' outside the Palmerston North River Board's district, it was decided at a meeting of the board to appoint Trus- j tees Koehler, Heatley, and the advis-: ory engineer (Mr C. Fisher) to prepare a statement of the facts to be placed before the jVlinister of Public Works. It is proposed to point out the "extreme urgency of dealing with the matter and request that it be at- ] tended to immediately. ,