Soldiers' Death.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 217, 13 August 1942, Page 4

Soldiers' Death.

A soldier, Colin Ernest Graham, aged 20. of Onehunga, was killed by the accidental discharge of a rifle at a battle station near Auckland yesterday afternoon. Lambing In Apiti District. Lambing has begun in the Apiti district and while it is not yet general a good number of Southdown lambs have made their appearance. There are also a few in the Ashhurst area, twins appearing to be plentiful. Rations For Infants.

A suggestion that coupons for fruit and honey should .replace those for sugar and tea in infants' ration books was to be taken up with the Government, it was stated at the Auckland provincial conference of the Plunket Society. Auckland Air Raid Shelter.

Tunnellcrs yesterday fired the shot which finally pierced a tunnel 2000 feet long under Albert Park, Auckland, extending from Victoria Street to Constitution Hill. The tunnel and side tunnels will provide air raid accommodation for 20,000 people in the heart of the city. Fire-Fighting Trains. Five fire-fighting trains are being constructed for the railway E.P.S., three at Otahuhu and two at Addington. When completed in about a month's time they will be located at Wellington, Palmcrston North, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin, and will he available for instant dispatch to any place on the. railway where they may be required. Lakelet in the Square.

With the work of increasing the capacity of the lakelet in the Square opposite the "Manawatu Standard" office now completed and thoroughly tested, the City Council's reserves department is giving attention to the improvement of the area for beauty and utility. In place of the wire-mesh fences formerly enclosing the lakelet, rockeries with suitable plants are to be built round the outside edges. Soldiers As Historians.

With the object of supplementing the official accounts of big battles and minor engagements a competition which was open to all ranko of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. closed on June 30 for the best eye-witnesses' accounts of Middle East actions in which the New Zealanders have been engaged. The articles submitted will be filed in the official archives for use when the official history of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. is being written. Wanted Them All.

An unusual adoption case came before the Native Land Court at Hawcra. A Maori woman aged 76 years applied for the adoption of a family o-f seven children. The Judge (Mr R. P. Dykes) suggested that she might like to adopt perhaps only two of the children, but the Maori was firm. She wanted the whole family, and on her death they would succeed to her property and possessions. The adoption was granted. Gift of Long Ago. A good many books are being received at the waste paper depot in Invercargill. Most of them are of no value and will go to the paper makers,'but one that will not share that fate is a Bible. Though the volume, which has brass-edged covers and a brass flap, is over 70 years old, it is in excellent condition. According to an inscription on the fly leaf the Bible was presented to a boy by his grandmother on April 18, 1871. "For Germans Only." The London Times special correspondent in Stockholm writes: News from Poland records that the authorities in Warsaw were embarrassed for several days during the first half of May by finding written on many during the night in unremovable paint, "Nur fur Deutsche" .(for Germans only)—the inscription which "Germans display outside the best; restaurants, hotels, gardens, and the Hike where Poles and Jews are riot alleged. Hospital Expenditure.

';4The Oioua County Council decided Bs:,\fcs monthly meeting 'that it would riot!'send a representative to the confjereripe "of/, local bodies with the Palmefstbri' NbVth Hospital Board, being heldariviPalmerston North to-day, regarding expenditure on new buildings arijd, <:. «4uibment. Councillors were satisfied there was no alternative to building. vThcy were, however, concerned laborit the increase in rates whtrai Vrould result and the system of hospital!,;. rating generally.- Tho chairman : (Cr Campbell) said that it believed that when the Bo6iay security legislation was ihtrodfycftdf'Jhospital maintenance would be jb'ofrifc out of that department's fund.V'v, We .have received no relief, however," \h& added.