A Thought For To-day.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 258, 29 September 1943, Page 4

A Thought For To-day.

When men are lost in the; wilderness, they climb the nearest hill t-o get their hearings. Intelligent people pray for the same reason. Prayer gives a man altitude. —C. A. Wells. National War Savings.

Last week 183 places, including 17 chief post office centres, attained their National War Savings quotas. In 15 of the 18 postal districts the full district quota was obtained. Radio Telephones For Patrol Cars. An investigation into the best method of equipping patrol ears in Wellington and Auckland with twoway wireless telephonic sets is being made by the Police Department, in conjunction with the Post and Telegraph Department. Chief Justice Compels Youth to Save.

Compulsory saving was imposed by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in the Supreme Court at Wellington, yesterday, on a youth aged 18, who, though earning about £6 a week, broke into an office. He is to live on £2 10s a week for the next three years. Whirokino River Cut.

It was stated at a meeting of the Manawatu-Oroua River Board, yesterday, that work on the Whirokino cut, in. the Manawatu River, is expected to be finished by the end of October. Only one machine is at present working there, owing to engine trouble with tlie other. Series of Frosts.

After a long interval, frosts have been experienced in Palmerston North on the last three mornings, that recorded at the Grasslands Division to-day being s.3deg. On Monday morning the reading was 4.3 deg. and yesterday 2deg. These are the only frosts recorded this month. Theft of Bowls.

A communication that bowls had been stolen from an Auckland club was received at the annual meeting of the Manawatu Bowling Centre yesterday from the New Zealand Association. The secretary reported that bowls had also been stolen in Christchurch, and a set was missing from the Palmerston North Club.

The Woman of To-Morrow. The woman of to-morrow is going to: Solve our sex problems; recover the knowledge of God; make marriages better; become community minded ; accept the survival of chivalry. These five propositions were submitted by the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu, Lt.-Col. G. V. Gerard, speaking at a tliinksgiving service held in the Municipal Theatre, Napier, to commemorate the golden jubilee of women’s suffrage in New Zealand. Michaelmas Day.

To-day is Michaelmas Day, a Church celebration in honour of St. Michael and All Angels instituted as early as the year 487. With Michaelmas are associated quite a number of curious old manorial rites which have never penetrated as far as this part of the world, but the custom of eating goose at Michaelmas is observed by some New Zealanders. It is a custom of great antiquity, but how it arose no one seems to know, although there are several theories. Flood Control.

The question of flood control in the lower reaches of the Manawatu River, together with the FJax Plan Committee’s recent action Tn filling in sr spillway in the Moutoa area, was discussed by the Man awatu-Orou a River Board yesterday. The chairman of the Rjver Control and Soil Conservation Council (Mr W. L. Newnham) was present and he was accompanied by Mr T. G. Beck, a member of the council, and Mr A. P. Grant, engineer to the council. The discussion was taken in committee and a report is to be issued later.