A Thought For To-day.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 38, 13 January 1944, Page 4

A Thought For To-day.

Let us commit our cause and all our powers to God. So we shall find our inspiration to action, to bring forth a new order in which righteousness, justice, and truth shall pre-vail.—Viee-Admiral S. R. Drury Lowe. Level of Reservoir.

For some time the level of the Tiritea dam has been dropping at a daily rate of 3in and the past 24 hours has been no exception. To-day the level of the water was 37£in below the spillway. City Council Loan.

The Palmerston North City Council held a brief special meeting this morning to confirm the resolution passed at the last meeting of the council to borrow the sum of £360'.; for the repayment of the Fitzherbert bridge loan. Grass Fires at Otaki.

Grass fires have been very prevalent, chiefly due to careless smokers, cigarette butts, and matches, says the "Manawatu Standard's" Otaki correspondent. A large fire on Tasman Road threatened hundreds of acres, but Mr Wilcox, postmaster, after strenuous efforts, subdued the outbreak. Fire Damages Car,

Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning the "Palmerston North Eire Brigade received a call to a garage containing a car, the property of Mr R. P. Wood, at 12 Dahlia Street. The fire had a good hold when the brigade arrived, but there was no great difficulty in extinguishing it. Both the garage and car, a fairly recent model, were extensively damaged. Heavy Sheep Trains. Because of the shortage of drovers thousands of sheep from the Gisborne district will be transported by rail in the next few weeks for distances up to 600 miles. Sheep will travel by rail to Waikato, and even to beyond Auckland. Wethers for Hawke's Bay and Waikato have already left the district, including a few for as far afield as Taranalu, while the Manawatu has also absorbed several thousand.

Hospital For Marton. A committee set up by the Wanganui Hospital Board to go into the question of a suitable site for the proposed hospital in Marton held a special meeting yesterday, when various sites in the district were inspected. No decision was reached in the meantime, but the question of hospital facilities for Marton is being given urgent consideration. Recommendations made by the committee, following further discussions, will be submitted to tEe board at its next meeting. Cocksfoot Harvesters.

Two enterprising youths were seen in the Milson and Newbury district yesterday collecting cocksfoot grass growing'on the roadside. They had a four-wheeled cart, made of fruit boxes, with perambulator wheels, a.nd the results of their labours lay tor a snace of two chains or more in bundles on the edge of the road. Owing to the continued dry weather the grass appears to lie in abundance and of good quality, so that the youths should be well paid for their efforts. Cocksfoot seed is selling at a good price and there is an unsatisfied demand for it both in New Zealand and . overseas. Future of Young Farmers' Clubs. Writing to Mr H. J. Lancaster, of Glen Oroua, who is the father of the Young Farmers' Club movement in this district, Private Maurice Huddleston, also of Glen Oroua and an active member of the organisation before the war curtailed its activities, expresses the opinion that the movement has a very important future in the post-war period. ' I am quite sure," he says, "that it will emerge from these difficult times with a new and determined spirit and a will to progress and advance, maintaining perhaps an even higher status in the affairs and wellbemg of the farming community and the nation as a whole than it has done in the nast." Judging by his own observations, adds Private Huddleston, a considerable proportion of the credit for the functioning of the Glen Oroua Club was duo to MiLancaster for the untiring manner in which he had sponsored its interests.