Hamilton By-Election.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 10 May 1945, Page 4

Hamilton By-Election.

Nominations for the Hamilton byelection on May 26 closed yesterday. They are as follow: Mrs Grace Hilda Ross (National), Messrs C. A. Barrcll (Labour) J. A. Lee (Democratic Labour), and D. J. Seymour (Independent) . Historic Pictures. The Palmerston North Amateur Cine Club yesterday made a permanent pictorial'record of the victory proceedings in the city. Six of its members with movie cameras took shots of the parade and the gathering at the band rotunda. These pictures will be publicly shown at an early date. Supplies of Penicillin. Ample supplies of penicillin will be coming into ■ the Dominion in future, so that the drug will be freely available to any civilian patient if circumstances demand its use, states a bulletin issued by the Health Department. Until recently only, limited supplies have been coming inte the country. The V Sign.

A prominent feature of thfe victory proceedings at the band rotunda yesterday was a large V sign at the head of the steps. It was composed of wood and covered with red, white and blue bunting. Near the foot was a picture of Mr Churchill framed in the national colours. Golf Ball Kills Seagulls.

Two seagulls were killed on the North Shore Golf ( Club's links on Saturday afternoon under unusual circumstances. A member of the club, upon reaching the third tee, observed a large flock of seagulls less than 100 yards away. He endeavoured to drive his ball over the flock, but topped it, and it went at speed into the middle of the flock and killed two of the birds outright. Theft of Flags. Despicable conduct is reported by several shopkeepers to have occurred in Palmerston North on Tuesday night. Many of the owners of sbops and hotels in Main Street and the Square had decorated their premises with flags, which were left flying all night. In the morning many of the flags had disappeared. The owners were unable to obtain further supplies*. Activity on Ruapehu.

The renewed activity in the cratei of Ruapchu was reported yesterday to have reached an intensity equal to the most violent outburst of the eruption in March. A rock-covered island has reappeared above the steaming lake surface in the same position as the earlier vent. Steam and fine ash are pouring from the crater in a continuous, belching column and loud rumblings can bo heard at the Chateau. Sensational Prison Escape.

By bending three strong steel bars almost an inch in diameter at the top of the grill in the exercise yard at the lock-up of the police station, Dimedin, at 7 o'clock yesterday morning, three prisoners made their escape. One of the escaped prisoners, Robert Wark Johnston, aged 23, was sentenced in the Supreme Court on Monday to 18 months' reformative detention on a charge of the theft of a safe and its contents from a dwellinghouse. The other two, Dennis Murphy, aged 19, a labourer, of Timaru. and David Warren Hodg'kinson, aged 19, a rabbiter, of Fairfield, were on remand on charges of conversion of a motor-car and breaking, entering, and theft. When Murphy and Hodgkinson and another youth were before the Court last week and remanded, the police stated that they had been arrested in Central Otav;o Utter a sensational police chase and only alter four shots had been fired over their heads.