GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLXI, Issue 3481, 15 December 1926, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

The offices of the Kairanga County Council will be closed from December 21 at noon till January 10 next.

The next winter A. and P. Show will be held from June 11 to IS inclusive.

A subscription list for the Dobson Mine Relief Fund has been opened at the office of the Kairanga County Council.

“The time is long past when a girl can’t compete with a man in the show, ring,” observed Mr. J. M. Johnston at yesterday's meeting of the A. and P. Committee.

• Mr. J. A. Russell, the well-known Palmerston North pig breeder, has just landed a pedigree Large White boar and sow from Australia, while another sow will be arriving later.

The Kelvin Grove School requested the Kairanga County Council yesterday to erect notice boards in the vicinity of the school, as motorists were in the habit of driving at an excessive speed and the lives of the children were endangered. The matter is to bo attended to.

Still another photograph has been placed on the walls of the Kairanga County Council chambers. The latest and ninth portrait is that of Cr. M. A. Moody, who was chairman for the years 1910-11. At yesterday’s mooting of the Council, Cr, Moody was thanked for his gift.

At a sitting, of the Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon, A. Wood sued W. H. Wood, labourer, Gisborne, for maintenance and guardianship of herself and four children. The magistrate (Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M.), made an order for the maintenance of the three younger children at the rate of 10s a week each.

“Anyone can sec that in fifteen to twenty years’ time Auckland will be a tremendous city,” said the Minister of Education, Hon. K. A. Wright, on Saturday. “We must face that fact and we are doing so by acquiring sites for schools in localities where the population will be dense. If we wait, wo will have to pay fabulous prices for land."

Largo quantities of wool are now being brought to Wanganui from outlying stations, where the fine weather has given farmers a chance to rush their shearing operations through. Up to last week comparatively little wool had come in, on account of the wet weather, but now all firms handling the important commodity are busy with the preparation of their clients’ clips for the January sale. Socking an opportunity to act in a motion picture, over sixty persons replied to an advertisement at Auckland calling for three actors to appear in a local film. The majority of the applicants were recent arrivals from England, and a number had previously acted in pictures. Eivc of the applicants wore immigrants from Canada. Most of those who applied wore out of employment.

Officials of one tennis club in Palmerston North wore staggered the other afternoon when it was reported to them that two young damsels had said that they did not need to become members of the club as they had been playing on the courts for,three seasons and no one had asked them for a subscription. Throe members of the executive are very soro over the affair, as they consider that their nationality has been slighted—they are Scots.

“Other local bodies are not taking horses into consideration when laying down roads,’’ commented Cr. Jos. Batchclar at'the monthly meeting of the Kairanga County Council yesterday, when Mr. K. Hart waited on the meeting and complained about the horse track along Napier road. He pointed out that the track was in a fearful state with ruts, and was a decided danger. He had only recently seen a cart upset, and the narrowly escaped serious injuries. “Oh, you must cater for the like of us, for the town depends on us,” replied Mr. Hart to the chairman’s comment.

During the visit of the GovernorGeneral to Waihi an amusing incident took place when the cars containing His Excellency and the Mayoral party respectively were about to lea,ve the Recreation Reserve. An elderly lady approached the Mayoral car, and addressing a distinguished-looking ’'gentleman wearing a “hard-knocker,” said: “Good-bye, your lordship. I hope you’ve had a good time.” “My good lady,” replied the astonished member of the official party, “I’m not his lordship. Ton will find him in the next car.” The 'surprised member was no other than Ohinemuri’s popular M.P.. Major Samuel, who was in the Mayors car, and he immediately remarked that “it must have been the ‘hard knocker’ that did it.”

"I am dissatisfied with, the way things have been delayed in the matter of the Awapunl Bridge,” stated Gr. P. J. Small at the Kairanga County Council meeting yesterday, when he contended that some start should bo made as quickly as possible. The Council had promised the ratepayers to get the work done, and the money had been raised twelve months ago. The engineer stated that there was little prospect of the matter being ready by the January meeting, but there was every possibility of the work being commenced before the end of January. The matter was finally left in the hands of the members of the riding, the chairman, and the engineer to start the ball rolling as soon as possible, these members being given power to act.

Dixon’s cordials should bo in every home this Christmas. We are the sole bottling agents for Ward’s famous orange crush and ye olde ginger beer. Ask lor these two famous lines, and see that you got what you ask for. Insist on Ward's orange crush and yo olde ginger beer, bottled and browed by Dixon’s, Ltd. No other firm , can supply these original beverages. The makers name is your guide to quality.*

Mr. Lambourno, senior Inspector, of the Wanganui Education Board, lectured to the Teachers’ Institute last evening on impressions gained of work in the schools.

“Please don’t use the word ‘twist,’ ” said the Mayor (Mr. F. J. Nathan) last night to a constant questioner. “X am trying to give the facts and the truth, and if you can't recognise that. I’m sorry.” Warm applause greeted the remarks.

A’complainant at the Wanganui Court tho other day whose husband was a professional boxer, admitted that her husband had a good many fights, and, she added, a good many practices. When lie had no sparing partners, ho practised on her and gave her a good many hidings. Buncdin is at last to have a crematorium, the local Crematorium Society having completed its part of the arrangement with the City Council by depositing a contribution of £SOO with the City treasurer. The Reserves Committee is asking the Council for authority to invito tenders for the construction of a crematorium building at the Anderson’s Bay cemetery in accordance with the plan prepared by the city building surveyor. A complaint was received at the monthly meeting of the Kairanga County Council' yesterday what was termed, the disgraceful state of the main highways, and the letter stated that if nothing was done to improve matters the writers would consider whether they would pay the heavy taxes or not. There was a good laugh when this was read, and one member commented “they would be pulled up hard on that if they triad it.”

A suggestion that a syren should be attached to the ambulances in place of a distinguishing flag was made by Mr. F. B. Logan, at Monday’s meeting bf the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board. Mr. Logan stated that he noticed that tho syren was used in the United States, and proved very valuable when an ambulance was rushing to tho sccno of an accident, It was better than a flag, because the public knew that they had to keep clear.

Judging from the remarks of one member of the Kairanga County Council, it would appear that during the past twenty odd years the abilities of our athletes have undergone radical changes. The topic under discussion was a drain, the width of which was debated. “Why, you could almost jump it—if in form,’’ remarked the member, who in his younger days was no mean athlete. "Some jump,” retorted another member, '“it’s only CO feet wide.”

A sprained left thumb was worrying C. Purdy, tho Auckland boxer, before the big fight at the Opera House on Monday night in Wanganui, so a doctor was consulted, and cocaine was injected into the joint. The novel measure had the effect of deadening the pain caused by jars during the fight. Pugilists and others depending on physical performance and endurance arc fairly familiar with such methods. It is on record that a dog racing in tho final of a W’hippct race was given a cocaine injection in an injured foot, to allow It to win an important final.