GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6538, 21 February 1928, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

The following visitors were welcomed at yesterday’s meeting of the Rotary Club: Messrs. J. J. Stevenson, A. B.' Pizzey, W. J McCulloch, and S. L, Freeman. The engineer (Mr. J. R. Hughes) reported to the Palmerston North Borough Council last evening that full advantage had been taken of the fine weather that has prevailed during the past several weeks in centring activities on tar and bitumen work. Several streets have been topdressed with Trinidad asphalt laid on by means of the squegeo and covered with metal chips. In memory of his brother, Lord Northclifie, Lord Eothormore (who was formerly Mr. Cecil Harmsworthj has given £30,000 to the University College of London to endow a chair of tuodern English literature, states a cable. At the inquest at Whangarci yesterday concerning the death at iVaro (Hikurangi) on Saturday night of the boy, George Boswell, run over by a motor truck, a verdict of accidental death was returned, with no blame attachable to anyone.—Press Association.

The Palmerston North Borough Council last night received a communication from the Inspector of Police with reference to motor cycle exhausts stating that his staff will do their utmost In the matter of detecting offenders. Cr. Tremaine complimented the Motor Cycle Club on its efforts to minimise the nuisance.

During the course of his address to the Rotary Club yesterday, Professor G. S. Peren extended a cordial invitation to members of the club to visit the college on a convenient date. The invitation was accepted and at some time after the Rotary Conference a party of Rotarians will visit the College in order to gain a first-hand knowledge of the progress of the work on the farm and in the buildings. The creation of four separate Universities in place of the present New Zealand University was discussed at the session of the New Zealand University Council at Christchurch yesterday. A motion for the establishment of four Colleges was drafted. The motion was not put directly to members. A motion that the Council consider the next business on the order paper was put to the meeting and carried by 14 votes to 7 before the discussion on the main motion had properly opened. •‘This man is a perfect nusiance wherever he goes,” observed SeniorSergeant O'Grady at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when a one-legged man named Jeremiah O’Reilly pleaded guilty to a charge of using indecent language in Coleman Place on Saturday. O'Reilly, the possessor of a lengthy list of previous convictions including three for indecent language, was only released from gaol op February 2. The Magistrate sent him back for another month. On Tuesday evening (21st mst.) at 8 o'clock in St. Andrew's Memorial Sail, the first of a series of lectures on “ Warfare with Disease will be delivered by Dr. Cyril King, F.R.C.S_ The lectures are free to the public and are held under the auspices _ of the W.E.A. and Victoria University College. Following this series of addresses, other lectures will be arranged on the subjects of Economics, Psychology and Lack of Real Thinking; The public is urged to attend the •first meeting on Tuesday evening next. A middle-aged man named Viggo Peter Lumby was sent to gaol yesterday for a month by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. for having failed to maintain an illegitimate child. According to the Police statement Lumby consented to an order of 5s per week but w-as now £l7 10s in arrears. ' Defendant had been touring about with the mother of the child mostly begging a living. He had no money and was not likely to get anything. The Magistrate: “I’ll put him somewhere where he will got work.—One month.” LumbV will be released however, on payment of arrears. With reference to applications foi cadetships at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and the Royal Mi l ary College, Sandhurst, Major-Generallß. Young, officer commanding the New Zealand forces, stated at Hamilton on Thursday that there were two classes of nominations (writes a local correspondent). In one class the training foes, cost of passage, and other expenses incurred by the selected candidates were to be paid by their parents, and the selection was finally made by the Governor-General after they had been ■ examined by officers commanding Commands. In the second class the Defence Department paid practically all the expenses of the successful nominees. In this class the selection was made by *lie offiicer commanding the defence forces. Cars leave White Star Office (Railway Hotel Building) Main Street for Masterton 9.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. daily and at 1.30 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Sundays, Scats may be booked by phoning 6819.*