GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6551, 7 March 1928, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

Mr Maurice Colien was welcomed back to the Luncheon Club yesterday, after his recently completed trip to the U.S.A. A Press Association message states that the touring South Australian bowlers were in Hamilton yesterday afternoon but there was no play owing to rain. The visitors depart for Te Kuiti this morning. Mr. J. G. Radford, president of the Manawatu Croquet Association, expressed the opinion yesterday that there were no better greens in New Zealand than those of Palmerston North. According to a London cable the Morning Post’s aeronautical correspondent, commenting on the report of the Commonwealth Air Accidents Investigation Committee, states that the publication sets an example to the Air Ministry, which still shrouds in secrecy inquiries into accidents.. The rider of a motor cycle with a side-ear attached must have felt surprised yesterday morning when, in attempting to park in front of the "Times” Office, his machine made a headlong divo across tho pavement. Tho cause of the trouble was found to lie with the brakes which had suddenly refused to act. In the Stratford Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, Heaton Clyde Burgess, manager of a billiard saloon, was fined £7 10s for keeping the saloon open when it was required to be closed. A constable visited the saloon at 12.30 on a recent Sunday morning and found two men on the premises. On a charge of permitting a game of cards, accused was convicted without penalty. Optimism was the keynote of the discussion at Monday night’s meeting of the Council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce when a motion was passed that the chairman of the associated banks bo approached with request that the banks reduce their overdraft rates Tho speakers stated that tho trade of the country was now improving and that there was a better outlook for tho future. The casting of tho largest bell ever made in England, and tho fourth largest in existence, was celebrated at Croydon last Saturday, states a Rugby wireless, by 2300 bellringers from all parts of the country. The bell, with othersi, has been made for a carillon in Riverside Church, at Now York. Its note is two whole tones lower than any bell hitherto tuned in this country. The weight of the bell is 18 J tons. "I feel somewhat diffident about being here,” said Archdeacon Creed Merdith of Wanganui when speaking at the Manawatu croquet greens yesterday, and went on to explain him self by stating that Wanganui and Palmerston North wore in a sense rivals. However, the croquet assoexa tion in Wanganui, was as yet onlj the child, and a very young child, of tho Palmerston North association, and it owed a great deal to its parent body. A fourteen-year-old boy who feared the consequences of having shot a girl playmate in the eye with an airgun, left his home at Muritai, Wellington, on Friday and was seen on Saturday afternoon when he made for the bush. On Monday morning he set off across the harbour in a seven-foot boat, pursued by his father and tho police. He was captured, suffering slightly from shock and exhaustion. The girl was admitted to hospital and was X-xayed on Monday.

An Invercargill message states that divers have completed temporary patching of tho pumping room of the stranded whaler, C. A. Larsen, enabling the ship to use its own pumping plant. It is proposed to pump the fore part of the ship and remove her to-morrow to safe shelter .where the divers can continue operations on tho hull. Three more smaller holes were discovered in tho fore part. Onlv seamen remain with tho Larsen, tho rest having been paid off. One hundred left for the north yesterday.