GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6857, 12 March 1929, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

The flight of the Southern Cross to London begins on March 22 or 23. “Canua lilies at the Manawatu Tace course, for brilliant colouring, variety, and profusion, may not find an equal in the Dominion.” That was the remark of a much travelled Englishman on Sunday. A Chinese, named Ah Tong, aged 77 years, who had been an inmato of the Dunedin Benevolent Institute for several years, was found dead hanging in a woodshed at the Institute on Sunday morning. “At Terrace End they have an inscription over the entrance: ‘Enter to learn.’ I would suggest that we have an inscription put up here ‘Enter to freeze,’ said Mr. W. F. Cutler at last evening’s meeting of the College street school committee. On the commercial travellers’ recent Charity Saturday, a record was established by Mr. Henry Oollinson and party, who for the third year in succession topper? the returns for the bun drive. On this occasion, Mr. Collinsen’s party sold £lO 9s 2d worth of buns.

Desiring to preserve the unique record of an hotel licensee, William John Bray, who had conducted hotels for 35 years without being convicted of any offence, tho Gisborne Magistrate, Mr Lovvy, acceded to counsel’s request to dismiss as trivial a charge of selling aftor hours.—Press Association. During February the Manawatu Oroua Power Board collected revenue amounting to £6508/17/11 as compared with £5581/18/11 in February 1928, an increase of £926/19/0. The total for 10 months of this financial year is £48,164/12/8, compared with £40,596/1/5 for same period of previous financial year an increase of £7568/11/3. Having 38 previous convictions for theft and false pretences, Daniel Patrick O’Connor yras to-day sentenced in the Magistrate’s Court, at Gisborne, to three months’ hard labour, followed by a year’s reformative detention for obtaining £3 from an hotelkeeper and £2 from a priest by falsely representing that he had just purchased a farm. A protest against Sunday excursions was uttered by Dean Barnett at Hamilton on Sunday night. He said that there was a gradual slipping back of the moral standards. There was no excuse for these excursions, as people had time for recreation during the week. He protested against a Government Department’s desperate endeavour to pay its way by means of such excursions.