GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6869, 26 March 1929, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

The Mayor desires to acknowledge the receipt of £2 2/- from Mr C. R. Beattie towards the Chinese famine relief fund. A proclamation in an Extraordinary Gazette issued this morning announces the further proroguing of Parliament till Juno C next. Mr. B. J. Jacobs will preside at today’s meeting of the Lunch club. Owing to the unavoidable absence of Mr. G. H. Scott, another speaker is being arranged for. A child named Arran Collins sustained a broken leg on Sunday afternoon through being kicked by a horse on his father’s farm at Newbury. The Palmerston North Rotary club at its meeting yesterday considered the remits passed at the recent Dominion conference in Christchurch. The proceedings were in committee. The mysterious glare reported to bo have been seen on the sea in the vicinity of Kapiti Island last week is now stated to have been caused by the burning of some rubbish on the island. At the annual meeting of the Southland Rugby Union last night, it was resolved to ask the New Zealand Union to petition the government to exempt amateur sports bodies from amusement tax. —P.A. i Mr James Dougherty, of Rongotca, had the misfortune to fall from a fence yesterday and suffer a compound fracture or his right arm. He was admitted to hospital and his condition last evening was reported as satisfactory. A valuable pleasure launch owned by Mr. W. Sinclair was destroyed by lire in the Auckland upper harbour. Tho occupants had just been rescued when the deck was burst by an explosion. The ongine dropped out in deep water. The sea was strewa with debris, and the launch was a total loss. Two Greymouth youths named Scott and MaeDon'ald, of Blaketown, went over the bar on Sunday in a 14 foot sailing boat without sweeps or oars. They wero becalmed and were unable to got back and drifted in a northerly direction. A search proved fruitless. The youths were out all night, but reached tho harbour at seven o’clock yesterday morning. At the annual meeting of the Marton executive of the N.Z.E.1., embracing tho whole of the Wanganui Education district, the following resolution was carried “that this meeting, representing five branches, covering the whole Wanganui Education district, strongly endorses the resolution of the Masterton branch against the establishment of more junior high schools.” The unemployment position in Palmerston North continues to remain about the same, each week witnessing only slight fluctuations in tho number of men wanting work. Last week 21 married men with 54 dependents and S single men registered at the Labour Department’s office while yesterday the number had been reduced to 1C married men with 44 dependents and G single men.

The prevalence of distemper in the Manawatu district is giving rise to serious alarm among fanners and owners of sporting and show dogs. On the first display of the symptoms—running at the noso and eyes, drowsiness, refusal to eat and rapid loss of condition —-the animal should be isolated. This course will materially help to break the epidemic, which has already assumed serious proportions. One expert in Palmerston North yesterday was consulted by 18 owners.