GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

The Resellers’ association announces a drop in the price of first grade petrol of a penny a gallon from June 1. Lord Beaverbrook has promised to donate to S-t. Mary's Hospital medical school, £9OOO a year for seven years. An explosion occurred at the Takaka police station on Sunday night. No one was hurt but the office windows were shattered, states a Press message. Local primary schools reopened yesterday after the first term vacation. The weather would doubtless impress or. the youthful scholars that they had entered upon the winter term. “A husband who wants £2 10s to keep two cannot expect his wife to keep three on. 25s per week,” observed Mr J. L. Stout S.M. in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when refusing to grant a reduction in a maintenance order. In tho Palmerston North Magistrate's court yesterday A. M. Boggs who was £3O in arrears with the maintenance of his three children, was convicted and sentenced to 26 days’ gaol, the. warrant to be suspended so long as 5s per week is paid off the debt.

A man who has an affiliation order against him lias no right to get married and take on further responsibilities unless he can afford to keep up his pavmcnts under the order, stated Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday. “I always count such men who subsequently get married, as single men—the illegitimate child has a prior claim upon them.” A sidelight on the attitude towards polities of one section of England’s 1t.000.000 women voters was given by Miss J. Dalton, a visiting Girl Guide officer ,during the course of an address to the Palmerston North Rotary club yesterday. The value of having a vote had, she said, been impressed upon the Girl Rangers, who aro the Girl Guides in grown up form. She had recently received a letter from one of the Rangers, stating that in order to obtain some idea of the political situation they had invited one member from each of the three political parties in England to outline its policy. This had been done and the following typically feminine comment had been added: “It is so dull, but I suppose we ought to know.’’ In tiho course of an address to the Palmerston North Rotary club yesterday, Miss J. Dalton a visiting Girl Guide officer gavo an instance of native ideas about the white people which would appear to shako our superior complex. An English family with a pretty daughter went to reside in one of the wilder parts of the Sudan. They found at first that all the natives ran away at the sight of them, but after some time eamo to know them better and inquired the reason for this antipathy. They were told then that the Sudanese did not find the presence of Europeans congenial because they “smelt so” and because they looked “so hideous.” “That,” said Miss Dalton amid laughter “would appear to be a very good moral lesson. It all depends upon the point of view ono has.” The skating rink in'the winter show building is now doing wonderful business. The coming carnival on Wednesday, Saturday and Monday is sure to be* well attended.