GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6992, 19 August 1929, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

The representative ladies’ hockey matches, Manawatu A and B versus Otaki, to have been played at the Sportsground on Saturday afternoon, were postponed. Advice was received by the Prime Minister from the Administrator of Samoa that the trouble between the Chinese Tongs, which led to the recent strike and police intervention, had nbw ended and that the men have all returned to work. The bust of Sir Edwin Mitchellson, president of the Auckland Racing Club, made by Sir Bertram Mackonnal was unveiled at the Ellorslie racecourse on Saturday afternoon in the presence ol’ a large crowd, the Mayor (Mr. G. Baildon) presiding. An inspection of the Waikato river was made on Saturday by the Hon. E. A. Ransom, in reply to a request for assistance for a river improvement scheme for the purpose of draining adjacent land. The Minister promised to spend £ISOO on an investigation. The auxiliary schooner Paroto, which went ashore at White Island on the night of August 7, arrived in Auckland in tow of the steamer Apanui on Saturday morning. The exact extent of the damage suffered by the vessel will not bo known until she is slipped and an inspection made. At present she is known to have torn a hole in her bottom underneath the engine room bygrinding on the rocks that lie in numbers on the floor of Crater Bay and about 20 feet of her starboard bulwarks were flattened out on to the deck. This damage has already been partly rectified.

The twelfth annual conference of the New Zealand Motor Traders’ Association is to be held in Palmerston North commencing September 17. Over 150 delegates from all parts of New Zealand will be present and a welcome will be accorded them by the Mayor (Mr. A. J. Graham). Social functions are being arranged by the conference committee. It is interesting to note that Palmerston North is the birth place of the Association which was first formed in May 1017. Since then the membership has grown from 8 to 1500. There will be a reunion of first members at the conference.

The Sydney police have recently been looking into the matter of the distribution of Communist-literature among the school children (says the correspondent of the Melbourne ArgUs), but so far nothing has been done cither to deport the authors or to stop the circulation of the pernicipus papers. Resorts on the matter make it oppear a new movement on the part of the emissaries of Russia, but those who have followed the ways of the Communist know that it has been going on for years in conjunction with, the so-called ‘Sunday schools,” where the most blasphemous doctrines are taught. The first teaching of this body of corrupters of youthful minds was that the landlord was the devil, and they wore justified in doing all they could to annoy him, but never to pay him any ot bis just dues. Another prominent subject taught, both in the schools and in literature distributed among the children, was that lying is almost a virtue, and where its means will benefit the liar, it should bo resorted to on all occasions. A small army has grown up under the direction of the Communists, the first crop having already taken their place as active participants in the work. These locally taught young men and women are really the force which is behind the Communist party.