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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6746, 2 January 1932, Page 6

A meeting of wheat growers at Ashburton yesterday resolved to ask tho Wheat Marketing Board to urge the Prime Minister to amend the regulations with a view to obtaining 4/6 per bushel ou trucks for Tuscan, as promised.

An Invercargill messago states that two New Zealand championships were decided at tho Tuatapere sports, which were field yesterday in continuous rain. Tho events resulted: —220 yards: C. H, Davison (Rakaia) 1; time, 23see. 880 yards: R. Horinann (Invercargill) I; time, 2.1 1-5. The weather in Palmerston North for the New Year was comparatively good. Although the sun shone in the morning, scattered showors were experienced during tho afternoon and thunder was in tho air. A gusty westerly wind tempered tho sunshine, although, no doubt, it prevented rain.

A cable message states that the Australian Football Association has agreed to send a soccer team to New Zealand, leaving on May 27. They will tour both islands, playing tests at Dunedin, Wellington and Auckland, and visiting Christchurch and South Auckland. The team will consist of 15 players and a manager.

Three fire engines from the central station responded to a telephone call to tho Princess hotel, Terrace End, at about 11 o’clock on New Year’s Eve, but on arrival the fire-fighters discovered tho alarm to bo a false one, and the general call sounded by tho main siren had been in vain. There were no false alarms on Now Year's Eve, 1930, but on that occasion in 1929 three calls were answered.

Tho party of New Zealand schoolboys who arrived in Sydney by the Aorangi went to Melbourne last night, as they were very anxious to see Bradman bat against the South Africans. They surfed at Bondi in tho morning, but found the sea over-calm. Later they visited the Taronga park zoo, where they were cordially welcomed to Australia by Mr Schmitt, New Zealand Government Commissioner.

Attention is drawn in our advertising columns to the fact that the time of the wool sale to be held in the Wellington Town hall on Wednesday, January 6, has been altered from 7 p.m. to 2 p.m.