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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7064, 25 January 1933, Page 6

To-day marks the 174th anniversary of the birth of' Scotland’s poet, Robert Burns. Dr. Ivan Wilson, of Palmerston North, was welcomed as a new member of the committee of the Manawatu Aero Club, which met last evening. The hospital authorities report satisfactory progress in the caso of Mr. George Tremaine, of Palmerston North, who was severely burned in a fire at his residence recently. The Palmerston North Piro Brigade answered a call to North Street park yesterday morning, tho grass in the area having caught alight. The outbreak was easily suppressed, no damage resulting. Mr. A. Eade, of Bedding, who sustained head injuries when he met with an accident in a cycling event at the Sportsground on Anniversary Day, is now making satisfactory progress in the Palmerston North Hospital. To fall from her cycle and fracture her right thigh, last evening, was the misfortune of Joan Kelly, aged seven, who resides at 119 College street. The child was attended to by a doctor and then taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance. Mr. Marshall, an officer of the New Zealand Government Department of Industries, Commerce, Tourist and Publicity, is accompanying the Victorian farmefs’ party which is at present in Palmerston North, during the course of a Dominion tour. Sandwich women carrying parasols and boards were lately parading the streets of Paris advertising tho latest models of a fashionable dressmaker’s shop.