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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7066, 27 January 1933, Page 6

By smashing a window fronting on to the street, a thief extracted about 7/- from the caskbox left in the caretaker's office at the City Council convenience in the Squaro early yesterday morning or on Wednesday night. No entrance was necessary, the thief being able to reach into the room sufficiently while standing on the footpath. The police have the cage in hand, the cashbox having been found buried in one of the gardens in the Square.

“We had some fine music at the Napier contest/’ said Mr. John G. Osborne, secretary of the New Zealand Brass Bands’ Association, who has returned to Wellington from Hawke’s Bay. “There was a satisfactory entry, and the standard of playing was very satisfactory. One boys’ band was quite remarkable. This was the Palmerston North juniors, whose efforts were well up to tho B grade standard, and would not suffer in comparison with the boys’ band from Australia.’’

A much improved express service in the way of carriage accommodation is to be supplied by the Railway Department for the New Plymouth-Wellington line as soon as the workshops can complete the necessary work, the New Plymouth stationmaster (Mr. W. G. Stewart) informed the Taranaki Daily News on Tuesday. Some weeks ago it was arranged that special cars should be renovated and put into use, Mr. Stewart said. The carriages will not be the heavy de luxe ones in operation on the Main Trunk and Rotorua lines, but will be more comfortable and spacious than those at present used on the New Plymouth line. De luxe ears are impractical owing to thoir heaviness; if they were used it would mean an extra engine would often have to be employed owing to the steep hills on the route and, for economical reasons, such additional expense would be hardly warranted. The carriages that will oe Tunning on tho line in the near future, however, are special ones and will be undoubtedly much more comfortable and more in keeping with the express service.

“Tho Asking in tko Manawatu district has been fair with the Oroua river outstanding/’ stated the ranger (Mr. T. Andrews) of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society at its meeting last evening. Some very fino bags of beautiful fish have been taken out of the latter river and have easily averaged two pounds. It is essentially a fly stream and contains both brown and rainbow trout. The Hautapu river from Taihapo to Hihitahi is also producing some good bags and several limits have been taken.

The sudden raising of the exchange rate on London has spelt disappointment for two young New Zealanders, Miss Freda Judkins, soprano singer, and Miss Phyllis Kinniburgh, a pianist, both of Christchurch, who last year won scholarships entitling each of them to a two years' course of tuition at the Royal College of Music, London. They had booked passages, and wero to leave in March, but owing to tho uncertain economic conditions and the depreciated value of the New Zealand pound, their eagerly-anticipated visit to the Old Land has had to be cancelled.