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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7211, 18 July 1933, Page 6

During Juno 636 rations wore issued to 82 cases throughout the Palmerston North Hospital Board's district as compared with 479 rations to 95 cases in the corresponding month of 1932. In Palmerston NoTth 355 rations were issued to 52 cases, the comparative figures being 180 and 21.

The Commissioner of. Crown Lands, "Wellington, is inviting applications for the lease of a dairying property situated in the Currie settlement on a side road off the Ashhurst-Palmerston North road. Particulars appear elsewhere, in. tips ij§. l 9

Compared with June, 1932, the Palmerston North municipal buses carried 1112 fewer passengers and earned £l6 7s 9d less in revenue last month. 'An interesting collection of Maori relics found in a cave at Palliser Bay has been brought into Wellington for examination. The collection comprises about 50 items, including fishhooks carved from human bones, spear heads, bono needles, blackstono axeheads, and a greenstone chisel, all of which, although at least 100 years old, are in excellent condition. —Press Associafioa-

Two cases where husbands are not obeying maintenance orders have been referred by the Palmerston North Hospital Board to a legal firm to take action against the husbands.

Mr Dynes Fulton, acting-chairman of the Dairy Produce Board, informed a meeting of dairy company delegates in Palmerston North yesterday that the timo was not opportune for the board to carry its own insurance risks. Subject to the approval of the Di-rector-General of Health, the Palmerston North Hospital BoaTd intends to procure for the Otaki sanatorium a mobile X-ray plant at an approximate cost of £275.

That there was a possibility of a further reduction in shipping freights on dairy produce exported from Now Zealand, was announced by Mr Dynes Fulton, acting-chairman of tho Dairy Produce Board, when speaking in Palmerston North yesterday. In connection with the Pirani shield donated in 1909 for primary schools seven-a-side Kugby, Convent School, which annexed tho trophy on Saturday, also hold it in 1923. It was inadvertently reported yestorday that Convent had not won tho trophy before.

A cycle allowance of 4Jd a day, the same as made to its permanent employees who have to go outside the city boundaries, is to be made by the Palmerston North City Council to No. 5 scheme relief workers under its jurisdiction who have to travel several miles to their work, each case being treated on its merits.

At the instance of (tho Minister of Internal Affairs, the Palmerston North City Council decided last night that July 19 be observed as Arbor Day in the area controlled by tho council, and that, in view of the growing national importance of tree planting, efforts bo made to organise all ceremonies incidental to Arbor Day for such dato. A letter from the district electrical engineer, Shannon, in reference to the uso of tho city's generating plant, came bcfoTo tho Palmerston North City Council last night, but was not read further than tho first few lines, being referred, on tho suggestion of the Mayor, to the council's lighting committee.

The managor of the gasworks reported to the City Council meeting last night that by mixing waste tar from the power station with the coal used under the boilers at the gasworlccs, the coal bill had. been reduced from £IS 4s per week to £ls, which figure included one man’s wages of £4. This was a saving of £3 4s per week, and at the same time ho was able to keep another man employed. The Manawatu Automobile Association wroto to tho City Council last evening stating that complaints had been received regarding the number of circulars placed in cars parked in tbe city, and that windscreen wipers had been damaged through such circulars being placed under them. It was resolved that the matter be referrod to the by-laws committee with a view to a by-law being prepared prohibiting such methods of advertising.

Tho Palmerston North Hospital Board is communicating with the Wanganui Hospital Board with a view to ascertaining whether some arrangement cannot bo arrived at whereby those members of lodges who live just outside tho Palmerston North Board’s district and who are members of the Manawatu United Friendly Societies’ Hospital Association scheme, could receive treatment at Wanganui Hospital under conditions similar to tho Palmerston North Board’s present arrangement with the friendly societies.

A proposal to transfer the Ilorowlienua and Manawatu counties from Ward 6 to Ward 5 was advocated by Mr J. Dcvino (Kairanga) at a meeting of dairy company delegates in Palmerston North yesterday. He said Horowhenua and Manawatu counties had more community of interest with dairying on the western side of the ranges than with Gisborno and the East Coast. The proposal was accepted by the meeting as a good one, and is to be submitted to the annual meeting of the Dairy Produce Board.

A young man who had been'employed as a cleaner at a local school appeared in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with the thoft of 8s 6d, the property of the Students’ Association. On the application of the police a remand was granted till Thursday to enable further inquiries to bo made. SeniorDetective Quirke said that probably accused would be charged with theft involving between £4O and £SO. Bail was allowed in two sureties of £SO each, one of which is to be found by accused.

When asked at a meeting of dairy company delegates in Palmerston North yesterday if any inroads made by Now Zealand butter in the East would result in the Japanese flooding the New Zealand market with their cheap goods in reciprocal trade, Mr Dynes Pulton, acting-chairman of the Dairy Produce Board, said it would be unwise to say much about it at the present time, as it would spoil New Zealand’s chaice of getting a free entry into Great Britain of the Dominion’s dairy produce. He said New Zealand might well feel concerned at the proposal to impose a quota system.

In answering a question on the marketing of more New Zealand butter in pats in'Great Britain, Mr Dynes Pulton, acting-chairman of the Dairy Produce Board, informed a meeting of dairy company delegates in Palmerston North yesterday, that if all of the Dominion’s butter could bo sold, marketing troubles would disappear. "Whenever the people at Home received gift packets of butter they always said that if they could buy bulk butter of similar quality, they would always purchase New Zealand produce. The trouble was that what was often bought from bulk was not New Zealand butter at all. Mr Pulton said the Dairy Board would have to give the question renewed serious thought.

The Eosco jubilee celebration concert arranged for to-night will be broadcast by 2ZO. In response to numerous requests the G. M. Eoss Co., Ltd., have made their tea rooms available for the public to attend at a nominal charge. The total proceeds will be donated.