Institutes of Entomology And Mycology

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7269, 23 September 1933, Page 6

Institutes of Entomology And Mycology

CONTROL HANDED TO AGRICULTURAL BUREAUX

British Official Wireless.

Received Friday, 7 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 21

The proposal of the Imperial committee on economic consultation and co-operation that the administrative and financial control of the Imperial Institute of Entomology and the Imperial Mycological Institute should henceforward be entrusted to the executive council of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux will take effect from October 1.

The Prime Minister has sent a letter to Lord Buxton, who has acted as chairman of both committees sinco 1922, expressing appreciation of the work carried out them.

The Otago Education Board has decided to authoriso a special committee to draw up an emphatic protest against tho action of the Education Department, in reducing school staffs.

The Dunedin Harbour Board has decided that no retiring allowance be granted in future to employees retiring on superannuation, and to forward a remit on these lines to the Harbours Conference.

Eric Ashcroft, a plumber, of Queen street, who came into collision with a traffic dome while riding his motorcycle in the city, is making satisfactory progress at the Palmerston North hospital, where he was admitted suffering from a slight scalp ivound. On the application of DetectiveSergeant Revel], Mr, E. Page, S.M., granted a remand at Wellington yesterday in the case of a domestic, aged 17, who was charged with assaulting Sybil Hanson, at Levin, so as to causo actual bodily harm. She is to appear at Levin on October 19.

After another discussion, occasionally heated, tho parties to the biscuit and confectionery workers’ dispute at Auckland yesterday agreed in the Conciliation Council to make joint application to the Arbitration Court for -a ruling as to whether Wanganui, Wellington, Nelson and Timaru, who arc not parties to the present award, can be joined to any future award. Mr. J. Linklatov (Manawatu) lias tabled a question in the House of Representatives as to whether the Minister of Internal Affairs will, in accordance with a reqoust by the Dominion Drainage Boards’ Conference, introduce an amendment to the Drainage Boards’ Act this session giving the option to these boards to rate on cither a valuation or an acreage basis.

At a meeting'of the Friendly Societies’ Council in Palmerston North on Thursady evening, it was decided tlmt rather than nominate a Friendly Socioties’ Queen for tho coming queen carnival tho societies should offer their support. to the Plunkct and Nursing Societies’ Queen committee. It was thought that by taking such action the societies would bo able to work better for the furtherance of the drive for funds for the Central Relief Committee. A lire at Helcnsvillc at 4 o’clock yesterday morning destroyed the Foresters’ hall and Stanaway’s grocery store. A nearby house, owned by Mr. Becroft, ■was saved after tho furniture had been removed by tho fire-lighters. The hall, which had recently been modernised, was vacated three hours before the lire by those who attended a “back to childhood’’ party. The insurance on the hall was £4OO with a similar amount on tho store.

Miss Dorothy Meyrick, aged 28, who was convicted of stealing diamond rings, appeared for sentence at Auckland yesterday. After hearing medical evidence the Magistrate said it might be that accused’s mental condition, following childbirth, had been responsible for some of her offences, but not all. He convicted and ordered her to appear for sentence if called upon within two years, on condition that sue remained in tho Mount St. Joseph Home.

A new form of “wrecking” has made its appearance in Dunedin, the owner of a brand-new Biot or-cycle being the victim. Ho left his cycle parked in the street recently, and rode it home to Mosgiel and back into the city, where the machine broke down completely. On taking down the engine a repair firm found that a tin of grinding paste had been poured into the oil tank. The engine was ruined. The oil had a heavy consistency, and a chemical analysis by oil experts ascertained that grinding paste was the damaging material used.

In view of a letter received by the New Zealand Bowling Association from tho Australian Bowling Council, in Melbourne, there is every probability that a strong Australian team will visit New Zealand at the end of the present year with a view to taking part in tho Dominion tournament at Dunedin. It. is proposed that test games should be played prior to tho opening of the tournament. Tho secretary to the Australian Bowling Council is informing ail clubs in Australia of tho event, and it is proposed that the team shall leave Sydney by tho Mamma on December 29, arriving in Dunedin on January 3, the test games to be played on January 4, 5 and 6. Everything is being done to secure a strong representative sido and a good entry for the Dominion tourney.

Among tho recent accessions to the Alexander Museum at Wanganui is a set of red and white ivoiy chessmen, exquisitely carved. Each of the pieces is mounted on a carved ivory ball, which contains, in some instances, two or three carved balls, the one placed inside the other. Placed in a small glass case and sot out on a board, the set is very attractive and should, no doubt, be interesting to chess enthusiasts. It has been deposited by Mr P. D. England. and it is understood that it was brought from India by his grandfather. The idea of ivory balls being carved one inside tho other is quite a common one in Eastern decorations, and Mr. V. B. Willis, of Wanganui, has in his possession an elaborately carved ball some four inches in diameter, which contains no fewer than 13 balls, each delicately worked. It was originally socurod in Poking by Mr Gregor McGregor.

Arriving in New Zealand recently from Sheffield, the shield presented by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board for the district lamb competitions, has now been forwarded to the Manawatu and "West Coast A. and P. Association. The trophy was won in 1932 (the first year of competition) by Manawatu, and this year by the Masterton Association, which will hold it in turn. The shield is an imposing one in silver on a. deep oak background, with an unusual but appropriate design. It finishes in the usual scrolled corners, and is neatly finished throughout. That the phrase “long-limbed colonials” is not without a foundation rn fact was shown by Dr. Ada Paterson during a lecture to the Auckland School Committees’ Association recently. Figures taken for groups of children in New Zealand mid in Glasgow proved that the New' Zealand children had definitely longer limbs than had the corresponding groups, and it was a reasonable inference that the figures for Glasgow were typical of those for many parts of Great Britain.