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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7270, 25 September 1933, Page 6

The final selection of a queen to represent the farmers’ interests in the forthcoming carnival will not be made until to-day. This was a decision arrived at by a meeting of the rural committee on Saturday. Three nominations were made, but owing to the absence of several members,. final selection was reserved until to-day. Mr J. A. McLeavcy presided over the meeting.

A passenger by the Monterey from Sydney, Mr Millcar, jun., a New South Wales pastoralist, predicted at Auckland that if the present wool prices held New Zealand growers at the coming season’s sales would bo agreeably surprised by the size of their cheques. Ho said Australian graziers did not want to see a too rapid rise in prices or too high a price, lest there be a breakdown with a consequent disproportions! decline in prices.

“During the year a number of highclass dogs of various breeds have been imported from England and Australia. This will no doubt result in an improvement in type and general characteristics of many of the breeds on our show benches,” states the report of the New Zealand Kennel Club, which was submitted at the annual meeting of the club in Wellington. The report records satisfaction at the efforts being made by the Royal Agricultural Society to obtain reductions in the charges on dogs imported into Now Zealand.

A passenger by the Monterey, which reached Auckland on Saturday from Sydney, was Major M. C. Langslow, of the Air Service Department, Melbourne, who is on holiday. He said that extensive developments of defcnco activities were pending. The Imperial Navy were sending out new vessels, and it was intended to Tc-cquip the Air Force with the latest high-powersi machines. The reorganisation of the Munitions Department was aiso to be undertaken. "The programme was not by any means settled, but a big change was contemplated.

There arc not many people who can say that they have been to Wellington, from Palmerston North, in a few hours, but on Saturday, on the occasion of the North versus South Island match at Wellington, this act was accomplished bv aeroplane. Mr. H. C. Walker, flying the Mannwatu Aero Club plane, and with Mr. AV.- Smith, of Palmerston North, ns a passenger, left Palmerston North at midday, arriving in Wellington at one minute to one. After seeing most of the game they left Rongotai at a quarter to five and arrived at Palmerston North at a quarter to six.

A petition asking that the National Adjustment Expenditure Act, 1932, be amended, if necessary, to compel the Government Railways Board to reduce rentals, or that the board’s tenants be permitted to vacate the dwellings occupied by them if they so desired, was presented to Parliament on Friday by Mr. C. H. Chapman (Labour, Wellington North.) The petition stated that the Act provided for a reduction of railway officers’ salaries and for commensurate reductions in rents, but the rent reduction had not been made by the board.

An unusual but painful accident, befell Margaret Blackliorn. the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Blacldiorn, of Montreal street, Miison, about midday on Saturday. Tho child while playing fell off a fence adjoining the property and was unfortunate enough to pierce her tongue on a paling. She received medical attentoin, and was conveyed t.o the Palmerston North hospital by the Free Ambulance. Fortunately the injuries were not of a serious nature, and the child was discharged late on Saturday evening.

A petition asking for compensation for loss of liberty and other distresses was presented to Parliament on Friday by Mr. P. Fraser (Labour, Wellington Central) ou behalf of Philip Gordon Brazior, labourer, Wellington. The petitioner said that he pleaded not guilty to charges of breaking, entering, and theft at Dannevirke, but was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour. He appealed on the ground that he could show that ho did not leave Wellington on the night of the alleged offence. There was a new trial, the jury returning a verdict of not guilty. He -was imprisoned from May 5, 1933, to August 4, 1933, and he asked for compensation accordingly.

'‘l’m sorry I couldn't keep that luncheon appointment with you. Circumstances over which I have no control kept me away.” “Yes, yes. By the way, how is your wife?”

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