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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7301, 31 October 1933, Page 6

Wet weather prevailed in Auckland during tko week-end and on Sunday rain fell for the eleventh Sunday in succession. Tko total for the 24 hours ended midnight was 70 points. A full police funeral was accorded on Sunday to Constablo James Shields, of Huntly, who was fatally injured in a level crossing smash on Wednesday. All commissioned officers and over 100 of tho rank took part in the funeral. According to a land agent giving evidence in tho Supremo Court in Palmerston North yesterday, there was active demand for farm properties but few sellors. What sales had taken place were principally mortgagee sales. The beauty of New Zealand flora will be shown on tho screen by means of the most modern apparatus at the Citizens’ Lunch Club to-day. The principle of production and enlargement. is solely by mirrored reflection, aided by a thousand candle-power electric lamp.

The pioneers of the ship “Blenheim,” which arrived at Wellington in 1840, were a long-lived people. So also were their descendants, one of whom {mints to the fact that three of them now living in tho vicinity of Wanganui are over 90 years of age, in sound physical and mental health — Mrs. E. Bockel, Mr. Ewen Campbell and Mr. Hugh Eraser. Visitors to the Chamber of Commerce conference in "Wanganui speak in praise of tho unique exhibits of Maori curios and their excellent arrangement at the Alexander museum. The Wall memorial selection alono contains many priceless articles. The atmosphere of this splendid building and its contents is altogether bright and attractive. Mr. G. Newman, of Nelson, who was a passenger by tho Aorangi which reached Auckland from Vancouver on Sunday, said that Rugby was very popular in British Columbia and the union there was anxious to send a team to New Zealand at an early date. He mentioned that Roger Blunt, the cricketer, was on a tour in the United States with an English team.

A fire, apparently of incendiary origin, occurred at Mr. William Morgan’s stables and outbuildings at Methvcn on Saturday night, when the building, with four traction engine trailers, was destroyed. Insurances on the buildings were for £IGO and on tho waggons for £3OO. An adjoining house was unoccupied. A peculiar feature is that the remains of a gig in a stall were identified as having beon removed from a section in an adjoining street ,and the seat of the fire was apparently about the gig. Referring to the cycling dispute, Mr. J. Sturroek, chairman of the Council of the League of Wheelmen, said that as a result of a telephonic conversation with Wellington he had received authority from Mr. A. C. Kitto, president of the Wellington Amateur Athletic Centre, to say that the New Zealand Cycling Council was prepared to drop out and let the league carry on, and that the Wellington Amateur Athletic Centre believed the' league’s proposals were fair and reasonable. The Wellington Centre was prepared wholly to support tho league. A short . sitting of tho Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court was held yesterday, Mr. J. L. Stout, 1 S.M., presiding. William Edward Dc Bidder, flax-mill-hand, aged 53, was charged with trespassing on the Foxton racecourse on September 30 when he was a person excluded under the regulations and was also charged with betting at the meeting. He pleaded guilty on both counts and was fined £5 and 3/- costs on each charge.. The magistrate pointed out that he was dealing leniently with accused on the recommendation of the police, warning him not to appear again. Accused was given a month to pay.

An achievement of outstanding merit lias been accomplished by a Hastings resident who, rather than spend his time at the unemployment relief camps, preferred to direct his energies and ability along more enterprising lines by constructing a working model of a torpedo-boat destroyer , It is manufactured almost entirely from “odds and ends” cast aside by others as useless and such things as tobacco tins, scraps of irou and metal lmvo been utilised .with a view to economy. Crude implements were used and the “H-12” model is a working one giving a realistic bow wave as she moves. It is sft. Jin. in length with an SJiu. beam and, at tho widest part, 71 inches deep.