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Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7460, 10 May 1934, Page 6

.During the. radio vocal test, which was a part of the programme presented by the Manavvatu Competitions Society last evening, reception of the transmission from f’ZF' was perfect. Jn all 51 applications for the release of the Deputy Official Assignee from the administration of estates in bankruptcy were granted in the -Supreme Court at Palmerston North yesterday by the lion. Mr. Justice Fair. At the annual meeting at Wellington of the Now Zealand Federation of Teachers the following officers were elected: President, Miss Magill; vice presidents, Mr. H. Tomlinson and the president-elect of the Technical Association; secretary and treasurer, Mr. G. It. Ashbridgc. Lawrence Francis' Taylor, described as an electrician, aged iffi years, appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning charged that ho made a false document (a cheque for £0 15s allegedly signed by R. J. Byefield) and acted upon it as if it were genuine. Senior-Detective T. Quirko applied for a remand until to-morrow, this being granted. ' A determined effort to secure a restoration of at least some portion of the salary and wage cuts will be mndo this week by representatives of all sections of the Public Service. Arrangements aro being made for a representative deputation to wait on the Prime Minister (Rt. lion. G. W. Forbes) for the purpose of presenting a statement on behalf of all the organisations in the Public Service. The deputation may meet the Prime Minister to-day. At about 3.45 p.m. yesterday afternoon a motor-car proceeding to Palmerston North and a motor hearse returning to Napier from Wellington collided near tho Ballance bridge. The hearse, which apparently' received the full force of the impact, was turned on its side. None of tho persons involved was severely injured, although a young girl riding in the motor-car was taken to Woodville for medical, aid. Yesterday afternoon the bitumen between the Ballance bridge and tho railway crossing adjacent was particularly treacherous and, according to a Palmerston North resident who came from Woodville yesterday afternoon, the utmost caution was necessary in negotiating the bitumen in the vicinity of the Gorge. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. First aid for Coughs, Colds, Influenza.