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Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7472, 24 May 1934, Page 6

The Rcdpath Cup, the trophy for the best batting performance in firstclass cricket for 1 933-34, has been awarded by the New Zealand Council to H. G. Vivian, Auckland, whose average was 52.0. “Of the boys who left the day school last year 32 per cent, went on farms, while of the day girls who left it i 3 estimated that 03 per cent, engaged in home pursuits, ’ ’ stated Mr. C. Anderson, tho Kairanga County Council’s representative on tho controlling committee of tho Palmerston North Technical School, to yesterday’s annual meeting of the county. A Dunedin message says that Cyril Block lev Robertson was located by Detective Doyle and Constable Mannix after ten days in bush country 18 miles in towards tho West Coast from the Makaroa district. He appeared in the Police Court at Dunedin yesterday charged with failing to account for £s(l, the property of Court Pride Alexandra. Accused had been living on deer moat. The police stated that the sum of about £9OO was involved. A secret ballot was held on Tuesday of the members of the Ohinemuri Mines and Batteries Union, on the question of accepting or rejecting the district mine owners’ wages offer. The terms were accepted by 489 votes to 92. Alexander Murray Bonuace, aged 17, who with his brother, David William Boniface, was injured when the motor cycle they were riding collided with a dray at Blenheim, died 'on Tuesday night without regaining consciousness. His brother is progressing well. Arthur Osborne, aged 50, a shipwright, who was working on the Union Company’s Karepo at Auckland on Tuesday night, fell down a companionway into tho forecastle which was filled with powerful fumigating gas. After a fruitless attempt to rescue him Air. K. Kemp, ho was also overcome by fumes, Mr. Osborne was dragged to safety by two fellowworkers equipped with gas masks, and sent to hospital suffering from severe asphyxiation and burns from sulphuric acid. His condition is still serious. There is no likelihood of tho Royal Packet Navigation Co. (Iv.P.M. Lino) extending its Eastern service to New Zealand, according to the .Sydney representative, Mr. D. Lammers. He said on arrival at Auckland yesterday that the more f-ct of having a shipping service would not make people in the East eat more butter and cheese. Australia's trade had increased rapidly and his company’s ships were full to tho hatches every voyage. As far as Java was concerned she had quantities of foodstuffs, including a million tons of sugar, wasting because there was no demand overseas. At the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association meeting on Tuesday evouing, reference was made to the recent offer by the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation to assist the dairy industry in any campaign that might bo launched to increase the consumption of butter, cheese, milk and cream. It was suggested that the manufacturers’ organisation, together with their contact with the workers in their own factories, might be used effectively. The association was particularly impressed by tho proposals put forward by Mr. P. O. Vcale, research chemist in the dairy industry, and would welcome any opportunity (o co-operate in some scheme worked out on thoso lines. “The Palmerston North Technical School, which is fifth in New Zealand in respect to its part-time students, has a fino examination record and has been commented on favourably by educationists of standing and in many ways has given a lead to other schools,’’ stated Air. C. Anderson to yesterday’s annual meeting of the Kairanga County Council. “To keep abreast of the times, the director (Mr. G. G. Ilancox) last year spent four weeks visiting educational institutions in New South Wales and Victoria. The experience he has gained has already proved of great value and will be more beneficial as time goes on.’’ Transfers of the Reserve Bank shares arc likely to be put on a proper footing before very long, according to a statement made by tho Minister of Finance (Hon. J. G. Coates) when interviewed at Christchurch yesterday. The Minister explained that before a transfer could be put through it had to be approved by the board of directors of the bank. The directors had only been appointed within the last few days, but it was the wish of the Government that they should meet in the near future, when one of their first duties will be to make --.e necessary arrangements for the transfers. The Reserve Bank will commence to function to a certain degree on August J, when it will take over the whole of the note issue r f the Dominion. One of tho cases of safeblowing which caused alarm in Nelson in July last was cleared up in the Magistrate’s Court at Nelson yesterday, when Patrick Terence Burke, aged 39, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering Howcroft’s grocery shop and stealing £lO Is (id in money, and tobacco and cigarettes valued at 2s. Dotceti Sinclair said a suitcase found at Watcrlea footbridge in Blenheim contained plasticine and explosives and was later forwarded to Nelson. He found the past.icinc corresponded to that used on Howcroft’s safe. Chisel marks on the window corresponded with a chisel in the suitcase. Trousers in the case had the name Burke written on tho pocket. Burke was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for being in possession of explosives and committed to the Wellington Supremo Court for sentence on the major charge.