Around The City

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 271, 19 November 1934, Page 6

Around The City

Paragraphs About People and Their Work What’s the feminine of buck:— “Buckshce”! This was the inspiration of a pupil at the Terace End School a few days ago when facing an examination paper. <$- <s■ <s> <S> The heat on Saturday afternoon was intense, and at the assembly of those celebrating the jubilee of Terrace End. School one lady was overcome, and fainted. <S> <s> <S> In a certain city school last week, a very youthful pupil was sniffing repeatedly, and finally a despairing teacher asked the infant if she possessed a handkerchief. * les, bgt mummy said I wasn’t to lend it to anybody. ’ ’ <s><»<? <S> That boys do not play truant with the same frequency or accomplishment as they did in the good old days, was the opinion expressed by Mr. A. W. Thompson, headmaster, speaking on Saturday at tho jubilee of terrace End School. <S> <s> <S> That, out of more than 650 pupils on the roll, he could greet at least GOO by Christian name and surname, was the performance credited to Mr. A. W. Thompson, headmaster of Terace End School, by a speaker at the jubilee banquet on Saturday. <£«><?> <S> Around the city ou Saturday morning went two municipal buses, convoying visiting ex-pupils of the Terrace End School on a 27-mile ride. They visited centres of education, parks and reserves, and other interesting spots. Two hours were spent on the journey. <s> <s> <S> Welcome rain, accompanied by thunder and a few lightning flushes, brought a measure of relief to the humidity of yesterday, and in addition supplied the much-needed moisture for sun-baked gardens. if fhe past iortnight’s weather is a presage of the months ahead, Palmerston North is certainly' in for a long, dry summer. <S> <S> <S> <S> With the heavy rain of last evening dampening the tar-sealed surface of the city streets the full value of tho re-cently-installed E3OO eandlepowcr street lamp at the corner of Kangitikei StreetSquare, which is a sample one under test, could be appreciated to the full by motorists, cyclists and pedestrians. It does not dazzle like the usual light, its bluish tinge also preventing confusion with other illuminations. <s> <S> <S- <S>

Although the city fathers apparently do not consider the time opportune yet to appoint officers to control vehicular traffic in the business area of the city it might be necessary shortly to have some regulation made of the pedestrian traffic at the Rangitikei-Square and the Bank of Australasia intersections where it is difficult for motorists and cj’clists to pass through tho constant stream of shoppers on busy occasions (writes a correspondent.) <*> <*><s> <*> Here’s a true story that Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P., put across at the Terrace End School jubilee banquet on Saturday night. Mr. F. Fairbrother when headmaster once wrote the following criticism on the edge of a scholar’s report card: “A good worker but talks too jnuch.” When the card was returned to the teacher, it bore, in addition to the father’s signature, the following: “You should hear her mother! ” <s> <S> <•> <£ Mr. W. S. Swift, who has been transferred to the Te Kawhata horticultural station in the Waikato, after being clerk in charge of the district office oi the Department of Agriculture at Palmerston North, for about two years, left last week and \as :teen succeeded at Palmerston North by Mr. T. Cullen, who was stationed at this centre a. lew years ago. Prior to his departure, Mr Swift was met by a gathering of his fellow workers and presented with a solid leather travelling case and a pipe as tokens of the dsteem in which he was held. <s>«><£<?> Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P., has a line reputation for veracity, but ho imperilled it on Saturday when speaking at Terrace End School. Mr. Nash recalled a one-time citizen of Palmerston North who lodged a complaint against the state of the roads in the early town. The complainant told the councillors he was walking along tho “footpath’’ when he saw a hat in the middle of the road. ‘I went to pick that hat up, and found ji head under it,’ said the hapless one. ‘I tried to pull the fellow out, but ho told me to wait a minute till he could drag his l'ect out of the stirrups! ’ Needless to say the council promptly attended to his request,” declared Mr. Nash. <s><s><s>s> Saturday' registered tho highest temperature recorded this summer, the mercury reaching SI degrees in the shade and the city sweltered in a tropical heat which, in the afternoon, had become quite enervating. The swimming pool at the camping site in the Esplanade was a cooling retreat to hundreds of adults and children. This solitary bathing spot within reasonable distance of the city stITI lacks the dressing sheds so necessary for outdoor aquatic devotees, anfl it is hoped that before the summer has progressed much further, the necessity' of dodging about among the scrub' and lupins in search of privacy for disrobing, will be eliminated. The maximum temperature on Sunday' was 75 degrees in the shade. <S> <s><*> <S> Speaking at the jubilee celebrations .at the Terace End School on Saturday the chairman of the Wanganui Education Boafd (Mr. E. F. Hemingway) told a good story against the Press. He said that he had been misreported when last he spoke in Palmerston North. At that time when referring to the proposed abolition of education boards he had stated that the total cost of all education boards was but 1.6 per cent of the total cost of education in the Dominion. By a typographical error the figures were given as 10 per cent. “I suppose,” said Mr. Hejningway, “that the linotype operator was like the late Lord Eandolph Churchill, Chancellor of

the Exchequer who, when his secretary brought him a draft copy of the budget containing a lot of figures with decimal points in between, pointed to the ' • J 1.«*4 ( YT'll* f ..■< hOSft

decimal points and asked wbat-mese d d dots meant.’ ” <S> <s> <s> Mr. E. Shacklcfon, manager of Hannah’s Palmerston North branch, w ho has suffered an indisposition for some weeks past, is at present in Christchurch on a recuperating holiday. <S> <s> <i> One of the finest crops of peas to be seen in the ristrict is that now occupying an extensive plot in the Botanical Gardens. Big-leafed, healthy, and podladen, row upon row of this popular edible bear testimony to the fertility of the soil and the fruitful results of good seed and expert attention. It is understood that the major part of the crop will be retained as seed for future sowing. <•> <S> <S> A collision between a bicycle and a ear at the intersection of Grey and Russell streets on .Saturday resulted in .Mrs. Jessie Walton, of Boundary road, being admitted to hospital shortly after noon. The car was driven by Mr. T. Hastings, of the city, and the tree Ambulance conveyed the injured lady to hospital where it was found that, she had a fractured leg and collarbone, and her condition is now reported as satisfactory. *s> <s> ® If the future of local cricket depended upon the patronage of citizens as paying spectaors, the game would have long ago been in the doldrums. On Saturday not more than twenty non-players watched the progress of half-a-dozen games. It is a strange commentary that hundreds of people who thrilled to the progress of unseen Test matches in England should display such apathy to the games played in their ‘'own backyard.” Fortunately the enthusiasm of active participants is unabated, and conditions on Saturday were ideal for lovers of the game. <s><s> 4> <s> Although the customer is ‘‘always right,” a little consideration for those who serve behind the counter of our shops and stores would go a long way to make their task a little less irksome these hot days. It is really surprising how shop assistants can keep up their smile' and courtesy in the face of such odds of heat and pernicky potential purchasers. By closing time on Saturday many of these salesgirls must have felt thatthey had had ‘‘a day,” and it is to their credit that, without exception, our business houses can claim to possess the services of such an obliging and courteous band of employees.