Around the City

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 40, 18 February 1935, Page 6

Around the City

Paragraphs About People and Their Work The anglers’ outing to have been held at Hokowhitu yesterday was spoilt by the heavy easterly wind. As a result all competitions had to be postponed. <s><s><s><s> Tho following Palmerston North candidates wero successful in the technological examinations held in November:—Mechanical Engineering: N. W. Bruce (preliminary), G. E. Wtupples (intermediate). <s>«><s> <S> Excellent umpiring in the recent, Hawke Cup match at tho Sport,sground has resulted in expressions of pleasure being voiced by the cricket players and spectators alike. Messrs E. Hubbard and C. Woodham were the umpires for the fixture. <s><£<•> >s> Notification of his transfer to Wellington has been received by Mr J. YV. Woodcock, who for the past four years has been crop experimentalist on the stall’ of the Eiclds Division of the Department of Agriculture at Palmerston North. <«> <s> <S> <s> By the simplo procedure of replacing a variablo condenser in the final amplifier stage of its transmitter, the Manawatu Radio Club (2ZF) has effected a wonderful improvement in the quality of its broadcasts. The condenser was made by a Palmerston North firm and is a very fine piece of engineering. <£> <s> <S> Tho question of changing the name of Palmerston North has apparently exercised the mind of tho GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledisloe. During the course of his remarks at tho farewell function held last Friday, when speaking of the attractions of this district, he referred to this community as "your beautiful city of Manawatu —or Palmerston North.” <s><*> <s> Members of tho Marlborough cricket team, who unsuccessfully challenged Manawatu for the Hawke Cup, were scheduled to leave Palmerston North by train early this morning for Wellington on the return journey. The fifth and final challenge for this season for the minor associations’ trophy will be decided on March 15, when Manawatu will be called upon to meet Southland. <s> ■s><s> <3> Building in the city continues apace, and the latest proposal is to demolish the present structure between the Kosy theatre and the Post Office in the Squaro and erect a two-floor reinforced concrete building on tho site. This is the property of the Waldcgrave ostate and provision is to bo made for two shops on the 28ft. frontage. In all four new structures are to bo erected in the business area of Palmerston North, while extensive alterations and additions are to be made to a fifth. <*> <s> <S> <s>

When riding on the back of a large lorry-on Saturday afternoon Mr Basil Torstonson, aged 27, momentarily released his hold as the vehicle swung round the corner from Botanical' road into Fox ton line, 'and losing his balance, fell over the side of the vehicle. Striking his head on the loosely gravelled road, which -had just been surfaced, Mr Torstonson received nasty lacerations to tho scalp, also abrasions to his right arm. He was immediately conveyed to a surgery for attention, and subsequently to the hospital. <•><•><s>«> February has proved a momentous month in the Jife of Lord Bledisloc. Speaking at Palmerston North last Friday he said it was in February that lie had assumed the high office of Gov-ernor-General, and in that month he had become engaged to marry Lady Bledisloe. It was in February also that the disastrous Hawke’s Bay earthquake had occurred, and Palmerston North had become the headquarters for East Coast refugees. In their great work of succour the people of this city would never bo forgotten by the stricken families of Hawke’s Bay. <S> -$> «■ <S> Henry Hcdley Bryant Maunder, described as a plasterer and labourer, aged 21 years, appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in tho Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North on Saturday, charged with being doomed an idle and disorderly person in that he habitually consorted with reputed thieves. Evidence was given for the polico by Detective Barling and Constables ’Purvey, Goodwin, Watt and Ward to the effect that, they had seen accused associating with undesirables. Tho Magistrate imposed a sentence of two months’ imprisonment. <S> <S> <B- - his speech at the farewell function hold in his honour last Friday, tho Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, said he envied his successor, Lord Galway, for three reasons. Firstly, he was coming to New Zealand: secondly, ho was a man of big stature; and thirdly, he possessed a powerful volec. The latter gift, added his Excellency with a smile, would enable him to speak with audibility in the open-air at Palmerston North in the teeth of a north-westerly wind. Later on, his Excellency was interrupted by the blaring siren of an approaching train. Lifting his hand in a gesture of resignation, he waited until the last car had thundered past. Resuming, he brought a gale of lauglitor from his hearers with the remark: “My successor might have managed it, but it was beyond me!”