Around the City

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 132, 7 June 1935, Page 6

Around the City

Paragraphs About People and Their Work

The State examination for nurses was conducted at tho Palmerston North Hospital on Wednesday and yesterday. There wero eight candidates.

“Life is made up of criticism,” Col. J. H. Whyte observed when speaking at a social gathering in tho city last evening. “He who lots things slide docs not get anywhere,” he added.

“Tho defence of your country is part of your sporting instinct. Col. J. H Whyte, when speaking at a social gathering of the Combined Services Cricket arid Hockey Clubs last even ing.

It was a lorry piled high with furniture. Not only were the household goods and vegetables being moved but the family poodlo was chained on top of it, seemingly quite happy in its precarious position. <?> <s> <S> « Do cows suffer from home-sickness? A cow which has only recently conic to “live” in West End keeps residents awake at night with its moos of dismal misery. ■ Harassed residents are hoping the settling in process won’t be prolonged. o <s> <S> <v , Palmerston North has been chosen as the venue and January -- the date of the first day’s play for the 10J(i Dominion croquet tournament. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Croquet Council will be held llie day before.

A suggestion that at the e.’id of next cricket season in the city, the leaders of the junior division should be tried out against the lower ranks of the senior division, was voiced at a social gathering of the Combined Services Hockey and Cricket Clubs last evening. It found favour with the Cricket Association president, My. A. M. Onglev, who promised that it would be given consideration. <s> <£ <S> <3An aeroplane crashed in the suburban quarter of the city in the early hours one day this week, and there were no casualties —it was only a miniature plane. B'ut small as the machine was, it proved sufficiently noisy to a neighbour to alarm him considerably when it landed with a crash on his roof, well away from its forced ‘‘take-off,” caused no doubt by the high wind. This citizen was calmly told by a friend, who heard of the incident, to enter the aeroplane in the winter show model aeroplane competitions. It would at least secure a prize on flight value, he contended, apart from its structural qualifications.