Around the City

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 133, 8 June 1935, Page 4

Around the City

Paragraphs About People and Their Work To help t.he funds of charity organisations in the city, the Manawalu Hockey Association intends to arrange a 'special representative game in Palmerston North. <s> <s> <s> The many friends of Mr. J. 11. White (secretary of the Manawatu Rugby Union) will be pleased to learn that he is now making satisfactory progress and has been able to return home following an appendicitis operation. <s> <♦><s> <S> It is likely that the New Zealand .100 mile road cycling championship will bo conducted with the Palmerston Aorth—Wellington road race to be held on September 119. The New Zealand Amateur Cycling Association lias decided to offer the fixture to the Wellington centre. <s><£<s> <s• At To Rchunga, Dannevirke, on Monday evening seven amateur wrestlers of Palmerston North are scheduled to take part at a tourney there. The learn will include Mercer (9—o), Anthony (9—4), Hckersley (9—o). S. Ward (S—o), Beale (10—10), J. McConachy (.11 —0) and Hankins (12 —0). <«><s><«> <S> The receipts from the recent hockey match Munawatu v. India, wore reported to the executive of the Munawatu Hockey Association last evening to be £O3l (including £250 insurance against rain). The expenditure was £2.10 with a few more small accounts to come in. The match resulted in a profit of £420.

The Minister for Agriculture (lion. C. E. Macmillan) has consented to the invitation to open the National Dairy Show at Palmerston North on June 19. Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P., extended the invitation to the Minister at the request of the president of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association (Mr. Jos. Batchclar).

Speaking before .the Citizens’ Lunch Club yesterday, Mr. Herman Seifert mentioned that 04 per cent, of all property in England is owned by two per cent, of the people, leaving 30 per cent, to bo shared among 9S per cent, of (he people. About 62 per cent, of England’s national income is wages and 3S per cent, interest earnings.

Regret was expressed at last evening’s meeting of the Manawatu Hockey Association executive, at the unfortunate demise of Mr. P. McKeown, a Levin hockey player, as a result of a mishap at the Peilding hockey tourney on June 3. A motion of sympathy with deceased’s parents was passed, members standing in silence.

To the Indian earthquake relief fund the executive of the Manawatu Hockey Association last evening made a grant of live guineas. It was also decided to write Mr Harbil Singh, a member of the Indian hockey team with relatives in the stricken area, expressing the hope that they had escaped the dreadful fate of the thousands of others of his eountrvmcn.

The West End Troop of Boy Scouts has in hand a scheme for iilanting totara and oak trees in the vicinity of Foxton line in commemoration of the King's jubilee year and this will be carried out if arrangements can be made with the Ivairanga County Council. Scouter Hogg, when mentioning the proposal at the Manawatu Scouters' Association meeting, expressed the hope that other troops would enter into the scheme with a view to planting other approaches to the city.

The executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce has received a letter from the Minister of Internal Affairs in which lie says that the matter of the stabilisation of Easter is being kept under notice. Imperial developments arc being watched.

The executive of file Associated Chambers of Commerce has resolved to make representations in favour of a. cliaugc in the 10s and SSO notes to avoid confusing them, and suggests that meanwhile £SO notes bo boldly surcharged with the word "Fifty."

A motion by a non-Labour member that steps be taken to divide the cityin to three wards, each electing seven members, was rejected by the Auckland City Council on Thursday night. The Labour members said it would be a retrograde step, going back to the Victorian age.

David Jason Spence, a clerk of the Commercial Bank at Now Plymouth, was charged at New Plymouth yesterday with the theft of ££‘3o between October, 1934, and March, 1935. lie was remanded till Wednesday, bail o! £4OO being granted. Accused is to report daily to the police.

A flounder with a hole through its body was brought up by a trawler of tho Port Chalmers fishing fleet about four miles off tho heads at Dunedin. Tho hole was largo enough'for a sixpence to pass through, and the brownish skin off the back had grown downwards, meeting the white skin underneath, and the wound was completely healed. It is thought that the hole was caused by the flounder being speared in tho harbour and later escaping to tho sea. At a ward meeting held in Dunedin under tho auspices of the Dairy Board several speakers referred to the question of the board’s honoraria, and emphatically stated that, in their opinion, the amount paid in the first instance of £3OO was in no way excessive in view of tho important activities which the board was called upon to undertake, and the greater area members had to represent. One speaker expressed the opinion that it would have been better if the Government had fixed the honoraria, in which case he felt sure it would havo been at least double that fixed by the board themselves, and more in keeping with the remuneration? allocated by the Government in (lie recent appointments to other boards.