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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 9, 11 January 1936, Page 6

Tlic next conference of Presbyterian Bible class aud Sunday School teachers is to be held in Wanganui, commencing probably on Boxing Bay next December and extending to January 4th, PJ37. It is anticipated that between SOU and 7UO delegates will attend. This year's conference was held in Dunedin aud has just concluded.

Gelignite was used in an unsuccessful attempt to force open the door of the strongroom at the Northcote Borough Council office on Thursday night. The lock was broken and there was other damage, but the door remained closed. So far as is known nothing was taken. Entrance was gained by forcing a window in the council meeting room.

Several charges of the theft of moneys were brought against Henry Alan Moray Smith, company agent, ager 28, in the .Magistrate's Court at Chuistchurch yesterday morning. The amount involved was said to be in the vicinty of £2OU and was alleged to have been stolen from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Co. Ltd., while Smith was acting as the company’s agent at Kakaia. The sums mentioned, with the exception of one, were th. property of the company and were alleged to have been stolen during 1935. Accused was remanded in custody until to-day. A complaint was made to the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council yesterday morning by a dairy owner that the free milk distributed in some of the city schools was being taken home by the children and consequently the vendors were suffering. It was decided to refer complainant’s letter to the City Council for investigation. The letter stated that customers had said they got free milk from school. Other customers who had no children at school had children. volunteering to get billies filled for them. The dairyman had not been able to sell his milk and had been forced to throw it away.

The Post and Telegraph Department frequently receives problems to solve in the delivery of telegrams and letters. The other day, a Wanganui paper records, the local telegraph dispatch staff received a telegram from Napier, addressed:—“Mr.—, a thickset man with horn-rimmed spectacles, who will be in front of the Post Office overy hour.” Accordingly, the delivery branch stationed a messenger in front of tho building at every hour and eventually' a man answering to the description appeared, and questioning revealed that he was the person to whom tho message was dispatched. It is possible that a team of swimmers from Japan will make a tour of New Zealand next summer. Tho council of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association has received advice from Mr. S. J. Gudsell, a New Zealand business man who has been conducting negotiations on its behalf in the course of a visit to the East, that Japan cannot send a team this season owing tc the imminence of tho Olympic Games Japan has already' declined an invitation from America. The .Japanese officials, however, promised Mr. Gudsell to send a team in the summer of 1936-37. He has an entirely new project to put before the council on Japan’s behalf when ho returns. Mr. Gudsell describes the prospect of international yisits as “extremely bright.”