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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 44, 22 February 1936, Page 4

Lord Nuffield, who is again visiting Australia, said last week that 1955 was the best year ever known by the British motor industry.

Christchurch is at present without a Mayor. The resignation of Hon. D. G. Sullivan, because of pressure of Ministerial duties, has already taken effect, and there will be no Mayor until one is elected on March 11, the date of tho municipal by-elections. Proceeds from the health stamp campaign for 1935-36 totalled £12,246. Wellington raised £2433, Auckland £1369, Christchurch £1279, and Dunedin £1214. After paying expenses the actual amount available for the children ’s camps will be £11,793. An appeal to all Methodists to support their church lu mission work in New Zealand was made by speakers at a luncheon provided by Maori members of the church for delegates to tho conference in Christchurch. It was statod that the home mission work needed £13,500 before next Christ-

That the typhoid epidemic iu the Otakcho Alaori settlement had already cost the Hawera Hospital Board about £IOOO was disclosed during a debate, when tho board took strong exception to a letter from the Director-General oJ Health, criticising tho board’s excess expenditure for, the first nine months of the year. A easo of alleged arson at Ohakuue, in which there are 25 witnesses, has been adjourned from the present sitting of the Supreme Court at Wanganui until Alarch 3rd. Air. J. B. Jack, Lor accused, Florence Alberta Bliss, uiado application to his Honour, Air. Justice Ostler, for a renewal of bail, to which Air. N. R. Bain (Crown Prosecutor) said the Crown had no objection except that it was alleged that accused had been guilty of riotous behaviour aDd interfering with some of the witnesses at Ohakunc. If bail were to be renewed, it should be subject to a condition that accused stayed in Wangauui except for one visit to her counsel in Ractihi. Bail was renewed on these terms.

The user of petrol in South Africa has to pay only Is 4d a gallon for his motor-spirit, said Air. W. Kramer, a Mouth African, who is at present in South Taranaki. The spirit costs 3d to land, there is 6d Government duty, and the rest of tho cost is made up by middlemen’s charges and transport. Of the 6d duty, 3d went into a general fund and 3d into a roading fund. A new scheme was just being put into operation whereby up-to-date macadamised roads were being built between the main centres of the Union, after which the less important roads would be rebuilt. The highways were not up to the standard of New Zealand roads, but it had to be remembered that distances were much greater.

Engineers from all parts of the Dominion attending the annual conference of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers took the opportunity of paying a visit of inspection to the new railway station and the Tawa Elat deviation. Sis carriages were necessary to accommodate the passengers on the special train provided by the Railways Department.

In the Makarora-Lake Ohau district of the South Island 35 men, paid and equipped by the Government, are now engaged in shooting red deer and endeavouring to keep down what is rapidly becoming a serious pest. Deer culling is now well organised, and is under the direction of Captain G. F. ‘ Yerex, of the Department of Internal Affairs. An indication of the results of recent culling operations between Makarora and Lake Ohau is contained in the total killings for the period from November to January, which numbered approximately 12,000. The tally for the first week of February was about 800 head. The services of the Emmanuel Congregational Church to-morrow are as follow, the speaker being Rev. R. Simpson: 11 a.m., '“Good Soldiers of Jesus Christ”; 7 p.m,, “The Scige of Jericho.” All are welcome to these \ services*