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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 298, 17 December 1936, Page 18

The Palmerston North Fire Brigade was called to Jersey lane yesterday afternoon to suppress a fire which had broken out in a large heap of shavings in an open yard. No damage was done.

New Zealand is the favoured child of England among all her children in the view of Professor 11. G. Denham, who has returned to Christchurch from a tour abroad. There were two reasons lor this attitude, he said. The first was the extraordinarily fine reputation left by the New Zealand forces during and after the war. The second reason was that New Zealand producers had established such an excellent name right throughout England. The result was that the Englishman had come to link up the name of New Zealand with everything that was best. Strangely enough, that extended even to the climate.

! So that relief workers would have a chance to secure the job, the Rangiora County Council called for tenders for the clearing of gorse from the road frontages of its reserves in the Oust district and was surprised to receive prict3 ranging from £250 down to £l9. The work was originally estimated to cost the council £l4 10s, but this figure was later increased to £2O.

The names of twin boys appeared on the prize list of the Mount Albert Grammar School at a presentation ceremony. The headmaster said the staff's difficulties in distinguishing between the-twins had recently been aggravated by their achievements on the playing field and in school. “They dead-heated in the school steeplechase and now we find they have tied for the form prize.” said the headmaster.