NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

The Palmerston North city engineer has been requested to report to the incoming council in regard to the filtration of water used in the municipal baths. The Manawatu Football Association has been granted the use of three playing areas at North Street Park for the coming season, commencing on April 23, 1938, at an annual rental of £ls. The Palmerston North City Council is recommending to builders that shops erected on corners should have circular or diagonal fronts or large glass windows in order to assist the view of motor traffic.

Before turning across a line of traffic it is the duty of a motorist first to look behind for overtaking traffic and not just rely on an extended arm, commented Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. A stag with three antlers was tho unusual trophy secured by Mr H. Hosk- ! ing, of Palmerston North, when shooting at Mangahau during the week-end. The third antler consisted of a single point 'growing out from the skull between the other two.

Fourteen members of the civic circle of the Palmerston North Townswomen’s Guild were interested speotators at the meeting of the City Council last evening to gain an insight into the manner in which the business of the council is conducted.

Applications for the positions of first engineer at the Palmerston North City Council’s powerhouse and foreman at the gasworks have been referred to the lighting committee to select the three most suitable applicants for each position, these to appear later before the works committee.

Although often regarded as a city of cyclists, Christchurch does not actually import nearly as many machines as either Wellington or Auckland, according to a witness in the second Court of Arbitration, when the cycle-workers ’ dispute came before the Court at Wellington. " Twice as many are absorbed by the North Island as in the South in proportion to the distribution of population,” he said. "The bicycle trade of Christchurch is more apparent than real.”

Although less obtrusively so than some shoregoing folk, many sailors are undoubtedly Teligious. This is proved by the experience of Rev. B. J. Williams, chaplain of the Wellington branch of the Missions to Seamen. "Some weeks ago,” he said at the annual meeting of the mission, "I collected about two dozen Bibles which were lying about at the mission and put them into the exchange library. Within a week or so all of them were taken out in exchange for novels. And yet we are told that the day of the Bible is past.” Passers-by on the waterfront road at Auckland recently were astonished to see what appeared to be a pair of bare human legs protruding from the top ©ft' a tall load of rubbish which was about to be dumped from a lorry at the tip ih Hobson Bay. Closer examination, however, showed that the legs belonged to a father battered papier-mache figure of the kind used by tailors and outfitters to display bathing costumes or suits of clothes. The dummy had passed its usefulness and was on the way to an undignified interment.