NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

ThD Easter Holidays • ‘ xhe Times ’ ’ wilf not be published on Good Friday. ■ The city office of “The Times“ will observe the following hours during the holiday period:— Thursday, close at 5 p.m.; Friday, open from 6.30 p.m. until 9.15 p.m., with the usual facilities for late advertisements; Saturday, open from S a.m. until .10.30 a.m.; Sunday, open from 6.30 p.m. until 9.15 p.m., late advertisements as usual; Honda}-, open from 8 a.m. until 10.30 a.m. and from 6.30 p.m. until 9.15 p.m., late advertisements as usual. Fault in Monoplane’s Radio The Union Airways monoplane leaving Mangere at noon on Monday for Wellington returned to the aerodrome after being about 10 minutes in the air on the discovery of a fault in the machine’s radio equipment. The trouble was rectified in less than half an hour and the air liner resumed its journey south. Child Knocked Down Evidently intent on getting home quickly after going a message, a young boy named John McMillan, of 30 Ngata Street, Palmerston North, ran on to tho road from between two parked vehicles to be struck by the side of a passing car driven by Mr. L. Weston, of Ohingaiti. The lad, who is G£ years of ago, suffered a broken leg and is now an inmate of a private hospital. The mishap occurred last evening. Skeleton Found at Birkenhead

A human skeleton was unearthed at Birkenhead by borough council workmen while excavating in Arawa Street. The skeleton, a very old one of an adult, probably of a man, was embedded in a pit of pipi shells, apparently an old Maori kitchen, the locality having been a Maori pa. The lime in the shells apparently served to preserve the remains. The larger leg and arm bones were intact and the skull was in two or throe pieces, but otherwise well preserved, as were also the jawbones and some teeth. The ribs and vertebrae were scattered and friable. Chaff-cutter Burned Three stacks of oats and a chaffcutter were totally destroyed by fire on the Tunanui Station property of Sir Andrew Russell, Sherenden, on Monday afternoon. The chaff-cutter, which was the property of Mr. T. Bcrggren, of Hastings, was being operated alongside the stacks when it back-fired and caught alight. It burnt fiercely and quickly ignited tho oat stacks, which wore dry and very inflammable. There being no real water supply handy, chances of suppressing the outbreak were remote, although workmen did all they could at the outset. Hole in One that Materialised All golfers will agree that they have been told “to watch me do this in one,” but rarely does the act come off. One exception is the popular professional of tho Palmerston North Club, Mr. A. E. Ekstedt, who quite recently managed to make a prophocy come true at the short ninth. Standing on the tee he remarked lo his partner that all that was necessary was to take, a number six iron and play thp ball in the approved manner. To the astonishment of both, the ball behaved in the best possible style and settled comfortably in the hole. The event was duly celebrated last week-end. Foxton Beach Goes Ahead. That Foxton beach is growing in popularity is evidenced by the fact that sections are being leased at the present time at the rate of one a week. The secretary, Mr. R. Rangihuia, reported to yesterday’s meeting of the Harbour Board that 50 sections had been leased in the last six months. Mr. Osborne drew attention to tho fact that some people were holding more than one section and sitting on them. This stopped the progress of the beach, and the board decided to draw the attention of those who held more than one section that the terms of the leases required tho erection of buildings within 12 months. Bed Clothes Burning * When about to enter his room at the Masonic Hotel, Opotiki, in the early hours of Bunday morning, Mr. R. Anderson detected the smell of smoke and on investigating heard a man coughing in another bedroom. He opened the door and found the room filled with smoke, and Mr. M. Merrimau was discovered lying kalf-suffo-catcd on a burning bed. Mr. Anderson got Mr. Merriman from tho burning bed and then attacked the lire with buckets of ■water. By the time the alarm was given and the brigade arrived the fire was extinguished. The bedding was considerably burned and the bedstead and floor scorched, and damage was done by water to the commercial room. Mr. Merriman escaped with slight burns.

Aged Air Enthusiast If there was an air service between Auckland and the Bay of Islands, it would most certainly be used shortly by Mrs. T. Bell, of Epsom, when she travels north to attend the wedding of one of her grandchildren. And this in spite of tho fact (says the Auckland Btar) that Mrs. BelL has reached the ago of 92 years. But the flight would be nothing new to her. Last year she startled some of her 109 children, grandchildren, great-grandchilden and great-great-grandchildren by deciding to use the airways on visit to Wellington. It seemed such an easy way of avoiding a dreary overnight journey. Tho pilot told her the weather would be pretty rough part of the way, and she might have to be left behind at New Plymouth. “Will it be rougher than the Tasman?’’ asked Mrs. Bell, to whom ocean travelling is nothing new, either. The pilot grinned—and Mrs. Bell kept her seat in tho ’plane. Thoroughly enjoying the journey, she hopes to repeat it this year after her visit to the Bay of Islands, to Which she regretfully must travel by land. Glasses need not be conspicuous. Lena shapes can be designed for individual faces and mountings litted to conform with facial symmetry. N. C. Holland, F.8.0.A. (Honours), F. 1.0. (Eng.), Consulting Optician, Commercial Buildings (upstairs), Square.*