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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 215, 10 September 1943, Page 4

Citizens’ Lunch Club "The Future of Dentistry" by Mr. 1\ D. Davidson, is to-day’s subject at (he Palmerston North Lunch Club meeting:. They Do Their Best Rain, hail, snow, Hoods and earthquakes, newspaper deliveries must go on —at least this is the tradition newspapers attempt to live up to. During- the past few days "The Times" newspaper runners have had to face up to some nasty situations, but thanks to their determination, very few of our readers went without their paper. One experience is worth relating. A big slip had come down in the Gorge, but undaunted, our runner set to and dug his way through it, only to find that ahead of him was a bigger slip quite impossible to pass. Turning back, he found that more boulders had come down on the first slip encountered, so there was nothing for it but to shift them out. of the way onCe more. He did this ami came through safely. No doubt on this particular morning, many of our subscribers on the other side of the range Avere wondering Avhy their paper had not been delivered. This little story gives

Gorge Road Traffic The Manawatu Automobile Association advise that the Manawatu Gorge is now open for one-way traffic. “The Kowhai Flood’’ The maximum flood of each year in olden days was known to coincide with the blossoming of the Kowhai, whether late or early in {September. Doth Maori and pakeha referred to it as “Te Walpuko Kowhai.” With the early bloom this year, the Maoris say the danger has passed. High Lamb Mortality Reports from fanners in the Feilding countryside indicate that there was a high mortality among lambs during the excessively cold and wet week-end. On the higher levels, there was a heavy fall of snow to add to the fury of the elements, and shepherds Avorked long hours in rescuing lambs Avho suffered considerably under such unusually violent weather conditions. In the case of smaller flocks, farmers were able to handle the position, but in the larger flocks, it Avas a hopeless task in the absence of labour to avert heavy losses. Not since the bad spring of 1924 have conditions been so unseasonal in this district nor so cold.