Racing Premierships

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 191, 14 August 1945, Page 4

Racing Premierships

xlt tlie annual meeting of the Manawatu Racing Club last evening, the retiring iiresident, Hr. B. J. Jacogs, referred to the success of Mr. G. W. New and Mr. W. J. Broughton in the trainers’ and jockeys’ premierships. To Mr. New and Mr. Broughton he extended the club’s congratulations. Piano Scholarship Great interest is being taken in. the piano scholarship inaugurated by the Palmerston North Music Club, for which IS entries have been received. This evening the youthful pianists between the ages of 1- and 14 years will play their test pieces in St. Andrew’s Hall before the adjudicator, Mr. 11. E. Gunter, the club’s patron. Banana Industry at Low Ebb Heavy damage by hurricanes in the Cook Islands has reduced the banana growing industry to a low 7 ebb, and many natives formerly engaged in cultivating and harvesting bananas have turned to native handicrafts and other more attractive means of earning a livelihood. In the main, however, irregularity of shipping and hurricanes have been the greatest blow to banana production, states the report of the Cook Islands Administration. Valuable Thermometers Stolen The theft of two valuable thermometers from the Albert Park Government Meteorological Station, Auckland, was discovered during the weekend. One of the instruments, a solar radiation thermometer, was found smashed on the path near the station. Both instruments were extremely valuable and it is unlikely there are similar ones in Auckland. The loss of the thermometers means that average readings for forty years have been broken and valuable calculations upset. Address to Rotarians “British Administration in the West Pacific” was the subject of an interesting address given to members of the Palmerston North Rotary Club yesterday by Major L. G. H. Sinclair, who, after a period of Army service in New Zealand and the Pacific, was appointed to the important office of Chief Magistrate and Legal Adviser to the British Solomon Islands Government. Before entering the Army, Major Sinclair was a well-known member of the legal profession in this city where lie was born and educated.

Spiritual Welfare The most Rev. Dr. Liston, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, has appointed Reverend Fathers E. A. Forsman and J. C. Pierce, chaplains with over five years’ service each, to assist Catholic men and women of all the forces in the diocese of Auckland, numbering several thousand, in their spiritual and temporal welfare after demobilisation. This is purely a voluntary effort in which the Bishop has invited the Catholic people of the diocese to join in a spirit of gratitude and justice to members of the services. Other chaplains on release from active service will take part in the work for which offices have now been set up. Hardy Newcomer Although the wax-eye came from the comparatively warm climate of Australia, and had been in New Zealand only since about 1860, it had, by some freak, of fancy, chosen to nest high up on the Alps, often at an altitude of 3000 feet, at the highest limit of timber, and in the most rigorous climate it could find anywhere in the. Dominion, remarked Mr. 8. A. A. Fry, at a meeting of the Canterbury branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Replying that no one had yet offered an explanation of why a sub-tropical bird should choose so bleak a nesting-place, Dr. R. A. Falla added that, it was still more surprising that the wax-eye had reached and appeared to thrive in the Auckland, Campbell and Macquarie Islands. Bookmakers and Telephones

• A total of £IOSO in nine minutes or more than £IOO a minute, was imposed in fines in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., on eleven persons -who appeared on charges under the Gaming Act. Of seven of them charged with conducting business as a bookmaker on Saturday, six were lined £IOO each and the other £250. The remaining four accused were fined £SO each for permitting their premises to be used as common gaminghouses. Detective-Sergeant E. H. Compton, who stated that he and DetectiveSergeant G. E. Callaghan conducted all the raids on Saturday, said when prosecuting the persons charged with permitting their premises to be used us common gaminghouses: “There is one observation I would like to make. .Tf bookmakers could not get a telephone they could not carry on their business.” Silent Train Travel

A new' type of rail joint, claimed to abolish the clicking sound always associated with railway travel, has been tried successfully in England. The normal practice is to join the ends of rails with “fish-plates,” leaving a gap of three-eighths of an inch to allow for contraction and expansion under changes of temperature. It is this gap which gives rise to a sound of impact every time a wheel passes over it. The new device has been described, not very satisfactorily, in the press as “a bracket that fits into and makes part Of the rail itself,” doing away with the gap and giving perfect continuity. An experienced railway inspector is said td have been taken over an experimental stretch of line without being told about the new joint. He later asked why the train had seemed to be running ofl a feather bed, Although its speed was fully sustained. THE BORER . . . THE TOJO OF TIMBER Like japs through a jungle, borer works its Way through wood. Too bad if its yotir floors and furniture. Beat the borer with BORAPEUF . . . spray or brush it on . . . and the borer calls it a day. All grocers sell BOKAPRLF.