TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16498, 2 August 1924, Page 11

TOWN EDITION

Dr. A. B. Crowther, who passed away in Rotorua, this week, aged 74 years, served during the l Boer war as a surgeonlieutenant with the Australian forces. The dates fixed for tile annual Conference of Associated Chambers of Com merce, which will he held this year at Wanganui, have been fixed for November 19 and 20.

Dr. .McAlister, house surgeon at the New Plymouth hospital, has gone to Dunedin, where she will enter the Medical School to take a. special course in insulin treatment and other matters. There has been remarkable activity in building in Palmerston North during 11 it past month. The total number of building permits issued was 45, representing an outlay of £25,924.

A resident who had his car stolen from a municipal parking place suggested to a Tima nil Herald reporter that the Council should sink a, steel ring in the ground, attach a, chain, and let (he owners of the cars provide their own padlocks. Dr. J. S. Elliott, of Wellington, who is to attend a big .surgical congress at New York, will leave for San Francisco on 'September 16. Sir Lindo Ferguson, of Dunedin, and Dr. Carrick Robertson, of Auckland, will leave early .in the same month.

Tlip Auckland Herald reports The maize market has eased a- little, as a result of heavier arrivals from the Bay of Plenty, largely of new grain. Owing to the scarcity and high cost of wheat and oats, maize is selling well at present, and most of the arrivals are soon worked off.

Owing to the state of the road be tween Shannon and Aloutoa, the Wai tunui Flaxmilling Co. lias been com polled to cart its flax to Foxton for shipment by bout to Wellington. This, diversion will mean a loss in revenue ot approximately £3O per week to the Railway Department.

In the course of an address on the art of public speaking at, Wanganui, the Rev. J. Paterson, M.A., said that a cleat voice could be obtained by stiffening tlie muscles of the legs whilst speaking. Mr. Paterson incited a short verse, relaxing and stiffening his leg muscles alternatively and a marked improvement was noticed in his voice when bis leg muscles were set firm.

Referring in the House of Representatives to the report of the Taxation Commission, Mr. F. J. Rolleston (Timaru) said: —“Remove the land tax, and yongive a, splendid opportunity to the land speculator. Remove the graduated land tax and you, give a splendid opportunity to the land aggregator; and these are two evils which .1 don’t think anybody in this House wants to .see perpetuated.” “It, is inconceivable that you could have a more peaceful, law-abiding community living in a foreign country that the Chinese. The pioneer'bf the Dominion butter industry was a Chinaman living in Taranaki. Those who have traded with Chinese know that none have a higher sense of honor and duty, than they”— The Mayor (Mr. F. J. Nathan) at the smoke concert tendered the Chinese soccer team at Palmerston North.

The Hon. 0. Samuel, who was acting as Speaker in the Legislative Council, said that a, number of telegrams had been received addressed to the- Speaker and members on the subject of a Bill now before the Council, and they were intended evidently to influence the Council in its dealing with the matter. He had instructed the clerk to ignore those telegrams. The proper method of approaching the Council was by petition. Robinson, the pianist, failed in his attempt at Christchurch to break liis own world’s record of 100 hours 10 minutes continuous piano-playing, for he gave up on the advice of his doctor at 11.54 on Saturday night, after he had played without a stop for 57 hours 24 minutes. Robinson was taken from the piano in a semi-col-lapsed state, and it was obvious that he had put too great a strain on himself. “There is some talk of having these exhausting and purposeless exhibitions stopped,” says a contemporary.

Mr. M. Ryan, of Wellington, lost his own right arm in the war. Subsequently he invented an artificial arm, which lias since been put in use in almost- every country in the world, and has been a great success. He took a- partner, and opened a- factory in England, and lie 1 insiste.d that the employees should be men with only one arm. With such a condition failure was predicted, hut the arm he had invented proved so practical that the objections were overcome. Mr. Ryan lias recently been to Australia, where he has been appointed artificial limb consultant to the Commonwealth Government.

The shooting tragedy at the Waikino

School, in October, last year, is recalled by <i petition presented to Parliament- by the parents of the two boys who were shot. The parents of the children, the petition states, were involved in considerable unavoidable funeral and other expenses, and in addition both mothers were prostrated in health for several months, and undoubtedly would never fully recover from the dreadful shock and loss. The petitioners appeal to Parliament to deal eompassipnately with the mothers.

The young man who intends to be a plumber is devoting too much of his spare time to football, pictures, and other recreations, rather than applying himself seriously to the task of fitting himself for the battle of life, declares a member of the Plumbers' Examination Board. What this country wants as much as anything is good tradesmen, but- (lie results in a city like Wellington do not indicate that we are- turning them out.” Members of (lie Plumbers’ Examination Board are not at all satisfied with the results of the June theoretical and practical examinations.

Mr. F. Moorhouse, Conservator ol Inland Fisheries, reports that the following, orders for ova have been fuili.lled : New Plymouth 150,090, Wnikarembulia 100,099, Under-Secretary of State Fisheries (Sydney) 509,000, Mastcfton ICO,COO, Gisborne Society 24,090. Orders received for fry now batching out are: Auckland 290,0C0, Tourist Department 20, COO, OpotikL 30,000, Waima-rmo 60,000, Tauranga- 3CCO. Eggs were obtained Ibis year from tlie- Blue and Green Lakes, and 250,0C0 ova received Irom Lake liawca are to bo batched out and placed in Lake Taupe. There are 1,500,000 ova- now changing into fry in the R'ulonia hatchery.

"Parliament, looked at through the speetncles of flip average elertor, is an extraordinary place, ” ro inn rim I the Mayor (Mr." H. A. Wright, M.P.) at flip official dinner lo Hie All Blacks at Wellington. "The average citizen thinks that politicians are rail-sitters and twisters, and that time in the House is wasted. It is absolutely impossible for men to go through their public career without changing their minds. Public opinion changes, and varies from point to point without at times any reason at all. That fact is often forgot ten.’' He considered that in the New Zealand Parliament to-day there were fewer "rail-sitters” and "twisters” than in any other Parliament in the world.

It is slated that tin* wapiti herd on ’.he West Coast now number 2000. Considerable alterations are being made in the country telephone services in the Ekolalinna district. All the country lines have now signed up and re-group-ing is being arranged witlf the object of Government lines replacing the present party lines. “By the end of August the Newton King wharf should he ready to accommodate cargo vessels from Sydney, Pacific Coast and Hast Indies,” stated the chairman of the New Plymouth Harbor Board. After September, lie stated, it would be possible in normal weather to berth the largest vessels which visit the port.

“Some people went to China to make money, and during the past ten veal's there lias grown a strong anti-foreign in consequence of this,” stated Mr. Dome, manager of the Chinese Soccer team when speaking at Palmerston No-rlh. While- there were some excellent missionaries in China, there was imposition of this kind that caused a feeling of resentment in the hearts of the Chinese.

Solicitors seem to be “on a good wicket” very often (says the Auckland Star.) At a meeting of the Waifemata County Council, the clerk reported, in respect of the matter of raising a loan : “Although all the legal work was done by myself at no cost lo the council, the bank’s solicitors sent me a bill for £2l 6s tor perusing the debentures, and the file of the legal steps taken hv me. This amount I submit for payment, and recommend that if lie. paid’, as there is no way out of it.”

Last summer the railway line to the south of the Carterton station was built up and ballasted by coal dust and cinders from Cross Creek. If settled bard and firm (says the News), but during the dry weather linesmen burned the grass alongside which set the ballasting alight-. The fire thus started lias now been smouldering for months, similarly to a peat bed. Railway men arei now endeavoring to subdue it.', and are pumping in tons of water. Providing they work long enough, tlmy are likely to meet with success.

Another effort is being made by (lie natives of the King Country to get an alteration in the -existing licensing !aw / ami with that object- iff view a petition is doing the rounds of the natives praying that Parliament give the natives a vote on the licensing question. As soon as this is complete it will lie presented, and the result of the petition will be awaited with keen interest. The petition requests that in view of the much altered conditions prevailing in tlie King Country at present, the best solution is the establishment of hotels run by municipalities.

The Chinese is the. first foreign team to make a tour of New Zealand and 1 hope it is the forerunner of many othei national tours,” said' Mr. J. 'Young, chairman of the Manawatu Football Association, at the smoke concert tendered the. visitors at Palmerston North Ho referred to international sport at the Olympic Games and the fact that a team from Uruguay had won a- soccer final. “That country is not far from New Zealand, ’ lie added. “I commend that statement- to Mr. Meyer, chairman of the New Zealand Football Council, for what it is worth.”

Fresh-air classes were in full swing at the Ashburton Technical School the other day, about half the students being seated at- light portable desks in the sunshine. Gravelled paths gave dryness under-foot, while the buildings and high fences effectively shut out anything in the nature of searching winds. Ncedhiss to say, the students welcomed the change from the rooms on the cold side of the building to the brightness outside, while both the quantity and quality of the work improved under the change. Outside classes have been held on all sunny da vs throughout the winter.