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Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1933, Page 4

A specimen of the fish known as the “sea-horse” was obtained near the breakwater at Moturoa yesterday by a Harbour Board employee. It is understood the specimen is to be sent to the New Plymouth Museum. “The butcher, greengrocer and milkman have now all taken to horses,” was a statement contained in a report tabled at a meeting of the Marlborough. Hospital Board, and which was yet another pointer to the fact that the horse is, once again coming into its own. The report dealt with a suggestion that cattle-stops be provided at the entrance to the Wairau Hospital. “I submit there is no jurisdiction for a conciliation council to be constituted for the hearing of an industrial dispute unless there is a dispute,” said counsel in the Arbitration Court at Auckland on Friday. “That is elementary,” remarked Mr. Justice Frazer. “You cannot make an application for divorce unless there is a marriage.” Comment on changing standards of commercial morality was made by Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court at Auckland on Friday, during the hearing of an application for discharge from bankruptcy. After remarking that a man who went into business ought to know he was not supposed |o contract debts without a. reasonable prospect of being able to discharge them, his Honour added: “Perhaps that cannot be regarded as a grave irregularity in these days. It used to be considered dishonest. I do not know whether it is now.” Work of the Wanganui Assessment Court is nearing completion. . Originally, approximately 1400 objections were made to Government valuations, but, so far as the Court was concerned, this number was reduced by several owners availing themselves of the. right, under section 45 of the Valuation of Land Act, to offer their properties to the Government. Some 700 owners followed this course, the Court automatically sustaining the valuation in each case. That left the Court with approximately 670 cases to deal with. Fiji scholars compete yearly in the New Zealand Public Service Entrance Examinations, but rarely are the results made public, a notification being sent direct to the individual concerned. Recently a Suva resident was able to peruse the results of the 190 l examinations, which gives a list of over 1000 candidates who were successful, and was gratified to find four European scholars from Fiji in the list, their places ranging from Hth to 190th. These successes reflect credit on the educational advantages enjoyed by the youth of Suva, and proves that, although living in a tropical climate, they can compete successfully with those in more temperate zones.

Scanlan’s Ltd. are busy opening out well-known lines of summer fabrics such as “Tiny Tot” and haircord prints, “Sunrise” and “Summer Breeze” prints, printed organdies, printed pique voiles, tobralcos, fancy striped, printed and check rayons and crackle crepes, and some lovely angel skin lace fabrics for frocks. Formal displays will be made to-morrow and following days in conjunction with the firm's anniversary sale.*

On behalf of the inmates of the Old People’s Home, New Plymouth, Mr. P. E. Stainton, chairman of the Taranaki Hospital Board, issues an appeal for donations of unwanted gramophone records. The records at present at the home, says Mr. Stainton, are now very old and worn, and additions would t>e very welcome. Anyone willing to donate unwanted records for the purpose mentioned is asked to leave them at the office of the hospital board. A young purebred Large White boar is among the offerings at the New Plymouth haymarket sale to-morrow.