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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 7, 6 December 1926, Page 6

Tho differences between tho Greytown School Committee (who resigned) and tho Wellington Education Board have been adjusted and the resignations withdrawn. Two statutory first-offending inebriates who appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., ' at the Magistrate’s Court this morning were each convicted and fined ss, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. A man who stole a shirt at Wellington and tried to sell it to a pawnbroker for Is fid told the latter that ho wanted the money for a shave. No business resulted and later the thief appeared before the Court. As he had 118 previous convictions he was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment. At the inquest at Christchurch on Hugh Cameron (34), married, who was run over and killed by. a railway wagon on Saturday, November 27, evidence was given that Cameron, who was an experienced shunter, failed in an attempt to jump across the front of the wagon. A verdict was returned that death was due to a fracture of the skull received while engaged in shunting operations. At a meeting in Oamaru of delegates to the South Island Motor Union the Southland Association recommended that the union should strongly disapprove of tho practice of motor associations in countenancing road speeding. A Southland delegate gave an instance of a recent record run by a car from Christchurch to Invercargill, during which the average speed was just on 40 miles an hour, and it was stated that an observer had been provided by an affiliated association. The recommendation was endorsed. A charge of driving in a dangerous manner and with failing to produce his license when requested to do so was preferred against a boy, aged 15 years, in the Children’s Court at Auckland on Saturday. The evidence showed that the boy was driving through Broadway, Newmarket, when he struck a blind man and knocked him down. Two other persons who were in the latter’s company were also slightly injured. Tho boy said he did hot see the people until he was right on them. The Magistrate ordered the payment of costs on condition the father saw that the boy did not drive the motor-car for six months. This step was taken in preference to entering a conviction. Miss Eldred’s pupils will give their third annual recital on Thursday, 16th December, at the Opera House. The entertainment this year will take the form of a fairy play and the charming story of “Beauty and the Beast” will always appeal to young and old. The setting of the play is an original one, but the dresses of the woodland fairies have been copied from the famous pictures of Ida ltentoul Outhwaite, and these alone will be well worth seeing. It’s nearing vacation time for the school kiddies, and probably your girls will need a white frock if thero's to be a concert at the breaking-up ceremony. See the lovely selection of maids’ and children’s frocks at the C. M. Ross Go., Ltd.’s. Various styles —all attractive —all reasonably prices for net cash; sizes 16 to 39 inches, 12s 6d to 425. Advt«

A motion that the maximum penalty for stealing cars should be £SO, or six months’ imprisonment, was carried at a meeting of the South Island Motor Union.

The president and secretary of the Royal Show last week signed 232 cheques for prize-money, the highest amount being for £126 and the next for £lO7, both going to two pig breeders.

As the result of swallowing a pin Daphne Melville, aged nine years, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital last week. It is not yet known whether an operation will be necessary. The child’s parents live at Henderson.

The Waipukurau representative of the Napier Telegraph was shown the •result of an 11,000 volt line coming into contact with mother earth. The ground was turned into a substance much resembling charcoal, possessing no weight whatever. Owing to'the continued slackness of orders, it is reported that five West Coast mills, which had been cutting white pine, have been closed down. A meeting of West Coast sawmillers will be held shortly to consider the position.

The daylight expresses between Auckland and Wellington resumed running to-day to cope with the Christmas and summer railway traffic which, it is expected, will be very heavy in the. next few weeks. The north-bound train reached Palmerston North on schedule time this morning, but only carried a small number of passengers. The south-bound express is due to arrive at the local station at 8.16 p.m. When the Royal visit was being discifSSed at the Nelson City Council’s meeting, the opinion was expressed that it was asking too much to expect the Duke and Duchess of York to go from Nelson to Greymouth in one day with stoppages at Murchison, Reefton and Westport. After a brief discussion it was resolved that \Jie attention of those responsible for the programme be drawn to the arduous day’s journey mapped out for their Royal Highnesses. An interchange of officers has been agreed upon by the forestry services of New Zealand and Victoria for the purpose of mutual benefit in the study of conditions and management. The two Victorian officers, Messrs Horne and Rust, will arrive in New Zealand within a few days. Mr R. B. Steele, B.Sc., one of the New Zealand officers appointed left Wellington for Melbourne on Friday, and the other, who is still to be selected, will leave in the course of the next fortnight.

“The proper course is to take them off the road, but I realise in this instance that it would deprive the man of his livelihood,” said Mr R. W. Tate, S.M., at the New Plymouth Police Court when imposing a fine of £2O with costs £5 on Oswald Norman Thomas for driving a car at a speed dangerous to the public. The prosecution was the result of a collision near Eltham when Thomas’s car, passing the line of traffic, swerved across the road and struck a pole, when the car overturned and was struck by another car.

An outbreak of fire in Messrs W. Cook and Sons’ cooperage, in Main street, on Saturday afternoon was responsible for the brigade being called out. On arrival it was found that flames were breaking out in the rear of the building, over the boiler-room, but in a very short space of time the brigade had the outbreak under control, less than £lO worth of damage being done. The alarm was given by means of the automatic system which is installed throughout the building, and the prompt manner in which the alarm operated no doubt averted a serious conflagration.

Conditions at the hospital farm near Gisborne, conducted by the Cook HosSital Board, are now better than they avo been for a long time, and 42 cows are being milked (reports the Times). With plenty of teed, the herd is in splendid condition, and, in addition to supplying all the milk and cream needed at the hospital and memorial home, 601 b of cream is now being forwarded every day to the factory. The first of the pedigree Jersey heifers to come into profit has beon under semi-official test, ann the results are very satisfactory. Up to tho present the test has been 5.8 and the heifer is giving from 261 b to 281 b of milk a day.

The purchasing power of the shilling has sadly diminished since the day when recipients of relief from the Auckland Hospital Board received that amount to enable them to buy some extra little thing for Christmas time. It has been decided by the board to make the allowance this year the same as last year, «which is 2s 6d for every person receiving relief. Thus the mother with four children whose husband is in the hospital will get an allowance of 10s to purchase something extra for Christmas dinner. Old couples who are travelling along the road of life together and who need assistance from the board will get 5s to enable them to have a good Christmas dinner.

An extraordinary, and, so far as I can gather, unprecedented occurrence took place on a local farm one day recently (writes the Okaiawa correspondent of the Hawera Star). The owner of the farm is a lover of bird life, and the farm is really a sanctuary for wild ducks and pheasants. A pair of wild ducks have made it their home for some time, and about a week ago the, farmer' was quite pleased to see a nice brood of about a dozen ducklings swimming in a dam. A day or two afterwards some members of the family, upon visiting the. spot was astonished to see one of the ducklings struggling in the clutches of a number of frogs. With the aid of a long stick an attempt at rescue was made. Some of the frogs let go,- but the remainder dived under a log, taking their victim with them, and that was the last seen of it. The action of the frogs presents a problem which perhaps some of our naturalists can solve. It is beyond the majority of us.

The chairman (Mr A. E. .Ansell) at a meeting of the South Island Motor Union, deprecated the erection of hoardings all over the country, and moved: (1) That the South Island Union should co-operate with the North Island Union in an endeavour to have legislation introduced which will abolish tho existing objectionable method of advertising on or adjacent to rural highways; (2) that the union should express its displeasure at the manner in which some companies disfigure scenic beauties of the Dominion by. the erection of hoardings, and that all such companies should be written to requesting that this objectionable method of advertising be abandoned, and that the existing hoardings be removed ; and that copies of the replies to this protest should be circulated to all motor association? in the South Island. Several delegates strongly criticised the Railway Department for permitting the erection of hoardings on departmental property, and the remits met with the unanimous approval of those present. For technical students and home milliners, 100 pieces of assorted straw plaits in crinolin, fancy lace and fringed effects, in black, champ., saxe, creme, grey, navy, multi-colour, golden brown, nigger, mole; 10-yard bundles Is per bundle. Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd.—Advt.