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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 8, 7 December 1926, Page 6

The ninth anniversary of the declaration of independence by the republic of Finland was celebrated yesterday. One hundred and fifty-three cases of infectious diseases were reported in the Auckland health district in November, included in the number being 32 cases of diphtheria. A coloured comedian named Murray in the Ferris Jazzland Revue Company was admitted to the Napier Hospital seriously ill on Sunday and died yesterday.

When trolling in Rangitara Bay, Taupo, the launch Sunbeam caught 44 fish with three rods in one day. The launch Whizbang caught 24 fish in two hours at the mouth of one of the streams running into the lake. The body of a middle-aged man of small build, about sft' 6in in height, with dark moustache and hair, was found in the Wellington harbour yesterday. There is as yet no evidence of identification.

The Masterton Beautifying Society’s annual carnival and gala was held on Saturday, and resulted in the handsome return of £420, which will be devoted to town improvements. Last year’s effort realised £370.

At the end of October, 1926, there were 49,469 people receiving pensions in New Zealand from the State, made up as follow:—Old-age 23,308, widows’ 3964, Maori War 394, War 20,643, miners’ 646, epidemic 293, blind 221. During the week-end the dwelling of Mr William C. Sewell, Mountain road, Epsom, Auckland, was entered by a burglar, who made a thorough overhaul of the house. A quantity of jewellery, the value of which cannot yet be ascertained, was stolen. The thief gained entry to the house by a door which was closed, but not locked.

For the seven months ended October 31, 1926, the sum of £17,854,159 was deposited in the Post Office Savings Bank throughout the Dominion, and the sum of £17,975,548 was withdrawn, an excess of withdrawals over deposits of £121,389. In the case of the private savings-banks the deposits represented an excess of £397,995 over the withdrawals.

At yesterday’s meeting of the District Nursing Guild several cases of local families in distressing circumstances came under review. It was mentioned that the nurse generally distributed goods and clothing to such cases, but at the present time clothing was hard to procure and accordingly gifts, especially of babies’ clothes, would be gratefully received from the public to assist the guild with its work.

In a maintenance case heard at Wellington yesterday it was stated that defendant was £735 in arrears with payments due to his wife, and £251 with those due to the children. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended as long as he pays 10s weekly off the arrears and keeps up the current amount of maintenance for his wife, namely, £3 per week.

A case of infantile paralysis in Auckland has been notified to the Health Department, the patient being a boyaged eight or nine years, living in the Parnell district. The case is not serious, one of the legs being affected. The boy is in the Auckland hospital, and it is considered that there is every hope of his recovery. “There is no occasion for anxiety and this case is not at all significant,” said Dr T. J. Hughes, medical officer of health. “We are always likely to get sporadic cases of infantile paralysis.”

At the annual meeting of the Christchurch Tramway Board yesterday the chairman (Mr W. J. Walter) after a survey of the board’s finances, expressed the opinion that the only way to meet a falling revenue and increased power and wages costs was to impose a property, rate. During the half-year ended September 19 there was a deficiency of £12,000, but this was the worst period of the year and had always shown a loss. He was hopeful that the financial year ending March 31 would close with a clear sheet. Most of tire financial difficulties of the board, he considered, were due to the increase in the usd of private motor-cars.

The Dominion Conference and birthday celebrations of Toe H will take place in Auckland next Saturday and Sunday. The celebrations will coincide with those 1 eing held at Manchester, England, and in other parts of the British Empire. The Auckland service to be held at Bishopscourt at Parnell on Saturday afternoon. This will be conducted by Rev. R. G. Coats, padre of the Auckland group of Toe H. The Dominion Conference will afterwards open in Bishopscourt library. The guest of honour at a gathering in tlie evening will be the Governor-General On the Sunday there will be corporate communion at the Church of the Epiphany. In the afternoon a thanksgiving service will be held at Memorial Chapel, King’s College, when the preacher will be Canon H. K. Archdall, headmaster of tho college.

An extraordinary story of apparent harsh treatment by the Canadian immigration authorities was told at Auckland yesterday by Mr F. Nancarrow, who returned to. New Zealand with his wife and five children by the Niagara. Mr Nancarrow is an exservice man. He wears decorations for service with the British Navy during the Great War, but according to his story that did not make him welcome in Canada, where he and his family n-ere interned during the Niagara’s stay at Vancouver, kept under lock and key in detention barracks among Chinese, Indians and other coloured aliens, amid dirt and squalour, anct fed on rice and garlic. Mr Nancarrow states that lie and his family were deported, the excuse made.by the. Canadian authorities for the deportation being that they had stated that they were going to settle in Canada, whereas their intention was to cross into the United States.

“Our ideal is that not one of our people will fail to be linked up with the- land of their fathers,” said the Rev. R. S. Porter, convener of the Colonial Board of the Presbyterian Church, Ireland, who arrived in Auckland by the Niagara yesterday. Mr Porter said that the object of his visit was to endeavour to bring together all overseas" Presbyterian churches, and his work was purely voluntary. “During the last seven years,” said Mr Porter, in an interview, “the board has sent forty-two ministers and missionaries overseas. My visit is to gain further information so that we might carry on the work.” After a month spont in New Zealand Mr Porter will go to Australia and South Africa, and lie hopes to get back home on March 31st next year. He is the minister at the Albert street church in Belfast, and prior to that was stationed in Armagh.

Everywhere in demand for smart, serviceable holiday frocks—fugi silks. See the great collection of colour combinations at the C. M. Ross Co., Ltd.’s, which has this week been further added to by a very delightful new shipment. All 33 inches wide and such groat value at 4s 3d, 4s 6d, 4s lid yard net cash. A fugi frock is the most generally all-round satisfactory one that sewers can make for themselves. Procure a length to-day ! —Advt.