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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 8

The Aorangi arrived at Sydney this morning from Auckland. The practice of extinguishing the borough street lights at 1 a.m. has been discontinued, and the streets are now illuminated all night.

An exceptionally fine bed of hyacinths in the garden of a local resident was the object of a proivler. On rising on Thursday morning the householder found that the blooms had all been taken.

The Waikato Hospital Board be-lie\-es that it has saved £236 in five months by buying and killing its own meat. - Compared with the five corresponding months of last year, the average price ivorked out at 4.8 d lb against 6d. Rev. W. J. Berry; Presbyterian minister at Takaka, ivas admitted to hospital yesterday suffering from a compound fracture of the right leg sustained in a fall from a motor-cycle at Onalcaka (states a Press Association message from Nelson). Charged Avith being found drunk in Broadway, yesterday, a first offender Avas fined ss, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, Avhen he appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., this morning. On a further charge of doing damage to Government property, he Avas ordered to pay the cost entailed. Mr W. J. Jordan, M.P. for Manukau, stated in the House of Representatives yesterday that arrangements Avere being made for the members of the Noav Zealand Parliamentary delegation Avhich visited Canada last year to meet at an early uate with a vieiv to preparing a report for presentation to Parliament. Speaking at a farewell tendered him in St. Sunday School room, Fendalton, Christchurch, Rev. H. S. Leach, the retiring vicar, spoke in faA r our of the cultivation of a spirit of greater broadmindedness and tolerance in the Church. “Some people prefer kimonos and others pyjamas,” he said, “and as far as I am concerned, if people came to church in pyjamas and kimonos.,and smoked tobacco, I would raise no objection.” Two applications have been made by Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., for a party of members of Parliament to visit the Massey Agricultural College, hut the Prime Minister lia6 requested that the matter be held OA r er until later in the session. When Mr Nash Avas in Auckland, Sir George Fovrlds, chairman of the College Council, informed him that it Avas his intention to proceed to Palmerston North to meet the party Avhen they made the inspection. A curious accident befell a Gisborne resident. While inspecting building additions, and Avalking over uncertain flooring, he felt a board slipping under him, and he instinctively flung out his hand to steady himself. The signet ring on his little finger hooked itself over a nail in a Avail and as his full Aveight bore on it the ring slipped off, taking the flesh of the finger Avith it, and almost stripping the finger bare. The man will partially lose the use of the finger. r

A message . from Hastings states that, in consequence of a ear capsizing after a skid in some loose metal near Hastings, Mr and Mrs Greenhough and son, of Auckland, were admitted to hosital suffering from shock and injuries. A local resident draws attention to the fact which he considers is not widely known—that a person with an income of £250 or more is bound to make the statutory incom„ tax return, irrespective of whether he is liable for taxation or not. An “Own Your Own Home” campaign is to be organised shortly in Christchurch by real estate agents, An conjunction with retailers and the building trades. The object is to combat the tendency of wage-earners to expend their monej's in luxuries. The business of the House of Representatives yesterday consisted entirely of further consideration of the estimates, the following votes being passed:—Department of Justice, £133,769; Crown Law Office, £6149; Department of Internal Affairs, £342,941. The obligation imposed on all motorists to report accidents in which injury is suffered by any persons was emphasised in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court, this week, when two motorists were prosecuted for failure to* report accidents. One was fined £1 and the other was fined 10s. Two hockey teams from the primary schools of Palmerston North left yesterday in the care of Mr L. Berry, secretary of the Manawatu Hockey Association, for Wellington. The A team will play the Wellington school representatives for the Cliffe Shield, while the B eleven will play a friendly match.

The official figures for the first six months of 1929 show a total of 5696 marriages in the Dominion, which is 233 more than for the corresponding period of last year, and 86 more than the first six months of 1926. If marriages may be regarded as an indication of national prosperity, these statistics are certainly encouraging, comments an exchange. On Thursday evening at half-past nine o’clock- the Rewa School, situated in the Rewa Valley, about 12 miles south of Hunterville, was destroyed by fire. The building consisted of one room and a porch and there are 23 children attending the institution. The cause of the outbreak is unknown as in the grate there was no fire, which was set ready to be lit the next day.

Several local bodies have notified the Auckland Automobile Association of their intention to employ white lines for the guidance of traffic at intersections. The association recentlysent circulars to ten local bodies seeking an expression of opinion regarding the white line system. The Devonport, Takapuna, Birkenhead and Waihi Borough Councils all expressed support of wliite lining

Fourteen of the Maori Mission delegates who are to take part in to-mor-row’s special mission services and the grand festival in the Opera House on Tuesday have arrived in Palmerston North from all over the Dominion. Prominent amongst them are the following chiefs and cliieftainesses : —Te Alio Piliama (Waikato;, Te Akonga (King Country), lliki Hoto (Huntly), Wi l'ainui (West Coast), Riria Warihi (Canterbury), Mori Erihaua (Otago), Wi Perehama (Wanganui River), and Mihaka Waata (North Auckland).

The necessity of keeping historical paintings in New Zealand was stressed bv the _Leader of the Opposition (Righc Hon. J. G. Coates) in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr Coates said that there were many valuable paintings of historical value ill the Dominion and he hoped that some provision would be made whereby they would be kept in the country. A fitting home for the paintings would be the National Museum and Art Gallery. The Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle) promised to give the matter consideration.

Inquiries made in Hamilton regarding the message from Wellington concerning a man named Mclntyre, who was reported to be a patient at the Waikato Hospital, and had asked various religious bodies to meet his children on a Home liner, show that there is no patient of that name in the institution. The officers of the Hamilton corps of the Salvation Army know nothing that will throw light on the message which caused several Wellington clergymen to meet the steamer Rotorua with the object of welcoming and caring for Mr Mclntyre’s children. Carelessness with glass on the highways was a subject of discussion by the council of the Auckland Automobile Association this week. A member wrote stating that motorists involved in collisions frequently made no effort to remove broken glass from the road. He stated that he had observed four men holding a consultation over two vehicles which had collided recently on the Great South Road. Glass was scattered liberally on the road. Later, both vehicles were removed, but no attempt had been made to clear the glass from the highway. Several members remarked on the evidences _of carelessness near Auckland, it being stated that there appeared to be no legislation to deal with a motorist who failed to remove debris. Mr EL Butcher: There is fresh glass almost every day at tliG corner of Gillies Avenue and Epsom Avenue. The parties usually cannot agree on the responsibility for the accident, so the glass is left to do damage. It was resolved to bring the nuisance under the notice of members.

An amusing instance of how two towns of similar names are occasionally confused recently happened on the south-bound Napier express. When the guard collected tickets after leaving Palmerston North he discovered that one old gentleman had a ticket from Napier to Palmerston. The passenger was informed that he had passed his destination, but refused to believe this. At the first stop, tlie stationmaster there and the guard again approached the traveller and told him that lie should get off and take the next train back. He refused to do so and would not pay the remainder of the fare to Wellington. The threat of securing the services of the police left him quite unmoved and he was still on the train when it moved off. The stationmaster immediately telephoned' the next station, advising them of the position and recommending that the police be asked to remove the passenger. This it was deckled to do, but just before the train stopped the stationmaster in question, while laughing over what he considered was a good joke with one of the clerks suddenly remembered that Palmerston was in the South Island. He had just time to telephone the next station and explain that the matter had been cleared up before the train arrived and the old gentleman was allowed to continue his journey in peace. The joke was not on him and goes to show that even railway officials should remember that the name of this town is Palmerston North.

You have decided to move —perhaps a few miles —perhaps to another town. There are two ways of going about it. The first is to look after the job yourself—that means endless worry and the risk of valuable goods being damaged. The second and sensible way is to hand everything over to the New Zealand Express Company. Everything is expertly packed, speedily carried in specially constructed “Dennis” pantechnicons anu unpacked at the other end. —Advt.