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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 49, 28 January 1932, Page 6

There are now close on. 5000 dairies registered for the supply of milk to towns throughout the Dominion, df which 2193 serve the four larger centres.

Advice has been received by the Palmerston North police that no trace can be found in Wellington of Mr George Hugh Ackland, an elderly resident of this city, who has been missing since January 3 nnd who . was believed to have gone to Wellington. A mild revival of the timber industry on the West Coast has been caused by a strong demand from Australia for white pine, and within the last six weeks ti total of almost'three million feet of this timber t worth nearly £25,000, has been shipped to various Australian ports.

Mr A. Cork, agricultural instructor to the Wanganui Education Board, will be transferred to' the Nelson district next week. At yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board it was stated that arrangements had been made for the reorganisation of the Wanganui district and for the two other men to carry on with the agricultural instruction in schools. A misfortune befel Mr J. Blenkhorn, son of Mr and Mrs C. Blenkhorn, Mayor and Mayoress of Levin, in the steer-riding competition at the Horowhenua Show on Tuesday. The steer on which he was mounted slipped just after coming out of the yard, and fell with the ridor, who took a good part of its weight and also struck the ground heavily. Either through the latter cause or a kick, he. sustained slight concussion, in addition to bodily bruises. First aid was rendered and the injured man was taken to his home in Levin, where his condition shows an improvement. ' •'. Maintenance grants for the Wanganui Education Board froni the Education Department have been brought down this year to £6376, which is a reduction of £1683 on the amount of last year’s grant. The secretary 'Mr W. H. Swanger) said yesterday that the amount would be for maintenance only, and would not include the building or enlarging of present structures. The amount was worked out on the .floor space of schools within the. board’s area, and was the final notification. Mr M. H. Oram commented that the board would still be on the right side as far as expense went.; The chairman. (Mr Hemingway) agreed. „

The minutes of the 654th meeting of the Wanganui Education Board were read at the monthly meeting yesterday. The first meeting was held in the Wanganui Courthouse in 1879. '

Very few people in New Zealand can claim to have lived for 75 years continuously 100 yards from the spot where they were born (says a Wairarapa paper). This distinction could be claimed for Mr Thomas Fisher, who died in Greytown last week. The Wanganui Education Board yesterday received a request from the Taonui School Committee for a grantfor the tiling of a drain. The board decided to make available £6 for the work. " . -■ -

At a meeting of the Wellington Harbour Bonrd last.evening, the chairman, Mr C. J. B. Norwood, stated that the board’s new floating dock had not been, and would not be for some considerable time, taken over; from the constructors. Tests had to be made. During! the year 1980 there was. spent in the construction and maintenance of Canadian highways, exclusive of local roads and urban streets-:’ a total of £18,000,000 and at the end of the year the Dominion had' 80,493 miles of. surfaced highway and 397,373 miles of roads of all sorts.

The directors of the South Taranaki winter show at a meeting at Hawerm yesterday decided to support the other provincial organisations m the endeavour to retain the revenue of the Opaku education reserves, originally intended for providing funds fop. scholarships or other education resources for Taranaki pupils.

After nearly seven years’ residence in the pool at the Wellington Zoo both of the sea-lions have died.- They passed away within three weeks of one another. The curator, Mr J. Langridge, stated that • after the one died, the other seemed to fret over the disappearance of its mate, nnd in his belief it died of a broken hearty Both of the sea-lions came from the* Auckland Islands.

A remit to the Department of Agriculture to the effect that a plant quarantine station should be established in the Dominion was passed at the conference of delegates of the New Zealand Horticultural Trades Association, at Christchurch. It was stated that if! this station were established a check could be’ made on diseased plant imports, with resultant benefit to Dominion growers.

Careful consideration by the Government of the representations made was promised to a deputation from the Wheat Marketing Board, which waited upon the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, and the. Minister of Industries and Commerce, Hon. R. Masters, yesterday morning, in connection with the sliding scale of ' duties ort whoat and flour. The deputation was not open to the Press. A hurricane of minor intensity visited Fox ton and district on Tuesday evening and played havoc with gardens. No damnge of a serious nature was done although for a time it looked as if Messrs Wirth Bros.’ huge circus tent on Easton Park was in danger of being blown over. The management, however, took precautions against such an occurrence. At the bench conditions were particularly unpleasant.—Foxton correspondent.- , • v

A deputation headed by members of the Wellington Retail Fruit Traders’ Association, supported by the Ratepayers’ Association and the Retailers’ Association, waited upon the health committee of the Wellington City Council to protest against the continuance of the council’s policy in hiring out street fruit and vegetable stands to Asiatics on the ground that it was inimical to the public health and uneconomic from a citizen’s point of vicy. , .V Each year three scholarships are awarded by the Wanganui Education Board from the endowment left by the late Miss Alexander for the purpose pf taking district high school pupils to the Wanganui Technical College. The board-yesterday decided that a further year at the college should be granted to Olive Hunter, and that a year at the college be granted Norma Stratford and Joan Neilson f both pupils of the Marton District High School.

During the/temporary absence of Mrs Annie Christina Smith from her residence at 18. Thyra Street, Dannevirke, on Tuesday morning someone entered the house and abstracted £3 in notes from a purse in a bedroom. Mr Smith left'the residence about 9 o’clock, locking the back door and placing the key in a place of safety. A neighbour called at the house at 11 o’clock and found the back door open, the empty purse, on the floor ana, evidence or drawers having been ransacked. “The English do not understand horse-racing,” said Mr C. S. Thomas, at a gatheriiag in ,his, honour at'the Pioneer Sports Club in Christchurch. “What he sees is very little —and he pays for it, too. The equivalent to ‘on the lawn’ at Riccarton would cost, about £5 to £6. He even has to pay 10s to get in to the totalisator.” Mr Thomas continued that all the average person saw was a glimpse of the horses as they flashed past. He thought that the racing had gone off since his visit 17’ years ago. It was stated at the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board vesterday that some parents would not allow their children to receive instruction in swimming at school. Mr J. S. Tingey, (Feilding), said that it was a mystery to. him. It was most extraordinary,' when the greatest number of summerdeaths were by drowning. The acting chairman (Mr E. F. Hemingway), thought that'those people who refused to allow their children to learn to swim were not aliv© to their own interests. . ... , . Mr F. G. Simpson, whose work on Roman excavations in Britain in the, past few years has proved so valuable,has- undertaken an important work for Carlisle Corporation. He is endeavouring to trace the line of Hadrian s Wall in the Carlisle vicinity. The wall ended in the West at. Bowness r on-Solway, 12 miles from the Border City. North of the city was the fort of Lugubaha, now the suburb of Stanwix. The passage of the wall between the remains which can still* be seen in the garden of Mr J. P. Buck, Marlborough Gardens, Stanwix, and the village of Brunstock has nevtir been laid down. It is hoped that Mr Simpson, who holds the post of director' to the recently constituted Cumberland Excavation Committee, will be able to determine the line, both of the wall and vallum.