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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 21, 21 December 1932, Page 6

Arrangements have been made for the New Zealand Society of Accountants to be represented at the International Congress on Accounting, which will bo held in London in July, 1933. The previous International Congress was held in New York about four years ago.

A feature of the cricket on Saturday in the Whangarei Cricket Association’s competitions was an excellent innings of 76, not out, by Mr A. J. Murdoch, M.P.,’ for Marsden, while playing for Onerahi against High School. Mr Murdoch is a most enthusiastic cricketer and when time permits participates in the competitions of this association.

To-morrow will be the longest day of 1932, the sun then reaching its greatest southern declination. This marks the summer solstice and the technical beginning of summer, although meteorologically summer seems to have already established itself. After Thursday, the days will gradually contract as the sun begins to move toward the north once more. Heath removed two. of the Wairoa district’s outstanding native personalities last week. The first was Mrs Hannah Robinson, who had attained the age of one hundred years and earned the distinction of never having left the district during the whole of that time. The second pioneer claimed by death was Mr D. Thompson, a veteran of the Maori War, who had reached the age of 92 years. Ho belonged to the paramount tribe on the East Coast, the Ngatikahunganu, and fought with the Europeans against the Hauhaus, being severely wounded in the battle of Marumaru on Christmas Day, 1865.

In explaining to the New Plymouth Rotary Club that few Maoris in the old days ever suffered from dental trouble, Rotarian (Dr) George Home instanced the case of a Maori at Okato who had a swelling in his neck arising from sepsis in a tooth. The doctor told him that he would require to have the offending molar out before he would be rid of the trouble, so he produced his forceps. This was too much for the Maori; he did not like the idea of the instrument being inserted in his mouth. Thereupon, the doctor said ho would lance his neck instead. The Maori readily acquiesced, and stood up while the operation was performed and unflinchingly bore the pain involved, after which ho nonchalantly invited the doctor into the hotel to take liquid refreshment with him 1 A miraculous recovery, which is exciting keen medical interest in Auckland, has-been made by Mr L. G. Fyfe of Penrose, who was terribly burned five weeks ago through coming into contact with a conductor carrying 50,000 volts at the Government electric power sub-station at Penrose. Mr Fyfe was not expected to live, but he was given a newly discovered treatment, with the result that the burns are now practically healed. The burned flesh was sprayed with a weak solution of tannic acid, with the result that the whole of the burned skin became tanned and hardened. No dressing was required. Features of this simple treat.ment, said a doctor, are that pain is greatly diminished, and poisonous substances that often cause death are neutralised by the acid. The scarring that results from burns is also diminished.

Tn Christchurch last Saturday the temperature in the early morning was 32.8 degrees on the grass, but later in the day it rose to 83 degrees. The prisoner Allan Alfred Beehre, who escaped from the Whangarei Police Station last Wednesday evening while in custody under a warrant of commitment for defnult of a maintenance order, has not yet been recaptured. The Minister of Mines, Hon. C. E. Macmillan, who arrived at Thames on Monday, was waited on by a large deputation representing the Thames Prospecting Association. Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P. for Thames, introduced the deputation and stated that a revival of mining would go a long way toward rehabilitating, not only Thames, but also New Zealand. The Minister gave a sympathetic reply to the deputation’s requests.

To provide protection from the danger arising from broken power lines falling on fences, a scheme has been put into operation on trial by the Wanganui - Rangitikei Power Board with a view to further adoption if successful. The scheme briefly is to replace certain existing fuses with automatically reclosing oil switches, under which system power would be automatically cut off at the switch nearest the break on the power supply side. An unexpected and welcome birthday present was received 3'esterday by a Waikato resident. Forty-nine years ago a sum of money was placed in tho savings bank in the name of a small boy. The years went by and the small, boy grown to manhood, did not even know the account existed. Eventually he was traced to Gordonton, and upon making a sworn declaration that he is the man, received on this, his 60th birthday, the accumulated sum of about £BO.

An obstruction on the Main Trunk railway line, about a mile south of Buckland, was discovered on Monday afternoon by Mr A. G. Steele, a resident of Buckland. Mr Steele found a broken bolt plate wedged in an expansion joint, while a few yards away was a piece of scoria so placed as to cause an obstruction. Mr Steele immediately cleared the line. As the plate was projecting only a little above the surface of the rail, it is considered that no major damage to a passing engine would have occurred.

At the welcome which was tendered at Dunedin on Monday evening to Hon. Downie Stewart, Minister of Finance, Sir James Allen stressed tho need of sinking political differences for the time being and pulling together to help the country. Those at the head of the Government to-day had a more difficult task than even he had had as Minister of Defence during the war. He had at least had tho country behind him foursquare. It was their duty to stand by the present Government as the people had stood by him in the trying clays of war.

When the early goods train was travelling through Topuni, North Auckland, early on Saturday morning it was stopped by a platelayer, who told of a car which had toppled from tho overhead bridge on to the railway line. Evidently the steering gear had given way and the car had crash' d into the railing of the bridge, to topple down the steep embankment, and on to the line. Among those in the car was Mr T. N. Tremewan, an engineer employed by the Whangarei Dairy Company. There were three women passengers, and one of them was injured and received attention on the roadside.

The Otago Expansion League wrote to Sir Charles Statliam recently contrasting the action of the Government in providing a subsidy for the National Art Gallery and Museum in Wellington with the delay in finding money to undertake the erection of a new post office in Dunedin. The Prime Minister states in reply that the moneys held by the board of trustees controlling the work on the National Art Gallery will be drawn upon as far as possible to enable building to proceed, and the whole amount of the subsidy will not become a charge for some considerable time. Mr Forbes states: “The erection of the Dunedin post office is in an entirely different category, as the Government must find the whole cost.”

An amusing story of the early days in Lyttelton was told by Rev. F. G. Brittan, speaking at the function at which the Canterbury Pilgrims celebrated Anniversary Day (says the Christchurch Times). In 1849, said Mr Brittan, Captain Thomas was sent out to make preparations for the arrrival of the pilgrims in 1850. One of his duties was to build barracks to house them on arrival. Carpenters were obtained from Tasmania, and, for labourers, 120 Maoris were brought down from the North Island. The carpenters were paid 4s 6d a day and the Maoris received 2s 6d a day for their work. If the Maoris did not work, they were paid Is. “And strange as it may seein ; ” said Mr Brittan, “most of the Maoris preferred to be paid the shilling.” Pohutu geyser has been inactive since April last, making one of the longest quiet spells recorded of it, says a Rotorua message. However, it is now showing signs of activity again. Wa.iakarohihi geyser, close to Pohutu, has been continuously active for some time past and it is considered that the activity of this geyser has detracted from that of Pohutu. Waikite geyser has also been at work for a considerable time and has provided the chief geyser attraction at Whakarewarewa.' Another interesting feature of thermal activity is associated with the old geyser Wairoa, which has been silent for nearly a-quarter of a century. Quite recently rumblings in close proximity and the ejection of steam from the geyser have indicated that there is a possibility of it becoming active again. The depression is not world-wide. In Ladakh (or Little Tibet) they have never heard, of it. Depressions and the complexities that go with them are the prerogative of a civilised state, and the Tibetans are still in a primitive condition that precludes any such influences (states the Christchurch Star). Professor Arnold Wall, who has returned to Christchurch after a trip that took hini into some of the little known places of the ■nwrld, places that stage reached by the Tibetans in culture as about the same as that of the early Britons at the time of the Saxon conquest. With tent and camera, Professor Wall penetrated far beyond the borders of Cashmere; spending much of his time at great altitudes in territories that for the most part were completely barren. He learned much of the jittle-known botany of this region, and has brought back with him a splendid collection of pictures. Professor Wall left Christchurch last March, and most of his time since then has been spent in Cashmere. The most interesting part of his trip was the expedition he made into Ladakh, the nearest approach that may be made to forbidden Tibet. The collection of botanical specimens was his principal concern during this trip, though his camera was always in use. He secured a large number of plants, which have been sent to Kew. The people are Tibetan and speak the Tibetan language. They are Buddhists, very simple, and extremely dirty. Professor Wall travelled about 250 miles east of Srinagar, the capital of Cashmere, making the journey on foot during July and August with a caravan of five ponies and three men. Ho walked a total distance of 507 miles. He spent 10 days at Leli, the capital of Ladakh,