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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 6 October 1933, Page 6

Perch are reported to be plentiful in the Wairarapa Lake and surrounding streams. Excellent catches have been made since the opening of the season. “The recent epidemic of measles in the Auckland district has been the most serious for some years,” said Dr. Keith H. Holdgate in an address to a gathering at Auckland. Several deaths had occurred even in the past few weeks as a result of the disease or complications arising from it. Having expressed a desire to sit on the committees of the House of Representatives on Avhich her late husband sat, Mrs E. R. McCombs is to be a member of the committee to examine public accounts and the local Bibs committee. Notices of motion to appoint her to these committees were given in the House yesterday afternoon. A tribute to the capabilities of President Roosevelt in allaying to a large degree the serious unemployment in the United States Avas paid by Mr. E. Milner, C.M.G., during his address to the schoolchildren yesterday afternoon. While he had succeeded in rehabilitating a third of the unemployed, the Canadians Avere displaying apprehension concerning the conditions in the coining Avinter, and it Avas well for • New Zealanders to realise that Ave had not experienced the absolute intensity of the depression. Ambergris of fine grey quality is reported to be realising £2 per ounce in London at present, which shows that manufacturers are now gaining on their stocks, and prices should advance again, states the Stewart Island correspondent of the Southland News. Apparently the synthetic ambergris manufactured in America does not yet take the place of the natural product for use in finer grade scents, soaps, champagne, etc. Stewart Island evidently has made a name for itself Avith ambergris, as a New Zealand, bank manager recently on holiday in Paris noticed a vrindow of a big perfumery company with “Stewart Island Ambergris” printed in gold letters on the pane. New Zealand, and SteAvart Island in particular, must furnish the most steady supply of ambergris for European markets, due to the fact of its Avaters harbouring the sperm Avhale, ’ which is the only species from which ambergris comes. Locally quite a large quantity of ambergris is held by fishermen, who have been waiting a favourable market.

“The position at the present time is that we are absolutely without funds. Wo are not in debt, but we cannot cai-ry on unless further moneys are forthcoming,” said Dr H. E. Gibbs at a meeting held yesterday afternoon in Wellington to consider the position of the Children’s Health Camp at Otaki. At a special meeting at Eketahuna the Tararua Electric Power Board decided against buying a book-keeping machine at a cost of over £2OO, several members saying it would be better to engage a junior clerk to do the work. The machine would have saved the board only between £3O and £40 1 a year.

Owing to a hitch in the arrangements regarding the appending of the signatures, it is unlikely that the trade treaty between New Zealand and Australia will be ratified next Wednesday, as arranged. Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates said last night that he was not yet in a position to intimate when the contents would be disclosed. “I was amazed at the vast accumulation of scientific marvels in the Institute of Technology at Boston,” stated Mr E. Milner, C.M.G., in the course of an address in Palmerston North last evening on his recent American tour. He added that in the institute he had seen a portrait of the late Dr Maclaurin, the eminent New Zealand mathematician and scientist, whose memory was revered in tho principal city of Massachusetts.

The esteem in which the late Maori “king,” Te Rata Mahuta to Wherowhero, was held is evidenced by the large gathering of Maoris at his home pa, AVaahi, Huntly, to attend tho tangi prior to his burial. Over 1000 Maoris, representing tribes from all parts of the Waikato and King Country, have already gathered, and extensive preparations are being made for the reception of probably 2000 more who are expected from the East Coast and other distant places. Believing that the application of the word “ferry” to the steamer service between Wellington and Lyttelton conveys a wrong impression to tourists, thereby discouraging them from visiting the South Island, the executive of the Canterbury Progress League has decided to write to the Union Steam Ship Company suggesting that it should find another name for the service. Tho service itself was highly praised,, but the name, it was felt, should be improved. At a meeting of tho Wairarapa Federated Dairies Association a resolution was passed “that this meeting, representing all the. butter and cheese interests of the Wairarapa, lieartiiy supports and wishes to express appreciation of the Government’s action in raising the rate of exchange, which is so materially assisting the primary producers and the community in general, and considers that tho rate should be maintained while the present economic conditions prevail.” An appeal to the Government to extend to private citizens the benefits of the Act under which disabled soldiers are supplied with artificial limbs’, was made by James Phizachlea, Wanganui, in a petition presented to Parliament on his behalf yesterday afternoon. The petitioner stated that he himself had only one leg and was considerably handicapped in life. He pointed out that there were about 700 other civilians similarly placed, and that as a result of their disability a great many of them had been deprived to a very large extent of their ability to earn anything approaching adequate wages. The oil tanker Scalaria, which arrived at Auckland from Borneo this week, carries a crew of Chinese. They are of three castes, and are so chosen because each caste seems to adapt itself naturally to one of the three types of work on board a ship. The seamen are recruited from Foochow, the firemen are Cantonese, and the easier and cleaner work of stewards is undertaken by men from Hainan. The mate of the Scalaria said that the three castes were unable to understand each other in their native tongue, so different were the dialects. They conversed in pidgin English. The Chinese bo’sun spoke the three dialects.

“I once heard of a girl who said she wouldn’t be confirmed, as she didn’t want to become a ‘stuffy Christian.’ Far from being stuffy, I always find them jolly people,” said Lady Game, in performing the opening ceremony at the annual fete of the Church of England Homes, held in Sydney last week. As an example, Lady Game told a story she had heard of a Bishop’s young son, who, called by his mother to account for some childish misdemeanour, hid under the bed. Unable to get him out, the mother asked the child’s father to go under the bed and grab him. When the little boy saw his father approaching his hiding place, he remarked, “What, dad, is mum after you, too?” Don Bradman, Ltd., a company to carry on the business of tailors, men’s and boys’ outfitters, and sporting goods dealers, is being formed in Sydney. The principal directors of the company will be Mr Donald Bradman, the famous cricketer, and Mr J. T. Smith, for 20 years general manager of F. J. Palmer and Son, Ltd., of Pitt Street, Sydney, and for the last twelve years a director of that company. Bradman had for some time been employed by Palmer and Son in their sports department. He has now entered into an agreement as a promoter and proposed director of the new enterprise to act as general manager for five years from September 18. Bradman has also agreed to license to the company “the exclusive use of his name, photographs, likeness, signature, and replica of same, for use by the company in New South Wales in connection with goods or merchandise which the company may offer for sale.”