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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 266, 7 October 1933, Page 6

A gift of a fine now ambulance mounted on the chassis of a Daimler motor-car has been presented to the Auckland St. John Ambulance Association by Mr F. C. Mappin, of Epsom. A street collection for the association yesterday realised over £7OO. An impudent theft was perpetrated m Hamilton East the other evening. A truck driver left his motor truck in the grounds of premises there, and on his return a short time later lie discovered that the two parking lights, three gallons of oil, a motoring coat and other apparel had been removed from the vehicle. The Thames Valley Power Board has received from the Unemployment Board an intimation that there appears to bo a chance of once more getting flax on to the market, and suggesting it would be good policy for power boards to assist temporarily by granting flax mills as low a rate as was possible, so that the mills might be induced to make a start. From the unemployment point of view the loss of the flax industry in New Zealand put several thousand men into the unemployment ranks. Each mill that started would mean a reduction in the number of men unemployed, and consequently brought nearer the possibility of reducing the present unemployment tax. The board expressed willingness to assist as opportunity offered. Mention was made by Mr F. Milner, C.M.G., during his address at Palmerston North on Thursday evening, of a portrait which he had seen in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, of the late Dr. Maclaurin, a prominent New Zealand scientist, who went to America.. Now a friendly gesture has been made by the institute in connection with the movement to unveil at Victoria College the portraits of the four foundation professors; Professor J. Rankine Brown, Professor H. Mackenzie, Professor T. H. Easterfield and the late Professor R. C. Maclaurin. The originators of the proposal were faced with a difficulty in securing a portrait of Professor Maclaurin, but the Massachusetts Institute has now advised by cablegram that it will gladly present a portrait of the professor. Portraits of the other three professors are being painted by Mr A. F. Nicol, of Christchurch.

The white butterfly has made its appearance in Te Aroha and other places in the north, including suburbs of Auckland.

Following on a petition received from residents of Ormondville, the Dannevirke County Council has decided to dissolve the Ormondville and Norsewood Town Board.

The heaviest frost of the year, six degrees, was experienced in Gisborne this week, and as a result extensive damage has been done to early crops, tomatoes in particular suffering severely and many thousands of plants require replacement. The Cook Hospital Board, which has recently been called upon to take over St. Helens Hospital, has decided to provide a new maternity annexe of the community type, and to adopt a new policy of providing single-bed wards for patients who desire them and are prepared to pay for the privilege.

There are now over 14,000 signatures to petitions presented, to Parliament for amendment of the gaming laws along the lines of the Bill introduced by Mr E. F. Healy. The leaders of the Government have received representations from the author of the measure for the provision of facilities for the passage of the Bill. The question raised will be considered by Cabinet shortly.

The amount of silt carried in suspension by the waters of the Waimakariri River during an ordinary year amount to 1,000,000 tons, said Mr H. W. Harris, engineer to the Waimakariri River Trust, during an address on river control to the members of the Philosophical Institute of Christchurch. The weight of the silt compared with the water discharged was Ito 2000, the speaker added. Last year’s total had been only 600,000 tons, while in one year it had amounted to 3,000,000 tons.

“We have been told that the way to meet falling prices is to increase wages, or, in other words, if the price of a commodity falls, then the way to prosperity is to increase the costs and thereby widen the gap between costs and prices,” said Mr S. G. Holland, president of the Canterbury Employers’ Association, in his address at the annual meeting “The proposal is so utterly absurd that I would not have referred to it had it not been made publicly by people who clamour for the control of our country’s affairs, with this proposal as a basis of their plan for a way out of our difficulties.” Slaking a bright spectacle as they moved round the links, a gallery of some five hundred spectators, mostly ladies, a record for the Hokowhitu golf course during any ladies’ championship fixture, followed the finalists, Misses Oliver Kay and Bessie Gaisford, yesterday afternoon. The attraction of New Zealand’s two leading players competing under perfect weather conditions drew visitors from many parts of the Manawatu. Spectators lined the greens each time the players reached them, and there was a rush for vantage points. There were times when it appeared that it would be difficult to restrain the crowd from encroaching on the small space left for the players, who were hemmed in on each side. The right to take albatross is sought by the Maoris of Wharekauri, Chatham Islands, in a petition presented to Parliament. “There are three species of these birds,” said the petition. “The tara is taken, in the March to April season, the tataki in the SeptemberOctober season, and the ruru in the December-January season. These seasons were kept from the time of our elders even to our own time. We were taught by our elders not to foul rookeries. The islands from which we desire to take the birds were awarded by the Native Land Court to Maui Pomare, to his younger brothers and other descendants of Toenga Te Poki. Those who despoiled rookeries were prohibited from again visiting the islands by descendants of Pomare and Toenga Te Poki. The birds were taken for food only in the seasons mentioned, wherefore your petitioners earnestly pray to grant us Maoris of Wharekauri only permission to take these birds in the seasons mentioned above.” The petition concludes: “O honourable members, favqurablv consider our petition—enough —it is finished.”