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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 177, 28 June 1937, Page 6

A movement is on toot to establish a health camp for children in Wanganui. At Pukekohe a father was fined 12s and costs for neglecting to send his daughter to school. The family reside only 20 chains from the Taniwha School and despite repeated warnings, she had been kept at home, allegedly because of domestic difficulties. She is 13 years of age, but only in standard 111.

Between 400 and 500 tons of inward cargo was carried back to Sydney by the Wanganeila, which left Auckland at 5 o’clock on Saturday afternoon. Rain on Saturday prevented all cargo work on the waterfront. Although labour was engaged for three hours in the morning for .the Wangenalla, very little outward cargo was taken by the motor-liner, the company being forced to shut out consignments and to meet the convenience of passengers and mails the Wanganeila was dispatched on time. —Press Association. “Modern work demands modern methods,” said the Minister of Transport, Hon. 11. Semple, at the inauguration ceremony of the new airline at Rongotai on Saturday. He said that the day of the wheelbarrow and shovel bad gone for good. The fullest proof of his contention could be found at the Nelson aerodrome. To develop it would have cost £170,000 and taken three years to complete under the shovel and harrow regime, but modern machinery had been imported, a contract let' at £35,000, and the entire work was to he finished in 18 months —a saving of £135,000, and half the length of time. Probably the most socialised community in the Southern Hemisphere exists in Victoria, according to the nctinp-Premier of the State, Hon. F R Old, M b.A., who is visiting Auckland. Situated 120 miles from Melbourne, the town of Yallourn, with its 3590 inhabitants, was entirely controlled h.v the State Electricity Commission, Mr Old said. There was nothing to correspond to a shire council, nor did the residents'own their houses, of which there were 589. The commission provided the water supply and built streets and roads; it conducted all the shops and even controlled the local hotel. “Were it possible to land New Zealand butter in the' United States its quality would soon create a highly selective demand, especially in the eastern seaboard States, with their population of over 40,000,000 people and their relatively high purchasing capacity,” said Professor W. Riddet, director of the Dairy Research Institute, Palmerston North, at the National Dairy Conference in Hamilton. He said dairy farmers in this area mainly produced city milk, hut New Zealand butter was never long enough on the market to he known to the public. It was also possible that a demand might he created among cheese processers for the Dominion’s high fat content cheese.

About 500 people arrived at Wellington on Saturday morning by special excursion train from Auckland to attend the third soccer Test match between England and New Zealand. An injury to a leg was sustained by a cyclist, Mr Ernest Saunders, of Featherston Street, Palmerston North, on Saturday evening, when he was involved in an accident with a motortruck which was being backed across Cuba Street by Mr H. J. Knapp, of Shannon.

Fire totally destroyed a four-roomed cottage and its contents at Koputaroa about mid-night on Thursday. The house was owned by Messrs ltoss, Rough and Co., and was occupied by Mr and Mrs C. Aiden. Mr Aiden was absent at the time, his wife and daughter being aroused by the noise of the tire which then had a good hold. They were unable to save anything. At the inauguration ceremony of the Weilington-Auckiand airline service at ltongoiai aerodrome on Saturday morning, the Minister of Transport (Hon. R. Semple) referred to the fact that no fatalities had occurred on any of New Zealand’s airlines. “No accidents have been caused by drunken aviators,’’ he 6aid, “and I hope soon that the drunken motorist on the road will be as rare as the drunken pilot in the air.”

Complaints that New Zealand-made goods are being labelled and sold to the public as imported have been taken so seriously by the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association that arrangements have been made for them to be discussed at a meeting of the council of the association on Wednesday. Inquiries revealed that not only had complaints been made by individual firms affected to the association, but that the Department of Industries and Commerce had also been approached. Addressing the annual meeting oi the Palmerston North branch of the Red Cross Society on Saturday afternoon, Dr. Alexander' Gillies, of Wellington, Dominion chairman of the society, mentioned the change which he had noticed in Italy between 1919 and 1936. “When I was in that country 18 years ago,” he said, “people were even selling war medals to get money to buy food. The nation seemed to be up against it. In 1936 what a change! The nation had been reborn so far as the spirit of the people was concerned. There Avas nothing frivolous; e\'eryone seemed to be in deadly earnest,” he declared.