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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 201, 26 July 1937, Page 6

\ meritorious performance lias keen registered by the Old Boys Football Club’s junior team, this season, in Avinning the Manawatu junior championship. They have suffered only one defeat and have scored 2GG points, with only .43 against them. A German doctor now residing at Rapallo, Italy, was an applicant for a position of house surgeon at the Auckland Hospital. He stated that he had practised in Berlin, and was now anxious to secure a position in New Zealand. The letter was received.

“You can pay or go to gaol,” commented Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, to-dav, to a defendant who pleaded inability to meet a maintenance order of 10s weekly in favour of his wife. The Magistrate added that defendant, who said he was only in work periodically, could meet the order by going on sustenance. No man should be unable to pay such a small order.

During a heavy thunderstorm at Otorohanga two young men, Mr J. Harnett and Mr N. Bluck, who were working on Mr W. Bluck’s farm Avith a team of horses, sheltered under a tree. While there they tvere struck by lightning and rendered unconscious. Mr Bluck Avas the first to recover He found that Mr Harnett liad been dragged a short distance l>y the reins of the horses and was still unconscious. Both wore rubber boots, which saved their lives.

One hundred passengers from Palmerston North booked seats on the two special excursion trains which travelled to Auckland on Friday night, the chief attraction being the ■Sp'-ingbok v. Auckland match on Saturday. Allowing 35 passengers to each of the eleven cars which made up the total of the first train, about 385 people travelled by it, the second, which comprised nine cars, carrying 305. On the return journey last evening the second train had an extra car. A body in a" bag outside Athletic Park, Wellington at 12.30 a.m. on Sunday was discovered by at least two policemen on their rounds. But “the body” had a good excuse —he was waiting for the booking for the Springbok matches in Wellington to open at 9 a.m. to-day. It was not until about- 10 o’clock on Sunday morning that he was joined by other'enthusiasts seeking Test match seats, hut from that time onward the queue grew rapidly. It was difficult to find anyone among the earlier arrivals who was not going to sell his seats. About 40 men Avere Avorking for a speculator, but those after the first 2CO were keener about seeing the football than making money.

An. extensive group of very active and complex sunspots appeared on tlie eastern limb of the sun last Friday. They will, be well placed for observation during the next four or five days. The group is about 100,000 miles long and fully 50,000 miles Wide.

At the New Zealand Eisteddfod at Wellington the champion of champions recitation was won by Miss Daphne Violich, of. Auckland, who also won the reading-at-sight section. Miss Joy Knowles, of Dunedin, was second in the latter event.—Press Association. A temporary fog signal is to be installed at Point Jerningham, Wellington, and a suitable type is now being tried out. The general manager of the Wellington Harbour Board, Mr A. G. Barnett, stated on Saturday that the fog signal would be operated until a more permanent type could be imported from England to replace it.' Authority has been given by the Government for the importation of onions from Victoria to relieve the shortage of supplies lu New Zealand The Minister, of Agriculture (Hon. W. Lee Martin') explained on Saturday that the Government considered the quantity of Victorian onions required during ihe period of shortage between the virtual exhaustion of locally-grown onions and the arrival of shipments from the Northern Hemisphere would be approximately 1000 tons. Losses of sheep by stealing was re ferred to in the report of the Hawke s Bay Sheepowners’ Union at the annual meeting. It was stated there was reason to believe that there was a considerable amount of sheep-stealing in the Hawke’s Bay district, but reliable evidence of losses by theft was hard to obtain. The question, the report added, was to be discussed at the conference of the New Zealand Federation of Sheepowners with the view of urging, the Government to promote more effective action by the police. Quite a transformation has been made of the Terrace End gravel pit by the City Council workmen employed there under the latest Government scheme of subsidised labour. The unsightly rubbish, mostly old tins- of many kinds and sizes, has been stacked and the secondary growth removed from the banks and the floor of the pit in preparation for the important work ahead. The council’s plan of converting this desolate spot into a municipal reset we is to be discussed by the Terrace End Progressive and Development Association this week.

How Egypt was indebted to its dry climate for the preservation of stonework and parchments over thousands of years was referred to by Mr J. I. Craig, Commissioner for Customs and economic consultant to the Egyptian Government, when addressing members of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. As a result of dry weather the country had an almost continuous record of what had hapwened in the past 5000 years, and the rise a.nd fall of the various civilisations could be easily traced. No other country had been so fortunate in this respect.

A well-balanced stag head, bearing 17 points, a prize which several parties from all parts of the Dominion are said to have stalked unsuccessfully during the last two or three years, was among several heads secured by Messrs D. linnrahan -and J. Arnst, of Ashburton, on a deer-stalking trip at the head of the Rangitata . River. The stag, which was shot near the junction of the Havelock and Forbes Rivers, was wounded at 600 yards, and was brought down after a strenuous chase over the hills. The head is said to be the largest taken in the district. Perhaps some of the most important museum work in New Zealand is nearing completion in the Alexander Museum, Wanganui. For months past the curator, Mr George Shepperd, and one of the museum trustees, Mr James Grant, M.A., have been classifying more than 2000 moa bones which were recovered from a very rich deposit, on Mr James Tod’s property, Makirikiri. Of the ten skeletons completed the dinornis gigantens, which stands 10ft ssin high, is believed to be the only one of the species in existence. • A kahawai 2lt 6in in length was the victim of an unusual attack by a gannet at Putiki Bay, Wailieke, Auckland. A fisherman noticed the gannet rising and diving repeatedly into the water, which was each time considerably disturbed by what appeared to be the threshing of a fish near the surface. An investigation was made by the fisherman, who discovered the large kahawai partially stunned by the ganuet’s onslaught. He had no difficulty in capturing the fish and throwing it into his boat. For the fisherman it was a very useful catch, as it. supplied bait for 120 hooks.

When a municipal bus driver was giving evidence in the Alagistrate’s Court to-day with reference to speeds the Afagistrate, Air J. L. Stout, S.AI., caused some amusement by questioning witness regarding municipal bus speeds. “By the way,” he said, “what is the maximum soeed of these buses?” “Thirty miles an hour between intersections,” witness replied, “but perhaps that is sometimes exceeded.” (Laughter.) “And sometimes across intersections?” suggested the Afagistrate with a smile. “Oh well, we haven’t been caught yet,” replied witness amid further laughter.