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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 30 July 1937, Page 6

Arrangements have been completed to enable 65 boys from the Levin District High School to view the Rugby match Manawatu v. Springboks, at Palmerston North on Wednesday next.

A supplementary Gazette was issued last night defining the proposed new boundaries of the electoral districts in the North and South Islands as outlined in the recent report of the Representation Commissions. —Press Association.

At the end of a slow three weeks’ voyage under temporary repairs, the American and Australian Line steamer City of Shanghai, which was disabled in mid-Pacific on July 10, advised by wireless that she will arrive at Auckland from New York on Saturday afternoon.—Press Association. Although in some other centres a Maori interpreter is frequently seen in Court, at Palmerston North such an occurrence is unusual. In the course of Supreme Court proceedings yesterday afternoon a native witness required an interpreter, incidentally bringing about a situation which was not without humour. The interpreter was asked if he was licensed and the quick reply was: “I know I am liable for a £SO fine if I am not!”

The death, at Woodville, of Mrs John McPeak recails an unusual experience of her two sisters and brother, Mrs Draper (Palmerston North), Mrs Barnett (Woodville) and Mr P. Nash (Feilding). In 1875 they had booked passages for New Zealand in the ship Beaver, but at the last moment a hitch occurred and eventually they travelled on the Avalanche a fortnight later. On her way out there was on outbreak of fever on the Beaver many lives being lost, while the Avalanche was. ill-fated, too. On her return to England she collided with another ship in the English Channel and went down. A correspondent writes : —ln connection with the rapid increase in our city population and the decision to confine the Palmerston electorate to the city area, it has been suggested that both the city ami the electorate should now be named alike. There are three alternatives, either of which would be acceptable: - “Papaioia” (‘‘how beautiful,” the original Maori name given by the first natives who ascended the Manawatu River by canoes about 1815), “Manawatu,” or “Palmerston City.” Quite obviously both the Palmerston electorate and the Palmerston township should be more clearly defined.

At a meeting of the Wanganui Youth Employment Committee it was stated by Mr E. V. Laws, placement officer for Wanganui, that at the present time there are 5500 unemployed youths registered with the placement service.

One of the largest property deals in Rotorua for many years was completed this week. The site of the present Majestic Ballroom and the adjoining shop premises, in Tutanekai Street, were acquired by a well-known firm for the purpose of erecting modern business premises. The amount paid was in the vicinity of £IOO a foot. Provision for setting up Workers’ Compensation Medical Committees for the examination of. workers applying for compensation is contained in regulations issued with the Gazette last night. The regulations provide that employers pay reasonable expenses incurred by the worker in submitting himself to the committee when required to do so by the employer. The following medical committee has been appointed to act for Palmerston North : Messrs C. A. King, .D. S. Wylie, and Dr. F. Ward. —Press Association.

The chairman of the Fruit Export Control Board will in future be paid £125 a year, and other members £75 a .year, according to regulations issued with the Gazette last night. In addition, the chairman will receive two guineas a day and other members a guinea a day when engaged on the business of the board in New Zealand other than that connected with ordinary board, meetings. The regulations also fix the amounts of other payments and travelling expenses to board numbers. —Press Association.

Recently the Palmerston North Returned Soldiers’ Association was presented by the Licensed Victuallers’ Association with an unusual trophy in the form of a German steel helmet, which stands on a base 14 inches high. Circling the helmet is a broad gold band which bears the inscription, “To the memory of G. A.. (George) Luoni.” The local R.S.A. executive has set up a sub-committee to determine what form the competition will take, but it has not yet been decided whether to offer the trophy for competition between associations and branches in Levin, Feilding, Woodville, Pahiatua, Marton, and Palmerston North, or whether to hold an annual R.S.A. tournament.

The secretary of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society (Mr. W. R. Procter) stated at a meeting last evening that after seeing the fish spawning redds at the society’s game farm at Paraparaumu he had visited the Tiritea and Kahuterawa streams for the purpose of ascertaining whether these streams would be prolific in the future for fishermen. He had found a number of eggs in the former, but the redds in the Kahuterawa were unbelievably large and numerous. Mr Procter also intimated that he had noticed a fortnight ago that a number of eggs were “eyeing.” The redds were to be found not only in still water but also in the rapids. In its broad principles the work among the blind people in New Zealand was thoroughly up-to-date, said Sir Clutha MacKenzie, Director of the Jubilee Institute for the- Blind, who has just returned from overseas. He was envious, however, of some- of the magnificent buildings and grounds overseas. In the New Zealand Institute they were in need of more buildings and a higher standard of comfort and he hoped that the necessary money might be forthcoming before long "from the public and the Government. It was, of course, lie said, their ambition that an institute for the blind in these days should be as little institutional and as much like home as possible. A statement made at last evening’s meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, that the council had decided to request the Department of Internal Affairs to declare an open season on the pukeko in the Wellington district, drew the remark that this step was not being taken for the extermination of the bird but for the sake of protecting the society’s game. It was added that definite proof was forthcoming of the pukeko’s ability to destroy ducklings, eggs ,and duck food. A resolution was passed recommending to the council that the open season should lie observed, at the end of the next shooting season and be of a fortnight’s duration. “Have you ever been before the Court for driving—” was the beginning of a question being put to a witness in the Supreme Court, yesterday, when opposing counsel intervened, and the Chief Justice, Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers, asked what might be the aim of" the question. The reply was made that it had to do with the veracity of the witness. However, said counsel, he was quite willing to abandon that particular point. “If you are attacking his credibility, and you have enough material to do it with, then I am not going to stop you,” said His Honour, “but unless you mean to go on with it you should not have asked.” His Honour then added as an after-thought, “Because a man takes a little liquor now and then —or often —that does not mean that he is a dishonest man.” It wns stated at a meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, last evening, that the re-fencing of the Hokowliitu lagoon, which was damaged in the severe gale of February, 1936, had not been completed. It was also stated that the fencing material was in a dilapidated condition. The chairman (Mr E. G. Matthews) said he would see Mr T. Andrews, the ranger, and find out the best way to rectify the matter. A statement was also, made to the effect that the Awapuni sanctuary would never be of any use for breeding purposes until the pukeko had been thinned out. It was proposed that basket willows and toi-toi be planted on the banks of the sanctuary. A leading figure in the dairying industry of the Auckland Province, Mr J. E. Leeson, has retired from the office of chairman of directors of the Morrinsville Co-operative Dairy Company, which ho has filled with distinction for the past 11 years. Mr I.eeson’s decision was made following on medical advice. Mr Leeson was one of the first settlers of the Mo.'.Tinsville district when the Lockerbie Estate was cut up for closer settlement in 1903, and he was one of the first to supply the Morrinsville district’s first creamery. He was a provisional director of the Morrinsville Co-operative Dairy Company, when it was started in 1922, and has been chairman since 1926, during which period the company’s output has groivn from a few hundred tons of butter to last season’s total of 3432 tons. Mr Leeson will retain his seat on the directorate of the company. The new chairman of directors, Mr F. W. Seifert, was chairman in 1925, and has since been vice-chairman. It was Mr Leeson who, at a meeting of dairy farmers in Palmerston North not long ago, referred to the very high quality of Manawatu butter and the demand for it on the London market. Mr F. YV. Seifert is a former resident of this district, being a brother of Messrs A. and L. Seifert, of Palmerston North.