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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 2 August 1937, Page 6

A tender for the supply of milk to the Woodville and Palliatua schools under the Education Department’s scheme has been acoepted.

Official advice has been received in Palmerston North that the Court of Review, over which His Honour Mr Justice Johnston presides, will sit at this centre about the end of the mouth.

Lambs are now appearing in fairly large numbers in the Sanson-Awahuri a.rea. These should be in the earlier drafts sent from tlie district, and dry weather, without severe cold, would do much to lessen the worries of sheepfarmers raising lambs for export. Robert Simpson, aged 18,, a son of Mr A. T. N. Simpson, Government Fields Inspector at Balclutha, died suddenly on Sunday at his home. Deceased had been an outpatient of the Balclutha Hospital for some time suffering from a poisoned finger. On Saturday he went to Dunedin with some companions to see the Ranfurly Shield match. On his return home that evening he was slightly ill and yesterday his condition became worse, and although medical assistance was called Tie died shortly after. —Press Association.

A friendship begun 40 years ago in the famous Klondike gold rush promises to be renewed as the result of a remarkable coincidence in which radio played a prominent part. The central figures are Mr J. Malton Murray, of Wellington, and Mr Richard Kibblewhite, of Masterton. Mr Murray was speaking from a radio station on Thursday night on his experiences in the gold rush, and mentioned' that while there he was befriended by a New Zealander, Mr Kibblewhite. Neither of them had seen each other in the intervening years, but through hearing the address Mr Kibblewhite is anxious to get in touch with Mr Murray and discuss the experiences which they shared in those hectic treasure-seeking days.

By collecting £250 at yesterday s services, St. Mary’s Anglican Church, Hawera, has succeeded in wiping out its debt of £4050 in two and a-half years.

Fourteen six-inch guns are being shipped from Auckland by the steamer Turakina, which was due to sail for London to-day. The guns, whiqji are of a new pattern, were brought to New Zealand some time ago in connection with a proposed extended scheme of defence. They were landed at the dockyard at Devonport, but were not put into use and are now to be returned to England. The postal ballot for the election of two members to the Dental Council of New Zealand resulted in the election of Messi'6 John Norman Rishworth, of Auckland, and Owen Vivian Davies, of Dunedin, as representatives of registered dentists resident in the North and South Islands respectively. Certain appointments remain to be made by the Government before the personnel of the council is complete.—Press Association. /An assurance that the introduction of national superannuation and health insurance will not be prejudicial to friendly societies was given by Hon. Lee Martin at a dinner held by Court Sir George Grey A.0.F., Wellington, on Saturday, states a Press Association telegram. He said provision must be made for those who for health reasons had no chance of getting into a friendly society but the societies would be consulted about the move.

In redemption of the promise of the Minister of Native Affairs to a deputation from Arowhenua and Runanga that he would order a housing survey at Arowhenua, officials of the Native Land Court have begun an inquiry into conditions at Arowhenua, Waipopo and Morven. states a telegram from Timaru. This is the first step of a survey of South Island Maori settlements, the investigation being also an economic survey.

Little now remains of the wooden portion of the old Aivahuri bridge, which is being replaced by a concrete structure. Not .all the bridge is to be reconstructed, for the approaches are of permanent material, but the middle part, which was of wood, has had all its superstructure removed and a commencement has been made with the lifting of the decking. The traffic is being handled by a temporary by-pass bridge immediately on the up-stream side of the old bridge. Another important point in the Railway Department’s scheme for the duplication of its track from Papakura to Horotiu will be reached shortly, when the second line which has been laid between Horotiu and Ngaruawahia will be linked up with the existing line, providing another three miles and a-half of complete two-way track. Approval has been given for the work and it will be carried out by workmen from the Frankton Junction station.

'/Work is proceeding on the preparation of the foundations of the children’s naddling pool, presented by the Palmerston North branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association to the city, in the Botanical Gardens at the Esplanades The pool will be 80ft. long by 50ft., and the depth of the waiter is to vary from a few inches to a foot. A seat, also presented by the same body, is being constructed in close proximity to the pool, the work being done by R.S.A. iabourv It is estimated that rats cost Aucklanders about £250,000 a year for damage to buildings and the destruction of foodstuffs and clothing, and according to City Council officials there is a rat for every one of the 211,913 persons in Auckland. In other words it costs each person, something like £1 a year to feed and bouse each rat. The City Council’s official rat-catcher in the metropolitan area accounts for 600 a month.

Some 1500 people attended the bands’ display which was held at the Caledonian ground, Dunedin, on Saturday afternoon in ideal weather. Eighteen pipe bands, a trumpet and bugle band and two brass bands —one of which was a boys’ band —paraded, the pipers coming from as far afield as Bluff in the south and Oamaru in the north. Various selections and exhibition displays were given and, at the conclusion of the programme the pipe bands paraded in ma6s formation and played several familiar airs.— Press Association.

**' The lease of Tutira Station, situated 89 miles north of Napier, which has been held for about 50 years by Mr W. H. Guthrie-Smith, will revert to the Crown on Thursday next. The property will be subdivided, together with the 5000-acre Tatara-o-te-Itau-hine block adjoining. Tutira Station was part of the large area confiscated after the Maori wars, and, when Mr Guthrie-Smith acquired it, its area was 60,000 acres. After the Great War he disposed of what he then held, retaining only the homestead block of 6940 acres.

Wanton damage which it is estimated will cost £lO to repair was done to a small touring car at Whakarewarewa. The owner of the car and a number of friends were visiting a guide in the Maori village, the car being left outside the house for about an hour and a-half. When the owner returned about midnight it was found that the gear lever had been pulled over and broken, several of the controls on the dashboard had been similarly treated and rendered useless, the headlamp glasses had been smashed and the leads torn off the sparking plugs. Concussion was suffered by Miss M. Doyle, aged 73, of Palmerston North, when she was involved in a collision with a half-ton motor truck driven by Mr H. Stuchberry, a wool-classer and dealer, of 17 Union Street, on Saturday evening. The accident occurred when Miss Doyle and the motor vehicle were at the intersection of Rangitikei Street with King Street and Cuba Street. Miss Doyle, who was on foot, was taken to the Palmerston North Hospital and it was reported this morning that her condition was fair and she was quite comfortable.

The attendance at the Itanfurly Shield match at Dunedin on Saturday was approximately 35,000, and the gate takings were slightly over £2OOO. When Otago plaved Southland in the Shield game 'last year at Carisbrook and the ground had to be swept clear of snow, the attendance was given at 28,000 and the gate receipts totalled £1560. The attendance and receipts at the 1936 game represented a record for any shield match in. the Dominion. The latest record will therefore take some beating. It is claimed that the attendance is a record for any interprovincial match in New Zealand. —Press Association.

Extensive changes in the Police Force throughout the Dominion will be put into operation in a little over a week s time, when 125 recruits will have completed their training at Wellington. The Minister in Charge of Police, Hon. P. Fraser, announced in April that improvements in the pay and hours of work of members of the Police Force had been agreed to by the Government. He stated that it had been decided to reduce the hours of work of police from 5.6 to 48 a week as soon as a sufficient number of men could be trained to enable the working week to be reduced. With that end in view 125 men were sent to train at a special camp at Trentham as the accommodation at Wellington was insufficient.