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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 5 August 1937, Page 8

Plans for 24 single-house units and one two-house unit, comprising the first instalment of the Government's housing scheme for Hastings, have been completed. The New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board, at its annual conference at Wellington yesterday, decided to ash the Government to increase the guarantee on varieties of apples and pears of a high market value, where production and haryesting costs were high in comparison with those of other varieties. Collapsing late last night, a concrete culvert on Gillespie’s Line created a danger to traffic by subsiding to a depth of two feet at one end. A motor lorry became stuck when the driver was unable to stop in time, and other cars were held up but, after the Kairanga County Council had been notified, measures were taken to bridge the gap. Mr W Downip Stewart is completing a biography of “The Life and Times of the Right Hon. Sir Francis H. D. Bell, 1851-1936.” Tho main part of the book is concerned with tho career of Sir Francis Bell, and will contain many interesting stories of political life from behind the scenes as well as personal anecodotes and characteristics of Sir Francis Bell, who was once described n.s the “Uncrowned King of New Zealand, says an exchange. AVriting on June 29, while the liner Oronsay was en route from Fremantle to Colombo, Mr H. Steer, a well-known To Awamutu business man, referred to an exciting rescue at sea. “to-day at 6.30 a.m.,” he -wrote “I heard the cry, ‘Man overboard!’ and hurried up on deck, from where I could see two lights in the water quite a long way from the ship. The liner’s siren gave a long blast, and speed was reduced. Slowly the big vessel began to turn. The lights in the distance appeared as mere specks. The accident boat was manned by ten men, with an officer, all wearing lifebelts. Gradually the ship came nearer to the lighted buoys, and soon we could see a man clinging to one of the buoys. He shouted out as we passed nearby. The boat was lowered into the water, and then began a hard row. After some minutes we saw the boat approach the man and pick him up. A shout went up from the passengers, and the boat slowly returned, to be hoisted into its accustomed position again. The sea at the time was fairly calm, but the boat appeared a tiny, frail thing in a vast expanse of water. The man is now in hospital, and, except for shock, does not appear to be much the worse for his experience.”

A Kairanga resident reported to-day the first appearance of tile white butterfly in that district this season.

On a. charge of forgery at Hawera sixteen years ago, a man was arrested in Masterton this week, and on pleading guilty, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Eighteen months’ probation on the condition that he donated £2 to the Kuripuni Church funds was the penalty imposed by Mr H. F. Lawry, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Masterton, on Frederick John Bell, who was charged with the theft of fencing materials from the church.

At a sitting of the Native Land Court at Hokitika, Judge Harvey disallowed a resolution passed by the Arahura Natives to sell an area of 150 acres on the north bank of the Arahura River to British Developing, Ltd., for dredging purposes, states a Press Association telegram. Thomas Harold, aged 18. Titree Point, and John Bodley, aged 22, Dannevirke, were admitted to the Waipukurau Hospital yesterday suffering from severe burns to the face, arms and legs The men were employed by Mr W. H. Speedy, Herbertville. and were blasting stumps when the accident occurred.

Two years’ Borstal training was the sentence imposed on Charles Henry Trvine Birkett, a farm labourer, aged 18, in the Magistrate’s Court at Hastings. Birkett was charged with the theft of a blanket and the police evidence showed that he had made repeated escapes from the Weraroa training farm. When arrested lie had boasted to the police that “Weraroa couldn’t hold him.”

Bursting through decay, a threequarter inch service pipe which had been down for many years broke up the road surface close to the kerb this morning in Fitzherbert Avenue, adjacent to the Square, and the defect had to be repaired immediately. The force of the water cracked all the permanent sealing above, and the roadway above the break was shaking and quivering when the repair gang arrived. Just a fortnight after he had been placed under the supervision of the district child welfare officer for the unlawful conversion of motor-cars, having been one of three associates, a youth appeared again before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. in the Children’s Court yesterday on one charge of theft and one of committing a serious offence. He was placed, like his two companions had been earlier, under the control of the superintendent of the Child Welfare Department. “The Japanese Customs ae most intent on preventing any Communist literature from getting into the country, and my experience was that they give more attention to the books one is carrying than to anything else,” remarked Dr. L. D. Cohen, who has just returned from a visit to the East. “In recent years a law has been passed under which a person can be imprisoned for harbouring dangerous thoughts, and according to one writer 10.000 people are in gaol on this account.”

Exceptionally good prices were realised at the National Stock Market, Addington, yesterday', when for the first time the fat cattle show was held in conjunction with the weekly sale, says a Press Association message. A prize-winning bullock from Outram, Taieri, a frequent winner at Otago fat stock shows, brought £56, the highest price paid at the national market for some years. A pen of three bullocks, prizewinners in another class, made £36 each, and one bullock, from Wanganui, Ijrought £34. That poorer quality fruit should be used in the manufacture of by-products rather than placed on the market, where it would drag down the price of better quality produce, was strongly advocated by the Director of Internal Marketing, Mr F. R. Picot, in an address to the annual conference of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation at Wellington yesterday. Mr Picot said he was unable to say how far the Government would allow the department to go, but, from a business point of view, he was a strong advocate of the manufacture of by-products. A tumultuous welcome awaited the victorious Southland Ranfurly Shield team on its arrival in Invercargill, when a wildly excited crowd gathered at the railway station. Hundreds were already there early in the evening to watch the special trains arrive, and by 10 o’clock the station was congested practically from end to end, with a line of police along the edge of the platform, holding the crowd in check. To a detached onlooker it must have been an extraordinary scene, as one or two spectators raised their hats reverently, giving colour to the statement that football has become a religion in New Zealand.—Press Association.

“When you think of the continual trouble there is between the handful of nations in Europe, it is a wonderfully pleasing feeling to know that the United States and Canada, with their huge boundary that has no bayonet on either side for thousands of miles, can get along without any trouble-at all,” said Mr C. McLean, a visiting American from Georgia, who arrived at Wellington from Australia yesterday in the Wanganella. “There is a fine business rivalry existing between us that is an inspiration to us both. Canada is a fine country and their people have as full an understanding of our problems just as we have of theirs.”

“Travelling through several hundred miles of country, I did not see a quarter of an acre lending itself to cultivation that was not under cultivation,” said Dr. L. D. Cohen, when he was talking of Japan on his return to Wellington yesterday. Dr. Cohen, accompanied by Mrs Cohen, spent four months travelling in the East, visiting Australia, Manila, Singapore and Java during the trip. “Every bit of land capable" of growing something is cultivated, lyiost of the work is done by Koreans, 'many of whom are now being used in place of the farmers’ sons because of the intensity with which the Japanese are going in for education.”

At to-day’s meeting of the Mana-watu-Oroua River Board a letter was received from the Auditor-General objecting to board members receiving eightpence per mile travelling expenses when on board business, and stating that sixpence should be sufficient. The chairman (Mr A. A. Mitchell) said it was not the desire of members to “farm the board” in any way, and he thought it should be made clear that the eightpence per mile had only been charged for the regular meetings; the numerous inspections made during the month had never been charged for, and on the whole members were really out ot pocket. “If we do now what the Audit Office wants,” he concluded, “and charge sixpence per mile for all board business and charge for lunch, as we are entitled to do, then we will be better off.”

A late deliverj of a very new fsconne crepe has compelled us lo mark this at a low price as it must not be carried over till next season, Faconne crepe is a weave in plain colours with a broche dreign. Shades include pink, flame, gold, black, apricot, and daffcdil. Shculd be 2s lid yard. Sale 'special Is lid (36 inenes wide). Inspect this fabric during the last days of Collinson and Cunninghaine’s sale. —Advt.