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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7280, 6 October 1933, Page 6

Clara (a dentist’s daughter)! “Well, dear, have you asked dad for my hand yet?” Henry (very bashful): “No. Every time I step into his office I lose courage. To-day I allowed him to pull another tooth.”

Diner (examining the menu): “There’s nothing fit to eat here—absolutely nothing! Bring me the manager.” Waiter (under notice, anyway): “Very good, sir. How would like him —-fried or grilled?”

The following are tho successful Palmerston North candidates in the recent London City and Guilds Technological Examination in electrical engineering:—Grade I.: Continuous current, Jack S. Butt; altoniato current, Patrick M. O’Connell. Grade II.: Both papers, Colin M. Bambcry. Typography (grade 1), Francis David Price, Maurico Wilby Hainsworth. Weekly cooking lessons for boys attending tho agricultural classes at tho Otahuhu Technical High School have been inaugurated. “Tho idoa is to givo the boys a practical course of plaiti cooking, which will be of valuo in later years,” stated one of tho masters. The sight of the boys at work in the kitchen has caused some amusement among tho girl pupils.

An inquest was opened at Napier yesterday morning into t-ho deaths of the three men who lost their lives when the launch Advance disappeared in July of last year while making a trip from Napier to Wanganui. A witness expressed the opinion that tho vessel was unseaworthy, and several stated that they would not have sailed ia her. Tho inquest was adjourned to secure tho evidence of a further witness.

The attraction of New Zealand’s scenery to people overseas was stressed by Br Frank Milner, recently returned from America, when addressing scholars of tho city yesterday afternoon. The .President of tho United States, said Mr Milner, had personally told him that after two disappointments he was still hoping to make a visit to tho Dominion. The attraction for him was the wonderful scenery and the trout and deep-seen fishing, lie explained.

Two largo liuis, or Maori meetings, will bo held early next year, and the Natives arc already discussing arrangements, writes the Poverty Bay Herald’s Tikitiki correspondent. On January 15 the large, new carved house at Tokomaru Bay will be opened. This house is built on the same lines as that of To Poho-o-Bawiri. The other hui will be held at the Bay of Islands ori February 0, when another carved whnre will be opened. This is being erected to commemorate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. All tribes arc invited to attend. A steamer or two will be chartered to convey the East Coast tribes to the Bay of Islands.

During September tho total flying time of the Wellington Aero Club’s machines was Il3hrs. SOmin., flying having been possible on 2” days. Twelve cross-country flights were made. Some months ago an invitation was received from tho Nelson Aero Club for the Wellington Club to organise and run a flying display" at Nelson in connection with the opening of the new aerodrome at Stoke. The invitation has been accepted, and tho display will be held on October 2S. All the available Wellington Club machines will visit Stoke for the occasion, and it is anticipated that there will also bo two machines from tho West Coast and one from Blenheim.

Tho terms and conditions of employment in the meat export freezing works in tho Dominion during tho coming season have already been posted up at various works in Canterbury. With a few exceptions, the terms offered are similar to those which a large bo' 1 ” of unionists, both in the North Islam amt South Island, objected. As a result of the refusal of many of the regular workers in the industry last season to accept tho terms, tho employers in most cases installed the chain sy'stcin in their works and engaged free labour. A reflection of this policy is the inclusion in tho new conditions of a clause relating to workers under the chain system.

That wc in New Zealand should not for one moment think we had got the worst end of the depression was a point stressed by Mr Frank Milner when addressing an audience of Palmerston North school children yesterday. In Canada, ho said, the people were grievously alarmed as to how they would face the coming winter, and already single men had been deprived of relief work. In the United States it was probably' only the vision of Mr Roosevelt, who had already got one-third of tho country’s 17 million unemployed back to work, that had averted a, national catastrophe of the most. dire type—revolution. He is recasting the whole nation.

Tho American wrestler, Jack Patterson, who appeared in the Palmerston North ring on four occasions this year, against Varga, Walker, Pereira, and Rumbcrg, will leave Wellington to-day for Sydney. He was to have wrestled Rumbcrg at MastciTon last night, but arrangements had been made for Oswald to replace him. The Wairarapa Wrestling Association understood that Patterson had been barred from wrestling again in tho Dominion, but Mr H. D. Bennett, president of the New Zealand Wrestling Union, stated on Wednesday evening that he had not actually, been barred from wrestling again in Now Zealand. The position was that tho Commissioner of Polico had drawn the attention of the union to complaints regarding Patterson’s behaviour in the ring, and it had been decided not to match him again before his departure for Australia.

Tho distinction of being tho first man to pilot a private aeroplane to the Hermitage has fallen to Mr Thomas Corrigal, a young farmer of Hakataramea Valley, says tho Timaru Herald. Flying solo, Mr Corrigal took off from the Kurow landing ground on Monday in a Gipsy Moth belonging to the Cambridge Aero Club, and made a perfect landing at the Hermitage aerodrome 65 minutes later, after a splendid trip. From Kurow Mr Corrigal followed the Waitaki River up to Lake Pukalti and from there followed the bed of the Tasman River to the landing ground, live miles short of the Hermitage.' The aeroplane was flown at an altitude of 4000 ft., and conditions were perfect. “The trip was first rate and the landing ground perfect. No one need be frightened of making the trip with the landing ground there is here,” said Mr Corrigal on his arrival at. the Hermitage. Mr Corrigal has done only eleven hours’ solo flying since he obtained his ticket. TRY ZA'.Pf FOR PILES TyTarvellous relief from agonising pain of piles. Send 6d. in stamps for generous sample Zann Double Absorption Treatment. Zanu Proprietary, Box 052, S, Wellington.