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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7286, 13 October 1933, Page 6

At a meeting of the Hamilton branch of the Railway Superannuitants ’ Association tko question of interference with super annuitants' annuities was discussed. It was decided to create a fund for talcing a case to the Privy Council if necessary.

The South Wellington Federation of Women’s Institutes met at Otaki yesterday, 200 ladies being present. The Mayor, Mr O’Rourke, extended a cordial welcome, which Mrs Maddever, the president, acknowledged. A general discussion followed on matters of interest to the institutes.

Archibald Gibson Earsman, aged 76, of Miramar (Wellington), arrived at Blenheim, via Nelson, on Wednesday night on a visit to Mr 0. F. Miller, of Maxwell road, intending to recuperate after an attack of influenza. Ho complained of feeling unwell and went straight to bed and asked for a doctor, but was dead before one arrived.

*‘Personally I am looking forward to the time when wo will have paying wards in our hospital,’’ said Cr. 0. McElroy at yesterday’s meeting of the Oroua County Council. “It may mean,’’ he continued, “further capital expenditure to provide for these wards, but I am satisfied that it would result in reduced levies on the contributing bodies..”' ' "v. ■

A request that the duty on cricket material be so reduced that the New Zealand price to tic player should be less costly was made to the Tariff Commission at Christchurch yesterday by Mr Douglas Wanklyn, treasurer of the 'New Zealand Cricket Council. Cricket material, said Mr Wanklyn, was imported from England in the finished condition, and the charges on bats imported from England, including ad valorem charge of 10 per cent, and a duty of 25 per cent., were so high that a bat costing £1 10s in England would cost £3 5s in New Zealand.

Local residents have seen for the first time a genuine 1 horse-power mo-tor-car. It is difficult to say whether the local baker who has attached shafts to his motor-van has done so as a demonstration in his faith of the return of the horse, or whether it was done as a gesture of his disapproval of the high petrol prices. However, the fact remains that a four-wheeled motorvan has been converted into a horsedrawn vehicle, and one wonders what the horse’s thoughts aro in the matter. If it is possible for a, horse to “laugh up its sleeve,” it surely must do so. To overtake this quaint turnout on the road causes quite a mental shock, which, after all, may be the local baker’s idea of putting over a unique advertising schome.