Around the City

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 42, 19 February 1937, Page 6

Around the City

Paragraphs About People and Events

Mr J. H. MeDavitt speaks to the Citizens’ Lunch Club to-day. His subject is “Oliver Cromwell.” Mr P. 8. Larcomb will preside.

The enrolments at the Technical School last evening were particularly heavy. The Director had a very busy period with a line of intending pupils that seemed unending.

The yard at the rear of the premises of Messrs Porter Motors, at the corner of Itangitikei and Maire streets, was the scene of a brief but spectacular lire at 11 a.m. yesterday. Home petrol drums were being cleaned and refuse from the them ignited some weeds growing in the yard. The Fire Brigade was summoned, but before its arrival the outbreak had been brought under control with the aid of an ordinary hose.

A Palmerston North school boy of 14 years has discovered the reason why folk are being subjected to such abnormal weather conditions throughout the world and hopes the Meteorological Department or Massey College will provide a remedy. “The cause of these drastic changes/' says young Solomon, ‘ ‘has nothing to do with the earth or the sun, but is due to the position of our earth in the realms of space. This globe makes a circuit round the sun of 550 million miles at the rate of 104/ miles a minute, or 17$ miles a second. So it may be seen that the weather depends upon our position in infinite space aud the conditions therein.’'