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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2703, 24 February 1916, Page 6

Sir Josopli Ward left Rotorua for Wellington yesterday evening. •

Mr. Harold W. Brown, of Messrs. Harold Brown and Co., has just returned from a motor tour through the Wail'arapa; having covered' a distance of 263 miles. Mr. Brown states that the roads generally are in very good order, but he found the country sadly in want of rain.

Some nice distinctions in the correct terminology of public thoroughfares were laid down by Mr. Justico Cooper, in a judgment delivered in Auckland. Technically, said His Honour, there are no "roads" witliin a borough, the public highways in a borough being'termed, under the Municipal Corporations Act. "streets." In a county, or in a' road district, the publio highways are termed "county roads" and "district roads." In the Public Works Act the term "road" is used generally, and is defined—inter alia—as a "public highway." Whether, therefore, "street" or "road" is used, the term means in New Zealand a "public highway." In England there is a distinction,' for although a road is a "public highway," a street lias heen defined to mean "a public highway with houses cn each side." His Honour continued that even if the term "roads" was used in a notice with reference to a "city" in New Zealand it would ho clearly 'understood as meaning the public highways. Tlie executive of the Newspaper .Proprietors' Association interviewed Sir Joseph Ward yesterday in regard to the supplies of paper. Sir Joseph Ward received tlie deputation sympathetically and promised to communicate with the Premier at once with a view to relieving the position.—Press Association. In connection with the Automobile) Club's picnic for returned soldiers on Saturday, the secretary advises that all soldiers who intend to he present should band in their names to Capt. Donald Siinson as early as possible.