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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 45, 17 November 1920, Page 7

A man who sought sanctuary from the rigours of tho blustery night at the Auckland police station recently with a talo of no homo ond no means wii;j accommodated with a cell, but when ho camo before a Magistrate charged as an .idle, and disorderly person he protested. 'Im in a permanent position," ho declared, and have just been off duty for u. day or two. I can go back to work to-morrow if too much fuss is not made about it in the papers." The police found by inquiry that tho man's statoment concerning his work was materially correct, and the charge of vagrancy was withdrawn.— Auckland "Star." \ As well as the high cost of living tho high cost of dying afflicts some New Zealanders. Or at. any rate the high cost of coffins. Before tho Auckland Prices Investigating Tribunal the other day a complaint was read as to the pi'ie.i charged for a colfin, a country resident asserting that a noighbour had been supplied at a uincli cheaper rate. Another complaint was that against ,n doctor, who was alleged to have sent in a bill out. of proportion to services rendered. Yet a Uiird was concerned with the supply of firewood to Auckland. Profiteering was alleged ns between tho price at which tho wood was procurable in the country and the price at which it was retailed in the' city. Many of those who were present at the reception in Christchurch to His Excellency tho Governor-General went home wondering to what height-! of originality —or whatever if. is—the Mayor may. yet soar, says the Christoliurch "Press. - ' At the conclusion of the reception .nil present stood ond sang the first verso of the National Anthem. The Mayor, who had presumably bfcen saving - his vocal powers "for a special effort, hastened to cry, as tho last wonte "were sung, "and God bless the Prince of Wales." The unauthorised addition to the National Anthefn did uot receivo Vice-Regal recognition. The sentiment, no doubt, was endorsed by all, but the silence of all others present except the Mayor seemed to be tinged with astoniihmonu