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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 47, 19 November 1926, Page 15

A Hamilton shopkeeper was very candid in expressing his opinion of the door-to-door system of collecting funds for charitable organisations (says the "Waikato Times”). The poor shopkeeper falls in every time/* he said. collector comes in with a subscription list for a Sunday-school picnic, or for funds to pay off the debt on the public hall at some backblocks village, and finds the shopkeepers easy game. Each one expects a contribution, and sometimes where a tradesman becomes somewhat irritated and refuses, he is met with the inevitable rejoinder that the collector, has done business with that particular shop for the last ten years and why, therefore, should the request of a small. subscription be refused? “It gets on one’s nerves,’’ he added. “If the collector happens to have dealt with a particular shop for that length of time you can bet it was to his own advantage to do so,” was his parting remark. On a recent night a kiwi was observed running into the grass at the, south end of the suspension bridge in Cordelia Street (says the Stratford “Evening Post”). The bird escaped into the undergrowth, and a search made failed to reveal his whereabouts. It is rarely this bird is now encountered in the towns, but there are several of the species in the back country. It is not likcV that the bird wil] exist long so close to civilisation, as it will in all probability be destroyed by dogs.