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Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1920, Page 2

A Hup car, 32, l£fr4 is offered for sale in this issue, price £365. The Pacific Cable Board notifies that the delay on ordinary traffic from the United Kingdom is noiv only five hours, and to the United Kingdom a delay of three hours. All stations are clear of ordinary traffic. Traffic to America is still subject to a delay of 16 hours and deferred messages to a delay of 9 days. Although the Federal authorities are still maintaining a policy of extreme reticience with regard to the Papuan oil scheme, the Government are pushing ahead with the plans that were arrived at in agreement with the Imperial Government (states the Melbourne Age). The Commonwealth and Great Britain have each undertaken to spend up to j £50,000 on experimental boring and survey work. It was arranged that the British Government should send out a party of geologists and expert drillers to Papua, and there is good reason to believe that these experts are being furnished bv the Anglo-Persmn Oil Company. ' Two of the geologists have already arrived in Melbourne, and have been in consultation with Dr Wade, the oil expert and other experts. These two geologists are to proceed to Papua by the next steamer which leaves Australia.

Suffering from a gunshot wound in the abdomen, a young returned soldier, M r Walter Marr, who works on the experimental farm at Karuakarau, five miles from Taupiri, was admitted to the Waikato Hospital on Tuesday week (states an exchange). In company with a friend and the manager of the farm, who carried a gun, Mr Marr was walking over a paddock on the farm w hen they came across a young steer with a broken leg. They got the animal as far as a hedge, intending to shoot it, when it sprang up and got entangled in the wire. The manager then thought he could better kill it with an axe in this position, but the animal again broke free, and the manager laid the gun On the ground. Suddenly, however, the gun discharged, and Mr Marr received the full charge in the abdomen. He was immediately driven to the railway station, placed on a train, and conveyed to the hospital.

The Christchurch “Press” of Tuesday, referring to the screening at the Crystal Palace, Christchurch, says:—Of special interest is a supporting film “A Trip Through Westland,” which is unquestionably the finest scenic picture yet produced. This film was made by the Department of Agriculture at the request of the Westland Chamber of Commerce. Its features include a trip by coach and motor through the beautiful Otirn Gorge, views of Hokitika, and other West Coast towns, and a trip to Lake Kanieri, surely one of the most beautiful of the Dominion’s many lovely lakes. Dozens of lovely vistas of lake, mountain, glacier and river are shown, while the native forest is marvellously depicted. In fact the photography all through is wonderfully fine, and New Zealanders should congratulate themselves unon the fact that they have in their midst a photographer who can so well reproduce, their native scenery. Other scenes in the film show the sawmilling industry on the West Coast.

Members of the light-fingered fraternity were well in evidence at Ellerslie races, and a number of people, in addition to such losses as they may have sustained at the totalisator, found themselves relieved of the cash they carried in their poclcts in the course of the day (states the Star). The modus operandi was not by any menns new, but it is a method that has been followed with more or less success since the days when people first commenced to wear pockets, and to gather together in crowds at racecourses and other places. The crowd at the races was an exceptionally large one, and the crush at the totalisator and pay-windows afforded an excellent opportunity for the sneak thief. One gentleman, who prides himself on being rather wideawake. and certainly not a novice on the racecourse, managed, after considerable difficulty, to purchase a number of tickets on a certain horse, which subsequently paid a fair dividend. When he got out of the crush he found that he had been relieved of a bundle of notes totalling nearly £lO. “Lucky for me,’? he remarked, “they missed my .totalisator tickets.” Another follower

of the races is reported to have been deprived of about £5. A well known Christchurch pressman, who had come

to Auckland for the holiday season, found that ibp had been relieved of £4O while in a crowd on the lawn. Nor did the light-fingered gentry confine their attentions wholly to men. A lady, assured that she had ‘‘picked a winner,” hurried to the totalisator with her bag on ber arm to “get the money on,” When she finally got to the vicinity of the ticket window, through the crush, and went to her bag for the cash, she found that the hag was missing, and all that remained on her arm was the handle.

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