NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The British Empire produces more gold than any other country in the world, In 1917 we obtained from our ’nines hi different parts of the world 13,324,75!) ounces, value £50,498,873. out of the total world's production of 20.756.384 ounces, value £88.083.123. So that our contribution was about 04 tier cent, ot the world’s supply. Germany, on the other hand, does not possess any gold mines. Auer travelling mere than 12.044 mik-.- for her wedding. Aliss AiihJred J Alters, a. elnssieal dancer.' has l«ien inarried in London to Dr Rublev H. J. I Browne, a ship's surgeon, formerly surgeon eapt. R..N. .She came from Nc-"- I Zealand, where for a year -he gave dancing exhibitions.

Vice-Admiral Sir AY. Reginald Hall, -d.l’., told a good story of the -iirrendei of German submarines outside Harwich. at a Junior Imperial League dinner at the Connaught Rooms, Kingsway. A German ofiic; r, overcome with i assion, said to a. British petty ofliccr. “I tell you what I think of you and ?our Brti.-h ling.” and he -pat in the sea. “Hearty Jack” .-aid notiiing, "■hereupon the German officer remarked. “I toll you " hui I think of you ami your Beatty," and he again spat in the -ea. ‘‘Hearty Jack" then stroked his beard and replied, “I sympathise with your feelings as a Hun. bur don’t spitin our sea.”

At 10 o’clock one morning a younc man entered a V-, esi London register office, and asked if he could he married the next day with a license he took out three mouths ago. lie was iidi reed that it would expire at 3 p.m that day. “But my fiancee has not hoi ght her shoes yet,” lie said, whereiip u the registrar reminded him that he would also have to go to West Ham and c ptain a cerlilk-ate from tin- registrar I here as one of the parties lived in his district. Buttoning up his coat ar.d hailing a taxicab the man da-died from the office, but by the time lie had <nt the certificate and the bride had ihtainod new shoos to match her dress it was too late to get married on that license. That New Zealand is the ideal country of the world for a white man to live and work in is the conclusion of Air XV. D. Boyce, proprietor of the Chicago “Blade.” who has been maxing an extensive tour and was in New Zealand some time ago. In the course of mi interview with the “Cape Times" Air Boyce supported Ids .statement I y saying that s-latistios prove that -i man lives nine years longer here than i.t tie Briti-h Isles, and eight years longer than in the United States. Next in order he placed Canada, then Australia, and then South Africa.

In a certain township not very far from Napier lived an agent for “Tails,” who hoped some day to land j the winner. As none of them received i receipts from Australia for their 0s -hi.. ! they surmised (says an exchange) the postal authorities had confiscated the | money under the gaming laws of ti e I country. Blit the agent suddenly disappeared, and their .suspicions rested upon him a.s having appropriated their funds. However, they are in ; the unfortunate position of being un- | able in take legal stops to claim the money as they are liable them .--.elves, under Lhe Gaming Act. Verily the way of li :-n. gn-sui-s against New Zealand laws is haul. The question as to how long after : ci in rcto is laid it attain- its maximum dogre • of strength, is one that has absorbed the interest- of engineers for many years, and one which is of much I a net ii -al interest to anyone who has anything to do with concrete work. Tim matter was iefel :e-d Lo the el her day by Air J. Al. AleDmiald. Gisborne's borough engineer. « hen discussing v, ith a ‘'Times” reporter the probable time it would lie. alter tic coni] ieii' n of the IVol Street bridge, before it would be thrown open for gciieiid u-e by tlu‘ public. Tests which had l ieu carried out, said Air AlcDmi- j aid. had demons! r-l 'I that lonercte v.enl *a i hardening for at lea-; three v-:tr . aad in -erne ea-- - it- had lien prove 1 that the ; i . ■ h. d gone < n fur ide yea', s. though the degree cl hardening alter the tic-; three years as - .i -iiglii a- to he.-laa -t negligible. The i'enli-hne- - of at tempi iug to : drive n's-r a. level riil'.'.ay cro—ing when -i train is iripr.is.-liiug wa- hrimghi home in a man in Ha-ting-: leu-iiHy (if nit*: L - the Hawke's Ray 11 erald' ). and no doubt the be--, n In- then n-i-viv-c-d will -land by him l-r the re-t cl hi. hie. Hi- wasditving a im tni'-ear. and j dis;-eg:-rd:iig the signal o! Ha- eros-tiig-ki-enei 111 I>ll i I lII', he |ilo e de l ill hi-

wav. When on the railway lim- He ear stopped ami an accident seemed inevitable. Reali-ing the situation, and failing to get the i nr to move, he jumped out, and by an almost super-human i-l'fmt. pii-hed lhe ear over the hue jii-: in time. It wa- a miraculous escape.

There is :i tendency on the part of soine people when accidents occur on the football field to rinji tip all the doctors on the telephone 1 i>t. with the resultant inconveniences to the medical practitioners (says the ‘‘.Manawatu Times'’). An example occurred recently. when a footballer was injured upon' Ih - llii’li School ground at Palmerston Nortn. ]lllMeOiately there was an outcry from all parts ol the held foe a doctor, and various individuals rushed off to nearby telephones to summon medical a-si-tanee. 'I he result 'vs- that two doctors left fairly urgent ease- and another arrived after injured man had heen atieiidi'd to. Ihe last medico nu lie- scene voiced a protest in no uncertain terms, fie considered that t!to public* should liiive sonic conside ration for the medical faculty, and also declared that i!<>• Pugliy 'l'nion .-lionM adopt a definite scheme to 011sur,- iloit wlii-n a nlavcr is injured only one doctor is called upon.

Taranaki has a name for its roads, and so lias Taranaki's hinterland (states the "Taranaki Daily News' ). Keeentlv the .Minister of Public A\ orks rode out. from Whnngamomona through a quagmire to visit the Alangare district., where. if will cost £IO.OOO to give access cf a kind to seven settlors who run three or four thousand sheep. A deputation from this district told the Minister that their storekeeper lost fourteen pack horses in one year while sending good- by horses to the settlors. Mr Coates inspected the road and promised the settlers that he would have men put to work to give access for the corning summer. The need for the conservation of the flax-bearing areas in the Auckland province is to he urged upon the Government hv the w Zealand and Northern Flaxmillers 4 Association (states tile •‘‘Waikato Time-" ). A meeting of the Northern Association decided, with the support * t the New Zealand .Association. t ■ place the matter of conserving flax area in.-load of i lilting them up for s;‘: c!• a ’nt purposes 1,-oforo the Government prior to the opening o; Parliament. In support of the proposal, figure- were piloted to show that flaxmniiiifi was 10.) per cent, more payable than dairying, while a number of men employed on a given area was stated as five for flaxmilling to one for dairying. Another argument was the need for maintaining the high reputation of the New Zealand fibre.