NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The dairy rows in New Zealand number 1.238,891, cattle 3.177,119, horses 331.922, sheep 22,928,801 and pigs 390,048. All the figures show an increase over lasi year's, slice]) increasing by over 700.1 (if).

"My wife has a longue ; h long as a telegraph jkjlo and a- sharp as a razor.”

stated respondent during ihe hearing of :i claim lor maintenance against him in the Oaiiiani I’elbe Unurt“O'llttaru Mail."

"I knew he was drunk, bet ause he came home in a taxi,” said a woman who Look proceedings against her husband in the Magistrate’s Court at

Wanganui (relates the Wanganui "Herald"). "It he had been sober he would have come home hv a train-car."

“Please, leather, is there a south Island in New Zealand ?’’ a- small scholar asked a teat her in a Eeilding school. On being assured (relates the Eeilding “Star”) tliiil there was, he added : "Then that’s where we’re moving to!”

All is fish thiii conics into the Wanganui borough inspector's net (remraks the "Chronicle”'. Amongst it number of cyclists prosecuted fur riding without lights was it hov who worked in the same office its the inspector. He tried to borrow :t torch oil' the inspector, but without success, and lie was advised to take the, risk. As the result the risk proved c.xpensi t c to ihe extent of 10 s and costs.

The extent to which motor traffic is competing with and defeating the railways Wits instanced in the .Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth, when the question of arriving at the expenses of tt witness who had been brought from Napier was laving discussed (reports an exchange). “What is the railway fare ” asked counsel in the case, and the witness replied: “I don’t know : 1 motored over: I never travel by rail.”

"If you haw lost, the hue and respect of your mother, you have lost everything that is worth twopence in this world.” These words were addressed by Mr A. M. Mowlem. S.M.. to a hoy, fourteen years of ago, who appeared before him in the Juvenile Court :tt New Plymouth, charged with In-caking, entering, ami theft from a dwelling. The mother applied to have the hoy sent away, and he was accordingly committed to the Wanganui Receiving Home.

A farmer was watching a neighbour unloading a tractor at a country- station. and was chuffed by Ihe owner ol the new machine. "Ibis is what you should have,” said the tractor owner.

"May he,” said Die farmer, “hut by tin'- time your tractor is its old as my horse it won’t ho worth much. ’ “How old is heß” asked ihe oilier. “Old enough to vote." replied the horseowner. “That was three years’ ago.’’ said the liorseowner at the Drummond ploughing match, “and my horse is still doing good work while the traetoi has been discarded.”

In the Savings Bank there is i-redit-ctl to depositors' accounts an amount ol £1,(>07,727 for interest, and the total

amount at the credit of depositors^was increased during the period by £718,ijSS), The total balance at the credit of depositors on March 31st., 1929. Wits tM-1.300,393. The system of transfer of accounts between the Dominion and the United Kingdom resulted in £81.723 luiug transferred to the United KingflomXml £32,1190 to New Zealand. A similar arrangement with the Australian Savings Banks re.-uTted in £lß(>.111 being transferred in Australia, and £102.000 to New Zealand.

A prominent Taranaki land agent in conversation with a "News” representative. alluded to the difficulty of selling laud in Taranaki ihe~e days. \ ettilors, he said, have too high an idea of the value of their properties, probably because they have themselves paid too high a price for them. They should However, face the facts. Butter and cheese are not likely to produce in the future move than Is (id per Hi., butterfat. perhaps, lower tlnm this. Farmers, therefore, must revise their ideas of hind values accordingly. Gone entirely are the days *vhen farm laud l reached £1(10 tin acre. The land agent expres.-ed his candid bi-liet that the best land in the province is not worth mote than £7O per acre. The sooner volldors appreciated this tael, the better for them and these anxious to buy ,iml make a "do ’ ot their operations.

It is surprising lmw many people make mistakes in answering to the familiar newspapers advertisements asking readers t" forward a coupon and postage stamps in return for a conket y book or s '.me other article (says the “Auckland Star"). A well-known firm which advertised that it would give away certain books on receipt ol the necessary stamps for postage received 13.(i!7 applications within live weeks. Of these, however, 200 enclosed the stamps and a copy of the advertisement but did not give the faintest indication ;is to name or address, litis means that 200 people are harbouring thoughts of fraud on the part of the linn eonlerneiL whereas the fault lies in thenown carelessness.

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