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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1923, Page 4

Tin.' (l.ixvriiMifinl. ‘-ays tlit- ••Dominion." i- inking an undoubtedly progressive stop in asking I’ailianieni > amend tin* legislation governing tinpayment of subsidies to comity councils. As tile law stands, the maximum amount of subsidy that may he paid, to any one county is Cijflil, and this limit has applied to new counties formed b\ the amalgamation oi two or more pre-existing counties. I'nder the new proposal, counties amalgamating will suffer no loss ol subsidy. An impetus will thus be given to the merging of counties. 1 here is m. doubt that in many cases this will make for a more economical and c :licieut administration of rural affairs. At the meeting of the Counties’ Conference recently, the pre-idem (Mr dull) spoke of the impending amalgamation of some ol the existing counties a- a development that should he encouraged.

An man-ini' misunderstanding arose in a divorce case tthieh came before Mr .Justice Stringer in tiie Auckland Supreme Court * -tales the ••Herald''). Mr Singer, tor one of the co-respond-ents, when cross-examining the petitioner. asked whether, at a certain period, petitioner and the co-respond-ent had arrived at a stage of bibulous imitnacy. At once Mr Leary, on iehalf of petitioner, raised a protest, saying lie objected to the term “b:gatnoux intimacy”—wliich lie erroneously thought had been Air Singer’s phrase.