NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1923, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

“Was it not due to your d.imkenncss and cruelly that your wife secured a separation ?” “The wife said so,” was the reply.—“ And the magistrate believed her,” was counsel’s comment. “You applied to the police to get your husband, didn’t you?” asked counsel of a witness in tlie course of a maintenance easts at Wellington. “Yes, I did,” was the reply, “but they were too slow in getting him, and he got away.” (Laughter). “You did not live unhappily with your 'husband 'during your married life, did you?’ asked counsel of a witness during the hearing of a maintenance case at the Wellington Magistrate’:* Court. “No,” we did not quarrel,” and decisively, “I would rather leave a man than quartet with him.”

“He often routes down to tlie police station asking to he locked up, and we have simply had to kick him out,” said Senior-Sergeant Matthew, alluding to a raggedly attired man, Edward John .Matthews, who appeared in the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, charged with being a rogue and vagabond in that he had no lawful means of support.

An eight-ounce egg, laid by a White Leghorn hen, was shown to a reporter in New Plymouth a few days ago. It is perfect in shape and very much larger than a duck egg. The shell is much thicker and harder than usual and in this connection somewhat resembles the egg of an emu.

It is reported (states the “Otago Daily Times”) that Dr Perry, the Otago University five-eighth, is to leave shortly for Edinburgh to take up a special course of medical study, and it is stated that he has been given to understand unofficially that he will bo a member of the All Black team which is to tour the Old Country next year.

“Didn’t you tell your husband that you wanted to be a nurse, and couldn’t become one unless you were unman ied or separated ?” asked counsel of a witness during "the hearing of a maintenance ease at tli© Wellington Magistrate’s Court. “1 did,” was the witness’s reply. “And did you say that if your husband would sign a separation order you would not ask for maintenance?” “I did sty so—and I believe that is the leasou why lie signed the order.”

A dairy farmer (says the “Mnnawatu Daily Times”) recently said that the mistake of his life had been that he had not travelled more and seen how the host men in the business managed their farms. “I lost ten times the money it would have cost me,” he said, “in blunders and unwise elicits that I need not have made.” He was right. There cannot he too much interchange of opinions and experiences amongst farmers.

Mr It. Henry, of Wirtlii, who is visiting the Old Country, writing to a friend, states: “While in London I called at the office of the High Commissioner for New Zealand, and turned them up for their laxity in advertising our little country in the chief towns of Great Britain. Every other colony is boomed, hut there is hardly anything heard about New Zealand. The only tiling I saw advertised was our mutton. I tasted it in Wales, and it was tip-top, but the butter allegedly from New Zealand is impossible.”

Bind oysters enjoy a far-famed attraction for visiting football teams. Last Tuesday afternoon the members of the Wairarapa touring side paid a visit to the port. The team is a young one, hut .its consumption of the luscious bivalve proved small in comparison with that of other parties. • The record is reputed to he held by a wellknown Wellington forward, who is said to have consumed 25 dozen in a very nonchalant manner and on the following day was one of the best players oil the ground (states the “Southland News”). The record since the war stands to the credit of a prominent Limvood and Canterbury rep., ■who lightened a sack to the tune of 18 dozen. A Taranaki player accounted for 13 dozen last season, but the best individual effort in the Wairarapa team stood at a modest five dozen.

The farmers of Taranaki are invited by the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce to co-operate with it in the immigration of English secondary school boys to the province (states the Wanganui “Chronicle”). It is proposed to bring out lads, aged from 17 to 20, and selected by the chamber's representative at Home. The lads would require to be trained in farm work for a period of two years, and treated as members of the. family, tile remuneration for the first six months to bo nominal, afterwards increasing with the improvement shown in the work, with a minimum of 15s per week. The idea is to fit the lads for farming on their own account, and it is hoped the farmers of the province will send in their names, and do everything they can to ensure the success of the scheme.-