NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1923, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

•‘The main reason why many parents have so little control mer their ehtld-to-day i- because they do not eni'T into the children's games as they ought. The parent should be just an elder child, and by joining in, tear!: the younger ones how to play tie game si might, and ihcrc will never he loss of control.’'—\Y. A. Saunders in a speech at Invercargill.

‘•Year-, ago when I started dairying ue considered that the industry was oulv in its infancy and now when the exported produce reached the vast sum of L'Ki.dllO.dOO sterling we are still more satisfied the industry is only in its infancy.” Alr P. Arnolt in a speech at Invercargill 11s reported in the ''Nov s."

The coining strawberry season is regarded hv Auckland merchants as likely to prove a good one (says the “elirald-'). Berries from old beds are expected in about three weeks’ tune while it is hoped that iruit on the nev beds will rinen in about live weeks. AY ami weather and light showers are the conditions needed. Many growers have ill read v commenced “mulching ’ their hetls.

The rate collector to ike \\ elliugle.. City Council had a hit ol a poser when h« received the following letter with cheques : "\Yo have received your notice on hand now we elielosding on our chequie withing this letter to payment our diding 2 Inc the a Loo ying and Yee Noon and Company Rating ami I am have elielosding myself Rating I’at sectnuii -HI) lor t cheque for a'c anil we hope posted by safely despatch you please yon kindly return our a receipt to us and give our the eredei on your rateing honk. Fortunately ilie demand note was enclosed, saving the rate collector further trouble.

Described as “a deal and a mock woman.” a witness in an alleged assault ease wherein two women were the contestants, a witness occasioned no little amount of trouble at the -Magistrate’s Court, Wellington. The witness, and, incidentally, the ioniplainant, graphically described in a meek voice the assault alleged to have caused her so much inconvenience outside the Caledonian Hotel a couple of months ago. Her evidence completed, the defendant stepped into the box. and gave her side of the question. The account was proceeding, when a voice was heard from a nearby chair, “She s making a good yarn ol it. the speaker was the previous witness. Act she was, a few minutes previously, so deaf that the cross-examiners had been forced to literally shout in her earl