NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1923, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

A man in England applied for tlie unemployment dole. Inquiries were made com ei niiig the applicant, and it was found that lie was a German, and had taken part in the air raids mi England dining the war.

“What's your UltimoY" a mlieitoi «.-.kcd a witness at Grimsby. -‘lsaak Walton." was the reply. "Dear mo.’ commented the lawyer, retailing the author of "The Complect Angler, "I thought you were dead 1" Elect lie Haiti is are ai | I'e.-ent not -object to the depreciate I I lirtettel duty. Tile Mmister lor i iW"iii.- lias been requested to dele! mite’ hcill'T the duty sin,old not he ilnpc-ed. and lie has decided to invite evidence in support of or again- 1 tie propo-al. sayan ex.Tisage. The evidence "ill I”' treale:! as eeiiiitlelltial.

'Tlie situation si'll-, and not the propel ty," was an opinion expre.-sed hy a valuer in the Suptetiie (oitrl, U elliiigtnii. "And a lot has to do with the iipivaraiiceY' lie added, when ques. lioiied regaiiling activities of the timer, wtii Ti. he de: land, was any Wellington house., bought tor the purpose of spur ulalive selling. A freak, in the form ol a young sow will, three leg-, and a tu-k was hrougiit in l.y Mr !.. Smith last week (-ay- tin' Kuiknura '‘.Star".). The little animal also laid an unusual snout, hut in other respects hat! all the usual eha: aetcri -lies. A - porting hot: Two cow elithu-iasts were having a I: i • 11.11 \ di-pule a- to the r-■-]i; eiive mi rii - ol ihcir l;est I'ov. OH -ale (Till a: Dio Dio relate:lh i • INs'-l”). '!’! i:' iip^nnu-Mt waxed hot and elided in a novel form of vug"!’. The owner whose cow is heatell 111 the sea-ell’s Iniiler-lat output pay- the winner hi- cow's i-altT When John Kemp, I*l. a plasterer was sent to prison for six months at Bhiekpool for h.mg drunk, assaulting the poliic. and doing malicious damage, ii was slated that he broke his kandeull.s. smashed the j•!: i"-gh"'s win low of Ihe eel!, and polled down and bloke the in a will'll w Haute weighing a '‘Ei 'ni past expel i 'll e 1 iliul lint things run iinrai'i more -im.i.i lily."

w role a teaeiier i’l' m lie- ( hat ham Islands with reference to file | ropo-ed 11 i}> of si bool children to Wellington, in a letter to the School Conimitlee-.' A'lsaciat ion. “win'll one man i- at the helm, for llie-.e island folk having little to do and no out-ide attractions. dearly line a .-qiinlihie : roii-ispr ntly. when eonunit tees are formed, veil little Imsi-ue-s i- ever done. I lie meeting- ending invariably will: a row." A well-known All Black lom halier, who iv-ido- not a hundred mile- from Tnilmpe. was at tic Wahganni . ' • and proved that he could 'owing sledge-hammer with the liest (say- the ■'('it run ili’*’ T. Three times he' made the gadget ri-e to Ihe t hoii-a id mark, and the hell rang loudly. The Truvinau tlc'ii t lie '.voiihi |nl a lie -lipped a smaller st riair.a niu in hi- -I reiigtli-te.-'tin;: nnn liitie. Bui il we- of Cl avail. : lie foi'v a: d -eor.-d again. Due Wanganui Comity Cntineillor to awn per at the la i ire! iug, w lieu di eii- iag; tin' 11Ighw :i’ - i>ili : "I told '.(,:i the day we nu t tin Minister and we were ciiinying a leu uhi-kie- I hat later on." "And whin about >mir--.'l, r. tilled Com iHot- No. 2. "I was! itiuler iho doctor that day. end 1 wain-! drinking" replied D e (.ti er councillor.- Wanganui "Herald." "There wa- an \nn iieaii weamn v. In j -ai l to her hit.-liaii'i : ' i letiri. now i we're i.ian ied, and ot eottr-e, we'll j In . e little diu'erem e- (i opini.tir, Imt j ,ve noii'l ipiaiTel. We ll go into emu- j i■ 1 i:! *', on ihe -uhjeet. And you shall j vole and i'll vole: an I I hen I’ll give I i lie easting vole.'"- Mr R. 1,. Grimv. ado. at the New Zealand Club lull- j rTienii -it Ma.sterton. "Wairarapa j Daily Times." 'idle -i.nl h-houinl express wa- vety erowdeil on Salurday (relates the Tima, u "Do'-t"). and three well-known Dunedin genlleiuen had an annoying exp lienee. At 'I I 111 a i’ll. a railway official informed them that their carriage would go no further, and advised them h ole ! th dr hagga r and got ~ut on to th - i,l:il form, but 1 v tlm time they Inn! made an 'insueres-fu! -earrh lor other seats, tpe trail! was ready la leave an I tlc ir carriage had still not heen uneeuph .!. tin re-entering tlm carriage i.l'.ey found that their seats had l.een taken dnr.ng their absence, and in fact, througii no i'anli of their own. they were senile--! What they -aid must Im left to i he illumination. ‘Tf she had heen ihe wife she ought to have been, and not gone off It! me ever-,- time ! went into the hott-e tilings might hai ■ h en all light.” "'serv'd a labourer, ie -lie Chnrie Thr ah v. ei I age.! 2(5. !mm the deck at the Magista a he's Court. A'YelJiiigte'u. when iie w a.s charged before Mr E. Rage S.M.. v n!i failure t-i pievid" adequate maintenance for his wife. “\\ hat (h> you | stty fiheut maintaining I'err" asked the] magislrafe. “Well, that i- for her t‘i 1 say." said accused, “but I won't go hack to her" "I don't v.anj you Tack." interrupted noeii-ed's wife Imm the- v, itnes--hax. amid laughter. “I’mPaps, if this m.'ii had heen the hnslid 111- oiighi to have heen he would not Re in the position he i- at present ?“ said Suli-I ii'pretor t ummiiig.- . prodiieing a li-t of previous emivietions. The reelaimiug of tlie sandhills ep-po-ire Whakataoe hy ihe )Tauling ot hip,in and ma-raic grass is proving sue- j eo-sfnl. The lupins, in part irul:'.r. have spread to stu-li an extent that they now enmpletely c'.iver the whole i ! the spit. Wliat was I'iior to the I hinting. several year- ago. a "Bid-swept sand waste N now a gorgeous spectacle lour, an .1 the lid's are hemming 1 1 1 o ri, 11 g! 1 1 v hound Ly the increasing o'.vtli rf v-gci alien. In -nine parts eras- is making an appearance, "'hue j„ others the lupins are so thick as to form tin imTenetrnhle in is-'. Ihe pine fees planted in this area are a!so flourishing. and -Slowing signs ot < oiisidergivwill. Tu th" course of a tew years the sandhills will doubtless, as a result of the planting operation*, be t ransfe-rnied into valuable ground, invulnerable against wind or water.

"1 have always tried to ihe Rest m mv ability to make the lives nl the i,fib er-, both ladies and gent Semen. - - harm- a- thov could he. conformable with doing tlu-ir duty to the Government," remarked Mr H- X- Rrrj a-. late ('outfolier ol the _ !’*’••*'• Ofiiee Savings Rank, when replying^at honour at A\ oliiwgtnl!. on the oec.lsin.. of hi- retirement on superauimatmo after foriv veal's' -erviiv. "It ha- alwav- seemed to me that U men and women are doing their duty to the office, doing their work wa-ll mm ihorougldv. that if v -n can heir in anv 1 i11!•* way. i 1 thrv ha\e ..1.,little 'want which it won't hurt the Government to grant, it is hotter to out of vnur wav to help them than simple -ay'. ‘No.’ That is the principle that has guided me.” (Applause).