NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1923, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

‘■Till' debt I- ten years old. and the judgment e-ve.i \e;i:s el.l, mid now the debtor Inis gone to America, said Mr Tel ly, at the Auckland Magistrate's ( m: t ~1 Wednesday. Mr 1-. K. Hunt. S.M.. eontntent.-d : ’’Well, yen ought to iused to it I>v this time." bn the : pplie.ition of Mr Waddiugham Hays ill ■ ‘-Sl;ir"i an ndjouriiiin-ut for three i muf' > nil- g.--iiled. the solicitor stating that if the debtor sold a patent be hud taken to America he would not only pay his debts, but seven years' in teiest on them. Arising out of a complaint by a householder that lus gas supply was had council "orkiuen uneai tiled tiepipe leading !i >ni the main and found portions of ii badly con tided. In fact (save the •‘Dannevirke Ne'e" l it "as only held 'ogeLTier by the i lav snb--,ii] in ij< }i n "as einheddcd.

Tenders for tiniisformcrs mamiiae. Hired in Holland. Sweden, and Lug. laud were being discussed at the lnec-v jug of the Tararna I’owcr lioaid on Wednesday (say- tiie ■Wairarapa Age”). '‘AIT things Teing twjual. wli« should not we aceept tin- British? asked tin- chairman, and the British tender was duly acco) led.

hi till address to the Taranaki ( hamper ef Commerce on Wednesday. Mr j,’. Me.Mulen. secretary of the South African Board . t Trade. mentioned that very little was known in his conn tiv regarding conditions in NY" /calami. In coming across from Africa to Australia he and his wile heard such stories regarding the severity ol the weather in New Zealand that his wife refused to leave Sydney and come with him to the Dominion. She piled him tip with heavy and rugs overcoats as if l:o "'ere going to the South Pole. Go soon found there "’as no need for him up with heavy rugs and overcoats perienced since being in New Zealand being typically South African. The difficult tiling had been to keep cool rather than to keep warm.