NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

“Don't think that because you ha taken up Christian healing you have l

mod to on to a doctor any more.” sa M- Hickson in Invercargill, "(w little sanctified common sense. Yr don't leave your breakfast in the moil mg because you have said your pra; ers.’ ’— 1 ‘Southland Times. ’ ’ Tvingfi.sli, in fact most varieties i tisli, are very plentiful round tile Snga Loaves at New Plymouth just no' (says the “News”;. A well-knotv: local .Maori caught over IdO the othe day. and was confident that he toppci the score for the day. At the wharf he patrouisingly hailed a fellow coun | trymau as to li is catch. “Two thirty’ came back the reply. Ifiil was incred ulou.s. “f a-k how many fish you got not to ]iruri'y time.'' 1 "Is your father nice to people out- ; side:-*' asked counsel of a young lua ■ woo was giving- evidence against his lather in a ina in I eiiatlce ease in the Auckland .Magistrate’s Court the other morning. “Yes. he is- very, particularly when lie i.s preaching to about a doaei, of hi- brethren, hul at home he is violent and cruel to all of us, particularly In my nnalicr.'’ Mr F. Is Hunt. S.M.: “Yes. |\ r hear of those sort of men before angels outside, but real divils al lioiiio." Kvlmugo. A holy who was paid some money at an nllicc in Auckland when sh.e got outside found flint she had received to tiio inueh (relates a local paper). Sim went hack to the office, and said. •'You liavc made a mistake.’’ The i lark did uni, seem pleased. as there was another visitor standing by, hut as soon as iliat person had retired the clerk said sharply: “Well, madam;'’’ hut became unite apologetic when the lady handed hark the £5 that had been overpaid. While unemployment and distress were common to most Industries in IFngland, there was mi industry nr least which was inundated with orders, that concerned with the making of gas appliances. -aid the engineer and manager of th" Auckland Cns Com puny, Mr .lames l.owe, speaking of his observation.-, in Britain. The manufacturers of gas stoves, cookers, and other Midi articles were actually making great extensions in their plant to cope w ith the flow of orders. The goods ma nut act u ris l were a great advance on pre-war designs. Honesty Inis at rimes to he its own reward says t lie Southland “Daily News"). A ease occurred last week in which a lad nicked op a wallet containing some tickets and five pounds in notes. In due course the wallet was advertised and a reward promised. The lad took tin- wallet, to a residence in the suburbs, and was asked what, reward lie wanted, lie replied that, he did not want a reward, but wished his tram fares paid. The owner of the

wallet, nut having a shilling, the* lac lost liis time and had to pay Ins ovvi Irani taro.-. The president of tin* Jolla Chamber of Mines, in a recent open loiter to the president of ihe South Airman Agrmulural Union, points mil that the goldminnig industry is on t lie decline. Unless new discoveries be made, of which at present tiiere is nr evidence, mining operations must be reduced at least fio per cent, by the end of i"u years. \ portoin of tin* taxation now borne by the mines must tall mt other primary industries, ife urges in order to meet tlie new situation.. the imposition of a tax on unimproved land valuers, tin* proceeds to be devoted to the benefit of tin* agricultural and pastoral industries, and the tax to be remitted in proportion to afforestation by farmers. The Secretary, (ieneral Post OflU.-e, has received, through the International Hur-mm of the Universal Postal UifoM. an intimation from the Postal Ad ministration of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Unafc, on account of frontier changes brought about !>y the war, a large number of persons eonsider it necessary to arid to the place of destination in the address of their correspondence for phe-ms in the kingdom the note ‘‘formeUy Austria,‘‘formerly Hungary, ’• etc; also that articles for tin* southern part of: the kingdom are addressed “Afaeedoniad’ As old Macedonia has been divided between Crecce, Bulgaria, and the Kingdom of the Serbs. Croats, :vd Slovenes, correspondenco thus addressed suffers groat delay, probably having at first been forwarded to one of the other two countries. In order to avoid dclnv in the delivery of cor rcsnondcncc* for places in the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovene 4 3, the public are recommended to indicate in the address only the presect name of the country of destination—not the former name. giSECTgawff asgrwtaqmapggggTC^ai