NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1924, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

Tiie “Dannevirke Advocate’’ says: “We think that the Power Board has created an odious comparison by voting its secretary £SOO per annum, while in other lucrative employment, when the town clerk of the borough, with three times the responsibility only receives £4OO per annum and is debarred from outside employment, and tho county clerk only receives £350 per annum and is placed under a .similar embargo. The chairman of the Power Board receives £2OO per annum, £4 a week, in comparison with £l5O per annum paid to the Mayor of the borough, while tho members of the board receive payment for every monthly, and, if we are not mistaken, for every sub-committee meeting that tliev a ttend.”

“T.H.D.” writing in the “Dominion” says:—Air At Jennings, ex-train bandit and bank robber, with a long record of crime and gaol behind him, is the latest contributor to an amazing pile of evidence in the American political scandals. Air Jennings has also acquired a certain amount of renown ns nil author and as the life-old established friend of the late O. Henry, the famous American short story writer. Air Jennings and his brotchr some twentyseven years back were temporarily residing in a Central American State on the proceeds of some hank robberies that, had yielded them £‘6ooo. There they made the acquaintance of another American, Air William Sydney Porter, who was wanted by the United States Police on a charge of misappropriating about £220 of the funds of a hank where ho had been employed. Tliis Air Porter was the author who afterwards 'boealmo so widely known as O. Henry.