NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

“Don't say this is how we do it in Kngltind. Nothing is more irritating to tile Anstriiliiiii inistloss. This sage atlvi'-e was tendered ly .Miss \ lr.rgn let, Bondfield (l’ai liair.entniy Secretary for l-abour), in fa rowel i log a pally of 7S domestics sailing by the Hobson’.: Bay for Australia. Proceeding, .Miss Bond, field urged her hearers to play the game, and give a leal honest day's work in return for hotter wages and easier conditions in Australia.

The "enily bird” retrieved the select pieces of wood that Hosted in a continuous stream down the .liver during the recent Hood, hut some clever person rose a trille too early for one AYan-gamii-ite the ether d’.y, and caught the “worm” nicely (rolaies the “Chronicle”). One of the salvage party that had lined the hank on Sunday had hauled high and dry a choice Jot of posts, and stacked them neatly in the vicinity of the Imlay works, intending to return and remove them to his home. As lie subsequently wended his way to the river-hank to review his fine collection, lie visualised blazing fines during cold winter nights—hut lo and behold! When he arrived where his pile had once stood, inviting the envy of c.tlver “early birds”, he found a man in the net of swinging the last log into a dray. Naturally, he dashed excited ly to the rescue, and a, boated argument ensued, each man claiming the logs as his property. Finally the owner of the dray meekly admitted that he had paid someone three crisp banknotes for the wood as it stood! Surely the “worm” was one ton many for the "early bird!”

“Tt really is absurd to grant a separation to a woman who has only beeiij, married two months.” declared Mi- C. R. Orr- Walker, at the Wellington Magistrates’ Court recently, during the hearing of a maintenance case. "I am not going to separate people who have only lived together a couple of

months. I don’t see the object of marrying if they are going to separate so soon after they are married.” Counsel for the husband stated that liis client was prepared to maintain his wife and even to live with her. The complainant: I can’t- go back to him. a am not strong enough to be knocked about. Counsel: You have said the defendant knocked you about. Haven't you ever struck him?—No; I am notstrong enough. Yoit are a Woman with a pretty violent temper, aren't you? Didn’t you pick up a carving knife and threaten to kill him? Witness (excitedly) : No; 1 did not, and I am not a. woman of rioleilt temper. His Worship then made the above remarks, and further stated that the complainant should give the defendant another chance. Complainant: I will not return to him while lie is going out with other women, and I am not going back to lie knocked about. As defendant was not in court, the case was adjourned.

“The butter market is at present faced with an over-supply.” stated a Manawatu dairy company chairman. “We have now competition from Denmark, Ireland, the Balkan States, and several other . European countries, all of which arc beginning to develop their produce export trade to England. Our supplies are reaching the market when the other supplies are falling oif, hut if we arc to maintain a good, even price we must regulate our Homo shipments.”