NEWS AND NOTES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1924, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES

Apparently some of the Chinese fruit vendors find it difficult to stand up against competition in Wanganui. One of them, who closed his doors this creek, wrote to a creditor to whom ho owed upwards of £2O, stating that he Mas sorry that he could not pay. but at the present time he did not intend to seek the protection of the Bankruptcy Court. ‘‘But that nice, friendly-dispos- I ed letter doesn’t pay my account,” remarked the creditor to a Press representative.

The position of the small farmer in New Zealand to-day. said Air T. Af. Wilford at Waimate, is like the position of the man described by AYill Crooks. A young man went to ask his girl's father for her hand in marriage. The father asked what he was earning. The young man replied £3 a week. At the end of the first week the young man took £1 home to his wife, and the latter said: “I thought you earned £3 per week?” The husband replied that he earned C 3. hut £1 tvas all he got. (Laughter.)

'I lie need for more effective advertising of New Zealand in the Homeland, and apparently of obtaining more results from the money already expended for this purpose, is illustrated by some remarks made by a recent arrival in AYangnnui from England (states the ‘Herald”). He said he saw very little of New Zealand information, hut plenty about Australia and other Dominions. He had formed the opinion that the greater portion of the population was formed of Afaoris. He was deceived with regard to AYellington. and was agreeably surprised to see the large city it was. Tt Mas suggested by our informant that a motto for Ncm- Zealand should he adopted -. that it should he printed on a large scale and attached to it a map of Nom- Zealand, copies of which should he presented to schools throughout the country. By this means interest in tin* Dominion Mould lie | aroused in the juvenile mind, which I would lend, to inquiries and tlio dissemination of information of a reliable character.