NEWS AND NOTES.
ONE TO FOritTEEN. For every horse-drawn vehicle on the reads in Canterbury there are Id motor cars (states the “Lyttelton Times"). This fact has been ascertained from idle traffic census taken by tlie Canterbury Progress League. Mon were stationed at. busy points from the Conway Bridge to the Rangitata Bridge to take a tally of the vehicles for a week. The number oi motor vehicles was 0005, and ot horse-drawn vehicles -Id! 1 . The greatest number of motor cars was on the R.iccnrtoii-Chri.stchurch stretch, the motors numbering 1192. against 52 horse-drawn vehicles. The latter were most in evidence on Lincoln Road, where there were ITT compared with 092 motors.
A NEWS ITEM. The London “Daily Express" of September sth drops a tear for Pelorous Jack. It sorrowfully mentions that the Risso’s dolphin, (or griseiis grampus), which lias been in the hahit of piloting ships into Port Nicholson. lias not lately been seen. Withhold your blame of the "Express, for being a good many years behind, the times. A\ iio knows that aA\ ellington scribe, unaware of the passing of Pelorns Jack a decade or so ago. lias bethought him of a story to move our relatives in the Old Country ? There are other news items that offer themselves as snappy subjects. For instance, do our overseas contemporaries know that Captain Cook has landed after a. tempestuous voyage?
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1927, Page 1
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230NEWS AND NOTES. Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1927, Page 1
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