LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1929, Page 5

LATE LOCALS.

Shortly after noon on Wednesday, says the “Westport nines,” a collision occurred between a motor lorry and a motor cycle driven by George -Maxwell. One of the front wheels of the lorry was badly smashed and the cycle was severely injured but the driver escaped with several abrasions and bruises. The lorry was in the act of turning into Wakefield street when the accident occurred.

The death is reported from America of a veteran actor and screen artist, Mr Frank Keenan, at the age of 70 years. He was born in Dubuque, lowa, and made his first appearance in a stock company in Boston. Later he became a prominent figure oil Broadway, New York, and maintained his place as a star actor in drama for a quarter of a century. During the last ten years he had been appearing with success on the screen.

The shopping tactics of women differ greatly from those employed by men. This is apparent in almost every ease, whatever they are buying. A city confectioner informed' a “Dominion” representative That' when if“ milii came in for a glass of lemonade he usually hanged his money down ou the counter and said “Lemonade, please.” A woman, on the other hand, made her choice of a cool drink-, received it, drank it, and then opened her purse and handed over the money. It was, he said, extremely rare to see a woman pav first.

Mr W. J. Jordan (Manukau), speaking at the Labour Party social last night, related how, during -his visit to England he found that men we ,, e feeling that they were ‘being neglected by their wives, who were not “mothering” them as they did in the old days. At a meeting an appeal was made to those wives willing to “mother” their husbands, and only one stood up. The chairman appealed to the audience. “Is there only one woman here willing to ‘mother’ her husband?” “Mother him!” replied the solitary one. I thought you said “smother him,”

“One meets with some curious anomalies on the road when motoring (writes “New Motorist”). There are several small bridges on the main road between Wellington and Paekakariki, and in the case of three or four of them there is a warning notice 50vds or so away that “This bridge is unsafe for traffic.” If the notice is true as applying to bridges on the main road, then the travelling public have a right to demand that they be made safe, and the putting up of such a notice should not relieve the authorities concerned of its liability. If the local authority cannot afford "the expense then tho Alain Highways Board should undertake it. These particular bridges are not suited to present-day traffic, and they should be reconstructed on the linos of the small bridges in the Main Iliitt Road beyond Taita.”