NEWS AND NOTES. A

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1929, Page 5

NEWS AND NOTES. A

NEWS FROM THE FRONT. * A good war-time story was told by/ the Governor-General at the opening *> _olf .the Auckland ,Offifqrs’., Olub •-evening.-- He sauV'-olcl .soldiers would c remember tlie unfortunate men were obliged to carry heavy crates oH pigeons into the ffiont trertcbffis the early stages ,of v tbe r war. During jj the course of si certain battle news garding the progress of hostilities wa§ getting scarce, and the general cons 4 trolling the impaLentiyi"up’fahdv'Sonm^awajiiiiglMH ,i * formation when a pigeon flew in 'from the front. Hastily the pellet bearing the message was brought to.him. It read: “I am fair fed up with carrying about this beastly bird.” . STRIKING TRIBUTE TO NEW ZEALAND. “ New Zealand has interested the world in several matters (whites Sir ■ James Barrett in the Melbourne “ Argus”). She has the lowest general. infantile death-rate in tlie world; Sliq. :< . exhibits the use of pure English speed is) and everywhere genwlity aAd courtesy.'# Her greatest contHbutipiU to civilisa-7; tion is the fact that.has shown,;! that efficient'/ in ability grid race££ and that tlio!| quality'of the mixingrtaces the' ? jlttet and 'iprppjsf;/treatment of tlie offfp spring. Her people-.piay, indeed, feelit? proud. There is nothing objectionable in mixture in itself. The',' result defends: oji lifcufiistances. The'-'; New Zealand Experiment offers some >• hope to a world containing some GO nationalities. It is early to speak of tlie final result, or to assume that the mixture is without fault, hut so far as can be judged at present New Zealand is absorbing a Polynesian civilisation and is not destroying the members o'f that alien race.”

NOT A LARGE REWARD. The following incident does great credit to the honesty of the New Zealand railway official, but it discloses aphase of the psychology of the human: mind very difficult to analyse. If honesty has its own reward, then it certainly cannot be measured by tlie magnanimity of the Waihi woman in 'the case. On the 18th: of. this month a guard on the Frankton-Waihi train picked up a woman’s purse containing £l2l 9s lOd in cash, and bank book showing a credit balance of between three and four hundred pounds. The bank book disclosed ‘the fact that the owner was a resident of Waihi, and the finder lost no time in having tlio purse and contents sent on to Waihi. Ho received a reply-stating that tlio owner had had no idea where she had lost her purse, and as a reward for his honesty she enclosed the sum of two shillings! ...