LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1932, Page 6

LATE LOCALS

When c a mob of .sheep was being driven along High Street, Rangiora, towards the saieyards on Monday morning, several animals broke away, and seeing a door opening off the street, tried to get through. The door is setback off the street, between plate glass windows. One sheep missed . f.he door, charged' the- window, and shattered it completely.

Fri the stress of excitem’cnt during .street disturbances, 'things' happen -tluik seem rather like an invention. While the rioting was going on in .Auckland, some young fellows went into a shop kept by a Chinese, bought a large punipkin and then, going' outside, deliberately threw it through -the' window. The enraged proprietor picked up a potato and threw it at the larrikins'. hut his aim was faulty, and he hit a policeman, who was surprised and also annoyed. Explanation followed, and the constable forgave the excited greengrocer. A New Plymouth resident who frequently acts as private bailiff, was sent by a solicitor to distrain for rent. On arrival early in the morning lie found that there was no food in the house, and that the man of the house was only awaiting the opening of the office to apply to the Taranaki Hospital Hoard for charitable aid to provide his wife and four children with something to eat. Examining the cupboa ixl, he found it absolutely hare. He at on L -e went back to town in a taxi, purchased two loaves of bread, some butter and a loin of mutton to relieve their immediate necessities. The taxidriver assisted by decliirng to charge for the trip.

Enterprising searchers for gold recently found that the dust from a street in Englehnwk, a suburb of Bendigo, contained payable gold. The surface of the roadway was energetically is wept, into heaps with hard brooms by two young men, and the dust was then put into wheelbarrows and taken to an old dam and carefully “cradled.” Ear from appreciating the fact that the road was being swept beautifully clean, the authorities sent along a policeman who seized the brooms, the wheelbarrows., the cradle and the gold dnsf nn the ground that the sweeping was remo\ ing the surface of the road and involving civic outlay for repairs.