LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1932, Page 6

LATE LOCALS

j Members of Excelsior seniors are requested to meet at the shed, Hamp- ', den Street., to-night at 7 o’clock sharp. ! —Advt. “A lot of us don’t get our livelihood by good looks,” said Mi- Justice Blair ■to a jury in the' Supreme Court in j "Wellington, when referring to the quesI tin of the amount that should be 1 allowed for injuries to a boy’s face. | His Honour added, amid laughter, , that if the position were different from I that which he had indicated, some j people would have a hard time of it. Allowance totalling £‘10,842 a year were alloc tied among 44 retiring ccnI tributors at a. meeting of the Public Service Superannuation Board in Wel- , lington this week. Six contributors rei tired as medically unfit, were granted | allowances totalling £606 a year, and the board declined to grant- an allowance in one case, and deferred mother case for further medical evidence. Statutory allowances amounting to £305 were granted for distribution among nine widows and one child, and two contributors were granted allowances aggregating £lB2 a year under tliel legislation Covering officers who are compulsorily retired through no fault of their own.

j 0 win it to tile high prices obtained j for gold in England at present, goldj mining companies in Auckland liave been shipping gold as fast as it is available (states the “New Zealand ■Herald”). A consignment of bullion was made to London by the motor-ship Orari, which left Auckland for London on Thursday night while a further shipment was made by the same company by the steamer Pakelm, which left for London on Saturday. All the shipments are made by vessels equipped with strongrooms. The gold is removed from city banks and placed on board a short time before the vessels sail.

A liye-seater Hupmobile cur. owned by Mr Donald C. Richardson, of Huntsbury avenue, cradled over a cliff near where it was parked on tin* Huntsburv Hill on Saturday morning and was completely smashed. Mr Richardson le t the ear parked in front of his house and found it next morning wrecked at the foot of a forty-loot clill a slu.rt distance

ituay. 'Hit' downward route <d' the ear was littered with tool < and h o on I a Is. and llit; iinal resting place was strewn with the wrecked parts. The hood of the ear was torn off. tho upholstery thrown out, and the chassis twisted and broken beyond hope o repair. Ihe ear must have turned over and o\er, eventually landing on its wheels.