NEWS AND NOTES.
There are widespread fears that the world’s demand for meat will shortly outrun the. supply, and result in a large advance in the prices of food.
Some extensive mining operations have been proceeding quietly for some time past in Crept',hi, with the view of developing some rich ground back of the town (reports the Tuatapere Guardian). Mr L. Cross, who is chiefly concerned in the venture, states that sluicing operations will shortly be commenced, and that it will be “ the biggest thing yet tackled about this district.”
Referring to the close season for pigeons, the Mangaweka paper says the loose manner in which the law is being upheld is a public scandal. A gentleman who has been on a visit along the Main Trunk states that all along the line parties are out daily pigeon shooting. In some cases the birds are carried openly, but mostly concealed in bags. The whole thing is a farce. If the birds are to be protected why are not rangers appointed to bring the poachers to justice ?
“ Of all the various kinds of lunatics the man who does this sort of thing is the most dangerous,” said Mr F. V. Fraser, S.M., at the Auckland Police Court. He referred to a man who had been summoned for riding a motor cycle at a dangerous speed along the Remuera road, dodging in an out of the traffic at Newmarket and finally broke down when ascending the hill in Khyber Pass road. A pursuing constable on a tramcar, who, up to this time, had been outdistanced, was thus enabled to catch his quarry, who was fined £2.
“ A working man’s wife,” writes to the Lyttelton Times: ‘‘Now that competitions are all the rage, might I suggest a new kind, say, wood-chopping and boot-cleaning for boys, and dishwashing and baby minding for girls ? We all know that the competitions now on a:e excellent in their way, but in the majority of cases what good are they to the competitors and their relations, once they are over, unless they belong to people of the leisured class ? I think I am perfectly right in stating that in many a working man’s family they do more harm than good. Gladys is good at her music, thereiore her fond parents enter her tor the competitions. She must not be asked to wash a dish or sweep a floor, or it will spoil her hands lor the competition. . . . Let us glorify the simple tasks.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1249, 23 May 1914, Page 4
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415NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1249, 23 May 1914, Page 4
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