GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The long-suffering'public is about to have another shortage thrust upon - it (says' a Gisborne telegram to the Auckland Herald). This time it is sausage skins. A reporter learned that the local butchers wore all very short of (his necessary article of their business, and that the prospect of supplies was somewhat remote. This stale of,affairs had been brought about by one firm effecting a corner in the supplies - .'., “There are sonic people avlio arc never so happy as Avhen they arc looking for trouble,” remarked a) prominent Auckland trade unionist to a Star reporter, apropos of the persistent rumours Hint a big strike is going to 'make 1920 a milestone. “All over the country 'people are sedulously spreading the idea that a big general strike is coming, although there is no foundation in fact for the belief that industrial trouble is any more imminent now than in (he past. Verily (says the Taranaki -News) it is the age of tnaehinery, and daily we hear of wonderful things being (tone by its agency, but previously no report has readied us of a man having driven the Avily sheep by means of an automobile. 'Phis remarkable foal avms recently performed on the Junction Road by a well-known farmer, avlio says that the whirr”of the Ford at the hods of the'lit tie lambkins caused them to step gaily along, thus eliminating the necessity of the usual drover’s dog.
When a seventeon-yciir-old boy employed in,a brickyard appears in possession of an expensive motor car it must, bp manifest-to Ins girl friends that there is something iishy about it. Yet the principle seems to he established in the recent “joyriding” cases that the girts can enjoy ail the glory of careering about the countryside in other people s motor cars and escape scoi-frc? while the boys go to gaol. V e would suggest, that in future cases of this sort it would he a salutary proceeding to bring all the occupants of the cars before the Magistrate to account for their presence in them. — Dominion. • v
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2093, 21 February 1920, Page 4
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344GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2093, 21 February 1920, Page 4
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