NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2103, 16 March 1920, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

.Amongst the large number of nameless graves on both Gallipoli Peninsula and the fields of Franco there have been frequently picked up keepsakes or other apparently insignificant articles that have led to the identity of the soldier being established. The Secretary of the New Zealand War Graves Committee is endeavouring to locale the relatives or next-of-kin of an unidentified soldier, from whose body has been recovered a large plain button brooch faced with the inscription “Kia Ora.” Any information should he addressed to the Secretary of the New Zealand War Graves Committee at the eomntitlee’s ofticels in Wellington. The Otaki Mail waxes indignant, against the “powers that he” for its neglect in allowing Chinese shacks to he erected in Otaki, contrary to the by-laws. The Afail goes on to say: —“Chinese are allowed to erect: buildings (save the mark!) comprised chiefly of benzine tins, with no sanitary arrangements, and these are overcrowded with human beings. The by-laws are a dead letter. These wretched hovels are springing up in all directions, and are a memorial to the indifference and neglect of our town commissioners. Chinese market gardeners have a perfect right to come and live in our midst if they wish, but they should he compelled to comply with the conditions applying to any decent town.” Air Burton, S.AI., said at the To Knili Court that land agents’ licenses will in future he more carefully scrutinised by himself. In addition to having certificates of good rim racier, he thought a magr-t rale should he satisfied that applicants .should have a knowledge of bookkeeping, and he able to keep trust, accounts. In future an applicant for renewal of his /license would have to produce a certificate from a qualified accountant showing that applicant's hooks were properly kept, and must bring his books to the Court so that the Bench could see that cheques on trust account were paid into general account. Owing'lo (he boom in land and properly new businesses were springing up like mushrooms. People rushed in who had failed at all other careers, who had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and who, if they made a slip, could fold up their tents, like Arabs, and silently steal away. The public should he protected, and it was the duty ol the Court to lake precautions such as he had suggested.