NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2551, 6 March 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

At Belfast recently, Special-Con-stable Whittaker, who shot a rabbit at Enniskillen, was fined Is under the old statute. Mr J. Cooper, M.P., who defended, said that under the same statute Sergeant Codd, who prosecuted, was liable to be fined 5s for doling duty on a Sunday. At the inguest on Charlotte Jervois, a young woman who was found dead in a bathroom 1 , at the Christchurch Club, where she was employed, medical evidence was given that death was due to heart failure associated with a septic' condition. The coroner, in returning a verdict accordingly expressed surprise that the chemist from whom certain purchases of pills had been made had not advised the deceased to consult a doctor.

A motor lorry belonging to the Public Works Department met with an accident at Arapeti on Thursday. While, negotiating the winding track between the cookhouse and the canteen, the front wheels of the lorry left the road. The fully-laden vehicle -rolled over twice, dumping its cargo en route. A man who was riding on the top of the load jumped clear, landing on a stump. The driver, Coleman, managed to make his exit from the driving cab just as the lorry rolled over and landed alongside. Fortunately Dr McDonald w ; as in the camp at the time, and speedily attended to both men. The passenger was unhurt, but the driver was severely shaken and is suffering from shock. He only started on Thursday, and this was his first trip on this road. A scheme for harnessing the Winds and making them give cheap .electrical current for all rural districts it is stated, is being considered by the British Ministry of Agriculture. The plan, it is said, requires low buildings, with great, wide wings projecting from each side, to be placed on the hill tops. These wings, it seems, will not revolve like those of an ordinary windmill, but will go round and .round, just above the ground, with a horizontal movement like that of a capstan. The Spectator, commenting on the scheme, says if the scheme is practicable there must be cheap electric storage to make it a success. ;ne great advantage of wind power 's its universality and inexhaustibility. No doubt there are calms when the winds are “up-gathered like sweeping flowers;” but such perfect anti-cyclones are not usually lasting. We all remember the old Scots laird who favoured planting trees because “they’re growing while you are sleeping.” Even more pleasant would it be to hear the winds moaning and roaring while one lay in bed warmed by the blankets and the thought—“they are making me light and heat and motor transport for tomorrow.”