NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2584, 24 May 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Three quarters of a million of money went to Australia in one year for the purchase of timber which should have been kept in the Dominion, said Mr Page, of the Forestry Department, when advocating more tree planting at a farmers’ class held at the Stratford Technical High School.

The inc f that lie was already a married man with a family did not deter a resident of this district, says the Hawke’s Bay Herald, recently from offering himself to an unattached girl, who forthwith accepted the proposal. Preparations were made for the wedding, hut before the appointed day the. fair damsel learned of the ineligibility of her fiance. The secpiel was the handing over a. cheque for £4OO from man to maid in or der to avoid legal proeeedings. Candid criticism of New Zealand roads is contained in a letter received in Wellington from Mr J. Jaques, a hoot manufacturer of Northampton, England, who is at present on a tour of the North Island. Apropos of the trip from Taupo to Rotorua, he says, and with some authority as one who has travelled the world over: “We shall never do the trip again. It was 156 miles of bumps. Talk about roads, they are only tracks, the worst in the world. They are 75 per cent, worse than those from Nelson to Westport. I cannot think how the people put up with it. . . . We are all bruises and sore all over.” The Stoke-on-Trent Watch Committee lias decided to provide the police officers on point duty at night with white coats and white gloves for (lie hotter regulation of night vehicular traffic. The Chief Constable suggested that motorists might he of considerable assistance in the regulation of night traffic b.V driving with white gloves, as the officers nn point duty would then he aide to see more easily the signals given by drivers. He himself always made it a practice to wear white gloves when driving at night.

Two armed bank messengers, reclining luxuriously in the back-seat of a bank president’s limousine, carrying £10,060 from the Brooklyn branch of the Federal Reserve Bank, New York, dreamed of the time when they would he bank presidents with limousines of their own. Four bandits in a small motor car drew across their path. Before they could awake from their day dreams the messengers found themselves covered by the bandits’ revolvers and were forced from their car iu which the bandits drove off. The limousine was found abandoned in a lonely spot. The money and the robbers had vanished.