NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2600, 30 June 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Kaituna Dairy Company last week distributed '£1,500 among its suppliers, bringing the total pay out for the season to date to Is 4d per lb. A fine line of 00 bullocks left the Whenuakurn district last week for Australia. The price paid was £0 apiece. The top price at the latest rabbitskin sales at Dunedin was Dod per lb., realised for super winter does. Super winter bucks brought TOLL be held. ' , The Grey town Dairy Co., which sold practically all of its output locally, instead of consigning, has paid out Is 5d for butter fat up to May. “I think it is a wrong thing to take children out to social functions or card parties, and dances as part and parcel of their education,” said Mr P. J. IT. White at a meeting of the Taranaki Education Board when a request was under consideration that a school building should be altered so that social functions could

The Supreme Court hardly suggests itself as a fitting place for the plaving of prankish and annoying jokes by quaintly garbed students (says the Auckland .Star). As Ibe Court adjourned for luncheon tlic ; other day, a lorry load of youths stopped outside the court, and one of the party placed a kerosene tin, containing a tire, at the main entrance of the building. On the tire he placed two pieces of old motor tyre, and the net result was that for hours the atmosphere was poisoned by the noxious fumes of the consuming rubber.

A schoolboy’s amusing misinterpretation of a passage from Macaulay was related by Professor H. S. Deft man in his address before the Rotary Club recently (says the Xew Zealand Herald). The boy was required to transcribe into Tallin an extract commencing as follows: — 1 “No woman on the rampart but sput at him and hissed.” Evidently consumed with a' supreme contempt for the intrusion of women in the realm of manly accomplishments, the hoy, in his transcription, mu.de the passage read as follows: —“No woman on the rampart but spat at him and missed. ’

A TTillend eorrespendent sends to the Clutlm Free Press tin account of an accident illustrative of Imw easily “accidents may happen.” “What might have proved a fatal accident, and one which would undoubtedly have puzzled the best detective in Scotland Yard to unravel, occurred at Mr James Smith’s property. Mr Smith, who lmd been shooting rabbits in the morning was driving bis back home at dinner time, and when in his yard laid down his rifle on a rabbit that lie had brought home for his eat, while lie went to tie up his hack in the stable. The cat seeing the rabbit, came to get a feed and di>chaiged the rifle, which had accidentally been left ‘full-cock,’ the bullet just missed Mr Smith’s head by a few indies and lodged in 1 lie stable wall.