NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2611, 26 July 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

M. Voronoff in a statement in the London “Sunday Express,” says: “Within four months I shall he able ! > give the world a method whereby women may become young again, just as I can now take thirty years off a man’s age. I have not neglected women, but, on the contrary, have been experimenting in this direction for a long time.” At a meeting of the Blenheim Farmers’ Union, the chairman said there did not seem to be a fixed rate for railway freights. Evidently the Department was exploiting everyone wherever possible. When high and unreasonable charges were found out and questioned the Department rapidly climbed down. A resolution was passed that the Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union be asked to inquire into the matter of different railway charges on goods as between shipping firms and private individuals.

The habit of using other people's motor cars became rather common recently in and around Christchurch hut the sentence imposed by Mr Wvvcrn Wilson, S.M., oil two men at the Magistrate’s Court, Rangiora yesterday should help to restrain future joy riders. The two men charged were Reginald Pearce and Joseph Mortland. Pearce was lined .£b and costs and Mortland was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. The Magistrate said the offence of taking cars was becoming too common, and the only way to stop these offences was to impose such a penalty as to create fear among the community.