NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2691, 5 February 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Survey parties sent out by the Public Works Department are at present engaged in making trial surveys for the contemplated extentiou of the railway beyond Rotorua, with Taupo as its ultimate objective point. The surveyors are understood to be exploiting three possible routes. Included iu the list of newly-regis tered companies is the following: — Holmwood Shipping Co., Ltd. Registered as a private company, January 25th, 1924. Office: 17 St. Hill Street, Wanganui. Capital: £2,500 into 2,500 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Wellington—M. T. Holm. Wanganui—F. 0. Bridgman, S. Holm. New Plymouth: J. H. H. Holm 625 shares each. Objects: To purchase, build, take in exchange, charter, or otherwise acquire, hold ships and vessels or any shares or interests in ships, or vessels, to carry on business of shipowners, ship brokers and general incidental.

The whaleboat, Sir James Clark Ross, is at present in Discovery Bay, near the South Pole, on a whaling expedition, and on her is Captain Hooper, of the New Zealand Marine Department. She is in daily wireless communication with the Bluff. The latest report stated

at it is fifteen degrees below zero

and the aerial is covered with frozen snow, which is a good insulator. No report has been received as to

the number of whales which have been caught, although the commander of the boat is probably in touch with his principal in Norway. “I am starting the new year at a pound fine,” said Mr Barton, S.M. in dealing with a cyclist for riding without lights, at the Wanganui Court. The Magistrate added, that if the pound fine did not have the desired effect he would increase the amount.

A neatly folded scrap of paper lay on the Avenue footpath, in Wanganui (says the Chronicle). A passer-by in a movement of curiosity, picked it up and read the contents, which consisted of a list of objects to be purchased. The following were heavily scored with a black line: slasher handle, file, tobacco, matches, magazine and medicine. The unscored articles were sausages, bread, and safety pins. It was obviously a fanner’s remembrance that had been unwittingly lost, and the passer-by mused upon the consequences that would follow when the countryman had to meet his wife who probably had the frying pan on the lire. The shortage of sausages might possibly be got over by another cut oil the coined mutton. Bread might be borrowed from a neighbour, but the absence of safety pins was a problem that the local Sherlock Holmes would not venture to speculate upon. However, he smiled drily as he noted that it was the essentially masculine details that had been faithfully attended to.