NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2711, 22 March 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

I’lie old. liorse-draivn hearse, which was a familiar object in Wanganui for many years before the advent of the up-to-date motor vehicles, has been shipped to Auckland, says the “Wanganui Herald/’ In the Queen City it will be placed in the hands of the eoadi-lmilders to remove the top hamper. If is slated that the other portion will be converted into a commercial vehicle suitable for hawking tish. As the wheels were in an excellent .state of repair, the vehicle should render good service for many years t.. come in the Auckland province.

A nuked lunatic, armed with a broken water jug ran down a street it, Boutlicrn Balmain. Sydney, and endeavoured to limit'd a tram. He slipped from the footboard and a wheel passed over bis foot, crushing bis toes. During his mad eareel’ through the streets he was pursued liv his wife, clad in n nightdress and kimono,and her brother. When seized, although his foot was badlv injured, the man struggled with such ferocity th.it it took three men to ipiieten him. The women in tlte tram became hysterical. Finally the runaway was handed over to doctors for examination.

On a native meeting house in course of erection near Te Puke there is placed a notice in English, “No ladies of any kind whatsoever are allowed inside this building.” 'flic Maori version of the notice is also exhibited (says tin*. “Poverty Bay Herald"). The explanation given was that it is an old Maori custom that no woman is allowed inside a meeting bouse during the erection. Should she unconsciously stray there it is said the erection of the house would be abandoned.

Some amount of publicity for the Dominion has been obtained (says “The Post’s” London correspondent, writing ou sth February) through the British Broadcasting Company. In its search for children’s stories it obtained from Mr. K. M. B. Fisher a number of New Zealand “School .Journals." Extracts irom 1 liese have been broadcasted for the henelir of youthful listeuers-in, and now, having exhausted the tirsl supply of journals, the company has approached the High Commissioner for father numbers. As new issues are available they will be

brought into use to let the youth of Great Britain know something of lb,* most distant Dominion of t!i« Empire.

In llie.se economical times, to be till* failin' ill.' a numerous family is not the fashion, lmt, here and there are exemptions. One of these men was present at a meeting' of parents regarding the overcrowding at Addington school (says the Christchurch Sun). "1 have always had live children at the school," he said, for the last four, live, six years, there has been live. When one has left there has been another to start. Goodness knows how many more there will be l' A later speakei suggested that perhaps the overcrowding would he relieved ii' Mi' went out of the district.