NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2731, 10 May 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

Telephone operators on the Brisbane Exchange arc lined anything from 10/- to £5 for talking on the line to subscribers. If the person talked to, however, is a “he,” it i* considered gallant Du- him to do the paying, so probably be is usually a “lie.” One such man paid smilingly £1 lately for a few minutes’ talk.

New York lias bobbed hair “highway women” —perhaps a score of them —but it: has remained for the police of Winnipeg and Kenora to arrest a bobbed-hail- school-girl bootlegger. Ann Seymour, 15 years of age, was caught boarding a train with an old telescope bag inside of which she carried four gallons of “straight” alcohol. When lirst approached the girl claimed that she had been visiting her sick grandmother. Can any town in New Zealand show a- record like that of an Auckland family which is composed of six whose aggregate ages are 49(1 \cars ! Ihe eldest is only six years oil' the century, and the youngest is 69. Ihe family is not only longlived, hut is extremely virile, and two of the “hoys”—B” and 69—still play tennis. Though they do not aspire to the Davis Cup reputation they are quite capable of defending (heir mana against players very much their junior. It is perhaps unnecessary to add that the family comes from Scotland.