NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2767, 5 August 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

At tin* annual meetinp of (lie Wanganui East Bowling Club this week, the secretary reported that nut a single members subscription was outstanding. A Birch Held family (remarks the Wesport News) had a rather unenviable experience in the early morning recently, when a heavy gale was blowing. The roof went off and then a side of the house was blown in. The coal and timber traffic from

the West Coast through the Otira Tunnel is keeping up to normal proportions. The average amount of traffic is about 100(1 tons daily including weight of trucks, or sibout 700 tons net weight of iraffle, and this amount seems to represent the normal traffic that can be expected from the West Const at present. “School teachers did not behave like intelligible human beings in the old days,” said Professor John Adams, during the course of a lecture recently at Auckland. “They were such fearful people that the women teachers would faint when they entered the rooms. In one case, an inspector always wore gloves in case he would have to shake hands with the teachers. That man afterwards committed suicide.”

In all, f»0,000 Atlantic salmon eggs were unpacked last Friday a I the Tvnkahi hatchery by Xfr L. F.. Arson, Government Inspector of Fisheries (states the Taumarunui correspondent of the New Zealand Times). The eggs which were collected from tributaries of Lake To Anau, were in good conditions, not more than 40 being dead. This is lhe first consignment soil this year for the Wanganui River.

Quite an interesting proposal was made by Mr F. Lnngslone (Waimarino) during the discussion on the Gaining Bill in the House of Representatives this week. ”1 should like 1,1 see a provision in the Bill.” be said, “whereby an owner would have io ride his own horse. T can imagine the member for Tnnranga dressed in silks riding in some race. I say it w.mld add to the amusement of the crowd. (Laughter). You would have much bigger attendances, and the people would have much more fun for their money. Sir George Clifford would also-look well. (Laughter). Unite a number of people would like to see the races if ilm owners rode their own horses." An incident not without humour ami showing remarkable smartness, cooless and presence of mind happened subsei'inent to the recent burglary ai the Nottingham Uastle Hotel, Morrinsville, says the To Ar,,lia News. The perpetrator caught (he evening train to Hamilton. Whilst on the train lie changed some of his clothes, and this aroused Ilm ■ impicinn of a fellow passenger, who mi arrival at Eraiikton nolilied the police, who were in entire .ignorance of the fad that a thetf had been committed a!_ Morrinsv;]jo. the fact at that time not having been discovered. The offender was interviewed and asked to explain his actions. Indignantly tie protested, giving his victims name a- his. and produeng his pass book and other stolen paper.- in support, of his; claim. The police though doubtful, let him go.