NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2797, 14 October 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The recent prosecution h«•«i-«i in 1 l.i mill on, in which u farmer was lii’t'd £3 tor running mi oil-engine without n certilieale from the inspector of machinery, has resulted in no"fewer than 30(1 fan\;rs applying to the department for certiorates, staled the inspector of machinery in the Hamilton Court. The Maoris of Waimana have considered for some time the setting aside of a piece of land for the erection of a college for the higher education of their children (says the Whakatane Press). How, the liiiatoki Natives, in view of the fact that the Waimana Maoris were only able to give 70 acres of (lie site, have asked that the school lie creeled a<t lluatoki, where they were willing to endow 7 the school with 200 acres. This was agreed to and negotiations were commenced with Te Iwikiuo and family for a piece of

land of 100 acres. They readily consented to the proposal and with another 100 acres promised be the Run told owners a site of 200 acres is assured. The Taranaki Chamber of Commerce is endeavouring to arrange for direct steamer eoninninieation between New Plymouth and India, and various Eastern ports. Ai present there is a direct service three times a year from Calcutta, Batavia, Samnrang and Singapore to the New Zealand main ports, and if is thought that if 400 to 500 tons of cargo could he guaranteed for Taranaki, it could be arranged for steamers to include New Plymouth in their itinerary. The chamber is seeking the co-operation of similar institnt ions.

Three young men were charged, in the Christchurch Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon with an offence stated to have taken place 14 years agcqwhen they were mere lads. Malcolm Dane Howarth, George Arthur Grainger and Herbert William Grainger were charged with having forged the name “\Y. Hownrth” to an authority to withdraw the sum of £lls from the Post Office Savings Bank, thus causing Sydney Pope to act on ii. as if it were genuine. The charge gave the date as January sth, 1910. All the accused pleaded guilty and were committed to the Supreme Court tor sentence.