NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2841, 3 February 1925, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

An order rm ooarding pikes, flint lock muskets, tomahawks, old pistols and powder canisters has been placed with an old curiosity shop at Falmouth by the committee which is restoring and refitting’ Nelson’s Flag ship Victory in Trafalgar style. An accident occurred on the Dan-nevirke-Pohga.roa road, near Weber, a few days ago, says an exchange. Mr Tom Hoperoft, contractor, at Pongnroa, was conveying a load of 100 lambs to Dnnnevirke hv motor lorry, when the steering gear went wrong on a had hill. The lorry swerved out and just as it was about to go over the bank, the driver managed to jump clear on to the road. The lorry rolled down the bank a depth of nearly 200 feet. Fortunately only six lambs were killed, but the majority were bruised and injured. The conveyance was a total wreck.

The Tate of the 8,000 old telephones in Auckland when the cutover from the mama'll to the automatic exchange takes place this month is not giving the Telegraph Department any concern. The chief telegraph engineer, Mr E. A. Shrimpton, stated that the old instruments would he rapidly absorbed in the country. Telephone subscribers were increasing at the rate of 1,000 a month, so that Auckland’s contribution to stock would not remain in store more than a year. A recent cut-over in Palmerston N. had released hundreds of manual instruments, but they had all been absorbed for use in other places within three weeks.

There never was a tragedy that did not have a humorous little imp treading on the tail of misfortune, says the Matainata correspondent of the “Auckland Star.” When the regulations in regard to infantile paralysis preventing those under 16 from attending public places of entertainment, came into foi'ce, several young people who had previously obtained admittance to the MataTnata Town Hall pictures at halfprice by stating that they were under 16 continued to make their appearance at the ticket box. On being challenged they cheerfully admitted that they had celebrated their sixteenth birthdays and paid the full entrance charge. The manager informed them that they would not he able to reduce their ages and get in at half-price again when the infant il paralysis regulations were cancelled.