NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3646, 2 June 1927, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

It is stated that a Chinese resident of Pukekohe has been recalled to China for military service. Early lambs, the first of the season, are to be seen on Mr. R. Bevan’s farm at Manakau. A resident of Takapuna, Auckland, has been prosecuted on 30 occasions for allowing cattle to wander. The manner in which Mr. Simpson, of Lower Hutt, first heard of an accident to his wife, was rather curious. When Mrs. Simpson left home she took her dog with her. Later in the afternoon the dog returned home, and began howling as if to attract attention to some hidden trouble of his own. On following the dog, Mr. Simpson was led to the scene of the accident. An amusing story is told of a discovery made by a canvasser for the Poverty Bay Power Board. The people of a house at which ho was calling were unaware that lie was a representative of the Board, and on seeing a cord running from the light socket in one room through a hole in the wall to the adjoining room lie asked what it was for. “Oh, that’s a little scheme to beat the Power Board,” was the reply. The canvasser then informed the householder that he was representing the Board and asked to see “the little scheme.” On going into the next room he found there a heating unit attached by tlm cord to the light socket in the next room. Thus, the householder was paying 7d a unit for heating, whereas if he had had a plug installed it would have cost him only 3d. This kind of “beating” would no doubt be welcomed by the Board.