NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3670, 26 July 1927, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

Claiming that he was “wronged, defrauded, an deliberately misled and forced to his doom,” and that he was made to trust in the law whilst others were given the chance to illegally seize his business, deprive him of his rights and fight him with his own money, Joseph Akel, merchant of Wellington, is petitioning Parliament asking that all those who illegal seized his business and robbed him be brought to justice and made responsible for all the wrongs he has suffered. A return of rates paid by 11 cities and towns in New Zealand, which was supplied to the Works 'Committee of the New Plymouth Borough Council, showed that the average amount of rates paid per head of the population was lower in New Plymouth than in any of the other towns cited. The amount in New Plymouth is £2 14s lOd per head of the population. Auckland was highest in the list with an average rate of £4 11s 8-R An Auckland resident who called on his Chinese launderer found that since the occasion of his previous visit a number of alterations had been carried out at the shop, the principal one being the erection of a. wire grille for the full length of the counter, with a small opening for the reception and handling out of parcels. “Making it like a cage?” hazarded the visitor. “Plenty thief, Auckland,” said John sadly." “Someone taken four lots starched collar off counter. Allee same bank now.” The heavy fall of snow last week in the vicinity of the National Park has been greatly appreciated by alpinists, but the millions of rabbits on the table-land were nonplussed by the changed order of things, for they were unable to run, and cou only progress slowly by hopping li e a kangaroo (says an exchange). When one of the trains • was n Rangataua, a Maori passenger saw a forlorn rabbit trying to hop, and he immediately gave chase and captured it amid cheers from the other train passengers. “Kapai! sal a much pleased Maori as he stiugg e back through the snow to the tram.