NEWS AND NOTES.
A secret ballot held by the Auckland glassworks employees to decide whether the- refusal of the Australian Glass Company to accede to the demand of lower paid workers f'or wages increase resulted in 13 votes for a strike and 31 against. Under .the will of the late Mr. S. J. D. Good, of Rangiora, £IO,OOO is left to religious bodies. The sum will be held in trust and the income divided into 14 equal parts. Three parts are to be paid to the South Sea Evangelical Mission, for mission work in the Solomon Islands, and the remaining eleven parts to the Stewards’ Trust of New Zealand.
Reserved judgment was given by Mr. R. WL Tate, S.M., recently at New Plymouth in a case in which P. B. Sole, W. Theobald and Jack Eopu were charged with cruelty to a horse. The evidence disclosed that the horse was driven by defendants while it was suffering with a broken shoulder. Sole was fined £ls and costs, Theobald £1 and costs, and Kopu convicted and ordered to pay costs. ■That misfortunes rarely come singly was demonstrated to two of Nelson’s well-known citizens who had gone on an excursion to Lake Rotorua. Shortly after arrival they determined to take a stroll upon the rustic pier from which the launch sails at the head of the lake. In returning one of the twain inadvertently stepped upon the end of one of the' loose slabs, which form the floor of the wharf, and was instantly precipitated into the lake, feet foremost. , The other, divining that something had happened, turned round, and in so doiug, too stepped upon another loose plank and' instantly shared the fate of his friend. The water was only about 2ft. in depth, and both luckily kept their feet, while the planks which followed narrowly missed them. In their fall the two men also missed each other by the narrowest of margins.
Who says Dunedin in unknown in the big outer world? asks one of the local papers. A prominent local music warehouse has just received an order for a steel guitar outfit from a gentleman namedScippo, in Ascension Island, which is situated 800 miles north of St. Helena. British postal notes to the value of £5 10s were enclosed with the order. M|. Scippo may have had some previous connection with Dunedin, or he may get newspapers sent him from -New Zealand. The fact remains, however, that he knows this particular firm and lias confidence in it and in Dunedin to the extent of sending the money with the order. The goods are being dispatched by way of London. The abnormally low level of water in Lake Brunner, near Greymouth, due to the long spell of dry weather' has resulted in the discovery of one of the lake’s treasures, a fine specimen of a greenstone axe. This was found along the shore of the lake on the Inchbonnie side, and near it was a stone used for sharpening an axe. The axe. has probably been covered by the waters of Lake Brunner for many years, and its discovery is regarded as further proof that the Maoris passed that way on their journeys to and from the greenstone country from Canterbury, long before the advent of the pakeha. A trip of over 200 miles on horseback has just been completed by Mr, Frank Jones, a settler of Waiotemarama, near Hokianga, and his two daughters, aged 9 and 15. Mr. Jones, who has a selection of. 800 acres up North, wishing to sell his farm and buy another, made a tour of inspection of many farming districts. With two horses and his daughters for company, he started out full of hope. Many stops were made, and for five days the pally toured the rural districts. At times both girls rode on the one horse, while sometimes, for a change, Mr. Jones would walk and let his daughters have a horse each. Unable to buy a tent before he left, Mr. Jones'had to trust to Providence and the weather. At night the three slept beneath the sky on sacks, with blankets as the only coverings. Provisions were obtained at each town visited, and many were tho experiences the long ride. Arriving at Ka.ukapakapa on a Sunday, Mr. Jones was refused provisions by a law-abiding storekeeper, who said to the farmer: “I have met hundreds like you before/’ However, he gave Mr. Jones some water. “We met over 20 men, who told ns that they were walking the country in search of work.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3757, 21 February 1928, Page 4
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760NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3757, 21 February 1928, Page 4
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