NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3774, 31 March 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A good story is being told by a well-known settler in the Pa.pawai district (says the Grey town Standard). Recently a native visited his house in sore trouble. He explained that the corpse of a Maori lad lay at the pah, but they had no money with which to meet the funeral expenses. The sorrowing man asked for the loan of £4, which was readily handed to him. Next day the settler sustained a shock when the lad, whose spirit was supposed to jhave departed, called at his home for some milk.

Wfhen the Wairau River Board decided to purchase a small mob of young cattle to release on the Wairau riverbed to eat down willow growth it anticipated that, provided the animals were not washed out to sea by a sudden flood, a profit would be made when they wero sold as “fats” (says the Auckland Herald). This anticipation has been quite handsomely realised, the investment having yielded a profit of over £22. The secretary stated that the cattle cost £74 in the first place, and expenses during the period they had been in the board’s possession were £l3 18s 4d, making a total outlay of £B7 18s 4d. The stock had just been sold for £llO 5s 3d, leaving a clear profit of £22 6s lid, with one animal still unsold. A record for fast travel was recently established by Mr. Hart, of Greymouth, contractor for the new Milford Hostel (states the Dunedin “Star”). H.e left Greymouth by car at 5 p.m. on Friday, 16th March, and arrived in Dunedin at 11 a.m. the following day. On Saturday afternoon Gore was reached, and on Sunday morning the journey was made from Gore to Te Anau. A special steamer was chartered, and Glade House was readier at 6 p.m. Mr. Hart left for Pompalona and Quinton Huts almost immediately, arriving at Quinton at 5 a.m. on Monday. An hour later he set off for the Sound, which was reached at 11 a.m. The start on the return journey was made at 2 p.m., Glade House being reached on Tuesday morning, and Dunedin on Wednesday. The sixty-six miles on the track were covered in forty-two hours, including a night journey over the McKinnon Pass.

Disagreement with a proposition that a motorist may pass a dog at any pace he chooses and that tho dog must look after itself as best it can, was expressed by Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M., in the Te Awamutu Magistrate’s Court, when awarding £5 as damages to an owner whose dog had been run over by a motorcar and killed, states the “Ntw Zealand Herald.” In my opinion,” said Mr. Maunsell, “when any animal is on the road, a motorist who is travelling at a rapid speed should, when approaching the animal, reduce his speed considerably, as an animal is quite likely to move on to the course which the motorist is taking. To hold otherwise would expose all animals to needless peril.” He then quoted an authority to the effect that a motorist “must honestly exercise his judgment in the circumstances, mindful of the fact that another person’s property is in peril.”