NEWS AND NOTES.
The alleged theft of a ring from Jenness and Partridge’s was the charge against Leonard Richard Cunningham, taxi 4river, aged 28, who appeared at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, and was remanded to April 26. Bail was refused.
(Fashion, both male and female, affect industry. Short skirts for women, it stated, increased unemployment in Britain, while turn-ed-up trousers for men benfited the fancy sock trade. Flints are still cut, or “knapped,” at Brandon, in Norfolk; near this town is Grimes Graves, where there are (lint mines and the dwellings used by the miners who worked in them 300 years ago.
As a result of a ear collision on Wednesday afternoon on the top of a hill at a bend of the road between Matamau and Ormondville, Horace Walters, aged 23, single, his parents residing at Auckland, was fatally injured. He died in the Dannevirke' Hospital yesterday morning.
At the Wellington S.M. Court on Tuesday, Thomas Dwyer, a steward, aged 50, and Francis Patrick Law, a taxi-proprietor, for keeping a gaming house called the Premier Club were fined £4O and £IOO respectively and thirty-eight persons found on the premises were fined in sums ranging from £2 to £5 each. The house was run as a hazards school and was frequented principally by working men. The proprietors made about £25 per night gut of the game.
More than 730 miles of the German railroads, 2.3 per. cent, of the whole system had been electrified by the close of 1927, of which about seventy miles were made up of urban and inter-urban lines.
The prosperity of the United States continues on the upgrade States continues on th eupgrade. In a recent period of 12 months, over the entire country, there were only 545 trade disputes, and of these over 71 per cent, were adjusted.
A public examination of James Douglas Adams, formerly manager of the Bank of Australasia, Levin, was made before Mr. Justice Reed at the Supreme Court in Wellington on Wednesday. The questions asked all had reference to the sums borrowed by bankrupt at various times. Bankrupt said that about £795 of his debts of £BOB represented borrowed money. He had spent between £3oo* and £4OO in liquor. His Honour made a declaration that bankrupt’s affairs had been sufficiently investigated and the examination was finished.
“Apart from the spiritual, there is no question of more vital importance to the Maori people today than that of medical supervision,” declared the Rev. F. A. Bennett, addressing the Maori gathering at Pakipaki, near Hastings. “We are a small people,” he said, “surrounded by all sorts of epidemics, and we must look to the Health Department for greater help and more practical assistance.” It was impossible for one man in charge of Maori hygiene to do more than scratch the surface, seeing that the Maori population was approximately 60,000. His suggestion was that there should be at least three medical officers in the North Island, one in each of the three Maori electorates, but the great obstacle to this would probably be finance. Sir Apirana Ngata said that the question was a difficult one. “The present position of the medical man in charge of Maori hygiene,” he said, “is like the fifth wheel in a coach, and I do not hold out much hope of getting anything done when the outlook of the Health Department on Maori problems is such as it is at the present time.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3782, 21 April 1928, Page 1
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