NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3848, 22 September 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The 1927-28 season for honey production was the best on record, all districts-producing good crops. The total number of bankruptcies in the W-anganui district has shown a steady decrease at the end of each succeeding quarter of the present year. •Six remittances of conscience money to Government departments are acknowledged in the Gazette* The largest is £2O, forwarded fo the Land and Income Tax Department, the others being amounts from £5 to £l, sent to the Printing, Customs and Railways Departments. The claim of Alex. Ingley, of Otaki, against the Minister of Public works for. compensation for his son Claude Ingley, who was electrocuted at Otaki in February last, has been settled. Judgment was entered for the petitioners for £2OO and costs. * A New Zealand farmer, James Deason, who is visiting England, complained to the London police that confidence tricksters robbed him of £4500. He chummed up with three men- at his hotel. They submitted a scheme for the treatment of New Zealand meat. It is understood that Deason parted with his money to purchase plant patent rights. A Chinaman who called at an Invercargill residence recently was wreathed in smiles (says the “Southland Times”). When asked why, he said that his wife had just presented him with a son. “What are you going to call it?” came the query. “Olq after the airmen,” was the reply. “What, are you going to call it Kingsford Smith?” asked the astonished housewife. “No, Wun Long Hop.” Some members of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce think that eightpenee for a cup of tea and a sandwich at railway refreshment rooms is an “inquitous charge.” A letter from the Railways Department, read at a meeting of the chamber, stated that, if the price were reduced to sixpence, as suggested bv the chamber, the little profit that was made would he lost. The letter also stated that the charges made for refreshments on the New Zealand railways compared very well with those in other parts of the world. “If they cut the price to sixpence they’d sell 50 per cent, more,” said a member.