NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3941, 11 May 1929, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Several motorists on the road (between Te Roti and Normanby have recently been confronted by a ghostly vision. During the past week Mr. H. Kasper, of Elthain, while returning to that town, saw the “ghost,” and on other occasions different motorists have seen it on the road, several having received frights. The “ghost” is thought to be of very material origin, some youth or other misguided individual being responsible.— lHawera Star. s A waiming to motorists was given in the New Plymouth Police Court by the prosecution of a woman driver for driving over a fire ■hose. As the case was the first of its bind in New Plymouth, and brought as a warning to motorists, the Magistrate' entered a conviction without a fine, but intimated that motorists must understand they were not permitted to drive over a fire hose.

On each of the pillars in the new sea (wall on Caroline Bay, states the Timaru Herald, has been placed the name of one of the Great War battle fields, and most of the names have some association with the service of the New Zealand forces. These names, which were cast in bronze metal 10-cally, are probably as good as any that could be obtained from England or Australia. The name plates will be polished and then lacquered, and will be kept clean by the Boy Scouts of-Timaru. The work is being earned out by the Caroline Bay Association, and it is their intention to erect a sundial about the centre of the wall. On the face of the pedestal there will lie placed a roll of honour plate, bearing the names of the eleven V.C. heroes connected with the Great War.