NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3993, 5 September 1929, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Hawera (Aero (Club has a membership of over 250, and a suitable piece of ground has been obtained for their use.

A relid of the pioneering days was shown to an Invercargill reportetr the other day in the form of a small block of compressed tea. The tea which resembled a plug of tobacco, was purchased in London in .1851 by the late Mr. J. T. Crofts. For failing to be in attendance when his name was called for the Grand Jury at the opening of the Supreme Court session at New Plymouth last week a resident was fined £5 by the Chief Justice. He later appeared and explained that he had missed the note left for him reminding him that he was required to attend. The Chief Justice remarked 'that he had carelessly, though probably not intentionally, neglected Ms duty, and as his explanation was not a satisfactory one, the fine could not be remitted. When the substantial position of the Auckland Savings Bank is considered amusement can be found in the anxious hours experienced by the bank’s officials on September 1, 1893 (says the Auckland Herald). Public nervousness .at? that period concerning investments provided fertile gfround, on which an idle rumour could grow, and when someone started a report that the bank had some of its funds invested in two institutions which were in difficulties, a run started on the bank. (Displays of gold and the readiness with which the claims of depositors wgre me’t gradually allaved the alarm and by evening many of those who had excitedly withdrawn their money were equally as clamorous for attention in replacing it in the bank’s coffers.

In a rcccrit law case a judge remauked that the prisoner had spent a dissolute, and wasted life. His Honour was probably correct, but under the circumstances it is interesting to discover jus't what an average man who attains the age of 72 does with his life. In the first place he sleeps fo;r 23 years 4 months. He spends six years in travelling and four years in being ill. It takes him no less than two years to dress, and six years two months to eat. This does not leave very many years for anything else, but in the remaining period of his life he generally works for 18 years 8 months and spends a solid 9 years 8 months in recreation and amusement.