NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 4002, 26 September 1929, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The trout fishing season in New Zealand, excepting 'Rotorua and Taupo, will open on Tuesday, October 1, and close on April 30, 1930. At Rotorua and Taupo the fishing season will extend from November 1 until May 31, 1930. The shooting season for godwits and knots in the Auckland district will open on Januajry 1, 1930, and extend to March. '3l.

William Robinson, aged 61, a Nottingham bdilder’s labourer, has registered the birth of his 30th child.' He had 24 by his first wife, and six by the second, 22 boys and eight girls. Seventeen children are living, of whom three are married, and five of school age. Robinson told the “Daily Mail” that he could not keep such a big family if he were not a teetotaller and a nonsmoker. 'He is happy and never worries.

Natives who recently visited East Island at East Cape report that the graves on the southern side of the island have slipped down the hill. The graves wCre those of members of the /crew of the Hinemoa who were drowned about 30 years ago while landing material for the lighthouse. 'The other grave was that of Captain Goomes of the ketch Sir Henry, which was wrecked off East Island at the same time that the schooner Aotea was wrecked at Waipiro Bay. When discussing the question of fire losses at a meeting of the Wellington Fire Board last week, Mr. S.- S. Dean instanced a provision made in a building which he said lie believed was the only one of its kind in Wellington. The floors dropped slightly from the centre to the sides of the room, and any Avater which went in ran to the sides and escaped through holes made for the purpose instead of leaking through (the floor into the rooms below’. This, Mr. Dean said, would save a lot of damage by water. “I am asked to appoint women police, but I say it cannot be done because I believe the women cannot take the oath required of a police constable,” said the Hon. T. M. Wilford in the House. He explained that -women patrols would be different from women police but those who wanted -women police would not be satisfied with patrols. In Auckland, when the National Counci’ of W'omen met the Commissioner. it was pointed out that a -woman could not take the police oath. It seemed to the Minister that in existing circumstances they were .only playing about with the name. In installing telephone, eleeti’ic light and other instruments requiring wiring, there is often a quantity of short'pieces, of wire from clippings, or old wire which has, been thrown out. The electric light department of the Wellington City Council and the Rost and Telegraph Department accumulate a lot of this wire, the insulated portion being burned off. The residue of copper wire is then sold locally to brassfounders or is 'sent in bulk to Sydney, will ere there is a factory in which it is redrawn. Covered or insulated wire is not made in Australia, most of New Zealand’s supplies being produced from England. A large quantity of this wire was burned off on the Winter Show ground for the electric light department a day or two ago. Waste lead usually goes to the ammunition factory in Auckland.