NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 4009, 12 October 1929, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

M. Kaihu, the Maori forward, who played far the Maori 'Rugby representatives against New Zealand last week, weighs 174 stone. A fox terrier, Eden Aristocrat, was recently sold by Mr. Fred. Robson, of Carlisle, for £1250. The highest price previously on record for a fox terrier was £IOOO. Fifteen motor ears were sold privately in one lot for £ls in Dunedin the other day. 'ln America, stolrage of old ejrs has become so great a problem that the derelicts are being left on the roadsides, the owners not bothering to run or tow them to a dump.

The electric light poles are a regular boon to the cookies, remarked a Wanganui dairy fawner to a “Herald” reporter. 'They not only carry the wires to supply the juice lor power and lighting, but they also save the farmer the expense of erecting pens on the roadside for the bobby calves. All a farmer has to do is to tie his calves to the pole on the roadside and the freezing works delivery man does the rest. There is a girl in Stockholm who has as many “fathers” as there are policemen in the city. This sounds rather strange, but the explanation is that Marie Olofsson’s father was a policeman, and as he and his wife died when the child was very small, his oomlrades adopted the child. They raised a fund (towards her education, and so every man in the force kept a loving guard over Marie. Each year three policemen are appointed to act as foster fathers and to give her a good home and education.

Female workers are in fan.' demand at the moment in the majority of callings in Auckland. Last week Field-Major Annie Gordon, of the Salvation Army, stated that there was any number of positions offering for’ reliable domestics, and now chines an assurance by Miss A. E. Cossey, secretary of the Female Clothing Trade Employees’ Union, that unemployment was not troubling dressmakers, milliners and skirt workers, at the present. The trade was seasonal, and she could not get sufficient journeymen to fill positions that are vacant. Some difficulty, however, was being experienced in regard to apprentices.