Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4418, 22 February 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I n I lie Dunedin 1 ’uliee ( olirl yes terday, Leon Curtis, licensee ot Mcßride’s hold, Queenstown, was found guilty on live counts of nil fully making false income tax rein rns. On I lie first charge, he was lined .Cot) ami on each of the other four, he was lined £3O. Five charges of negligently making false returns were withdrawn. “There is no liar nowadays like the motor liar,” declared a lawyer in the Dunedin Court recently, when commenting on the expense 1„ which the country is being put through investigations into motor vehicle accidents. They come into Court, he said, swear that left m right," and the centre line is the herb, and that GO miles an hour is 25 miles an hour. A poker la<-e was as easy to read as a printed page compared with the calm, expressionless visage of a motorist in the witness box. Collection of the levy imposed by the New Zealand Law .Society for the ereation of the law praetitiouers’ fidelity guarantee fund is nowproceeding, and the fund already totals some thousands of pounds. With the fee fixed for the year, n fatal of £5 5/- for every solicitor who needs to take out a practising certificate, it is expected that the fund will total between £7,000 and £B,OOO. There are altogether about 1,800 solicitors in the Dominion, but some hundreds of these are in positions where they do not prao’lise —many of them with the Public Trust Office. “In an chilghtencd country such as ours it is deplorable that there are so many people who have not a sense of fairness to respond in some way or other to requests for payment of their indebtedness," states a report received at a meet ing of the Auckland Hospital Board concerning the payment of hospital fees. “A little eofirtesv expended in this way would not only save flic hoard from much trouble and expenditure, but it would also save the debtor from the ultimate ne tion which must he taken in Court. B, was slated that a number of persons had failed to reply to the hoard’s request for an explanation. “Unfortunately (his lad will be more severely punished outside than in this Court ; he is an appren - tice jockey, and this will slant against him so that he will never tie able Io obtain Lis license as a rider,” said Senior-Detective Quirkc in ’the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when Ronald (leorge Stratton appeared and pleaded guilty lo having broken into a hot-house, owned hv .John Nairn, ami stealing grapes valued at 30/-. Mr. d. L. Stout, S.M., convicted accused, who broke into the. hot-house with another youth, tinqd him £l, and ordered him to pay costs of damage to glass, and the value of stolen grapes, amounting to £l.

Complete darkness at a wedding is a trifle awkward, as a marriage p;i vl v found in St. Paul’s pro-On--1 hedral in Wellington last Sutimluy evening. All was in readiness for the bride’s arrival —guests assembled, bridegroom and wedding attendants waiting —and then, just as her ear drew up —out went, the liglils! Some bewildering moments followed. The bridegroom was offered a loreh, but refused; candles were unearthed and lighted, ami east a iliokering glow over the bridal couple; guests struck matches, and shielding these with their hands, endeavoured both to in crease the illumination and to fol - low the service. In this unusual maimer the ceremony proceeded until the nuptial knot was tied and then the power came on again.

Two remarkable attendance records at country schools were brought to the notice of members of the Nelson Education Board the oilier day. Robert Mead, a pupil of the Motupiko School, attended tor nine years and was never absent at nay time that the school was open. Metre than that, the secretary remarked that the boy had a record of not even being late for school at anv lime. The record is the more remarkable as the boy lived over twp miles from the school. Another ease of splendid attendance (■nine from Dovednle, where Roua Win has completed seven years without having n half-day’s absence against her name. The praiseworthy' records of these two pupils were spoken of by members of the board in congratulatory terms, and it was decided to send a letter of appreciation and a book to each. Mr. G. Dalglish, the senior inspector, remarked that he bad quoted these two cases as examples in all the schools in the district.

A toadstool of gigantic size was lately on view at Win ton. The size of tiiis fungus is very uncommon; it is oval-shaped and it is about 3ft. in length and lift, in thickness, and it weighs 2GII>. This toadstool was grown at Mr. J. Deegan’s farm at Winton, and he reports having found another of the same type last war which weighed 3Glb.

A stem of liliiim auralnm carrying Si flowers in full bloom was on view last week at the Rosemary florist’s shop in Hardy Street (says the Nelson Evening Mail). This magnificent head of bloom was grown by Mrs. Mitchell, of Hope. Lilium a unit mu is noted for its tendency to produce facinted stems, but this exhibit was believed to he carrvug a greater number of flowers than lias previously been recorded.

A unique sequence of judgment debtors enme up for examination -it the weekly sitting of the Napier Magistrate’s Court. One was stone deaf, and questions addressed to him bad to be written. A second stuttered so badly that the Court could scarcely uderstand the replies lie gave to his examination. A third burst into tears the moment counsel commenced to question him ;ind continued in a state ol sorrowful weeping all through the hearing.

The lowest prices for peaches fur 20 years are now ruling ill Auckland. A. city merchant said i oeenl I y that the particularly low prices were due partly to the unseasonable weaklier and partly to the abundance of (he crop, which is one of the heaviest on record. All local fruits are expected to remain cheap, while imported fruits, chiefly oranges and bananas, will he fairly dear, owing to the smallness of I lie shipments being received.

(In his arrival Home the new High Commissioner (Mr. Wilford) gave London journalists the information that there were twelve him - dnil differences between Australia and New Zealand, but those * l iffi fences were merely the twelve hundred miles of sea that divided the one country from the other. Taking up the point that people in Europe often confused New Zealand with Australia, Mr. Wilford lln uglit it was due to Hie use ol: the word "Australasia.” He hoped that ii the near future letters would not be addressed, “Wlellington, New '.caland, Australia.”

••\\le talk of New Zealand as (foil’s Own Country, and so if is, I,ut it seems to me that the devil has managed to get a. pretty big bidding in our towns I

am referring to the growing tendency to overcrowd the land with buildings and population in some of our larger towns —a more unnecessary and uneconomic proceeding than which could not. he imagined." tso stated Mr. J. IV. Mawson (Director of Town Planning). in the course of an address lo the Wellington Rotary Club recently on “Town 'Planning in Rein l ion to Public Health. ' He said there were people in high places in Wellington who still scoffed at town planning as an impractical ideal and refused to admit that it had any relation to the every-day facts of life. The kindest thing that could be said about those gentlemen was that they were lacking in vision and imagination —the hallmark of everv successful business man. They probably had never beard of the word “relativity” and ieg;iriled traffic congestion as an act of God.

I'n pursuenee of liis endeavours to stimulate in Mio Native race inIcrcsl in production froin the land, the Minister of Native Affairs (the lion. Sir Apirana Ngaki) addressed a meet ini; of Maoris at Kawliia on Monday. Sir Apirana said he had come to try to help the people, and he asked for their co-operation. Maoris on the east and west coast had the same problems and troubles to overcome. They were looking to the young people to revive the energy of their forefathers. As their proverb had it: “When tin* older generation is exhausted, replace it with virile youth." Tim Minister said he did not come as a teacher, lie came because of a long desire tit sec them, and soeond'ly, as Minister representing the Maori people, to learn their wants, lo hear their views, and seek a way cut. The work was already in hand. Waste lands were being brought into cultivation by Maori I armors, in Rotorua., in Waikato, and in Waiukii. Tie concluded with a strong appeal to join the inovemcni, promising them the assistance of the Government.

Oyer a hundred years old I Yet “lie thoroughly enjoyed bis pipe!” That was recorded of Mr. Win. Reeve, who recently passed away at Tamaiki, Auckland. Anti-tobac-coiles will tell you smoking shortens life, but if anyone cared to take a eensiis of the inmates of our charitable institutions he would discover that numbers of very old men —ves, and very old women, too! —derive comfort and solace I min their pipes. And, as many doctors will tell you, smoking, so fur from being injurious is,actually beneficial provided the tobacco is pure and not overloaded with nicotine. I n fortunately the imported brands are full of the stuff. Our 1 unions New Zealand brands, on the other hand, are so comparatively free from nicotine that they may be smoked even excessively with perfect safety. They owe their inocuousuess to the toasting of the leaf, as well as their beautiful and delicious flavour, and are the only toasted tobaccos on the market. Popular brands include “Navy 'Cut," “Cavendish," “Cut Plug No. 10," and “Eiverhead Gold." —Advt. 84.

At Wanganui Supreme Court yesterday, George Mason Glenn Mas sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for reckless driving and negligently causing the death of two persons.

The present is an unprecedented season for passion fruit, writes a Norfolk Island correspondent. Unfortunately, the one local pulping station is unable to cope with the great quantities of fruit offering, and tons of beautiful fruit will have to go to waste. It will not be quite all lost, as the stock eat it greedily.

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A Canterbury settler has discovered that pious insignis posts if .soaked in tar for a week before being placed in the ground, will last for a long t inn*. Some that had been in use since 1910 were recently lifted and found to he in a perfect slate of preservation. 'l’llis is a useful economic discovery of value to fnrmers and others. Hitherto no one cared about using pious insignis for posts because of I heir short life in the ground, though imierocarpa is approved of. Films insignis is plentiful and to he found on many farms, and the use of it for posts should considerably clumpen fencing. The following appointment's were i onlirnieil at Wednesday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board: —Turakimi, M. Jewell (Mrs.), infant mistress; Asli'linrst, J. Wilkinson, infant mistress; West End, E. M. Cleary, infant mistress; Uwliango, H. Cameron,\ assistant; Owliango, ('. T. Spurdle, assistant mistress; Piriaka, I. 13. Ford, assistant; Rewa, L. A. Browning, sole teacher; Tnraiigarere, D. M. Smith, assistant; Tnraiigarere, M. E. Penmill, head teacher; Glynealh, E. J. Fittalf, sole teacher; Palmerston X. Central, L. Haywood, assistant; Mosston, E. S. Fletcher, assistant; Awahuri, E. M. ITorncman, assistant; Pohonui, N. A. Biddings, sole teacher; .Mosston, A. McCarthy, head teacher; Okoia, G. J. Franklin, assistant; Pukeron, A. ,1. Heibner, sole teacher; Palmerston North Central, I. M. Baldwin, infant mistress; Tnihape, R. C. Sealon, assistant; Wanganui East, C. I. Smith, assistant; College Street, 11. H. Wapp, teacher for special class.