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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 20, 25 January 1937, Page 6

International repute is merited, but not possessed by New Zealand’s health resorts and scenic grandeur, according to Dr. F rantisek Kveton, Consul-Gen-eral of the Czechslovak Republic for Australia and New Zealand in Sydney. “ Never before have I seen a country of such beautiful contrasts as New Zealand, ’’ Dr. Kveton remarked in Auckland. “The Dominion has everything to satisfy the whims of Europe’s tourist class, but one thing stands against such popularity—it is unknown.’' Appearing before Messrs A. J. Graham and J. T. Bosworth, J.P.’s in the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday, Harold George Newbury, aged 39, ot Halcombe, was charged that, on January 19, at Palmerston North, he incurred a debt of 12s Gd for taxi hire from Palmerston North to Bunnythorpe, thereby obtaining credit by fraud "rom Frank Thomas Moore. Ho was lined £l, and ordered to make restitution of the amount involved. Default wa.-> fixed at one month's imprisonment. “There are large numbers of these four-wheeled rail-cars in use in other countries, many being of lighter weight and run at higher speeds,’’ Mr. G. H. Mackley (General Manager of Railways) stated upon his return to Wellington from the West Coast, when declaring that he was satisfied the railcar was safe in the service it was built for under normal conditions and that it was not too light for the purpose for which it was constructed, despite the recent derailment near Hokitika, involving a rail-car on the service connecting Canterbury and the West Coast. Mr. Mackley said that a mob of cattle had, just before the rail-car traversed the crossing, crossed from the west to the east side of the line. Dogs had brought them back and they had milled on the crossing, which had caused an undue disturbance of loose metal which was on the side of the road.