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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10610, 8 June 1920, Page 4

Mr.Boghic, in his magnificent “Life of William Booth,” tells a story of tho present, general (who is due at Wellington this evening) as a hoy. A discrepancy \ had been discovered in the accounts of the Christian Mission at the last moment. Bramwell Booth, then a, hoy of thirteen, was sent to help in discovering the mistake. For a stretch of seventy-two -hours, without sleep, the boy toiled through a jumble of figures, and afc last found where the error lay. So delighted were the committee that they subscribed and made him a present of £3. Of tlds £o his fhlher allowed him to keep ton shillings.

Exclusive sources of information regarding Now Zealand aro evidently possessed by the ‘’Montreal Family Herald,” which, in its issue of February 25th, stated; “Aeroplanes arc now being put to a novel use in New Zealand, where a service bns just been started in connection with the fishing fleets. The ’planes flv at an altitude of two or three hundred f»et over Hie water and 'spot.’ the shoals for the fishermen working below. The fishers arc warned of the: ures(>nee of shoals by spec 111 radio-telegranhir- apnarntns.” The interest of the journal in New Zeeland is not, ran fined to its iioivo celiituns. for an m’-et-Hi-oi' ofiWs “Now Zealand red rabbits” ul five dnllnys a '.'“.i"