MISCELLANEOUS

Otaki Mail, 1 September 1922, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS

—.— 1 1 here are evidently plenty ul gio-| er'.- assistants looking lor employ-} neat in me North Island .says a Walganui paper;. A lew days ago a Waigaiuu grocer advertised ioi' a man, * uid so far has -received 70 applieaions. A Levin resident who iias just reurntd irom a trip all over the South stand, and who is a Keen follower of he national game of lootball, is of i ‘i'hih'n that the class of game being j hayed by the Soutit Islanders this | eason is 10 per cent better than in | north, at: i points to tiie success Canterbury, Otago and Southland hiring their recent matches. i hr i>iii;e o! Leinster, who recently • v .a a ih:«.»00 lie? by driving an auto-i;'-'biie from London to Aberdeen in h.,.uts. hopes to attempt a great! rans'-Aiiantie race under novel coni', ions* When questioned on the sub-, erf. iiis Grace said: "My next wager .as n-•thing to Jo with road motoring, md is not for money—something beter. hue details are not yet settled, ( ■i]’- .von mfly soon hear of a race across i lie Allan lie. not "by air. but singlet landed by sea, in a ketch." Recently! lie Duke wagered he could beat thej dm- of rhe London-Aberdeen express i >viih his automobile. He won. I