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Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 47, 11 September 1924, Page 3

The sawmills in the Southland province are reported to be fairly active at the present time. Figures have been supplied showing that the export of apples from Nelson and Motueka for the past season amounted to 190,000 cases —accounting for 900,000 super, feet of box timber, mostly white pine from the West Coast. “ You will notice that I am now" talking in an easy way. I am not trying to be learned, but I am trying to be honest,” stated Dr. Adams, when speaking to a Palmerston North audience, adding: “It is a great joy to me to do this.” The doctor appreciated the laughter which greeted the remark. His Majesty the Baby, or His Majesty the King—to which is due the greater honour? There was evidently no doubt about the answer to this question in the mind of at least one Napier citizen the other morning (j-elates the Telegraph). He received -- —"word while at work that his wife had presented him with a son and heir, and he set off on his bicycle down Tennyson street to view the acquisition. The guard of honour to the Governor-General blocked the road, but he rode through the Franks with lofty disregard of royalty or its representatives. Not until a policeman pulled him from his bicycle did he realise the number of conventions that he had shattered, and even then, after yielding his name and a breathless explanation, he again mounted his cycle and pedalled hastily on. <tt It seems to me that if the bylaw were attacked it would be found to be unreasonable,” said Mr. Wyvern Wilson in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch, referring to the regulations as to leaving cars unattended. The magistrate said that a car might be left in the charge of an incompetent person, in which case it would be just as great an obstruction as if there was nobody in charge. He thought the regulation referred back to the old days when a person could not leave a horse vehicle unattended; that was to prevent a runaway, but there was no danger of this with a car. He thought the proper course for the police to take in future would be to proceed under the statute for leaving a vehicle in a highway without reasonable excuse, reports the Star. It w r ould not be a reasonable s*, excuse if people left their car while shopping in Cashel street for two hours, but if the person had been taken to a hospital and a relative had driven up and stayed for half an hour, the case would be different. It was a matter of reasonableness, and that was the only way to test anything.