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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 127, 8 April 1926, Page 5

Sporting- instincts are apparently strong among the Maoris, who identify occasions of importance more easily by reference to sporting fixtures than by dates in the calendar (says the Taranaki Herald). The other day in the Supreme Court one native fixed a particular event as taking place in “ ,the year Canteen won the Cup,” and another witness in the case settled the date of another meeting as being on the day the Springboks played in New Plymouth. An ing-enious use has been found by some of the children attending- the Balclutha Primary School for the cardboard “ money ” the teachers have been using- for instructing the smaller children in the rudiments of £ s. d. (reports the Free Press). A small shopkeeper in looking into her chocolate automatic machine the other day found that 14 of these cardboard “ pennies ” had been used to bring forth penny sticks of chocolate (the machine works by the size of the coin and not by weight), and has been defrauded 1 to that amount. Another shopkeeper found a similar fraud had been perpetrated on her chocolate automatic. The first case was placed in the hands of the police, and it is understood that the culprits were detected and confessed. The cardboard imitation coins had been stolen from the teacher’s desk at the school.