NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 69, 12 November 1931, Page 4

NEAR AND FAR

Dire ..yhreat. ; >is Y.ou cannot beatVrthe Nbw South Waipa TaXftion DypartmPnt/no matter Hbw'hafd ybu-try.'t/A resident of the unemployed camp at-Blackboy has received a letter from the department stating that if his income tax, long overdue, is not paid, the department will get in toueh with his eniployer. Goat Racirig-. A novelty of the afternoon's ring events .at. the Manurewa spring show was goat racing, the entries being sufficierit to provide for two heats and a final. The youthful drivers, mounted behind their goats in homemaSe turn-outs, took their business seriously ahd made an amusing race of it. Some of the goats were forgetful of tjie role expected of them. This Was ottly tb be anticipated and madq /yr. the fun of the contest. 250, Mijes, PJanted |n Roses. A beautiful idea that is being carried out by the Women's Institutes of Canada, whs mentioned by Miss Stops, the New Zealand organiser, recently. She spoke of the highway that runs from Peace River, at Fort Erie, to Windsor, in Ontario, and is 250 miles in length. The women are planting it with roses the whole way. . The members having planted some i which have bloomed, the sister instit.utes will co-operate and plant 250 roses for each three miles, and thus make a unique highway. Op'position to Sir A. T. Ngata. ' If. is rumoured that there will be a candidate in opposition to Sir A. T. Ngata for the Eastern Maori seat at the'.coming election. Te Reweti Hohere, ; a prominent chief and leader of th'e ^Tgatiporou Tribe, living in the Waiapu; district, has been mentioned as the man who is likely to be asked to accept nomination. "As'She-is Wrote." . The following letter from a Maori at Ahimia to the Coromandel Unemployment Committee is' a sample of some.of the rather amusing cases of "English as she is wrote" received hy the body. - "To the» Unehiployinent Board- Coromandel, 'Gents. — -Tena koutou. Previous to three w,eeks .I hqye been, or wo have' heen, ;upemploV. We now asic a civil question and^ except a civil answer. Are you's going to give us 'work, "or ' are yo.u's going tp starve us: ' Yoqr.immediqte attentiori will he apprpciated.— Yours faithfully, Kia-ora! " P.S. — Bo not answer in this maner, we will look into the matter." British Goods. •> , ' , "During the last five years Great Britain has {purchased £81,000,Q00 wprth of gop'ds more "from New Zealand than the Dominion has from her," said Mr. A. W. Hawley, New Zealand representative^f or the Society of Motor Manufacturers ' and Prayers Ltd. (British Manufacturers' Section) in the course of an interview vpth a pi-ess reportpr, rpcentlyJ "Unless ,the position is altered ihe i Dominion is likely to.suffer for the reason that if the British workers are unable _*to" get enJpfoyment they will not be abie to buy New Zealand butter and otner produce. It should be understood that it the workers who purchase New5 'iZealand jbutter, the wealthier classes buying Danish butter because it is fresh." Jazz Funeral Stopped. 1 ! f ' . An attempt hy members of a Jazz band to iiitrbduce h, ^Hvoldu& 'atmbs-^ phere " ^intb.'^uhPKaiy.prppeedihg^ W;a§ frustrated at Blyth, near Durham, Englpn^/ recehlly"hy the ofRciating clergyman's refusal to conduct the funeral if .they.persisted. in their intpntion. :'A supportei* pf;Wp Han4~ the . Blyth Hprjnony , ;J.az,£ .J}pbd^ died,'and the membffirs had decided to- march in. f ront of the cortege in their .hcatniypi cpstumes. When obJections were' raised, they" tr'ied to compromise hy, agreeing that only the six underbearprs should j.yyepy Jfee. fancy dress, of. the hand. But the clergyman, thPsRev. W. Sambridge, was obdurate, apd the members of the hand, which-.is made up of both sexes, reluctantly consented to attend in qrdinary attire. Traced by Set of Teeth. . A strong sefc of teeth and teethmarks on a hajrdresser's chqir have revealed the identity of a marf niur dered three years ago. During excavation work jat Gonsenheim,, near Mainz, work-nien diseovered ia_:skeleton with bullet holes in the head. The skull had a cpxnplete set of unusitally strong1 teeth. "'" Pplice located a barber who remembered that a formert client-.had h.een in the habit of lifting thp bar;her's chair.-. "spth . jhip teeth. The imprints ;oF /teeth were still on the chair. It was found that they matched perfectly the teeth in the skull. ... . » . Ita%?& Lu?etiry«'t4ttert»i- .v !»#*••«. • • Italy's 50,000-ton luxury liner Rex was launced at. Genpa in the.presence of the King dn^ ^ueen bf Italy and with the hlessing of .Capdinal ,Minoretti. The owners, the ' Navigazione Generale Italiana, bredict' that the Rex will make the. trip ;f.r6m "N'aples to Ne-\y yprk tp'heveu„dqys; o^ ithree days uhcler 'tlie pr'esent average." Tlie yessel will havn. luxp^lpus . .a,cpb)hnu^ dation. Each' Hrst-'class staterQom will have wireless; there will he an open-air swimming pool, a church, aiid a theatre. fsr S f. • . Cboked with Clay. : A young man who committed suicide hy swallowing clay until he was chqketj, wa^ suh.pait,tpd , to; a:. pp?t-ino/r-tpm, examinatipn .Jn , Paris, recently. His' paTen'ts" said he was "subject "to hallucinations and believed that. he was pursued hy the devil (in person. He rusHed'out*--"o*f ^Hie'ir fhbuseV"clutchihg a rpsary. during a thunderstorm. His ho'd'y was found later On a buildihg allotment. Relic of the "Boyd." V. l" An old cannon which has"heen'llying at Ahipara for many years, ahd is" reputed to have come from the "Boyd" when she was burnij by :i£he Maoris Whangproa>1^aS;he,phj prbsented hy Mr. Mita Paratene to 'the Naval Bash ih Auckland ^6 augmenh the collection of old naval relics there.