LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 104, 23 December 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Christmas Shopping Brisk. Mr. R. P. Spedding and family returned to Rotorua from Auckland by caravan at the beginning of the week. Mr. Spedding reports that the Christmas displays in the Auckland shops are above previous standards and that business is unexpectedly brisk. Dame Rumour Active. Rumours are current in Rotorua | that a cliaraeter famous in English | j history will pay the town a visit, arriving shortly after 10 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Saddle Horses Wanted. The Carnival Committee are anxious to ohtain the use of saddle horses -on Christmas Eve. Owners willing to lend suitable horses aecustomed to crowds and equipped with saddle and bridle are invited to ring Mr. R. P. Spedding, Marshal of the Procession before 10 o'clock this morning. 'Phone No. 66.

He Was Going To "Why don't you file?" was the | question asked a debtor. "If you get this order, that's what I'm going | to do," was the retort by the person in the box. Heavy Railway Bookings. Railway passenger bookings for the' Christmas holidays are very. heavy this year. The morning express to Auckland to-day is fully booked up in the non-smoking compartments and the other seats are being quickly taken j The train to Auckland on Christmas | Eve is filling fast. No information i is yet available as to the bodking-s from other centres to Rotorua, but the trains are expected to well filled. The Main Trunk Limited expresses, both to and from Auckland, are packed as alsi is the second express i between Auckland and Wellington.

Bus Service Extensions. At the meeting of the Borough I ! Council last night the question of bus ' service licenses was discussed and 'j the council finally decided to be guid- ' ed in future by the principle that ! when applications for extensions to : existing services were received these ; should be granted provided all the re- | gulations and conditions were complied with. Mill Hands Dismissed. Thirteen employees of the State ; timber mill at Mamaku were put off i on Friday last. Several of the men j affected had up to 14 years service. " ! Prlor Claim I 1 "Where parents can afford to lceep

their girls at home I think it is wrong to let these girls enter into competition with boys for positions in shops and offices," said Mr. R. M. Strang at the Invercargill Girls' High School break-up. "We should appreciate the desire of girls to be independent, but the boys have the prior claim." "The Better Man" "He who remains a student while engaged in business is always a better man than the one who thinks he has learned everything there is to know." — Mr. L. A. Schramm, president of the Australasian Institute

of Secretaries, at a lunch given by the Wellington branch. Police Trapped At about midnight the other night a Nelson husinessman was awalcened by his telephone. "Police here," were the first words he heard. Then, "We found your shop open to-night" — and the shopkeeper feared the worst. But fear was turned to laughter when he was asked: "How do you get out of the shop? We've locked the door and now we can't get out." I Horses Popular Again Indications that the horse is coming hack into use are to be noted in some of the country districts of Canterbury. The city chief traffic inspector, Christchurch, who, with some of his staff, has been carrying out heavy traffic inspection in the Amberley, Oxford, and Ohako districts, was impressed by the number of gigs, j mostly driven by women, met with on j the poads. Evidently stables have : been ransacked for vehicles of ancient j type, and the motor car has been put away owing to the expense of running. It was also noted at one threshing plant that two horse fourwheeled lorries had replaced the motor lorry. Speed And Road Capacity According to researches in America a road reaches maximum carrying capacity when vehicles travel at 231 miles an hour. At this rate 2,600 cars pass a given point in an hour. At 45 miles speed, only 1,760 cars can pass, because they must lceep farther apart for safety, as at such relatively high

speed the maximum stoppmg distance is greatly increased.