NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 219, 10 May 1932, Page 4

NEAR AND FAR

4 Class Trouble » At a meeting Sf the Dargaville branch of the Farmers' Union, the question of enrolling "specials" was brought up by Mr. R. E. Clements, who asked that a strong protest should he made against such a move. "They are," he said, "taking farmers' young sons into the eity, artd create class trouble. We, do not want 'farmers' sons hated in the eity." He* moved: That this meeting of farmers emphatically protests at the enrolment of farmers' sons and workmen for the quelling of further trouble in. the cities. We suggest to the Government that a better method would he the removal of the cause of trouble by the eommandeer of the nation's credit in the interests of the people. Mr. G. W. T. Frost seconded the motion, which was carried, several voting against it. Fatal Plum Stone. Last month at Invercargill a schoolgirl, Elizabeth Pearl Martin, aged 12 years, died as the result of swallowing a large plum stone, which lodgeu near her heart. In actual fact, the stone choked her, the verdict at an inquest at which evidence was heard fa'om a doctor who made a postmortem examination being that death was caused by "asphyxia following on the impaetion of a foreign body in the left lung. Single Men's Camps. Two more single men's camps are being established in Otago, Fifty men are to he put to the job of constructing the head water race that is to supply the Omakau dam that is h'eing huilt hy married men. Twentyfive of the party are to he transferred from the Lindis Pass, and the others are to go to Omakau. nex:t Monday. The eamp has been erected.- In the ordinary eourse this head-race eonstruction wquld come into next year's work, but it is to be gone on with now to help to relieve the present situation. The other camp, autborisation for which has been received, is to he for the draining of the Wairuna Settlement, five miles from Waipahi. It will employ twenty men. The camp is now being prepared. The forty men who have been left ,at Deep Stream to put up the necessary fencing and other finishing jobs are to be shifted in about a fortnight and set to on the widening of the rnain highway between Waipahi and Arthurton. Law-abiding Women. The notable rarity of charges of serious crime against women in Wellington was the subjeet of comment hy the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in his charge to the grand jury at the opening of the Supreme Court quarterly sessions last week. He remarked that the calendar con . tained only one case against a woman, charged with stealing £723 belonging to a Chinese, "In my own period on the Bench — it is now three years — I have only had two women prisoners for trial," added His Honour. "This case, if you find a true bill, will he the third."

Moncy in Rabbits, However much rabhits may he rsgarded as a needless importation into this eountry, and as one of the most destructive pests with which the farmer has to cohtend, there is no doubt that they are fiow attaining a definite commercial value. The opinion that their export might develop into a flourishing industry is expressed by Mr. R. S. Black, who recently opened a factory for the freezing of rabhits at Alexandra. Under the terms of the new reciprocal trade treaty between New Zealand and Canada, rabhits, which were formerly subjeet to a duty of four cents a pound on entering the latter eountry, are now admitted duty free, and as a result of this action it is possible that the Canadian market may absorb a considerable quantity of rabhits "from this Dominion. Mr. Black considers that the removal of the duty will have a direct effect in stimulating the industry in Oentral Otago, as it will enable producers to he quoted a much better price for the rabbits, which are particularly well developed this season.