LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 520, 2 May 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Having ridden a rnotor cycle wMeh! Inspector Fard said --was not iit to ride and which subsequently caught fire and was put out by the fire brigade, Hangi Tonilii was fined £1 arid 7s costs by the Magistrate (Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M.) in the 'Rotorua Court yesterday. Overloaded Lorry For overloading hi3 lorry beyond the weight stipulated in his license, L. T. Ganible was fined £1 10s and 12s costs by Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Rotorua police court yesterday. Breach of Arms Act For deliverin'g a rifle to an unauthorised person Joseph Alexander Morland was fined 10g with 12s costs in the Rotorua Magistrate's Court yesterday by Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M. Rotary Discusses Unemployment The Rotorua Rotary Club at its weekly luncheon yesterday spent the time discussing the present unemployment prohlem. Various, sp'eakers advanced views and ineth'ods for dealing with the situation, two schools of thought, the hi'gh wage and low wage parties heing more oi* less evenly divided.

Cost of Relief W ork' During the past two years £12,000 has been spent by the Unemployment Board in Rotorua said the mayor, Mr. T. Jackson, at a public meetings last night. The borough had expended £1825 12s 4d in connection with relief work in the same period.

Killing of Birds. Th'e New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society is still receiving reports of poaching and vandalism from many parts of New Zealand. The administration of the Conservation Acts,it was stated at the meeting of the society recently, fell far short of heing efficient. Reports were received of the wholesale shooting of godwits, stilts (.a protected species), and sea birds from motor cars on the Ninety Mile Beach,. despite the enactment prohibiting shooting from motor cars. On Stewaxt Island poaching was indulged in very freely, and the results of the poaching were disposed of openly, while in the more norther'n districts pigeons and kiwis were ill&gally killed in large numbers. "Much waste of wild life revenue, it was stated, "is unoduhtedly th'e resuit of our present weak methods in attempting conservation, and all with less than negligible results."

No Need for "Make Up-" Admiration of the iGermans as a race was expressed by Mr. W. R. Brugh, who has returned after a lengthy tour of Europe (states the Otago Daily Times). After referring to their friendly treatment of the visitor he stated that he had been struck hy the healthy and athletic appearance of hoth' men and women. While one saw hundreds of tbousands of women in England who made liberal use of cosmetics, one might journey for a long time without seeing a German woman who was "made up." The Germans practised all forms of physical culture with enthusiasm, and while he was in Dresden swimmers were so numerous that he could scarcely see the river flowing through the city.

Not Their Concern. "Our concern is roads and hridges only," said the chairman (Mr. F. B. Logan) at the meeting of the Hawke's Bay County Council (says the Hawke's [ Bay Herald), when a request was made for a igrant towards th'e Hastings Dental Clinic. "The health of the people is & matter entrusted to other local bodies, and if we start to encroach on their duties we will not know where we stand," he added. The council, members agreed that the request was one that did not concern them, and no grant was made.