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Shannon News, 17 August 1923, Page 4

A Southland News reporter was told of a local high school girl who resides at Bluff and who goes daily in ?to i school. She missed'the last train home on a recent evening, and pluckily set out to walk the 18> miles r to the Port.; She reached home about midnight. The Wanganui Borough Council,' owners of the’ gasworks, will be among! several defendants to appear next week in proceedings taken under the amended Weights and Measures Act. The! Government's inspector is a member of the Borough Council. The first section of the Te RotiOpunake railway line to Kapuni, a distance of 7J miles, is sufficiently ad- 1 vanced to enable the Railway Department to inaugurate a goods services. It will be some time before the line is completed and handed over for passenger traffic. “This is the worst case I have ever had to deal with. The boy is thirteen years of age, and has not yet passed a standard. During one year he only made 159 attendances out of a possible 400," stated Mr. Laughton, school attendance inspector, in a case at Lower Hutt, when a parent was charged with failing to send his boy to school. A solicitor in a judgment summons case heard at the Carterton S.M. Court said it seemed there was no protection for storekeepers who conceded credit to reputedly honest people. The magistrate said trades-people had themselves to blame. In giving unlimited credit they elected to take a risk and if they fell in it served them right. No banker would’ give credit without some security, and there was no reason why store-keepers should.