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Shannon News, 30 March 1926, Page 2

"Well, I will pay his fine," said a witness in a case at the Napier Police Court, when a man who had been convicted of attempting to steal his watch had been fined £2. "That is a very good natured thing to do," remarked the Magistrate, Mr. E. W. Dyer. "T don't think that if a man had taken my watch I would pay his fine." "Oh, but you have a judicial mind, you see, sir," remarked Mr. B. J. Dolan, amid smiles around the court.

The youths of New Zealand, it seams, know,nothing of jazz. A Seattle paper of December 12th punishes this astonishing piece of information: —"New Zealand is a land -where the flaming youth and the collegiate hip-flasks are unknown, and Thackeray, Scott, and Dickens have not been surplanled by Scott Fitzgerald, Dr. P. A. Van der Las, Seattle pastor just "returned from a. six months' tour of New Zealand and Australia, discovered. The so-call-ed jazz-age of America has not yet hit the land of the Maoris, he declared. One reason the young New Ze?landers were so well-behaved, he found, was because school keeps in till 6 p.m., which is the closing hour of the saloons."