Shannon News TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1926.
The Otaki Fire Board will open its new Fire Station on December Ist. The Foxton Borough Council will open its newly erected municipal offices and town hall on the same day. A -.otalisator proprietor who operates chiefly on the West Coast, received a surprise packet in his ipa.il recently. A sum of money amounting to nearly £IOO, was enclosed in an envelope with an anonymous letter, which stated that “this money belongs to you.” Meat companies anticipate that the Timaru freezing works should openearly in December. From present indications, it is considered' that a failquantity of stock will be available before Christmas. i Those who contend that married women should not be school teachers were supplied with a strong argument bv a witness in a King Country Police Court recently. In reply to the familialr question, “What is your occupation?” he said he had none. “What!” exclaimed the examining solicitor, “do you mean to say you do nothing?” “Oh,! well,” replied the witness nonchalantly, “I drive my wife to the school to work, every day. ’ ’ A man who was wanted by the police had been photographed in six different positions during a previous bout in gaol, and the prints were sent to the chief constable of a small country town, where'it was thought likely the fugitive was in hiding. After the lapse of a few days, the following reply reached headquarters:—“Sir,—l duly received the portraits of the six miscreants whose capture is desired. I have arrested five of them, and the sixth is under observation, and will probably secured shortly.” A wellrknown fisherman who has c-ome out for the trout fishing tells a story of the “taking” ways of some of the people down in sunny Los Angeles (says the Auckland Star). He was looking at some very fine pictures of Mr Zano Grey catching swordfish up at the Bay of Islands. It was an exciting picture. “Wh'ere is that?” asked one of the bystanders. Without a shadow of a blush the man accosted answered, “Oh, Catalina, of course.” And that was how they treated the splendid pictures over which the New Zealand Government had gone to such expense. Slowly but surely, however, the lame of New- Zealand as a swordfishing ground is spreading, and more and more sportsmen will be coming down (his way. Discussing the question of the disappearance of the swordfish from the waters of Catalina Bay, which was once the most favourite spot on the American coast for this form of fishing, a well-known authority said it was due to the wholesale destruction of the giant kelp round the coast, the kelp being used, among other things, for the making of certain-chemicals.
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