£2 A DAY LEADING THE BLIND.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3356, 8 December 1919, Page 3

£2 A DAY LEADING THE BLIND.

The Story of :1 man who <§al'llell from I £6 to £9 :1. week by leading a blind man ahcut was ‘told at Mamylebozie, when’ :1 labourer, aged. 25, was charged \\"i.iL}]l; disorderly conduct and astsniiltiiig l1?sI wife. A police coiisfable who xvi? nessed thg assault said th-2.1‘ the 1111111; thumped his wife zihuiit the bOdy:111:li then gave her a Yreiiieiigloiis sniacki‘ ———:L stinging bloa\'—~ill the face wiitli his fist, declariiig 1:11:11” he would kill her. The Magistrzi-te: “What is fliis lion-ible 1111:1111?” The Polic-elllan:“He goes about.wit.ll a blindman askiiig for charity, and I am told he gefs 30:: _ to £3 :1 day. He’ had :1 pocket fuil of‘ silver on Satul'day. He is an ll£lbi- 1 i iual ganibler and woll’t do any workfl 1‘ When in drink he is like 21 111'z1cl111a11.” * } The 111.*3.n was sentenced to two months’ hard la»boul'.

'I.‘H,I‘J TR.-\Dll} OF BELGIUM. ;\t'ter an interval of more than five yu-li*r.<_. stati.~:.ti(:s of the import and export trade of Belgium have again become available. Excluding the goods reaching B'elgiunl through the agency of the Belgian Relief Commission, the ag;gl'ega.te weight of imports to Belgium in the first seven months of 1919 was zipproximaiely 1,649,000 tons, comp'3Lred with 18,788,000 tons in the corresponding period of 1913. While the v:!.lu<r of imports ll?.‘S fallen by only.\ 17 ‘per vent. rompared with 1913, the qu:-.:l:i'.iv.~: of goods‘ imported have dinrinislmtl by more than 90 per cent. The total weight of merchandise er‘ ported was aboult 3,500,000 tOIIrS in 191.9, or about one—fourth the Weight‘ of exports in the same period of 1913. ~ Ca'):‘.l. eel-:0, and b°r‘iquettes kiccouxrtedl for fully two—thirds of the exports in 1» 1919. The excess of imports amounted :to' 1618 million fr:l-ncs (£6+L,500,000 at ‘l-par, or £l-13,250,000 at current rates of exchange). The corresponding excess of imports for the first seven months of 1913 amounted to only 588 million fraztes (£23,500,000 at par).