IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 428, 8 May 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

CASE OF IDENTIFICATION. Uncertainty of identification in the case of twin brothers was the ground for the dismissal of a charge of being the occupier of premises in Customs Street, Auckland, known as Stamford House and used for purposes of illegally selling liquor, which was preferred against Bdscelly Facoory, bootmaker, in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court. ILL-TREATMENT OF CAT. “The opinion of this court is that you and your wife should not be allowed to keep animals at all," said Mr W. F. Stilwell. S.M., to an elderly man, who with his wife was charge.!, in the Wellington Court with cruel’;/ ill-treating a cat, which they were stated to have kept in a bath. Both defendants were convicted and each fined £1 and costs, and warned against keeping ny further animals unless their standard of living greatly improved. LIVED UNDER SIX REIGNS. Mrs M. A. Hills, of Upper Queen Street, Onehunga, will celebrate her 102nd birthday on Wednesday next. She has lived under six British Sovereigns. She was born in Kent in .1835 when William IV was King. She knew Auckland in 1855, when it was a hamlet and when Queen Street was a dirty clay track without footpaths and when a verandah was a curiosity. She arrived at Auckland as a bride by the ship Merchantman. ROAD SAFETY. “One of the major measures being taken by the Government in the .interests of road safety is the distribution of the road code,” said the Minister □f Transport, Hon. R. Semple yesterday. Supplies of booklets containing the code and a summary of traffic regulations, with illustrations of traffic signs, will be despatched within the next few days to all local authorities which issue drivers’ licenses. A second booklet, giving ithe full text’ !)f traffic and traffic signs regulations and. containing a detailed index, is also being similarly distributed.

[AERO CLUB MEMBERSHIP. ’ At a meeting of the executive of | the Stratfoid Aero Club on Thursday , -3 members wore elected. [FLYING FLEA ON EXHIBITION. | The Flying’ Flea, buil 1 by Mr Br’l/n | McMillan, of Stratford, will be ex_ ■ hAbited ab the Sit,ratford aerddrome . un the occasion of the air pageant. [coronation ILLUMINATIONS. 1 Th e Coronl- ion week street lightj ing was switched on for the first lime ' last night and the effect, especially l when Aewed from the higher ap_ ; preaches to -he town, was a striking i one. The brilliant illumination of the municipal buildings and the sclienre ! of decoration was much admired by a jb.rge crowd of slippers in Broadway. ! WHY BIRDS FOLLOW SHIPS. j The reason albatrosses follow ships J is not merely to secure scraps of food, | but also to take advantage of the air . currents made by the ship’s movei ment by means of which they can I glide through the air with outstretch- [ ed wings, according to Mr R. A. Falla, : curator of the Canterbury Museum, | who spoke on bird life to the Christchurch Rotary Club. “It is wrong to I say that they do not follow Scottish . ships,” he added amid laughter, “for even Scottish ships must provide tree i air currents.”