IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 445, 29 May 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

PURCHASE OF CLYDESDALE. At the Masterton horse fair this week Mr Hector Mellow, of Mahoe, purchased a Clydesdale filly, the price paid being in the vicinity of 200 guineas PHYSICAL EDUCATION. A national organisation of physical instructors, to be known as the Sockty of Physical Education of N\w Zealand, has been formed as the outcome of a recent Wellington confer, nee. UNLICENSED WIRELESS SETS. Nineteen cases of people operating wireless sds without obtaining licen1 se.s were brought in the Wellington ; Magistrate’s Court yeterd’ay. In the majority of c;.s?s convictions were i entered and fines of 10s to £1 inflicted. HANDCUFFED GIRL. It takes a more spectacular prank to arouse interest among Wellington peopls on a, busy shopping night than that undertaken by a young Wellington woman last night, says the Do. i minion. For a bet she paraded from i Courtenay Place to Willis Street and • back to the Town Hall —handcuffed, i Hands held before her, and accom- ; pained by 'two stalwarts, she wended : her way through the hustling shopi pers. But her handcuffs might just !as well have been silver bracelets. ■ She won her bet —but nobody noticed I her. ; POPULATION AND CAPITAL. I Irksome immigration laws combined with a falling population were having a serious effect on the progress of New Zealand, said Mr W. 11. Hemingway in an address to ths- New Zealand Accountants and Auditors’ Association in Auckland Mr Hemingway said the Government should encourage the immigration of men with capital to open new industries and to absorb labour. Many held, however, tliat <the time was coming when the only employer would be the Stat?', a condition which would not, he con. Fide rod, attract people to the Doni in ion.