HEAVY RAIN IN OTAGO.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1917, Page 4

HEAVY RAIN IN OTAGO.

REASSURING REPORTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Yesterday. Reassuring reports are coming from Taieri plain. Outram is cut off by road and rail, but all stock was removed safely. The damage reported is slight. It has stopped mining in the back country and the flood waters are receding.

A rumor was current in W anganui and Wellington 011 Tuesday to the effect that the member for Hutt, Mr. T. M, Wilford, had met with a fatal aecidant jind condolences actually began to pour in, Mr. Wilford 011 appearing at the House in the evening declared the report of his death to be "grossly exaggerated." At)' the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday, before' Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., the following defendants were each fined 10s, with 7s costs, for breaches of the borough by-laws:—Leslie Wooldridge, carrying pasenger on motor cycle otherwise than in a side car; Edgar Martin, same offence ; Sydney John Kearney, riding bicycle on footpath; Robert Whale, driving motor car at excessive speed; William John Lander, riding bicycle without light. In the ease of a Maori named Takuta Matangi, for whom Mr. A. 'Bewley appeared, the defendant pleaded guilty to having driven a motor cycle without lights on the Main South Road, and the same penalty was im'posed. the costs, however, being increased to 12s by the inclusion of a translation fee.

"One of the results of the war is certain to be an extension of State power," said Mr. J. W. Poynton, speaking at Palmerston North lust week. He added: "The old shibboleths of 'private en trprise' and 'voluntary effort' have lost their charm. We have spent in (his country £35,000,000 in railways, mainly to bring Our produce to the sea coast, and another £2,000,000 would complete the bridge, and take our wool, meat, fiax, and other things to the world's markets, but our efforts seem to have failed at the water's edge and we allow 'private enterprisers' to take our goods there, and charge us what they like. "It is," said Mr. Poynton, "as if a lim body made a road 35 miles long, but left two miles to a private individual to control, with a right to put a toll-gate across it and blackmail all users of the 35-mile road."

The 'Empire Theatre management are treating the public to a liberal concession next Saturday. Every adult attending the evening session to see the world-famous tragedienne, Nancj O'Nijil, in the superb Metro plav, "The Iron Woman" (from the book by Margaret Ddand) will bo presented with a free pass to attend at Everybody's on the following Tuesday, when ailother big film success, "Satan'' Sa'nderaon," from the well-known' book, by' Hallie Erminie Rives, will be the attraction. The kiddies have not been overlooked in arranging tlie concession aa every child attending the matinee on' Saturday will receive a free pass to the' special war picture matinee on Tuesday afternoon, and also be given six valuable hints on how to win one of the 15 cash prizes being offered for a school children's essay on the film, "War As It Really Is." One of the features of the big war film "War As It Really Is," showing .it the Empire Theatre next Monday and Tuesday, is the surrender of hundreds of Germans, in a French bayonet attack, forced to give themselves up by the famous, "curtain of fire" which cuts otf their escape, and is clearly visible in the picture.

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