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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 4

Blowing of Motor Horn. “I know of no obligation on a motorist to blow his horn on approaching an intersection,” said Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth. He said it was compulsory in France, and motor cars in Paris were always blowing horns. On busy thoroughfares, added his Honour, on which there were many intersections, the sounding of horns on all cars approaching intersections would be ridiculous. There would be thousands of such signals every day. “The main thing,” suggested counsel, “is to keep a good look-out,” to which his Honour assented.

Good Stocks on Oyster Beds. Stocks of oysters on the beds in Auckand from which the Fisheries Department obtains its supplies are described as heavier than at any time in the past 25 years. There was an exceptionally heavy set of the spat on the rocks during the past five years, with the exception of the 1936-37 season, which was a failure from the aspect of propagation. Cold temperatures caused the failure, for any drop in the temperature of the sea for a period of 15 days in the incubation period is fatal to the spat. The set of oysters on the rocks last season was the heaviest for many years.