Request to Motorists.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1939, Page 4

Request to Motorists.

Neatly painted on a signboard at the gate of a residence on the Great South Road several miles from the city is the notice: “Motorists, please do not call here with your troubles.” The house is midway between two garages, ‘which are about five miles' apart, and the resident found that motorists in trouble would call in at all hours of the day or night. The climax was reached on a recent weekend. when no less than 12 came seeking help. One wanted a little oil, another roused the unfortumtte householder from his bed about midnight to inquire whether accommodation was available in the neighbourhood.

Sydney’s Playgrounds. The success of Sydney’s attention to the provision of playgrounds for children in preventing juvenile crime was referred to on Saturday by a former Lord Mayor of Sydney, Aiderman E. S. Marks, who arrived at Auckland by the cruise-ship Narkunda. Sydney, he said, was spending about £20,000 a year on children’s playgrounds and already 5000 children were being taught arts and crafts and all sorts of sports and games at the playgrounds, each of which was in the charge of two men and two women experts. A striking tribute to the movement, said Mr Marks, came recently from a Judge of the Children’s Court, who said that in the past year not one case had been brought before the Court from one of the poorer waterfront districts where playground activities were carried out.