“Just Married.”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 6

“Just Married.”

The age-old joke on newly-weds was given a new turn at Auckland the other day. A motor car bearing the chalked sign “Just Married” sned through the streets with a folding perambulator tied to the rear instead of the usual trailer of old boots. Although somewhat the worse for wear the perambulator still seemed capable of giving good service. Maori Woman’s Death. — The body of Eri Hapeta Hemana, aged 39, married, and the mother of three children, was discovered yesterday afternoon lying in some scrub near the Atiamuri Road, about five miles from Rotorua. The woman’s throat had been slashed with a razor which was lying near the body. The disco, very was made by a Maori girl,, Ngatai Maka, who immediately com-1 municated with the police. The wo-1 man resided in a house about 201 chains from where the body was found. | A note apparently left by the dead t vvoman was discovered in the house. • Two Hitlers. ; “It is quite common knowledge- m l Germany that there are two Hitlers,” ] said Mr T. G. Barton, of Hawera, in I an interview on his return from a trip to Europe, which included both Germany and Czechoslovakia. “Hitler was to officially open a bridge at a certain time, and later in the day was to lay a foundation stone of some Nazi building, the two places being 150 miles apart,” he said. "Because of some slip in the time arrangements, the two ceremonies took place within four minutes of each other, it being thus/impossible for the same man io have performed both.” Pohutukawas on Strike.

A disappointment to motorists who traversed the'East Coast scenic road this summer was the almost complete absence of pohutukawa flowers, an experience that is without precedent in the memory of local residents. Normally, the pohutukawas are at their best just before Christmas, and when the trees had not blossomed at the usual time it was at first thought that it was merely due to the lateness of the season. As the days passed with only an odd patch of colour, however, it was realised that most of the trees were not going to flower at ill. Evidence of the poorness of the display was the fact that between Waihau Bay and Oruaili Beach; which Is generally a mass of bloom on roadside and hillside, there were only about a dozen trees which showed any sign of colour. Dry Pastures.

The pastures in North Auckland i are'beginning to show the effects of the three weeks of dry weather and the grasses, with the exception of paspalum, have taken on a brownish tinge. Unless heavy rain falls soon the dairy production in the area must decline and the expectations that the good production of the last month would overcome the decline at the beginning of the season will not be fulfilled. Although rain fell during the Christmas weekend the high winds that followed nullified the benefit to pastures and these winds seem to have followed all the rain since the early spring. Not only are pastures needing rain, but water for stock in some districts will present a problem, if the dry weather continues for any lengthy period, as creeks and waterholes are now low.