Watch Lost and Found.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 6

Watch Lost and Found.

A complaint that his pocket had been picked of a watch and a gold medal was made to Detective A. Moore by a man who approached him on Prince’s Wharf, Auckland, shortly before the Monterey sailed for the United States the other day. Before the matter was carried any further, the man who believed that he had been robbed was surprised to have • his missing property returned to him, with the explanation that it had been picked up on the wharf, having apparently dropped from his pocket.

Subsidised Transport in Australia. Districts which are poorly served by the railways in Western Australia have special feeder road services organised to even up any- disabilities under which farmers may produce, as compared with those who can put their goods direct on to the train, the Hon F. L. C. Smith, a former Minister for Railways in the state government, said in Christchurch recently. Freights on these feeder services, which are privately operated under a goods transport licence, are arranged so that after the first 10 miles have been charged for at ordinary rates, the rest of the journey is paid for at standard railway freights. The difference is made up by a subsidy from the Government to the private firms, the money for which is obtained from the fees collected for licences of passenger as well as goods services. The transport system of the state, Mr Smith explained, was under the control of a Transport Board. An effective Transport Co-ordination Act was in operation, adequate • protecting the interests of the railways from unfair road competition and also the trams and trolley-buses, which were state owned, except in Calgoorlie.