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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1915, Page 4

"The small tioys poke fiiri *t mc in&i short trousers," said a senior cadet iia,r . the Magistrate's Court at Xorth, -when charged with failing to «£■!/.• tend drill. He stood about 6ft and was aged 17. He" continued that ft .-■' was like wearing bathing trrniks for hies V •to ■wear the shorts supplied for ih*» cadets. He -wanted -to foe drafted "into : the Territorials, -where tie trousers "■■, would be more suitable. TV case «M - adjourned. ' : .r-'■■.'.''.'■'■ A number of men who -wtn engaged? in playing - two-up " were arrested:«:?."'. Riccarton racecourse on Sunday after- -.:■■ noon by Sergt. Stewart and ConsUVle* Dunlop and 'Hannafin. The officers Visited • the racecourse, and, making a -wary *4'\.' ; - vance through the pine-trees, reached * -;' point within 50 yards of a party of men > ■who were watched at their operationsfor a considerable time. Then someone :.-■ pare the alarm, and the players sud-, r r denly fled across the paddock. The police-, gave chase, and were successful in catch-: "' ing five men, of whom, it ia understood, ■£; three will be prosecuted. | • The four children, -who iad on Friday v been found living in most undesirable and poverty-stricken circumstances with * their mother in a two-roomed house in : Xewton, were yesterday morning com-'* mitted by Mr. E. C. Cntten, SJsf., to . industrial schools. The mother of the " children was committed for twelve months v to Pakatoa Island, and the father under- : took to pay 6/ a week each for the main-' ' tenance of the children. An instance of the great value to the city of possessing in connection with its ' ' water supply, such a catchment area as : it has in'the Waitakerei watershed, is .■ illustrated by last week's rainfall The . rainfall at Waitakerei for the week ending Saturday last, was 5.15 inches, representing a fall of 295,000,000 gallons -:."■ <>n the catchment. Of this volume 120,----000,000 gallons was caught in the reser- ! vair, wliich has a capacity of 150,0G3,000 gallons, and was about one-third full at ■ the time, the remainder of the water' .going away over the falU. The amount; :J running over the falls was at the rate of' ''■ 3,940,000 gallons per hour.