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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 20 October 1922, Page 4

' A witness in the Supreme Court uneonscioiiHlv caused some amusement , this morning. She was giving corroborative evidence in an undefended ; divorce action, in order to provo that i the petitioner hail not lived with respou- ; dent during the last three years. "Did respondent never come back after the separation?" queried his Honor. "Oh, ' yes. several limps." replied the witness in a rather nervous tone. A tense silence fell over the Court. "Oh. indeed, ! so she did come back 7" said hie Honor: "you hail better tell mc all about il." After a louj> silence the witness volunteered the information that ruspondert hud come back lo the home to break ii up. "That whs 22 years ago, , ' she. remarked, "'and she has never come back since." Hie* Honor joined in the laughter. A claim ami counterclaim occupied MV. I I-.. \\ iU,,,,. ,-..\i.. „, ill.: vMa K i... trate's Court yesterday afternoon. William Anderson iMr. Jacob-en) nought to recover irom Messrs. Cooper ami Jlilnei, land agent> (Mr. Kerning) the -urn of i £."if), alleged lo be due in connection j with Hie sale ;ui<l purchase oi ,i motor car. The defence was thai th<- motor I i*ar had been paid for in lull by tornj mie-ion earned in llu> -ale of plainiifTs ; hoiwi' at I'etone PlaintirT aliened that i defendant had misrepresented the finan- ! cial position of the purchaser of the i liou.se. Mr. Wilson hel.l that tliis a'.lega. j tion was not proved, and gave judgment lor the defendant, with coats. j Me-srs. V Bueklana and Soiw, Ltd., , (Mr. Stilwell), sued S. C. Caulton I Mr. Ray) at the Magistrate's Court yester- | day afternoon to recover £25 7/11, bal ; ance owing for goods supplied. The ■ defence wan that ;i pump and pipes had ' lii-cn handed over liy defendant lo piain--1 tiff at a valuation of £17 10/ and that j MucUhiiid and Nun, accepted that valu-i- ---! tion. Plainliff claimed that the pump and pijKi were only placed in their I hands for sale, and no credit note waa j given to defendant showing that a sale i had been effected. Mr. Stilwell said j plaintiff was prepared to allow for some j .if the piping sol 1. Mr. W. R, McKran, SjM., eaid he was satisfied there had not been a sale of the pump by defendant to plaintiff. Still defendant was entitled to an allowance on the pipes sold, .fudgment was entered for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, less £3 0/11 allowed for the pipes. A young married woman had a remarkable escape from serious injury by a fall through a skylight in Gloucester" Street, Christchurch, on Monday, states the. "Sun." She went out on to the roof of a. lean-to at the back of the building to hang out some washing. While busy with the clothes she stopped back on the skylight. The glass gave way beneath her and she fell through tho gap until her elbows met the steel sash-bars on either side of the frame. She remained wedged in the framework until men from a workshop came up und extricated her. It was found that she had suffered, liothinp worse than a few scratches upon her arms and hands, and some shock. The incident of a etatue entitled "Spring," now on n landing of the staircase at the Art Gallery, which waa removed some years ago from Albert Park to its present position, ie recaJled by a letter to the City Council from an art lover (presumabiy ignorant of tl« circumstances) suggesting that tht : statue was most eminently suited fo» . tile floral surroundings of the park. As i its removal to a place under a roof had ! been made to preserve the marble from the ravages which the salihe humidity of the Auckland atmosphere inflict on Parian stone, the council decided not to meddle any further with ; "Spring."' J Under the auspices of the Dominion Road Ratepayerss" Association, a meeting was held in the Presbyterian Schoolroom, Balmoral Road, last night,; to further protest against the erection of a destructor on the site at the end ' j of Dominion Road. There were about , 100 present, and Mr. T. Buchanan was; in the chair. He stated that since the' last meeting a number of telegrams had been sent to Wellington in connection i with the matter, and in addition Mr.' M. J. Savage, if.P., who had inspected j the site, had telejrrn plied to the Minis-j ter of Lands, the Hon. D. H. Guthrie, j stating that over (100 signatures had 1 been added to the petition opposing the ] erection of a destructor. After some i discussion, a motion was carried unanimously, requesting the Government not to permit the Mount Kden Council to erect a destructor at any place within the borough prior to the matter being placed before the ratepayers by way of a poll. It waa also decided to forward a copy of the resolution to the Prime Minister and Mr V. H. Potter, M.P. When the returns for the present lambing season in Otago are made up they will very likely show a record (states the "Dunedin Star"). Tho coastal flocks have never produced a higher percentage. ■ and the reports from the high country.! I where the lambing is now in full swing, | i are most encouraging. Bringing forth is, I however, hard on the high country ewes jtliis season Hard frosts killed the grass I between the tussocks. In most seasons' there is snow to sheljter the grass. This > .-eason the sheep on high land had to i fossick for sustenance, and they grew ! thin, and cases have been known of ewes i leaving their lambs to search for some- ' I tiling to eat. The ewes will probably I j come round all right, but their wool may j ; ! " "■" <u - 1 - i In -reporting on the audit of the City j Council's trading enterprises, Mr. Alex ' (trierson yesterday stated that the j •books of account were well kept and \ satisfactorily ibalanced. as uau&l, and ■ that all the assets were well worth the i values appearing in the books. He also' re-ported that in his opinion the balance- i nhpct of the electricity undertaking for i March 31 this year was a fair 'basis on ; which to make an adjustment of the ■ amount payable by the Auckland Elec- i trie Power Board for the purcha-e of! the undertaking. The Washing-Up Rill provides that in! consequence of a new and more con-! venient road having been constructed, the road along the Oratia Stream, in Te j Waari Hamlet, Henderson, known as; "Bailey's," is -no longer required, and; lias therefore been closed. j A selection of picture* having peculiarly Xew Zealand characteristics is to | be made from the Auckland Art Gallery j and old colonist-' museum for the pur- ■ poie of loan to the Government and j exhibition at the British Empire Exhibi- | tion in 1924. The City V'iiv Brigade turned out at , 7 o'clock iast evening to a grass fire at j the foot of Richmond Street. Grey Lynn. There was no damage to property. Hamilton Borough Council ha- decided to offer a site to the Government for the erection of a St. Helens Home, and a special committee has been set up to 8» iala tja murtni ' '

5 J Against £-431 worth of debts owing to a the creditors there is a credit of £20 in s the bankrupt estate of Walter Frederick i Smith and Ernest Joseph Smith, trads ing as Smith Brothers, carriers, Otoro--3 lianga. In a statement received at the : ofliee of the Official Assignee (Mr. VV. IS. Fisher) the bankrupt* explain that i they had lost money in carting metal ' j and timber on contract. Their prices ' j were the usual ones, but they had been unfortunate in the weather and in other nays. Three hor-es had been killed while a fourth died. I I Application is to be made to tfie ■ J Police Department that arrangements •J be made for tho control of traffic by a 1 nonstable on point duty at the junction of Breakwater Road, Emily Place, Cu»- ---' loms Street unil Fort Street, and also ,j at Lhc junction of Karangahapc Road I and Queen Street. In connection with '■ street traffic control. Mr. E. Davi.i ! stated that it would be better ii the ■ I Council its-el; had charge of tilie. points- ; men, and put un specially trained men. !! Mc doubted \ery much if tlhe automatic ; stop-and-jio devices had been the sik-- [ j i-ess which had boon anticipated. Mr. jJ. A. Warnoek felt that tOie. automatic j devices had resulted in many motorists ) ! failiiii! to give pergonal signal* at street i intersections. M "DaU turned mc out of uuuw, jnd toid i j mother to get out by noon the next day "I or he would throw lirr over the fence," "j>\r- the statement of a witness in a • j maintenance t-n-c at the Magistrate's ' i Court this morning. Another eon asred : JIH years also stated he was ordered • from home on 12 hours' notice. j The drainage of One Tree Ui!l di.-- . ; trict and portion of Remuera U to be the subject of conference between the city ene'ineoT nnd the engineer of One > Tree Hill Road Board with a view to • 'levelling a rtehrme which may enable • the whole of One Tree Hill district being efficiently connected with the existing ! City and Suburban Board's reticulation. I . i One of the piles of the bridge at . Helonsville was broken by a punt bumping it. To prevent the same thing hap- , pening again it is proposed to affix - wooden fenders to the pile? at a eo.*r of , £50, of which half will be chargeable to , ; Helensville Town Board. I The Manuka, which yesterday left ! Sydney for Wellington, where she is due ,! on Monday, has 82 bags of Australian 1 ; mail for Auckland. Unless the vessel - ' makes an unusually fast trip across, the i mail will not arrive here until Wedncsi i day morning. • j The Auckland City Council has granted j permission to the Waitemata County I Council to take sufficient dry timber •; from the .-.djaeent lands for the purpose I; of constructing a new bridge at Niho- , i tupu. The cost is estimated at about i fOO. j Dealing with a request from the busi- ' neae folk of Karangahape Road that a ladies' rest room be established in the '■ , Xeivton thoroughfare, the City Council 1 intimated last night that its experience ■ with the ladies' lavatory in Wyndham 1 Street did not incline it to favour fur- , ther installations of the kind. j The question of eradicating noxious weeds was referred to in the report of ;Mr. Gerald A. Jackson, engineer, sub- ' mitted to the meeting of the Waitemata Council this morning. The report/refers to tihe fact that enmmunicationß had been received from the Agricultural Department regarding the necessity for check ing- the growth of noxious- weeds. The engineer stated the only effective measure was to prosecute offenders. So ; far he had only prosecuted absentee I owners, but the settlers would also have ito be made to comply with the law. i ] Arrangements for the Northcote and , Birkenhead schools' home gardens show and exhibition, which is to b e ttield on November 24 and 25, were made at the annual meeting of the committee; Mr. .A. E. Oreenslade presided. The balance ' j sheet showed that the receipts (had been j I £54 5/10, and there was a credit \ balance of £3 11/11. Fifty entries have i been made for the children's home gardens.