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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1923, Page 4

The Maoris in the King Country are |in many cases making full use of the I money paid over to them in connection I with the subdivision of native land. A j gentleman who lias arrived at Welling- | ton on Friday last from the King j Country informed a "'Times" reporter j that last Sunday he visited a certain pa and was amused to see a native woman dressed in an expensive : fur coat and doing the week's washing. | During the week another Maori bought a costly piano from Auckland. Sot being able to gtt this cumbersome article through the door he got over the difficulty by making a large hole in the side of the house. A young Duncdinite has invented a device which he claims will register on ordinary milking machines the amount of milk which each cow yields. The device also takes a sample of the milk from each cow, and therefore the farmer may ascertain the quantity and quality of the animal's yield without employing a bucket machine. The indention has been praised by the managers of local dairy factories, as they consider it of great value to the industry in that it will „ive the producer an opportunity of weeding out th e poorer of hi* herd. *

While playing for the senior City team against Ponsonby on Carlaw Park | on Saturday afternoon "Mike" Flynn had j an ankle broken and had to retire from the game. He was attended to by members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and later taken to the Auckland Hospital. The attitude of the Attorney-General, Sir ¥'. D ' Bell i towards the question of an additional -Supreme Court judge seems to j be more favourable than might be con-! eluded from the reports circulated. He | informed a legal deputation on Friday that he was no t quite sure that a. | majority of the judges dissented from the i recent opinion expressed by the judges I themselves on the subject. He knew; half of them opposed the idea. He con-1 eluded: "The 'Minister of Justice and myself are not satisfied with the present : condition of affairs, under Which a temporary judge is necessary _s an essential adjunct to the permanent Bench." The tenor of these remarks suggest that the Attorney-General realises the need for the extra judge, but would like to see a permanent appointment. "The Railway Department allowed u» to truck the horse, and accepted delivery without mentioning anything about a permit being required," stated Mr. Lawson, appearing for Ellis and Burnand, timber merchants, charged before Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, on Thursday, with sending a horse from a tick-affected area to a non-affected area without a permit. "Then," continued counsel, "the officials immediately rang up the Stock Department notifying them of the mater, and thug the information was laid." Defendants admitted sending the animal from Waihou to Mangapeehi, over the border of the affected area, which terminates at Te Awamutu. In pleading for leniency for his clients, Mr. Lawson pointed out _ that a few days ago Mr. Salmon, 8.M., at Morrinsville, in dealing with a similar case, had stated that as the minimum fine was £5 he would dismiss the case, and order payment of costs only. His Worship, however, opined that he should inflict the minimum fine, and then defendants could, if they saw fit, apply to the Minister of Agriculture for a refund. A witness in the. inquiry into the damage sustained by the Port Auckland, stated that the large cargo vessels burned between 3000 .and 4000 tons of coal between New Zealand and England. This meant that the using of the coal, which was taken from amidships, lessened the cargo weight in. the centre of the ship, which had to be made stronger so that it could stand the weight of the cargo remaining at both ends of the ship. "We again point out the loss of valuable time in locating the insufficiently addressed correspondence," says the Auckland correspondent of the P. and T. journal "Katipo," who adds: —"It is on the increase, and this will continue unless the Department takes prompt action in dealing with it. Our senior sorters have as much as they can do without this work increasing. Some Mea of this increase is shown by the necessity of working 20 to 90 minutes every night in addition to the time lost in the day. Result: The sorters are kept on longer than necessary, the lighting bill is increased. If the Department insists upon doing its customers' legitimate work, then we ask that some .'extra assistance be given the senior sorters during the day, so that there will be no interference with the sorting at night." The General Manager of the New Zealand Railways has just notified the Mount Albert Borough Council, in response to its request, that it has been decided to install a ''wig-wag" signal at the Gladstone Road railway crossing. The council had previously approached the Department without success, but evidently the authorities now realise the dangerous nature of this crossing, at which there has been more than one accident. The funeral of an old resident, Mr. William Tait, took place at Purewa on Sunday. Mr. Tait was born in Middlesex in 1842, and joined the 15th King's hussars. Lpon his retirement, ten years later, he joined tbe staff of the Metropolitan Railway, then the Northwestern. He arrived in New Zealand by the clipper ship Gairloch in Novcm--1 ber, 1884, and joined the Mounted Police, serving on the goldmining area of Milton, in the South Island. After five years of that service, he joined the Railway Department, and was later transferred to Auckland in 1885. -Mr. Tait retired on superannuation after 30 years' service. He was one of the 1 original founders of the Amalgamated ' Society of Railway Servants, which has ' now a membership of over 15,000. De--1 ceased is survived by his widow. On Saturday afternoon the last of the 1 functions in connection with the golden 1 jubilee of the Auckland branch of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit '■ Society was held in the grounds of St. '• Mary's Orphanage, Hillsborough, when 1 there was a large attendance. The ' members were the guests of Bishop 1 Cleary and Bishop Liston, who provided i charabancs for their conveyance. The 1 visitors were welcomed by the ex- ■ Coadjutor Bishop, the sisters and the , orphans. Bishop Cleary was unavoidably ' absent from the gathering. The young ' people provided an attractive pro- ■ gramme, including vocal items, recita- > tions and choruses. Afternoon tea was ' provided 'by a staff of young ladies, and 1 a most enjoyable time was spent. » A delay of some 20 minutes was occasioned to the tram service in Symonds 1 Street about 3 p.m. yesterday, when an outward-bound tram left the rails at the 1 junction of Symonds Street and Khyber " Pass Road. The car was replaced with considerable difficulty. "There has been a substantial fallingoff in the number of members of the Xew Zealand Post and Telegrapn .Service," ' says the permanent secretary in his re- ' quest to conference, according to "The Katipo." "This is chiefly due to the effort of the Department to stampede members into reversing their decision , to affiliate with the Alliance of Labour. '_ I am glad to be able to report that in the ' last few months the tide has set the ' other way, and we have been averaging '70 new members per month. The thanks of the organisation are due to the col- [ lectors, who, in the main, look after '_ this side of our activities." There are 118 borough councils and l .68 town boards in Now Zealand. The' , boroughs have a population of 750,000, \ox nearly three-quarters of the Do- : minion's'total. Nearly 100 Acts of Par- \ liament come within the =cope of a . borough council's activities, i Over half a million automobile? are now registered in Canada. In 1922 a _ total of 101,007 were manufactured in! _ that country, which was 53 per. cent ; more than in 1921. _____======