A sensational motor smash fortunately without serious consequences, occurred on the Mangere Bridge yesterday morning. A car driven by Mr. Otto Wolfgramm, of Eden Crescent, .who was accompanied by Mr. Collins, skidded on the bridge, and crashed into the concrete railings on the right-hand side. The force of the impact was considerable, and six of the 4in by Oil) concrete posts were stripped and the liin water pipe snapped. The car came to rest suspended over the water (it was high tide) with the front wheels on the footpatli. the rear being within a few feet of the water. The car was still there this morning, and is extensively damaged. "The evils of gambling are never properly explained to children," said Mr. •!. W. Poynton. S.M., at St. Andrew's Church fast evening. "A boy hears his father talk about the man who has been lucky enough to win a lottery and has gone a trip round the world; he hears his mother refer to someone else, who has been equally fortunate in an art union, or other like speculation, and he is. naturally curious. He wants to know how this little fortune can be obtained, and later on lie finds his way to a gambling school and gets himself into trouble. The boy is not to blame. He had never been warned; lie had never been told that gambling was a social evil. It was beginning at the wrong end, as he should have been told at an earlier stage. Whole nations had been demoralised by gambling, which induced habits of sloth and speculation instead of industry aud thrift. They could never suppress gambling; they cowld only do what thoy could to abate the evil." Whilst cranking a car on Saturday at Smith and Woodman's garage, in' Whangarei, the foreman, Mr. Sid. Leckie, sustained a broken wrist owing to the engine back-firing. After medical attention he was conveyed to ! his residence.
At the Onehunga Police Court this morning, before Mr. W. R. McKean. S.M., James Hedley pleaded guilty to being drunk in Queen Street, Onehunga, last Thursday morning, and wa9 fined 10/. He pleaded not guilty, however, to being a rogue and a vagabond within the meaning of the Act, and denied the statement that he had sponged on his brother, and even sold the tools which the latter procured for him. The statement of the police, that he was addicted to drinking methylated spirits, he airily brushed aside with the explanation that lie suffered from sciatica, aud that' he only used it for external application. It they could smell it on him, it "must have been on his clothes." On his assurance that he had a job waiting for him, near the Te Papapa station, the magistrate convicted him and ordered him to come up for sentence in six. months, promising him that if he did not conduct himself properly in the interval he would impose the utmost penalty allowed. When the Onehunga Borough Council declined to contribute its quota of £33 8/1 as worked out by the Auckland City Council, towards* the funds for entertaining the American Fleet, some of the prominent business people got to work and in a short while had collected the sum of £35 4/, which has now been handed over to the Auckland City Council by the collector (Mr. W. C. Coldicutt). Most the money was subscribed in guineas and half-guineas, and the smallest donation was 5/. * Whenever a 'big crowd conngregates the dishonestly-inclined individual loses no time in undertaking some scheme which will bring him easy money, says the "Dominion." The passing off of the split bank note is a well-known standby, although the preparation in this connection is somewhat lengthy and exacting, since it takes the cleverest worker at least an hour before the pin he is using has divided the note into two separate pieces of paper. Two of tlirse products of painstaking endeavour made their appearance at tile Winter show, in Wellington, on Friday night, but only one of them changed hands. A note was tendered at the ticket-box, and the success which attended the initial step apparently prompted the recipient of the nineteen shillings change to try his luck further afield. A presentation was made at one of the side shows, but the woman assistant declined to accept the note on the ground that it "felt rather thin." The police are looking for the man who passed the note at the ticket box. Speaking on the subject of radio broadcasting, for which the Dominion rights have been granted to Mr. W. Goodfellow, of Hamilton, and Mr. A. R, Harris, of Christchurch, Mr. Goodfellow states that a public company is being registered with provisos restricting dividends to 7. per cent, and stipulating that surplus profits must be expended on improvements to broadcasting equipment and service. The sale of receiving sets will be entirely outside the powers of the broadcasting company, and P.ny persons or person will be at liberty to compete in the open market on any makes of approved apparatus- under license from the Post and Telegraph Department. Mr. Harris, who will be manager of the company, is a New Zealander, and an electrical engineer of prominence. A broadcasting station will be established in Auckland shortly, and a little later a relay station will be installed in Hamilton. "During the past twelve months trade recovery from the aftermath of the war has been slow," stated the report of the Wellington Employers' Association, which was presented at the annual meeting of that organisation. "Fortunately for the country, the primary producers have been receiving highly satisfactory prices for their products, but a large proportion of the revenue thus received has been utilised in meeting liabilities incurred during the slump period. Although the future of the Dominion will eventually be a sound one, it is the view of many that strict economic principles should be adopted in view of the keen competition producers are experiencing and will continue to experience from other countries in the markets of the world. As time goes on it is being realised more and more that the development of the secondary industries of the country must be prosecuted more vigorously if the Dominion is to prosper as it has hitherto, and to this end it behoves both employers and employees to carry out their respective duties conscientiously and skilfully." Notwithstanding the recent spell of beautiful weather, with hardly a zephyr .stirring, and the consequent calm sea, great difficulty has been experienced witli shipping at the Napier breakwater (stages the "Tribune"). The Willaston, a vessel of 4658 tons gross, with general cargo from America, broke away from her berthage there on Monday morning. She returned later, but despite her heavy hawsers she broke away again on Tuesday morning. The sea was calm, except for a slight ground swell, yet the heavy moorings failed to hold securely this moderate-sized freighter. It is understood that some of the wharf piles were broken through the vessel's bumping. The Middleham Castle, another freighter of 4534 tons gross register, with general cargo from overseas for discharge at Napier, was obliged to put out into the roadstead on Monday morning through the vessel bumping and rolling badly. This vessel has not returned to the breakwater, her captain preferring to have the cargo lightered. He was a prominent member of the Southland Motor Association, and had gone out driving with a friend who worshipped the god of speed. In the back seat of a flying motor car the Motor Association member felt alarmed, as is the habit with all drivers when anybody else is at the wheel. "Go easy, now," he advised, as the car dashed forward on to a narrow bridge, and "Don't take the corner too sharply," as a nasty bend in the road came in view. The driver of the car spoke not a word, but drew from his pocket a pamphlet entitled "Hints to Back Seat Drivers," and handed it to his talkative adviser. The instructions, when the pamphlet was opened, were brief, but easy to understand —"Shut up!" The zealous Motor Association member took the hint. White spirit, resembling whisky, and according to a statement—unofficial, of course—by a police officer, that it would be strong enough to drive a five-ton motor lorry, was found at Annandale when police raided a house and discovered an alleged illicit still, says a Sydney message. It is said that jam, molasses, bananas, and other fruits and vegetables were used in the making of the spirit. It is not known whether the. manufacturer of the spirit intended to welcome the men of the visiting American Fleet with the "real stuff," which is supposed to lie distilled at "hooch plants in the United .States. Another thing that is a mystery is why whisky should be' illicitly distilled when there is no shortage of good spirits. The spirit found at Annandale is something special, however, and there is little doubt that it is potent liquor,
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