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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 8 September 1926, Page 6

A young lady, Mirs L. Major, of Otalmliii, stepped off t the safety-zone at Xewmarket yesterday afternoon and was struck by a tram car. She sustained a fractured collarbone and minor injurips. and was conveyed to a private hospital suffering from shoe!-:.

An interrupter at Cipsy Smith's meeting was last night swamped by singing. The evangelist was talking of the war and the heroism of the soldiers when a voice shouted from the nailery. "Christ died for Germans as well." '"That's true." said the Gipsy, and as the man in the gallery wanted to go on talking, some excited women shouted "Put him out," while a man yelled "I'll do it if he won't go." Gipsy Smith merely said, "Don't look round, we will sing a hymn." As soon as the verse was ended the man in the gallery tried to interrupt again but the sinsing was resumed and four ushers quietly escorted the man from the hall.

During the hearing of a case before Mr. Poynton, S.M., this morning, when breaches of traffic regulations were being dealt with, Mr. C. 0. Mahony, for v defendant, said the position was peculiar at Point Chevalier, as there was no tram, and yet the City Council was running buses in opposition to his client. Mr. G. Hogan, chief traffic inspector, said: "License fees have been paid for the city buses."

A waterside worker, Mr. Sam Green, met with a mishap yesterday while riding a bicycle along' Queen's wharf. He was carrying two coal shovels on his shoulder and was riding on the outside of a line of railway trucks. The handle-bars of the machine catching against a wharf crane was the cause of the bicycle and the rider being thrown into the harbour. By means of a lifebuoy and line Mr. Green was able to regain the wharf, but had to leave his bicycle and shovels at the bottom ot the harbour.

A farmer's wife from the King Country who is at present visiting Auckland says that the young Maoris have proved 'the farmer's best friends this winter. It has been only too true that since the autumn farm hands have left their work on the land to go and get high wages on steady jobs with regular hours in and near the cities. When labour got ecarce, and it was quite impossible to fill the vacancies on the farms, the young Maoris stepped into the breach and filled the bill splendidly Especially are they fond of getting behind a plough drawn by two good horses. he Maori loves horseflesh and it was wonderful how skilful they became after a very short experience.

Another ratepayers' association, making four in all, has been formed in Mount Roskill. This information was conveyed to the Mount Roskill Road Board last night with a request for the free use of the board's public hall once a month for its meetings. Some members thought the request should be granted as the members of the association , wanted to consider the welfare of the district and, therfore, assist the board in that direction. Other members wanted to know if this privilege would be accorded to the other ratepayers' associations if required. It was decided on the motion of the chairman, Mr. J. J. Preston, to charge the association 5/ a night to cover cost of lighting and cleaning the hall subject to the building not being required for other meetings when the full rental would be paid.

Several times during his Northern tour the Prime Minister stressed the need of rigid economy. Every effort, he said, must be made to prevent any increase in the burden of the man on the land. Local rates were becoming a burden upon many farmers and most people had not realised the seriousness of continued public borrowing. In another connection Mr. Coatee said we must be careful not to load the community with more than it could bear, for expenditure which was intended to benefit the people would then become a weight upon those whom it was most intended to help. "'We have in New Zealand adopted the principle of sharing our gains amongst thoee who need them most," he remarked; and he added that this was one way of assisting those men and women who would, if they could, give their children a better opportunity in life.

A communication from the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon. A. D. McLeod, intimated to the Northcote Borough Council last evening that the question of including the name of the Birkenhead and Xorthcote Gas Company, Ltd., in the schedule to the Board of Trade Gas Regulations had been considered by the gas referees at a meeting held "on the 26th August. It was resolved at this meeting that it would be inadvisable to bring such companies as tliis one under the operation of the regulations until further experience had been gained in the control of gas supplied by the companies already included in the schedule to the regulations. The referees etated, however, that they would reconsider the question early next year. It was resolved to reply that the council regretted the decision conveyed, and that the Minister be requested to have the matter reconsidered so that the regulations should apply to the local company forthwith.

The Public Service Commissioner in his annual report to Parliament states that many young fellows start their work in life on a line that is not suited to them. If they remain in the Service they will be failures for life, but if they pass out of it early in life they will probably get into something else which will suit them, and perhaps be successful. For that reason the probationary period of entrants to the service is being extended from two to four years.

Four orphans who heard the service of Gipsy Smith broadcasted, forwarded half a crown towards the funds of the mission. The fact wae mentioned last night by Mr. A. J. Seamer, Dominion secretary, when appealng to the exservice men present for a good collection. He said "I was not only a chaplain but served in the ranks. I appeal to my comrades to put something in the collection that is worth while. This ie our service. 'Do as well as the orphans did."

''It appears to mc," said the .Chief Justice, the Hon. C. P. Skerrett, in the Supreme Court this morning, "that counsel in asking questions derogatory to the witness should exercise extreme care." The remark was prompted by a question from counsel to a witness in regard to his sobriety.

"That is a very brave admission for a modern young lady," said Mr. R. A. Singer in the Supreme, Court this morning when a witness said she could not dance.

A petition is now in circulation in Mount Roskill to ask the Road Board to take the necessary steps to change the district into a borough. Last night the Road Board agreed that the petition might be signed at the board's office.