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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20550, 19 May 1932, Page 15

"It is enticing the farmer to break the law," said a member of the North Tjiranaki executive of the Farmers' Onion, in pointing out that often farmers wished to uso their motor-lorries for only one month of the year and yet had to register them for the whole year. He quoted the case of a farmer who wished to cart manure with his lorry for a few weeks and had tried to 1 obtain registration from June Ist to June 30th, but he had been told he must pay £5, the fee for the whole year. The union decided to write to the Postmaster-General asking whether it would be possible to permit the registration of vehicles for monthly or quarterly periods. When the period expired the number plates could be handed back by the farmer. Writing on April loth, our London correspondent says: Art-loving New Zealanders will doubtless be interested to know that Mr Bernard F. Gribble, the eminent marine artist, has recently painted for Dr. Bernard Myers (late of Auckland) a splendid picture of H.M.S. New Zealand, iu action at the Battle of Jutland. This picture, about 14in x Din, is correct in every technical detail, and has been passed as such by the Admiralty. The Dominion's battlecruiser, in the forefront, is seen firing one of her 12in guns into the surrounding smoke-screen behind which the German Fleet takes refuge. The flash of the gunfire gives a colour touch to the picture and intensifies the sense of reality which the painting conveys so adequately. The New Zealand flies the Dominion's Flag of blue, and she follows in the wake of the battle-cruiser Lion, the flagship of Admiral of the Fleet Lord -Beattie. In the surrounding grey-blue sea shells are bursting, conveying a further sense of movement and.of the reality of the moment. The picture is one that is highly praised, and it is interesting to learn that Mr Gribble is propared to undertake commissions for duplicates irom any New Zealanders who may wish to possess an authentic representation of a stirring naval incident of the Great War. The artist is marine painter to the Shipwrights' Company, and is one of the most eminent painters of sea subjects.