JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1051, 14 February 1911, Page 2

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

(By Teleffraplj.—Special' Correspondent.).. Wanganui; February 13." ' ■, The formation of an Automobile Association is projected here. Thirty names have been given in as willing to become members, and it-is probable as,many more will join also. ; . , '~ ■Westray, the Auckland amateur sculler, who is an_ aspirant, for " the amateur championship on the Wanganui Uiver .on February 25,'; has"arriveds "arrived here for teus-,-ing, and has joined" his fellow northerner, -Stone (the present amateur champion) in : his daily spins on the river. < The death' is ahnounceiL:of Alexander Mack, .formerly ono,'of ;the best-known horsemen'in the Dominion,' aaefl 49. After a, successful career in the saddle, he took up'training, but of. late years, and prior to his'last illness, he was' driving-ior a' local carrying -firm; ■ For several 'months"! past' ho has bornd £ painful 'Allies* with great fortitude, passing away at. the Hospital jresterday; He.- lraves a wife and large family. . . .'', r - Another instance of. th.ol futility of. paying'. the average' Maori for his laritf- ■in cash has just come 'under ".'our'• notice, 1 says the "Herald." A Native has recently beon paid several' hundred, pounds as his'share of proceeds of'the. sale of''a I certain block; . 'If he returns--to ' his" pa tho communistic'habits of .the race-will "at once assert themselves. -He will have to share the money out, add before* long will have none lelt. As he is bound to loje it in": any case, he. has... determined to get "rid of it by-having a good time, in town,,and, as usual, is spending it on gorgeous clothes and all manner of 'ex•travagances. "Money no _ good to a Maori,", he said, when-someone spoke to him bn the matter. Therefore, as, racial custom will not allow him to 'make a sensible use of it, :ho is travelling the same old road that many haTe travelled before him, aiid when winter conies and money is gone he will do the annual upcountry Native starve on potatoes. .Truly the ; Native is a perplexing problem/'