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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 147, 18 March 1931, Page 6

A start has been made in Jackson Street, Fetone, with levelling the surface from the Post Office to Cuba Street. This part of the road has long been a source of annoyance to motorists, and there is a court case pending by one who alleges that his springs were broken there. The portion already done has effected a considerable improvement. Mr. J. Platts-Mills, the Wellington Rhodes Scholar who has been compelled to retire from the Oxford crew for the Oxford and Cambridge boat race, was a‘member of the winning crew at the first inter-’Varsity boat race in New Zealand. He has also won at regattas in the Wellington Star youths’ crew at Picton Christchurch, Wanganui aml Wellington and has represented the Star dub in the eights. Mr. Platts-Mills entered Victoria College in 1925 with an entrance scholarship and took up the study of law. He won the Plunket Oratory Medal in 1926, and represented Wellington in the inter-’Varsity debates. He won his Blues in athletics, boxing, and Rugby. Persian lambs. Algerian sheen, Swedish reindeer, French calves, reptiles, walruses, and antelopes are among the animals called upon to supply material for making ladies’ shoes.