25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 216, 9 June 1936, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

North Auckland • Railway

(From “The Dominion,*’ June 10, 1011.) The ttoyal Commission which was set up early in the year to report on the route of the North Auckland railway, has sent in its finding. The commissioners favour the western route, which has been favoured by the Dargaville people, as against that sought by the members for Marsden and the Whangarei community.

Mr. A. D. Thomson, S.M., presided over a sitting of the Juvenile Court, when two boys, whose ages were eight and ten years respectively, were charged with breaking and entering and theft. The parents of the boys, who appeared in court, attributed their children’s action to witnessing kincmatograph pictures of burglaries, and stated that the boys had tried to copy the easy manner in which the thieves abstracted their booty. » • ♦

It is stated authoritatively in Sydney that the Japanese Antarctic explorers, who are now camping on the shores of the harbour, having failed to effect a landing in the far south, before leaving home took an oath not to return until they had reached the South Pole. The master of the ship, Captain Nomura, who has not taken the oath, has returned to place the true position before the Japanese public, in the hope of raising additional funds. [The expedition ship had called at Wellington on the way to the Antarctic. Lack of proper equipment had prevented their disembarkment after they had reached the Ross Sea.]