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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 48, 27 February 1922, Page 8

The suggestion that, money received by a. man as compensation for -an^accident should help towards the support, of that man's wife was made by counsel in the Maintenance Court this morning.; "Do you want him to break his neck so as he can keep his wife?" asked Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., amidst laughter. The fifth bi-monthly students' competition organised by the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects ' resulted as follows :—First prize/ A. D. Connell, (with Mr. Stanley W.\ Fearn); second prize, D. 0. Naughton (with Mr. J. F. Munninga). The subject was a desisn for a country residence. On the application of'the police at the Petone Police Court on Saturday, before "Messrs. A. Coles and R. W. Short, J.P.s, a prohibition order was issued Against James Harold Corson. At the same sitting a first-offender for drunkenness was convicted and discharged. The Postal authorities have received advice from ' Sydney that the Ulimaroa left at noon on the 25th instant for Wei-' liiLSton. She has on board 168 baf(s o( j mail, including two from the. East. | The recent outbreak of fireblight in i the neighbourhood of Patea. has led to the definition of the affected area by the' Agricultural Department. The area is ■■described as Qinbrncinß the whole-of t-lw Patea district and part of tie IV&itotam ; riding.