PETONE SITTING.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 34, 9 February 1926, Page 3

PETONE SITTING.

The fortnightly sitting" of the Petone Magistrate's Court was held yesterday before Messrs. J. Piper and : Thomas Potts, J.P.'s. I Herbert N. Waters, for failing to stop when signalled by the police, while he was riding a motor-cycle, was fined £5 and 7s costs, and for exceeding the speed limit on a motor-cycle he was fined a.further,.£s and 7s costs. Edward J. Taylor was charged with assaulting W. J. Reedy, and was fined 5s and 3s costs.

"We have practically got to create a circus to attract the public,'' said a speaker at a meeting of the general committee of the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association on Friday in emphasising apathy in Auckland toward a show that consisted merely of a display of cattle and sheep. Other speakers said that unlike Christchurch and Palmerston North Auckland was not a farming community, so that some other attraction would hay« to be provided ' in order to ensura a large "gate" (reports the "New Zealand Herald"). -It was suggested that a floral fete with competitions for decorated motor-cars and vehicles might be arranged. "Put on a totalisator" was the final solution of the problem offered by one member.