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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 May 1927, Page 9

“I am not saying anything in disparagement of the survey,” said the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Skerrett, during the hearing of a road boundary dispute in the Auckland Supreme Court on .Tuesday, reports the ‘‘New Zealand Herald.” ”1 think no country in the world has a more accurate system of survey than New Zealand had in the early days. It is a remarkably accurate system.” Air, Armstead, one of the counsel in the case, remarked that he was very glad to hear his Honour say so. He believed that was so.

Visitors to Norfolk Island during Easter were afforded the opportunity to attend a novel racei meeting, says an exchange. There were hai’f-a-dozon races, with about as many starters in each event, and both residents and visitors alike flocked to the “tote” to back their fancies. The machine was simplicity itself, consisting only of a blackboard on which the names of the horses were written. “Two tickets on Ruby,” said a punter, placing a twoshilling piece on the table (it’s a shilling “tote”), and the man in charge made two chalk marks against Ruby’s name on the board. It’s all very simple. The islanders, of course, know the capabilities of the horses, and bet according'y, and as the visitors usually follow suit there are few big dividends. But to the inhabitants of lonely Norfolk “Race Bay” is one of the big events of the year.