Various Kinds of “Mac's"

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 143, 2 June 1936, Page 6

Various Kinds of “Mac's"

V ariatiou in the method of representing ttio surname prefix “Mac” causes an ocasional problem when referring to telephone directories, but the l\ew Zealand Post Office for some years has adopted lor its lists a system which seems to have provoked the minimum number of complaints. In determining the ordei ot listing telephone subscribers the prefixes “M”, “Mac”, “Me” are a.l treated as 'Mac”, and the next letter in the name determines the position ot the entry. This is a system which is worked effectively in the enormous telephone directory issued for the London exchange area with its 891,000 subscribers. Surnames commencing with “Mac,” not used as a prefix, have to bo included among the “Mac’s”, but they are not numerous and are easily discovered High School Grounds Year by year tho grounds ot the Hastings High School become more beautiful, and apart from the interest that the school ought to have for the people ot the town, the grounds alone are well worth seeing for their loveliness. The trees that were planted ten years ago, when the school was built, arc now assuming a mature appearance, and some ol the native kinds are nearly lull-grown. The lawns in front ol Ibe school and the extensive play iug-grouuds at the back are exceli lenlly cared tor and the flower-gardens also, eico at this off-season ol tho year, are Very pretty. The building itself is gradually becoming covered with crimson creeper, which greatly enhances the general effect. When the school was built there were some people who wanted the old existing inaerocarpa trees cut down. There are I many who will feel glad, when they ! sou the grounds, that thdso people • were uol allowed to have their way.