LIFE ON THE NEW ZEALAND

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 5

LIFE ON THE NEW ZEALAND

AN INTERESTING LETTER.

ANTI-GERMAN HOOLIGANISM

AN APPEAL TO COMMON SENSE

AUCKLAND, May 19. In the cpiirse of an interesting letter received by Mr.-C. J. Parr, from Cap-, ™.». R.N., the commander of Ji.M.S. New. Zealand, he says: '.'We have had a long and very trying North S©a winter, 4rtit haye1 been rewarded by

Ixmig m the only naval engagements there have been in -this part of the world. \\ c don't mind how long we have to wait so long as we get at them properly m the end. The officers and Hum iuii'e bsen on board now since July '2,,t1u and are quite splendid, being fail oi life and vigor. Tiiey have not had a single day's leave since that date, though \\<> occasionally manage to land tvr t\ iri'aii'h ov a game of football mi ti:e iUtoryoons. Good luck to you and the good paople of Auckland. We all o.t board realise how much you all think ot us and your ship. We endeavor to live.' up to the standard expected by all true New Zealanders. You in Auckland, who gave those presents to the t^uincj-ioom department of this s/;ip, will Ijg glad to h"ear what magnificent work that department did when chasm.v: tK* enemy's battle cruisers on Jnnuary 24th. They exceeded by far any previous steaming ever done by tni!_s!np, r.nd their great care of tie enr_'intvs and. boilers throughout the commission showed itself .in the fact that there was not a defect of any sort or description after that great chase."

AUCKLAND, May 19. (nose people who have as a result of happenings m the war developed a violent antipathy to all things' German sre appealed to by Police Superintende"r Ivjeiy to fliink before they strike. "Ail js not German that bears a Ger^ man name." i s the argument used by the snpenn+endent, and he particularly rwers to, shop windows in this respect.

The name on the window may be German, he points out, but the trouble is that when a person gets the antiGerman fever so violently that he goes out and smashes with a stone or a stick a German name on a glass window ne incidentally does very little damage- to the Geiusan name, but very seriousda mapre to the, British glass. windW. The sitiiatyjn is that these plate glas* x windows are .ill insurod. and the insurance co'npnTiies are British, and they have to. uiake jrood the damage done W the ar.ti-Gerraan hooligan. The- insurw ance- p-^onle have naturally applied to, ' the noJicp departasent to prevent sucn loss.+o t'l'°T..fs wo"M be caused br wanton window-breaking, ond conwanePtlv the police are on the aTert in Auckland to deal promptly with any such ■ rio+n\is behaviour as <Hs<rraeed' ° Wnnsranni. Superintendent Kiely aTso points out tbat any person found mra+msr an outbreak of riotous behaviour will bo promptly apprehended.