LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3444, 12 November 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Messrs. Cato and Drake liberated about 500 young trout in Cole's Creek on Friday, these being taken from the rearing pond in Te Kuiti. The youngsters were in pood condition, being about two inches long. The attention of our readers is directed to the Railway Department's announcement in this issue regarding the train arrangements and cheap day excursion fares in connection with the Waikato Racing's Club's spring meeting at Te Rapa on Saturday next." The attention of all golfers is drawn to an advertisement in this issue in regard to a meeting to be held in the Municipal Hall on Tuesday evening next for the purpose of forming a new club at Te Kuiti. A good muster of those interested is necessary as the question of the establishing of an 18-hole course is to be discussed. A petition asking for the abolition of the Arawa Trust Board was presented to Parliament en Thursday. The petition stated that the Board, which was,'a Maori Trust Board, was granted £6OOO per annum for the use and benefit of the Arawa tribe, but that the money was not being expended as was intended by Parliament. Large sums were being spent on the purchase of lands for farmingpurposes, which were not returning any immediate income, while many members of the tribe were suffering from the want of food and clothing and the want of proper sanitary accommodation. The petition asked that a new Board be established by vote of the Arawa tribe. The pack-horse is still being used by settlers in the Mangapoike area for the transport of their requirements as a result of the road blockage by earthquake slips (reports the Poverty Bay Herald). It is now nearly seven weeks since the September disturbance, and there were so many slips on the Paparatu section and beyond that a total clearance of the road was a slow process. Seven miles of road have yet to be cleared before the first 'of the Wairoa County settlers is given relief from the present conditions. This work is being pushed on as a matter of urgency in view of the necessity of carting the wool out.

It is common in Court 2iroceedings arising out of accidents to hear medical witnesses state that the person injured is suffering from neurasthenia, and that it is their belief, based on experience, to expect a recovery from this condition after the case has been settled. In summing up to the jury in an action in the Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon, the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) said that for a time when he was practising at the Bar he found it difficult to understand the position in that way. But neurasthenia was quite a genuine condition and was not malingering. It used to be called "railway spine" in America and he thought also in England, too, and it was the common experience of those who had had anything to do with such cases that the neurasthenic condition disappeared after the disposal of the case in which the person concerned was interested.

How it came about that he joined the Public Works Department was described by Mr. F. W. Furkert, retiring engineer-in-chief, at the function in Wellington recently, at which a presentation was made to him. Having headed the list of passes in the junior civil service examination, Mr. Furkert received a telegram one day offering him a cadelship in the Education Department. The same day he received a telegram from Mr. R. J. Seddon (as he was at that time) offering him a cadetship in the Public Works Department. His father, when consulted, could only suggest a talk with a Public Works Department officer, Mr. Shane, as a possible way out. Mr. Shane solved the problem by telling young Furkert that he had better take the Public Works cadetship, because if anything happened and he left the Department he would still be able to make a living. Mr. Furkert said that he had never regretted the choice thus made.