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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 58, 7 February 1925, Page 4

It is estimated that over £2,000,000 worth of new buildings are going up in Sydney. A polar bear is to be bought for tho Wellington Zoo for £75. A youth was fined £3 at Taumarunui for delivering a letter and a parcel to a. prisoner at Erua prison camp.

Two clerks employed by tho Eastbourne Borough Council, A'lbert John J man and Hasil Gardiner Allaway, appeared before Mr E. Page, S.M., in the Wellington Court charged with theft of £2B '.Cia. Each was admitted to bail, and they were remanded until February 12. Persons standing in motor omnibuses were limited this week by tho Auckland City Council to 25 per cent, of tho seating accommodation. Tho finance committee had recommended 20 per cent as tho maximum, but the council thought this too low, and increased it to 25 por cent. According to tho annual review of the Government statistician, the average income between £3OO and £4OO pays only 17s lid or Is in tho £1 of total assessable income returned, as compared with £72 9s- 5d or la Id in the £l for incomes between £IOOO and £2OOO. Incomes ov«* £50,000 paid in 1923-24 slightly less on tho average than the maximum--5s lOd in the £l—provided by the progressive rates in force.

When Mr L. R. Hall's car was being driven through tho Waimana Gorge, near Tauranga, a few days ago a bullock fell from a height of over 30ft. on to tho roadway and broke its neck. It dropped almost in "front of the car. There was no warning of the animal's fall, but fortunately there was sufficient room for the car to avoid colliding with the carcaso and it got past safely. The Wellington City Council decided at Thursday night's meeting to authorise the purchase of sis additional chassis by the bus department, and the type best suited for Wellington is to be chosen. The council already has two buses, and with the six authorised there will be a fleet of eight' in commission.

As a special train from Wanganui was descending the hill and rounding the curvo nearing Okehu on Wednesday morning it came suddenly upon a platolayor on a. jigger going in the same direction. Hearing the train coming tho man jumped off tho jigger and endeavoured to get it out of the way, but hild not timo to complete the task. The jigger was smashed. Tho man fortunately had jumped clear, escaping without injury. The annual review of the Government statistician saja thct, through the operation of the various exemptions and reductions, only 36,091 of the 74,750 makers of returns of income dealt with by the Commissioner of Taxes for the 1923-24 year wero assessed as having to pay income-tax, the remaining 38,659 being either exempt as having a lower income than £3OO, or having no taxable balance left after the other deductions were taken into account.

There is one clasw of people that pays income- tax in greater proportion than any other. Of those earning income from industry or manufacture, according to tho returns furnished to the Tax Commissioner, 79 per cent, are taxpayers, compared with 74 per cent, among tho professions, 49 per cent, in commerce, trade or business, £5 per cent among investors, 58 per cenc in mining. 48 per cent, in building cud construction. The lowest percentage is salary or wage-earners, who represent 42 per cent.

It is hard to believe (says the Southland Times) that in Invercargill tho heat of the sun's rays would be sufficient to bake an apple to the core, but the condition of a large cooking' apple shown to a reporter, conclusively proved that such was thij case. It appears that the fruit was plucked by a local resident, and left on a window-sill, directly .opposite to the beat of tho sun. On examininjr it during the late afternoon he was surprised to find that ths upper "side was thoroughly baked to the core. a

There are footwear bargains aplenty for tho sporting man too—white canvas Derby bowling or tennis shoes, stoul crepe rubber soles, ideal shoe for sports, 12s 9d; other kinds 4s 6d. 6s lid, 7s lid and 8s lkl pair. Sale prices at the C. M. Ross Co., Ltd.—Advt.

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The Australian athletes 'will compete at a sports meeting to be held at Levin on the 25fch inst. The net tonnage of shipping which arrivetl at the port of New Plymouth during 1924 was 328,083 tons, which is 18,041 tons in excess of the arrivals at Wanganui. "1 have never before seen such a young witness," said Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., at Wai nata, recently, when a littlo girl, aged threi and a half, was being brought into ' ? the court to give evidence. Nltivea on the Wanganui river state that a totara towering quite 200 feet and 14 "->et in diameter at the base is growing in the bush there, A Levin breeder of pheasants informed the Wellington Acclimatisation Society this week that a stoat, and a cat had hilled of his birds, bringing his losses to 500 for the season. A Masterton resident has become the potior of a copy of Master ton', firs newspaper, "The News Letter pub lished nearly 49 years ago. The paper was unearthed in the back room of an office in Greytown. _ Owing to the popularity of the Wailii ocean beach ae a health resort, the Mayor ot Waihi (Mr Wallnutt) is engaged in formuWing a scheme for the bufld.ng of a Ugh* railway to this rapidly-growing seaside reserve. .At a meeting of the Dannevirke County Council members took objection to W Dannevirke Electric Power Board erecting advertisements on the county roads tnf board's action being allegedly a breach of the county by-laws. An Australian lady who recently vis.ed England and France stated that she bad never been able to induce •*«»*££ driver to charge her more £*■£%£* threepence or a London driver to cnargo her less than five shillings. Labour candidates will contest every seat on the Wellington City Counca Hospital Board, and also the Wellington city ££" on the Harbour Board, as well as the Mayorulty. The candidate for the latter office is-Mr C. H. Chapman. The Auckland City Council has approved of the principle of constructing a roaa nlone the waterfront from the city w Orakei at a-oort of about £300,000, and the Mavor has been authorised to continue his negotiations with the local bodies on the route and also with the Government.

At a meeting of the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society it was stated that since June 1, 1924, 2754 red deer had been killed in the Wellington district and that the society's rangers intend to cull the Paraparaumu and Tiritea areas during February. The intention of the Railway Depart hicnt to speed up tho express service between 'Christchurch' and Invercargill was indicated by the Hon. J. G. Coates at Christchurch yesterday. In regard to the duplication of the Lyttelton tunnel, he said the committee of engineers had the matter of the surveys in hand. , Recently territorial units :n Gisborne were confused to some extent by the cancellation of senior cadet parades on account of the prevalent epidemic and they believed that the order applied to them also. Their holiday was short. Thinning ranks prompted the Defence Department to issue an edict:- Drill as with absentees liable to penalty.

In reply to a .deputation in the north, the Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister of Lands, said that no system of road making should go on which permitted metal to be put down only to let it be worn out. The country could not go on. borrowing money for roads, and the roads would have to outlast the present loans. There was a tendency to put clown roads which would not stand the test of the motor traffic which they we;:e called on to bear. The davs when the local police station did duty "as a courthouse aro recalled by the discovery of old notices during the alterations whioh are at present being made to the station. The removal of the old wall paper and scrim uncovered a number of notices which had been affixed to the original board walls, the dates varying from as far back as 1847 to the 'eighties. Though the building was erected many years ago, the contractors carrying out the alterations have found tho original timber to be still in a sound condition. While proceeding to. Wellington on Thursday afternoon, a lor.y driven by C. H. Geange, of Masterton, when a mile on the Featherston side of the Rimutaka summit, broke through the crust of the road, and the load, which consisted of crutchiugs, sheep skins and general merchandise, was precipitated to the bottom of the gully. Fortunately the wires on the fence proved of sufficient resistance to hold the truck from following the goods, but it, restod in a very precarious position for some time till the arrival of assistance, when it was safely anchored. While Mr E. Allmand, of Levin, was driving up tho Paekakariki hill on Wednesday en route to Wellington, he observed a motor lorry with a. full ioad of benzine, coming down. It seemed somewha* erratic in its course as if out of control, and when rounding a bond, the driver jumped clear, while tho lorry with its cargo, hurled to the bottom of the hill, several hundred feet below. There were over 80 cases of benzine on board, so that the loss including that of the lorry, which was smashed beyond repair, will be a heavy one. —Chronicle.

'Mr Rfcss Meikle wa,i rather severely buvht about the lowtsr portion of his face and on his right hand at Tauranga a few days ago. He was looking at a motor car and struck' a match to light a cigarette. An explosion immediately followed in the benzine tank of the ear, and , the flame shooting out through the tank inlet caught him on the face and hand. The end of the tank, also blew out. The car had previously bean burnt, the benzine tank had a hole in the bottom and had presumably been empty some tine, and yet a match lit a few feet away resulted in an explosion in the 'tank.

Addressing the Wellington School Committee's Association, the Minister of Education, Sir James Parr, Baid that, when he assumed the portfolio of Education live years ago, he found circumstances of overcrowding in Wellington worse than any other part of New Zealand, excepting Auckland. He endeavoured to apply a cure in the way of enlarging the schools, building now schools, and providing more teachers. Within that five years no less a sum than £336,340 had been spent in Wellington city and suburbs on educational structures. It was five times as much as was spent in any similar period previously. A resident of a North Island township stated that he had been approached with a view to his being' appointed a J.P., but he had reluctantly dsclired. It was because some years ago in another part of the Dominion ho had been prosecuted for having hia scales out of order. The presiding justice fined him £5 and subjected him to a severe lecture regarding hi* obli- : gations to the public, and how the unfortunate public had to be protected. The gentleman under censure really did not mind the fine. The irony of it was that the justice had sold him the same scale* a few years previously and had used them in hia own business..

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