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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 283, 3 November 1925, Page 8

A Pei Ming gardener lias picked the first strawberries of the season, the fruit being full-flavoured and of splendid size. Sawmillers in Southland, and to a less extent in Gatlins, are complaining of a lack of orders, and some of the mills are closing down, reports an exchange. The sum of £203 18s 3d has been contributed by Masterton residents to the Massey Memorial Fund. The subscription lists contain the names of 774 Masterton residents. Ninety people were circularised to attend a meeting ill Nelson to arrange a function in order to raise funds for the town band, but only ono turned up. Customs returns at Auckland fertile past ten months totalled just over two millions, being about £75,000 ahead of the revenue for the corresponding period last year ‘‘The farming people arc very incensed at the shops being closed for four days at Easter when they have to work,” said Mr J. C. Free (Leeston) at the Conciliation Council at Christchurch. At Nelson yesterday Arthur O. Emms, who was charged with driving a service car at a speed which might have been dangerous to the public, was fh]od £5 and had bis license suspended for three months.

Edward Kelly and David William Rowe, two statutory second offending inebriates, who appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, were each fined 10s, in default 48 hours’ inprisonment. The unemployment position in Christchurch lias greatly improved. Whereas unemployment committees had to deal with 70 to SO applications a week not long ago, the past week has seen only two applications come in. A painful accident happened at West Taratahi recently,' states a Wairarapa exchange.- Mr O. Daysh was ploughing one of his paddocks, when liis toot was caught in a stone and he was dragged under the plough. MiS Daysh sustained a compound fracture of the right leg below the knee. Two tons of wlfit.ebait .were placed aboard the Grey mouth express for Christchurch on a recent morning, the fine weather having produced a great “run” of the bait in the Coast rivers. So great was the consignment that the usual practice of using lins was discontinued, the whitebait, being dumped into wooden boxes. In the course of the hearing of a case in the Invercargill Magistrate’s Court a witness being eross-examintd by a solicitor admitted that he did not keep any hooks showing his expenditure. The magistrate, Mr G. Cruieksliank, S.M., dryly remarked, “I keep good books. You might get two years.”

The big lake which was. formed on the opposite side of the Toko line to the Manganic Valley during the cloudburst of last May is still as deep and extensive as ever, states the Stratford Post. This phenomenal stretch of water was formed practically overnight, being most of the storm water which caused so much damage in the A\ hangamoinona, county. Attention was paid by Mr J. A. Nash in the course of his address at the Coronation Hall last night to the stonewall tactics of the Labour Party in the House. He stated that the Labourites obstructed the passage of measures affecting departments with the sole objects of trying to capture the votes of the employees of such State enterprises.

Referring in the course of his address at the Coronation Hall last night to the action of some Labourites in following him about at his meetings, Mr J. A. Nash said that there were a few Bolsheviks at his Opera House meeting, where he was bombarded with questions, but he did not mind it and regarded that as the finest public meeting he had held in Palmerston North. Applause greeted the candidate’s observation. A case of some interest will he heard at the next sitting of the Hawera Magistrate’s Court on November Hi, when Mr P. O’Dea, barrister and solicitor, will proceed against a Patea resident for illoo damages for alleged slander and £25 damages for alleged assault, says the Patea Press. ft is stated that an incident which gave rise to the proceedings occurred at the close of an election meeting at Patea on October 13. In the experience of Mr Justice Reed, admission to probation has usually no beneficial effect upon a native prisoner. His Honour observed at the Supreme, Court at Auckland that he had been informed over and over again by police officials that probation had not the same effect on Maoris as on Europeans. 'When the Maori offender went back to his kainga lie was regarded as having won his case because lie had not gone to gaol, and was considered to be a kind of hero.