LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2647, 16 May 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Manuka arrived at Sydney from Auckland at 2.45 yesterday afternoon. The Union Steamship Company has purchased the oil tank installation at Mirainar from the Vacuum Oil Company. It is proposed to store residual oil fuel there.

The contractor for the footpath on the front of the Old People's Homo at Awapuni has about finished his job, ther 0 being now only six chains to be tarred and sanded. Patients at the Public Hospital were yesterday, through the generosity and thoughtfulness of Messrs H. E. Ben. nett and "Skipper" Francis, treated to several much-appreciated vocal items, which they thoroughly enjoyed and for which they expressed their hearty thanks^ That the law makes mistakes some, times was demonstrated at th e Palmerston North Magistrate's Court yesterday, when application was made by the police to have remitted a fine in. flicted on a person who had left his car in the street with insufficient lights. Senior. Sergeant Frasei- explained that two constables had seen the offending car at different times on the same nighty and the owner had been fined an each of the two infor. mations.

In connection with the New Zealand team's tour of Great Britain in 1924, the New Zealand Rugby Union wrote to the management committee of the local Kugby Union last night, stating that in view of the necessity. of securing the very best possible re-, presentatives to make the tour, if would urge upon the Union the necessity for enlisting the services of old and experienced players to assist' with coaching and training promising players. This was agreed to. At the Lunch Club, in Messrs Collinson and Cunninghame's rooms yesterday, Mr B. J. Jacobs gave an address on legal securi. ties. The speaker dealt briefly but lucidly with his technical subject. He stressed the point that the most important part of a security was, in his opinion, the personal clement. On the motion of Mr N. I. Nielsen, a hearty vote of thanks was carried to the speaker for his address, which had cleared up many obscure points in regard to securities.

Recently, the residents of a certain locality at Utiku were greatly concerned for two or three days at the actions of an individual who was wandering through f hc paddocks and mov. ing his arms in a most peculiar way. The strain of keeping a wary eye on what appeared to be a peculiar indi. vidual became too great by the third day on the afternoon of which the male occupant of one of the houses arrived home to find his wife sitting on the back doorstep armed with the wood axe and keeping a scared eye on the strange acting person; so he rang up for the police. The latter arrived per motor car, and it was only when the individual, who had been the cause of all the excitement was pointed out, that it was discovered that he was no one more harmless than the water.diviner engaged by the Taihape Dairy Company to locate water on th o proposed site of the n c w dairy factory. When informed of the occurrence, he enjoyed the joke as much as any of the others concerned.