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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6631, 9 June 1928, Page 6

Tho 'Victoria University College students hold their annual capping procession yesterday at Wellington when there were many allusions to topical subjects. An amusing anecdote indicative of tho sporting instincts harboured by modern childhood was told by Kotarian Mcllraith, at a Rotary dinner in Napier. He stated that on one occasion he had to inspect the pupils of a certain school in the King Country, in which the predominating number of pupils were natives. After putting tho children through their paces on various subjects, thinking to test their knowledge of financial matters, he took a coin out of his pocket and spun it in the air, at the same time asking, "What is that Like a flash came a spontaneous answer from the whole class, ‘‘Heads.” Occasionally some freak of nature is discovered on the farm or in the poultry yard; it may be a calf with two heads, a chicken with throe legs, or some form equally strange. Fish, wonderful for their size or colouring, are sometimes caught, but it is rarely that one with two tails is found. On Tuesday night a hapuka, or groper, with two tails was hauled on to the deck of tho fishli-j launch Gallilcco at sea in tho vicinity of Nukumaru, near Wanganui. A well-known fisherman describing the catch said that he had never seen such a peculiar creature in his life before. A strange fact was that the hapuka was caught on the game hook as a small blue cod.

Crying ‘‘Stop thief 1” a man raced along Customs Street toward Queen Street, Auckland, about 6,30 tho other evening in pursuit of a Maori, who vanished among the crowd on tho pavement. With dozens of people at his heels, a constable joined in tho chase. At tho corner of Queen Street tho Maori was overtaken by the officer and a search of his clothing disclosed a wallet, which was claimed by tho man who had raised the alarm. Accused appeared in tho Police Court next morning, charged with theft. An Auckland message states that Hector Park, a resident of Avondale, when attempting to get aboard a railway carriage while the train was moving missed his step but he held on. Ho struck the side of tho carriage and rolled towards the line, but was hit oil by the undergear which tore his clothing and threw him clear of four following vans. He was removed to hospital suffering from severe internal injuries and probably will have one arm amputated.

“Pour-fifths of the world’s business is done on credit,” said Dr. W. C. Poole, president of the World’s Sunday School Association, in an address to members of the Hamilton Rotary Club. Nothing could bo so disastrous as influences that tended to weaken the faith upon which the credit system was founded. Everything should be done to reinstate in men an enthusiasm for creative effort. The art of thinking should bo cultivated, so that an intellectual grasp of life’s problems could bo obtained and a differentiation made between what was transient and what was permanent.