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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6789, 22 February 1932, Page 6

Buglars made an unsuccessful attempt to blast tho strongroom of the Hamilton Borough Council offices on Friday night. An entrance was effected by a ladder placed against a window at tho rear of tho premises. There was little material damage done. It is stated that there was not much money in the safe at the time.

“Tho Waikato is an object lesson to the rest of New Zealand on how land should be developed,” said Mr. E. J. Howard, M.P., when speaking at a meeting of parents and unemployed boys in Christchurch against a proposal to absorb the boys in farm work. ‘‘The Waikato has certainly shown us the way to do things,” he added, “but 1 hope we will not side-track ourselves into thinking that the land can absorb many boys. ’ ’

Remits passed at last week’s conference of the North Island Motor Union urged uniformity of- traffic signals throughout New Zealand; the need for impressing on those in charge the necessity of proper control of motor camps; the wearing of uniforms or distinctive badges by local body officers while on duty; the need for ‘‘safety iirst” to pupils under their jurisdiction; and the need for the enforcement of the regulations regarding the stopping of vehicles on the wrong side of the road, tho latter applying particularly to mail cars.

I might as well have it in front of me on a big blackboard,” said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., a little warily when a witness in a traffic caso in Christchurch said that she was travelling at, -0 to 25 miles an hour, and slowed up to 15 miles an hour to cross an intersection. “They ell go 20 to 25 miles an hour, and reduce to 15 at intersections,” Mr. Mosley continued. “You know, witness, that I frequently stand on intersections and watch. It is part of my business to see how traffic moves. Not one car in 50 goes across an intersection at 15 miles an hour. But when they come to Court they all do. Curious, isn’t it?”

A specimen of the whale bird was recently brought into Temuka by a Waitohi settler who stated that he had found it lying dead under the telegraph wires on the Main North road. The bird is about the size of a Californian quail, of a dark grey colour on the back and upper part of the body and of a lighter grey underneath. The specimen was forwarded to the taxidermist of the Canterbury Museum, who states that it is one of four species of whale birds, not uncommon on the coasts of the South Island at this period of the year. This summer he has had a number of specimens forwarded to him from different parts of the South Island.