System Vicious If Aims Are Wrong

Northern Advocate, 10 May 1939, Page 3

System Vicious If Aims Are Wrong

—MR. 1. A. S. MAC KAY

. “If found to be payable, if it is intended to be continued, and if it is applied universally, the truck system is good,” said Mr J. A. S. Mac Kay, chairman of the Whangarei County Council. “Provided it is only applied to districts'where there is competition from water carriage, it would seem that the system is only being introduced to eliminate competition, and that when this is done the truck system will probably disappear. “If that is the case, I would look upon it as a vicious system—one for which the community would have to pay dearly when water competition was eliminated.”

Jackie Coogan To Have £25,000

Jackie Coogan, the former child film star, is understood to have reached a settlement with his mother whereby he will receive property valued £25,000 (says the Hollywood correspondent of the London “News Chronicle”).

Last year Jackie sued his mother and stepfather, Arthur L. Bernstein, for £BOO,OOO, claiming that this was the sum he earned as a child star and to which he became entitled when he reached 21.

The long legal struggle has now been ended by an agreement whereby the boy and his mother divide equally approximately £50,000 worth of property—the residue of Jackie's enormous earnings.