LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21278, 3 September 1932, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

End oI Primary Schools Holidays Primary schools will resume on Monday for the third term, and the Auckland Training College will open on Tuesday. Secondary school pupils will return on Tuesday, September 13. Effect of Frost An Australian gum iree in the grounds of Government flouse bears testimony to the unusual severity of the frosts experienced this winter. All its leaves are withered and it. bears every appearance of having been killed. The Best Complaint "The 1 best thing to have is a bad back," said Mr. Justice Frazer. speaking jocularly in the Arbitration Court yesterday, referring to injuries that, give rise to claims for compensation. "It is the hardest thing to detect whether you have it or not," he added. Mr. Forbes' Football Days An invitation has been extended to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, and the Minister of Education, the Hon. R. Masters, and party to attend Eden Park this afternoon. It is exactly 40 years to the day since Mr. Forbes played at halfback for Canterbury against Auckland at Potter's Paddock. Paintings Restored Pictures, including a set of ten watercolours of Gallipoli scenes by Sapper H. Moore-Jones, belonging to the .Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association, which . were damaged by the fire which occurred some time ago in the Brandon Street premises, have been renovated and re-hung in the association's new rooms in Victoria Street. The restoration of the pictures has been most successful. Boy's Fall from Trse While playing on the property of Mr. E. Bindon at Okaihau, Cecil Penney, aged six years, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Penney, of Okaihau, fell from a tree and struck his head on a ptiriri stump. He was immediately conveyed to the Kawakawa District Hospital, where it was found he ■was suffering from concussion and injury to the skull. His condition yesterday morning was reported to be satisfactory.

Purity of Speech " I do not suggest" that witness camo here to 'put one over' on you • twelve gentlemen," said counsel, addressing a jury in the Supreme Court in Christchurch. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, raised an immediate objection to the expression " put one over." "It is a vulgarism that should not be used in Court," he said. " We should endeavour to sot an example." Counsel apologised before continuing his address. Involuntary Train Journey An involuntary train journey to OtaJiuhu was experienced by two women yesterday afternoon, when they were carried from Auckland station by the express. They had been in a carriage seeing some friends off and only realised too late that the express was on the move. Special arrangements were made to stop the train at Otahuhu, where they got off. Normally, the first stop of the afternoon express is at Pukekohe if it is required. Roads to the West Coast Great improvement has been made to the roads to the West Coast seaside resorts by gangs of relief workers. Metalling has been carried out for almost the complete length of the roads to Piha and Kare Kare, and, although tho surface is still very rough, the routes are passable in nil but the worst weather. As a result the magnificent bush and ocean beaches should be more, popular this season than in previous years, when their inaccessibility left tlieni comparatively little known to Auckland motorists.

A .Racial Tendency The fact that Dalmatians and Yugoslavs have a strong tendency to neurasthenia was frequently referred to during the hearing of a compensation claim in tho Arbitration Court yesterday. The claimant was a Yugo-Slav and Mr. Justice Frazer was the. first to comment on the fact that in the Court's experience Yugoslavs seemed to be more neurasthenic than English people. This was afterwards confirmed by medical witnesses, among whom Dr. K. S. Macky remarked that Dalmatians were "tremendously neurasthenic" as a race. Cries ol Street Vendors According to a resident of an Auckland suburb which is largely fre.quented by street vendors of fish, fruit and vegetables, or buyers of bottles, tho severe competition of recent months has brought about a greater originality in the calls employed by the salesmen. During the past week, Ponsonby streets have been somewhat enlivened by a cry of "Cauli', cauli', cauli', cauliflower," delivered with considerable enthusiasm by a vendor of vegetables, and not unlike the deeper intonations of a Maori haka. Auckland has. yet to hear, however, tho chant of bottle purchasers in Sydney streets, running in this fashion, "Ha, ha, ha, do you hear me say ? Any rags, any bones, any bottles to-day?" Roturn of the Recorder

Repairs to cables off Norfolk Island wore made in particularly short time, because of fine weather conditions, by tho cable steamer Recorder, which returned to Auckland yesterday. The vessel, left port on August 13, and it was originally expected that the work of repairing cables from Norfolk to Auckland, Fiji and Southport, Queensland, would occupy a longer time. On only one clay was the Recorder compelled to shelter on the lee of Norfolk Island, when a moderate gaie sprang up. Tho present crew of the vessel is being paid off, but it. is expected that the Recorder will be engaged in transferring the shore end of the Australian cables from Southport to Sydney, an operation similar to that of changing the receiving end of .the New Zealand cables from near Wellington to Auckland. Once Royal Game " It seems terrible that the, deer, which was once recognised as Royal game, is now reduced to the same level as the rabbit," said Captain G. F. Yerex, inspector tinder the Animals Protection and Game Act, in the course of an address in Christ church. " This state of affairs has been brought about because of the wonderful suitability of New Zealand to the breeding of deer, the absence of their natural enemies, ideal wintering conditions, which reduces the number of deaths among the fawns, and the fact that up till two years ago the animals were totally protected." Captain Yerex made an appeal to all those who shot, deer to do so with the least possible cruelty. In days gone by it was a point of honour with a hunter never to leave a wounded deer. The parties sent out bv the Department of Internal Affairs to oull the deer always bore this in mind, be said*