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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11649, 13 October 1923, Page 10

A correspondent writes:—lt is generally recognised as a generous procedure to throw crusts for the bizds to devour, whether they Jbe starving of whether their hunger is contradicted by shining plumage or the unconcerned peck. No spirit of generosity, however; prompted the actions of two or three lunching labourers who sat ofl Lamtoton quay yesterday and threw their uets on to the outer edge of the foot?iath. .Passers-by felt crusts whizz beween their legs, over their heads, and all around them as they were discarded by the lunchers. m the space of a very few minutes the footpath was disfigured by a heap of leavings, which Collection was momentarily added to as an occasional pieeo of brezd was sent to join the already large heap. A big deal in Auckland city property .has just been completed. The section large one, with a frontage of 96ft Shoruand street, 225 ft to Mill lane, and Dlft to Chancery etreet. The area is about five-eighths of an acre. On it L the three-storey brick building known ae Williamson’s Chambers. The owners, Messrs Williamson Brothers, sold this fine property to the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia for 465,000. The building was originally the warehouse of Arch. Clerk and Sons. A recent arrival in Auckland from England gives some impressions of his new borne in a letter written to a friend in Bournemouth, which is published In the Bournemouth “Timee.” “Perhaps the chief thing that arrests the eye of the newcomer to New Zealand,” he says, “is the general robust health of the inhabitants and the wonderful vigour of the children. Among the native-born there are no ‘weedy’ ones.” Of the New Zealanders at Auckland he says: “Their chief amusements are general sport and horseracing. They all bet, even the pillars of the church, and seem none the worse for it.” In conclusion, he remarks that they are “intensely proud of the Old Country, and patriotic.” At the meeting of the New Zealand Olympic Games Association Council last evening the secretary reported that, in reference to the intimation he had received from Count Latour regarding money owing on account of the seventh Olympian, 145.05 francs, he had written forwarding £1 15s 7d to liquidate the account, and stating that the council warn happy to close this regrettable ixoidant.