NEWS OF THE DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12017, 20 December 1924, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Mr H. Card, of . Wellington,- who purchased! the Dominion Hotel, Christchurch, for £21,500 sold it again within a.few days to Mr David Young for £20,000. V , ; ■ . i “One of the'compensations of the I teaching profession is that its members are always in contact with the ] spirit of youth,” said- Mr MJ H. Oram I when speaking r. the break-up cere- | mpny.vof the Bo\ High School, Palmerston North. “You will notice;”; he added, “how much younger the teaching staff appear' than the members of I the Board of Governors.” (Laughter.) • An Oamaru resident a few days ago; (had an unexpected windfall. Twenty ; years, ago he to a/maii who was in straitened circumstances. Hq had -lost sight of the man, and forgotten the money.; The receipt . of, a cheque for £7O in payment of principal, interest, and compound -interest, with 'a covering letter of thanks, convinced him that acts of generosity do not always go unrewarded. ' Two sportsmen—a well-known medi- , dal man and a friend—spent’ a recent week-end down the Buller after deer. No deer, were sighted, however, but on the homeward track a drove of pigs gave splendid sport three, of them biting the dust as the result' of an enthusiastic, bombardment. The sports jaen in due course ancF with great . pride presented their friends with succulent roasts of pork,, but rumour hath it that when their host mustered his pigs to the sty he was three short in his tally 1 / . An accident resulting in a married man, Leonard Moyle, aged 27 years, receiving injuries to a- knee, occurred iat the Auckland railway yards. Moyle j was engaged in shunting operations, | and a carriage which had moved coli lided withv another. He was looking j Underneath the ' carriages to ’ ascertain - whether any ’damage had been caused when-.some other shunters, ’ not knowing/ he was there, caused a third', van to set the; other two in motion. Moyle’s knee. Was crushed between a wheel and a rail. " ' Fruit from the Eastern Pacific was brought to. Auckland, by the Ngakuta.. The:vessel’s- cargo was a small one, and edrisisted of. about 6000 oases of oranges, bananas, pineapples, and tomatoes. i She will hot return to the Islands again until about March. Two other shipments, of Island "fruit will reach Auckland on Thursday. " The Tutanekai brought about 1!W cases of bananas from Niue Island. : and the Kaiwarra from Fiji- The next Vessel after.these to hring Island fruit will he the Tofua, due from Fiji on December 29th. Instahoes in which children are obliged to rise early and assist their parents ip farm work before attending school, and in consequence are rendered unfit for school work, were referred to at a meeting of the Auckland. Education Board. Information was sought from MorrlnsviUe as. to the powers of the board in the matter. “This is a question requiring, careful consideration,” said the chairman, Mr A. Burns. If the child’s assistance was-, essential on account of its parents’, poverty, the board would have to sympathise, but if it was a matter of greed more stringent action would -be taken.- It .was decided to make further inquiries. Suspicion has been entertained fpr some time by the . Australian Customs that large quantities of opium are landed along the . Queensland coast, and even further south on the coast of New South Wales. Their suspicions have changed to certainty following recent happenings. According to their I discoveries they are satisfied that consignments of opium are being dropped !at various points from vessels, and transported, ashore by* a daring gang of smugglers in a .fleet of high-speed motor-launches. The opinion is expressed that until the Commonwealth - Government builds a fleet of speedy revenue cutters ,it will be impossible to suppress the traffio. Lower H-utt property' owners ape requested to notify,R. Leslie Jones, 101, Willis street, or ’phone has house, 24-109. if they desire to sell as he has a good client dlesirous of purchasing a modem home in Lower Hutt. Posses“ion. will. be. required about end of January. It is desired to make inspection of properties.during the next few days, owners w-ill Oblige by communicating promptly with Mr Jones.— Adrvt.

“Nobody talked of psychology in education when I was young; they 'brought us up by luck or machinery,” declared Archbishop Julius at St. Margaret’s prize-giving ceremony. “The assault, Your Worship, occurred between 6.45 and a quarter to seven,” said a police sergeant in giving evidence in the Police Court at Christa church. Needless to say the witness was an Irishman, A painful accident befell Douglas Forsyth, 10 years of age, of Hamilton. The lad was attempting to catch his horse, when the animal swung round and kicked out, striking him on the head. The Waitomo Power Board resolved to raise a loan of £70,000 instead of the £90,000 previously decided upon The alteration in the amount is due to a fear that the ratepayers, alarmed by the larger amount, might reject the proposal wheh the poll is taken. The Kairauga Dairy Company, at Longbum hits electrified it 3 plant by the. installation of four electric motors. The steam boiler is being retained only for heating purposes, and all the machinery is now being electrically driven. The new arrangement has resulted _in a- considerable reduction in running costs. The oomuetition entered into by tho ; school children for the best drawing of the diagram of the pig used as the trade mark of the Swan Bacon people was won by Alias Phyllis Wild, SouthWellington School first, C. S. Bedell, Bterhampore School _ second, and J. Waitai, Hutt' District High School, third. '

At a meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Industrial Association the question a$ to whether the association should participate in the Netherlands EasV India Fair, to be held in Java in June next, was left to the president to discuss with the presidents of the Wellington and Auckland associations, at a conference to hfe held in Wellington in January.