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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12194, 20 July 1925, Page 8

Th» postal authorities have received cable advice from Sydney that the Maunganui, which left at 4 p.m. on the 17th instant for Auckland, ha* on board 46 bags of mail from Australia and 11 parcel receptacles. Where there’s a will there’s a way ” Is an expression that has been tested and not found lacking in its application to some of those unfortunates who are listed amongst the ranks of the unemployed in Wanganui at the present time. A resident of St. John’s Hill states that of late he has been inundated with inquiries for work from men down on their luck, but who are willing to do anything so long as it is an occupation of sorts and will assist to keep "the wolf away from the door." He had been approached as he is the possessor of a garden that requires a good deal of attention. The men who had approached him were not of the "don’t want work” type, and some of them whom he had given an occasional day’s work were real honest toilers, whom he had been only too pleased to assist to get further gardening work on the hill. One result of recent burglaries on Bluff Hill, Napier, is that suspicion is active ®nd alarms many. The other evening a man who was seen running along a road was pursued by three law-abiding citizens who suspected their quarry’s integrity. lie led them a merry dance, but apparently his haste was merely based on a human desire to catch the next tram. At any rate the breathless pursuers did not arrest him. They watched him board the tram, and then silently and sadly retreated. The organiser of the Exhibition accommodation bureau (Mr Barron) reports that rooms for 2514 visitors are now available in private houses. Bookings at hotels in the citv are already being made, and the landlords seem to be quite confident that every hotel will have as many visitors as it can carry, A Japanese warship has found one of the deepest spots in the sea. Soundings were taken about fifty miles off the coast of Japan, when the lead was dropped nearly 33.000 feet without finding the bottom. This means that the ocean must be over six miles deep at this spot.