NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23436, 26 February 1938, Page 19

NEWS IN BRIEF

" It is shocking the way they murder these Maori names,” observed Mr Justice Reed in "the Supreme Court at Wanganui recently. ‘‘That name is ‘ Pakaraka ’ —‘ Karaka Pa.’ Why do they call it ‘Pakarack? ”’ “I didn’t think the witness would know what I meant if I called it anything else.” replied Mr R. A. Howie. Not a question of nationality, but of taste and quality. Even Pat may prefer Scotch Whisky. Ask for what you want at Crossan's “Waterloo,” and be assured of getting quality...

A Hamilton resident who returned from a visit to Sydney last week spoke of the huge crowds in the streets in the city, the ordinary population having been swelled by thousands of visitors from all parts of the world. “The work of the traffic policemen is wonderful,” he said. “Despite the huge crowds, there is no hold-up in the traffic.” Visitors to Dunedin will find accommodation at Hotel Central 100 Princes street to their liking... The East Coast Airways De Havilland Dragon aeroplanes which operate between Gisborne, Napier, and Palmerston North are being equipped with radio. Installation is expected to be complete in ample time before the winter schedule is commenced. Ground installations will also be made at the three ports of call. The planes are being equinped at Palmerston North. Since the Christchurch Cathedral bell-ringers have used muted bells for the weekly practices on Tuesday nights a great improvement has taken nlace in the shattering volume of sound which formerly disturbed the peace in the city. Now. with dampers fitted, the bells emit a soft, pleasant note, scarcely audible 200 yards away. Above the sound of the bells it is possible to hear the sharp clicks emitted by the bell-ringing mechanism, Grandism (3430): The bouquet of wine comes to one like a sunbeam, and must be enjoyed at the moment. Better wines, Grand Hotel... “I have visited every large town In the Dominion, and I say without doubt that Palmerston North is second only to Dunedin for hospitality.” said Mr F. L. Lawrence (one of the Dunedin delegates to the plumbers’ conference) to a Manawatu Standard reporter the other day. “I had always thought that Dunedin had it on the world,” he added, “but there is a warmth in a Palmerston North welcome and a spirit of sociability which is found nowhere else —except in the south.’ he added with a smile. “In England they have not much from which we could learn in the way of window dressing,” remarked Mr P. B. Hutchins, who has returned from an extensive overseas tour, in an interview with a Manawatu Standard reporter. The best windows in Palmerston North were just as as those he had seen in England (with the possible exception of one firm), the only qualification being size. Harvest time has started and those requiring twine, forks, etc., clothing and fresh groceries are buying to the best advantage at Gray’s Big Store Milton.... , A challenge to teachers and parents to allow children to express themselves more freely in their school wopc and home life was made by Mr J. Burfoot, president of the Waikato Camera Club, during a talk bn personality with reference,to its development and expression in art at a meeting of the club last week. “If any child can stand up to the methods of a teacher in New Zealand’s education system I think he is a ‘he-man,’” he said. "Until children are permitted to express themselves more freely along the lines of their choice there y/ill be no such thing in this country as well-written books by Dominion authors or really good pictures or photography.” Coffee Mills! We have Imported a few small coffee grinders suitable for household use. —A. Durie and Co. coffee specialists. 32 Octagon. Dunedin... j . . ' Men in full-time employment subsidised from the Employment Promotion Fund have had their fair share of ups and downs, statistically, in the compilation of New Zealand’s unemployed totals. Up to September. 1935, they were included in the total. From October 1935, to August. 1936, they were excluded. From September of that year until September last _ they were included, and now, according to the Abstract of Statistics, their exclusion has again been decided upon. Men unfit for work who receive sustenance are also excluded from the returns. i “ This case is a pitiful one. The extra money enabled defendant to buy clothes for her children. In view of her extreme poverty I ask for leniency,” said counsel in the Police Court, Auckland, appearing for Winifred Timmins, who was charged with obtaining relief from the Auckland Hospital Board by falsely representing that she was an indigent person. Inquiries showed that the woman had been working since September 24, receiving 45s a week. “ This is an offence punishable by 12 months’ imprisonment, but in this case they are not pressing for a penalty,” said the magistrate, I propose to convice the defendant and order her to come up for sentence within six months if called on, and to refund the £5 15s 6d, pay the solicitor’s fee, £1 Is and costs, £1 10s. We make and repair met \' articles ot every description, also set and sharpen lawn mowers, shears, saws, scissors, etc.—Dickinson’s. Ltd.. 441 Princes street, Dunedin.. A visitor to Napier for the New Zealand Master Bakers’ Association’s conference came into the Herald-Tribune office with a worried expression and an air of bustle. Announcing that he was hopelessly “ bushed,” he asked directions to a street corner where he had promised to keep an appointment some minutes earlier. “I like this town,” he said; “it’s a nice, clean place, and well laid out: but why aren t the streets signposted? ” His attention was drawn to the street names printed on the kerbsides or on the pavements. This is a thing in Napier that catches most strangers, but the explanation is simple. There are no lamp-posts on corners on which signs could be erected. A Wanganui resident walking along a pavement in the city the other day had his attention attracted by the nearby crowing of a rooster. He looked over the fence of a residence expecting to see the cock on the lawn, but it was on the roof of the house that he espied the rooster.” A com-placent-looking magpie was sitting on a ridge preening its feathers and periodically crowing mstily in a manner identical to the call of a cock. The man stopping the better to observe him was ? signal for the magpie to give numerous encores of his first “ cock-a-doodle-doo "

Summer Sale in full swing. See special window and interior displays. Everything reduced for a speedy clearance all this month. Extra specials every few days. Call early.—Mosgiel's Drapers, A. F. Cheyne and C 0... A ripple of laughter went round the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court during the hearing of cases brought by the Christchurch City Council against motorists for breaches of the traffic regulations. The prosecuting inspector, asking the piagistrate’s permission to withdraw a charge, explained that the inspector whom he would call to give evidence had recently left the service of the council, and there was therefore no case. “ Have you any objection to the charge !-eing withdrawn? ” asked the court orderly of the defendant, who, having pleaded not guilty, was preparing to put forward his defence “Of course, I have no objection,” he replied, smiling obviously relieved to be let off with so little inconvenience. Every judge of the Supreme Court who sits in the Wanganui Court building has difficulty in hearing witnesses distinctly At almost every session, for the last 10 years at least, witnesses have had to be practically implored to speak up. Mr Justice Reed recently couched the last of a number of appeals to speak louder in a different way—“ You can speak lower, can’t you, witness? ” he asked. The witness took the hint and for a lime his voice carried rather well, but eventually dropped back again until his own counsel u d to ask him to speak louder. Birds of a feather flock together. And so do pigs and swine. xtail them to Hitchon’s whatever the weather; They take them wet or fine...