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Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 65

Kind deeds are constantly coming under the notice of social >workers in Napier (says the Daily Telegraph). One instance took place recently which relieved the anxiety of a mother with a large number of children. The father had gone to Australia to seek work and after, some weeks of idleness managed at last to get a permanent job, but the money he had taken with him had by this time been spent on paying board. He started at his work from scratch without a shilling in his pocket. He found out that if he sent his family so much- per week to help to keep them he might be able to save out of his wages £1 per week to help pay their passages to Australia, where they would all be under one room and expenses minimised. The fares would cost £34, and it would take more than half- a year before he could save that sum. A few generous souls, hearing the facts of the case, raised the amount in three days, and just in about a week from the time the matter was finalised the family will all be united again under the most happy conditions. A story was told by a Presbyterian minister who was travelling in a train recently from Wellington with his wife to his home town (relates the Wanganui Herald). Both are loyal Scots and seated behind them was a young lady who -was returning from a visit to Invercargill, and was entertaining a friend with a description of her visit. “Oh, it’s a lovely place, but so Scotch, porridge seemed to be the favourite dish, and I just hate porridge, and everybody spoke with a Scotch accent until I just longed for a ' bit of pure English.” The train stopped and the minister and his wife got up to go out, and as the latter passed the southern tourist she remarked: Lassie, next time you go for a holiday go to H 1; you will find no porridge there and no Scots.” —Special crossword puzzles, in which letters are “pegged” into squares on cardboard forms, are being made i£i Baris fof the use of blind people.