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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16975, 5 March 1926, Page 6

The stockowners' list, of the East Coast Rabbit Board, was to-dny submitted at the Magistrate's Court, for the purpose of hearing any objections in respect to tho compilation of the list. No objections were lodged.

Two young men, Messrs Albert and Frank Smith, narrowly escaped death at Botorun. They were standing on the Whaka road at about 8 o'clock at night, when a motor car driven by C. Weigel. knocked them down. Both are in bed suffering from shock and bruises, one of them possibly from a fracture of the small bone of the leg. Two cars were passing each other, one of tho drivers being dazzled by the lights of the other, and this prevented him from seeing the young men.

Three lads, whose ages were between .10 and .11 years and against whom charges of theft had been preferred three months ago, were admonished and discharged by Mr. E. C. Lovvey, S.M., at the Juvenile Court this morning. The first lad had admitted the theft of a cigarette case valued at ss, and 10s in money, the property of Margaret Rose Hyland. Senior-Sergeant Fitzpatrick reported tiiat sinco the case had been adjourned tho boy had behaved satisfactorily. The two other lads were charged with stealing two tennis balls from Ihe premises of the Gisborne Leatheries. Tit their case also the Sonior-Sergeani. reported that they had conducted themselves well sinco the adjournment.

Domestic trouble arising from a father's criticism of his children, whom the mother declared in evidence were as good as the average children, was the subject of a hearing in ' the Gisborne Magistrate's Court to-day, when Harriet 13. Smith applied for an'order for maintenance, against her husband, George Smith, a pawnshop proprietor. The plaintiff gave evidence that they had been married for over 30 years, and had had nine children, the youngest of whom was a boy of 14. The last four or five years had been made unhappy by t lie husband's complaints of the children. Witness regarded them as being as good as the average children, and eventually, about two years ago. her husband had told them to go, She had taken the younger children and set up a home, but had continued as before to work in the defendant's shop until a year ago. She had had no maintenance from her husband for the) past two years, and she now claimed maintenance only for herself. The defendant's weekly earnings were £8 or £9. His Worship made an order for the payment of £2 per week.

The resourcefulness of our Japanese naval visitors was instanced a day lor two ago, remarks tho Auckland i Star, Those at the corner of Shortland and Queen Street noticed smoke and flame in the rubbish basket attached 1o tho telegraph pole in front of the South British building. Evidently some passer-by had thrown a lighted match in the. basket, causing it to flame. The mass of rubbish burned into a glowing cinder before anyone would interfere, until a gentleman kicked the basket clean off the pole and let. it lie smouldering on the roadway. The lire had caught the heavy wooden polo containing a regular network of wires and cables and was smouldering and flaming up 'rapidly. The crowd stood watching the operation, when live .Ihpnnose sailors took in (he situation, one explaining by gestures and voice the danger of fire going up the pole, while another emptied his canteen of water on the flames. This not being sufficient, each Japanese in turn shot Ibe water from his canteen on to the fire and eventually quoiled it.

The hearing of the claim for £5650 damages, by" Eleona Agnes Christie Dyctt, of' Manaia, • Taranaki. widow, against Waller Mason, sawmiller,. of Port Ahuriri, was concluded in the Supreme Court at Napier yesterday afternoon. The, jury, ; after three minutes' retirement' found for defendant, and judgment was'entered accordingly. Tlie claim arose out. of, an allegation of Assault and its consequences.

. Two concrete mess-huts, each accommodating about 450 men, have just been completed at Hopuhopu, near Ngaritawahia, the .site' of' the permanment mobilisation camp for the_Northern and Central Commands. In. "the centre of the huts is a fine bit; "cookhouse," on which the Public Works Department employees are still engaged. Apart from the meal point of view, the long huts make excellent buildings in which to hold camp concerts.

Fire destroyed a new motor bus, worth £7OO. at Auckland on' Sunday morning. The vehicle, which had seating accommodation for 16 persons, was the latest addition to the fleet of the Motor Transport Company, and had been running up till midnight on Saturday. It was then parked near the home of Mr. E. A. Carter, one of the proprietors of the company. An hour and a-half later, the strident sounds of the electric horn, set in action by the fire, aroused Mrs. Carter, who discovered that tho vehicle was ablaze from end to end. The Avondale Fire Brigade arrived prornptly, and two buses parked near the burning vehicle were saved, while, ji house and a shed nearby were also protected. The shod caught fire, but the brigade extinguished tho flames before any,material damage was done. The bus, which had travelled. oniy 13000 miles, was insured. The causo of the tire is attributed to a short circuit.

The buyers present at the opening of Messrs. Dalgety and Co.'s new premises at Wellington, were unanimous in their approval of the facilities which had been provided in the new wool store. ''A good light and good gangways," said one, facilitate the work of valuing wool. Unfortunately, there, are brokers to-day showing a catalogue of, say, 3000 bales, with a capacity of 2000 bales storage space. A keen market from the buyer's point of view creates dissatisfaction, as he gets complaints regarding mis-descrip-tion, which arise purely from the manner in which wool is shown. There are many cases of what may be termed false packing, and while buyers have been deceived by this in many cases, they are on the look-out for such ; practice, and when discovered the owner suffers. The. methods of valuing.and selling the wool are such that one cannot see all that he buys, and the buyer has to depend tit a certain extent on a general average. When false packing is discovered, the buyer takes drastic measures, and endeavors to protect himself by buyingthe wool under the market price. It would certainly pay the grower to put up his wool honestly, and while there may be instances where buyers are deceived, there are many cases where such deception is of no avail; and it does not tend to create the best competition when un fair practice is attempted by the seller. The enlargement of stores to; enable the better showing of wools, will be in the interests of the business, and at the same time prevent the multifarious practices indulged in by farmers and others connected with the selling of wool."