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Southland Times, Issue 22012, 11 May 1933, Page 6

Canterbury’s record fruit season will close on May 12. After that date, which is the closing date for all other parts of New Zealand too, no fruit will be received from growers. Nearly 15,000 cases have yet to be shipped away from Canterbury, and by the closing date the total export will be about 60,000 cases—double that of last season’s record export.

At one of the booths in Wanganui last week it fell to the duty of a deputy returning officer to take a declaration, vote from a Chinaman. There was no blowing out of candles or dropping of saucers in the process, the Celestial merely signing his name. "Where do you live?” queried the deputy. “Slame place as the Mlaorie (Maori) been her to vlote hlaf an hour ago," said the Chinaman.

A compliment was paid to Detective A. J. White at the Supreme Court in Auckland the other afternoon by Mr Justice Smith during his address to the jury in the case in which Colin Alfred Jensen was on his trial for attempted murder. “The detective, work in this case was truly well done,” said his Honour. “It was prompt and efficient, and by the following up of a horse’s hoof marks a man living 12 or 13 miles away was promptly traced. I am not suggesting that the detective work is not always so, but in this case I feel it was particularly well done/ and prompt.”