LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 305, 23 December 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is believed, apiong the troops in France that, bullets fired vertically upwards at aircraft neypr. descend as bullets, the intense, and’prolonged friction of th.oir flight to the limit of the trajectory and the subsequent descent of what is left of them, completely dissipating them into vapour. Thousands of bullets have recently been fired at aircraft, but none has been positively known to descend.

< Mr Hewitt, S.M., recently delivered a little homily on the subject of the cost of living at the Magistrate’s Court at Kumara.' The defendant in a judgment summons case said it took all he earned—something like £4 per week—to keep himself and family. The Magistrate said the trouble was not so much the cost of living as the standard of living. He knew there were hundreds of men with families, who got no more than £2 ,10s per week and who lived decently and paid 20s in the £. The trouble in New Zealand.was the high standard of living— not the high cost. Here we have not yet felt the pinch' of distress, but he was afraid that the time was not far off wheii we. should, and the people would have to live , within their means. If a person could,not afford butter, he should eat dry bread; if be could not afford meat, lip should go without it or get the cheapest joints. He stated that too many such, cases were coming before him. If a man honestly intended to pay he, would endeavour to do so. He had never known anyone who really wanted to do a thing, and who put all his energy into trying to do it, to fail.