General items

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 2, 4 September 1923, Page 2

General items

The hral case or us Kinu in nuniilton was heard on Friday when W. Hobbs was charged Witn having converted a garage into a dwelling without having a permit to do so, and with having allowed it to be occupied without having obtained a certificate. Defendant was fined, with costs, £4/18.

Glaxo suppliers to tJio Now Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company have a unique advantage not possessed by any other group of dairy farmers in Now Zealand, (states the Waipa Post). Although they may decido to have their monthly payment based on butter plus casein, should cheese prove to be the better proposition at the end of the season they are then entitled to liavo their payments made on the oheese basis.

Those who were Within hearing wore highly amused at the remark of a youthful Native player in the recent ladies' hockey tournament (says the Poverty Bay Herald) The fact that one of the opposing players was using the back of her stick apparently escaped the attention of rtas' referee, and the latter was astonished to hear the remark, "Say, mister, you got some chewing gum in your whistle?"

In the opinion of Dr. Peter H. Buck, one of the New Zealand drdeattending the pan-Pacific Congress in Melbourne (says the Sydney 'Guardian'), the ablest politician in the Dominion is Apirana Te Ngata, M.A., LL. 8., a graduate of the New Zealand University. Mr Ngata is a full-blooded native. He spent several years preaching sanitation among the Natives, and his teachings in a large measure helped to check the heavy mortality due to epidemic diseases.

A large number of interested business people assenbled at Samuel Vaile and Sons* auction mart, in Auckland on Friday afternoon when a Queen Street property was offered for sale. This was the well-known three-storey brick block at the corner of Queen and Durham Streets, comprising the British Hotel and the adjoining premises named the British Buildings. This frontage to Queen Street is 61 feet 3 inches and to Durham Street 75 feet 7 inches. Leases had till 1926 to run. The property was sold subject to a mortgage of £28,000. Bidding started at £40,000 and advanced steadily in £I,OOO bids to £48,000, at which figure it was sold.

"If they want good roads the motorists must pay," said Mr G. Cruickshank at the meeting of the Motor Association at Invercargill the other night. "It is the only way to get the money. I don't see why the tax on cars should not be as high as £lO. It costs £IOO a year to keep a car, and a man would soon get his money back with the improved roads." Mr Lillicrap supported the idea, and said the tax was very high in England. Even on a Ford it was £2O. "The trouble is," said Mr Sutton, "that the money we supply will be spent in the North Island." "I come from a place described as the Windy City," declared Mr H. W. Heegstria of Chicago, at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce." "We are accused of many things in Chicago, and recently we were accused of an advanced state of efficiency which I did not know existed. We had already been told that we used every part of the carcase of a hog for packing and that we used the squeal for gramaphone records, but now I find that we have advanced a step further, for it is alleged that we are crossing hogs with centipedes in order to increase the ham output." (Laughter).

Travelling, it i 8 alleged, throughout the Waikafco as a representative of a certain tailoring firm, Stanley Edward Dornbush, aged 29, has, according to the pnlioe, been measuring settlers, including a member of Maoris, for new suits, and obtained £l from each customer as a deposit. The police began to take an interest in his movements, and on Friday Dornb'.'sh appeared at the Magistrate's Court, before Mr Young, S.M., charged with obtaining from Paul Ferry the sum €1 by means of falc© pretence. Senior Sergeant Matthew sated that a number of other charges were ponding, and a remand till Friday was therefore granted.