NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 78, 15 June 1928, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

NOTES FROM ALL PARTS.

THE DOMINION DAY BY DAY Rest in Peace. Counsel were discussing the financial position of a party in a case heard in the Christchurch Supreme Court last week before his Honour Mr. Justice Adams. Mr. E. W. White: "Respondent has a motor car." His Honour: "That is not a floating security. It is a rolling se/eurity." Mr. White: "Apparently it does not roll very well. All that

he says of it is that it is a motor car 14 years old." His Honour: "I should say let that rest in peace." * * Masculine Age. Young ladies must how ride astride and not "side-saddle" when sitting on the carriers of motorcycles, and it "is now hard to distinguish the females from the males, especiadlly when, the former are Eton-cropped and wear mannish clothes (says the Wanganui Herald). One young lady was seen riding through the town the other evening •behind her motor cyclist escort and putting a,t a .cigarette. She evident-* ly thought that she looked so like a man sitting astride that she might as well complete the picture, hence the cigarette. Surely, this is the age of the masculine women. * # Those Modest Heenejs. Modesty is a well-known trait in the character of ■ members of the Heeney family, and it was well illustrated in Auckland last week, when the Heeney brothers were waiting to catch th e ..Aorangi en route to America. On e day Arthur, Pat and Jack were greatly troubled by the attentions of a press photographer. He followed ' them

everywhere, begging anxiously that they sEbuld pos e for him while he took a snap. They as steadily refused. Hours went by and the photographer became desperate. Finally he bailed up the brothers and delivered this final appeal: "Look here, you chaps, I've got to take this blessed photo. If I go back without one, I'll get the -sack." Only then did'the Heeney brothers agree to relent! . „: . * * Standard! Kates. «P'ay a man. what he is worth, Sir Edward Sharp, the famous toffee magnate, who spent the week-end in Gisborne. 'Give him fair treatment, and good feeling is created between master and man, better understanding and the .co-operative spirit which will make a business success. I do not advocate the payment of high wages all round or any standard rate of wage, but if you make £8 from a man's labour do not reward him with a pittance of £3. In this part of the world, particulars Australia, there is far too much of this standard rate of pay. Slackers make the same as the real worker and many men do not care a u -iota for the interests o f their employers. Man and master must work together for . a business to r v un satisfactorily. Perhaps the fault lies with the men, but the employers certainly must do their part by paying wages commensurate with the value of the men's work." Cars at Dances. The first case under the new City Council by-law in Christchurch preventing the parking of cars m the trinity of d«ce halls,' which wa, i passed recently with a view to preventing certain noises and abuses 7 connection with certain dance Latls in the city, came before Mr. l E D. Mosley, S.M. The city solictor (M r. R. J- Logman) explamed thai the regulation was; made to eon'vol traffic approaching and lea J ing dance halls during the pro-. Iress oi a dance. They were no ° • • thA motives which there to discuss the >»° mcS prompted the framing of the re ulation. "Th e regulation wa llf , in March alter com brought in n \ of distric t S plaints from residents oi n ear the dance halls," sa ,t fnv the defence. It appne gent, foi liaUs in • to only some oi Ue aw the city, and the of part ' iaHty adSeS - 1 1 of the .round that gulation is bad on the, g i, begins 30 before * 1 . IB this case defendant wiUi ' 1 ear called at the *JI *W miuuteS( intending to leave There is the serious Quezon of partiality to be considered sir. I would like to Quote authorities on 1 the Point." .The Magistrate agreed 1,, adjourn the case for argument though it seemed to him at present that the by-law was an excellent