NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 16, 14 August 1928, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

NOTES FROM ALL PARTS. THE DOMINION DAY BY DAY. HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE Presbyterian Foreign Missions. It is possible that before long the office of tile Presbyterian Church’s Foreign Missions Committee will be transferred from Dunedin to Auckland. A recommendation to that effect is to be brought up at the Assembly meeting at Auckland. xx x x immigration Abuse. ' “There is the case of a man in Christchurch who nominated five immigrants in one week,” was 'a remark made by Mr. J. Roberts in the course of his speech at Invercargill when discussing the ahkise of the nomination system of immigration. “This man was himself receiving help from the Charitable Aid Board, and the day before his nominated friends arrived in New Zealand he took the wise precaution of getting blankets from the Charitable Aid Board to cover his prospective guests!’’ XX X * Peculiar Eggs. Eggs of a peculiar type are laid by a duck beloging to a Levin resident. They , are of a dark state colour and of «• different shap from the ordinary duck-eggs, having a more rotund outline, in other words being shorter and thicker. The owner says that they are quite good to eat, and that they contain a yolk that almost fills them, leaving very little room for white. Tire bird which lays one of these dark-shelled eggs nearly eery day, is a crossbred of unknown ancestry.

XX X X A Car Hospital. One of the garages at Taihape looks at present like a home for crippled motor cars, following a series of accidents during the last week in that district. A Jbig sedan was smashed through the steering gear'v going wrong, a. three-seater turned a somersault on a corner, and another struck a post on a bridge. A skidded into a telegraph pole, and another suffered considerably when ai runaway horse tried to jump over it. On Tuesday night there was also'a oar over tile bank of the Mangaweka hill. XX X X Motorist’s Less. A patron of one of tire Wanganui picture houses who had left his motor, car at one of the parking stands prior to entering the place of entertainment little thought of the surprise that might be in store for him on his return, says the “Chronicle.” When he emerged from the movie palace he prepared to drive home but found that both 'tyres' and tubes of the front wheels of the car had been removed in his absence. Owing to the fact that wheels were not fitted with demountable, rims the lightfingered gentry responsible for . the act must have had to use levers to remove Ithfe tyres. Thein action is therefore all the more audacious. XXX X \ ' Difficult Position. \ A peculiar position has arisen in the South Invercargill Borough Council. It has been found impossible (says the Southland Times) to prevail on any members to accept the

office of Mayor since Mr. G-. R. ■Tlrown resigned the position on the grounds that not . being a ratepayer since the amalgamation with Invercargill he could not bold office. The financial position of the borough is apparently bad and tjie unwillingness of all to accept the office is attributed to fear of being helcT responsible for the increase cjf rates which has been necessary to relieve the present financial position. Coincidence. .•* « * An extraordinary series of boin-t cidenoes was revealed in the Wellington Supreme Court, says “tire Post.” Two of the petitioners for 1 divorce advanced the same ground in support of their petitions, and it was stated that both were involved in an accident last year as a result of which they suffered similar injuries. They occupied adjacent beds in the hospital, and were each awarded the same amount of damages in the civil action which followed their discharge. Each separated from his wife in the same month. In addition, both were represented by the same counsel in the several Court proceedings . , xxxx Seals at St. Clair. The Dunedin Evening Star states: 'lhe seal which has frequently come ashore at St. Clair within the pa*t month or so seems to be of irascible temperament, easily flaring tip if an attempt is. made to get it back into the. water, and turning with bared teeth upon those whom it regards as pursuers. It would be an ugly foe in the baths or in the surf. 1 0 rid bathers of such an annoyance -r maybe peril, Mr. Robert Tleilson the caretaker and masseur at the baths, has obtained from the Minister of Marine a permit to shoot the seal, so if .it persists i nits shore excursions its days are numbered. Possibly >t is' more than a matter of getting no of one seal. It Is reported that lour were sighted the other morning amt with a little stretch of it mav bo supposed that the e. * three were forerunner, of s.sters •» cousins *ho OK reckoned up I, ens.