NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 97, 6 December 1928, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

| NOTES FROM ALL PAhTS. \ THE DOMINION DAY BY DAY. HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE , # ■ f “Cluster Grebes" Out.” For the first time for some days aeroplanes were seen over Christchurch on Friday from the Wigram Aerodrome were tried out by Captains Findlay and Buckley (states the “Press”). Both ’planes were travel- | ling at a -jgreat speed, shooting through the clouds like bullets, and one circled th© Square " twice before returning to the aerodrome. Gift to Hospital/ The Union Jack won by Dr. Palmer (of Blenheim) in the Southern Cross art union will have a history attached to it. It will become the Ife property : of The Limes Pfiyate Hospital in Christchurch, where Dr. Palmer was a patient, at the time that the Southern Cross * flew the Tasman. Dr, Palmer in purchasing the tickets told Sister ’Peake, matron of the hospital ,that if lie won the flag it would become the* property of The Limes. Out of the Hat. The) question whether motor-cars are produced in New' Zealand gave rise to some discussion at the annual meeting of the British Manufacturers’ Association, of - Now Zealand in Wellington, and speakers were unanimous in the opinion that cars’ were not produced hem- “The only justification for saying that they are,’ 1 ’ said Mr. CL H. Scott, “is the fact that they ar.e produced in. the same way as a magician produces a rabbit from a hat. Tluj rabbit is put in the hati first. (Laughter). ~ ,

The) Cheaper , Way. " It is cheaper to pay the penalties of breaking the law than to comply with it? There is at least one man in Wellington who thinks so, but he may have reason to alter his opinion before very long, if the hint given by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S n f.,- in the Magistrate’s) Court, WelU’gton, jjs acted on, “From the 'defendant’s the inspector gathered that .the defendant thought it would be cheaper to pay the fines than to pay the heavy traffic license fee of £46,” said the Assistant City Solicitor- (Mr. J. Lockie), when prosecuting Clarence Moore for failing to obtain a heavy traffic license and failing to obtain a hire license. “Well, of course, it is vour duty to see "he obeys the law,” ’-eplied the Magistrate, when finding the other day about theft (savs the defendant £5 on the first charge and £1 on the second. The defendant had earlier this month been fined £3 for not obtaining a heavy traffic license. Rat Thieves. ' A farmer in a. country district not far from Napier learned something the othe rday. about theft (says the “Telegraph”). * A certain well-known settler had picked some Delicious aptplies last season' for storing away for winter use, and, being called away, left ""the apples in'the l orchard and 'forgot all about [them for several days, hut when he hurried"- to get then he found them gone. ' Thinking that some member of the family had taken them, he questioned them at night and found no one knew anything about them, and 'so decided that someone passing by had taken (them. Recently digging Tire garden over, a huge rat warren was discovered, and to the amazement of everyone* the thieves had been discovered/ Every apple had been carried to the warren and the rats had) a lovely winter food supply,; Tire .family had one compensation, for they killed every rat/ ,

Freedom. The freedom allowed many children nowadays was, exemplified in the recent action of an Auckland ■ schoolgirl of fourteen years of age" (states a. northern exchange); -;Si kfoed weeks ago, the girl, who ia a pnpil at a , suburban school, obtained a positionin a stationary shop, entirely without the knowledge to her parents or her school teacher. Until a day or two ago, she managed to keep both in complete ignorance of the work she had been doing. The parents imagined that she had been, spending the time at school, and the teacher was under the impression that she. had been kept at home. Every mom--; in g ,before leaving home, the girl ; filled her schoolbag with books according to her usual custom, and every evening she made a pretence of doing homework. At frequent intervals, she neatly and politely worded notes to her teacher, signed in her mother’s name, and excusing her absence from school on various plausible grounds. tie lateness, of the girl’s return homo aroused her mother’s suspicions, an a visit to tlie teacher resulted; m the ruse being discovered.