NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 18, 16 January 1929, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

NOTES FROM ALL' PARTS. THE DOMINION DAV BY DAY. HERB, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE PASSENGER’S MISTAKE. The man who jumped off the* wharf to catch a boats which he discovered later to be berthing instead of leaving, has his prototype in a Wellington traveller recently, He >was bound) for New Plymouth, and arriving ,at the station, placed) his baggage in an empty carriage. He then strolled up the platform, to Buy cigarettes and du_his return, could not find hTT'dlaggage. After a vain search he was accosted /by a porter who asked whether the traveller owned! several bags Ith at were on the platform. With (relief tEeTtravelLer said ho did. “Well,” said th,e porter, “you would do better to get into the right train, as the one you were in doesn’t leave until-tEe^moming.” MOTORISTS BEWARE. There have been complaints lately from Wellington motorists who, not having th e good! fortune) to own a garage, park their car s f«r the night in private right-of-ways, of the depredations of what they describe aa “the new sneak thief.” In the past car equipment—spanners, jacks, pumps, etc.—have IllsapßearecT overnight from motor-cgrs, .but gear of this kind i s now left untouched —petrol is the aim of the motor thief, with an up-to-date syphon, it is easy to pum(p the petrol out of a car tank. Wise Ts the motorist ' who, leaving his car at night on a side road, transfers the petrol from Ms tank intoi a tin before leaving. A surprise*for the driver. There wa s a, .puzzled motor lorry driver somewhere in Auckland the other morning! As his vehicle was passing the safety zone on the south side of Customs. Street East, a large packing case, 'apparently fiill of gcodfe, tumbled 1 off "and somersaulted to the concrete. In the 1 * rattler and roar of traffic, the driver heard nothing of the bump, and his lorry continued its journey up the street and round a comer.. Meantime the big case reposecTln the street in the line of traffic. One watched it for more than five minutes, but apparently it duty to move it. What the dtriver said when he reached the"place where the case should have~"Been unloaded is', a part of. the story that will never he> printed.’ ■ 1 ; '

keenbidding. The prospects for the Wellington fruit trade would 1 appear to he tinproving. judging by the prices paid by the Hindus for the stands for their fruit stalls in the’ city streets. The total paid for 13 stands for the Jannary-March Quarter was £522 17s 64 which is £lll 15s more than for the same quarter last rear, but in others the fin res was doubled and trebled. The bidding, was very keen, and some rivalry was exhibited 1 during the progress of the auction, which was conducted hv Mr. P. Hazeldon. {Thefre were $0 Hindus present at the” biginning,. but the higher prices scared one or two who walked out of the Concert' Chamber, buttering' ‘’“Too much money.” However, few of them appeared" to hs short of fends, since moire than, one, going up to tiuT'Cable .to pay fop, his stall, produced a great roll .of notes from his pocket. A lew la|er the £522 netted whs the City Treasury.'