NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 82, 12 August 1929, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

MOTES FROM 'ALL PARTS. THE DOMINION DAY BY DAY. HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE. THE MORTGAGEE. The earthquake has its humorous side, and some of the applications for relief have also some sense of humour. In answer to the question, “What is the mortgagee’s name and address,” soldier settler solemnly wrote: “King George, England.” HEATH BY DROWNING. During the past five years 749 people were drowned in New Zealand, stated a i report which was presented t 0 a meeting of the committee of the Canterbury Head Centre of the Royal Life Saving Society. Of these fatalities, 276 had happened in Auckland, 36 in Hawke’s Bay, 3.7 in Taranaki, 167 in Wellington, 12 in Marlborough, 30 in Nelson, 21 in Westland, 65 in Canterbury, 76 in Otago and 29 in Southland. RELICS OF THE PAST. The, clearing away of buildings in Wellington for a new street has brought to light remain s of the old Te Aro railway station, closed a number of years ago. The relics consist of the two original platforms, and the two lines of rails running beside them, evidences of the day when it was possible to leave for Napier from Wakefield street, instead of, having to go by tram or cab to Lambton station. The platforms are in line with the new street, and will have t 0 be removed. PENALTY FOR ROBBING THE MATE. ; In view of the recent theft s from postal boxes, an inquisitive individual has been investigating the question of the' seriousness of such offences in the eyes of the law, and was somewhat surprised to find that under the Post and Telegraph Act the robbing of a mail, or any gesture with intent to rob a mail or steal a postal packet is regarded as the most serious of this class of, offence, and is punishable by a term of imprisonment up to 14 years’ bard labour.—Eltham Argus,

FIBE-PITJG INDICATORS. Citizens, says the Dunedin Star, are asking as to the purpose of the little tiling insets of the pavement in the main thoroughfare fom Albany street to Anderson’s Bay road. The are fireplug indicators. Fifty or sixty have keen made, and the water department of the City Council has already set many in, position. With the new style of shop frontings and the concentration of f° ot traffic the red-and-white pegs have become undesirable in crowded streets. Every city of size has devised some substitute. The Dunedin mark now initiated consists of a spearhead device in tiles, the ground white, with a red stem pointing to egch plug. It seems to be serviceable and sufficiently discernible.