NEWS OF THE DAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 11, 5 August 1930, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Sundayisms. Tho llev. .) .Bissett quoted some sayings on Billy Sunday during Ids address last night. “Your reputation'’, 1)0 quoted, “is what people say of you. Your character is what your wile and Clod knows about you”. Again: “The churches do not need new members. it would do if the present members /were made over again”. Praiseworthy Persistence. Having examined some materials in the manufacturers’ section at •ho Wellington Winter Slionv, a well known business man told his wife to order a winter dress of New" Zealand material, intending to have a suit for himself. When his wife returned, \he* found that ihie had selected !an imported ,cloth. 'lire husband rang rip the tailor to ask why lie had not shown his wife Nc/vv Zealand cloths to select from, speaking of the excellent samples he had seen in the exhibition. Tbo tailor said he could not get them, where, upon the would-be client promptly set to work to put him in touch with the manufacturers, being determined to have the order fulfilled in New Zealand-made material.

Company Flotation. That it is t'he custom among accountants uot to charge tor their cli'ors at flotation when those efforts tail was the evidence given hy -sev_ <>i al professional men during the hearing of a. civil claim recently, judgment in which (says the C hristchurch Times) was the subject ol an appeal to Mr. Justice Kennedy. Referring to this evidence in his decision dismissing the appeal, his Hon. our said; “1 regard such evidence not so much as establishing a, custom, as disclosing that the practice of individual accountants is in accord with the la;\v which gives them a right to remuneration where the contract is an entire contract and not divisible, only when they have themselves fulfilled that which they have undertaken to do”.

‘‘Reasonable Men” Tu his address to the Court yesterday in tile ease Borough Inspector v. Kirkwood Bros., Mr .Moss contended that a court must he fully convinced before giving a decision upsetting a by-law made by an elected Council after honest consideration. Counsel quoted the reported cases uij lOlid, 1920 and 1921 of Boyd v. the Ouohunga Borough Council, oases dealing with the keeping of animals in a Borough. Tu one of these cases them wore eighty wit. uessc s for Boyd, to testify that his animals caused no nuisance, and only twelve persons testified to the contrary, but even so the judge said he could not quash the by-law on the ground that ‘‘it had no justification in the minds of reasonable men”. , Plethora of Medical Witnesses. “I don’t remember a case during my ten years’ experience in this Court in which so much medical ev. idence wa s produced as in the present action”, commented Mr. Justice Frazer, president of the Arbitration Court, at Auckland, in giving judgment in the case in which the basis of discussion had been a malady known as intussusception, or the telescoping of the intestines. The case, which concerned the death of a coalminer, was remarkable for the diversity of opinion among twelve medical men, some of whom travelled from as far a,s Wellington to give evidence. For the first time in the history of the Court intussusception had been the cause of a compensation claim being presented. So rare is the complaint that a. Hamilton doctor said that the Waikato Hospital authorities had had only one case of the kind among adult males ni 2o years. His Honour, in the course ol his remarks said, that admittedly the condition was obscure and one that occurred rarely in adults.

A Wowser. ‘.A wowser”, said Dr. Elizabeth drum, speaking at a social at Kakaramea, “was a. man who did what ho jolly well liked and expected' everyone else to do the same”. Animals from Africa. Permission to import from South. Africa a most interesting collection of animals for the Zoo has been grante<l to the City Council by tho Win is ter of Internal Affairs, states the New Zealand Herald). The collection includes a pair of giraffe*-, female kudus t sable and roan antelopes, a female gnu, porcupines, aa eland a white-tailed gnu, and four springbok. It was hoped, also to have received at the .same time a number of weaver birds and South African finches, but on account of the appearance of parrot fever in various parts of the world the Minister is forbidding the importation of such birds until March next. Canterbury Honey. Owing to Canterbury experiencing a bad season last summer, honey ’was so scarce that there was only sufficient for the New Zealand market. During the previous few seasons between 2000 and 3000 cases have been exported to the United Kingdom. Last season the only honey to be exported was shipped from the North Island.- One prominent Canterbury beekeeper (says tho Christchurch Times) is at present (seeking now markets abroad. The only honey shipped from Lyttelton this year was taken by the Karetu to Sydney last week. I consisted of one ton for Sydney and another ton for Durban.

Clare of a Headlight. Varying estimates of the distanefc at which the headlight of a railway engine is visible were given during a trial in. the Supremo Court at Auckland. The driver and fireman of the engine said they could clearly pick up objects four of five chains distant when travelling at normal speed. They explained that their headlight 'was an acetylene lamp, and the glare would he visible to anyone a mile off. A farmer said he had seen the light a. mile and a_ quarter away on the night referred to. The electric headlight of a Limited express engine Can l>e seen three or four miles away on a clear night, and the driver can discern objects half a mile ahead on a straight run. Far-F?eaching Effect Addressing the Court yesterday in the ease Borough Inspector v. Kirkwood Bros., Mr. A. Coleman eo/ntended that when the Borough Council extended the inner area iu 1925 they did not consider the extension in its effect on th© keeping of poultry. When the advertisement appeared in the public press notifying the. extension of the inner area there was nothing in it in reference to poultry-keeping and poultrykeepers, if they read the -advertisement, Avould not know that it affested them. The extension had probably an effect on other things beside s poultry-keeping and today perhaps there were people living in the inner area who wero doing things which the extension of the inner area made it illegal for them to do. Not Competent. Under English law, said Mr. A. Coleman at the Stratford Court yesterday, in the case Borough Inspector v. Kirkwood Bros., it was necessary that two-thirds of a Council should bo present when a by.laiw was earned, and it could not be car. ried except by a stipulated majority. lu New Zealand these checks were absent, which had induced a New Zealand judge to say, in a judgment, Hint, in the absence of tbesje checks, New Zealand courts were justified in taking more freedom (in quashing (by-laws. In his judgment in a certain case the learned judge expressed the opinion, that, judging from the provisions of a by-law iu question, the Council was not competent to judge what constituted reasonableness ip a by-law-‘‘and said 31 r. Coleman, “that seem.s to be the position in the present ease.”