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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 257, 8 October 1931, Page 4

.Tobacco and Benzine The burning questions of the day are the prices of tobacco and benzine following the additional taxation as announced in the Supplementary Budget. As regards tobacco, it is understood that the tobacconists have not raised the price yet, though some stores did so yesterday immediately on receipt of advice of the tax. The price of benzine has not been increased at the Stratford garages.

Just Like a Plane

A motor-truck, apparently under the delusion that it was an aeroplane, presented an unusual sight on one of the hills near Ahaura (Westland) on Thursday. The front wheels were ott the road, and the engine was heading "into the blue" in approved aerial style, while a load of furniture, the property of a Greymouth resident who was removing to Blenheim, slid into the road at the rear. The trouble was caused by the fact that the body of the truck was too short to accommodate the desired load, and was extended by some planks, the balance of the vehicle thereby being upset.

Standard of Schools "Is not the Napier High School as good a school from the point of view of the scholastic education as Christ's College'.'"' was a question asked by His Honour the Chief Justice (S*r Michael Myers), in the Hawke's Bay Adjustment. Court the other morning. "Christ's College is a much higher grade of school, sir," replied counsel. His Honour expressed the opinion that that depended entirely upon what was meant. He did not intend to express an opinion one way or another, but it it was a question of education he did not think it. would be possible to distinguish between one school and the other.

Gardens Raided The present is generally recognised as the gayest period in the year in the dower garden, but amateur horticulturists who take a pride in tending and watching the beauty of the various multi-coloured blooms so much in evidence just now are not always allowed to enjoy that privilege unmolested, for of late several enthusiastic gardeners have had nocturnal visits paid to their plots by miscreants, who in several cases have taken away choice plants. A resident of Collins Street, Hawera, has had visits of this nature on two separate occasions of late. An owner of some choice hyacinths in another part of the (own had some of his blooms ruthlessly torn up and taken away. The individuals who stoop to these tactics are promised a warm reception should they be detected by the owners of the gardens. A World-wide Holiday "What the whole world should do is to constitute a holiday for all the people, ami simultaneously in every centre have a bonfire and burn the war debts, each country acknowledge that it is bankrupt, gets its clearance and start afresh. That is the only hope lor the farmers." So declared a well-known Canterbury stock and station agent, who is in close touch with the position of the farmers. He said the practice of raising loans to pay (lie interest and principal of previous debts was only getting the country further into financial mire. He gave instances where more than twice the amount of the equity previously held by farmers in their lands had been swallowed up by the fall in primary produce, and stated I that the creditor nations of the world J must wipe off a considerable proportion of their principal in the saflie j way as farm mortgagees had to write. down their capital.