AROUND THE DOMINION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 220, 13 April 1933, Page 8

AROUND THE DOMINION

! Charge Dismissed i A. G. Carter, licensee of the Golden i Cross Hotel, Waihi, was charged with i keeping his premises open for the sale of liquor and exposing the same for sale, lu this case a local resident was fined for being on licensed premises after hours. The evidence showed that no liquor had been served or asked for, but was given by a barman. The magistrate said the evidence did not justify a conviction and the case was dismissed. Proposed Memorial At the last meeting of the Management Committee of the Wanganui Rugby Union it was decided that the president and secretary, Mr. J. Moyo and Mr. C. Swan, convene a meeting of sports bodies and place before them a proposal to erect a memorial if some kind to the late Mr. Louis Cohen. “No man in Wanganui deserved a memorial more than he did for he was conearned with every branch of sport,” said Mr. Moye. “1 think it would be fitting it the sports bodies were to get together to perpetuate his memory.”

i Surprise For Maoris j Two Maoris had a painful surprise j in the Rotorua Magistrate’s Court on Monday. They were brought up on charges of the Arms Act, and when i asked if they could speak English I promptly replied “No,” and a smile i went round the court. An interpreter ! was found, and the accused seemed j quite pleased with themselves. There I was a blank look upon their faces, however, when the magistrate, Mr. S. L. Paterson, told them that, as they had confessed inability to speak English .they would have each to pay 12s 6d towards the interpreter’s fee.

Wellington-Auckland Walk Not content with the setting of a walking record, which he walked recently from Auckland to Wellington in ten days at an average of 45 miles per day, Neville McCarthy, 18-year-old ox-champion walker of Sacred Heart College, is starting on his return journey. This time His route will be via Now Plymouth, and not the Main Trunk road, by which, he journeyed down. Progress reports will come to hand at regular intervals as to his distances, etc., and much interest will he evident in his trip. McCarthy’s ambition is to lead up to a trial, so that he may bo in the running to be sent away as a New Zealand representative to the 1936 Olympic Games, when a 50-kilomoti’e (31-mile) walk will be the event on the programme for heel and toe men.

Trawlers Laid Up The two steam trawlers Muriel and Phyllis, which trawl out of Lyttelton for Messrs. P. Feron and Son, have been laid up, rendering 15 men idle. An official of the firm said that the price for fish, which is only about half of what it was last year, did not justify the heavy expense which would he involved in having the trawlers surveyed, as was required by the Marine Department, before sending them to sea. Also each vessel used about 30 tons of coal in a week, and that was another heavy item. It has been suggested that the Unemployment Board might see its way to assist, possibly by subsidising the wages of the men, which would enable the owners to send the trawlers to sea; but the board lias not yet been approached.

Guides —and Philosophers'! A writer in an Auckland weekly, recently wrote admiringly that the most wonderful thing about Whakarowarewa was the guides. From a somewhat different angle, yet still in awe. “Tangiwai” writes in the New Zealand Railways Magazine that some years ago ho saw an earnest party of Australian lady school teachers, with notebooks out, standing near the Wairoa geyser at Whakarowarewa. with a girl guide of the village. “Up went the geyser, higher and higher, while the girls scattered with squeals of fright and delight. “How high did it go ’ they asked with one accord, when it was all over. ‘Seven hundred feet/ said the guide firmly. And down went the seven hundred feet in half a, dozen notebooks, no doubt to he embodied in due course in a school lesson or a college thesis on the marvels of New Zealand’s geyserland. No use any mere, Maoriiander coniiacicting that estimate! It was down in the notebooks,’’

Another Affront Commenting on the Ministerial appointment the Otago Daily Times says: “The claim of urban interests to have Cabinet representation has been disregarded. Why so it is difficult, to understand. City interests had reason to expect different ‘treatment at the hands of Mr. Coates and the Gov-, eminent, and they will naturally resent their claims being thus ignored for no apparently adequate reason. So far from showing discretion, as suggested, the Government, which in its composition was already open to criticism as being overwhelmingly rural, appears to have rather gone out of the way to add another affront to others which urban interests consider they have already received at its hands. The failure to recognise the necessity that urban interests should have representation in Cabinet, which is only their due, does not argue much regard for the dictates of political expediency. Its tendency can only be to accentuate controversial issues as between town and country.’’ Need For Practical Thouqht “One of the grave dangers of democracy is that we seem to think that the State is like a benevolent cow; that in some magical way we can come along with our pails and get as much milk as we dosin',’’ remarked Mr. .1. S. Barton during the course of his address to the Napier Townswomen’s Guild. “There are, I understand, 250 ladies here this afternoon,’’ contented Mr. Barton. “Now. if each contributed £l, and we put all the pounds in a box, no talk, nothing you could j do, no resolutions you could pass, no j ho’orays, no cheering would help you to j get more than £250 out of the box. j But when the box is a big one, and the contributors run into millions— | people can persuade themselves to the j contrary. That is one of the greatest j evils which has forced us into the [ position we occupy to-day. The na- j lions are suffering from it, and the ( towns arc suffering.’’ j