LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1928, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister of Lands, will officially open the Taranaki Seamen’s Rest on Saturday, Slay 26, at 2 p.m. The chair will be taken by the president of the W.C.T.U. The public are cordially invited to attend.

‘‘You are liable to a fine of £10,” said the magistrate to a defendant at the Opotiki Court who was charged with having served a summons on Anza-c Day. Defendant pleaded ignorance. sf the law and said lie did not know that the serving of a -summons on Anzae Day was illegal. The defendant was ordered to pay the costs -of the prosecution.

A young son of Mr. A. G. Riches had a narrow escape from death on his lather’s farm, near Taumarunui. The lad, aged 11, and an elder brother, were digging pumice from a bank for use on another part of the farm, when suddenly a large section of the bank gave way and buried the boy. His brother quickly extricated him, and he was taken away for medical attention. He was badly bruised about the body, and will be confined to bed for a week. No bones were broken.

A petition to the Governor-General in Council, praying for the reprieve of Allan George Norgrove, who is under sentence of death for the murder of his sister-in-law, Ernestina Mary Norgrove, is to be circulated in Auckland (states an exchange). The petition is -being prepared by Mr. A. Moody, who was Norgrove’s counsel. It is expected that the petition will be supported by the Howard Penal Reform League, which recently condemned the system of capital punishment. A witness in the Dunedin Supreme Court recently made repeated use of the word “absolutely” in answer to questions put to him by counsel, and had to be asked by His Honour not to use it so often. Within a minute, however (states an exchange), out it came again, but the witness immediately expressed regret at its use. Some amusement was caused when one of the barristers, in his address to the court, also introduced the word in his third sentence, but, realising what he had done, repeated his statement and substituted “wholly and solely” for “absolutely.”

A collision between a motor-ear driven by Mr. E. Walter, M.P., and a motorcycle ridden by Mr. John Watson, a porter at the Criterion Hotel, occurred at the intersection of Powderham and Morley Streets about three o’clock yesterday afternoon. It was stated that Mr. Walter was proceeding along Powderham Street in an easterly direction, and Mr. Watson was about to ascend the Morley Street hill. The impact threw Mr. Watson off his cycle, and he sustained concussion of the head, but the injury was subsequently found by Dr. Thomson not to be serious.

The staff of the Taranaki Education Board, including the inspectors, will hold their annual picnic to day on Mt. Egmont, and will go to the Stratford house. False pretences was the charge preferred against a middle aged man in the Police Court in New Plymouth yesterday. He was remanded until next Wednesday. Evidence of identification of the body of I’irihisa Temuri, a Maori girl 10 years old, who died suddenly at Waitara on Sunday evening, w:m heard by the district coroner IMr. 14 W. Tate, S.M.) yesterday. The : n<|U<-st was then adjourned. Lindbergh, the famous young American airman, baa to be watched by an army of people, for fear an enraptured public will tear his wardrobe to pieces. Ills manager serves him out only one shirt at a time, and this rarely reaches his back again. They tear it up at the laundry as souvenirs. You may have heard that Bert Hinkler, who does not bother much about clothes, borrowed a pair of motoring pants from the son of an M.P. After he resumed his flight it was discovered that the garment belonged to the donor’s sister. So he telegraphed: “Hope you don’t mind.” She replied: “Thrilled and proud.” The opinion that releases from bankruptcy should not be obtained so quickly was expressed last night by Mr. A. S Allen, chairman of the Taranaki Trade Association. There seemed to be a lack of interest on the part of traders in opposing discharges, he said. Mr. D. LeC. Morgan believed th:t the great cost on the individual was the reason for more traders not opposing discharges. He suggested the association should take up these matters on being approached by a member. Mr. Allen: I take it you mean that action should be taken on behalf of the creditors concerned. * Mr. Morgan said the association should act as a body. Mr. Gordon Fraser said the association would have to consider whether opposition to the discharge would be of particular or general interest before engaging counsel. “The average man will pay, for he is honest instinctively,” said Mr. Gordon Fraser when speaking on the giving of credit to members of the Taranaki Trade Association last night. The danger of non-payment was not from the average man, but from the man who would not pay, he proceeded. He stressed the giving of credit as a great sporting game. Though one did not know the customers personally, it was remarkable how interesting it was to watch their balances fluctuating day by day. Towards the end of the year there would be a rush to improve the balances and one watched to see which account won out. He urged traders to take customers into their confidence and tell them of the game that was being played. They would rise to the occasion, enter-into the spirit of the affair and, added Mr. Fraser amidst laughter, 'perhaps let your rivals wait.”

The hundreds of dead octopuses in the Anderson’s Bay Inlet, Dunedin, have been the subject of discussion by more than one public body of late, but so far none -of them has made any move towards having the nuisance removed (states the Otago Daily Times). The Health Department, however, has realised the seriousness of the position, and the chief medical officer of health (Dr. J. H. Crawshaw) stated on Wednesday that he and his department are fully alive to tlie fact that the heaps of putrefying flesh on the shores of the inlet are a menace to public health. Jn the event, he said, of one of the local bodies admitting responsibility in the matter, the department proposed immediately to assess the responsibility, and adopt some measure whereby the nuisance might be abated as soon as possible. “Your president has asked me to tell .you all you want to know,” said the Hon, W. Dow-nie Stewart, Minister of Finance, in his address to Auckland business men on Tuesday (states the New Zealand Herald). “That reminds me of an incident in the last session of Parliament. A member, who was being subjected to very heavy interjection, remarked that he would tell the House all he knew about a certain subject. ‘That won’t take very long,’ came an interjection. ‘Perhaps not,’ came the instantaneous reply. ‘But it would not take any longer to tell all we both know.’” Another good Parliamentary story was told by Mr. Stewart, in concluding his address. The Minister said he had questioned an elderly messenger as to why he always came back to Parliament in session time, when he oould probably secure a better position elsewhere. “Well, it’s like this, Mr. Stewart,” the messenger seriously said, “politics has a sort of fascination for me, as it has for you. And, you know, it does not need any brains.”

The subdivisional sale of the Geary Bros.’ estates at Manutahi and Meremere, to be held in Hawera on Saturday next promises to bo one of the largest land sales of recent years. The auctioneers, the Farmers' Co-op., report that they have had a large number of inquiries and numerous applications for litho plans. The optimistic outlook in thA, dairy industry has created an almc.t insatiable demand for dairy farms of moderate size, and the Geary Bros.’

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