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Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1930, Page 8

Figures supplied to the Christchurch municipal authorities by the Government Statistician giving the population of the City of Christchurch as on April 1, 1930, show that in the city proper there were 88,500 persons, compared with 87,990 on April 1, 1929. For the metropolitan area the total on April 1 was 126,0-10, as compared with 125,-17-0 on April 1 last year.

Maintaining in an address to the Canterbury Advertising Club that confidence was a great asset, Mr. A. C. Brotherton strengthened his argument with a story. He knew a man, he said, who owned a suit of clothes and fourpence. He wanted money. He bought four* penny cigar, lit it, and then visited a. banker. The banker granted him an overdraft on the strength of the cigar. That all main line railway locomotives should be fitted with electric headlights, in the interests of safety, is a suggestion to be submitted, to the North Island Motor Union by the Wanganui Automobile Association. It was explained that the electric headlight gave a long, bright beam which would light up crossings from a, considerable distance. i ' ' A constable, giving evidence in a ease at the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch the other morning, stated that a horse which had tub away was galloping along the street at forty miles an hour! “Forty miles an hour?” queried the senior-sergeant. “Some horse! There was further amusement when th© constable amended his statement to 20 miles an hour.

It is not often that a motorist who runs over a stray animal stops to find out who the owner is, says the Wanganui Chronicle. A case is reported from Putiki, however, which goes to show that all who drive cars are not inconsiderate. A Hawera man, driving home at about 7 p.m. ran over'a pig which crossed the road at Putiki one day last week. He called at the nearest house in search of the animal’s owner and left his name and address.

“That’s pretty hot,” ejaculated a member when the chairman (Mr. E. S. Parker) reported to the Wairau River • Board at Blenheim that someone had stolen practically everything movable from the homestead situated on the property at Lower Wairau recently purchased by the board from Mr. B. Sutherland. Mr. Parker stated that-the washing copper had been prised , h out of its brick setting, the washtubs removed, taps screwed off and pipes broken off at the ground level, and everything else that could be shifted had been spirited away. z

When a south-bound goods train was between Mangaweka and Ohingaiti on& day last week) the driver was amazed to see what he took to be the mangled body of a man lying by the railway fence. Being only a short distance from the station, it was decided to “pull in there and telephone Mangaweka. An urgent call to Mangaweka sent the local policeman post haste down the line, where the “body” was found to consist of some old clothes neatly draped round a stuffed sack and liberally bespattered with red paint ■ ' '.'J, ji-. -