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Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1930, Page 10

In view of the increasing number of motor accidents in New Zealand, Air. W. H.. Field has given notice in . House of 'Representatives to ask the Ministei' of Transport whether he would see that a stricter test wits ap»plied before licenses to drive were/granted. Mr. Field suggested that in addfr tion to proved driving capacity ev.i« dence should be required of the sfobriety and personal good character of any ap" plicant for a license. Two farmers in the Doric district have lost sheep recently under suspici* ous circumstances, and it is feared, says the Christchurch Press, that sheepstealers are at work, A farmer had ft truck of prime sheep drafted in readiness for the Addington market and during the night six of them disappeaied. It is presumed they were taken away in small lots in a motor-lorry dr .spring dray. A strict watch is now being kept on some of the farms in the district. . ..... While a Waipawa drover was driving a mob of cattle over the Mangaonuku hill, towards town, on Wednesday, says th© Napier Telegraph, two of the beast? that had been walking up the bank above the road suddenly came upon a small quarry dug over into the cavity below. Both had their backs broken and had .to be destroyed on the spot. An they were both valuable beasts the loss to the owner will be a seveie one.

“Would you mind .saying that in ordinary Latin?” asked Air. Justice Recd of Air. J. J. O’Shea in the Supreme Court at Wellington, when Mr. O’Shea had used rather long Latin phrase. At-, ter apologising for having used 11© Continental system, Air. O Shea complied with Mr. Justice Reeds rer W/ st ; “I believe, however,” he added, ' that; the Continental system is the one which phoneticists say is the more, correct. “The pronunciation of Latin is getting very mixed now in the courts,” com-, mented his Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Alyers). “It would be as well if the usual legal Latin were always used.”

‘‘l am a great lover of trees,” said Mr. H. F. Toogood at Wellington, “but I-consider that they should be in their proper place. Trees in streets, with their branches above and their roots below, are a menace to all engineering activities. We do not suggest that trees should be banished altogether, but they, » should certainly be restricted on public thoroughfares.” ?