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Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1930, Page 8

> There has been a ! substantial drop in the amount collected in rates in Palmerston North city this year, compared with the corresponding period last year. The figures, says the Manawatu Standard, were very low until a month ago when payments started to flow in more freely. \

There is 'much activity at the Eikurangi mine, reports the Auckland S ar. This mine was closed down in Februaij, 19'29, and is now being dewatered, new pumps having been installed. It.is hope to pump the mine dry within three months and that then 200 men will be employed. “You remember the night of tlie cident, which you have just heir d much about?” queried counsel for th: defence in a. collision case m ie ston North Magistrate s Court. I have heard a lot oruntruths/’ranswered the defendant, after listening to the numer ous witnesses for the Then I hope ’we won’t hear any mo * . Bn , ingly interjected the magistrate as the case for the defence was commenced. “In my experience it is the expert driver who is responsible for niost dents” said Mr. H. Bransgroye, traffic inspector in Mount Eden, at the annual meeting of the Suburban Traffic Inspectors’ Association at Auckland. “The expert driver sees an opening and nine times out of ten he may get through, but the tenth time he fails. The new driver inay be a nuisance, but as a rille he is too careful to cause an accident.”