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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1930, Page 6

Five passenger' liners with nearly 1200 passengers from overseas reached New Zealand on the first two .days t of this week. Of that number 788 passengers were from Australia.

Reports from the country districts indicate that a record tonnage of ensilage has been saved this year, states the New Zealand Herald. Pasture . growth has been prolific in all parts, aud this has had the effect of reducing the demand for such produce lines, as. pollard, chaff and oats, the markets for which at present are very weak. . .

At the meeting of the Oamaru unemployment committee it was reported that a settler, who was anxious to assist, to the best of his ability towards helping unemployed men, was prepared to meet two men at the station with his car, and even pay their train fares if they were hard up. He received one of the surprises of his life, however, when the two men arrived in a car, owned by one of them, to commence work.

With the idea that he would plead not guilty to an allegation that he had failed to observe the off-side rule, an Auckland motorist appeared before Mr. E. C. Cutton, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court. His case was called. “Since coining to the court,” he said, “I have learned that the car I took advantage of was driven by the chief traffic inspector, Mr. George Hogan. I intended ti> plead not guilty. I have changed my mind.” „ “In view of the changes that have been proposed in our education system, I trust that I may be permitted to express the hope , that no change will be made in the present system of control of secondary schools, at any rate, in the the large centres,” said Miss E. M. Johnston, headmistress of the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School, at the prize-giv-ing of the school.

“It’s a good, healthy declared the Rev. F. G. Brittan, who ar.rived at Lyttelton by the Sir George Seymour in 1850, at a luncheon given at Christchurch on Wednesday, Canterbury s aniversary day, in honour of the pilgrims. “I don’t wish to boast, he added, “but I can still spend seven hours a day in the garden with a long-handled shovel, take four services a day, and drive 24 miles.” He was loudly applauded. Women anglers are coming along in increasing numbers each year, according to Mr. C. I. Dasent, the secretary of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. Ten years ago only 20 licenses were issued to women, and so far this season 112 licenses have been taken out by the,fair sex. Up to date some 1050 licenses have been issued this season in Wellington district, and Mr..Dasent estimates that the number will increase to 2000 before the end of tha asaso-u.