MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10360, 2 September 1922, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

.«. ! The Hon. W. Nosworthy repeated 'in the House of Representatives on Tuesday that he would not commit the Government to anything further in regard to low-grade wheat than he had already stated, until he had gone further into the matter. In respect to the grading, the Government would interpret the agreement to the letter, and there would he no cause for complaint. A man who had owed the Hawera Hospital Board an account, and had been given several reminders, eventually made payment, adding 2b to the amount due, which he informed the secretary he might keep to recoup, him for expenditure on stamps in his efforts to collect the amouat. "There are still some decent people about," was the comment of one member of the Board. "Ignorance of the law" was the plea made at Wellington the other day by Morgan Christopher O'Flahvsrty, charged with having purchased a ticket in an alleged lottery promoted in Tasmania. It was stated to be quite a common thing in large warehouse and ! Government offices for clerks to regularly subscribe money for this purpose. Even in the police it was urged, there were those who received tickets regularly. It appeared that the accused was arrested for drunkenness, and the police, on searching nis clothes, found three sweep tickets in his name, which he admitted purchasing. The Bench held that there was no distinction between purchasing a. sweep or pak-a-poo ticket, and lined the defendant £1 and costs. The same man was charged in that on March 2 he made four counterfeit coins with intent to make them usable as current silver coins. The police stated that when the accused was arrested on another charge he was searched, and two silvered halfpennies were found in his pockets. The accused denied having passed any coins. He said he had been employed by a man who was agent for material for silvering copper articles and that he used the coin as material to demonstrate the efficiency of the process. He explained both sides of the coins being silvered by saying that he had dipped them in the solution. The case was dismissed. The large Auckland drapery firm, Smith and Caughley, Ltd., have, just had the fact pressed on them that , rhere is a big risk in giving credit to married women without the express sanction of their husbands. The case in point was one in which fhey had allowed the wife of Esmond Napier, a law clerk earning £6 per week, to run up an account for drapery to the amount of £139 17s '3d within six months, the statement including four frocks purchased between January 12 and March 1 at prices ranging from £l3 2s 6d and £l6 16s, and two pairs of shoes at £4 18s 6d and £4 4s respectively. Husband and wife were living apart and naturally hubby declined to recognise the liability. Action was taken in the Supreme Court against him for recovery. In his evidence the chief clerk of the plaintiff company said accounts for drapery in the case of married women were always entered in the wife's name and the bills sent to her for the reason that firms would not sell so much if the bills went to the husbands. The jury found for the defendant on the ground that the goods were not "necessaries."