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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16512, 24 August 1921, Page 7

At the Thrift Exhibition held last week, the first prize for a schoolgirl's dress outfit was awarded to Mrs A. H. Hays. Now York State, cut 411,000,000 feet of lumber in 1920, priced at £4,000,000, or nearly double the price of the 1918 cut. The practice of cycling through Chancery Lane and other right-of-ways between Cathedral Square and Gloucester Street is to be stopped by the police, as well as cycling across Cranmer and Latimer Squares. A number of luxurious motor-cars taking people to a Venetian masked ball at the Paris Opera Hqpse had their windows smashed. As the cars were crossing the .Place de la Concorde si number of carts laden with vegetables were also making their way to the markets. A croud of roughs stole carrots and potatoes from the carts juid threw them at the men and women in the motor-cars. Getting bolder as it became clear that the few policemen on duty were powerless in the darkness, the roughs smashed the windows of the cars and tried to drag the passengers out. Amid a tumult of shouting, police whistles and blows, the drivers of the big oars went, straight ahead, putting on speed, and the peaceful portion of the crowd could save itself only by terror-stricken rushes to one side. The ball was attended by 4000 people, and £20,000 was taken in entrance money. English and Americans were numerous, and there were more men than women. (The cable news in this issue accredited to -“Th? 'rimes" has appeared in that journal. f>ut only where rxpresslv stated 9 such news t hr edimri*! pinion of. "Tin Times.")