People and Their Doings.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19240, 29 November 1930, Page 8

People and Their Doings.

Mr F. K. Hunt Is Colloquial And Hard-Headed : New Zealand Boxer Who Beat Beamish : Kellogg Was Known As A “ Trust-Buster.”

MR F. K. HUNT, the Auckland magistrate, is an unconventional sort of “beak,” who believes much more in equity than law, though he has the latter at his finger tips. To watch and hear him on the Bench reminds one of the rough and ready justice that used to be meted out by the lord of the manor to his followers, or -to the sort of thing one reads about in the East, where the judge used to sit at the city gates and try all and sundry as they came along. “Freddy Hunt,” as he is universally known (but never so addressed in court), says and does things that would make the old-fash-ioned “five shillings or fourteen days” type of magistrate have a blue fit. Mr Hunt has a fine command of colloquial English, and never believes in wrapping up his obiter dicta in legal flummery. He can even use slang on the Bench without detracting from the sting of the sentence or * the respect everyone has for him. He has a good old-fashioned Englishman’s contempt for mean conduct and never fails to “ deal it out ” to the waster, or the man who assaults a woman. He is a keen and careful motorist, and he simply revels in polishing off anything in the shape of a road hog. He knows all the tricks of the bylaw breaker, and never minces words when jotting down a good stiff fine opposite his name in the court records. He had his legal training in Christchurch, where he has a brother, Mr Sydney Hunt, of Ferry Road. W ® ® A T , ONE TIME Mr F. B. Kellogg, who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1930, was known as the “ trustbuster.” That was when the Standard Oil Company was engaged in a deadly struggle with the United States. The qualities which gained him supremacy in this struggle were an extraordinary grasp of facts, a remarkable memory and a quick attack, wnich contrasted greatly with his mild expression. Kellogg’s term of office as Secretary of State in the United States was largely taken up with disarmament questions. He stated in 1926 that the best method of armaments limitation was by regional agreements, as a universal plan was in practice in-applicable. Later he put forward a proposal for a multilateral pact for outlawing war to be signed by all the great Powers. Briand, however, made certain reservations, with the result that Kellogg and Briand sent out their own versions of a draft pact to the Powers in April 1928.

G. (“JOE”) Williams, the New Zealander who beat Beamish in the Air Force heavy-weight boxing championship, is a Rugby player, like his English opponent, but he gained greater distinction in rowing. In that connection a correspondent points out that one consequence of there being no Lyttelton Regatta since 1927 is that the handsome shield presented by Messrs P. M. C. and W. C. Cleary for youths’ single-sculling is still an ornament in the shed of the Star Boating Club, Wellington. This trophy was won by Williams in December, 1927. It was on that occasion when G. C. Cooke and Williams, who are well-known to the Christchurch rowing public, left Wellington on the Friday night, and after a rough ferry trip competed at the Lyttelton Regatta on the Saturday afternoon. They won the junior double-sculls and junior pairs. Then Williams, who was still under twenty-one years of age and therefore qualified to take part in youths’ events, succeeded in capturing the Cleary Shield. The trophy thus left Christchurch for the first time since competition for it commenced in 1911. It was presented to Williams in the evening, and immediately afterwards the Star men had to leave hurriedly to catch the return ferry to Wellington. Cooke and Williams won the senior pairs and junior double-sculls at the Christchurch Regatta in the following year, and rowed their last race together when they won the New Zealand pairs championship at Picton. Shortly afterwards Williams left for England to join the Royal Air Force.

jyjß LINDSAY BUICK, a well-known Wellington journalist, expects to puLlisli his book on the Moa about March or April next year, lie has practically completed his story, and the MS will go to the Government Printing Office in the near future. The proofs will be available early in the new year. The book will be profusely illustrated and it should appeal to a fairly wide public in the Dominion. The Maori Board is keenly interested, and is assisting the author in the publication. Mr Buick presents many interesting aspects of thi world's largest and discusses the probable period of its extinction, which is “wrapt in mystery. The Lpok should be an interesting and valuable contribution to the natural history of New Zealand.

qne of the fondest dreams of Miss L. M. Trumble, matron of the Cashmere Sanatorium, is to see a farm established, where those children who at present leave the Fresh Air Home at Cashmere to return to unhealthy surroundings, may be trained for the land. The idea is not a new one, Miss Trumble says, but is being carried out on an extensive scale in England and America. So long as the children at the Home are allowed to return to conditions that are not ideal, tuberculosis will not be stamped out* V QNE of the hardest workers for the Cashmere Sanatorium is the Rev A. H. Norris, of Cashmere. Mr Norris was mainly responsible for the very enthusiastic meeting held recently in the City Council Chambers to consider aiding destitute patients when they are discharged from the institution. For many years Mr Norris has been visiting the sanatoria, and he has been successful in obtaining for patients many orders for their basketware from his parishioners at Cashmere. 9 g? gF J)0 CHRISTCHURCH PEOPLE ever refleet on the great advance that the automatic telephone represents over the manual system? If not they should try ringing up. say, a party line at Sumner, with an interminable wait after central is dialled, then the repetition of the number by central, and, as so often happens, a cut off in the middle of the subsequent conversation. Truly, it is as well, sometimes, to be reminded of the bad old days which fade so quickly from the mind. /\ GOOD DEAL of interest is being taken in the request of the “ Star ” for old photographs touching on some of the early doings or people of x the province. Included in the entries for this section of the Christmas Number of the “Star” are a couple of old photographs of two of the pilgrims who came out in the First Four Ships and their five daughters, who are all living to-day, although the youngest is fifty-two. Another interesting entry is _a group photograph of the German picnic held on the Sydenham Showgrounds in 1884. Readers of the “ Star ” are invited to look through old albums for interesting photographs of people or places.