News in Brief

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 197, 20 August 1931, Page 8

News in Brief

Poachers Driven Off. A statement that the operations of ova collectors for the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society would put a stop to the efforts of poachers at Lake Coleridge was made by a member of the council of that body at the monthly meeting last evening. A member of the Rangers' Committee denied that the poachers were now carrying on operations. “ They have changed their district,” he added amidst laughter. Prosperous Descendants. “ It is a remarkable thing that the majority of the children of the early missionaries to Hawaii are now practically all millionaires,’* said Mr Frank Purnell at the luncheon of the Wanganui Rotary Club this week, reports the “ Chronicle.” It is also a fact that the biggest percentage of America’s leading public men were the children of preachers. Doctors and lawyers were not in it for raising sons who appeared in “ Who’s Who,” he added, amidst laughter. Warning to Shooters. After the Council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society had held a discussion in committee last night the chairman (Mr C. H. Lawrence) reported that the question of an individual shooting kaka had been fully discussed and, in view of the circumstances, the council decided to take no action. It strongly deprecated the tendency of those in possession of firearms to shoot anything upon sight, and a general warning was issued that any further cases of such a nature would be dealt with immediately. Anti-Noise By-law. “ I don’t know what is coming over the Wellington City Council,” said the head of a well-known firm of auctioneers and produce dealers in Wellington, referring to the proposed new by-law, which, among other restrictions, proposes to prohibit the ringing of bells outside or inside places of business. “ Do they want to kill trade altogether?” he asked. “ Noise means that there is something doing. I wish there was twice as much row in Wellington as there is now. It would mean that business is flourishing. What are the noisiest places in the world?—New York and Chicago. And they are the most progressive! Why, if the council has its way, Wellington will be a city of the dead. You can’t have it both ways. If your city is a live one, and going all out for business, it is going to make a noise—if it is going to the pack listen for the quietude. There are lots of quiet places, heaven knows, in New Zealand. But who wants to be like them ? ”