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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20542, 18 February 1935, Page 6

Writing to a friend in Otorohanga, several American correspondents give interesting and contrasting views of the slump in the United States. One writer, an old Thames boy, mentions that his son, 36 years of age, has had nothing to do for four years, and has no prospects. On the other hand, another New Zealander, a woman, got a position -with Cook’s Tourist Bureau, and from there has gone from one post to another until she to-day is the secretary of a women’s institution where 180 people are employed, and her salary is £l6 per week. “lie appeared to be trying to give the girls a thrill,” said Inspector J. E. Ainsworth in the Upper Hutt Court, when a young man was charged with driving a motor-car at a speed and in a manner which might have been dangerous to the public. The inspector said the defendant went round a corner at between 35 and 40 miles an hour. The car was a highspeed i English sports model, in which four girls and two boys were packed as tightly as the proverbial tin of sardines. The intention of the prosecution was to try to teach the defendant that he had to keep his speed down. lie had been fined for a similar offence in the Wellington Court. “ Quite i correct,” said the defendant, when asked if 1 he had anything to say in reply to the inI specter’s statements. lie was fined 30s by j Mr W. F. Stilwell, S.M.