HERE AND THERE

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2777, 19 November 1931, Page 6

HERE AND THERE

NEW FHOM OTHEE CENTRES. Good progress is being made with the erection ol tJio two-storeyed brick convent buikiing lor the Sistt'iS 01 tho Aiissiuii nt iiuntly and it is expected that the buikiing will bo completed m Januarv.

Two canine competitors provided a comedy touch to the proceedings at the New Zealand Whippet Racing Club's annual picnic at the New Brighton Trotting Ground last week. When the juvenile whippet .handicap was started Silver. Shoe was the only dog to leave the mark at the gun. He, however, pulled up and sat down when close to the post and only got going again when practically overhauled by Cinema Rose, who also pulled up ami sat down before finishing.

A pure white native pigeon is indeed a rara avis, but the presence of one, at least, in South Westland, is reported (says the Grey River Argus). A correspondent states: "I saw a pure white pigeon at the outlet of Lake Mapourika. The bird was perched on a tree quite close to the main road, and in the green foliage which surrounds one of Nature's beauty spots, looked the picture of loveliness. Undoubtedly I was privileged in getting a glimpse of this Vcautiful bird."

The following letter from a Maori at Ahimia to the Coromandel Unemployment Committee is a sample of some of the rather amusing cases of "English as it is wrote" received by that body:—"To the Unemployment Board, Coromandel. Gents, Tena Koutoti. Previous to throe weeks I have been, or we have been, unemploy. We now ask a civil question ami except a civil answer. Are you's going to give us work, or are you's going to starve us. Your immediate attention will be appreciated. —Yours faithfully, Iviaora! P -'.—Do not answer in this manner, wj will look into the matter!"