LIFE'S LITTLE WANTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 December 1926, Page 5

LIFE'S LITTLE WANTS.

Suppress the ‘‘Mctor Hog.” It seems to be the fashion with some magistrates when dealing with motor hogs t*o advance as an excuse for not sending an accused tfc gaol, that it would deprive the individual concerned of his livelihood. The object of the law is—or should be —to punish the transgressor, and the penalty should be such, as will always remind him or her that the way of the wrong-doer is a hard one. Day after day motor accident's or fatalities are caused as the result of rcckless driving, but still our lawcourts do very little to put this down. A term of hard labour in gaol for each motor hog would result in dangerous speeding being reduced to a minimum. The drunken or reckless driver is a danger to other iusers of the road, whether motorist or pedestrian, and eommonsense demands that they should be prevented from causing possibly further disaster per medium of a motorcar. A Place of Beauty. The Beautifying Society’s coruival on Saturday produced results which such a worthy object deserves. The takings show a substantial increase on those of last year, and this may be taken to mean that the public are in sympathy with the objecis of the Society. There is much good work ahead of the Society in the way of beautifying the town, and Saturday’s achievement will encourage the members to continue their efforts .it-Ci renewed vigour. The Beautifying Socfiiety has come to stay, and future generations will doubtless pay their tribute of appreciation to tiiose line ci.lizcns who laid themselves out to make Masterton “a place of beauty and joy forever.” **. * * All’s Well That Ends Well. .‘‘She was just a sailor’s sw ethcart” —but she left her gallant sailorman in England, came out to Xew Zealand/ and niarried another. Those are the elements in a remarkable coincidence described by a Wanganui business man who returned not long ago from (England. In a tube railway in London he got into casual conversation with a naval officer, who said he.knew nothing about New- Zealand, except that bis prospective bride had gone there some time previously and had not .answered his letters. He had concluded that she w T as now married to someone else and had given him a lic.tiituous address. The address he spelt out to his new acquaintance was a number in a wellknown street iu Wanganui. Reassured as to tille authenticity of the address, the naval man gave the Xew Zealander his own address and specific instructions to learn what had happened to the girl. It developed that his supposition had been correct —she had married another, but was now widowed and working in Wanganui. ,So the returned '.tourist set to work to arrange that the next letter the naval man sent to Wanganui duf not go unanswered. And tiie subsequent happy result is in renewal of .the old engagement and the early prospect of another marriage.