LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 January 1933, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

'Short- slirift was given to a defendant in one of the traffic courts before the Christchurch Magistrate ”s Court when lie complained bitterly at being lined £1 and costs. “This tine has hurt my dignity,” lie explained, movingly, to Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M; “I have driven a car for many years and have always had a clean card. I am a business man, and I would like you to send me to gaol.” “If you don’t pay the tine,” remarked the Magistrate, “you’ll go to gaol soon enough. Now get . out. ’ ’

The retirement of Adjutant S. S. Green (formerly of Alasterton) from service with the Salvation Army at New Plymouth has excited a large amount of public comment, especially as his activities in the relief of distress during the past year have met with general appreciation (says the Taranaki Daily News). ‘‘ 1 am not resigning from the Army,” Adjutant Green said when he was asked for an explanation of the cause of his resignation. “I have been dismissed, because 'in the eyes of the authorities I have not been able to collect sufficient money. To be fair to my superior officers I must admit that they are probably hard pressed for money, but I am no't by nature a special collector of money in any sense.”

Services ■will be conducted by the Rev. J. Davie at Kaiparoro and Eketaliuna on Sunday. A. J. J. Chapman, of Carterton, motor service proprietor, has been adjudged bankrupt on his own petition.

Approximately £75 was the cost entailed in flying the Southern Cross across the Tasman Sea. That sum included benzine, oil, and the costs of preparation such as the payment of the ground staff.

Fog in the English Channel disorganised! Southampton shipping on Wednesday, and the "departure of the Berengaria for New York was delayed, while the incoming Aquitania and other vessels were held up off the Isle of Wight.

. A Sydney cable advises that there has been a record harvest in the Stateof New South Wales, according to a statement issued bv the Department of Agriculture concerning the handling cf the harvest. The terminal wheat silos at White Bay, holding (5J million bushels, are nearly full, and country silos will be full by the end of the week. The danthonia grass was high round a vicarage near Auckland* The viear had watched it grow and ripen. He decided that it had to be cut. lie put on old clothes and got to work. A man, who was evidently a visitor to the district, same along. “May I have a look at the church F s he enquired. The request was granted with pleasure. After inspecting the church the visitor watched the grass cutting. “I’m blowed if we can get any of the laymen down our way to do that,” he said. “Neither can I,” said the viear. When the visitor found out the identity of the man with the scythe he probably reflected on the many odd jobs that come the way of a country viear.