Lawlessness in America

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 118, 13 May 1932, Page 8

Lawlessness in America

“The country is still full of gunmen, hijackers and racketeers, and you read of a gun fight, bank robbery or killing every time you pick up a newspaper,” writes an Auck'ander at present in America. In Portis m?, Oregon, he says, two men were shot down -while he was there* G’n the evening before the police chased a motor-car thief through the busiest part of the city, “shooting and raising the devil.” The police finally stopped the car thief with a bullet through his chest. “Police patrol the streets in cars equipped with wireless and machine-guns,” the correspondent adds. Dog and Ducks

A North Island settler relates an Interesting experience he had with his dog. On a recent day a friend with a sporting dog was shooting wild ducks on his property and the farmer’s sheep dog also accompanied the visitor. The latter and the sporting dog departed on Alonday night. On Tuesday morning the farmer’s dog returned to the house with a live duck in his mouth, and the following evening again repeated the performance. The farmer is at a loss to know how tho dog managed to catch them. The first duck was plucked and showed no sign of shot marks, so that it could not have been wounded. The farmer can only assume that his dog has developed into a first-class poacher. Safety Rails at School Gates

The Wellington City Council is being asked by the Wellington Automobile Club to erect railings outside the gates of city schools facing main thoroughfares to prevent children rushing across the roads. At a meeting of the club’s executive committee, instructions were given to the secretary to draw the City Council’s attention to the success of the railings erected by the club as an experimental protective measure outside the old Willis Street School. A suggestion was made by Mr E. Palliscr that it might be better to have the railings placed inside the gates, but the chairman, Mr E. A. Batt, stated that experience in America had shown that the railings placed at the outer edge of the footpath were a more effective safeguard.