REFUSED TO DANCE

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 128, 25 May 1932, Page 5

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REVENGE AND SUICIDE OF MOROCCAN SOLDIER By Telegraph —Copyright —Press Assn. PARIS, May 24. Returning from the Metz prison chapel where at his own request he had been taken to pray, a Moroccan sergeant, Yazid Massaoud, eluded his guard and fatally jumped from a sixth floor window'. Massaoud was awaiting trial for the murder of two French sisters, one of whom had refused to dance with him. Motors In Collision. A serious , accident occurred at NgaTuawahia .shortly after 5 o’clock on Sunday evening. Mr Rex Vile, son of Mr A. H. Vile/ of Woodville, was pillion-riding on a motor cycle with a friend, when a motor car driven by a Maori forcibly collided with their machine. Both riders were taken to the Hamilton hospital. Mr Rex Vile sustained a fractured thigh, and his companion injuries of a still more serious nature. “The Poor Old Sheep” The undue burden the wool industry was carrying in shipping freights was referred to by the president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Mr W. J. Polson, at the meeting of the Dominion executive recently. He said that the meat dairying interests had pressed for cheaper freights, which had been granted at the cost of increased freights on wool. “The poor old sheep,” he said, “is carrying the burden to-day, the freight Home being as high as Id a lb., which is outrageous. It is not fair that the sheepfarmer should be forced 1o carry such a burden.”

England and America In letters to the Sydney Morning Herald two correspondents include extracts from letters from abroad, one from England and the other from America, both of them dealing with the depression. The English writer says: “There is quite a different air now, and there is a general feeling of confidence that the worst is past.” The American writer, a teacher, says that he has not received his salary, because the city of Brocton (Mass.), where he lives, is without funds and cannot raise a loan. “In this land of plenty” he adds, “millions are literally starving.”

Large Quinnat Found A good specimen of a quinnat salmon, measuring 36 to 40 inches in length and weighing over 20 pounds was discovered recently by Mr J. P. /Lowes of Takapau, which fishing in the liver at Waipawa. The fish was stranded in shallow water and appeared to have been dead for some 24 hours, possibly having got into difficulties when chasing other fish. Quinnat -are not liberated in the waters of the North Island, but these fish frequently find their way to the North Island streams, leaving the fresh water streams of the South Island usually after two years acclimatisation and working their way up to coast. One of the peculiarities of these fish is that they can live in salt water just ■as easily as they can in fresh water. The quinnat found by Mr Lowes is a /particularly; large one.