Kiwis on the Increase

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 205, 24 August 1932, Page 5

Kiwis on the Increase

A few weeks ago a kiwi sitting on ' two eggs was discovered at Wai Iwi, Wanganui. The bird was liberated in the bush, and the eggs brought into the ' Alexander Museum. Now another pair of eggs has been brouht into the museum, this time from a nearby district —Maxwell. It appears that kiwis are increasing in the locality of Wanganui. Injured in a Collision As the result of a collision between a motor-cycle and a car at the corner of Stanley Avenue and Russell Street last evening, Siturd Sorensen, aged 41 years, of 52 Stanley Avenue, was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital. Mr Sorenson, who was riding the motor-cycle, received severe abrasions. The full extent of his injury will not be known until an X-ray examination is carried out to-morrow. His condition is satisfactory. Divorce and Children Comment on the la’ge nu aber of divorce cases in New Zealand was made by Archbishop Averill when dedicating a banner of the Mothers’ Union in Si. John’s Church, Royal Oak. His Grace said he had noticed that there were 60 petitions for divorce in one day at a recent session of the Supreme Court. The vital question was what was to become of the children in such cases, the archbishop said. It was imperative that parents should make the home lives of children attractive, so that they would not have to seek their pleasures outside. Prison Preferred “This man is not a trier and has never been. He prefers to go to gaol rather than keep his wife, and he is not going to get any further reduction in his maintenance even if he spends the rest of his life in gaol,’ ’ said Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, at Palmerston North yesterday, to Edward Hoheppa Armstrong, who was £332 in arrears with maintenance payable to his wife. The maintenance officer, Mr W. T. Hooker, said Armstrong’s wife was prepared to accept £1 a week, provided that she received "it regularly. His "Worship commented that Armstrong had been a good motor mechanic, earning good wages, but had deliberately thrown up his position to defy the Court. An order was made for the payment of £1 a week, the arrears to be held over in the meantime. Whistles Out of Action The first item in Dannevirke’s CheerUp Week received a knock out blow when the factory whistles failed on Tuesday morning to give their awaited signal. Collett’s and the Woodware Company made all preparations to blast Depression to smithereens and to call their staffs together and rouse the town for the day’s work with all the power of their steam. Unfortunately Government inspectors do not know the difference between Cher-Up Week and any other week. The machinery inspector informed the factory managers on Saturday evening that all boiler had to be cold on Monday morning to permit inspection. It is impossible to blow a Cheer-Up whistle on, a cold boiler. The boiler inspector is' not a spoil sport, but he has to get on with ' his job. ,i •