A Lesson to Youngsters

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 98, 20 April 1933, Page 5

A Lesson to Youngsters

“This should be a lesson to youngsters riding bicycles not to take corners at too great a speed,” remarked the coroner at the inquest in Wellington yesterday into the death of William Pearce Rigg, aged 12 years. Rigg died in hospital on April 9 after receiving severe injuries when his bicycle collided with a motor lorry at an intersection the previous day. The coroner said that the evidence showed that the hoy was on the wrong side of the road and no blame was attachable to the driver of the motor lorry.—Press Association. Murder and. Suicide Verdicts that Margaret. Ellen Motley was murdered by Arthur Soley and that Soley committed suicide were returned by j , the coroner yesterday morning in the inquest resulting from the tragedy which occurred at Palmerston North last Wednesday evening. The coroner added that it seemed quite clear from the evidence that the unfortunate girl was the victim of an unscrupulous man who posed as a widower and became engaged to her, though well knowing that he was not in a position to marry her and having in the end confessed his deception. Soley apparently had brooded over the affair and deliberately planned to end both their lives.— Press Association. The Mayor of Waipawa. After the completion of the ordinary business at the last meeting of the Waipawa Borough Council tho Mayor (Mr G. Hunt) was asked to retire and the Deputy-Mayor (Mr W. E. Yates) assumed the chair. He said it was customary at the final meeting of the year for the Council to vote an honorarium to tho Mayor, In moving that it be tho asme as last year (£80) Cr. Yates said the past twelve months had been very strenuous as a result of the unemployed problem, and the Mayor had fully earned his emolument. Ho hoped that the decision of the Council would be unanimous. The motion was seconded by Cr. Harris, and each councillor paid tribute to tho zealous manner in which Mr Hunt had discharged his Mayoral duties. Subsequently the members of the Council, the staff, and the Press were the guests of the Mayor at a social function. Cr. Yates was in charge of the programme.

Guides —and Philosophers! A writer in an Auckland weekly recently'wrote admiringly that tha most wonderful thing about Whakarawarewa was the guides. From a somewhat different angle, yet still in awe, “Tingiwai” writes in the New Zealand Railways Magazine that some years ago he saw an earnest party of Australian lady school teachers with notebooks out, standing rear the Wuiroa geyser at Whakare vvarewa, with a girl guide of the village. *‘Up went the geyser, higher arm higher, while the girls scattered with squeals of fright and delight. ‘Hnw high did it go?’ they asked with one accord, when it was all over. ‘Severn hundred feet,” said the guide firmly. And down went the seven hundred feet in half a dozen notebooks, no doubt to be embodied in due course in a school lesson or a college thesis on the marvels of New Zealand’s geyserland. No use any mere Maorilander contradicting that estimate! I* was down In the notebooks.”