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Truth

THE PEOPLE'S PAPERNa949 [Registered atitha General PortOffice, Wellington,

for Transmission as a Newspaper.] TELEPHONE No. 2223. (16 PAGES) Rric© 3d.WELLINGTON: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1924

Current & Caustic

Comments"Running The Show"

One 4>t the talked-about things mthe King Country Is the degree towhich the Taumarunui Borough Coun-cil has..surrendered its powers toMr. Lejes, formerly Town i.Clerk, andnow: virtual manager of the munici-pality. Seems that Mr. Lees has thebulk of the authority and responsibil-ity; at the same time Mayor Marsackand the Borough Council have notbeen reduced exactly to a cipher. Cur-rent opinion seems to approve the ex-periment, without being altogether en-thusiastic about It. To the casual eyeof the traveller the'affairs of the wide-footpathed borough appear to be go-ing ahead airright, and the nearlycomplete hydro-electric installation onthe Wangatiul raises the hope that themanagerial system is "getting thingsdone." * The Taumarunui CountyCouncil is run on,a different plan.Mr.S. Andrews, the competent Clerk, isnothing ofan autocrat., fiome Clerkseither despise Councillors, 6!r are jeal-ous of them. Not so Andrews. Guide,philosopher and friend, hd imparts tothe Taumarunui county councillors alllie knows;"and the team wbrk.on thatbody is reported to be really good.

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Monopolies MenaceIt isn't only m money matters that

monopolies threaten Bectlons of thecommunity. There are other mag-nates and Interests

—vested, invested,

and infested. Take the «ase of themedical fatuity. In these latter,daysmedicoves and surglcalsispecialise.But when they come to hang out theirshingles they are not allowed to sayput loud 'that they are specialists msuchaneo diseases. The B.M.A. (whichIs short for the Srltisb Medical Asso-

" ciatfon),'-Mrfreljr'/: through' Jealous andless successful members oil the sameprofesh, won't even allow a doctor'sname to be mentioned m the news-papers as having Bayed a life or alimb by a special operation. No pa-tient whose life has been saved is al-lowed to express gratitude* for samem the local Wper. If he or she does,then pop goes a complaint to the ex-ecutive of the 8.M.A., which all toosmartly and sharply writes a stingingletter to the successful mctdlcove tel-ling him to "instruct" his local paperthat it is not to publish such items!'The dentist is also m the isn't-doneorder of non-advertisers. Then thereiB. that other ring-fenced monopoly ofthe profesh-— the legal luminaries, theDevil's Own. They can,and do, ad-vertise Money to Lend

—which surely

is prostituting a dignified profesh, andbringing it down to, the low level of apawnshop— and yet they are not allow-ed to have standing advertisements mthe daily papers! Why: not? Ofcourse, there are some of them, likeBorne independent medicoves of Auck-land, who simply, take no notice of theout-of-date restrictions of the Law So-ciety, and tell a world that wants toknow who's who and what he's goodfor Just what they are and|where theydp business. But the majority of thelawyers are too dashed scared andhidebound by*, the shibboleth ofl|tsn'tdone to do aught but keep theirmanes out of the papers.

Advice And Advertisement-z&nd yet there is no class!|n,,the com-

«iui^ v,.that,"so-regularly and persist-ently insists upon getting its severalname m tho paper freegifatlsandfor-nothlng through tho Court reports asdo the lawyers. Even m a pettifog-. ging civil action for half a crownBrown persists m having his namefortho plaintiff or defendant stuck be-tween parenthes s. Yet lake a quiz

: at the base ingratitude and the mono-polistic Instincts of the.Devil's Own.They have been trying, by roundrobins from the various branches ofthe Law Society In all parts of theDominion, to bring pressure upon thePublic Trust "Ofllco to stop advertis-ing In the newspapers of the Domin-ionI Of course the P.T.O* is hurtingthe legal fraternity, but the P.T.O.

k Is the sort. of trust that appeals to*the public. The willand the way oftie P.T.O. Ju«t suit the general pub-Uw, which has a sort of sneaking dis-regard for the lawyer. The P.T.O.

iVhas flourished en publicity, and itknows how sweet are tho uses of ad-vertisement. - Tho Now Zealand LawSociety, either m city or town, can'tftcaro off tho Public Trust. It would,be wiser and mean bettor business forthe lawyer* of tho Dominion It theyentered Into open1 competition with thoP.T.O.

—and also spent somio money on

well writtenadvertisements, telling alland sundry Just,how much better- theywere prepared to draft wills, and alsoto keep standing advertisements Intheir local papers containing the in-timation that they were nil tho timeon duty at such-and-such an address.

Parental PanderingIt is often stated by Magintrntes

When dealing with Juvenile offendersithat youthful depravity Us in 'manyoases directly trnce.abhKto the alurm-ittg lack ot control execcltted by par-ents. Instances hay« been knownwhere parents have not even troubledto make Inquiries concerning theirchildren's posaesulon of goods whichhave obviously boon obtained,by somequestionable means and when thepolice eventually step m aitd bring theculpritH to Court tho attJturto of thoparents m ulmont Invariably m defenceof Ihelr youngsters and openly antago-niHtlc to nil forms of offlelal correc-tion. A striking instance of parentalirresponsibility wasprovidedat Chrlst-ehurch recently when it was ex-plal&td that a lad who was being

brought to the Court by his father manswer to a charge of theft had boltedand could not be found. A warrantwas issued for the youngster's arrestand when he ultimately appeared be-fore the Magistrate it was stated thatwhile on the way to the Court hisfather had allowed him to go into ashop lor the purpose'of buying an icecrea/£ The lad went right throughthe, shop and, leaving by the backdoor, bolted for home, because he didnot Ilk© the idea of going to the Court.Parental kindness to an offspring madversity is all very iwell m its place,but when that sentiment is carried tothe length of pampering a youngsterwith sweets and ice cream as a pre-liminary to his punishment for thiev-ing it is unquestionably high time forthe ,pendulum of the law to.,swingback and punish the parent for hismanner of contributing to the young-ster's downfall.

Piebald King CountryWhat a revolution occurred m the

King Country after the Kingite barrierwas broken down. In quick time theforest also has gone down, and thepreserve of the Maori has been invad-ed not only by the white man, but bythe Chinaman, and the turbaned In-dian, with Syrians and a few blacksthrown m. The Hindoo is not only acommonsight m a KingCountry town-ship,buthas found his way into Maorifamily life. Groceries and green-groceries are very largelym the handsof Chinese, Syrians, etc. At Ohakunea Chinaman has a garden.from whichhe exports cabbages, carrots, parsnips,and potatoes as far afield as Napierand Wellington; Ohakune offeringhimthe advantage of cheap land, fly-free.And,withallthis aberration (m,adou-ble Sense) of"liTs "domain; the primevalMaori survives, and may yet be seenm parts snaring pigeons at the 'old-time drinking trough set up m a tree.As the bird drinks, it snares itself mslip-knot loops made of strips of cab-bage-tree leaf. Thel Maori is a goodfowler but an indifferent farmer. Hisheritage passes somstimes' to lesserbreeds.

Better Boosted ButterIt doesn't interest the average^ New

Zealander a great deal to learn thatDr. H. T. J. Thacker, during theworld-wide trip from which he;hasJust returned, lived ih 75 hotels, sailedm 65 steamers and travelled on 45trains. It is important, however, thatserious attention should at once bepaid to his observation concerning thehaphazard mannerm which Now Zea-land butter is handledmEngland. Ac-cording to the "Doc" this commodityis displayed m bulk m the Englishshops and dug out m lumps and madeup into "almost indecent parcels" forcustomers. It is generally concededm England that New Zealand butteris quite as good as the world's best;nevertheless, there, is not the slightesteffort mado to encourage its sale oradvertise the country from which itcomes. Other countries competingwith New,Zealand m the English but-ter market see to it that their produceis neatly wrapped and branded m themanner most conducive toencouragingrepeat orders, whilst New Zealand iscontent to lag behind and permit apromising Industry to look after itself.So far as the New Zealand article isconcerned there seems to be no rea-son why butter wrapped here m sep-arate pats should not reach Englandm condition Just as good as that sentm bulk, but even if wrapping at thisond of the Journey Is impracticablethere can surely be nothing to- pre-vent a supply of New Zealand wrap-pers being placed m the cases so thatretailers m England will, at any rate,have the means of adding that touchof respectability and advertisement toWhich New Zealand's primary product1* justly entitled.

The News ArbiterThat old controversy as to who Is

the best Judge of news and what is thebest news to publish keeps cropping upfrom time to time mPress, Parliamentand Pulpit, and hardly a week passeswithout "Truth" receiving some com-munication upon the subject. Thecontroversy apparently is endless forskimming tho pages of a pamphletpublished upwards of a hundred yearsago on "De Quincey'a Editorship of theWestmorelandGazette," the author in-forms us that during tho whole periodof his editorship of that provincialTory journal he was rotJceably fond oftilling its columns with analzo reportsand murder trials. An editorial notedeals with the matter thusly: "Thisweek it will be observed that ourcolumns areoccupied almost exclusive-ly with assize roporlß. We havethought it right to allow thorn pro-cedency of * nil other news, whetherdomestic or foreign, for tho three fol-lowingreasons (1) Bocoaso toall ranksalike they possess rA powerful andcommanding Interest. (2) Recauno totho more uneducated pSmpsos they yielda plnjrular benefit, by teaching themtheir Kodlat Uutfcß In (hemost Impros-hlw way: that is to say.not m a staleof abstraction from al'. that may ex-plain, IlluiUriUe thorn and enforcethem (as In tho linker" term« of theStatute) but exemplified (and, as thelogicians say, concreted) m the actualcircumstances of an Interesting case,and m connection with the penaltiesthat accompany their, neglect or theirviolation. (3) Bccaunf* they presenttho boat Indications of the moral con-dition of society." With all of whichorthodox hoterodoxy "Truth" In thor-oughly m accord, eventhough the winebe old wine.

A personality 4in Taumarunui is Mr.A. S. Laird, an ex-

THE LAIRD OF Mayor and an ex-TAUMARUNUI. chaitman of the

Hospital Board. Hofostered the idea of the big new hospi-tal, and the fact that ho fell m the lastelection does not detract from hisprowess. A man Witb as muqh pushandimpetuosity asLaird is almost cer-tain to have an In-and-out careerwhereelections are concerned, but evenhis opponents will tell you that ho is"quite a force." Big m ideas, ob-stinate, ambitious

—if finance gets m

the way of such a man, bo much theworse for finance. But he was bigenough to be chairman of the NorthIsland local bodies conference on thesubject of the highways legislation. Itis not surprising to hear,that, startingas a working carpenter, he rose to anarchitect. To-day he is among otherthings, a land valuer, and measureslegal swords with another well-knownland valuer of Taumarunui, Mr. PhilSmith. Both have been sawmillers.And botharenotable figures m a com- |munlty where character among leadingmen is far more forceful than cityreaders might imagine. *

:: :: ::Ted Theodore, tho Red Fed Premier of

Queensland, quiteTED THEODORE, impressed the

Aucklanders dur-ing the few hours he ambled aroxmdtheir city when his boat was passingthrough. He gave tho Laborltes anhour's address, m which ho boostedBananaland so enthusiastically as theModern Utopia that some of thewharfles of the Queen City came to theconclusion .that Brisbane was nearerthan Moscow, after all. But, as"Truth"",well knows, you have to takethe Theodorelsms with a very largocellar of salt. Even Terrible Ted hasto goyto London for the cash to makeup hre deficiencies m running Utopiaaccording to.Red Fed ideas

—and when

he goes to London he threatens itsfinanciers withNew York as his resortfor money if the Britons don't come tolight. The queer thing is that theQueenslanders have a foreigner to ruleover them. Time was, and that not sovery long ago. when the Laboritea ofQueensland were the Whitest of WhiteAussles. and they were down on allSquareheads. Yet Ted Theodore is asforeign and Squaro-headish as theycome out of Europe. Why. tho typoSlavis written allover that face of his.It is tho Slav In him that makes himso ruthless. And tho funny thing isthat he nan cultivated the accent of aScot and ho has married a Murphy.Tho true test of Queensland under thoReda, however, is with the Now Zen-landers who have gone over there totry it ont. They find that there 1h nocomparison with tho Lib-Lab legisla-tion of New Zealand.

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If anyone drops into Ooro on a wetday and thinks it Is tho

ANDREW last place the CreatorFLEMING*, hnd anything to do with.

ho should ptep across thoiron rails m Mersey Street, knock atthe doors of the Crwitnoata factory andnsk for Andrew Fleming. Andrew Ihn Jovial comp.'tnion. »ml always willingto know anyone over the most up-to-date oat mlllM foiMh ot tho line. Hohas a few Ideas about life m general,and hnß also a wide view of tho world.A period In Yankcohind didn't givehim a na?al twang, but it did givesome impetus to hi* thinking appara-tus and made him appreciate advancednotions. Andrew hns now served ontho Goro Borough Council for a termand hl« last elevation wn» to the posi-tion of president of the local Chamberof Commerce. If there's any wrong tobe righted Andrew Is quite willing tolend an attentive car. and If he thinksthe cause right be will speak his mind

THE LABOR WHALE AS TUG-BOATJOHN BULL} "BE WARY, BOSUN. IF HE GOES TOO FAST, CUT THE ROPE."

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BOATSWAIN ABQUITHI "AY, AY, SIRI" *

PEOPLEANDPERSPECTIVEon the subject. These are days of a!

somewhat proletarian mode of speechand action, but In Andrew Fleming onefinds the mark of refinement that fol-lows good breeding. There's nothingof the prlgr about him. He's a gentle-man first, last and all the time, whe-ther It's Tom, Dick or Harry that en-ters the arena as his opponent.. An-drew is quite a young man yet andought to see some of his visions ma-terialise before the Grim Reaper cutshla story off. At any rate his tale to-day is good enough for the averagetraveller, and there's an interesting jhalf hour or so m store for those whohaven't met him and who catch himm a leisure moment.

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As Jn Hawkes Bay and New Zealandgenerally, so history

THE LOOM OF is repeating itself atTHE LOWRYS. Cambridge Univer-

Blty m the matter ofthe loom of the Lowry family. Itgoeson weaving records In the rising gen-eration. As everybody who Is at allInterested m New Zealand sport knowßwell, Lowry,of Okawa, has done greatthings as a breeder and controller ofracehorses. Nowadays, he and Mrs.Lowry are kept keenly .Interested mnoting the notches of progress thatare'being made by their three sons mthe Old Country. It will be remem-

|bered that Tom Lowry1 was out herelast year with the English cricketteam, and delighted New Zealander*by themanner m which he kept up hisreputation as a bataman. Tom is theeldest son,and he has notonly achiev-ed the greatest of all "Varsity honors,the Blue for cricket, but during thecoming season la to bo captain of theCambridge XI. Whilst Tom was outhere cricketing hlft brothers Jim andRalph went on tour m the south ofFranco with thoir racquets, and theyreturned to the Cam with loads oftrophies a« conquerors at the tennistourneys. Jim Lowry has the tennlwBlue, nnd last season ho captained the■Varsity team. Brother Ralph got hisBlue for football this season, nnd Isdoing good and hefty work for his»lde. When there Ist a collision m theloose It Isn't the Lowry that Is car-ried off the fleld. Tom, the cricketer.Innlso a champ,at Rugby,nnd puts uptho stiff gnmo that is expected of allNow Zcalnnders. Good luck to theLowry clan!

:: i: x:Of course, Hugh belongs to the Lower

Wairnrapa, but theMORRISON,OF upper, lower, nndMASTERTON. middle of- the valley

of Mnstorton nilcliltrt Ituph Morrlnon for their own.So much ko, that when It got noisedabroad that Mr. and Mrs. Hugh wereamongst the migrants for tho EmpireExhibition m London every Wairsirn-pnrian began to nsk everyother: Whatare we going to do about Hugh's go-Ing? Some thought a deputation .shouldwait*upon him nt Awatoltol and bo-"wech of him that ho should not leavethem. What enn wo do withoutHuphle? ■ What'U happen to the Wrl-rarapa If Hughlo gets oat of It? Fortho bite fellow has boon In everything:,and when ha goos In he m all In,When it was decided to ffiv* him a

farewell gathering there wero hun-dreds of farmers who put their signa-ture to the Illuminated address. Morethan that

—they attended the gather-

ing, which is a great sacrifice for acow cockle, who at this timo of theyear owes all his allegiance to HerMajesty the Cow. The Morrison fare-well took place last week,and tribxiteswere paid to Hugh from every interest,m the community. The veteran hasBeen the valley develop until It blos-soms like the rose. He has been fromits foundation a tower of strength tothe Farmers' Union, and he wouldhave been a national president longago If Jimmy Wilson hadn't hogged thoposition for so many years. Hugnwas a tower of strength with his sa-gacity to tho Wairnrapa Patriotic So-ciety, and a generous giver. He ia adoyen of the Masterton A. and P. As-sociation

—indeed, there is hardly a

movement m the country on the otherside of the Rimutakas that he'hasnot been very prominently identifiedwith. So that he fully deserved therecognition the folks over there gavehtm.t ;» t: sj

This week-end will see the retirementj of Major R. Barnes

MAJOR from the managershipMeAULEY'S of the Salvation ArmyMIBSION. Prison Gate and Rescue" Home at Addlngton. InChristchurch there's not a more fami-liar figure m the uniform of Boothdomtharr the Major aforesaid. After alengthy S.A. career, during the last 12yearn of which he has been In the pro-sent "po.Mle." he has now reached theretiring

'stage, which is somewhat

similar to the system of superannua-tion prevniling m the Civil Service.The chargoship at Addlngton will botaken up by Major MeAuley, who. forthe last couple of years or ho has ruledtho population on "the Island" of RotoRon, Previous to that ho was m the1

Salvation Army Trade Department ntChristchurch for a term nnd also holddown a War Office position at Dunedln.As a matter of fact, ho is well-knownIn various parts of the Dominion as nnardent Army worker nnd In every re-spect he should bo suited to carry onthe work that Major Barnes performedto perfection for co many yearn.

t: :: nTho present Rector of St. Patrick's

College ShT. A. GILBERT, M.A. Father T. A.

Gilbert. M.A..who succeeded Dr. Kennedy, of astro-nomical famo, somewhere about 1917.Ho comes from Kumnra, where theroads w»ro long ntto worn nmooth bythe crow*!.* th.tt gathered round KSnKDick. But quite tv number of goodmen have, come out of Kumnra,and. Ntcourse,nevergone-back. Veryearly mlife Tommy Gilbert. n» the S.P.C. f<;l-Iow» call him when he is out of hear-ing, started on a tfcnolnstle career,which opened nt the school over whichho now presides. Up continued hisstudios at Mvnncc TCoe'eslnHtlcnl Col-lege, joining tho Mnrlft Order there.Then he camo down to St. Pntrick'jiCollege an a master, and began toshout at tho Lntln (for T.A.O. lovesLatin) tvood«nh«ad«, "Oh. you miner-able Individuals." He was, webeli«ve,

a senior Latin scholar. In any case hespecialised m Latin and English, andintroduced thenatural methodofteach-ingLatin into tho school. One year,under his guidance, the dramaticsociety had" a flutter at a Latinised"Julius Caesar." Old boy3will re-member those days and the giantsthereof, Father J. A. ISccleton with hisayes navea et puerl a tergo reguntuV,and Father F. A. Bartlett with hisfondness for Scriptural allusions.Father Gilbert was one of the quietestof them all, although it was he whointroduced the jazz and improved thetennis courts to the delight of buddingBill Tildens. He attended tho lastMaiist Chapter m Belgium as one ofNew Zealand's representatives and forsome years now has been regarded aaone of tho heads of the Order m thisprovince. -Jt there Is a more peaceful and prettier

pleco of preservedA LORD OF A Paradise In Maori-LAKESCAPE. land than Tutira. the; , domain of Mr. Guth-rie Smith, the ought-to-be-well-knownnaturalist, then "Truth" would Hko tohave it pointed out. The domain ofthe two brothers of the house ofSmith, but particularly the preservedParadise of Guthrlo S.. comes gradu-ally within tho ken of the touristwhilst doing, tho trip from Napierthrough Waikaro to Walroa. Thelovely bit of lakelet develops to theflight like the beauties m a negative.It is a better than good sight prepara-tory to turning the Devil's Elbow1,Tutlra has been made famous by Mr.Guthrlo Smith's tine book on hisstudies and photographs of the domainwhich he has made a sanctuary forbirds, fishes, and other things thatdwell therein and thereabouts. Al-though the main road runs along al-most the entire length of the littlelake, a magical bit of land and waterscenery

—there is no trespassing. Al-

though the lake teems with duck thereis no poaching. The Guthrie guardsare on' the job all the time. Comesthe report of a gun and the preaerva-*tlonist-8 are investigating things. Theducks deem to know that they have nsanctuary, too, for they do not crossthe danger line that takes them outof tho Guthrlan guardianship. Thodomain Is conducted for nil the worldlike unto the preserves and Rhootlngbox of n lord of tho I«los In Scdtland.Probably that is why

—for the Guthrles

weregroat folks over InCaledonia sternond wild long before members of therlnn enroc to n tame piece of God'sOwn Country right out here In tholand of tho Bquattocracy la HawkesBay.

:i ■ :: t:Some men havea tag attached to them

that sticks throughLITTLE,THE llfo. There 18LEICESTERMAN. Stuckcy, the Short-

horn man, ErnestShort, tho Romney brooder, and Little,the Leleostnrnwn. "Truth" would paytribute to Mr. T. S. Lltllo. who hna abeautiful bit of Mew Zealand down atWindsor, In North Otnjjo. For half ncentury he has been building' up aflork of .Border .Leicester sheep, andto-day he has a reputation' second tonmw from the Bluff to Whnngarnl. Nolittle sum of money hnn been srpent byLittle, of Windsor, upon the improv-ing of his stud Htock. nnd ho hag goneto the other ond of. tho world to gettho blood thn% would better the NowZcnlnnd strain. Ho recently achievedthe big desire, winning tho BorderLeicesterCud outright at the WalmateA. and P. Show, and that is no smallachievementeven for a Little. Ho hashelped very largely, by his judiciousbreeding nnd clo»« observation of typeand locality, In making tho BorderLeictiitcr tho utility iheepof tho SouthIsland.

THE

CRITICWe are tol«l that any fools can make

war. We wish they would keep outof the way when they aremaking thopdace. ~ "

Cables announce that Germany'sLittle Willie has really retired thistime.> Hemight make a success of thisretirement for ho had plenty o£ ex-perience during tho war.

8.1lMassey's back; Tom Wilford'sback. When they start back-icratch-ing you'll recognise the first symptomsof coalitionitis. If it Is face-scratch-ing one of them

—perhaps botih

—will

have to got out or get under.A scratchy pen may irritatebut it is

nothing compared to the scratchingpen when you learn that your Becondleg won't 'start.

Britain's now Premier promises that"he will try to serve." Even thoughhe "double faults" he must'be givenafair chance to "play the game."

Inebriate In a southern Court theother day gave his occupation as anorganist. It transpired that the deathof his monkey had caused him to seeksolace m der-r-rinkl

Now that the Priniinister is back,wonder if he will redeem some of hispledges

—if hs has not lost the pawn-

tickets.t! M

The differencebetween ■" Reformand the Lib-Labsis the personaldifferences be-tween the leaders.

it 11-...Thejf»'« many a

fellp 'twlxt"

theCvp

—and collect-

ing on the sec-ond leg of thedouble.

:IDirections on

fire-fighting ap-paratus: Directwater on the seatof the fire.

—A

hip bath, so tospeak.

:: ttWhat is the uso

of trying to tellthe truth whenwe daily hear ofthe fall of thefranc and the riseof the lire?

Sterling appearstobe on the downgrade everywhere,except m theHallway Depart-ment's HeadOffice.

:: ::Daily newspaper

bilNboard head-ing: Foxton andGore,Rages.

—The

latter place must;have ila blood up.

The mostseriousrival to war Inkilling-off folk isthe,motor car.

You can't wonder at tho chief per-formers at a .wedding being nervous.llt is only natural for contractingbodies to Bhrlnk.

:i'

st ttIsn't it timo that the old familiar,

heading to death notices was alteredto "autobituary?" It ought to b© mmany road fatalities.

:j s: »i"Tense situation."

—Common cable

Iheadline that more often than notBoon becomes past tense.

tt it "I As we "llstened-ln" to Bill Massoy'sspeech at Auckland we realised thatgas can be laid on by wireless.

tt , tt ttCabled announcements of the ap-

ipoinUnent of Labor supporters asMinisters, secretaries, and under-seo-retarles indicate that the new Minis-try is fulfilling its promise to at oncetackle the unemployment problem. It'sa good thing that a lot of tho out-bf-ofllce Conservatives don't have toworry about looking for work.

:: t: t:Wonder if It takes many women

n« lons to mnko themselves up aalt>does for thorn to make up their mindson a racecourse which horso theirnoxt half-dollar will bo entrusted with?

11 11 11From tho "Tlmaru Herald": , "

Constable O'Connor stated thatwith Sergeant Dwan he had'vlsitbddefendant's house on the 17th De-cember and found Annio Murphyand the defendant m a drunkencondition. There were two "squareniggers" full of beer m the'house.

Tho»© square nlgrgera were probablywhite men.

tt tt itFrom the "Hawem Star":

Very few heifers are olTorlng onthe market, but cows of both soxqb

arc fairly plentiful. Theso, con-trary to expectation, havo met wliba very cold reception.

tt :: t!Two significant posters adorning the

police station entrance at Taihapewhile the murder charge was beingread werei "A Woman Of No Im-portance" and "Tho Man They CouldNot Hang."

ti tt vAs wo wore studying our dictionary

the other nlsht and came nerons ihoword "modoßty." wo wondered howlong It would be bofora a new and ro-vlficd edition described the word as"obsolete."

Income-tax;attacks some people thlamonth. It' represents a heavy out-going to a lot of them yet theywouldn't change places with the manwhose income is too small to be'taxed.

There is one thing we should admireabout the Commissioner of Taxes. Hedoes try hard to obey the injunction*not to leave undone those things haoughtto have done.

Itis quite a common yet a mistakenidea m some families that becauseMum has piesented Dad with flvochildren it's time Dad presented thefamily with a aeven-seater car.

:: :? :tThose who praise tho value of steam

for Improving the complexion shouldtry a regular course over the wash-tub.

:: :: ::Another advantage of being an effi-

ciency expert is that the boss can'ttell whether you are thinking orloafing. ' v

:» :j a *Tho Huns seem tobe still a cause of

hot water. Tho Germans, says Mr.Wilford, have flooded Singapore withthermos flasks at 2/4.:: * s» :i

Tho number of second-hand cara onthe market gives you a slight reminderthat many jeople continue the bad oldpractice of biting off more than theycan masticate.

II II\ More taxes, leu

for taxis,if itIf woman's In-

tuition wa» cogreat ac It iacracked up to bemore husbandswould be Introuble.

c ::There Is some

hope for tho manwho will franklyadmit that hemade on ass ofhimself the pre-vious night

Some folks whomove Into nowquarters find thojhave -moved inUeighths.

You can't singmerrily as youwend your wayhome after mid- ,night unless thespirit's In you.:: ::Tea, we art

afraid that banal-ities are cheaperthan bananas.:: ::This is a land

of free speech.,But tho politi-cians' speechesare well paid for.

t: t<It doesn't peena

to bo regarded aaa political offenceto ait on the fence.No use railing

/ about it.:: t

PLEASE don't try to Impress yourfriends with your wlttiness. They,also, aresure tobe readers of "Truth.":: ,t: a

The most amusing thing about thegolf of some people Is that it's beingaccepted as an excuse for exercise,

tt ;:. :tSome of our so-called "progressives'*

give Indications of suffering from pro-gressive insanity.

tt :: !:Austere folk who «r« not pleas«d

with th« modern girl may take com-fort. The modern girl It not worryingabout pleasing therm

tl »« ItThe fact that the Leader of the Op-

position, when on tour In Japan, la nomere superficial observer is shown byhis announcement In tho "EveningPost" that the Japanese, "especiallythe young folk." are now wearingwoollens.»« JJ t!

lUmuay Macdonald "In anxious thntthere should be the fullest liaison be-tween his Cabinet and the LaborParty." Thor^wlll be at least asmuchliaisonas exists betweena dogand histail. And experience shows that some-times tho tail wags tho dog.

is :i j:Tou have reached tho ago of discre-

tion when you let your head and notyour appetite decide* what you shouldinflict upon your digestive organs.

tt tt ttPeople who run down the police art

usually those who ought to be run m.Of course that Includos the motor-hog.

!t tt ttTho short skirt if now tht> emblem

of genuine youth and of would-bedisingenuous midd!o»age.

t: :j"

MostJof these modern boxing con-testa may bo only a mnU<»r of n. f««wHocondfl, but you nhouldn't blame tl»«iecomJft. To«r mu*t ndmlt that mproportion to their respective earningsthey do a tlarnod sight tnoro than tli«aiar performers.

It Wtt« proponed to soil the wrwkof tho Port Elliot "as she lie* on Ui«rocks." Would ht>r decks be eicar^jfor action? Many lies get wreckedon tho rocks.

n rt j:

"Curious."— You flatter »»i« tody. Shela not a "utAr" In lho mo<U>rn movl*acceptation of tho term. She luia notyet been divorced or involved la anyflOAIldaL

At Worser BayRemember, youstood to seaward.

In sandshoes, *nd dress, darkblue;

And remember, Istood' to land-ward.

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gone.

(Opportunities rise Ilk© theflowers,

They bud and they bloom andthey die,

And the fairest of women about,us

Halt but a t>poll and go by,Tho man and. tho maid rub

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■wait,But a thousand things send them

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On Monday next, at His Majesty's,Con Morenl's Musical Comedy Co.are billed to appear m a hustling,happy riot of revelry entitled "SlightlyMixed." This is the seventh of theseries of musical*revues and is con-sidered as the best and brightest ofthe season, Once again the enter-taining dialogue and the captivatingballets will delight His Majesty'spatrons. And, besides this, the sup-porting artists will be as goodas ever.Be sure and see the show.

OUR THEATRE.

"The Huntress," screening at OurTheatre from Friday until Monday,amusingly depicts the story of a whitegirl who had been reared byan Indiantribe and who"cherished, as an Indianmaid,. the forlorn hope of marrying awhite man. When she buds into wo-manhood, she learns that she is in-deed Aryan, and forthwith decamps msearch of a whiteman, giving relent-less pursuit— -aye,indeed kidnapping

—the first,likely youth she meets. Butthere.Istmany a slip betwixt cup andlip— and that's where the fun (and Itisn't flll fun, except for the spectators)starts..UPioneer Trails," showingat OurTheatre from Tuesday until Thursday,is a tale of. the gold rush of the early'seventies. Culle;n> Landis and AliceCalhoun are thel'jnars.

EMPRESS."Pioneer screferilng al the

Empress this week, is a tale of thegold rush of the early 'seventies. Rob-ert Dale, with his wife and son Jack,are journeyingacross the prairie to theg6ldfields when they are attacked byIndians. Jack is the only survivor,but, being only four years of age, can-not remember his name. H& is adopt-ed by Mrs. Salter and brought up asher own child. Twenty years pass,and we find Jack m love with a beau-tiful girl, but unable to make his loveknown, as he believes himself beneaththe rank of the girlj However,' allthings are told, and Jack, learning hisreal identity, is able to marry Rose.Miller, his sweetheart.

EVERYBODY'S.Everyone who enjoys clean, "plaus-

ible, and romantic comedy-drama willsurely like "The Huntress," screeningat Everybody's this week. The playcarries a most unusual and uniquetheme. It, centres about a vivacious,mischievous girl, who has been rearedamong Indians, and until the dawn ofwomanhood believed that she was ofthat race. She learns.that she is white,and then begins to look about for awhite husband. How she finds a whiteman, kidnaps him and literally fightsto make himher husband, is the basicplot of this highly entertaining picture.

STRAND.

Those who know "Wes" Barry—

anilwho has not been tickled to laughterand warmed to emotion by this hu-man little fellow with the freckles?

—will sense the funm his picture, "ThaPrinter's Devil."screened at the Strandthis week, before they see it. It isthe story of a small town newspaper,"The Briggsville Gazette." It is astagnant little sheet,' which peoplegive goats for a year's issue and hensfor a month's. "Wes" mixes.in every-thing; on the paper, from "editorials toadvertisements, and there is no placebetter suited to his faculty for divert-ing the smooth and ordained courseot things than the printing room.

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"BRASS"A TALE OF MARRIAGE AND

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M^lilt^lSliUi^rfeii"PREVOSTShowing at the;STRAND, Auckland,

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"A PICTURE OF SAGE BUSH, CAC-

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RIN-TIN-TINTHE CANINE WONDER!

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A ROMANCJS OF THE RUGGEDNORTH. i

How a iwoif'dog settled the destiniesof two men and a woman.

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Special Sale Price 3/- each (f| i

jfl&t UNGERIE CRIMP— 3B inch? 7«i«P*J^Hlj^ very much m demand for oP^^^^VnK^ pretty Lingerie; Sky andX. Pink grounds with daintyJ»|rS/fr»\ flprlg< Usual Price 1/9t ' "

K\E 3S J AS SKETCH, ZEPHYR FROCKS—With White organdie collars; m«)■ wm Blueand Brown Overchecks. Usual

-yWUlai3* - ly 21/-. Special Sale Price 14/6 eachPIISlla Also In striped Trlcolette^ UsuallyEl 2g|[ 25/"« Special Sale Price 17/6 each

El IEI *"TRU'SONAIN M

—Bat rgepffi 38 inch; In the

front rank of Lin- dt£&±\W^ tremely durable,and t^*-^ "or

is recommended ./' *-»for washing. The shades aro Helio, /s«'w, ife^t'Pink, Apricot, Champagne, Cream, / io^3ln \\Mauve,Lemon, Sky, Eau do"Nil. Us- * '

ual price 2/6 yd. Sate Prico 1/11 yd k 9.yJ^.i'K \

AS SKETCH. CREPE-DE- r^TOrn^LfxCHENE JUMPERS— Prettily /)] S(fflP«Hßßs^\embroidered m Wnite, Saxe. I / /WSILlM\Rose, Lemon. Usually 29/6. if IhwWjjJrXP^S

Special Sale Price 21/- each IV jMnHKHT

fSuui 2500 YARDS, EXTRA SPECIALMmuBSKL OFFER, OF FUJI SILJv— Got yourjfl^^^^^Bt, order m early as this isadependable

.^KBHy^jl^B quality and cannot be replaced.■KHSHBbB Usual price 5/6. Bale Prioe 3/Q

TBEfiR AS SKETCH, TUTANKHAMENJLj^^B^ft JUMPERS t- Of flno wool, withtb^^SHS bright bnnds m coloured Egyptian*

ejects; Grey, Brown, Fawn, Bottle.1*99900 Usually 49/6.

Ig Special Sale Prico 27/6 each

CHECK BKIRTING—SG inch; for the g^r^L'f\ ' 'separata skirt; m two-tono broken >s^jf lÂchecks, iv 3 designs. Usual Prico

>*% V^fc9/11. Sale Price 4/11 Jk Jtt^

AS SICETCH, BEAUTIFUL WOOL' i^fe^fi^JUMPERS— With bright coloured {^SSiIsSS

border; Henna, Orange. Fawn, Saxo, Tft^.TiwlflGroy, Lemon. L'Bually 59/6. tillililw/Special Bale Price 39/6 each 'J'HJMOT

)■ FLANNEL SKIRTING— 'r.3 inch;

y\ j "ÎS^). ln ncttt two-tono oliocks offtw\. ss\ IV^^l. Fawn and Mauve, Fawn and/||lV-^7j " Saxo; beautifully soft flnlHh;IK W&*. k&l all WOQI- Usual Prico 7/11JJ\ >sg^ IT fclß^ yai>d* B*U8*U Prlco 6/11 yard

/mV, M.*121l 5( AS SKETCH, CREPE-DE-jjk \ tffirfltl |l\ CHENE JUMPERS—

In

/ /ftissîtltlH Saxe, nicely embroidered.

/ ( iu^HHH^ Special Sale rice 21/* each

You are no further from RIRRCALDIE S than EVERY PILLAR-BOX Post Your Order! We will do the fi

from your nearest Pillar-Box. — =^=^ A BRANCH. rest and Guarantee Satisfaction

BIG BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT!INDIAN GAUZE VESTS-^hemise WHITE MUSLIN The Keynote of Kirkcaldie's 60 years successful mer- 250 YARDS CREPE ZEPHYR— 3B AERTEX CELLULAR UNDER

length, low neck and no sleeves; PLOUNCING— 27 inches wide; neat chandising is QUALITY. Kirkcaldie's are famous inch. Very durable, m smart check VESTS— Short Sleeve; all sizes, S4lace trimmed. Usual price 3/3. scollopededge; designembroidered^ In throughout the Dominion for*Quality Goods at a designs; m Fawn, Saxe, Flame, to 44. Ordinary price1 7/11.Sale Price 2/6 PinH". Blue and Green .Usual price reasonable price. Nottier, Nut Brown, Amethyst, Al- Sala Price 6/9""AEROKNIT" COTTON VESTS— Law. 4/11 yard. Sala Price 3/6 Yard mond, Vieux Rose,: Rose Pink, TRUNK DRAWERS— Ordinary prico j

neck, no sleeves or short sleeves: SKY BLUE VOILE FLOUNCING— 27 "p <"" f\ f\ I Lemon. All Double Warp. Usual 8/G. Sale Price 7/3 Hchemise length. Usual price 6/11. inches wide;embroideredneatdesign f*fil* IW*% I15)VQ I111IV price 3/6. Sale Price 1/6 AERTEX UNDER PANTS-rOrdinary |

Sale Price 5/9 m White, small scollopededse. Usual *vl A V-T 1/tlfO KJU.IJ YAnn<, price 12/-. Sale Prico 10/3SPECIAL VALUE IN RIBBED COT- P^ce 6/11 yard. Sale Price 5/3 Yard

* . *Silver Lv Ser »Td 'Sfrt' A®*"* COMBINATIONS- With

TON VESTS— V neck with fancy WHITE MUSLIN FLOUNCING— 27 11 f Brown- sJS SiSp rS Til t Trunk Drawers. Ordinary price14/6.crochet neck and short sleeves. inches wide; neatly embroidered de- W*YiYW% iQniiQVir sIlTh 5S Statfni* w «ni' Pn£ Sale Price 12/3uaual prlce

s8RTc,AL Sa'6 Prioe m ■asijris.îS'fijffissißK rrom January oura a eakÊssH

un<^?s^Sf?ECIAL. r g, p_- el**_ —. „ . . thyst, Plum, Maroon, Mole, Almond short slp^vf. <?iimmm« woiL'hfCOTTON BATHING COSTUMES— In sale Pnce 5/11 I"! 1^ L 1£IJL Green.Bottle Green. Our standard *?.z2 74 '« Tr m iione piece or Canadian style. LONGCLOTH CAMISOLE EMBROI- 11Hi11 rAfiriiaFV Ihill «« a"ty- Usual price 5/6. Usua! ?{/. JJ/6 Jfy. \t6 \\,

Uaual prices 3/11, 4/6, 5/6. DERY— I6 Inches wide; superior UIItAI 1CSÎUdlJ lVlll ySale Price 2/11 si|a 9/6 9/9 10/3 10/6 11/11

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SaJ^ p^.^ g Long Sleeves Cd. and 1/- extra.

tT rf^Bl Whatever* You Buy from Kirkcaldie's r~ZT ~" I I W^-a7^^ r

Under* I «c&. <Sam h Good DtessGoods noneru imIAV^ PVrV Our Bales have gained thoir wonderful popularity ><'".'t"'i.'..r>r^. *I / /5 "OHWDf' WAw^ Mi Ib because they are so genuine. Every article m our ■^^■\. s^j?"'';]/s£Snt*~ \p^^\ s" //T

«"~ ' ' ' — ad UP NOW. Order your present and fututre require- Wnß^-:- '' '''^^^J^^^SSKt^ _^ "Y^VV'S^k 74'SPECIAL VALUE IN WHITE JAP CAMISOLEEMBROIDERY—I7Inches ments at Special Sale Prices. Our Mail Order Ser- Vtt:> '>■?£'^ " jfflMtflTlTfill ■^

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SANITARY KNICKERS— EIastic at wide; extra quality longcloth, em- Vlcß 9«ves entire satisfaction— always. UNDERPANTS—"waist and narrow lace edging. hroldered m neat designs. Write for Illustrated Sale Catalogue. 25?° YARDS MOONC.LOW SATIN— 3G Size 34 sr sg 4Q <4Usual price 12/6. Sale Price 8/11 Usual Prices 4/6, 4/11, 6/6, 7/6. _.. _, wnxe ior uiusxrateo oai« catalogue. Jnch Weal for dny and evening ual ]2/6 13/. * ", ".-

BOUTJIALL'S COMPRESSED SANI- Sale Price 2/6, 2/9, 2/11, 4/6 The Sale defin.tely closes on February 16th. Orders wear. Shades are Shell Pink. Sky. Salo 10)6 tf/m n'/Q iw^ 13/3TAR^ TOWELS— Size l^nb" WHITE ORGANDIE EDGINGS— 4 posted on that day will bo executed at Sale Prices. Wedgewood, Coral. Almond. Salmon, ..Usual 17/6 18/(5 19/c, 21/- 23/6

Usual Price 3/6. Sale Price 2/6 inches wide; embroidered m Navy.- Lemon, Electric, Poach, Suxe, Not- Sa|0 14/n 15/9 15/9 20/-

GOOD QUALITY CAMBRIC KNICK- Sky' Saxe< Hello> Brown; small ,1 1 tier, Biscuit, Fawn, Kingfisher. Stoel Usual 20/- 21/tS 23/6 25/6 27/6ERS-On shaVed bandl trimmed fine scolloped edge; a pretty trimming -^ . . Grey. Pillar Box Red. Jade, Cerise. , Sale 17/- 18/3 20/- 21/9 23/3E»iH'S"^ \Z &2&srsiF2&p&i%si i Manchester- sa"a-sf ss ■ "^r001^"^

SPECIAL. -wide; neat open design; small scol- 1^ I aii 1 « 1 ,i» 11 1 «„ iit« V.V Sale 3/10 4/3 4/5 4/8SU«^ QÛT? CAMBRIC CAMI- loped edge. Usual price 10/6. ! I OT «1 J /"(*ilS?Vie TRL'NK DRAWERS-Usual prlte 6/3.SOLE— Trimmed Swiss embroidery Sao Pr cc 5/11 E fn»' ?i fil H

*"ve' i^v.n, urt>, Aincinjbi. \ jcux pri-« 5/.and insertion, short or no sleeves. IW Jftifeßd^ H Uoso and Lime. All m heather BOTS' SCHOOL IIOSF-

IUs°" -'- """ B"° Pri" l3/;I fancuroods I HP^M"°^ pri'°"" %?&&&&&&

TftllOTlClîJ / J^VHk THE "KAYANESS" SHEETS READY FOR USE. CwJCkir^^ J^ ttik*T*jßsl "I

1 _.^JJ » _iTL / fiiaePk V Blk TWILL— I% x2%yards; for sinßle bods. Usual* #>Sc!r^ #^ SNd.nd POORS C/ \ni^ pr'ico 1Tm" #

«.vSal° Prico 14/6 ai" '

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/«jj BATH AND TOi^-cT SOAPS. double beds. Usual piire 32/-. Sale Price 27/3 Pair 9 . 'JBT^W^'BRONNLEY'S LARGEROUND BATH FINLAY'S TWILL ANM> PLAIN LINKNM.'INMSII L4!£ 2 '■ »v

SCHOOL WRITING PADS SO nacc TABS—

Assorted perfumes. Usual SHhblS—

Mention twill or plain when ordering.

Sal" IPrici 6i for^/6. Postaae"ExtJa price V/6tab Sale Price 1/2 Cake Only Fh.lay's best qualities stocked.

"LADIES' FINE QUALITY 2-BUTTON ART SILK AND REAL SILK HOSE.

SCHOOL EXERCISES-40 nnce BRONNLEY'S TOILET SOAPS— As- For Single Beds. lVi x2% yards Ua»jal prices 24/9. I.ISLB GLOVES-In Champagne. I.ADJI2S1 121n. ART SILKHOSTw3aS Price 1/10 dozen Po»ta« Extra sorted perfumes. Usual prico Bd. 25 a mlr Sale Prices 21/. 22/9 Pair Grey and Putty. Usual price 2/11. Wlth cotton BUBl)end Htopß. Wllltooai« rnce 1/ iu aozen. rostage extra. t-PHea 7d Cake or 6/6 Doz For Largo Single Berts. I*i x2% yards. Usual Salo Prico 1/11 Drab Putty and C.roy ir«nni mH.-aWÔB SERCISE BOOKS-Wlth yS,krsiiaY'S LARGE ROUND BATH

' prlc« 28/9. 29/9 pair. Sale Price, 24/6. 25/3 Pair rERRIN'S CHAMOIBETTB GLOVES WC I"*'1 "*' °Ic Priced11superior paper TABS-Perfumed. Verbena. Re.l For pree-qunrter Beds. 2x 3 yardH. irßunl prices --With Btmp and dome; Greys. LADrES' FISK GAUGE ART SILKSale Price 6 for 2/6. Postage Extra. Rose. Olives and Limes. Orange 34/6 37/6 pair. Sale Price. 29/4 32/- Pair Chnmpagneand White. Uaual price TO KNEK BBMI-FASHIONKI>DRAWING BOOKS- Blossom. Usual price 1/6 cako. For Double «eds. 2U x 8 yards. .Usual prlcoa 39/-. 6/11 BaU Price 4/6 HOSE-Cotton suspenders; Black.

Salo Price 6d each. Postage Extra. Sale Price 1/3 Cake _ 41/6%palr. Sale Pnces 33/3, 35/3 r>a.r

tiniw. ewrnr pmniP nm-pu NlKBer. Putty and Silver. UstmlmftTTi\'n pippn COMPLEXION SKIN SOAP— Finest For DouDle Beds, Lnxff«» Size, 2H x S ynrds. Usunl LADIhS SWEDE FABRIC GIA)\ i-.H prioe 8/11 SaU Prlca 3/43d pe^Sicket S2O strips. Po.tag. superSuedsoap5 Usual price'l/- Price. 43/-. 48/6 pair Sale price. 36/6, 39/6 Pair -Strap and dome, with Gnsset anJ LjfdlES' BLACK HOS&ÎCJd L?.1Extra. " fo«"9» w »"

pH fl,

d Cako Tho Quahty Regulite. the Pr.ce at 3/- In tho £1 Fnncy points; Cream; Putty, und nna An gnk pma,,NOTE BOOKS-100 MeP FINEST TRIPLE MILLED TOILET off Usual Prices. Brown. Lsual prico J/U. Usun] ,

co 6/u 8«lo Price 2/11Sal« Pric. 4%d !ch PMI.flfl Extra SOAP-Fragrantly perfumed. Usual WHITE HONEYCOMB QUILTS- »"»" Pric<> LADIES' HEAVY COTTON HANt-

«rr»r," y? « , f. ? rtJ J price Cd. cake. Sale Price 4/6 Doz. For Single Bods. Usual prices 13/C. I*s/6 c«ch. MORLTSV9 FAMOUS DUPLEX TARY. BLACK. FULL-KASHIOXKDRUBISKtRS

—Sale Price Idand 2d each FIELD'S BUTTERMILK TOILKT S=»io Prices 11/6, 14/- each FABRIC GLOVES— In nil shades; ti

—With Cashmere feet; n stockintf for

LEAD PENCILS—

Sal* Prioe 1d each SOAP—

For the complexion. Usual For Double Beds. I's.iiil prices 27/6. 29/6 each. hnrd-weurhiK glove. U.-unl prioe wear and comfort. Usual prico 7/11.PENS WITH NIB— 2d each price 9d cake. Salo Prico 7'/2d. Cake Sale Prico* 23/6, 25/- each 6/11. Balo Prico 5/11 Salo Price 5/11

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ftT^"*B^Quality Frocks at Great Price Saving'sSt J^'9^^, The Showroom is Filled With SENSATIONAL BARGAINS /^T~~XI (W^mm^ ■

Bargains showing the "KirkcaWie" Quality and reflecting the World's Authentic Fashions /^mC\irJtJ^^^S^ ' *f Als bought at Kirkcaldie's-it Must be Good ss===== "jWJxTi 'H f/Vv

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V T B~%szl^ S21* SILK KNITTED JUMP- KlB. SAN TOY WRAP— C\ W/l |\\

V^lii ffl^ A^^/^ ually2s/-. " Sale Price 9/11 X22. SILVER GREY SATIN/T^TWylTw fflmferS. * /lr^ \Y /\vi/ x\^\L^7^SI Sl9t mohair wool and u?uSy'lJI?/5/6 ll w°ms'slze> ~nL J'l HPV Vfl^rfr fPlHi>

'iL- K^ Vn^ *f m\f \( // SILrK CARDIGANS

— r" two . Sale Price £6/12/6 1 MM"^@bf'

I 1— — 3^\/f\M^ Wi^ A V/ AllVxp \U iXJi^ Green,eHeno, X 64. GABARDINE COSTUME ~1

"' W'li: iQ^yl! li TWIIBi X? Orange. USua^ 2s/-. g^SST Ust^ «!j£ IIaJsFj I§/. Braeif n 1 Mill wT n \ ''' * Sale Price £6/19/6 ~^ÛaJ<jj J!— ||| .—| Mill if/ /-If .JK \ K4i FAWN WOOL MARO- KB. GREY THREE-PIECE '°*» .^Jftm11l 1 M ' I '< lP*iT fl J I \ CAIN COAT FROCK

—Embd. SUIT

—In Hair Cord; very *— l*"*l''|CaKßy^MM

I A I I \\lV #I i \ Henna; sleeves and panels smart cape effect; trimmed Sm^rffi 4 \ \ /,} \\ V /V V \ Pawn Crepe-de-Chone.Usually Russian Braid Usually £21. V^

1\ |.\ HIll IW 7"Ûr"< ll * £13/13. Sale Price £8/18/6 Sale Pnce £15/15/- K6Oftj Js-X tLli' S<Ti ft V\ vJf\ K6B SPONGE CLOTH FROCK X 17< AQUATITE GABAR- X 60. NAVY COSTUME— Tn all wool7!W Ts\ F^ JT^ mII S!il! DINE RAINCOAT-Very su- serge, style as sketch; others siml-1^ iM

'M\^> ja \ IP —In fancy self colour stripe; pertor quality and style. lar; finished with military braid,*c^¥ *^ p ">**' Lemon and Saxe. Usually Usually £5/6/-. with or without belt. Usually £6/6/-K6B KlB K22 K64 K8 Kl7 17/6- ' Sa|e Price 10/6 Sale Price 89/6 Sale Price 59/6

EMPIRE PARTYISM

LABOR MAY SET NEW FASHION

The return of the Prime Minister toNew Zealand takes place m circum-stances very different to those of hisdeparture.

He departe-i at a time when theiniquity of maintaining a LaborGovernment 1/. office was one of thebest advertlned doctrines .m thecountry. !

He returns at a time when Mr.Asquith and nearly all the BritishLiberals are maintaining a BritishLabor Government m office— or, at anyrate, have vot\-d with Labor to depoßothe Conservative Government, as apreliminary to the establishing of aLabor Government,

The Liberal? appear to justify thesupport they give to Labor on the pleathat, if theremust be a Labor Govern-ment

— inevitatle sooner or later— thena Labor Governmentdependent on out-side support U preferable to a JLaborGovernment capable of standing on itsown legs.

With that pea, ono may agree ordisagree. But no one can fail to beimpressed with the moral effect of apolitical revolution that shows BritishLiberalism In the role of prop to aLabor Government.

s: :j »»Even Mr. Lloyd George, who de-

nounced tho Red danger as loudly asanyone, is now seen holding a candleto the dcvil

—but not. he will tell you,

to the Seven Devils of Socialism.:.' :: ::

And if Mr. Masacy is Improssed—

ashe must be

—»>y the quite unpredictable

change m tic position of BritishLiberalism, it Asquith, of LloydGeorge, ho cannot be less impressedwith the change In the fortunes of Mr.Baldwin and t)«e Conservatives.

The Baldwin Government, holdingan absolute xrajorlty In a twelve-months-old House of Commons, soughtto rene>y that majority behind a pro-tection mandate; gambled and.lost.

An absolute majority was not. m Mr.Baldwin's eyes, a sound position. YetLabor may presently demonstrate thesoundneßß of a position based upon amero minority vote. This will not bedifficult to do provided that tho LaborCabinet can keep lta extremists <iulet.behind a moderate programme.

The moral m that a Government mtho hand

—evon a minority Govern-

ment—

Is better than a Government mtho mush; and that, m the averagecase, surrender of position is too greata hazard.

j: :: t«

Facts like these may doter Mr. Mas-Bey from seeking a way out of his pre-dicament per medium of a generalelection In 1924. Yet rt cannot be aaldthat the three-party position In NewZealand \h parallel with the three-party position In England.

Mr. Baldwin moored his party intoa light (protection) m which he couldnot expect anything from tho Liberalssave an opposition flrmly founded onprinciple.

Mr. Mnwsey has no occasion to aeeka fight In which the Reformer* and theNow Zealand. Liberals muxt neceß«arllytake opposite sides. Indeed, thero arcnot many issues. If any. In which Re-formern and Liberals clash m principle.What matter of political high policyAtands between tho ;».veraeo Reformerand the averageLiberal?

The difference between Mr. Baldwinand Mr. Massey is profound, m thatwhile Baldwin committed himself to apolicy that must separate the Con-servatives from the Liberals, Masseyhas no occasion to do so, and couldlegitimately aim at a Reform-Liberaltactical co-operation without prejudiceto the principle of either participant.

it :: ::So Mr. Massey is not bound to fight

a triangular fight. If ho were sobound, the indications are that hewould fall at least as heavily ns Mr.Baldwin, and that a minority Laborparty might supply the Government ofthis Dominion.

While deliberation over the nextmove m New Zealand is thus pending,new light may again be shed fromBritain by the development of thepolicy and administration of Mr. Ram-Bay Macdonald's Labor Cabinet.

Ma'cdonald, Clynos, Thomas, ond Co.stand for a policy that may put themm more immediate danger from theirown than from other parties.

Can they hold their party, includingtheir extremists, unitedly behindmodorate" courses? If British Laborfissures and falls under the teat,Labor's rule will be short lived. IfBritish Labor remains cohesive andcoherent, it may sot a model for appli-cation not only within the confines ofthe United Kingdom,

Inshort, will the British Labor Partyconvert the Australasian Labor partiesto its moderation, or will they seduceit from its sanity?

:: :: ::This issue, always important, be-

come* vital at a time when BritishLabor is talking about a conferencewith Dominion Labor parties. Herein.perhaps thero lurks the seed of anEmpire-wide political party, with Im-perial ramifications.

Neither Conservative nor Liberalhas, so far, aapireu to an Empire or-ganisation. Will -Labor lead the way?The idea strikes a novel note m thepolitical imagination.

There Is no doubt thftt Mucdonald'ateam has never played down to thoRed« an Holland has. Another indica-tion of this 1h seen m Holland's Bym-pulhf'tlc cablegram to the RussianRedß concerning the death of that"great leader Lenin."

Does Holland's Soviet message,timed to appear along with hl« con-gratulatory cablegram to tho new Uri-tlsh Labor Government, amount to aLabor commendation of tho rule ofrobbery and murder for which Hol-land's model leader was directly andavowedlyreaponalble?

By a atroko of tho pen Holland hasproved his true personal character, andthe fact that In an intra-lmpcrialU.bor Conference the British leaders*will have to resist the pull of tho Aus-trulutilan leaden* If Urltish Iîbor is tocontinue upon a constitutional level.

Recopntlon of tho Soviet Governmentis another question. Much water ha»flowed under tho bridge since tho <lay»of tho early Communism, now tingedwith Capitalism. Even tho UnitedStates may find itself economicallycompelled to recognise Moscow.

But the term* of Holland* cable-gram. Inrefcronco to Lenin, robeyondthat; and prove. If proof wore needed,the thinness of the constitutional coatof paint with which Holland and Co.hnv« nought to camouflage theirnatural color.

"Truth" Talks

"The Man at the Corner" was m a very com-placent mood this week, and much more inclinedto take things philosophically than usual. Per- '/haps he is realising, as we pointed out to him Vlong ago, that it is impossible to reform the Xworld m a few weeks. After discussing the 'troubles of the young mother, proletarian Peers,smoking cures, and a few other items, he sliddown the bannister to hurry his return to the

HARD ON THE BOOKING CLERK."I was ma queue outside a railway

booking office the other day and takeit from me the clerk is welcome to hisjob."

"You must expect a rush at racetimes."

"It wasn't so much the bustle. Hecould cope with that all right. It wasthe silly questions that were fired athim and which he wasexpected to an-swer. And didn't people get annoyedwhen they didn't get all the informa-tion wanted. They forgot about thecrowd fighting for places In the queuebehind them and argued away a« ifthey had all day to do it m."

"That's not altogether to the dis-comfort of the booking: clerk."

"Isn't it just. Bad language, regret,despair, joy and hope, all these thing**take up their abode around the ticketboxes when business 1b brisk."SAVING STAMPS.

"The Auckland City Council raised abig loan recently."

"What for?""To pay the Government their bill

for postage stamps.""Ho.w do you make that out?'"Well, 'Truth,' they send out dodgers

to, the ratepayers stating that if ratesare not paid by a certain date a tenper cent, penalty will be inflicted asthe rates are overdue. Now, the oldheads know that amounts owing arenot overdue until aix months and four-teen days after the first notificationihas been received, so they sit tightand draw the interest on their moneyfor six. months instead of paying thecouncil. Inmy caseIdid not pay up,tind, of course, at regular intervals Ireceive notices from them regardingthe action they are going to take.What worries me most xis tha?Ihavean interest m several properties, andIdo not like them to waste eightpenceIn stamps every time they write tome. Do you know that they send outeight envelopes, i.e., one letter for eachproperty? Can you tell me why theydo not put all the notices m one en-velope and save postage?"

"You do not want to worry,as theyhave a stamping machine at the coun-cil ofllco which prints well, ani Itwould be a pity if it was not used."SMOkING CURES,

"Yes." he declared, "I've given upsmoking."

"And how long do you think you'vegiven It up for?" we aflked.

"For ever and over— ake! ake! ako!""No fear, Mr. Man, you'll not last a

day without a smoke if you stick Inthat frame ofmind. Do you know howit's done? No. Well, you've got todoa bit of auto-suggestion. Don't say toyourself that you won't smoke and feellike a martyr. Just say to yourselfthat you don't want a smoko. If youcan kid yourself that you don't wantone, well you're right and you're notdoing your feelings an Injury."

"Sounds as If there's something Inthat. 'Truth,' but why don't you do it."

"Wo did." aald we, lighting a fag aswe spoke, "but after a while we kiddedouraeSveH m the opposite direction.

"Well, perhaps you'd better give uaone of yourH, 'Truth.1 You wouldn't««"«" n bloke defenceless, would you?"

Knowing the futility of his capricewo handed over tho fag. Ho smokedit unrepentant.

QUEEN OF THE EARTH?"It ifl no wonder the child habit la

getting out of date, 'Truth'," observedtho "Man at the Cornnr," hlmcolf afamily man. "At overy turn themother of a child is handicapped."

"There's not much encouragement,certainly."

"There Is not. Tho majority ofllatH tiro barred ngalnht children, so-curtri iiro regarded us n nuisance mthe city utreets—i-ven by women

—and

I wiw a now nnd unexpected tribula-tlon thrußt on v patient young motherthe other day. She wished to boardn car bound for a miburb and hadfolded tho go-curt and was about tomow it on tho rear platform when thoconductor Binpped In with: 'We ciin'thave it on this car. madam,' andjangled hi« rlghtuway boll. 'Oh, youall Ray that.' Bald tho young womanruthcr pathetically a* «h« carried herbaby m one bent arm and tho foldodgo-cart, no light weiKht. hanging atthe end of tho oth«r and resumed herplace on the footpath. Do you know,"Truth,' that h\u* wnitod for and wanrobufft-d by th«* s wo following; can*and wan finally allowed to placo thego-cart on the third."

"But what lime of the day w.*u»this?"it wna ju/u before fly* o'clock.""Oh. m tlmt cast* tho panKage car

hud K«>no J»nd Bh« wait «Micr(>»chir.£on thw \vurk»rrt' nparo."

"Yes, and was she not fully entitledto? This was no case of a womangadding the town all day and rush-ing home with a parcel of sausagesfive minutes before her husband. Nofear; she was equally a worker, aworker's wife with a worker's child.Surely her place on that car shouldhave been light? It certainly wouldhave been had it not been for the go-cart. The childless married womanworking as a typiste would haveskipped on like a lark, but this otherwoman, a homekeeper and a mother,was barred by the fact of her mother-hood."THROWING MONEY AWAY.

He'd struck a small*double and wastalking odds. "Look here, 'Truth,1I'veseen myself put a note on Gloamingto win eighteenpence, but neverm mylife have Iseen a joker go for worsoodds that those a patron of a hoop-labench went for the other night." "

"Yes," we said, thinking of futilethrows- we had (but not mentioningthem). "It's an elusive' business toring those prises with a hoop thatbounces ten 'feet m the air when itdrops."

"Well, let me tell you of tho oddsthis joker was taking. He boughteight rings for a shilling and he threwthe eight away at a shilling lyingontho table— l'm wrong, they weren'todds at all; but what do you think olit?"

"We thinkwhat he thought— nothing.Perhaps, if .you'd followed him rounda bit you'd have found him throwingshillings m the pond to see if theysplashed.. Still he might have hadsome sort of a show to ring a shilling.We'll give you our.word Ite had noneof ringing the fiver. They pin themdown with strainer posts. Some peoplelike throwing money away, you know,and you don't have to go to Trenthamto see them."

"You're right, 'Truth.' Ilike thepunter who throws it away to catchsomething1 big1. There's cheerfulnessabout that, and optimism. A man canconsole himself afterwards withthoughts of what might have been,but spare me days, what could thatjoker have consoled himself with?With thoughts that he might have gothis shilling back, eh?"

"Too true," we replied, cheerily."Look at the fun ho had throwingrings m the air."

—This was just a

bit of propaganda. We've decidednowto establish our eldest son as a hoop-la proprietor instead of. as a lawyer.A LITTLE LAUNDRY LURK.

Whilst searching his waistcoat poc-ket for a toothpick hn accidentally dis-lodged a carefully-folded laundry tic-ket. The discovery pleased him Im-mensely. "I thought I'd lost it," hesaid. "Ever try to get your laundryfrom a Chinaman without producingthe ticket?"

"We replied that wehadn't."Iremember losing one a long while

ago." ho continued, "and Johnnie re«fused to come across with the laundry.Ifound tho ticket about nix months' jlater and when Ipresented it, ho Justreachod up and picked the parcel oftitho shelf as if it had been there onlyabout a day. A mato of mine had nfunny experience with a laundry ticketonceand nearly landed himself m trou-ble over it. A follow who happened tobe hard up and thirsty at tho sametime, struck a brilliant way of raisingthe 'necessary.' lie collected somedirty old rags and other rubbish andwrapped them into a parcel which hehanded over the counter nt a Chinklaundry. Of course the Chink gave,him a ticket and put tho parcel asideready for the wash tub. The fellowgot outside and meeting my mate,pitched him n tale about having nomoney to pay for his laundry before hisship sailed. Anyhow, mymate finishedup by buying the ticket for two Hhll-UngH and, on top of beingswindled likethat m cold blood, he had another lotcoming from the Chink when he wentto collect the parcel. Tho Chinee call-ed himall sorts of names and was Justbeckoning a policeman when Ihappen*ed to como m and put him wise thatmy mate was dlnkurn. Never buy alaundry ticket from a stranger 'Truth.'or. if you do, send somebody else to gettho parcel."

PROLETARIAN PEERS.Tho man with the Red Tie. who

lately has given "Truth" ofllce tho go-by, called again this week to chuckleover tho Labor Government m theOld Country. Incidentally he won-dered what tho first act of the HamsayMiicdonald Cabinet would be.

"That's easy," we suggested."Why so?""Well, as a British Government ean-

i.ot exist without Ministers who arePeors, tho flrat act of the Cabinot mustbo the creation of at least one or twoLabor Lords."

The prospect of Proletarian Peers mthe House of Plutocracy and Privilegeconfused him for a moment, but hoquickly recovered. "Of course," ho|said, "th^so Iâbor Lord* will only beappointed 10 the ISouso of i'cera forthe purpose of ending It." !

"Pcrhnps," wo replied. "But thati»amo Houno tsikee nn awful lot of kil-ling. There aro no seven-year ap-pointment**, an m thi» New ZealandI.igls*lHtlve Council,nnd what n. uloomye-Xl«t«>nco thos«> Iîhor lyord« wouldliv*> m the Rf«»rajfi»— lk'k pardon, Peer-:»««'

—If thft Hoiirp nhould OUllivo tho

Iîbor Oovcrnmont/*"On thßt. point, of couruo, I figroo

with you." anld the Red Tic Man. "buteven« Labor Ix>rd might iv» encoumf-p<l m thft bpiiring of hl» cro«« by th«Unowledco of th<» purity of hl« pur-pose."

"Thon you don't think that th<» drapenand trapping of thc.nobliijy f)rottenI»n in««upnmhl*« obstneic."

"It $«, of cows*, a point for theIjil«or Conference. But the spirit of<tolf*»*aerUlei> In the movement Ja *o*tronK that I think that if Ramsay mhard purh«?d he may find volunteer*f\-fu m Auckland."

LENIN AND PRINTER'S INKThe Magic Of Millennium

Soviet President a* Student.

Lenin is dead without greeting: themillennium. Well over a century agoShelley was looking out for it, and jthough Lenin did his best it has notarrived yet. Shelley adoptedGodwinsformula for a glorified State, which,was to rise instinctively from the ruinsof evil Governments, laws, churches. " x

The man remainsSceptreless, free, uncircumscribed.Vbut

man: iEqual, unclassed, tribeless and na-

tionless, . jExcept from awe, worship, degree, tho

kingOver himself; just, gentle, wise; but

man.We have seen the formula pass

visibly from Shelley to Lenin. Unfor-tunately,Leninhad not the same caviseas Shelley to bo disappointed m his .fellow-men. Shelley, strewing thestreets of Dublin with pamphlets ad-vocating Catholic Emancipation, hadeffects far different from Lenin's peacepropaganda on the Russian front mthe tragic days of 1917. Few tookShelley seriously, while Lenin scatter-ed Kereneky's mighty army. Shelley,evenif he desired, could not have leda dozen men; 140.000,000 lived underLenin's rule. Shelley died before hiamillenlum was given a chance. Leninhas found his the shadow of a dream.Indeed, m view of Russia's plight, itseems that these lines from Shelley'a"Revolt of Islam" (a romanceOf revo-*lutlon) were written only last year:Soon on those strango andcongregated

hostsCame Famine, a swift shadow, and

the airGroaned with the burthen of ft new

despair; . ;i \Famine, than whom Misrule|ft> dead-lier daughter ;*;;Feeds from her thousand breasts,

though sleeping ther© v

With lldless eyes lie Faith and Plagueand Slaughter. :

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YOUTHFUL ESCAPADES.Vladimir Hutch Oulianov <the name

Lenin 1b a literary alias) was born at .Simbirsk m 1870. For; leading a num-ber of university students m anunsuc-cessful attempt to assassinate Alexan-der111.Lenin's elder brother washang^ .ed m 1887. Vladimir, aged 17, was ar-rested at this time, for It was knownhe was preparing for publication aseries of pamphlets on Socialism. Hewas let free. Later, when Lenin turn-ed professional revolutionary, he wasbanished to Siberia. He was expelledas a young man from Kazan Univer-sity on account of his political ideas.HlB earlier literary work was done forthe MarxistJournals at St.Petersburg,where, m 1594, he wrote a paper on

'"The Reaction of Marxism on Bour-geois Literature." The next year hebacked up this paper with a book on-titled "Tho Economic Basis of Popul-ism and ItsCriticism by Strove." Fortwenty years, from 1,897 to 1917, Leninlivedm exile,mainly at Geneva, wherethe revolutionists made their home.During this period lie assisted m thefoundation of "Iskra," the organ ofthe Social Democratic Party, and pub-lished newspaper articles and booksby the score. Lenin was determinedto cut clothes for the Russian peopleout of Marxist cloth. Most of hiswritings are dreary and untnterestins."The weariness of the reader alter-nates with disgust at the constantabuse (the vigor of which shows ',mostly m length, never In variety)with which Lenin attacks his oppon-ents," says a writer m "Studies." "Omlooks In vain through the writings oithis champion of the oppressedfor anynote of tenderness or ,sympathy, or,even noble indignation; his tone italways rasping, pugnacious, brutal,'

CASTING SHADOWS BEFORE,| In l!>05 Lenin wrote "Tho Needs otj the Village," stating that tho peasantsshoutd have more land at the expenseof the nobility. When he got thechance In 191? he stuck to his writtenword, and with his Land Decree hand-ed over to the peasants the lands of! the nobility, the Church, and themonasteries. Early m this centuryiLenin spent two years at the ParisIBlbliotheque Natlonale studying phil-osophy. The result was that he camebefore the public withhis curiousvol-ume "Materialism and Empirlo-Crl-tlclsm."

Before Lenin got tho sword into hisIhand ho fought valiantly with thopen. Ho had to break through* stu-pendous obstacles to become Presidentof tho Soviet Republic, and tho wayhe went may bo traced along thopaper trail of pamphlets, articles, andbooks he has scattered behind him*

WILL GUNSON GET IT?

Bank of N.Z. Direotor«hip.

(From "Truth's" Auckland Rep.)Auckland business men wero In no

wine surprised to learn that Mr. J. H.Qunson, Mayor of the Queen City, hadconsented to bo nominated for one ofthe vacancies on the directorate of thoBgnk of New Zealand. Ifdunson getson the board there will be none to "complain m regard to lack of enter- "prise, for J.H.G. Is as full of energy &aa tiger cat. Besides having held officeas Mayor for five years,ho is chairmanof several public companies. As Mayorhe has shown remarkable activity mpromoting the interests of Auckland,and itm due to his enterprise that thocititens now own the tramway systemwhich was m th© hands of a privateconcern. Also to Mayor Qunson Auck-land owes its hundreds of acres of fin*parks— and iw Zoo.

The vacancyon tho directorate of theBank of New Zealand occurs throughtho death of Mr,- R. W. Kano.-which came aboutprior to the last halfyearly meeting. Tho "Herald" writes:"In Auckland, where Mr, Qunson 1«well-known, there will be no doubt ofhis exceptional qualifications for theposition, and if shareholders In otherparts of New Zealand are thoroughly \galive to their own interests his cloe- .r$tioi« will bo assured." **■

The only fly m the ointment m tho *

prospective appointment of Mr. Gun-son is "that shareholders m other part*may prefer to be represented by somn-one from their own end of the earth.However, there is a big vote roundabout Auckland, and itis likely enoughthat the Mayor of the City will dishany Southern aspirants for the posi-tion, which, Incidentally, carries a good,fat salary, or "fee" with it* Thoro itanother directorship vacant, conse-quent on the resignation of Mr. J. H.Upton, but this is a purely Govern-ment nomination. W)>o's Mr. Masaey'tmost likely (and needy) pal?

"TRUTH" THANKED.

Help For Mr*. HSggint*

'The renponso hoa b»*n roontRi>nor«ouk." write* Mr.W. M.Wnilnutt.Mayorof Wftihl. wh#n thftnkinK "Truth" forthe aanlntnnee rendered Mr«. Hitrtrint,thomurderer's wife. ThoJ« tentncknow-ledgrotntu aro: "Rlverbird" (Bal«cluthn). s*. and "N.C.E." £2. %Viththe monoy boinff raised it is intendedto pay the far©« of Mr«. Hl«(rln» andher children to Canada.

Another nlco ihinir about being anobody i» lb.it you can put your mon«yIn thebank instead of twirif (t to main'tain your position.

People could dream tholr droamaRnd *#« their visions, but if the Prguwaa ft«?nin«t thorn they cou|<J do oath.inig,

—Ramsay MacDonaW.

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TIMBER-LOCKING TACTICSWHAT REFUSAL OF TRANSPORTATION MEANS

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This article contains convincing proof of the timbers-lockingtactics of the timber combine. A company belonging to thecombine possesses a tramway which is the only practicablemeans of transport for the timber of certain small landowners,and the company refuses to carry the timber of these owners.The company

—Ellis and Burnand, Ltd.

—doe6not merely refuse

to oarry the timber on its owners' terms; it refuses to carrythe timber on any terms. That is to say, ?t locks up their tim-ber. They may (as farmers) burn it or they may go bank-rupt. They cannot market it.

In modern commercialism it ha» been proved over and overagain that transport can put a stranglehold on industry, and mAmerica the granting of rebates of railway freight— rebates in-tended to-crush a competitor— has been penalised. What, then,shall be said of a transport system which, not being legally acommon carrier, refuses all transport, on any term* Whatever?Few people realiiie that the privately-owned timber tramwaysystem of the North Island tcovers hundreds of miles. It can bemade a wonderful engine of development, or of monopoly. Ifthe latter, private and State property is depreciated, timber out*put is restricted, prices are controlled.

A great question of prinolple has arisen, a question on whichthe Government, as a demooratlo institution, must be Judged.

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tiole* have brought to light manyInteresting facts; and several pre-tences of the sawmillera

—voiced

either by the Kauri Timber Companyor by the Dominion Federated Saw-millers' Association, a body dominatedby the timber combine of which theICauri Timber Company is the centre*-have been blown out.

On October 20 "Truth" raised thequestion whether members of the tim-ber- combine are holding areas thatare "strategically located With refer-ence to future supplies, blocking ac-cess to adjoining or neighboringblocks

,of valuable forests, both $tate andprivate?"

"Truth" asked generally whethereuch locking-up tactics were beingadopted by sawmlllers, and whetherBawmillers possessing th6only meansof access to locked-up timber areaswere refusing .to carry over theirtramways the timber o£ the ownersof such locked-up areas. And,m par-ticular, "Truth" asked whether theEIHb and Burnand operation atManunUi was an exaropU) of that sortvf thing.

COMBINE'B CENTRAL UNITREPLIES.

In reply to that article, which hadbeen supplied, m advance copy, to theManaging Director of the; Kauri Tim-ber Company (Mr. J. Butler), thatcompany [made a statement that was.published m full m "Truth" of thesame issue, October 20. The KauriTimber Company, m this statement,undertook to reply not only on Usown behalf,.but on behalf of the Billsand Burnami Company (thus support-Ingwhat "Truth" had said on the sub-ject of tho association ol! timber in-terests).

In the first place, the Kauri TimberCompuny denied that Ellis and Bur-nand posses at Manunul "the onlyconvenient access. to many thousandsof acres of State-owned, and otherforests." As Manunui is, at best,only one Instance of locklng-up, thatpoint can be deferred fcnrUhe timebeing, because of much greater im-port Is the general denial ■. made bythe Kauri Timber Company. Heroare somo statements from the com-pany's article:—

". . . . It Ib no more reasonablethat Ellis and Burnand, Ltd.,should beforced to carry timber for other in-tending operators than it would be toforce 'Truth' to use its printing plantto print 'Lies' for any other paper.'We believe It is 'a fact that theproposed Government control of tlm*ber tramwaysis being resisted becausethe Oovornmont will thus have powerto force owners of timber tramways togive other timber owner* carryingrights.' It followß that if the ownersof euch tramways have a margin offacilities and If reasonable terms areoffered for their services th^y will seekto carry for others without being forc-ed. ,.. It is safe to say irt respect totho suppositjous cases ofKEY.HOLD-INGS that there are no instanceswhere 'other people'3timber' is lockedup by so-called 'key positions'."

No doubt the Kauri Timber Com-pany's scribe thought he had com-pounded something particularly cloverwhen he turned out the first-quotedsentence. As a matter of fact, hecould not have selected a worse paral-lel. Newspapers DO print for oachother m times of stress. When fireor some other accident haa destroyeda newspaper's plant

—which la as

much tho vehicle between [newspaperand consumer as a tramway is theavenue between timber-owner andconsumer— a rival

'newspaper often

gives printing facilities, or other me-chanical facilities, to enable the un-fortunate newspaper to/carry on, de-spite the cutting of its normal line ofcommunication.' In tho course of itscareer In New Zealand, "Truth" hasreceived such consideration fromother newspapers* and lia gratefultherefor, and will always do Us bestto reciprocate; Newspapers may, anddo, fight; they may hit each otherhtml: but almost alwayß they do so Inthe open. They don't orush a com-1-etltor by making despotic us© of thetemporary possession of the onlymentis of reaching, the public. So thechampion ofMonopoly,tramway rightsand of locking-up tactics went to thewrong,spot when he sought to justifyhimself m the newspaper world.

WHO IS THE LIAR?>^ As to what ho (Wrote about "Lies,"

tvo will now proceed. to see who IsBbc liar.

"Truth" has to build up UsjKano by degrees, and, while it has notfinished with Manuhul, It has at lastgot information concerning a. near-byvalley on the Main 'Trunk Railway(the Mangakabu). that enables It toreply at once,and convincingly, to thoKauri Timber Company's utatementthat "there are no instances where'other people's timber' Is locked upby ao-culled 'key positions'."

The Mangakahu Stream runs Intothe Ongarue River close by the On-garuo railway station. A few; hundredyards from the railway auction, upStream. lv a sawmill, one of tho millsootonging to Messrt Ellis and Bur-land, Ltd.. which company, «ts shownlately In "Truth," is Interlocked withthe Kauri Tlmbor Company. On Jan-uary 18 Mr. J. Butler (ManagingDirector of tho Kauri Tlmbor Com-pany), Mr. H. Valdor (of Kill* andBurnand, Ltd), and other membora ofthe timber cxecutlvo paid a visit ofinspection to this mill, and also travel-led up tho tlmbor tramway whichconnect* tho nrill with tho bush manyptflea up-valley. The mill is a valu-able and Important property; so Isthe tramway. There ere many milesof running on fairly easy grades, butup m the hills

—on two, at any rate,

of the branches into which tho tram-way splits

—there arc difficult grade** j

and curves, with which tho Ellis and jBurnand geared locomotivoa are com- jpatent to deal. If there worn noInndi'd property rights to prevent asecond tramway being built, duplica-tion (that iff, building of a secondtramway) would utlll bo not only aneconomic absurdity but a phyolcul Im-practicability. In some partti of thevalley there m literally no room furft second tramway-

It it evident at « glance thatEllis and Burnand, Utd'a owner-"hip of--the, tramway, and of theland through which tho tramv/aypasses, makes this tramway theonly practicable means of trans*port for timber 'higher up the val-ley; and that a refusal by theE. and B. Company to carry anysuch timber (not owned by thecompany) looks up that timberjust as effectively as if every treewas padlocked.

So far, "Truth" has presented itsreaders with a picture of the Man-gakahu Valley (wide m places, narrowIn others) oponing on to the MainTrunk Railway, and 'providing1 &natural means of Ingress and egressfor the upper valley tJmber, but lockedagainst upper valley timber (notowned by Ellis and Burnand, Ltd,)because of the ownership by Ellis andBurnand, Ltd., of tho timber tramwayand of the land it passes through, andbecause of their refusal to carry otherpeople's timber over that tramway.

THE LOCKED-UP TIMBER.Now, what and where is the Man-

gakahu timber that 1b not owned byEllis and Burnand, Ltd.?

Such timber can be divided Intothree lots:

—(1) A number of timber-bearing

sections (four,at least) owned by pri-vate settlers as freeholders, and ag-gregating about 5000 acres of richtimber land, said to carry 8000 feet tothf*. acre;

(2) A block of 12,340 acres, calledthe Potakatuka block, which In theproperty of the Government, but overwhich Ellis and Burnand, Ltd., haveobtained, through the Lands Depart-ment, some sort of a milling license,on terms and m circumstances thatcall for investigation;! (3) A State forest, which is thefarthest back timber of all, and which,ias its name indicates, is unalienated.

With regard to area No. 1, the set-tlers' freeholds, the figures givenaboveshow that the area is estimated to pro-duce forty million feet of timber (ifthe settlers do not burn it throughbeing refused transport by Ellis andBurnand Ltd.). This is all locked up.So is the Stale forest (areaNo. 8),andKh possible output runs probably intohundreds of millions of l'cet. As toPotakataka (urea No. 2) Ellis andBurnand Ltd. will presumably pro-ceed to mill thla m their own way.buttho whole circumstances of thfllr posi-tion In this block are nuch hs to callf6r separate treatment m another ar-tlole on another occasion.Now, then, let us complete the pic-ture:

Putting aside Potakataka block, !there are hundreds of millions of Ifeet locked up by the Ellis and jBurnand refusal, including 40 mil* jlion feet owned by freehold set- \tiers, two of whom happen to he' returned soldiers."Truth" will, of course, be asked for

evidence of the refusal of Ellis andBurnand Ltd. to carry tho timber.Well, here is tho evidence:

THE REFUSAL OF "E. & B."On behalf of settlers and persons

Interested, Mr. J. Soler, of Ongarue, asettler and a member of the Tau-marunul County Council, approachedMr, H. Valder, Managing Director ofEllis and Burnand Ltd. Mr. Solermates that tho suggestion that thocompany should carry the settlers'timber on tho tramway at a fixed sumof so much per hundred foot per milewas rejected by Mr. Valder, but Mr.Valder expressed himm?lf favorably'towards carrying tho timber providedthat tho various pnrlle» interestedwould agree to contribute a xharo oftho coßt of construction and mainten-ance: this to bo fixed on a propor-tional banta, taking into considerationtho amount oC timber carried over theline by oach u«or. Mr. Sold' alaostates that, after coiiMultlnK1 with thosefor whom ho was nctlng, he wrote toEllis and Burnand Ltd. stating thattheir terms were considered reason-able, and rcqucHtlng1 them to forwnrdparticulars of the coat of their tram-way,bo that the coflt of hauln&e couldbo roußhly ascertained.

But Ellis and Burnand Ltd.. onsecond thoughts, woro not takingany. Tho followinu reply, datedMarch 5, 1923, was tent to Mr.Solar:

Dear Slr.—Ontfuruo Tramway:Your letter of the 10th ultimo wasconsidered nt a meetingof our direc-tors fitul nfter dlsctiKsiiiK the ques-tion of the uso of tramwayby other

parties, m all its bearings, we cameto the conclusion that the suggestion■which Imentioned to you would notbe workable as we cannot see ourway to agree to division of controlwhich wouldensue.

We consider that there would betoomany opposing interests whichwould lead to friction, and we wishto avoid thi3 at all costs, and whilstwe recognise that it would be ofmutual advantage for other partiesto share the initial outlay, the dis-advantages of mixed control wouldquite outweigh the advantages.

Apparently the only method underWhich .other parties could make useof the tramway is for us to turn our-selves into a carrying company and-thla we strongly object to. Wesuggest therefor© that the owners_ who wish to obtain an outlet fortheir timber, conatruot a road forthat purpose. Yours faithfully

(Signed) H. VAIIDER,Managing Director.

"TRUTH'S" CASE 18 PROVED.The above letter— the authenticity of

which is beyond doubt— is consistentwith, and confirms, Mr, Soler's state-ment. Mr, Valder's letter, taken mconjunction with the surrounding facts,or even regarded singly by* itself, ren-ders ridiculous the KauriTimber Com-pany's contention that "there are noinstances where 'other people's timber1is locked up by so-called 'key posi-tions,'" ItJs true that Mr. Valder ad-vises the settlers to "construct a road,"but he does so with his tongue m hischeek. The Department of Railwaysmightas well rafuue to carry Ellis andBurnand'B timber from Ongarue, andadvise B, and B. to construct anotherrailway,

Mr. VaTder1* letter Is testimonyover his own signature that, not-withstanding the Kauri TimberCompany's pretences, sawmillersof the combine do refute to oarryfor another timber owner on "rea-sonable terms," and do refuse tooarry on any terms, even wheretheir tramway is the only practi-

. cable means of transport^Thus, the timber combine's pre-tence that there are no key hold-ings, and no looking up, is blownup by the timber combine itself."Truth" has proved its case, even

out of the mouth of its opponents.In order to prevent the burning of

timber that ought to be milled; morder to prevent the timber combinefrom arbitrarily regulating (throughits transport jever) the amount oftimber to be milled (and therefore theprices of sawn timber to the public);In order to prevent the combine fromthus dictating the values of standingtimber not only to smaft private hold-ers but to a timber-owning Govern-ment itßelf; m order to prevent allthese abuses that have marked timberdevelopment m other lands— the own-ers of timber tramways must, on fairterms, give service to others thanthemselves. Power must be.taken bythe Government to force them to dothis, and the Forest Service's proposedtimber tramway regulations are neces-sary.

The fixing1 of fair terms is not be-yond the resources of a country thatcan find legaland practicable means offixing the price of resumed land, andthe price of other things, such as labor.The case needs no stronger argumentthan Ellis and Burnand Ltd. havethemselves supplied.

SENIOR DETECTIVE T. GIBSON(Christchurch.)

"Justice is the bread of the nation;,it is always hungry for it."

— 'Chateaubriand.

AProwler Of TheNightTHIEVING WHILE WELLINGTON

SLUMBERS.Australian Crook Collared.

Not all the wit of Lawyer Perrycould wash out the past of a long,leangentleman named Stanley Arthur Hay-den, alias Arthur Hayes, when ballwas mentioned In his case at theMagistrate's Court In Wellington onWednesday.

Senior-Detective Cameron: Imustoppose bail owing1 to what weknow ofthis man.

Lawyer Perry surprisedly observed:"Well, what do you know?" or wordsto that effect. He reckoned that theman "waß entitled to ball if that wasall the police could say.

The reply was quiet and effective.Up, to the Magistrate went the listknown as a record.

Lawyer Perry said he knew of thelist, but did not think convictions mAustralia should stand against theman's application for bail.

Magistrate Page seemed to think abit the other way,but decided to hearwhat the police had to say of tho cir-cumstances of the four charges againstaccused. Senior-Detective Cameronthen told the police version. OnJanuary 16 the accused blew Into ahotel m the city and booked a roomunder an assumed name. Sometimem the stilly night he stole along toJohn B.Flhlayson's bedroom and polleda tenner, and to Alfred Klngton's,where ho pocketed a score, OnJanuary 22 he concealed himself In theWindsor Hotel and m the nightsalliedout of hiding into tho bedroom ofVivian Eric Pago and secured £18 10sIn cash. But this time he was caughtm the building. In addition he wascharged with being a rogue and vaga-bond on account of having been foundIn tho building without lawful excuse.

The Magistrate decided then thatball was not advisable. Accused, whoelected to be tried by a jury, was re-manded until Wednesday next for thepreliminary hearing.

Subsequently the prisoner changedhis bold front and decided to pleadguilty on all charges and leave hisfate m the hands of a Magistrate. Ac-cordingly he was brought before Mag-istrate Page and the naked truth wasrelated that prisoner had been con-victed ten times m Australia for theftand once In Wanganul, New Zealand.Magistrate Pago sent him oft to gaolfor another twelve.months to expiatehis four latest offences.

MARRIED WOMAN'S SECONDLAPSE.

Pinches Pretty Pinny.

Sad and Sorrowful.

With her back turned to tho bodyof the Court and her head hungm Uts-ffraco, Lena Daly, n middle-aged, andcomfortably off, married woman, cut asorrowful picturo before MagistratePago at Wellington thlß week.She was charged with stealing a blackcloth apron valued at 4/11 from JamesSmith Ltd., and just why she did itwns what Lawyer Leicester was try-ing to explain to the Bench.

Mr. Leicester did his best to oxplainthat the case was a mighty sad ono, Inthat his client had yielded to a weak-ness which she could not control, nomatter how «he tried. It was hard tounderstand the woman's act m viewof the fact that she was comfortablyoff. She wus not nwnre that Bho hndtnken tho goods, and no punishmentthat the Court could impose wouldmake up for the utter revulsion shefelt at her act

After listening to counsel's nppcnlMnglntrnte I'ngo reminded the ensofor n day. When Mrs, Dnlynpponrod on Wodnosdny tho policestated that the woman wnf» nt presenton six monthH* probation for a slmlln*ofrpnro and tho Maßlstrnto decided thnt14 day*' Imprisonment would meet the

WHISKERS TO ORDER

A London hotid rt»e«ntly called at-U-ntlon «« Itself ov*>n rtmhl the politicalturmoil hy lusulnj? nn order to its ntafffrom tho inntmKcr downward that allmtißt wonr BiU<;-\vhlHkt.'r«. It In rathurrouj?h on th«« youthful \v«il(«r8 whohavp to tnki> spoolnl intonstve mca-«ur<'f< >vlth theirs, but It certainly pro-vlilcd Kpmc needed amusement for the

HOMIES HIT BACKPRETTY WHIRLWINDÔP PETTICOATS

JIGGERS PROUD Of BRIDESQuestion Is Why Shouldn't They Be?

In "Truth" of January 19 was published an attack on "Homfes"(women from *heOld Country) by a Wellington woman,"NewZealandar and -Proud of It." As might have been expected, thisdischarge has led to a fusillade. It was soon necessary for theeditor to detail a member of the staff to cope with *.he thioken-mg shower of protest. Whether Wilde's remark that "women arestupid who have out their differences m the streets and publicplaces" is exemplified herein, leaves to its reader* to de-cide. There is vno space to print a quarter of the letters received,but the counter battery attack of the champions of tho 'Homies"may be judged from tho following selections:"VITRIOLIC GROUCH."

Sir,— m this week's issue of "Truth"over the signature of "New Zealander

and Proud of It," appears the mostastounding conglomeration of piffle Ihave ever read or ever want to read.It professes to air the opinion of asection of New Zealanders on-the un-fortunate "Pommy" domestics whohave emigrated to this country andalso on English girls m general. Thatthe writer of this vitriolic collection ofabuse is possessed of a large-sizedgrouch against "Pommy" girls is pain-fully evident, and. the cause of thegrouch would doubtless make interest-ing reading if N.Z.A.P.0.1." would ven-tilate it. The section of New Zealandopinion that fine professes to voice onecan safely guess is composed of her-self andno more. No doubt tome ofthe English brides have turned outfailures, but how many failures do weget amongst New Zealand brides? Itis six of one and half a dozen of theother. But to sling cheap sneers atthe general body of Englißh brides istoo petty and spiteful for words. Ipersonally am the proud possessor ofan English bride and Iknow severalother ex-Diggers who brought back"Homies" with them, and who are stillproud of their choice. Moreover, theywill bitterly resent those ill-naturedsneers at their wive3. Evidently"N.Z.A.P.0.1." never heard of W.A.-

--l A.C.'h, women motor drivers, ambul-ance drivers, nurses, etc., who did suchyeoman service m England and Franceduring the great "spar with the Huns.No brains or initiative, pah! Heavenhelp England if her womenfolk hadhave been as "N.Z.A.P.0.1." says. Asfor the comparison m clothes betweenEnglish girls and New Zealand girls,it is too sublimely ridiculous to com-ment oh..Both countries have womenwho dress well and women who don't."N.Z.A.P.0.1.'5" statement that 95 percent, of New Zealand girls can maketheir entire outfits themselves is cheapbrag and nothing Glee. About 5 percent, would bo a safer guess. But theproud boast that a Colonial girlstranded m London would get a. jobwithin 24 hours, even if she had tosweep a crossing is about the dizzylimit. "N.Z.A.P.0.1." cries about thebold bad Enirlißh girls throwing them-selves at the gallant Diggers' headswhile they were on leave In England,some of them making the marriedDiggers forget all honor and allegianceto their wives battling away m poorold New Zealand. Judging, however,by the divorce reports m this coun-try for a year or two after the bigscrap ended, the New Zealand girlswere doing a bit of throwing at othermen's heads while their hubbies wereaway m France. Truly N.Z.A.P.0.1.'5"one-eyed view of things is astounding."Not one statement that she puts for-ward can be proved m tho cold lightof common sense. One can only hopefor the fair name of this Dominionthat her ignorantly abusive screechdocs not see the light of day m anEnglish paper. "New Zealander andProud of It" can rest assured that al-though she may be proud of New Zea-land, New Zealand has small reason tobe proud of her. Iraise my hat to theEnglish girl— and the New Zealandgirl. Bless 'em both.

—Iam, etc.,EX-DIGGER,

DISGUSTED NEW ZEALANDER.Sir,

—Ihave Just read with the

greatest humiliation and disgust theletter written by "Now Zealander andProud of It," to one of the leadingpapers. Icannot help thinking thatpeople with a grievance such as thiswriter evidently has, should air themm private, instead of disgracing them-selves and their country m such anarrow-minded fashion. It is mostpathetic to read how our poor dearboys were led astray "over there!"What a shame their wives and sweet-hearts didn't go along to look afterthem! I am positive that no «elf-respecting Digger will be flattered 'atbeing referred to m such a way. It issomewhat absurd, when our Govern-ment is sparlnK no expense to populatethe country,and encourage immigrantsfrom overseas, for our "offended dig-nity" to write Home saying, "we don'twant women! It Is very evident toanyone who reads the mean, spiteful,and abusive letter, that "N.Z. andProud of It" either has some daughterswho cannot procure husbands or hasbeen severely blighted m her ownaffections

—presumably by some

"Homle." In my opinion such womenshould be given something better todo than go about looking for some-thing to howl about. lam a New Zea-lander, am Just as proud of our coun-try as anyone, and have been some-what annoyed to hear some of the"Homies"

"verdicts of our land of milk

nnd honey; but, thank goodness,Ihavenever been moved to make any suchcomplete ass of myself as our dearfriend, "New Zealand and Proud ofIt."

—Iam, etc.,

DISGUSTED COLONIAL

A GOOD COOK AND PUNCTUALSir,

—Ishould like to reply to an ar-

ticle In your January 19th issuo on"Women on Women."Idon't know what has hit her. but

It must havo been something prettyhard. Perhaps her boy married a"Homle" aashe calls thorn. Her tiradeabout them not beingable to turn theirhand to anything »l»e is sheer non-sense. Iworked In Wellington when Ifirst arrived here, JUBt before the war,and Iam always proud of the testi-monials from my N.Z. employers. Iwas told they had never had one sotrustworthy before, and that Idid notthink Iwas bous of the show as theN.Z. girls did. Ialso later on went ascook to a well-known barrister of Wel-lington, Such a thing Ihad neverdone m my life before, yet when Iloftto come here, he told me he had neverenjoyed hucJi dinners before, and forpunctuality Icould not be beaten: notonce had ho lost his morning train, orhad to go without his breakfast. OnInquiry, the others were N.Z. girls. Inl»o have had a holiday on a "station"out here. A young lady Hpoke In avery "boasy" manner the first day Iarrived there. 1 inquired If she was adaughter of the house. She was thehousemaid and Insisted onbeing enlied"Miss!" During my long stay themistress told mo she was a forwardperson, would Insist on bring aboutnmomrnt the guest*, nn though she wasone of them. She alßo wasa New Zea-land girl. Also Iwas told that herother housemaids had nil been EnglishglrlH and were so nice that they won*soon married. Now, Iam the wife ofit Colonial nnd a happier married lifeIcould not wlnh for. Our home Is alittle "heaven." not ft "Morry L!ttH»Hell." nnd never nan boon. Inm thomother of three children, nnd Imakonil their clothes and my own as well.My husband Is one of the best, a wbiloman through and through, anda apoit.

Says I'll do him ifIam a "Homie."—Iam, etc.,"ANENGLISHWOMAN AND PROUD

OF IT."Palmerston North.

WHAT SAY THE N.Z. BOYS?Sir,

—Ihope you will allow me a Ht-

tle space m your valued paper to reply,to yourarticle headed "Woman on Wo-man" on January 19. Firstly, yourcorrespondent, "New Zealander andProud of It," must be a real.native ofNew Zealand and therefore brown.Well, Iwill not' insult the Maoris bypassing any opinion on her or him. Ihave, nothing but admiration for theMaori race of people, the originalnative of New Zealand, but your cor-respondenr does not come under thlaclass of person at all. For politenessand courtesy give me the Maori. Nowyour correspondent has probably nevertravelled any further than New Zea-land (and Iagree it is the most beau-tiful spot on earth) so why expressany opinionon things he or she knowsnothing about? lam a "Homle" as woare termed here, and was one whohelped cheer the boys up when theywere so far from their ownpeople. Imarried a Colonial, a relative, not onewho I"flung" myself at, using: thinperson's phrases. Ihave beenm NewZealand four yearsnowandhave anlcohome and am quite happy. Ihave twochildren, one by a former marriage, andImake every stitch they wear, alsocostumes and dresses for myself an«lam much sought after by the Colonialgirl to make for her. Iknit socks an-1jumpers, but Ifall to become a mil-liner. Ican honestly say mmy ex-perience of New Zealand girls thatIhave not come upon one single casowhere they have done all thin personclaims they can do. She, for it mustbe a woman, must have dreamt halfshe has writton as she is far fromtruthful m her remarks. Ithink thobeat judges would be the boys them-selves; why don't they write theiropinion? Itis just sheer jealousy onthe part of N.Z. girls, some of whomhad probably set their minds on somecertain fellow and wero upset becautsohe did not come back to them. If theyare so clever why didn't they keeptheir boys only to themselves? Thsattraction could not have been verygreat, if a man changes his mind aftera few months' absence. However, howmany Colonial girls can keep their hus-bands-when they do get them? Veryfew. Just tally up your separations,and divorces and see who averages, thoColonial married toa "Homie" or bothColonials. Thje average Colonial girl'sjob consists of pleasure hunting, nomatter at what expense to her or anyone elso, and as for choice of friendsshe does not atop to consider if hermen friends are married or single: mfact, they fascinate more if married.The Colonial girl has a lot to learn.and the Booner some of them take atrip away and travel a bit they willbenefit the quicker. Of course thereare different sorts of "Homies" and Iam not saying there are not exceptions,but this is found all the world over.Look around New Zealand and see howmany crook Colonialgirls you can find.Far more on an average than ever werefound m the Old Country. Frommvown personal experience Ihave hada wonderful time here, and have madesome very good friends of Colonials,but with those where breed distinctiondoes not exist. In conclusion ImuststateIwas not brought out here frooor as'n domestic, but my husband (myfiancee then) paid my paasago acrossand that after serving four and a ha'C,yours at the war. So you seeNew Zen"land has done none of its wonderfulcharity stunts to mo.

—Iam, etc.,

"A LONDON aiRL."Auckland. ■

'

BIFFS IN BRIEF.In some of the letters which spaco

preventsus reproducing there are somestriking allusions, aphorisms, in-nuendoes, or whatever one likes to callthem, that "Truth" readers will relish,whether Pig Islanders or Pommies."'New Zealander and Proud of It1Iswelcome to keep any of her sons if shehas any,'" writes "Contented Homie"from Kamo,North Auckland ."For mypart my experienco of some of theN.Z.men Is. they aro not worth winningm a raffle. All they want wives is forihem to go out and work for themwhile they can doll up and still saythey aro single. . . ." "Ask yourgrandfather." she continues elsewhere,"what he thinks of the other nationali-ties. Chows and Coolies, you are mak-ing welcome as spring1 flowers and giv-ing: the pick of the place to?"

"In case the warm weather shouldcause you to have another outburst,""War Bride," Palmerston North, ad-dresses "N.Z. and Proud of It," "let meadvise you to place a cabbage leafunder yourhat. PigIslander would bean appropriate signature for you. . .If yon are n\ngU\ which 1 feel sure youlire, some mnn 1» lucky; If marrlod,then unlucky."

"In many cases with the Colonialgirl." says "Homle." Chrlfltchureh. "thehusband Is merely nn after-thought.The Englishwoman la veryhouse-proud,makes her home, her husband, andfamily her Idol, while the Colonial girl,whore means will allow, will pay any-thing for a housekeeper. The Englishgirl IB thrifty while the Colonial Iswoefully extravagant."

"Homle Who Brought Her Best ManWith Her,"Hays; "Notonly the 'Homles''grumble nn<] whine,' Mr. Editor. Ifever n womancould grumble and whinethis Wellington woman can as youcan see by the letter she wrote to the'London Daily Mail1."

"Proud Bride," Khandallah, takoa"N.Z. nnd Proud of It" to tftßk over thestatement "we nro stck to death oftheir whining drawl and appalling ac-cent." "Jb thlH accont," "War Bride"replies, "any more appalling than theabominable slang so prevalent amongstColonials? From the gist of 'NewZenlunder and Proud of It's' letter, 1can only come to the conclusion thatah© Is"a person either soured and cm-blttored by an unfortunate lave affairIn which gome 'Homie' was Involved,and that she is someone left on theshelf. If thin Ih ho. Ionly hope thattho 'flomle* Kirls will come out hereall tho more and lot tho boyn out horomarry them too nnd «o give 'New Zen-lander and Proud of It* lens nnd les*chance of being taken clown from theshelf. Ifonly to be dusted."

An Infant m the KingdomTo n colored oynvort n Southern

clergyman said: "Suppose you werewalkingalon# tho road nnd saw n low-hunKtng branch and on that brancha tticv fat chicken, what would youdo?"

"Pleftue don't auk thnt quentlon.boBfl." begged the convert.

"Oh, yen. toll mo what you woulddo."

"W«.-H. hon.M, you know Vtsn only onInfantm tbu kingdom."

SAVAGE STARGAZERWallops Hit Wife

INSPIRED BY HEAVENLY BODIES.

Vagaries of a Vegetarian.

There was a remarkable separationcase before Magistrate Cutten m theAuckland Court on "Agony Day" oflast week, when Rosina Maud Parrasked that she be. permitted to liveapart from her husband and that hepay her maintenance.F, M.Parr is acarpenter, and his wife alleged crueltym numerous instances, one of whichinstance was made memorable by abroken, arm.

"This man ia an astroloslst, a the-OBophlst, and a vegetarian, and Iun-derstand his whole life has beenguided by.the stars," said Lawyer Mc-Liver, who appearedfor the wife.Com-plainant has experienceda rough spinwith Parr, said counsel, and this couldbe seen by a glance at the woman,who wore her arm m a sling, as thoresult of her husband throwing heracross a room. On another occasionhe had tried to dip her m a bath ofwater, and frequently he had threat-ened her with all manner of dire dis-aster.

Mrs. Parr said that the trouble hadfirst occurred when her hUßband bd«gun to be visited by a young lady

—a

theoßophlst. This young lady was acomplete atranger to her, and wasmoat impudent to her. Sheaikedhe*husband what the young woman camefor. and he told her that'she came toborrow £300 for a mend m oonneotlonwith a business, She did not like thisat all, and said so, and after a quarrelregarding the young woman, her hus-band seised her and threw her acrossthe room, breaking her arm. She ad-mitted that she bad struck her hus-band with a stick first, but she wasprovoked. Her husband told her thatit was ordained that she should havea brokenarm, forTHE STARS HAD TOLD HIM SO.

Then he added the cheerful informa-tion that next time it would be herneck that would be broken. She lefther husband a couple of weeks backafter having been married for 21months.

Lawyer Leary (for respondent)!'Marry m haste, repent at leisure.Didn't the first trouble with your hus-band occur because he objected to ncertain woman visiting you at thehouse?

—Yefl.

Then a man with alittle boy visitedyou. Your husband never objected tothat?— No.

But he did objeot when,you wantedto go to that man's hotel by yourself?—

That is so;Icannot tell a He,Why did you strike your husband

with a stick?—

Because he called me aliar.

The young lady you referred to wasfriendly with Mr. Parr's oon?

—Yes.

but Iobjected to her familiarity withmy husbund.

You created a scene and the younglady left the house?— -I ignored her.

You spok) for three hours and yourhusband couldn't get a word m edge-ways?

—Idid not,as true as God ismy

judge!Lawyer Leary said it did not take

Parr long after the marriage to dls-oover the true disposition of his wife,and he had taken objection to some ofthe prurient expressions whichshe wasm thehabit of using. Also he objectedto his wife's friend— a married womanwho used to remove her wedding ringand go out and meet other men. Hlawife's temper waa ungovernable

Respondent then gave evidence, andhe spoke at length on the "ungovern-able temper" of his ill-chosen partner,Her suspicions of -him wero deeplyhumiliating, and he did not Uko theuncouth mauner m which uhe ha<ltreated his innocent lady visitor. Yes,his wife was a talker, all right

—Bho

talked so much that he oftenHAD TO LEAVE THE ROOM

to give his ear-drums a rest. He hadtaken his meals, shut up Ina room byhimself, to escape fromher tongue.No,he never argued with her. He wouldtake her back home, but all the same,he did not like hor "breaking hermarriage vows." Witness denied theallegation of having attempted to give"his wifo a compulsory bath.

Lawyer McHvor then vend the fol-lowing letter,sent by respondent tohiswife a few days back:

"Madam; Iam notified that youhave received Instructions fromMasterton, and the consequencesthat will accrue if they are ignored.1 have likewise been busy at thisend, as you may be sure. You may,perhaps, think that you could turnKing's Evidence and obtain King'spardon for your share In the trans-actions, if so youare doomed to dis-appointment, Ihave, notified thepolice by telephone of a poaslblovisit from you on that score, and Itwill simply lead to your detention,and ultimata'chango of address toMt.Eden for a term of years

—six or

seven, I presume. This is not athreat

—merely an endeavour to keep

things quiet for the sake of another.The other is? the ono who will turnKing's Evidence and set pardon.There is a possibility that telephone?message may be traced to mo; if soGod help you, ror that will be theend for you.'* (Signed) Parr. "Youare getting nothing more or less thanthe reaction ofyour ownevil actionsand thoughts. Remember youaro theonemy. not me. Your astrologicalinfluences Just now lead to disgraceand ignominy. Iexpect tobo notifiedMonday or Tuesday at the latest oftho withdrawal of your contemptibleaction.""This lettor was

A BLUFF TO TRY AND FRIGHTENcomplainant from coming to Court,"mild Lawyer McLJver. who asked Pan-why he could tell that his wife wanto gvt a broken arm."I formed my opinion by the planets

and stars," said Parr.What do you mean by aaylnff In

that letter you were telephoning totho police? That's not astrology.

—No,

but it has a great deal to do with mywife's health.

Your first wife divorced you foradultery?

—Must'l answer that?

Magistrate Cutten:'Yes, you must.

Parr: You, she did.Lawyor McLlver: And you aro the

man who is so particular about yourwife keeping tho marriage vows. Areyou a vegetarian?

—Yes.

And you won't lot your wifo eatmeat?

—That's not so.

You neverhave meat In the house?-No.

You only allowed your wife 5/- aweek?

—At that time Ihad hardly t> !

stitch myself. jRespondent Bald ho could not u&y

what was tho meaningof his letter nsho "hadn't consulted the stara" thatday.

The Magistrate «ald that as.respon-dent wn« a vcjtotnrlanhis wifo had tobe one al«o, willingly or unwillingly.Ho said that

HIS WIFE'S CONDUCThud upnet him nnd ho hud üb(ml forceto her—though ho "didn't argue." HoIntroduced trouble Into the house mthe form of anothar woman, and natur-nlly hi* wifo Judged him hurahlv,knowing )Uni to havo been divorcedfor adultery. He should have beenmore circumspect In hl« conduct. Hi«Worship wondered why respondentrind tut* young lady wont to ho muchtrouble to prove their Innoconco whotithoir conduct had not Ixsen questioned.The U'ttcr, hla Wnmhlp r-onnldumJ.\v«m distinctly OtnMitnnlng. find hi-thought tlu» \vlf»* had mud«» out a clrurnml perfectly koou c:i»i\ M:i!nl<'nnn<-<>Would be fiXH) hi JL'3 n wc«»k whUtttlu« wJTe wa« nurturing from the onsetsof a brokon nrm

—a period of about

<?l«ht w*«krt to romf—

thorvnfterItnnfntennnrtt woulil hr fi\«*d nt 25 - n

WOMAN IN CASETAIHAPE'S JORMD TRAGEDY

MOGHAN'S RELATIONS WITH MURDERED MANStory Of Securing Divorce Evidence

(From "Truth's" Taihape Rep.)Hearing of the Taihape murder charge brought out the sugges-tion that Moghan, the alleged murderer of Gemmell, hadan ar-.rangement with the murdered man that the latter should com-promise Mrs. Moghan m suoh a manner that Moghan would ob-tain evidence for a divorce. This arrangement teams to havemiscarried. It is suggested that Moghan, wavering betweenjeal-ousy of Gemmell and a balked desire to make use of htm m theway suggested, finally murdered him.

Never before has the Taihape Court-house held such acrowd as that which-assembled there to hear the unfolding:of the story of the tragedy that mark-ed the opening of the New Year mthe King Country town. AnthonyMoghan was dn the dock for the pre-liminary hearing: of tho charge of-mur-der against him arising out of thefn^HU^^rôS^Tôô^19injuries, of Gordon John Gemmell,

The limited space reserved for theIpublic was packed almost to suflfbcat-in* point,but, despite sweltering heat,men and women stood all day, listen-in* to a sordid" story of sin and Ben-suallty. Wedged In among the quriounorowd waa the wifeof the accused andher lady friend. Mrs, Moghan wassmartly attired m a brand new crea-tlon of the dressmaker's art, and asparticularly oboioe tit-bits were re-vealedby witnessesshe smiled blandly.

Moghan looked thinner than usual,andhis hair had turned a littlegreyer*but otherwise he looked well; m fact,he looked physically fitter than whena free man.

Mr. Watson, S.M., was on the Bench,and with him was Mr, J. P. Atdridge,

would suit Riley, but Riley declinedthe proffered honor. Moghan saidGemmell was meeting his wife andanother womanevery day hedrove thecows to water. Riloy told the samestory as the other witnesses about thejollification, making the Irishism "thathe helped to milk the cows, but didnot knowif they milked them or not."H°W RrLE* DISCOVERED THE

pRUrnn ■

*-*wai&.On the morningof January 3 witness

woke early and left his whare, five orBtx ohains away from Moghah's shack,

f» c saw Moghan stooping down mfront of ,the verandah. At witness'sapproach Moghan said, "Come and lookat what I'vo done.Bob. I'vekilled the-*~~ rotter, and he won't interfere withniy wife again." The body of Qemmellwaa lying against the tree. Moghan'*wf«» RUey to give him a hand tobury the body, but Rlley said, "Not ony°w M*e» I'll ring up the old ssr-sewrt,' Moghan hereupon threatenedto <*o for him. RUey did not wait tonear more. He ran to Spooner's, wherene n&d the message sent that Tal-nape's first murder had been commit-ted. When going into Taihape withthe police and Moghan. ho (Moghttn)said to the constable, "I'vekilled Gem-mell. Riley had nothing to do with It.He struck me first,didn't he.Bob?" Inadmitting that he was locked up for,the day, Riley said he did not knowwhether he or the policeman wasdrunk. When he saw Moghan nearGemmell'3 body ho would say thatMoghan was more mad than drunk.He last saw Gemmell alive on themorning of January 2.

J.P., In his coronlal capacity* for theinquest and lower Court trial woretaken simultaneously. Lawyers Husseyand Ongley appeared for accused, butit is understood that one of Welling-ton's leading criminal lawyers is toconduct the defence when it comesbefore the Supreme Court,

Superintendent Fouhy, of Wanga-nul, conducted the case for the police."DOWN AT THE RTVER WITH THE

WOMEN."William Oliver, a shearer, set tho

ball rolling by Btatlng that he workedduring the month of December forMoghan, and"one day he asked whereGemmell was, andMoghan said,"Ho isdown at ihO river with tho women,"the women presumably being Mo?---han's wife and a companion, Mrs. Bait.Moghan told Gemmell that ho wouldhave to do his work better or clear out,and Gemmell said, "Righto! Ican gota Job down at the works." On theSaturday prior to the murder Moghanand Gemmell had words, and this,witness thought, was over the women.Moghan accused Gemmell of knowinghis wife m a house of ill-famo m Wel-lington.

Tho next witness was 11. Shorbourne.who testified that after Moghan wasHepitrated from his wife he on© dnydeclared that she wanted to comeback, but that he (Moghan) wvb notgoing to have her back, and would notpay any more maintenance. Mrs.Moghan had called at witness's to seeIf she could rent a room, but Sher-bourno did not let her have the room.s.Moghan expressed regret thereat, asit would be convenient for him to j?eta dlvoreo from Mrs. Moghan If. shestayed at witness's place.

TO CATCH THEM TOGETHER.John Jnckson, an unkempt, wild-

looking native, commonly known n»"Maori Jack." told m tnu» Maori fauh-lon a tale which the sweltering crowdno doubt conßidered fitting recompeuHefor their discomfort. Jackson's talewas of a glorious enrousal, of the con-sumption of so much boer thnt he didnot know when the cows were milked,or whether they were milked at nil.

A few days prior to the tragedyMoghan askecf him to go for adrive with him, and Jackson con-tented. They drove to the dam,where Moghan said he expected tocatch Gemmoll and Mrs. Moghantogether.- Moghan hud arrangedwith Gemmell to give a signal, sothat the two could be caught m" compromising situation, butGemmell failed to keep to hispartof the bargain, and Jackson andMoghan had to go home withoutthe muoh desired evidence.

New Year's Day at Moghftn's wasdrunkenly celebrated by Gemmoll.Moghan, Riloy, and witness, for, atRlley's suggestion, thoy agreed tomake a day of it. Seven gnllons ofbeer, two quart bottles of whisky, andtwo bottles of rura were procured, and

'they proceeded to make merry. Riloy.Gemmcll, and witness occupied thoone bed. and on Wednesday morningMoghan and Riloy milked the cowswhile Gemmcll and Jackson alupt offtho effects of the liquor.ACCUSES GEMMELL OR "CARRY-ING ON."

Then, once again. Moghan necußodQemmell of carrying on with hln wife,but Gemmell denied this. Wltnoottwalked on to tho verandah, and laivrheard »omodnd Hing out, Moghnnwalked nwtiy from whero aommeH wu«lying down, and a few mlnutea laterGtramell got up and said, "I think thatyou havo broken my arm. Andy"Moffhan ropHod. 'Til break your ~-~ncok, you , before I'vo finishedwith you." Jaektion ln«t «tw Gemmollnlhi' m bed before h«> iJctck*o») wontout with Hufrtft cuttle. Mogimn waslh««n umU»r thtt inOuenco of liquor.

Robert Riloy. who tlrut gav# thoworld new* of the murder, told ofMoghan'B tlpttlro to get a divorce fromhis wife. twyl!i# that he had p.-il«3O«mm«'U £H0 or tet) to p<» to \Wi-linßton to ctttoh hi»« wlfi« on th«»inr«-*-{r*. Moictum nlnu ni:ute U)rluslnuatiou that sh« iMrs, Mogbiin)

A NEIGHBOR'S EVIDENCE.James Banks, a neighboring farmer,

deposed that on the afternoon of Janu-ary 2, at about 3.30 p.m., ho wasworkingm his potato patch some 300yards from Moghan's place, when hosaw Moghan pick a mnn up. but ho<*jd not know who the man was. Theman laid down In the same place.Moghan then went into tho house andcame out with Mnorl Jack. He sawthe man try to rise after Moglân andMaori Jack left. Moghan picked theman up when he came back and wenttowards the house with him. Ho couldnot say it he took tho man into thehouse. Ho had not seen Genimoll thatday, and ho could not say it Moghanwas drunk.

Sergeant Matthews, In the course ofhis evidence, said that Moghan metConstable Geraghty and himself at thogate and gave himself m charge, Onreaching tho body and removing somesacking from the face, Moghan said,"The dogs must have been at it dur»ing tho night,"

MOGHAN'S SELF-DEFENCE&TORY.

Tho sergeant then went on to roadMoghan's signed statement, whichread as follows:-— "I,Anthony Moghan.ofßaukura, farmer, wlßh to make thofollowing statement: A man namedR. O. Rtley, who la employed by tne,informed me yesterday that deceasedGemmell. and a Maori named JohnJackson,' commonly known as MaoriJack, had planned to kill me. Gem-xnell was m my house at tho time.Riley and Icame from the cowshed,and on entering the kitohen Gemmellcalled mo 'a

— —Irian-bred mongrel-—

.* He made thla Btatement severaltimes, and then rushed at me, Iguarded and struck hltn with my flat;he struck at me first, and Ihit him mself-defence. Ho hit mo twice on thoohest. Thtj happened early In theafternoon. Ihad pcild Qemmell off onJanuary 1, 1924. Ho refused to leavethe place. Lotor m the evening1 Rlleyand Ifound Gemmoll lying on thoground In front of my house. Ho wasInsensible, and we tried to bring himround, but ho did not come round. Isent Rlley to ring up for tho pollreand a doctor. Ho went to Hunks'splace to ring up. but ho was away. Hothen went away,and 1told him to goInto Talhapo and Inform the police anda doctor. Ihave read the attachedstatomont, which is true, and la -madoat my own request."When Moghan met them at the gnteho appeared to bo Ina worried stato,continued the sergeant.

Constable Geraghty said that whenbringing Moghan and Rtley Into thelock-up Moghan twice asserted thatho struck Qcmmcll m self-defencebut Rlley answered. "T cannot saswhether you struck him or not. If youdid you will have to put up with th«consequences."

Medical evidence ns to the tprrlfy-Ing Injuries "received by deceased wasgiven on the lines of "Truth's" curlierreport.

MOQIIAN SAYS NOTHING.Moghan was anked to Htnnd up and

make a statement If ho'wished, butl\o had nothing to any.

Mr. HiiHHey nulced If Moghan wouldhe sent to the WellingtonOuol to utvalthis trial, ro that accused could be nearhit* counsel.

Inspector Pouhy 9bjected on behalfof the police, giving ns a reason th«extra expen«o m trniiflportlngMoghanbetween Wnnganul and Welilngtqn.

lawyer Hu«s»?y: Iwill nak the de-partment to transfer accused to Wt»l«llngton.

The R.M. nproed that thla would betho beHt course to adopt, so thatMoghan will be sent to Wangnnul Gaol,and it remains for tho Justice Dt>pnrt-ment to decide nn to whether ho willremain there or bo sent to Wellington.

The S.M.: Aecußed 1« committed tothe next Rlttlng of the Wanganll Su-preme Court for trial.

The Coroner'B verdict was that do-ceaned mot hl« death from injuries re-colved at tho hands of Moghan.

MAGISTRATE PAGE'

(Wellington.)"Judge not tho play before the play

Is done; *'The last act crowns tho play."

—Quarles.

RECONCILIATION WITH WIFE.

She Visits Moohan m Gaol.

Will Arranga to b« Near Him,

Moghan hftß been trannforred *oWellington Gaol, to be noftr hl« coun-sel. Mr. If.O'Leary.

After tho trlaj on Frldny Mo«hanf«wlfo nskod to nee MoKhan. and herrequest wns Rrantcd by Afogh.'tn.

Reconciliation followed. Mrs.Motfbanh«v« loft Taihapo. ftiut it U umUTHtoo'lshe will reside wherever Moghan laIncarcerated.

UrcdSC—SATTJRDAY, FEBRUARY % 1924, 5

He Wouldn't Make it.AnIrritable old aporUmnnwaanrmm-

ed from his bod at 3 o'clock m tl?i»morningby the ln»tatent ringing of !>*»doorbell. On answering he found a«oedy drunkard struggling hard tomaintnin hln equilibrium.

-What do you mean by n-aklne motip at thlH hour?"

"Inh yoh Mr. Snilthors?"'"Vf.s, yt-s. What of U?"'"Ffh you l.ho k<-jil wlmt adwrflsed

for a i»;irtrn*r to ko Ho" huntln1 mAfrica?" „., .

"V"."!«. I'm ihf R«»ntl«»man. nlm) noyou w*nt toknow nbou? It?"

"Nothln'. «*t>ptln* f Jnnt wutitptl totell you that en no condUhunt \rhatao-ever will I10 with you."

COMPLAISANT WIFEConcubinage Story

As Told to Hamilton Magistrate.

(From "Truth's" Hamilton Rep.)The extraordinarylengths to which a

single womanJs alleged to have goneto hide her shame and to conceal theidentity of the father of her childrenwas toldbefore Mr.H. A. Young, S.M.,at Hamilton, last week, when AnniePitkeathley, aged 3S, was charged withfalsifying two birth certificates.

According to the police, accused re-gistered two illegitimate children, onem Hamilton m 1920 and.the second mCambridge last year,andm both casesshe is declared to have stated that shewas.a married woman, m one instancecalling'herself Mrs. Annie Jackson andm the other Mrs. Annie Perry. Itwasshown that she left the home of herparentsm Grey Lynn,Auckland, short-lybefore the war,allegedly witha mar-ried man named Rose.N- Since thattime she has lived at various placeswith Mr. and Mrs. Rose, more latterlyat Rirriu Street, Frahkton

'Junction;and at Pukekohe with Rose alone. Inall, she was declared to have hadFOUR ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN,the police having been unable to tracethe registration of two of them. On.July 9, 1920, she called at the office ofthe Registrar of BJrths at Hamiltonand registereda baby girl as Ivy MayJackson, declaring its father's name tobe Walter Jackson, who she describedas an engineer of Christchurch. Shegave the date and place of her mar-riage as ThamesonJune 20, 1916. Shelater advertised In the- Waikato"Times" for a home for her baby, theadvertisement being answered by amarried woman named Lily GertrudeRobinson, of Claudelands, who wascalled on by the woman and the manRose, the latter stating that he wasaccused's father, and that her husbandhad died about six months before thebirth of the child. Rose arranged topay Mrs. Robinson ,25/- a week forthe child's care and keep. He said his"daughter's" name was Mrs. Jacksonand the child's Ivy May Jackson.

In March, 1922, a man styling him-self John Murray, called at NursoRussell's nursing home, Cambridge,and said he wanted to make arrange-ments for the nursingof his daughter,who was about to be confined andwhose husband had been killed m amotor accident about six months be-fore. He declared that his daughter'sname was Mrs. Perry. The necessaryarrangements were ||.made" and "Mrs.Perry" duly came,along and remainedIn the home for five weekabefore the"event" happened. A|fter» the birth ofthe child, she remained for a fur-ther five weeks and then departed,leaving the Infant m the care of thenurso. ■

' ' .■..,-.

THE BABY WAS IÔT REMOVEDuntil July, 1923, after the police hadstarted to make inquiries, the nurse mthe meantime having received only £ &m payment for its keep and the con-finement expenses, although a mancalled and did certain repairs to thehouse, whioh he neveir completed, andwhich he saidwere tohelp to liquidatethe expenses. The man, who repre-sented himself to be Jack Murray, thewoman's father, was Identifiedby wit-ness as Rose. ,

When the police started to make in-quiries into the case m April of lastyear, they found that accused was liv-ing with Rose and hlisi wife at Frank-ton, when they were told that she wasabout to bo confined. In view of thisinformation they decided to issue asummons m substitution of tho war-rant already drawn out. When theywent to serve tho summons, however,they found that the woman and Rosehad disappeared without leaving anyaddress and it was only after con-siderable trouble that they were tracedto Pukekohe where they were livingmthe samo house, accused posing asRose's housekeeper. The police ob-tained a statement from accused, mwhich sho signed herself "Annie Rose,"and In which she gave descriptions ofthe alleged fathers of the two childrenIn respect of whom tho charges arose.She also declared tho names of thechildren as entered m the birth certi-ficates to be their correct ones.

A brother-in-law of accused, JosephAlfred Smlthson, identified accused asAnnie Pitkeathley.

Helen Mary Russell, who keeps anursing home at Cambridge, said thatm Marrh, 1922, a man called tfn her,giving nls nameas Murray and saidhewanted to make arrangements for thenursing, during confinement, of hismarried daughter, Mrs. Perry. Whenthe woman arrived, shortly after-wards, sheCA.LL.ED HERSDLF »IRS. PERRT.It Wflfl not until sho had been In thehome Tor flvo weeks that the. confine-ment took place, when sho gave birthto a female child, Sho remained on atthe home for a further flvo weeks andthen loft for Putaruru, whore sho saidBho was going to try andpet work. Thochild was left behindm witness's care.Ta.e woman, whom witness recognisedas accused, called on two occasion**later to see thochild. Witness receiv-ed m all £3 Incash towards the ex-penses of confinement and tho child'skeep. In December, 1922, witnessheard that accused wan working at acertain boardlnghouso In Hamilton andsent her a letter. As this was not re-turned, she presumed that accusedmust have rocelved It. IShe did not seeor hear any more of accused until thomatter was reported to tho pollco, InFebruary of lost year. The child wastaken away by accused and a womangiving her name as Mrs. Rose, In Julyof last year.

Detective Ctiiloty asked witness ifshe recognised m Court tho man whogave his name na Murray nnd whomade arrangemonts for the conflnb-inent. Witness pointed to Rose.

Mr. Johnson, for accused, objected tothis evldenco going m, but his Worshipdidnot allow tho objection.

In' answer40 Mr. Johnson, witnessdenied that sho had received a sum of£20 from accused. She certainly hadcertain work done nt the house by vman who promised but toiled to comeand finish it. After tho

POLICE INQUIRIEShad boon set on foo^ she received ftletter from a firm of solicitors acting:for accused and as a result of this sheropJiod stating that »be Would not re-

Iquireanypayment if the mother wouldcomeand remove the child. She (wit-ness) wasm ill-health at the time andcould not attend to the infant. Themother and Mrs. Rose then called andtook the child away. . .

Detective Culloty said that m Aprilof last year he interviewed accusedwith reference to the child Jeft atNurse Russell's. Accused then made a.statemerity which was written down,!read over to and then handed accusedto read and sign. In this she statedthat her name was "Annie Rose" andthat she was asingle girl,residing withher parents at Rimu Street, Frankton.On April 18, 1922, she gave birth to afemale child, whose father's name wasCharles Perry. She stated thatTHE FATHER WAS AN ENGINEERby trade, that hebelonged to Maitland,Australia, and that she had not seenhim since the birth. The child wasillegitimate. Her father was not the~man who made arrangements for theconfinement, but a man named JackMurray. She had kept company withPerry for two years prior to the birth.Murray had paid some money,to NurseRussell for the child's maintenance.She had not seen Murray since. Sheadded m this statement that sfie hadan adopted sister named Ivy May Rosennd that her father had made the ar-rangements for its adoption."v Accused, who is a somewhat fraillittle woman, looking fully her age,when asked to plead, said "not guilty"m a small, timid voice.

-She was committed to standher trial

at Hamilton Supreme Court m Feb-ruary.

When the question of admitting ac-cused to bail arose, Mr. Johnson, afterdiscussion, said he thought he couldget Mrs. Rose to act as suretyfor bail. This lead would indicate thoamicable relationship of the parties.

His Worship: Mrs. Rose Is apparent-ly a very accommodating woman.

Bail was fixedm two sureties of £50.Mr.' Johnson then sought to have the

aliases assumed by accused, suppress-ed, but his Worship refused the re-quest. -

SEXUAL SMITHERSWilful Obscene Exposure

Menace To TemporarilyRemoved. »

If Henry Robert Charles AlbertSmlthers thought that the police hadforgotten his dirty past that gentle-man of wicked ways was sadly mis-taken when Chief Detective Cameronjogged Smlthers'a memory at theMagistrate's Court, Wellington, onThursday last. Itwas quite Interest-ing to' listen to what the Chief hap-pened to know about the Smlthers per-son, and what he did know was notthe class of stun! that was likely toback up the opinion that the prisonerpossessed of himself.

Smlthors, whose likeness appearshereunder, was charged with wilfullyand obscenely exposing his person mLevy Street to a respectable womanwho was on her way home from workabout Q p.m. on December 17, 1923.

A few days ago Smithers was re-manded to appear at ' the SupremeCourt after the hearing of a similarcharge to the one which ho was calledupon to answer on Thursday. Thowoman who had been insulted by thisdegenerate on December 17 noticedthat a man had been arrested by thepolice, and sho wont to the Police Sta-tion and told her 'story. After hear-ing her statement the police paradedeight men, including Smithers, and thewoman was asked to pick out the per-Bon who had paid her such degradingattontton.

As tho accused wears glasses thepolice wero considerate enough toplixce m the line for Identification fourother men who also wore glasses, buttho woman soon picked out the offen-der from this bunch and Mr. Smith-ers was then told that ho was chargedwith the offence already described.Itappears that tho woman was going

home alongLevy Street »vhon she sawaccused approaching her. Ho was Intho act of disarranging hi? clothes, andufter exposing himself l'nssed a fewdreadfully filthy and t.UKgestlvo re-murks to her. Sho w*a very upset,pud for the moment thought that thisundesirablespecimen of humanity wasKoltig to enten hold of 1er. She »ob-blngly told her mory of how «he runhomo nnd told her brother, who wuntout In 'search of Bmlth'.TS.

When Smllhers, who wts representedby lawyer TurnIn, wan placed In thebox, he stood there with mi nlr of oneof the innocent*, but bi-foro long th»»"found out" expression itole o'er hi*features, and an. th<« ("iilof-Detective.Introduced a list of pn v.'ouh chargesnnd convictions from -i hefty chargesheet, Hmltherfl'H boldness disappear-ed nnd his head hun« m dixgruce.

Mn^JHtnite Vuga did not believe Uilmdegenerated juotynnd m:empted bluff,and nentenctd Smllher.t to twelvemonths' hard labor, thus j.uUlhk a nui-annce to society away for the Umobeing.

H. R. C. A. SMITHERS,

INTERFERING PARENTSSEEK TO SEPARATE DAUGHTER FROM HUSBAND

SEQUEL TO A MARRIAGE AT SIXTEENWife Clings to Home and Children

(From "Truth's" Taranaki Rep.)A case whichmust be one of the most remarkablem the annalsof the Courts of New Zealand, and which wouldhave taxed thewisdom of Solomon came before Magistrate A. M. Mowlem atNew Plymouth last week. It was nothing less than an applica-tion by .legally interfering parents asking the Court to separatetheir twenty-six-year-old daughter from her lawfully weddedhusband m direct defiance'of the wishes of thedaughterherself,who had repeatedly told them, and also told the Court, that shewas perfectly happy and wished to live with her husband andchildren. Despite the protests of the girl, the parents had itfirmly fixed m their minds that she was under thedomination ofthe husband, and it was on the grounds that they werd actingm her best interests that they brought the case to the Court.

After an all-day sitting the appli-cation was dismissed, the Magistrateremarking, however, that the parentshad appeared to have some measureof justification m bringing the suit.

The plaintiff m this remarkableaction was Rodger Edward FairEax-Cholmeley, inspector m the PublicTrust Office, and resident at BellBlock, just outside of New Plymouth.William- Stockman, farmer, of Oaonui,was the defendant: it was he whomthe Fairfax-Cholmeleyswerenot proudto have asson-in-law.

I The action was brought under theDestitute Persons Act, the parentsasking that their daughter Hilda beseparated from Stockman on thegrounds of failing to providemainten-ance and persistent cruelty. Mainten-ance and guardianship orders werealso applied for, an application, m ad-dition, being made for an order thatStockman/ should keep the peace to-wards his wife's people.'- *

FOUR CHILDREN OP THHMARRIAGE.

In 1914 Bill and the girl, who wasthen only16, cleared out ana got mar-ried at a registry office without theconsent of the parents. There werefour children of the marriage* three ofthem being mCourt,and bohnie kids,fond of their dad andmum, they look-ed, too.

In opening his case, Mr. C. H.Croker, who appeared for the Interfer-ing parents, said that the action wasextraordinary m that the proceedingshad been taken by the father, and Mr.A. A. Bennett (who represented theyoung couple) had been correct Insaying that the woman\dldnot desireto be separated from her husband.-Mr. Then how can the

Court separate them?Mr. Croker: Iwill put it to you that

the Court has a duty to humanity dhdto the wife. The wife, who hafl beenmarried to Stockman for ten years, isso under his domination and 80 terri-fied that she is afraid to do anythingalone. The Court willhave to consldwrvery carefully m the light of what thewife, who has been subpoenaed by theplaintiff, may or may not say m thebox, whether it is not the duty of thaCourt, m spite of what she says, toorder at least temporary separation,so that she may be free from,net* hus-band and better able to decide whatshe is going to do."PROSTITUTION"— AN UNREAD

LETTER.Continuing, Mr. Croker said that a

letter would be produced m Courtwhich, If -it was not an instructionfrom the husband to his wife tellingher to go m for prostitution, wasnothing at all.

In the box, Rodger Edward Falrfax-Cholmeley, plaintiff, said that alittle while ago, when m Welling-ton, he received an urgent telegram tocome home, and was shown the lettermentioned by counsel. Itwas writtenby his daughter, and to the best,of hisbelief was signed by Stockman. (Theletter was handed to the Court, butwas not read out.) He then consideredthat it was his duty as a father to act.Ho knew that if he went to Oaonui tobring his daughter home there was aprobability of trouble with defendantStockman, so his wife and a friendwent down. They came back withoutthe girl.

Cross-examined by Mr. Bennett,wit-ness said that the whole of the furni-ture In their daughter's house aftershe was married had been supplied byhjm. and his wife. . , \

BLACK EYES AND BRUISES.Alice Mary Fairfax Cholmeley, the

wife ef the previous witness, said thather suspicions concerning the way mwhich her daughter was being treatedhad been verified by the statements ofthe girl to her. When she saw theletter that was not "exceedingly nice"she advised the daughter tocome homewith ''her, the girl saying that she hadalready made arrangements to do so.She bad seen the girl with a black eyeand bruised legs, for which she badsaid that her husband was responsible,although previously she had said thatthey were sustained while she wasmilking cows.

Recounting: her visit to the farm atOaonul, when the daughter was tocome away with her. the witness saidthat after getting: Into the motor carStockman had come up and had askedher to go back, the daughter givingway. He had asked his wife m wit-ness's presence why she had alwayslied to him, the wife replying that shehad done so because he had been socruel. Stockman then promised thathe would not be cruel again. The wit-ness Identified a number of lettersfrom her daughter, remarking on thedifference m tone between some ofthem. She believed that some of theletters had been written under dicta-tion. vLOVES MOTHER BUT DEFENDS

HUSBAND.Mr. Croker then called the young

wife, who handed the youngest childover to her husband while she enteredthe witness box. Shod m sandals andattired m a simple dross over whichshe wore a blue Jersey coat, with ntlght-Altlng woollen hat on her head,she leaned on the box with her handto her mouth for three or four hourswhile she fought for the right to livewith husband and children, A emailevidence of property was a gold wristwatch and a nendant suspended bya chain round her neck. Two or threetimes sho wept. That she loved hermother was made plain by the way mwhich she embraced her during thetwo adjournments which were made.

The girl's evidenco was given almostentirely In the form of answers toquestions put to her by Mr. Croker.Sho denied ever having complained ofthe way m which her husband hadtreated her. The reason why she hadasked her mother to visit her wns be-cause sho was very fond of normother. "I consult my mummy oneverything." she said.

The particular Jotter In whVh herhUflhiind wassupposed to have instruct-ed her to bo a party to n certain acthad boon written by thorn In fun.They had been reading a report of adivorce enso where something similarhad occurred and for fun they hailwritten tho letter between thorn, herhusband tuning It. She thought Iehad been burnt rnontliH ago. She hadno knowledge that It wastm the poH-|«c-88lon of her mother until she learnt!of the fact In tho court that day. Sho|nuHolutcly denied ever having shownthe Utter to her .mother or Hiving itto her. Her mother must luivo taken

lit away, ulthough hlip was ntiro hermother would not polco about theliOUHe.

UKNIAIi OP LKTTF.R-WniTlNaConcerning the loiter to l>er father,

tho young wif« admitted having writ- j

ten some of the remarks but deniedhaving written others. Mr. Crokerwas proceeding to go through the let-ters when Mrs. Stockman said: "As Idesire to live with my husband. andmy children, Ido not see the necessityof going through those letters, doyou?" Continuing m reply to counsel,the witness couldnot explain what she

vmeant by her remarks m other lettersthat her husband had promised not toilltreat her. "If these. Is going to beany separation," she said, "it is notgoing to be between my!husband andI. lam quite happy with him and

[ want to be with him and my children."A long letter couched m most en-

dearing terms, referring to the crueltyof,Stockman and stating that she wasfrightened to leave on account of therevenge he might take, was read bycounsel to the witness, but she deniedhaving written it. Pressed by Mr.Croker the witness reiterated her ne-nial, continuing to deny authorshipwhen questioned by the Magistrate.

Mr. Mowlem warned her to be verycareful of what she said and asked

1her if she appreciated what she wassaying. Having the other lettershanded to her, she was questioned bythe Magistrate concerning each one.Some she admitted having written,and of one she said fine had no recol-lection. When it came to the letter Indispute, she again denied authorship.

Continuing, the witness said thatsometimes she had regarded Stock-man's remarks to her as being verycruel, but afterwards, when shethought over things, she had come tothe conclusion that they were notcruel. .That was what she meant whenIshe said he had bee"n cruel. When shehad accompanied her mother to thecar she had intended to go away foronly two or three -*-<vs, because herhusband had been angry with her.She had intended to return. Her hus-band once told her she could go awayif she wanted to. Neither the bruisedeye nor the bruises on her legs hadbeencaused by her husband. Her hus-band had once pushed her from oneside of the shed to the othe"r but nothard enough to make her fall. *

Cross-examined by Mr. Bennett,IMrs. Stockman said that it was notat her wish the proceedings had beentaken. She had nodesire tobe separa-ted from her husband.

Do you love your husband?— Yes.Does he love you?

—Iam sure he

does.Mr. Mowlem then asked the \rife if

she wanted a separation from her.husband. ,

"I want to go home with him," shereplied.

"IfImake an order that you and hebe separated will you obey that or-der?" Mr. Mowlem asked."Idon't want to obey ft." ■

- ""Under those circumstances Ishall

certainly refrain from making anorder," Mr. Mowlem said. After com-menting on the futility of making anorder which would not and need notbe obeyed, the Magistrate added thathe was perfectly satisfied

—he was

persuaded— that «the Fairfax-Cholm-eleys,m taking the step they had, hadacted m;what they thought to be thebest interests of their child out ofthe love they bore for her. Itappearedto him that they had had some solidground on which to reßt their applica-tion for separation.

CAUTION TO HUSBAND.The Magistrate added that Mrs.

Stockman's own evidence had shownthat Stockman had done things whichno real husband would do, unless, ofcourse, he did them on the spur ofthe moment and without thought. Hewould give him the credit of aayingthat probably It was done withoutreally understanding what he was do-ing. As a father, the threatening ofhis daughter with a stockwhip, Mr.Mowlem said, would appear to him tobe good ground for plaintiff's goingto the Courts and asking for a sep-nratlon for his daughter. One ex-tremely pleasing feature of the casewns that the Interests of the childrenappeared to be thoroughly well lookedafter.

The application that Stockmanshouldbe bound over to keep the peace wasnlso dismissed, Mr. Bennett under-taking to tell him candidly whatwould happen if he became obstreper-ous towards his wife'B relatives.

School Teacher's FallFortunately, it is rarely Indeed that

tho Nelson Court has before It casesof such a painful nature as that dealtwith by^Magistrate Maunscll last week,when as young slnglo man. HubertReginald Holdaway. a school teacheron the staff of the Boys' Central School,pleaded guilty to three charges of in-decent assault on boys, whose agesranged from 12 to 16 years.

The arrest of accused caused a pro-found sensation among his friends andassociates, as hitherto his characterhas been looked upon as beyond re-proach. A prominent member of thelocal Methodist Church, leader of theBlblo Class, and prominently connect-ed with all movements having for theirobject the welfare of the young, it isputting it mildly to say that the arrestcaused a considerable stir. At the timeof his apprehension Holdaway was ontour at Murchison with a party ofyoung Bible students. When broughtbefore the Court accused franklypleaded guilty to all the offences al-leged, and was committed to theSupreme Court at Wellington for aen-tence. _______________MISSING AUCKLAND BANKRUPT.

An Arrest In Malbourno.

News comes from Auckland that aman believed to be George Norrlji.builder, has been arrested m Mel-bourne. Georfjo Norrls disappearedfrom Auckland m tho earlier part oflast year.*

The Official Assignee then istnteilthat the unsecured claims ngalnHtKorrls totalled £3556, m addition toliens againxt contractH. As fur us hocould »cc thero whh not a brass far-thing for ordinary creditors.

Tho man arrested m Melbourne hasbeen In custody for a fortnight await-ing proof of identity.

QUERIES AND QUANDARIES"Truth" Would Like To

Know—Whether the ,Ne\y Zealand, Labor

Party's endorsement of the "greatleader Lenin" Includes an endorsementof his policy of terrorism,' and "whetherany terrorist party is fit to govern ma democracy? The British Laborleaders are not found peddling theRed trash that pleases Holland." Whether the future of the sawmill-ing industry belongs to the big manentirely, or whether the small man isto have a chance?- Small,man has nochance if the tramway that representsthe only transport is closed againsthim.

Who was responsible for the tacticalblunder of arranging that admissionto the Priminister's Wellington wel-come on Wednesday should be "byticket only?" It was surely an occa-sion upon which every decent citizencould be relied upon to behave him-self. .

Why, if the Reform Party wished togive a purely Reform welcome to itsBig Chief, it did not do so withoutmaking so much fuss about excludingpossible undesirables?"

-Whether the new Labor Secretary

for the Colonies, Mr. J. H. Thomas,has ever struck a finer blow for Laborthan his Australia Day tribute, toRoyalty? Contrast this with P^terFraser's limelight trick of refusing tosign,Wellington's address of welcome,to tlie Prince of Wales.

Whether all la well within the pre-cincts of the Wellington Racing Club?If members are satisfied with tho

treatment they arereceiving?If one has to be with the heads to

get privileges that rightly belong toair members?

Whether the money being spent onthe new stand is not causing a lot oftalk among members?

How the Railway Department's biglog-getting (King Country) and house-building (Frankton) adventure Is get-ting on? The' (rain-loads of logssent from Taumarunul daily look likebusiness.

Whether the striking railwaymen InEngland have managed things well mdeferring the settlement until the newLabor Governmentcamem to composethe difference and secure the kudos?.Whether France's possession of aduelling Premier increases the pros-pects of international amity?

Whether (see "Truth's" front pagecartoon) the Labor whale has charge,jof the boat or tbe boat has charge ofthe whale?

How much revenue the Governmenthas derived during the holiday seasonby the additional charge imposed uponusers of the Otlra tunnel, owing to Itstill being under the control of thePublic Works Department; and whenthe long-delayed transfer to the Rail-way'Department, and consequent re-duction m charges, will eventuate?

Whether the Lands Departmentcould make better arrangements forthe farming of cut-over areasm bushdistricts, such as the King Country?The interval between timber-cuttingand farming is sometimes so longthat the land becomes depreciated,even ruined, by second growth.

Whether it is true that deer aregetting into the 600 acres of virginbush (a botanic treasure) reserved atOhakune on the Ruapehu mountain

Itrack, and whether the time has ar-rived for the .Government to come toa policy decision on the effect ofbrowsingby deer m forests generally?

Now that the Priminister and theOpposition Leader are both back, whois going to get most backing?

Whether Ramsay Macdonald is notentitled to the public's beat wishes"inhis tilt at the Press Trust? But,concerning the prosecuting of "poi-soned publicity," who is to be judge ofwhat ispoloon and what is meat?

Which of the projected railways willreach' Lake Taupo first— the privatelino of the Tongariro Timber Com-pany or the Government extension ofRotorua railway (survey of which isnow said to be m hand)?

Whether Lord Chelmsford's inclusionm the British Labor Cabinet meansretention of the Singapore Naval Basescheme? Note well that Chelxnsfordhas been Viceroy of India, as well asBtate Governor m New South Walesand Queensland,an.d he 1b not the manto accept without examination anypolicy of "scuttle" In the East.

Whether tramway motormen opentho cabin doors for pretty girls be-cause it is their duty to do bo, orwhether they do it for the pleasure ofthe thing?If they'd put themselves about to do

tho same thing for "Truth's" GrandDad?

Whether, now that it has sanctionedan £80,000 loan for hydro-electrical|purposes, Greymouth will display amore intelligent interest m electricalmatters? Or whether it will adopt Ususual policy of saying nothing untilit thinks it la time to criticise the

I labors of those it hasn't helped?Whether the United States Oil Scan-

dal can bo kept below flash-point,and, if not. whether the explosion thatis duo will wreck the Republicanchances of tho Presidency? The thingseems to centre m ex-Secretory Fall.App-iently Fall fell.If it's a noticeable fact that some

drapery concerns contribute towardswomen's kleptomanlacal tendencies, bythe manner m which these firms dis-play their goods unattended by shopassistants?

Whether tho Wellington TramwayslugiraKO,delivery service from thoLyttelton Ferry Wharf

—which is de-

scribed m tho A.B.C. booklet as being"inexpensive"

—is "Inexpensive" for the

"customer" or the "Tramways?" And,if so, why not?

Whether it wouldn't save the policea heap of unnecessary bother If busi-ness pooplo and others refused chequesfrom people whom they "don't know"until they see them m the 'dock?"If long skirts have come to stay; or

is Itonly a flicker of fashion?If It wasbecause Bill Maeaey always

considers himself "Christmas" thatsome understanding folk presentedthat gent with a Christmas pudding?

Or did they think our William lookedas if he could do with a good binder?If tho health Inspector ever has a

look round some of the alley-waysand obscure back entrances to ncme ofWellington's business premises? One,m particular, leading into a picturetheatre, is always strewn with refuge.For a couple of days a dead fowl laym the centre of tho pathway.

How many members of the BlbloOUisb it requlrcH to clip the hedge ofSt. John'H Church, Wellington?

Whether it \h not a crime to ucllCalifornia!! oranges at fourpenc<\ nn<Jbad at that? If this orange, naturallya good keeper, Is being held m ordsrto keep the price vp

—hold until th«

fruit rol» m Its paper covering. Bur«j--ly someone, wants shaking up.

Why the Lambton utatlonmnnter'aolllco is olwoyn out of railway time-tables?

Who the member of Parliament InDuuedlrc wan who nuido an etutouvorto «upprtvtH the publication of theDenml School Commission report mone of the local UulUen?

Whether the people of Dun»(lln arejustified Id j»«yln*f thai one of ihe hemlnof the J>entni School m mure IniwrantedIn a stud cattle farm than he m mtho ufTulm of tho ttvhuolV

OUTRAGE AND MURDERCHILD WAYLAID IN A COUNTRY LANE

DEAD BODY FOUND BY BIRDNESTCRSTerrible Sorrow m a Poverty Bay Home

(From "Truth's" Gisborne Rep.) ,

One of the most callous and brutalmurdersm the history of NewZealand was perpetrated here on Monday.night when GwendolineKathleen Murray, a child 11 years of age," was foully done to

.deathnear Makaraka,after being raped by some person unknown.The sceneof the crime is about four

miles from Glsborne and close to theMakaraka Cemetery. The little girllived about a mile and a half from thetownship of Makaraka, and was sentthere to get the mail. She left homeabout half past fiveandgot to the PostOffice shortly before eight o'clock.!After playingalong the roadwithsomechildren she evidently started forihome andon the way had topass downa dark lane, flanked on one side bytrees.

It was down this lane, about 200yards from the main road, that shemet her violent death,, under aspreading Wellingtonia tree.The body of the murdered child was

found about ten o'clock on Tuesdaymorning by some children who werelooking for birds' eggs. They ran intothe sexton's house and raised thealarm. The sexton immediately com-municated with the police.

Detective McLeod and ConstableThompson were hurried to the scene.

The poor little child lay under a treewith all her clothing disarranged andit was evident that before being mur-dered she was brutallyoutraged.

The grass around the tree wastrampled down, and it was seen thatthere must have been a violent strug-gle.

A basket which the girl had beencarrying was found near the scene ofthe murder, and from the position itcould be seen that the child had beenrunning towards the sexton's gate

when the man had caught her, and,carrying her beneath the tree, hadcommitted the doubly foul deed.

PROBABLY STRANGLED.Marks on the child's throat indicat-

ed that she had been strangled.The sexton of the cemetery, whose

house is only about three chains awayfrom the sceneof the murder, said thatshortly after eight he thought he hearda scream and went to the aoor of hishouse. He heard no more, and afterlistening a while he went back insideagain.

Th» ««xton was terribly cut upIn the morning when the body wasfound to think that ft brutal mur«cUr was committed only a fewyard* away from hit hou»».He said that he often heard Joy-

riders, going'past m motor-cars, andthat they sometimes screamed andlaughed and that when he heard noother sound he thought that it musthave only been one of these. Thenight was very dark, and ho could notsee far. ,

A PIERCING SCREAM.The scream must have been a very

piercing one, because it was alao heardby Miss Fleming, whose bearing is de-fective.

"Never as long as Ilive will Iior-get that scream," said Mr. Fleming,"and Ishall always blame myself fornotgoingout."It appears that Gwen Murray was

often sent to Makaraka to do shoppingand get the mail, and that sheTiad abrother living there. Sometimes hewould bring her homo at night, andat other times she would stny at the!house of Mrs. Green, a friend. !

The Murray home Is situated across jthe river, and the girl had to go a dls- ,tance of about a quarter of a mile i

down the dark lane and across a small Jbridge. She then had to cross a pad-dock for a distance of about 400 yards jto the small house where she lived. I

After leaving the storo about 8 jo'clock on Tuesday night she was seeniby a little girl named Houghton, who]spoke to her. She was later seen by

Mr. Sutherland, who lives about ISOyards from the lane down which thegirl had to turn. j

SAW A MAN ACCOST HER. jIt was Just getting dark when she

passed the Sutherland home, but hesaw a man nccoßt her about 40 yardsaway, and they spoke to each other.They then went off together towardsthe lane.

This is undoubtedly the last occasionwhen Bhe was seen alive.

On tho town Bide of the cemeterylives Mrs. Bain, and although thehouse is easily 300 yarda away fromthe scene of the murder, Mr. Pearco.who is stopping there, heard the child'sscream.

The Bain family had been sittingout by tho road from half-past C untildark, and they hud not aeen any manpaßa along. ThlH would go to showthat the murderer enino from 100Makaraka direction, and the state-ment of Wallace Sutherland confirmsthlß belief.

Owing to the fnct that the chlld'nbrother lives at Makaraka. the familywere not particularly anxious whenshe did not return, although themotherhad a. look out nhout 7.30.

As fine did not thi>n «co the childshe presumed that her brother wouldbring hor homo or clue thut Mrs,Greenwould drive her home."NO ALARM AT CHILD'S HOUR,

Tho child dUI not return, but themother thought Hlte must have *tnyvdnt Qreon'H for the nlcht, and wan r.otvery anxious thin mornlnjj.

Tho Kirl'H father went off to workquite Ijrnornnr of tho murder, and itwan not until hnlf-puMt twelve Hint hewhs rung up l»y the, jwllce. ittii) told ofthe riwful erinu*.

tteforo ttoiriK back Jo work lie tol»ianother of ihi- children to k<> over toMakarnkn niut »«""" why Clwcn wt«hfltuylny nwny, nrul io ti-II lie.r io conn*mraijjht homo.

As the1 child was going over, shecame across the sexton, who had justdiscovered.the body and told the childthat she had better go back homeagain. . " ■-....■■

On Tuesday ,the two Goleman chil-dren passed the scene of the murderabout half-past seven on their way tothe paddock with their'cows. They sawthe basket lyingon the groundand thechild's hat mit;also,.the jam and thekerosene lying some distance away.But they did not attach any impor-tance to this, as it wasright by Flem-ing's back gate, and they naturallythought that the girl had gone mthere for a message.

The mother of the child was inter-viewed by the police on Tuesday,but she seemed quite dazed at thecatastrophe. She had last seen thegirl aiivfeandstrong,and she cpuld notquite realise that the poor1child hadbeen so foully done to death.

I The police werebusy throughout-the!day, and the first connecting link wasIdiscovered on* Tuesday, but it is notyet known1 whether it will prove right.

A SWAGGER WHO WENT BY.It appears that on dunday morning

aswagger called at the Bain's houseatsix m "the morning,' and demanded ameal, saying that,he had come fromHicks, Bayand. that he was making forIthe freezing works at Walpaoa, someten minutes from "'-

the scene of themurder.\ />.- v "

A description* showed that'he'was a.man of medium height and'wearing adark suit. . "«

On Tuesday morning a man answer-ing to that description had a meal atthe Waihirere Pah, about six mljesfrom Makaraka. " This man also saidthat he had come from Hicks Bay andwasmaking for*the Waipaoa works.

The description of the man seenby Mr. Sutherland' was that heseemed to bo of medium buildandwas wearing dark clothes. It wastoo dark to establish definitelywhethor he was wearing.a hat.The mother stated that she had Bent

the girl across to Makaraka to get themall and also to buy a tin of jam anda bottle of kerosene. She carried asmall basket to bring home the goods.

The storekeeper at Makaraka. saidthat he remembered the child arriv-ing shortly before eight o'clock. Shehad got the mall and the goods, andhad also been (riven 1/- change. Therewere several people m the store at thetime. She then left the store, andabout half a mile away she passed thoHoughton house, where she spoko tothe little Houghton girl.

Sucherlnnds lived about 400 yard*nearer tho cemetery <than the Hough*tons, and as she passed Sutherlands itwas noticed that she was on the sidenearest his house.

WHERE DID THE MAN COME. FROM?When about '4o yacds past the house

she was accosted by a man. Mr. Suth-erland said that it was too dark todulinltely establish " where the mancame from,but thatns far as he couldsee he appeared to come from behinda fence, partly obscured by highweeds, on the far side of the road.

The man spoko to tho girl and sheanswered him, but the distance wastoo great to hear what was said. Theywont off together towards the lane,down which tho little girl had toturn, and tho unfortunate victim wannot again seen nlivo.

A thorough search of all the. lanem the vicinity of the crime failed toproduce any vestige of clothing oro^her evidence of the murderer, andthe police ha,vo got a dlfllcult Job topiece together the slender threads.

A post mortem examination ofthe child, mado by Mr. Qunn this,aftsrnoon, revoaled that the childhad sustained terrible injuries, andit ia thought that the scream thatwas heard was uttered when thoman was strangling hor m a death0pip. '

ROBERT HERBERT SCOTT,Who Made Full Confession to Police Of Awful

Crime.

Murderer SurrendersCOERCED BY CONSCIENCE.A Collapse Moral and Physical.

Shortly before 6 o'clock on Wednes-day afternoon v tired, dejcctod-lookingman wn» Been m the township ofMatawal, about 45 miles from Qla-borne. Ho was wearing an old tweedsuit "and a pnlr of white tonnla tihoos,ond from his appearance It neemedthat ho had travelled a loner distance.He accosted a resident and nsked howfar nwny thenearest police station wan,nnd wns told thai the nearest con-stable -resided nt Motu. some eightmiles away. With that ho walkedaway.

At a quarter to <l tho «amo man ar-rived at a nettlor'H ho»iso about on«»nnd a half mllo.i on tho Motu «ld« ofMatawal «nd wild thrit ho h«d corn-mittod iho MakumUa murder nnd thatho dttulred to

OIVR HIMSFXF UPto tho prtHco. He asked whether thestation wn» on tho tciepliono. andwhen informed that It was ho rt>-quented tho fanner to ring up nnd askthe polleo to come, and nrrent him.

The (♥(♥ttler'phoned the MutawnlPostonice and then m turn rani; Olflbornonnd Motu.

JîboriMK under the mre«« of themuHt violent «>m«»tJon* And looWnif \*>r~rll-ly worn out. dejected, nnd ml»er-able. ib<» nmu \rnr< BC'ircty uhl<? ton{»-s»k. t*rd It »r>f»t»nred th.v? the know-tcdiî' of iho dastardly dtted wn« haunt'

ing his ovory step. Haggard.,and ,<eT-huustvd as he- wits, lie wus hardly ableto swallow a cup of tea which the set-tler prepared for him.

Constable Williamson, stationed atMotu. was the rtrst to arrivev at thescene, and at 8.40 p.m. a caWcontain-ing Inspector Hutton '(in charge of theGisborne police district) and Detec-tive McLeod arrived at Matawal.

To get to the house was a matter ofonly a few minutes, and when -theyarrived there the man was Jn chargeof the Motu constable.

In a .statement made at the houseto Inspector Hutton the man made a

COMPLETE CONFESSIONof the double deedof outrage and mur-der. He said that he could see-he hadno chance of escape. The net wastightening all round him, and he wasbeing hunted from pillar to post, andwished to throw m the towel."Thepolice returned to town with" theaccused m the car, arriving m Gis-borne at 1.10 a.m. onThursday. Afterbeingsearched theman wasduly lodg-ed m the cells. ■,

A tense hush of expectancy was ap-parent m the Court on Thursdaymorning as the police officials tooktheir accustomed seats* Everyone wasstraining to catch the first glimpse ofthe man who had perpetrated thedoubly fouldeed ofMonday night. TheCourt was not, large enough to ac-commodate the vast crowd which triedtp get m. and many were standing mthe passages and right out into thestreet.

As the Post Office clock struck, thehour of 10 Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M..took his accustomed seat on,thoBench. In the front rowof seats wereInspector Hutton, Senior SergeantFitzpatrick, and Detective McLeod. allof whom had been prominently con-cerned m the arrangements and organ-isation work,connected with the policework. "",.■. ...

When the Clerk of the Court* readout the name "Robert Herbert Scott"the deepest silonce reigned m thecrowded Courtroom and the accused,preceded by a police constable andfollowed by Detective Method,*" -wasled to the dock. He did not appearfrom the ysual side door, but had beenbrought to the jury room and madehis entrance from the front of theCourt. All present m the Court wereengaged m mentally summing up theprisoner while the clerk; In a clearvoice, read from the charge sheet:"Robert Herbert Scott, you arecharg-ed that, on January 28, 1924, you didCOMMIT THE CRIME OF MURDERby killing one Gwendoline KathleenMurray at Taruheru."

Dressed m dark tweed clothes andwearing the white tennis shoes whichhad played such a prominent part mthe detection of the criminal, the ac-cused hung his head and looked thevery picture of dejection. Despitethe fact that he had beenunshaved forsome days and was ragged and un-kempt, he did not look the type ofman who would be responsible tor theterrible deed to which he has con-fessed. His hair was parted downthe centre and slightly brushed back,and had a little tendency to curl. Hehas a florid complexion and looksneither very criminal nor very Intel-lectual.

Inspector Hutton asked that the ac-cused bo remanded until February 8m order that further Inquiries Shouldbe made into events connected withthe murder. He might require a fur-ther remand. Prisoner was remand-ed accordingly.

A crowd was waiting at both th«front and back entrances to the Courtbuildings and though the police' wait-ed for some considerable time thecrowd did not disperse. The arrivalof the murderer at the back gate wasa signal for a hostile demonstrationand hoots and murmurs wereheard onall sides.

Escorted bya strong force of police,men the .accused was hurried into awaiting car and whisked away to thostation. :' V-v ; ;. .

INSPECTOR HUTTON'S STORYFrom Information received from Ma-

tawai. Constable Williamson, of Motu,was instructed to get into touch wltfcaroan whosemovements had been re-ported to the police. At 7.10 p.m. In-spector Hutton and Detective McLeocleft town by motor car and they, wittConstable Williamson, got the man ona farm about a mite and a half pastMatawai. He wasm a bad way,saidthe inspector, and stated that he wasbeside himself. He v/as tired out tothe point of exhaustion, and admittedboth the outrage and the murder. H<made a statement and was then ar-rested.

A statement of the accused's admls*slon is now m the possession of In-spector Hutton, but it is not availablefor publication at this stage. The in*spector was satisfied that they wadgot the rightman,and the statementoladmission of guilt was all m order.The inspector said that although thepolicehad got the statement they wererequired to go about their investiga-tions m the usual manner and provetheir case.Just as if there had beenno admission.

There was no spectacular arrest,said Inspector Hutton. The man winlike n hunted beast played out withexhaustion, and remained thore com-pletely done up, havinghad little or nosleep or food and being generallyknocked about. He said that he couldnot sleep for thinking of his crime.

PRISONER'S POLICE RECORD.A ConvJotion for Theft.

The prisoner has a police record,though not a serious one. In 1913 howas convicted In Rnnglora, South Is-land, on three charges of theft andwas sentenced to a short term of im-prisonment followed by three years*reformative detention.

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DEFALCATIONS IN NEW ZEALANDHusband And Wife Held For Extradition

(From "Truth's" Melbourne Rep.)When auditors discovered that nearly £1000 had been embezzledfrom the War Pensions Department m Wellington, New Zea-land, detectives were early on the trail of a young man namedNicholas Peters, who was formerly employed In the Department,and who had gone to Melbourne. Peters and his wife werearrested m the Victorian city and Detective Nuttall was sentover with the extradition order.

Before this could be put into opera-tion the two had to be brought beforea Magistrate m Melbourne, and, ac-cordingly, they made their appearancethere the other day before Mr. R.Knight, P.M.

The exact Charge was that Peteraforged a war pensions advice drawnon the Post Office at New Plymouth,and,that this wife uttered the forgeddocument and thereby collected £13610s, arrears of a war pensiom due- toJohn Q. Kay.

Peters is a man ofSHORT STATURE AND DARK

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His wife is a fairly tall woman andapparently m poor health.

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JosephDavey said that, acting under instruc-tions,- he, with Detective McKerral,arrested the.Peters couple at St. Kilda.on January 3v They freely admittedthat they were identical with the per-sons mentioned m the warrant. Theycould not well have done otherwise,for the detectives had m their pos-session, a photo of the pair takenwith their two young children. Daveysaid that it was alleged that Peterswas formerly an employee m the Pen-sions Department of New Zealand. Hisduties permitted access to manydocuments, including pension formsand everything relating to pensions.He was thoroughly a master of thewhole system. On August 31 last heresigned from the service. Later onthe Postmaster of New Plymouth waßhanded a forged war pension advicenote giving authority to- him (thePostmaster) to pay John G. Kay thetidy little sum of £136 10s, arrearsof pension. Soon afterwards Mrs.

Peters presentedA FORGED CERTIFICATE,

and also a forged agent's warrant, andcollected the £136 10s. It was alsoalleged, said Davey m conclusion, thatthe total amount involved m othercharges pending was over £1000.

As the escort had not arrived withthe original warrant a-remond was re-quested until January 13. No ob-jection was raised to the remand,which was granted. ■' JBall waaallowedm the case of the male accused m onesurety of £600 and himself m a bondof a similar amount Bail for Mrs.Peters was fixed at £250.

When the case Was again called, onFriday, January 11, Senior DetectiveDavey said that the escort had dulyarrived from New Zealand with thewarrant. There was, however, noboat until January 80, so another re-mand was requested until January 24.

Peters: Cannot you allow my wifeout on her own ball. She is 111 andher health will suffer if she has toremain m gaol. We have no friendshere' and cannot obtain ball.

The P.M;:Ithink so, if the policedo not object. ,

Sergeant Stephens (prosecuting offi-cer):Iam instructed that large sumsof money are Involved. We don'tknow, these people and prefer not totake risks/ She may surrender to herown bail and may not.

Peters:.Of course she willanswer.The P.M.: In the face of the police

objection Iam sorry that we cannotlet the .lady out on her own bail.

Mrs. Peters,., who looked ill andweak, then began to cry, and wasescorted from the dock by the watch-house keeper.

The ball waa fixed as before.

NICHOLAS AND OLIVE MART PETERS, ARRESTED IN VICTORIA.

MAORI MURDERERSHOOTS HIS WIFE AND SUICIDES

MAD AFFAIR AT MERCERPotato Digger's Dementia

— Was He Jealous?(From "Truth's" Auckland Rep.)

The latest sensation of the Auoklandprovince, which is becomingmore than notoriousm the matterof murders of late, is the shoot-ing by a Maori of his wife, followed by the immediate suicide ofthe murderer. What motive there was for the ghastly doublecrime is not apparent,but it is considered that it was tht outcomeof unreasoning and unjustified Jealousy.

The sceneof the tragedy was asome-what Isolated spot on the banks of theriver, about two miles from the town-ship, where Wi Rapana, a middle-agedMaori, lived withhis wife, MoeRapana,and family. As far as Is known, therehad neverbeen any previous outburston the part of the Maori, nor had heever threatened his wife*, though it Isa matter of knowledge among the na-tives of the locality that the man wasof a very Jealous disposition, as isoften the case with husbands such asRapana, who was

VERY POND OP HIS WIPE.

Also^ Rapana was a victim to occa-sional distressing attacks, of asthma,and it is thought that depression con-sequent on this may have helped tounhinged his mind. For some monthspast Rapana had been working as apotato digger at Pukekohe, where hewielded the spud fork In tho domain ofPrime Minister Massoy every season.It had always been a sore point withtho Maori that his wife would not ac-company him to Pukekoho whon hewent away digging, preferring to re-main behind with her family. Theseperiodical separations from Moo Ra-pana worriedher husband considerably,it is said, and though he had neverviolentlyremonstrated withher on herrefusal to travel with him and attendto his comforts at Pukokohe, it isthought that the fact added to thoworries of his malady, and that, harp-Ing on what ho considered her disre-gard for him, helped In some measureto drive him insane. Last week, be-fore returning to hlu whare at Mercer,Rapana

PURCHASED A SHOT-GUN,

at Pukokohe.and although not requir-ed to do «o by law. ho registered theweapon with the loeul police, whonaturally had no suspicion of the felluse ho meant to put it to. It wasWednesday afternoon when Rapanareturned to the family whare, but hodid not then take tho gun with him;ho secreted the deadly weapon some-where near his homo, nnd entered thewhitrc apparently In a normal condi-tion.

On Thursday morning. Rapana, hav-ing passed tho night quietly m thebosom of his family, arose and lefttho whare. at about eight o'clock, mak-ing no statement us to where he wasgoing.' He waaabsent until about halfpast ten, when ho shocked the otheroccupants of the wharo by enteringwith n shotgun, which ho pointed athis wife's head, declaring:

"I'M GOING TO SHOOT YOU!"Before anyone could Interfere,he fired,and the unfortunate Moo fell to thefloor, mortally wounded, a full chargeof shot fired from a dSstanco of a fewfeet passing through the left sldo ofher jaw and emerging at the back ofthe nock. Moe Rapana crawled In herl«Rt agony out of the whare. and ex-pired Just outfttde tho doorway. Im-modlatoly, Rlpana followed. Rapidlyre-loading the gun, a single-barrelledweapon, ho placed the muzzlo againsthi* breant. over th<» heart, fired again,nnd fell dead aJonsaldc the body of hl«wife. Tho terrible tracetfy wan wlt-

nesaed byPakia Moutu,a sister of theslain woman, and her daughter, ManuRapana, but so swiftly had the Maorifired after his startling announcement,that neither had time to life a fingerto prevent the murder.

The Rapanas had Uvedm the localityfor some nine years and were

HIGHLY RESPECTED NATIVES,with a reputation for honesty and In-dustry. Though it waa known thatRapana was very jealous, there wasnever anything m the conduct of thowife that could Justify his attitudeofmJnd, apart from the fact that shewould not leave home to accompanyhim when ho went away potato dig-ging. Rnpana was 48 yearsof age, andhis wife about 40,and they had broughtup a sturdy family of six children.From tho Maori standpoint, both arewell educated, and both Woo Rapana'ssister and daughter declared that thocouple had never actually quarrelled,though tho husband had displayed un-mistakable signs of jealousy. It wasapparently a Jealousy that Bmouldered,only to flnaJly burst out into a flare ofinsane murder.

Following the sudden and dramaticdeath of her slitter and brother-in-law.PAKIA MOUTU RAN SCREAMINO

to the nearest neighbors and told of theterrible tragedy that had been enactedunder her gaze. Word was then sentIty expressmossengor to the proprietorof the Mercer Hotel, Mr. A. Ker. whotelephoned the police at Pukekoho.Constable RelUy, of Tuakau, accom-panied by Dr. Begs, of Pukekoho, atonce set out for Mercer, and on reach-ing the Bceno of the tragedy they foundthe bodlofl of the Maoris lying ouuldethe wharo, with tho cun close alongsidethe man. Tho Rhastly wounds on thobodies, an empty cartridge case on thofloor of the whare, and another m thobreech of the gun, told only too plainlythe talc of thld terrible tragedy. ThobodloH woro removed to Mercer, wherenn Inquest was opened and adjourned.

MILLERS' EXECUTIVEIs It Dominated By

Combine?"No," Says Secretary Seed.

Mr. Arthur Seed, secretary of theDominion Federated Sawmillers' As-sociation, writes:

—Subsequent to the article -which

"Truth" published on October 20 last,which "Truth" (to quote Ha ownwords: "In pursuance of. 'Truth's'policy of fair play") submitted to theparties attacked prior to publication,so that the reply could be publishedwith the original article, there haveappeared two further articles (notsubmitted to the parties attackedpriorto publication). These latter articleswere published on October 27 andDecember 8 last, and though the mat-ter of these articles is now probablystale In the public mind, and conse-quently It is immaterial to reply tothem m detailm respect to the manyinaccuracies contained therein, thereis one point which "Truth" seeks tomake which, m fairness to the generalbody of sawmlllers throughout NewZealand who compose the principalmembership- of the Dominion Federat-ed Sawmillers1 Association, this asso-ciation should set right. The burdenof the obviously Inspired article which"Truth" published apptears to havebeen to seek to prove that this asso-ciation Is dominated by the KaurJTimber Cosnpany; and In the endeavorto do so it had to bring m the EllisVeneer Company, which 1b not a saw-milling proposition at all, and alsobring m the name of the Director ofanother entirely separate company Inwhich the Kauri Timber Companycertainly holds shares.

WHO ARE THE EXECUTIVE?Now. supposing there werea News-paper Proprietors' Association, say mWellington, and that the "Evening

Post" held shares m, or had an inter-est m the proprietorship of "Truth,"it would be equally logical to maintainthat the publisher of "Truth" wouldthen be part and parcel of the "Even*ing Post's" domination of the news-paper ring. This quite by the way,however. And supposing that thewhole of the assertions of "Truth" Inthe articles referred to, to be correct,which they are not, even then theKauri Timber Company is only repre-sented by one member on the Execu-tive of the Dominion Federated Saw-millers' Association. That member J8not on the Executive-as representingthe Kauri Timber Company only; hewas nominated for the position by thewhole of the sawmilling Interests mthe Auckland district, chiefly by In-terests that are rivals of

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tho KauriTimber Company. .The Executive ofthe Association is composed of twelve"(12) members, so the Kauri TimberCompany clearly does not dominatethe Sawmillers1 Federation evenif theDirector of this other company- mwhich the Kauri Timber Companyholds shares is also,a member of theExecutive, for this latter gentlemanhas no interest m the Kauri TimberCompany, and he is electedto the Ex-ecutive by the whole of the sawmil-ling interests north of Taumarunuiand on the Rotorua line and these in-terests include some very large con-cerns which are also competitors ofthe Kauri Timber Company. Theother representatives op the Executiveof the Dominion Federated Sawmillers'Association are elected respectively asfollows: Two from the Southland andOtago districts, two from the Grey-mouth and Westland districts, onefrom the Buller district, one from theNelson

—Marlborough district, two

from the Main Trunk district south ofT.iumarunui, one from the East Coast(Qisborne to Tauranga) and one fromthe North Auckland district; andeach one of them is separately nomin-ated for the position by the sawmil-ling interests m the several districtsnamed, and elected In general meet-ing. Even m general meetings of theFederation the Kauri Timber Companyhas no vote whatever. The AucklandSawmillera' Association (of which theCompany is a member) has only onevote amongst twenty (20), and .thisvote is exercised by the nominee ofthe Auckland Sawmillers' Association.It is highly ridiculous, therefore, tosuggest that the Kauri Timber Com-pany has In any way a dominatingvoice m the affairs of the Sawmillers'Federation.

ATTACK OR DEFENCE?Seeing that "Truth" so confidently

avers that the sawmlllera have at-tacked the Forest Policy, it may berather futile to again deny this Btate-ment, but for the information of thosewho may have taken some alight in-terest m the recent newspaper articlesconcerning timber matters it may beas well to reiterate here that noth-ing the sawmillers published could Inany way be construed as an attackon that policy, for the whole of therecent newspaper controversy startedwith a very obviously Inspired articleof two columns which appeared In the"Evening Post" and which made adirect attack on tho sawmillers, andcontained many Inaccuracies.

Everything published by the saw-mlllers has been purely m defence,and has been m answer to anonymousarticles inspired from an unknownsource attacking those engaged m thesawmilling industry.

Since the foregoing waa written"Truth" has published a further articlerespecting what It, and the "Pnnn"generally, la pleased to call the "Saw*millers' attack on the State ForestService," and m reply to this latestarticlo it is only necessary to statethnt the paragraph In the "EveningPost" of 6/10/23 which "Truth" pullsto pieces was prefaced with the words"Taking the foregoing (tho State For-est Service's statement) literally." Thisolonrly indicated that the writer of thoarticle In the "Evening Post" did notaccept any responsibility for thesoundness or accuracy of the state-ments from which the deductions weremade. The paragraph In questionwaa published with full anticipationthat it would draw forth just such &retort as "Truth" has now publishod,and which, If the truth Is admitted.Isreally nothing more than a strong ad-verso criticism of the State ForestService's flgurog.

FOREST SERVICE FIGURES,

In (llfscußsinff tho fl&uros Quoted, noreference is made by "Truth" to thefact that tho Stato Forest report it-self quite omitted to state whethor thofigures rotating to "a national indi-genous forest capital of $,4G3,000,000cublo i'cet" referred to log measure-ment, assumed sawn product, or "totalwood content" of the forests. And mfurther reference to the figurod, onwhich the 6G3V& years' duration offorest stores were computed by thewriter of tho 'Evening Pout" article,it should be notod that tho State For-est report itself ignored any decreas-ing increment, and makes uso of thebuU! Htatument that "New Zealand laouting Into its crowing forest capitalut tho rule of 15.000.000 cubic feet perannum." It might, therefore, withequal propriety, bo contended that thoStut« Forest report itaolt wouldbe justas misleading to the Ministers andmembers of Parliament (for whose in-formation we assume it wa» prepared)as would be any fl«ure« whloh weretho moral deduction of the Service'sstatement

This recent article of "Truth"' cer-tainly contain* much Information amiexplanation which m really necessary tomake the State Forest Statement un-derstandable, and to thin end th«< nr-tide certainly Berve* a useful purport.-,but why wore not these explanation*contained m the report itself? -Truth*conclude* by making retvrvw* to iht>fact that What it cull* "tin? outward

and visible propaganda of the saw-millers" has ceased. This cessationof the sawmillers' replies to anony-mous attacks m the newspapers is mno way whatever the result of "TruthV'articles, but was dictated.by the desireOf the sawmillers to have the wholeof the matters relative to the con-troversy investigated by a Parlia-mentary or other committee so thatthe merits of the assertions of theState. Forest Service, or whoever elsemay be behind the anonymous attacks,might be properly investigated, andthe sawmillers' contentions also givenproper consideration. Such an in-quiry was invited by the sawmillersm a paragraph m the "Evening Post"of October 10 last, but so far thosewho prefer to hide behind anonymityhave ignored the challenge to sucha "ahow-down," and their attacks onthe sawmillers from behind the am-bush of anonymity "go merrily on"through the columns of "Truth."

A QUEER ROAD TO GAOL.

Alleged Quixotic Motive,

Under very peculiar circumstances,one Herbert, Fake, of Eastbourne,Wellington, has incurred a sentenceof 21 days' imprisonment. At theMagistrate's Court -Ui Wellington thoother day he was charged with havingassaulted Archibald Hancock, hisneighbor at the bay, and also withhaving broken and entered the latter'shouse by day.

According to tho evidence given, at7.15 o'clock on a Friday evening heburst through the window of Han-cock's bedroom. Mrs Hancock waswashing her baby m another room atthe moment; <md, afTrightedly seizingthe child, fled through the baok door.She returned with her husband and aconstable, and to the latter Fake saidhe thought he heard Mrs. Hancockscreaming. He imagined her husbandwas beating her,andrushed m to playthe hero. On learning- that the womanwas alone he apologised to hor, but amoment afterwards turned on Han--cock, after a few words had passedbetween them, and struck him on theface with his fist.

The constable, who, of course, wit-nessed the assault* said that whenFake apologised the other said, "Andso you ought." Remarking "I'm goingto clean you up once and for all," Fakestruck him. On the way to the policestation he declared that it made hisblood boil when a man knocked hiswife about

Fake, describing the affair to Magis-trate Page, said that when Hancocksaid, "And so you ought," he shovedhis face so close to witness's that hecouldn't help pushing it away.

"If Fake had merely entered thehouse and the matter had stopped atthat," said Magistrate Page, afterhearing further evidence, "it would nothave been so serious. The defendantwill be sentenced to 21 days' imprison-ment"

THE LOOK-OUT CASE.

Further Developments Probable,

Last vreek at Christchurch the fivemen who have been arrested oncharges of conspiracy m connectionwith the ■Willie Lincoln— Look-Outcase, were again chargod and furtherremanded. The preliminary hearingof the evidence is expected to takeplace at Dunedin next week.

"Truth" understands that the policeare still making inquiries m the NorthIsland and, particular attention hav-ing been paid to investigations mAuckland and Giaborne, some furtherdevelopments m each or either of thoseplaces would not be surprising.

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Doings m Club GamesNEWS AND NOTES.(By L.. T. Cobcroft.)

Although Old Boys set Hutt 317runs to win, the latter made a goodfight of it and only failed by 37 runs.Billy Hughes came to light with wellover the century, and, as m most caseswhere a' player gets a century, a fewchances can be debited against him.McLaren, Shannahan and McKay eachmade over 30 and young Neazor, whohas replaced Tattersall behind thewickdts, made a useful 23. Jack Shan-nahan still walks lame, the result of abroken leg when playing football forHutt last season.

Lusk and Joplin were the best bow-lers for Old Boys. Ithink the for-mer should have been used more.Ronaldson and Stainton again maderuns (48 not out and 37) m Old Boys'second go, five wickets being downfor 164. A three-point win for OldBoys.

V.M.C.A., although set over runsto make to gain a victory over Wel-lington, got them easily. Some brightdisplays of batting -were made byWestbrook (126), Rob Murphy andSugden. These batsmen scored at agreat rate. It is pleasing to see thereturn to form of ;that .once prolificrun-getter,- Rob Murphy, who a fewseasons back- was a/ moat attractivebatsman to watch. The Wellingtonbowlers were all treated alike, beinghammered all over the field.

Banks and Nelson gave Institute agreat start m chasing Thorndon'stotal, making 81and 60, to be followedwith a very fine innings by Prince for144 and young Barr, 88. Outside ofthe above,Foley, with 30, was the onlyother player to add materially to thescore, which totalled 464, 104 m ad-vance of Thorndon's knock. Ellerm,with three wickets for 57, was themost successful for Thorndon, whosebowlers lacked sting.

The Petone—

Midland match pro-vided the surprise of the year, aswhen play started on Saturday, Petoneappeared to be m a hopeless position,but once again the boys of> the vil-lage came to light with a sensationalperformance,mainly through the greatbatting and bowling of Rangi Finlay-son, who made 98 runs and -securedC wickets for 10 runs. Once againPinlayson has shown what a greatplayer he is, and if he is not m theWellington team agairyst New SouthWales the public should do somethingm the matter.

'Mat Corner also bowl-

ed well and a couple of his wicketswere secured by balls that swung sixinches.

As repeatedly written m my notes,Pinlayson is the best left-hand bowlerm New Zealand, a great field anddangerous batsman. Wellington,New Zealand, want to see the bestbowlers chosen to represent them.

Devinei of the Petone third team,has secured 10G wickets' for an aver-age of 4 already this season and helooks like establishing a fresh recordfor the number of wickets taken bya bowler m Wellington.

Hutchings and Finlayson will haveto be m the* Wellington team m placeof White and Dempster before it canbe called our best.

How few batsmen m New Zealandplay that follow through forwardshot that is so noticeable with Aus-tralian players. Of course Aussiewickets are more favorable for thisscoring stroke. The only two NewZealanders who play this stroke al-most to perfection are Collins andShepherd, both going right throughwith the shot and frequently scoringboundaries where other batsmen arecontent to play the ball.

Having to make 89 m tho secondInnings to tie with Syd Hlddleston forthehighest aggregate mPlunket Shieldmatches this season the southern bats-man, Worker, 'was set a hurdle, buthe succeeded m his task and had sixruns to spare. Hlddleston would bethe first player to congratulate him.This scribe offers his also to the twobatsmeh making such a large numberof runs, viz., 516 and 509 In only sixinnings

—a splendid achievement.

Two or three players who have out-side chances for inclusion In someof the tests are Wiri Baker (Welling-ton), McLeod (Auckland), McMullanI(Otago), and James (Wellington).

Of the New South Wales bowlerswho are m tho team to play heroshortly I fancy Malley will troubleour batsmen most, as they do not ap-pear to be at home to the class ofbowler who tosses them up with plentyof turn. Still, he is often very ex-pensive.

There will not be a repetition of theHill-Wood— Wilson partnership (asWellington witnessed m the game Mac-Laren's team against Wellington) whenNew South Wales batsmen are at thecreases. They will *glve it a go.

Tho wickets on the Basin shouldbe all that could bo desired. Theylook particularly welL

What an attractive innings Nootplayed on tho Basin on the holidaywhen making 123. A good futurefor this kid!

Up to the present there have beeneleven more centuries made m allgrades of local cricket than was putup laßt season.It was most fitting that m a match

of records such as Otago.v. Welling-ton that two of our most prominentplayers, Baker and McGlrr. should captheir long list of successes by mak-ing their first century Inf PlunketShield contests.It. C. Blunts Beven sixes m one over

hao never been equalled In any partof the world. Of course, although itis a record, the Blze of the boundarieshas a lot to do with it

BOXINGFAIRHALUS FIGHT.

Simmons Boxed to a Standstill.

(From "Truth's" Sydney Rep.)Evldently they do not efficiently

teach the wisdom of Euclid In Englishschools. That propoundcr of. problemsrelating to angles, triangles, squares,lines, pnrallelogrnms, etc., once re-marked that a straight lino was thoshortest distance between nny twopoints. Alf. Simmons, who has beenm Australia about a month, duringthe lau^twelve days of which ho hasbeen an excellent second m two box-ing contests, knows nought of that"Solomonic" observation. Or. rather,ho know nothing of it before Saturdayevening last. Now ho should be quitecognisant of the truism.

Tommy Fnirhall, Simmons'R oppon-ent, demonstratedon fully seventeenhundred and seventy-sevon occasion*that the shortest, swiftest, and surestcourse from the tip of his left glove totho oblique frontal elevation of Al(le'.<nose was a mere matter of straightpunching.

All Slmmonn'H ofTorts In tho punch-IHIT line took :i Hr-ml-elroulur cnurccTho result wiiH that ho InvariablyhituWnl on Kntrhnll'K shoulUorH, arms,or was evaded with ludicrous fasf.The popping Htmiyhl punches ofTommy, too, often mirnkcd throtißh toAir« fiico at that crucial moment whenthe Lmulont-r wuh Just, about to launchan attack; xo proppinjj antl HtpudyliiK.him Inhis own tracks that hla bolllgcr-ânco moHcd swiftly away.

Thoußh Fnlrhallboxed well through-out the bout, and Simmon* early ma«lcenrncat and aKKresrflve rffort« to un-dermine the local's more of «lreni;ihand confidence, the coniuut later devel-

oped into a verymilk and watery af-fair. Fairhall had the thing well mhand and seemed content to go alongand win on points. Simmons simplybluffed his way through the last threerounds, and emphasised the sagacious-ness he showed when under punish-ment against Plees on the previousSaturday.

His legs were leaden, he was flat-footed, his eyes dull and tired, and hismouth often hung wide open, while hegasped for breath.

Still, he saw the distance through,thanks to Fairhall's leniency.- En-thralling Incidents were feV. Themost striking feature throughout thebout was the picturesque study mbath robes offered at the outset! Fair-hall was wrapped m a modest, light-colored gownof some spongy material.His1 hair was clipped short and histrue old English type of fighting faceset the wrapper off well. He weighed9st 101b. Simmons arrived with aretinue of his countrymen, and awon-derful specimen of the textile-worker'sskill. The robe he wore was of blacksilken material, covered with circularpurple hieroglyphlc-like decorations,which were supplemented by spiralstrings of white dots. Altogether, theaffair was decidedly striking

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more so than its owner afterwardsproved to be, m fact. Simmons weigh-ed 9st 10341b, and looked a mite betteroff for condition than when last seenm action.

He opened with a rapid battery ofswinging punches at Fairhall's ribs;

1landing a few blows as Tommy slippedaway from him. All through the threeopening sessions he chased the localhard, rarely getting close enough to beeffective, for Fairhall certainly?burntup some canvas getting out of thedanger zone. In the second rquivd theLondoner fooled Falrhajl witha slightbaulk of the left, and chopped' over' .asmart right, landing high on Tom'scheek, and dropping him' like a. shotbird.

But he was up immediately and onthe dodge again before Alf could fol-low up the good work. Now andagain Fairhall side-stepped his rush-ing foe and countered smartly as hoblundered by; thereby m aslightmea-sure resurrecting a forgotten art. Andevery time he landed he impressedSimmons withhiß hittingability. Fair-hall may not be a one-punch knockoutartist, but he certainly is a consistentpuncher, and makes everyblow amile-stone towards the bout's finish.

Jabbing lefts, .monotonous m theirregularity and annoying m their pre-cision, soon had Simmons less anxiousto rush m and bump himself againstthem. He steadied up and endeavoredto overcome his ladle of height andreach by seeking close clinching work.That is where the tout beoame unin-teresting. Fairhall generally dug aright lustily at the region of Sim-mons's heart, as they came together,and then was content to hold and flapa few non-counting smacks at the kid-neys.

The eleventh and twelfth wereeasilythe best session. Fairhall stood intohis man, and punched hard with eitherhand at the body. Simmons retali-ated, and they leaned head on shoulderand pummelled .fast for quite a fewseconds. Again Falrhall's punchingability told, and Alf was first tp breakground. But the change of .tactics wastoo good to last, and rounds thirteento seventeen saw Fairhall outpointingSimmons with his left hand, and nowand then ripping his right,underneathat the ribs. And with each round,Simmons lagged more and more. Hewas weaker than a gentle zephyr onabalmy day, yet Fairhall hopped awayfrom him and jabbed a left at'.the facewhen a couple of solid right "smashesm the correct spots would have drapedAlfte on the floor. And Fairhall onlyhad ,to register a knockout to instalhimself as an attraction. He madegood by beating Simmons, certainly,but to stop the Londoner, and that ap-peared 'well within his prowess, wouldhave lifted his stock Infinitely higher.

Once during the nineteenth Simmonsstaggered back on his heels, and Fair-hall, instead of s"wlping over a viciousright or two, stood back and hitchedhis trunks up an inch or two. .' Thereason for thisâction was hard tofathom, for the garments were m nodanger of -slipping off him. The de-cision for Pairhnll at the finish wa?unquestioned and actually endorsedby everyone present.

After the fight Simmons complainedof Injured hands, and Fairhall of nsore jawbone; which portidn of hisanatomy was fractured m New Zea-land. And the fans complained of asomewhat dull contest— so everyonewent home with a grouch.

Two medical certificates blew In ontho breeze the following Monday,which explained the slow showings ofSimmons and Fairhall. The London-er's card was from the Sydney Hos-pital, and said: "Fracture of left hand,particularly thumb." Fairhall's cer-tificate read: "This is to certify.thatMr. Fairhall Is, In my opinion, suffer-ing: from an incomplete fracture of tholower jawbone."

Both will bo out of action for Bornetime.

AMATEUR ATHLETICS(By "Starter.")

The next evening meeting will beheld at Kelburn Park on Monday at6 p.m.

Dowar Shield competition, AthleticPark, February 23.This date is so arranged to catch

the New Zealand team on their re-turn from Hobart.

"Starter" suggests that the team torepresent Wellington at thoN.Z. cham-pionships at Dunedin on March 15should be selected after tho meeting.It Is time the centre announced n

selector! It is my hope that they willnot leave things till the last minute,like the N.Z. Council did m the selec-tion of the Hobart team.

Dolph Kltto has been selector to thecentre for many yeai*a and It wouldbe hard to improve on him. He hasthe confidence of the' athletes.

Thd N.Z. team which J« to takepart m the Australasian championshipsat Hobart on February 0, 7, 8, and 9left by the Mnraina and were given aright royal send-off.

The selecting and general arrange-ments for the team go to show thatour N.Z. Council are still pursuingthe "go-slow" policy, which seriouslyhandicaps the sport .and competitorsalike. It was not till the night be-fore Balling: that tho team waa de-finitely selected.

No exception can be taken to themajority of the chosen men, as theyrepresent New Zealand's best. Butwhat "Starter" would llko to knowIk: how MeKenzie, tho walker fromDunedin. got In the team. Were theselectors bluffed Into sending him?

'Certainly he defeated Mclntosh, our

local champion. last ICastfer at the Uni-versity tournament, but tho Mcln-toah of to-day Is an entirely differentproposition.

McKiMizle and McTntosh met off thescratch mark In a ono mile event lastweek at Newtown Park. Mclntoshfinished third, dolnK about seven min-utes for the journey, and McKonvtlecollapsed In the third lap, and. whonrcceivinjr treatment on the ground,made the statement that ho Khouki notb« walking oh he had boon sufferingfrom a » trained heart f«>r years. Onthe face of this McKonrle (lht» nextday) hutul.s In a doctor's certificatewhich stated that ho Is physically fit.Time wJU tell.It 1« understood locally^that the N.Z.

Oim<il Im not bearing any of Mc-Krn-/-lv'» expondlture on tho trip. Qw-(tiK to tho laxity of our controlling:body tho team have only nlmke-downsun the trip from Sydney to Hobart.

"Starter"' regreta that the team(though n pood one) will be «u*rkm»lyhnmlicappiMl hy the omiHAion of atruln'T. and "Starter" known one mern-ljfjr of the 5.7.. Council (who In a flrxt-claaa cvsich and trulncv) who would

have been willingto go and bear halfhis expenses

—onlyhe was not asked.

The Wellington Amateur AthleticClub are to-be congratulated 'on theirforesightm.sending a team down toChristchurch to help amateurathleticsm the Cathedral City, and though theteam was not successful m its mainobjective' (to bring back the Eteve-neaux Relay Cup) they put up somecreditableperformances and helped thegathering materially.-H.,Bennett (15,yds) won the quar-

ter mile without an effort. C. Jenkinsand' E. Guy-looked certainties to fillthe places m the 220yds final, but, un-fortunately, the starter let the; field gobefore they wereon their'marks. C.Rowe, of 6yds, ran into third place.

P. Thomson, who accompanied theteamas manager, m an exhibitionhop,step and jump, cleared 45ft.

The Welcome " Week Committeecatered well for amateurathletics dur-ing their carnival. . -.

Some good performances were re-gistered, notably the wins of C., W.Davies (10yds) In the quarter mile andG. W. Dome (65yds) m the threemile.

The University Club had no diffi-culty In retaining the Heenan Baton.The challengers (Selwyn Club) werefully 70 yards behind at the finish.

The baton is not likely to changehands this season.It is the SSOyds that counts, and

the University Club have good under-studies to Griffin m Priestly, Daviesand Paul.

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The evening meeting held at-Ath-letic Park last Monday was .well con-ducted and some great times were putup. "■"-' '' : '■'■', ■ "" .■■

The one'mile was won by W. Scat-chard (95yds) m.4min 26 4/5 sec,, B.Piiestly (26yds),;.virtual scratch, rana great race and; was not far Taeliindat the finish1. J':

F. Malmanche once again had badluck m missing a win. Ho was lead-ing at the lixst jump m the 220ydshurdles, but struck his foot on thefence and came a cropper. A winfor Malmanche would have been popu-lar. .:

Ted Guy (10yds) ran his best raceto. date m the 220yds fiat and wasonly beaten on the tape by S. Flths(18yds). Ted. /looked rather wearyafter his southern .tour.

The mile walk was rather a tameaffair,. but it gave W. Lankshear along overdue win.

■J. Malfroy, of the University Club,won the 220yds hurdles off 20yds be-hind scratch m 32sec. This hurdleris the makings .of a champion, buthe niust train systematically.

The ladies' 120yds handicap waswon by the Wellington champion, MissSwinburne, m 15sec. The handlcap-per seems' to find it hard to give theothers a chance. .

Cox and Westropp, two new mem-bers of the Wellington Club, showpromise of turning out some good. Thesame remark refers to Jeffry, of. theOlympic Club.

The cycle race last Monday was asoft thing for the two limit men,and J. Morris (230yds) had no diffi-culty m winning from G. Hall (200yds), with G. Bright (40yds) doing thebest of the back-markers.

Our cyclists 'in their training runsgo too slow. They must put the paceon, the same as m a race.

"Starter" would like to issue a wordof warning to some of the so-calledcoaches who are looking1 after thecyclists. The officials will hot put upwith the insults that are being hintedround, and if this re-occurs one or twocoaches will find themselves orderedoff the ground.

Will the WellingtonCentre send anycyclists to the N.Z. championships?It would greatly encourage our wheel-menif this Is done. How about a trialon February .23, say, between the twoOakleys (Masterton), Curtiss (Levin),and Flett (Wellington)? These men,if brought together, will give us ogreat race.

Great reports com© from Christ-church re the running of Miss Max-well, the. lady champion of the flatcity. Perhaps the local centre willinvite her up here to meet Miss Swin-burne and Miss Dawson on February23.

W. Scatchard owes an apology toour handienpper for a certain happen-ing last Saturday night.

F. Sullivan, of the Marlst Club,seemsto have disappeared from the track.

The limits m the distance eventsare getting too big. Handicapper, talênotice.

A. Hickling is not improving ag awalker. He cannot expect much morestart. Perhaps with a little more agohe might do better.

W. Tonkin has Improvedout of sightIn his walking.

Miss Hayvice is the most consistentsprinter amongst the ladles. She hasa bad habit of running second.

The Athletic Club is flhort of sprint-ers. Their crack, Elliott, has gone allto pieces. .

Sam Wogan was the favorite for thehurdles last Monday, but only manag-ed to fill second place.

At Levin sports on January 22 P.Brady, of the Porirua Club, was giventwo inches handicap In tho high jumpevent. When the handicapper saw hisstyle he placed him on the scratchmark. Was this fair treatment, eventhough Brady did sft 6in?Iherewith give a few performances

of Australian athletes who will becompeting against our men at Hobnrtnext week:

—Ono mile. M. V.' Boyd

(Victoria), 4min 26 2-!>roo; shot. GA. Bronder (Victoria), 41ft %In: 100yds.Parker and Scouller (Queensland), 90-lOsec; 220yds, Grehan (Queensland),213-ssec; 440ydg. P. Y. Carroll (Vic-toria), GO 2-Gsec. ThoN.S.W. teamcom-prises Dr.R. J. Honner, Australian run-ning broad jumpchampion and recordholder; V, Roy Harbison, Australasianpole vault and high jump champion; R.E. Austen. N.S.W. walking1 champion;R. D. Norman. N.S.W. 440yda and880yds champion; F. H. Bailey. N.S.W.five miles cross-country champion,'N.S.W. ten miles champion, and Aus-tralasian five miles croaa-cpuntrychampion; W. F. Payne, championwith shot and discus: James Mac-manamey, inter-'Varslty 220 clufm-plon; A. W. Winter, field games andjumping exponent. Others going withthe team are T. McNkmara (sprinter).H. 8. Grandemange (mile championN.S.W.), T. H. Ferguson (sprinter).R, Wlnn (sprinter), D. A. Wright(jumper).

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AT THE WICKETSCan England Regain Ashes?Personnel of Next Team t«i AustraUaV

In the iono\vinoiisi^ktipî^§^f'iWhich appeared m lUmjf^^mm^^^nual," Sii" Home Gordo'ny' £jsilfs. dis-cusses Avith optimism > tlie^Vprobablepersonnel of the next.En&Utfb. team tovisit Australia m search!of the Ashes.

With all cordiality to our most wel-come visitors next summer— the. sport-ing and interesting tefam from SouthAfrica— what British lovers,of cricketmainly consider is how to 'regain the.ashes m Australia a year bence; vvebelieve that the.vSûth^/icijis:willamply test our hdrodfdcicftetÂna vieshall do oiir fiest jo-beatthe^Yet notthe least important part' i>t'oiese- en^-'counters is 'the fact thai^rhen Eng-

L land meets Sdutti'AfrJcia MtojJPQ;:.ing up and coflSp{idatÛeJ!de,which'is to lo'ovefaeas^^^t" geptenrber.iTherefore, with all teVneritjr,;r:yer[tUFe

to',set forth some cdhsldfe^ti^n&'^whlch,"even if not agreed with;may be 'imjr-gestive, and lead to the discussionwhich must be preliminary to anyselections. It is an excellent innova-tion which 1 was the first to advocateafter witnessing the disaster at Not-tingham m May, 1921, that no Testmatch is arranged,until the middle ofJune, because by then bur men havehad adequate opportunity to find theirform; An assumption regretfullymade m the rest of this article Is thatneither Hbbbs nor Hearne will againgo to Australia. Tlieir loss will beincalculable, but,.alas, it seem9that atwill have to be anticipated.

Whoever is to captain England InAustralia must captainEnglandagainstSouth Africa here next summer. Theimportance of a captain^ overseas iseven

GREATER THAN AT HOME—where he has to get accustomed to hismen as a side before he sails— becausehe has to keep his team m hand offthe field-as well as on, has to set thestandard of English sportsmanship tobe shown to our critical.kith and kin,has to deal witl? the Australian Boardof Control and with other local cir-cumstances, must be able to say theright thing not only m speeches, butalso m conversation, besides havingallthe responsibilities of actual cricketleadership. He will possess the in-valuable support of that Incomparablemanager,F. C. Toone, one of the ablestever known m tho crickfet woria.^f*€ta vast amount must rest on htsy ownshoulders. Half the Imperialimport-ance of the" tour depends oa^getting,the right leader- ■" ■ v .7.

Frank Mann achieved a tremendous;success m South Africa, and ye'tMs*"trust it will not seem unkind to an 6m,friend, a splendid sportsman, and akeen cricketer, if it is suggested thatItmay not be possible to regard him asthe ideal captain for Australia. Thereasons are three: as a field he hardlyattains the highest standard, as wasBhown, for instance, by tho way m■

whichruns werestolen fromballs sentm his direction during the first Testtrial. He is not too, happy In the waym which ho handles his bowling— forexample, the. )pngL.spells,,of .rest hegives to Durston, and the rarity withwhich he makes his bowlers changeendg_he is very slow m appreciatingthe proclivities of opposing batsmen.Those are tho deterrents sorrowfullysot forth against tho selection of thevery popular amateur whohas enjoyedtho persistent favor of selectors thissummer. Emphatically we must havethe best, and only tho absolute best.

A. E. R. Gilligan has succeeded ad-mirably with Sussex, which shows ex-cellent team work, is tho most popularcounty teamm England, and plays likea happy family. Ho is also that veryraro thing,

A BOWUI^G CAPTAIN;who neither useshimself toomuch nortoo.little. In every way he would beexcellent as skipper except that ho isthe Very last man to desire the posi-tion, and some might think him ratheryoung, 29, ihough Lord Harris led oneteam to Australia at the ago of 27,and Lord Darnley another when only24. It may bo valuable to mentionthat mJune last, toan

-eminentautho-

rity, Hobbs said: "The captain underwhom we would win Test,matchesWould be Mr. Gilligan."

That notable judge, A. C. MacLaren,believes that there Is one leader mark-ed out bypropitious fato for England—namely, G. E. C.'Wood. Ican statefrom -personal knowledge that no one

.else playing first class cricket to.-dayis so.quick In realising what oppon-ents are bent upon, or m perceivingthe weak points of their play, whilstfrom his position at the; wicket he hasan unrivalled 'post of observation. Iam also able, further, to intimate thatif invited ho will be able to make thetrip. Wo have no other wicketkeeperm the same class. Ho would provehimself an admirable captain workingIn close collaboration with Gilligan.

Yet onemore nameIwouldput for-ward—that of John Danlell. He Isolder, but young In years. Aa captainho would bo- superb. ;.HJs fielding Isstill as fine as In his Cambridge days,and as a fearless bat the Australianwickets would suit his methods. Offtho field The Prophet wouldbe incom-"parable, knowing his own mind, very

! just, Imbued with the highest sport-ing Instincts, and with strong person-ality as well as 'fa wonderful way"with other men, Moreover, his reputeIn the football world must be an addl-i tlonal factor In the appeal ho wouldmake to tho Australian public.

My belief 1h that under Danlell,Wood, or Gilligan wo should have ourbest chance pf winning tho rubber attho Antipodes. There is no nocessltyto enumerato tho reasons why othersare not estimated or even mentioned,because, ns Ibelieve, the four alludedto will bo tho only cricketers ourauthorities will Borlously consider forthe position of captain.

Tho next great aid towards victoryis to get

C. IT. GIBSON BACKfrom Argentine to play hero next sum-mer with tho view of taking the tripto Australia If he fulfils our confidentanticipations. In1921, before the fam-ous match at Eastbourne. 11. L. Col-lins, who Is the NUCcesKor to WarwickArmstrong nn Commonwealth captain,remarked: "Your nelectors nre helpingus to win the rubber by nover glvlntjn thought to Incomparably your b^stbowler, Clem GlbKon." Glbnon to-d:iyIs si liner bowlor than he was then, be-ciuiHO ho hnx had the mU'antngc ofp!nyln»; In Austrnlla rind Now Zoalnndunder A. t'. MneLnren. who thinks thatto-day with the halt he has few supe-rior* In the world. Inotice In thecurrent number of "The Cricketer"that for the HurHnijjhnm Club (HucnosAyr<?«) h«? hn« tnk*»n 65 wleketa for 11runs nplece. besides acorinj; 626 runswith an nveraflfo of 28. no ho l« keep-ing up hl« form. Yes. wo want Gib-son and Imay revenl that efforts arebeingmade to Induce Sir Herbert Glb-Kon to allow hti ton tho opportunitydeairod*

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Now for the rest", ps:;I»fie^ siixteen.Naturally, form mayrcliangr?â year,and candidates bn|^':^Jteî6nsidered

ON THEIIiCertain men pick "têmselyes: Arthur.Gilligan, as our.-.pjie fast;bowler; Mau-rice. TaCte, as ■oiie^ of our";.'best all-Jqßunders; G. E. C. Wood,as the keep-.^r.j^ÊJea'py George Fender, ■ as ther;Slbti<&stIcricketer In. eVOry, depart-ment; and Franki-Woolley. These need/no discussion. For the second string.wicketkeeper" there is a plethora oftalent. J. F. MacLean may be takenbecause he already knows Australianconditions. Either M. D. Lyon, Street,or Smith, of Gloucesershire, wouldprove entirely satisfactory; Livsey orSidwell; or. the still agile Strudwick,departmentally must be regarded asadmirable, but the inclusion of anyone ot .these latter would weaken thebattingV;- '

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'Wliftftlin, either Sand-hamVbr.'J. -.1* .Bryan, both ;excellentailk '* to open,' arid -splendid m thecountry: If.-Daniell be captain he will

:prorj£ffelyr%ant' Jack Macßryan instead,43. number one, though un-

afafle:to throW;ln :to,his. woundIn. thje 'Avar/ so tie would/be fieldingnear the wicket. Under conditions of;iplaying matches to a finish, It seemsimpossible to dispense with Mead, theimperturbable. The value of a left-liand bat has been demonstrated overand over' again; perhaps best of allby Clem Hill, of South Australia.

We want another quick-mediumbowl-er, and he would probably be eitherMacauley or Parkin— a choice that

must depend on what happens nextsummer. No need to dilate on Lhe all-round excellence of Roy Kilner

—let

us have him. Grand cover, or extracover, glorious if slightly irresponsible,but already the idol of Australia, A.P. F. Chapman should make tho trip.Next comes thatdebatable man,PatseyHendren, and Iwould have him everytime. All this side, individually, canfield at most m two places; ho can

V field everywhere, andHE NEVEP. LOSES HEART.

As for his failures with the bat m bigmatches, often he has saved 40 eachtime m the field, and my answer:1sthat the men who can score m suphfine fashion, 3000 runs when Middlesexdoes not meet one of the four countiesat the bottom of tho list, is goodenough for England.

There.are still two other places' tobe filled. If another fast bowler ofhigh class could be found,ho would be,acclaimed; m default of him, Geary isa likely candidate. Tho other woujdgo to a fine bat and admirable outfield.Who better fills thede two qualifica-tions than Ernest Tyldesley? ;■"

Far-be it from me to underrate thestrength of Australian cricket led byHerbert Collins, with the redoubtableJ. Mi Gregory back again, Macartney,dangerous as ever, the new star, Kiprpox, the new googly bowler, Hartkopf,and All the others. YetIbelieve thatunder; one of the triumvirate suggestedas leader, England ought to render asplendid,account of her cricket at theAntipodes, for the side enumeratedpossesses courageous, admirable bat-ting, perfect wicketkeeplng, fielding ofthe highest class, as well as the bestbowling wohave.

Off tho field this team should bopopular, and show what the pick ofthe young manhood of the MotherCountry is like. It Is more importantto maintain tho highest traditions ofEngland than to win the rubber. Thosetentatively suggested ought to suc-ceed Inboth alma.

R. H. JELLYMAN(Well-known Marlborough Sport.)

WELLINGTON V. OTAGO.Wonderful Crick.t!

Wonderful cricket! Beyond ques-tion these words expreßs the unani-mous opinion of those who were privi-leged to see the Wellington

—Otago

Shield match at Carlsbrook (says ourDunedin rep.). It is quite Impossiblethrough the medium of cold typo toconvey even a faint idea of what -agreat game it resolved into. It wascricket at its best, and congratulationsto the Winners aro no more deservingthan is a need of admiration for thelOHers for tho magnificent effort theymndo m what to them, after the firstday's play, was an uphill flpht. Amatch that can produce so huge anaggregate as 1905 und no fewer thanseven centuries must be spoken of forgenerations to come, while it is safeto say that records wero establishedthat will stand for mnny a day. Neverwas a match played m a happier at-mosphere and the only regrettable In-cidents occurred when players wereinjured.

Of the batsmen. Collins and Shep-herd stood on a pedestal by them-selves for mastery of strokes and at-tractiveness m executfNK them, bothbeing extremely prvtty to watch. Theformer, fashioned on the lines of thotypical Knjillsh orteketer, plays abeautifully stmlphi but, and his tre-mendous forward n»uch allows him to

smother well-pitched balls, thus rob-bing them of their menace. Thereis probably not v more rapid scorerIn the Dominion to-day than Shep-herd, and he scores from balls thatmost pluyers would be content to stop.In this fact, however, seems to He thebasis of his slut-cons for his nupremoconfidence ia really his eltongegt de-fonco.

Worker, Iliddleston. McMullan.Bttlcor and Kortlang ur«j all flnst-claas

batsmen of the run-getting type, butm this match they all lacked the free-dom of the two champions mentionedabove. Then, too, there is that en-tertaining: chap McGirr, dashing to adegree bordering on rashness, but whois liable to put three figures againsthis name at any time. ,, Among the bowlers, Arthur Alloocame out with easily the best average,and it wouldn't be surprising to learnthat this, combined with'' his soundbattingm the second innings, impres-sed Selector Tucker. Twelve for 277reads pretty Weil. Dickinson was afizzle and was very erratic after hisfirst tw> or three overs.

Jame.s, the youthful 'keeper forWellington, gives promise of reachingthe first flight m that position, but hehas a tendency, to leave his wicketsand do the yvvork <jfj, the'fieldsmen. Onone occasion he. roust have ctyised aball to square' leg: for at .least achain. .-.; ■.-'"■' "'.;.--■-■ '

Galland showed improvement m thesecond- innings,.but he has a long wayto go before he can be classed withChudwick. ..His batting, tpo, has de-teriorated and -he -now ho* a fataltendency toV^jîtfem.^,- . ■. ■■

. When the pextipt«&o eleven is se-lected To^rahco and Knight must befound.,places.' Duncan Is certain tobe dropped, while it is an even breakbetween three others for keeping himcompany. "

SCULLINGMcDEVITT V. HANNAN.

To-day W. McDevitt, the New SouthWales State champion sculler>.■> andJ. Pr Hannah, of Wairau, whot-holdsthe New Zealand championship- tiUe,.are to row on the Waitemata Kiirb'orifor a purse of £500, subeicribedl ■ itvAuckland. The scullers; claim thatthe title of Australasian champion-ship is also involved*■■but this is anabsurdity as there tias n& s.uch"îtlem. existence., Thtt latest-..;

"jiews;> to

hand regarding thei jfnenm their training work is to^the-eftfectthat both are very fit Paddy Han-nan reports that his trials have beeneminently satisfactory. It goes with-out saying that Hannan is confidenthe can win;- his chief asset is hisbreezy, optimism. There is one thingcertain, and that is If he rowed thofull course of three miles 300 yards mthe time credited to him. viz., 20min30sec, against.wind and tide, he wouldonly *need to reproduce that form, towin easily; m fact Jlm_Paddon wouldnot long be Champion of the world ifPaddy wus capable of 'such a per-formance. Not much has been heardabout McDevitt's doings since he start-ed training on the Waitemßta, but theAustralian reports himself as being fitand well. McDevitt has some goodperformances to his credit,, one of hisbest being on the occasion when hegave Paddoh a hard race. However,big Jim was not a well man that day.If Paddon retired it is more than likelyhis pacer, Jack Sasey, would becomethe world's champion, though DarcyHadfield would have to be reckonedwith if he cared to try for the title.McDevitt would also be m tho run-ning, unless Hannan settles the pre-tensions of the Australian to-day, anunlikely contingency unless those whohave seen McDevitt rowing and de-pJ^'^-kinT.,: t&_be,;^Â/Jirst-clasg.. sp.uljer"are bad judges. » * '

It is possible that as an outcome ofto-day's race one or two other matcheswill be made. Word comes from Wa-nganui that Billy Webb is afloat everyweek-end and there would be no diffi-culty m getting plenty of money toback him against anyone m New Zea-land if he would agree to mako an-other .match. It is safe to say, too,that he would make good if he caredto take on the job, despite the factthat heis 43 yearsof age. Darcy Had-field should be able to get backingagainst either McDevitt or Hannanand Archie Sharpe is another whowould be worth bnckh.g against thewinner of to-day's race.

WALLY SHARPE.

. One of the best known figure 3 mrowing circles m New Zealand is W.Sharpe,' captain of the Union BoatClub, of Wanganui. In his day he wasa fine oarsman, and stroked the U.B.C.crew when they won the ChampionFours, for the first time. He was byno means a pretty oarsman, but hepiit the weight on, and never knewwhen he was beaten, being alwaysready to "give her a doaen" wheneverthe necessity arose. Wally has beencaptain of tho club now for some four-teen years,and also acts as coach. ItIs safe to say that most of the successwhich has been achieved by the lightblues during the last twelve years orso, including tho holding of the fourschampionship since 1913, has been duoto the splendid work done by W.S. mhis capacity of adviser-general. Heknows how to get the best out of hismen, and though he is a stickler forwork, he has a way with him that ap-peals to the boys, and they give oftheir, best. It was the late Mr. C. E.Barton" who Introduced during histerm as captain of the shed themethods of rowing which have causedtho club to bealmost invincible. Wallyhas followed on the same lines, and thereßUlt'has been that for many yearsthe light blues haveset a standard forrowing which has been the envy ofevery* other club In tho Dominion. Theremarkable run of success achievedby the Wanganui Collegiate School mtho inter-collego races ia also due prin-cipally to the excellence of the coach-ing received from Wally. Though hemust be about the llfty mark now, W.Sharpe is as keen as ever on the game,and every evening ho is out with oneor other of the crews. He has been agreat asset to the club, tho membersof which hope he will be like JohnnyWalker.

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AS GOOD AS A HOLIDAYDr. William*' Pink Pills.

Tho mnln object of a holiday is toRnln renewed onortry for another year'swork, so that ono may return withsound nerves and a clear brain, full ofvisor nml ready for work affuln. Un-fortunately that object ia not alwaysattained.It all depends on tho state of your

blood. If your blood has bf-come im-poverished or Jmjmro tho holiday Inprobably too brief for you to obtnlnproper benefit: nnd very few peoplecan clnlm to be fri>« from tho (Irpgs ofHome ailment which has drained thoblood of Its nntural strenjrth. That Jswhy they reel fapged out, brain-weary,nnd Incapable of much exertion.

If you cannot take a holiday— heßlnnow to build up your blood with atrue tonic, nnd ho JnvlKoratu and re-fresh your system. Nothing Is morevaluable for this purpose than Dr.Williams' Pink Pills. Ov«r and overnffaln they hnvo been proved to be asKood as a holiday to Jnded men ondwomen. Their value to both bcxo« Jsmade ovidont by tho fact thnt thesepills make Rood the waste caused bylllnexs and tho wearnnd tear of every-day life The price of Dr. WUlkuna'Pluk Pills [a 8/- per box-»

SPORTS IN SPORTPast And Present

GEORGE OWLES.

So the'final whistle has been blownand George Owles has crossed the lineforv the last time. Poor George!Against his name as a footballer thewords "Not Understood" should per-haps be written, for on the field he hada number of peculiar little mannerismswhich at times tempted one to thinkthat he delighted to indulgem the bur-lesque, but there were occasions, onwhichhis play entitledhim to be term-ed a top-notcher. The writer remem-bers his five tries against South Can-terbury at Carlsbrook when opposedbp-the ex-All Blacki Percy Storey,-andnot one of them could be described as,easy.'There was, however, no doub,t-inig:;the,popularity,of George with the

;and Sasanof, as hewas always referred to. was as wellknown as the Mayor ofjthe city. Whenhe-fifsfarrived' m Dunedin from -thefiorth^neCeh.os.e/ to play" for Kaikpr.tli

■fiilinig"].every; position.<in that, clubMba!ck divifeloh;.'although, it was as awing' three-quarter that he "showedhis best form. In this latter positionhe earned his representative cap m1920, and on nineteen subsequent oc-!rcasions he lined.out as a wearer of the:%\ue jersey. While a soldier -.of the|Kljng/ George played for the Service.team that put up such a fine record,"and he delighted to recount the doingsof what he termed "that great teajn."In privateJife he was a saddler m theDefence Department, being stationedat the St. Kilda battery during the

portion of his residence m thecity ;of shekel-loving Scotsmen and

.shocking streets. When it was de-creed that all harness and leather-workshould be contracted for George "wasoffered a position as instructor m theTerritorials, but he decided againstaccepting it, and for a time acted astraveller for a firm that deals prin-cipally m wines. In 1922 he made uphis mind to join his brother on a plan-tation m South Africa, and it seemsjust like yesterday since a host offriends gave him a rousing send-offat the station. His last cheery wordswere,"I'll beback m a couple ofyears,"but the old adage that man proposesbut God disposes has held good mGeorge's case, and the soil of tropicalAfrica holds the mortal remains of onewhom it was good to meet and whocarried the sunshine of life aroundwith him. .

HARRY WILSON.The greatest of our New Zealand

athletes, Harry Wilson, is with theteam m Australia, of course. Harryis a Wellington-born boy and went toschool at Berhampore. He later wentto Wellington College m the yeurs1911-12 and there first came out as ahurdler, Though one of the smallerboys then, he carried off a handicapevent m his last year, but it was un-important and could scarcely be takenas an augury of the wonderful careerhe was destined for. Itwas not until1915 that he really distinguished him-self among the , first-flighters, when,at the provincial sports mathering mMasterton, he ran second to Halligan,the then champion, over the 120 yardsdistance; The 4iQ. yards he won out-right. Subsequently, at a meeting mWellington, thepositions werereversed.Hainan won the 440 yards and Wil-son the 120 yards. Amateur athleticswent out of favor after this, as mostof the lads were training for a, sternergame. Harry Wilson had the fever,too, and as he was too young to en-list he went to England as a civilianand worked onmunitions until he couldjoin the New Zealand Artillery overthere. Over m France he competedIn a sports gathering at tho Etuplesbase and won the 100 yards, 220 yards,high jump,long jump, 120 yards hur-dles and throwing the cricket ball.For awhile after the Armistice he wasm the Pay Corps m London and while"there was chosen as a member of theNew Zealand athletic team to com-pete m the Allied Armies' games atParis. Here he competed m his fav-orite distance, the 120 yards hurdles,and ran third to Simpson, of Illinois,a world's record holder, andFred Kelly,another American, who were first andsecond respectively m 151/5 sec. Inthe English Army championships, heldlater at Aldershot, the New Zealandathletes won every event m which theyentered, and Wilson kept his end upIn the 120 yards hurdles. In theEnglish open championships held atStamford Bridge hedid the trick againagainst all-comers. Back m NewZealand m 1920 he went witha team to Australia and there annexedthe Australasianchampionship over tho120 yards flight. Next year he wonthe N.Z. championship, but m Christ-church tho following year, 1922, he fellover m the nice and Buckhurat gal-loped onnnd won. Then m 1923 cameKrogness, the great Yankee hurdler,and no one who was there will ever for-get the great race nt the Athletic ParkIn Wellington when Harry Wilsoncleaned him up m 15 sec dead. Itwas a spectacle to send every onlookerfrantic with delight. SubsequentlyKrognesa beat Wilson In Wellington,but the time m this case was 16 2/5sec, and Wilson had competed In the100 yardß heat and final and a heatof the hurdle race before meeting theYank, who did not participate m aheat even and came out a perfectlyfresh man.However, this event wasnottaken seriously by Wilson. The firstrace was the test, and this is borneout by tho times recorded. The resultof the flr«t raco placed Wilson amongthe world's first flightera and a dulyqualified performer for the OlympicGames.

SERGEANT J. W. McHOLM."With the New Zealand athlet a m

Australia is a manußer who shouldhave a fair show of keeping order anddiscipline amont? his fhar«es. This Isburly Servant J. W. McHolm. thehammer thrower, who goes as a com-petitor m that division also. He Is aNow Zealand born Scot nnd. though f>years old, Is m wonderful form. Formany years he was m the police mWellington nnd a member of the Wel-lington Amateur Athletic Club, but forthe last two years has been In charstcof the station at I.yttclton. Thismakes his third trip »" Australia as acompetitor and he has been New '/o.n-land's champion since 1912; that is. ofcourse, excepting the fact ttvit lustyear the vlsltlnK American athlete, thatwonderful little man. Merchant. w«nthe New Zealand championship. Mo-Hoim. of course, headed the lnml com-m'titors In the hnmmer thr«wlnc and.except for Merchant's extraordinarythrow of 147ft r. l/*lns In Auckland In19H has not been approached In Aus-tralasia. It still Hands as the rfcn<d.McHolm secured the AustralasianchnmpionMhip earlloi- }n tho same yenrwith a 138ft throw. 11H next trip mAustrnlla was m 1920. when be ai{alnwon the event. He missed Rolntr ovoi-for tho 1922 championship mpptlnfr,hutall troingr well ho should hrlne 'hechampionship back with him thistime.

RUGBYStands Scotland Where It

Did?"Hear, Land o' Cakes and Brother

ScotsFrae Maiden Kirk to Johnny Groat's."

(By "Ponty.")

Quite recently "Stalwart." an Eng-lish writer, had the following to sayabout the .Scottish Rugby Union:""Mind, you, the Scottish Kugby Unionis quite consistent m its unwaveringattitude to the amateur question. Itnever yields, no matter what the cost.There was that historic occasion, forInstance, when they refused to takethe gate for their match with the AllBlacKS, and bang went something like£3000. But some people would mere-ly caU that cutting off your nose! touplte your face, andthe.Scottish RugbyUnion has never done anything soquixotic"since."■.._,.-.,....,, , :". Inaccuracy No'! 1: "Stalwart" has

[.exaggerated the amount of. the gate for'tKe match Scotland v) New Zealand.It probably netted about £1000 as theN.Z. Rugby Union took approximately£1100 from ,the two Scottish matches.The Wes,t of Scotland match playedat

jGlasgow on November 22, on the[ Queen's Club Soccer ground capableof accommodating a round hundredthousand spectators, drew only SOOO ofan attendance, probably owing toheavy rain having fallen continuouslyi through the morningof thematch.i Inaccuracy No. 2; "Stalwart" is|quite right. "The Scottish "RugbyUnion is quite consistent. . . .Itnever yields no matter what the cost."That knowledge should have fore-

[ warned him against a 'statement that!the Scottish Kugby Union TVad never[ doneanything so quixotic since. Well,by your leave Mr. "Stalwart," the Scot-tish Rugby Union did do somethingjagain quite so quixotic: Its arrange-

Imerits for the 1906 Springboks tour:were arialagous to those for the AllBlacks,- and the South Africans netteda cool' £llo.l 11s 6d from their three

[ matches m Scotland.SCOTTISH INTERNATIONALS?

! For professed purists the ScottishRugby authorities have- queer views onIat.least one other subject besides thatof the bawbees. Here are a few sam-ples of the quirks "Caledonia stern andwild" has put the other Homecountries m getting together her sidesfor the International championship:

Scotland paid her respects to New-port way back m 1920 when she cappedthe same Neil, Macpherson for theScotland ,v. Wales match at Inverleiththat she has just caused to be sus-pended for a technical breach of therule of amateurism. As Wales wasbeaten for the first time.in thirteenyears, Macpherson on his return toNewport must have been about aspopular as Percy Bush was the day hepresented George Nicholson with thefamous try at Cardiff.

Now for the coup-de-grace. Mac*pherson was born at Cardiff, anJ hadonly played m Wales. A typicalScotch style of forward play and aScottish ancestry comprised Scotland's"Justification" for the bestowal on thisotherwise ''completely Welsh" foot- jbailer of the ancient order of the This-!-tie. -.:, . ..-..;■ ....... j

REMINISCENT OF A CAUSECELEBRE.

About the "same year," 1920, Di\Fahmy, who had taken his degreo atEdinburgh University, went into prac-tice at AbertlUery m the Welsh countyof Monmouth. Thero he joined thelocal Rugger side, and played so wellat fly-half that he was given a canterm the Welsh Rugby Union's trials.Then down swooped tho old ScotchEaglo or other metaphorical nationalbird o£ prey. Scotland chose Dr.Fahmy for tho first International ofthe British 1919-1920 season, thatagainst France on New Year's Day. Aleading English critic had the auda-city to attempt to justify tho "steal,"by stating that as Scotland had pre-viously had Dr. Fahmy out m an In-ternational trial his friends across theborder could not be accused of tryingto jump any Welsh claims to Dr.Fahmy's services. Get this: Tho saidcritic did not mention that the trialm which Dr. Fahmyhad played "acrossthe border" had taken place "only" sixyears earlier, m Dr. Fahmy's 'Varsitydays, and before the war. It so hap-pens that Dr.Ffthmy was bornat l'erth—

so he really had a shade of color-of-rlght m playing for Scotland m theFrench match of 1920.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE.Here is another illustration of Scot-

land's obstinacy Inall matters relatingto Rugger, As one of the cast was theWatHonlans Club which includes Mr.J. D. Dallas, tho famous referee m theWales v. Now Zealand mutch, m Itsmembership, the little episode is ap-propriate Just now when another meet-ing with "Taffy" is already being dis-cussed. Tho Scottish selectors hadchosen J. A. R. Selby as scrum-half forScotland against Wales m 1920, whenthe Welshmen had the tables turned onthem for the first time since 1906-1907season. Selby was tho youngestplayer on tho Scottish side. Instead ofgiving him every encouragement andfacilitating practice In the position mwhich he had to win ula spurs for thenational fifteen, the Watsoniana ac-tually made the youngster turn out ma minor match at full-back. This wasafter his selection as half-back forScotland, and only a few days beforethe Internati6nul. Hero is the joy oftho thing; he was placed full-bnck notbecause tho circumstances "forced" theWatsonians to piny him it. that posi-tion, but purely because they thoughtthat another player named W. S.Nlmmo the better man to have at thobase of the scrum. The club la, us weknow, the foundation of tho RugbyUnion name, hut p:itrlotl«m shouldhave had a show whore such a youth-ful competitor for International honorswas concerned.

How different was the case the sameBritish Mention. whon the United Ser-vices and Quy*H Ho-toltnl permuted C.A. Korahaw and J. A.Krliro reapeetlvo-ly, to play for lilarkhcath In a clubKamo a we«?k betfor« the? EnpJund v.Wales match, In ordor thnt they mighthnvo homo tiHuftil practice wlih thefive Blaekhouih mnn, who llko them-folvow. had boon Heleetod to play forthe "Roses" at Swansea. There wohavo tho chili Interest "mjborUlnated"to that of country.

ANALOGIES.1. Jimmy l-yn^koy's action In1919 In

picking Glnffor Nirhoi:* scrum-half forNorth iHlaml, stftor (Miff Ramsden haddropped the coll from the I'otone seniorand the Wellington representativeteams.

2. The tourlnjc Helector«' action m<]ei>oHlnff CSlncer DomM from the wlnp-forwarn position In the 1920 Now Zea-Jrwttl team* t««st matches v.New SouthWales at Sydney, nnrt whackltm It uj>between Moke Belli* and "Big Jnkey.": SCOTLAND ON AMATEURISM.

There la no Ronultte Rimby footballjamateur at Homo, m South Africa orim Australasia who ttt not heart and

soul with Scotland m the "matter ofprinciple involved m her fight for"lily-white" amateurism. But theScottish assembly of Rugby "Jack-puddings" blundered worse than everm their latest case of despotism. Inthe Neil Macpherson affair the^^boêto make an undignified protest to^theplayer concerned instead of a moredignified one to tha Welsh ,RugbyUnion, which had sanctioned testi-monials to members of the NewportClub. Ithad got through the last Bri*tish season with an unbeaten record.Macpherson was the team's skipperand he, along with Dr.Roche (an IrishInternational) and the remainingNewport players accepted gifts of goldwatches to commemorate the splendidachievement. Well over two thousandindividual subscriptions were made byNewport citizens to the fund.

The "Athletic News" sums up thoprotest neatly m these words:^ "To putabarrier against such a gift1r tocarrythe spirit of amateurism' to ridiculousextremes. Are we to Jibsume that th^Scottish Rugby Union regard thesecretary of .tlie International Boardand Cyril Rutherford, of the FrenchFederation, as having.transgressed theamateur, rules because, they; acceptedthe touch-flags they used as :* linesmenm the British-Contenaiy match? In aword, the Scottish Rugby- Union wouldappear.to have taken up an absolutelyuntenable position."-'

As we have seen Scotland (SappedMacpherson m 1920, sm'-i recently call*ed upon him to return his. gold watch.In the meantime he was suspended bySqotland until the next meetingof the

.International _ Board, ..appropriately,enough held on November SO-^Scot-land's Nntional Day. Tho decision ofthe Board might conveniently botag-ged "Confusion Worse Confounded"

—for, it was held that v.hereas a testi-monial could bo accepted without "In-fringement o£ ama'.eu" status" thovalue of v gift must not exceed twogolden sovereigns. Thai Is to say

—Macpherson when teiap/ed on a futuresoccasion, must not wahc oft with agoldchronometer but may safely pocket a"tin-lizzie."

Commenting bn tho hulricrous deci-sion of the International Board, weagain quote the "Athletlu News": "Thefinding seems to have toothing to dowith tho case,' but the whole situationla amazingly 'Gllbertlan,* nnd we cansee Rugby players w!lii a 'Pooh-Bah'strain looking contemptuously on aTin Timekeeper* as o.no'her insult."

SOME FACERS TO 3CCTUAND.Here la a cablegram from London oh

December 20; "The acii^n of tho Scot-tish Rugby Union m declining to meetthe All Blacks on next j-car's tour hus

Iagain stirred tho Rucbf world. Scot-Iland has not stated her )casons, but itIla believed vhat the crl>vance origin|ates with the All JtUuks' 1905 tourwhen Scotland constdinvd that the AllBlacks* Infringed tho rule of amateur-ism by accepting a ir.ivelling allow-ance." Now, nssuminur tl-al "belief" tobo well founded

—and it la tho general-

ly accepted reason Cor Scotland's atti-tude to N.Z. Hugger

—"'I-'onty" would

like to know: (a) Whether for pre-cisely tho wime reisoa D. R. BedellSlvriglU's 3904 British team did not"infringe the rule of amateurism"?(If Slvright himself dl-.l not receive the3/- per diem allowunco for out-of-pocket expenses It »s :in Indisputablefact that the team did so. Conse-quently, Slvrlght'H t>;tm establishedthe precedent for the payment to thoAll Blacks.)

(b) Whether, therefore.,D. R. BedellSivrlght did not "Infringe the rulo ofamateurism" m tho spirit of tho Rulesof Professionalism?

(c) Whether every c ther member ofthe Scottish International teams whichstayed against New Zealand 1905---1908; South Africa 1005-1906, 1906---1807; England 1905-l!)06, 1906-1807;Ireland 1905-1900. 11100-1907. 1907---1908; Wales 1908-190ft. IW6-1907. 1907---1908; did riot "infringe the rule ofnmateurfsm"

—provided Sivrlght him-

self had received the 3/- per diem al-lowance? (SlvrlKht played for Scot-land on all the above occnulons).

(d) Thero wore eight Welsh, threeKntjlinh and ono Irish Internationals itr*tho 1004 Uriilnh team, .Xssumlnt?; thathe did not himself receive the irulnea-n-week. 1. Did he not "infringe thorule of nmateurlnm" by playing withtho remaining 23 men of Ma Austra-InKinn (earn whodid? ?. Did not everyother Scottish International who play-ed against Welßh, KtiKlihh or JrW»h In-terrmtlonal Hidos which, included any |oC Bivright'H dozen lut».)nationals an-HOciatOH. thereby "lnfrlngo the rule ofamateurism"?

(c) There were ten Ungllsh nnd B\xWolwh IntornattonalHm A. V. HnrdlnK'H1008 tenm from whloh Scotland (mdIreland held aloof. Whnt, then, Ib thoposition of the Scotch uml Irish Inter-nntionnl.s who Hubse;|aently ropreßent-c<\ either country URalnnt England orWnle» when nny of tho eixteon playersreferred to played for the, latter twocountrloH atminst them? Did they not"infrlnsro tho rule of r.mateuriwm" ortho "f»phlf of thr rule.? <N.U.~Donot overlook Trelund'M nttitude— »hc 1m"nil out" on the nubjeot of profc-n-Hlonnllßm, too).AUTHORITIES FOR "PAYMENT."m Mr. Nell aalbralth. In a state-

ment to ihc l'ra»n Association, broad-rriHtod on December 22, stated thatHoik'll-SivrlKht'B 1904 team claimed.i«nd \v.w< paid, tlio three shillings' dallyallowance.

(2) Vide pape IS of "With tho BHt-J«h VcAin In Maorlland"

—tho true utory

'of the Anglo-Welsn'tburJl^&-~7 "As ilwas an amateur team goiriff "out as

i the guests of the New Zealand RugbyUnion each member of the team wasallowed two shillings per day out-of-Ipocket expenses. Superfluous to say'that this amount was inadequate for

Ireal out-of-pocket expenses, and wasinvariably spent before breakfast. Atthe end of every fortnight the mana-ger paid out 'salaries' at the rate of13/- weekly

—26/-. One shilling week-

|ly.was deducted for 'training ex«!penses'."

A BOOMERANG?Summed up, these pertinent queried

pofiJt to one sidedness of Scotland'spresentment of her case, and confirmthe judgment of the "Athletic News":

(1) vßhat Scotland is carrying theprinciples^ amateurism to a ridiculousextreme. >

(2) That the Scottish authoritiesiwould appear to'^&we taken up an ab-solutelyuntenable posifhJir4n suspend'-inj? Neii Macpherson and^->âj>.»Ji"SScotch players from taking the uei<!vâgainst the Newport Club.If this contrary "spirit is continued

the Scotchmen will find .that their slo-gan ''infringement of the amateur rule",is'likely to prove &' boomerang.In the Macph'ersoncase Scotland sus-

pended a player who did not reallycome under its sphere of discipline andadministration. It was that which. 'raised the storm of protest throughout|the Rugby world at Home.

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C. F. SANDERS(Boxlngr Senator, Auckland.)

All Blacks' AllowanceAf

REVIEW AND A SUGGESTION,

(By X.0.)'About this parsimonious stand of the

English Rugby Union to cut out a.spending allowance for the All Blackteam this year, it is worth while fora moment to recall that when Bedell-Selvwrlght's 1904 team visited thesoisles each player received three shil-lings every day lie was m the coun-try, from time of arrival to the dayof departure. The 1905 All Blacks re-ceived a similar allowance of 3/- aday from .departure.,to return. Anilthis payment barely sufficed. In anyease it does not make the men pros..What is more,, money nowadays hasa different value to what it had mthose days. An of S/- aday now is_nimost infinitesimal. . Toset our best away we will have togrant them allowances. If the Eng-lish' Rugby Union Will not do it theroneed be no qualms of conscience aboutbreaking any amateur rules if om*Rugby Union grants the boys who areto do battle for our country, and ad-vertise it, a decent allowance. Wehere suggest that tho N.Z.R.U. makeaa fund from the profits of tho variouselitninatory matches that will have tobe played before tho final 29 playersare selected. Thlfe fund should amountto a considerable sum, and so shouldbe worked out to give each player astated amount per day whilst away.The manager of the team could dis-tribute it at proper intervals, or whennecessary, as the tour proceeds. Thissurely is what New Zealand expectsto be done -to her valiant sons. Areasonable amount would be no lessthan 5/- per diem and not more thanIQ/-.;Everyone wlio Is cdnVereaht "wUh

sport m general is awaro that theEnglish and Australian cricket ama-teurs travel first class, all fares amiincidentals paid, besides receiving adaily allowaneo of 10/-, 15/- or £1per day. And let this bo well noted:the 1924 All Blacks are not travellingfirst-class. Of courso no ono isgrumbling at this.

'No doubt thero aro some who will

rise up and say. "Nobody who is pick-ed will throw his trip away for thosake of an allowance." It can bostated authoritatively that there aroat least six highly probable playorawho, if picked, would not bo ablo toaccompany the team if tho allowanceswere not granted or unless somethingturned up from unknown admirers.

The English Rugby Union has nadesire at the present time to sanctionany allowances, especially m view ofthe recent Scottish* howl of Macphor-son's nlleged professionalism

—a. pleca

of sheer bunkum. There is aman whowas given a gold watch whilst play-ing In club football In Wales. Thowhole team were duly presented wlihsimilar tokens of esteem from ihotownsfolk. The other membersof tha ,fifteen not being Scotch are not ques-tioned :\s to their amateur statin.Poor Macpherson, behif,' a Scottish In-ternational, has the option of return-ing the watch or getting tho - go-by ,from the union.

This sort of thing is guaranteed toeat the heart out of nnmt'-urlsm any- ,where, but. thank"' goodness, we In NewZealand are not yet such bigots.

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WINNING HIT.(By "Papakura.")

Hector Gray,, who has just returnedId theDominion,m an interview madefcnentton of :the fact that horses werefcetiredtoythe stud, very young m Eng-land and when they were m the*zenith of their ,fame, and quite cap-able of winningmany goodrace's. ThisJjaste

'to'rdtire colts to the stud can

occasionally be- traced to commercial-Ism, aB when a Derby or prominentclassic winner is defeated just,beforefinally retiring from the racecourse itflepreclates considerably his value atthe stud. ItIs noticeable that of lateyears m the Old Country tho majorityof the Derby wimi'ersdo not evenraceon during their four-year careers, andthe big w.f.a. cups and handicaps areleft to be wonby horses that werenotquite capable of winning the three-yearclassics or have greatly improvedas theyreached the four andfive-year-old. An illustration of a Derby win-ner losing caste as a racehorse can

be readily given m New Zealand, andIfhe happened to bem Englandit canbe easily realised how Winning Hit,ifnow retired to the stud, would do spunder much less favorable circum-stances than if his owner had electedto not race him after fcis brilliantthree-year-old successes. Of course,Ibelieve Winning Hit to ke\a-muchover-rated colt, and only use him as."an illustration, as his deeds— and mis-deeds

—are wellknown by.all followers

of form m New Zealand. He 'won theN.Z. Derby well, but defeated no not-able distance performer, as Cupidon,although an A.J.C..Derby1 winner, has.missed almost always since;' TheHawk, a very brilliant gelding, wasstrangely enoiigh, a non-stayer,■■. al-though by Martian, and the balance6f/the field were mqstly .by Absurd,whbse.progeny have practically alwaysfailed over a journey1.- ItIs wellknownthe great advantage a three-year-oldreceives m the spring under the w.f.a.scale, and with the aid of this concesrsion Winning Hit was able to defeatAmythas m the Stead Memorial, oneand a quarter miles,but the bighorse,a slow beginner and usually sore— wascatching Winning Hit at the finish,and was only beaten m record time.After winning the Great NorthernDerby,anda w.f.a. event m the autumnof 1922 at Dunedin, Winning Hit hasbeen raced over sprint and long dis-tance races

'in1, w.f.a'...and. handicap

company, but has 'never been sightedat the.right end of his engagements.It will be interesting to see what SirGeorge Clifford,proposes to do with thechestnut when he decides toretire himfrom the. ttirf, as he he will hardlybesuitable for the Stoneyhurst Stud,where nearly all of the matrons arerelated to him

—either on his dam or,

sire's Bide. Possibly his trainers willbeglad when Winning Hit Is taken outof their hands, as his consistent failureto see his races out must have causedthe Messrs. CuttS much chagrin duringthe past two seasons. Iventure to saythnt Wipning Hit getshis, unreliabilitythrough; his dam. Winning' Way. Thismare won the Welcome Stakes at Ric-carton, as did her dam, To-morrow, byBill of Portland (by St. Simon). Win-ning Way was, however, by CannleChiel, and enthusiasts will. rememberwhat .an uncertain customer he was,and, further, a non-stayer, like almostall of Clanranald's stock. Autumnus,a real gppd game horso up to sevenfurlongs, is the sire of. Winning Hit,and as he Is by Treadmill, by Bill ofPortland, it willbeapparenthow muchWinning Hit is inbred to St. Simon.Our Australian friends assert that onecanno.t have "too much of a goodthing," but certainly .the result of themating, m Winning1Hit's case, has

resulted In, the production of anIdeal racehorse^-or a sire either, forthat matter. "

NEWS AND NOTES.Woodvllle concludes to-day. ,-

Dunedin and Egmont next week* IGloaming comes back. He will

next be seen at Riccarton.The last day at Trentham Highland

was very sore, but that did .not pre-vent the punters from making him 'agood favorite. He only showed uponceduring the raceand waswellbackat the finish.

The spectacle of a rider standingup m the saddle In the High WeightHandicap the last day at Trenthamwas not at all to tho liking of thosewho were on the horse. The rider andthe horso had a great duel to the turnfor homo where the latter acknow-ledged defeat.

Form was the best guide at Tren-tham and yet one who had run wellthe flrst two days was allowed to paya false price on the last day. Thatwas Civility, who is a cut above theaverage. :

Many of those present at Trenthamthe last lay were of the opinion thatGloaming just scraped home m theWaterloo Stakes. Perhaps they areright, but if he had been asked to doany better Glentruin would not havebeenq. neck away. As a matter of factnot one of the runners was knockedabout.

.Tho writer's fancy of the Walkanaeyearlings brought tho top price— 9soguineas. The' colt— out of Rebekah

—>vas .'"purchased by Mr. W. A. Fuller,who owns Kilmar und Martinique.

Thoro wereplenty to say that Love--Bjgn would not go a solid mile, butfitter tho Trentham mooting they hadto chaugo this opinion. The last dayshe cut out the fastest mile ever runon tho course and It looked like shecould have gone on for another twofurlongs.It Ih wild thata stable woll-known m

tho Wellington district had a row withtheir jockey tho second day of thoTrentham meetingbecause the horse-man would not \vußto to ride ono oftho horses In tho bighack handicap.

Mr. C. E. lOlpur bought a yearlingat the Walkanno salo. tho filly out ofSnowllko. He would havo most likelybeen n bidder for some of the otherlots but for '.he fnct ho m going to thuOld Countrym tho near future.

Lady Bentlnck went one better eachday at Trentham. Tho first time outBho wag third, the next day second andon Saturday she took tho big end oftho purHu. Like nil Absurds she htiaplenty of pace, but Inaddition she hasa good size heart.

Turf

Tattle8f SPEARMINT.

H. Gray, who had a fair innings atTrentham, will beridingat the Egmontand Taranaki fixtures.

The connections of Muaketoon had agood win over the success of the im-ported horse m the Takapuna Cup.

Trainer J. 11. Jefferd has not beendoingmuch with his team of late, butnow that the tracks at Ngatarawahavereceived a good soaking he will startto get his charges ready for action.

Rational only ran one good race atTrentham, that on the first day. Thesecond day he was never sighted andon the third day after being with theleaders to the turn-he soon wasbeaten.

Eonmark failed to see out the dis-tance both days at Trentham and waswell back at the finish. A short let-up and then with the sting out of, theground he will be dangerousup to tenfurlongs.

The hard jphig was not to the ljkingof Economist ijind he wa3 only startedonce at Trentham; " He.was with theleaders for lalf a mile, but from thenon went back.

At the turn for home m the Con-solation Handicap at Trentham Win-ning Hit had a great chance of break-ing the Ice. He momentarily lookedlike coming on. but when Little Riverran up to him he turned It m.

Quest is the same old gay deceiverand m the big mile the last day atTrentham he went m the lead for sixfurlongs and then reckonedhe had ful-filled his part.

Siaosi raced without bandages thelast day at Trentham. He did not getaway too well, but over the last fur-long he put mgreat work, buthe couldnot get to the winner.

The fact of her'going down very

scratchily put a lot off Mantua m theConsolation Handicap at Trentham.She was well tnough placed early butmet with trouble and fell back and atthe far turn was last. She came witha rattle over the last furlong and tooksecond money from Bonnetter. AlfHill's mare is as honest as the day islong and she should be on hand atWingatui next Thursday.

Those whonot'eed where Little Rivergot to on entering the straight theflrst day at Trontham werequite pre-pared for his success the last day. Theflrst day instead of waitingbehind thefield till the home stretch was enteredhis rider made his way around theoutside of the field and.of course thiswas fatal.

The Mayhap colt, who was to be of-fered at the Wsikanae yearling sales,got cast m nls L-6i and was withdrawnfrom' the catalogue. He is a bit lamebut will be all right m a week, whenhe will be on ihe private sale list.

Notwithstanding the wet weatherthe second day the Foxton Club willcome out on the right side of theledger. This is pleasing as the mem-bers are a hard working lot who doeverything to' make visitors welcome,!Early m the season big things wereexpected of Penelophon, but up tillthe New Year meeting at Hastings shefailed to do anything of importance.At Trentham last week, however, shecame into her own and won two racesm taking style and she cleaned theopposition up m a manner that sug-gestfcd she will do a lot better be-fore tho season is out.

No wonder the top weights In theSummer Handicap at Trentham nevertroubled the winner. : The pace shemade was enough to run them on! theirfeet.

The Foxton Club intend going m forsome improvements. They have hadplans prepared for a new members'stand and these will be discussed mthe near future. The new stand willstand back and thus allow for thetrack being made the requisite widthof 6Cft at the one place it is not so atpresent.

The running-of Wild Hind at Tren-tham was not correct and she dis-appointed her trainer. The first timeshe is right she will win several raceson end. Watch for her Ina welter.

Chimera won well at Tauherenlkauat New Year with a U'.g weight thatshe must be given a great chance mthe Ruahlno Handicap at Woodvllle.That is providing her rider does nottry and win all the way.

Falladeen is not yet at his best,though he ran two fair races at Tren-tham. In the autumn he should win agood race.

The little-fancied Bon March wasgiven a chance by her trainer In theHopeful Stakes at Trentharn, but shejumped around at the barrier rise andleft her rider on the ground. She gotrid of the boy when they were goingout to do their preliminaries and thismay have shaken him up a bit andperhaps he was still a bit dazed at thebarrier.

In the WellingtonCup Loughrea wasreceiving' lClbs from Roseday and hebeat him bya length. In the DunedlnCup there is only 81ba difference be-tween the pair and on Trentham run-ning the latter Bhould account for theHazlett horse. Of course the rise atthe back of the course at Wlngatuimay toll more on Roseday than onLoughrea.

Trainer R. W. King has enteredMany kittle for the Doncaster Handi-cap and Pllllowlnkle for the SydneyCup to be runat Easter time.

L-Utle River has only to repeat hisTrentham running to make a moral o£the Cup. liut ho is an in-and-out sort pjt a cqstomer and roayget tired chasihg Diamond Ring.

The winner of the Anniversary Han-dicap at Randwlck last Saturday is avery close relation to Nigger Minstrel.He was sold prior to the meeting byMr. E. J. Watt to Mr. T. M.Burke for 3000 guineas. Notethe second horse is a sister to Purßer.who cost uunters n lot of money attho Randwick spring carnival. Stony,tho third, ia one of Georeo Price's teamand has been very consistent this sea-son.

There was no doubt about the meritof Giontklller's win at Trentham andhe literally ploughed his way throughthe field over the last hundred yards,Only for his being a little short ofwork he would have been supportedmoresolidly by his party.

Sir Wai is carrying a lot more con-dition than last Boaßon, and;will becontestinghurdle races soon. The longm»ell has worked a big improvementm this gelding.If the golriß is nt all on the soft side

nt Woodvllle Import will keep the beatof thorn busym th<» County Hack Han-dicap.

Iâdy Ftngers did not pull up wellla»t week. Her trainer has had a gooddeal of bother m kooplng her goingduring the pa»t few weeka.It Ih a lonjr time since Mr. C. F. Val-

lanco won n flat raoe at Trenthtim, butLittle River wn« m n goneroun moodon Saturday ana won the Consolation

Mt>rry Dfty wn« not forwnrd enoughto tK»e wn tho two hard rac«« last week,nnd nfter the H«-<;or>d day aht« hnd nVivtirreiicf <>f th«* trouble that laid hera«id« m the spring.

It looks as if Mr. A. G. Pilmer iscoming back into the game, as he wasa buyer at the Waikanae sales. The.Wairarapa sportsman Was a well-known gentleman rider

*and owner

some years ago.Carrying top weight-.on each occa-

sion, Vagabond did well to get a^sec-ond and two thirds last week. Nomore now until he is jumped m theautumn.

The Electric Hack race at Wood-vllle should see Benmure doing some-thing. The last day nt Trentham hemissed the jump away and then hadno possible chance of eettlng throughthe big field. \

Hytinushas donea lot of racing thisseason, and could do with a let-up.Though the gelding goes well for afew furlongs m his races, he is doff-tired at the end. "-,,.-'....-

Tom Higgins took advantage of thedownpour last week to send Lady Ben.'along, and the mare hitout well mherwork. . . .' .'"',...."'; ..'";

Messrs. Kembali and -Elgar havebeen busy -lately -weeding out thedrones from their stables, and intendfurther reducing their teams when op-portunity offers.

' - .Bumptious has now got over the in-"

jury which he received at the Mana-watu meeting, and if Trespass istaken to Egmont the gelding will ac-company him.

The intensity with which a crowdwatches a race finish was demonstrat-ed at Trentham on Saturday. In theMelrose Handicap, about a furlongfrom home, Heathcote.fell. It wouldbe safe to say that not more than adozen picked oft the mishap Immedl-'ately. After the race ended arid' thecrowd got its; normal sight back, thegeneral exclamation was: "Look,some-one's fallen!" ;"

Enthusiasm only ran one decent raceat Trentham— the middle day. Thefirst day she had a rough trip and thelast day she was slow oway.and tailedthe field off all the war. Do not taketoo much beed of this form. She.willdo better before long.

"Keep out of the que-ey," called'a

fat lady to her companion, who' wasracing towards the " exit gates afterthe last race at Trentham. "It's allright," replied her friend, "I'm gettingused to them. I'vebeenm quereys'allday." And she looked as if she had.

The amount of al fresco feedingithatgoes on at Trentham is enqrmous.Even the most select of commerclaL-dom evidently consider it no blow totheir dignity to devour cold pies andpints of beer in' the booth so nicelysheltered■ beneath the spreading, trees.In any case, one has to lunch somerwhere,- and m brisk time, go Vvyhy,worry? Democracy has Its day out atTrentham. ,

Fred Christmas has made.anotherstart on Kenmore at Riccartqn. Thisspeedy hack has made a splendid 're-covery from the accident that necessUtated his retirement some time ago.

Zero Hour is well just now and thatfinishing run of his m the Douro Cupat Trentham will be the cause of a.lotof money being put on him at Wood-ville.

Four yearlings are to be sold by Mr.Currie during the Wanganul race week,including a full brother to Xoyal Irisharid a brother to Parody. Itisnot un-likely that Dick Mason willbe anxiousto secure Parody's brother... v '■

Motley may not be seen out Sgatnuntil the Manawatu Sires ProduceStakeß comes up for decision, and thenshe will go north for the ChampagneStakes at Ellerslie, m which she willprobably have to meet Nigger Minstrelwho will prove the hardest to beat. ..

E. Copestake, who was smashed upsome time ago, has improved suffi-ciently to be able to leave the hoapital,and hopes to be In the saddle againshortly. Copey is one of the bestcross-country horsemen m the land,and it is to behoped he will be fit andwell again before the jumping seasonstarts. ,"" ,

'

Some surprise has been expressedthat Motley was not started" m theWaterloo Stakes against Gloaming andGlentruln, but her owner, Mr..GeorgeCurrie, acted wisely In not asking the.filly to take on the older cracks, es-pecially as she would have had to carrya 101bpenalty, whereas Gloaming badonly weight-for-age. Brilliant asMotley undoubtedly is she would havebeen set a very severe task to meetGloaming on such terms. It is open todoubt whether the Absurd— Pennonfilly will be a starter In the JacksonStakes at Wanganui, though this is aweight-for-ago event without anypenalties or allowances. There aretwo or three rich two-year-old Btakeswhich Motley must have a big chanceoiannexing if she is kopt for themandnot asked to race against older speedkings. ' * "

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The yearling1 colt which was pur-chased by a Victorian sportsman arjdshipped to the other side last week isone by Absurd out of Madam Butter-fly. He is a fine looking youngster,and when his time comes for racingshould do well.

A poor lot are engajed m the Hur-dles at Woodville and £U:ng Camp,whowonon the course last December, looksthe most likely.It laMr. George Currle's intention to

send a couple of youngstersm to Wa-nganul to bo trained by W. Rayner.One Is a gelding by Limond

—Farce

and tho other a gelding by Absurd—

Rose Queen.W. Dwyer has DaTipio, Alaric, and

Pout Eire engaged at the Egmont andTaranaki meetings. They have. allbeen doing steudy work recently.Alaric haß not been showing the dashhe displayed In tho spring m his workof late, but Dangle gives Hlgns ofgradual Improvement.

On Foxtotirunning- March On shouldhave a big say m tho Welter at Wood-vine.

Northern Notes(By "Renown.")

*Good dividends are generally m vogue

nt Tukapuna, and the first day at theShore meeting was no exception.

The opening event was marredBomewhat by nn accident, m which twoof the contestant* participated, puttingjockeys Goldfinch and Mitchell out ofHnddle for tho rest of tho day. Dur-ing tho preliminary gallops Miss Vera,with Mitchell aboard, swerved acrossthe course and collided with DouglasLatour, who was m the act of passingthe mare. Both riders received severeshakings, while Mlbb Vora sustained abroken rib. This is badluck for Train-er Brown, as the mare was particularlywell, and should have rewarded himsoon.

Desert Glow wan raced Into a goodponltlon oarly. and was handy nil theway.

Praiseworthy wai with the leaden*for llvo furlongs, but could not finishon.

Drawbridge had every chance, butcould maku no Impression on thewinner.

Jockey McTavish.kept Uratla m be-hind the leaders till turning forhome,where.he shot-her to the front and shenever.-looked like getting beaten.

Jolly: Gay .went very fast for the firstisix ftfflbngs, but was found wanting=over ..if.fie last bit of the seventh. Shemay better if ridden Inbehind..-. CoctfStimulants drew No. 1? at thebarrier"; and did well to be -as

-closeup at*fc#e finish as he was. i

Alfbs, -the favorite, and Broadwoodwere uhlucky.m the running, as theyboth received bad bumps at the hornedturn, ;the.,latter putting m a good runm the^sti-aightfor second money.

The rider of Hlmpo was busily en-gaged viewing the landscape over hisshoulder when entering the straight.Perhaps this accounts for his only[Winning by a head.

Royal'Abbey was slow to begin, butfinished up close to the placed horses.

The public went for Penona and AllMelody m the hurdles, the formerwinning from Lark Hall, who wasfinishingon wellat the right end.

Greekson'ran one of his best races

to date,m the hurdles.Kilcoo jumped well for a mile, and

may do better when more seasoned.The Takapuna Cup fell to, Mus-ketoon, who was ridden a well-judged

race by.W. Ryan. The connections ofthe English-bred horse were confidentthat he would runa good race,and hewas well suppqrted m consequence.

Boomerday was given the balance ofsupport m the Cup, but did not atanytime flatter his supporters.' By coming from the back, Ngata;fried to repeat his Manawatu form, butthe company here was too good toallow Qîsi"

"" . "...'.Surveyor ran honestly, his rider

getting -him shut In, and he finishedfourth on the rails without a possiblechance of getting through.

A bump received when m line forhome settled Te Kara's chance.

The distance proved too far - forLoyal Irish; although he finished wellm sixth position.'. Aerofortls, who was bracketed withMerry Prince arid Far North, was"made a good favorite for the FerryHandicap. They justified public opin-ion, eaqh of them putting up a credit-able showing, Aerofortis eventuallywinning.

Going out of the straight FarNorth,when third from last, was badly cross-ed by Bar6meter, or otherwise theBridgenorth hor9e may have finishedcloser up than" sixth.

The rider,of Thunderclap had himwell placed approaching the straight,but he allowed his mount to drop back,to come again and finish fourth. " :

The ground that Te Kuri had tocover over, the last three furlongsproved too, much for him, and althoughhe finished gamely under pressure, hedid not trouble the winner much.

Backers went for the Qulnette-PrinceLupin bracket as though it was thebet of the year. The top weight didnot get the "advantage at the start, andthis factor was the main cause of herdefeat. ' . ■, "■

Master. Doon"lived up to hla trackwork,, and after covering a lot of un-necessary ground won the CalliopeHandicap with a little m hand.. Once, again Voltore met a horse toogood for him." Only for his clouting the last fencehard Mahgoloire wouldhave beenmuchharder to defeat m the Orewa Hurdles.JL\ Warner, who rode him m this race,was.given a month on the bank forinterfering with Rosujius.

S. Walls- rode a good race on Wha-noko, who had to be chased along towin.

The Boniform gelding Active washot kept close enough to his field tohave stood a chance of winning. Bet-ter handled, he should land a stakesoon.

Half a mile fromhome Peter.Amanshad his chances of success extinguished by hitting one of his fences hard.

Starland made another mistake atthe second fence, sending his rider toearth. This is another miss to Mr.Stead's horße, but hemay get the ideato take soon.

Pavo was among the first out fromthe barrier, and was also among thefirst out of the race. This is not histrue form.. As usual, Finellt hit the front onlyto lijse,interest m first position whenKing Merv tackled her. The latternever looked like losing, and scoredthe' easiest victory of the day.

At ono stage it looked as thoughRoyal.Bldod was going to take.a handm the finish, but weight tells, evenwith th,e best.

Ran up, to form describes Tactful'sperformance.

Namutere was with them until thostraight was reached. The field wasthen making the pace too hot for him.

York Abbey was first out, but witha furlong 'traversed he was a longway,back. He made a good run com-ing into the straight, but with half afurlong to go he had received enough.

Bustler took his last fence sidewayson. Otherwise he mighthave troubledthe winner.■ Golden Glass has yet to win a race,but he seems to get his fair share ofweight.-- On the first day's running atTakapuna he struck the writer as"being one who would do better on abig course.

Sir Bur/iett was a good thing beatenm the Zealandta Handicap.

Awareka should win the first of thesprint hurdle races instituted at racemeetings.

All Melody finished a long way backm hla race. Mr. J. Bull is not travel-linghim as a companion for a middle-aged horse.

The party behind Ruapapa fanciedthe chestnut horse's chance for theCup, but he had to give way to Mus-ketoon.

When contesting the hurdles, GrandCnnyon was put at the back of theHold because of hia sporty wayH. Heran well while the condition lasted.

Tho weather was beautiful for thosecond day at Takupuna.

Te Hlwl. with Wiggins up, carriedheavy support In the opening event.The Bcragoon gelding drew a badmarble and although ho made a goodrun coming into the ntralght he fin-ished lit the ruck.

Mr. F. Hull's Kllroe was with tholeaders for six furlongs, but was notgood enough when called upon to dothe necessary.

Desert Glow had the services of H.Goldfinch, who signalled his return tolho saddle with a win. He was ableto help hia mount moro than tho lightboy who was on him tho first day.

Entering the straight, Deaort (Howbored out and caused Uralhi to shifta little off her straight course, but thostewards, after hearing the evidenceof R. McTavlsh, rider of the latter,decided that tho occurrence was pure-ly accidental.

W. Kemp Is taking Emerald Hill upnguin after his lengthy spoil.

The public took groat exception totho change m form displayed by AHMelody. On his first ran at tho meet*ing he was not sighted during the race,but on Tuesday he was taken to thefront after three furlongs were coneand was always with the loaders, togo on and win easily m bettor timethan wan run on the flrnt dity.

Bustler went a fair race for thirdmoney and will Improve.

Royal Blood wan the bout condition-ed homo m the bJK Mprint und li prov-(■d to liv.'I iv.' the best of good thing* forhim.

■" EaVk'HallVan a.gOQd race',.B^thajito give way when tw.Q furlongs" fromhome.

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Namutere put m a good finishingrun after being'sixth when heads wereturned for home.-. '!:; - It is a pity Pinelli cannot keep 'tierdash for the last furlong. ', :

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H. Gr&y had his first moiintiatah'emeeting'm the Jockey Club Handicapon Ruapapa, who started, an evenmoney favorite. .The good thing dulylanded,'but to those who watched\-therace Ruapapa appeared -to be veryluckyj

-At.the six furlongpegrhe vâs

third from, last;And\then commencedhis forward move. Approaching the.straight entrance 'he did not look tohave a chance of success, as Tino-horo, on the rails, and Alfort led thefield, with Te Kara and Loyal .Irishholding rail

'positions between Gray*

and the lead. Loyal Irish moved outto go around th»" field arid as soon ashe moved Te Kara, followed suit,:al-lowing the favorite to slip up " intosecond position behind- ■ Tinohorb.Tinohoro moved away from the fenceonce m line for home and Gray s«ip-ped Ruapapa through and won verycomfortably. .■-"*".

W. Kirk must be congratulated onthe way he turned the double win-ners out.. Sir iBurnett, who finished fourth

would not have been among the firsthalf-dozen only for following Rua-papa through.

Lady Rewa is agood filly.. She Waschopped out, just after the. start .of.,the two-year-old race arid was- lastnil the way along the .back.".' Shefinished like a champion, and got thedecision by.a head from Master Doqn.McPllnndidnot coverany moregroundthan was necessary. .. ,'. Thunderclap was picked,as one ofthe best,of those m the RangitotoHandicap, but neverat any time look-ed like winning. :

Once again the supporters of thebracketed three were 'given a goodrun for their money. Aerofortis, whodrew a badmarble, was considered thebest of the bracket, and, although theystarted favorite, they weni not sup-ported as well as would have been ex-pected. '

" Miss Melva won the Waiwera Hur-dles rather easily.' The stewards'heldan inquiry into her "running on- thefirst day and after a lengthy, inquiryit was decided that no action shouldbe ;taken as there, was not sufficientevidence to prove that there had beena big difference m form.;

Public- opinion is that "all-cases ofthis nature should be subject to aninquiry. - '

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. Ditto stepped it out well for elevenfurlongs'. .. ■-.-.-'■■"."."' -.* ."...-",. :':..

Active was given the most supportm. the hurdles and,"although riddena different race,he could do no better." Mahgolbire was considered a 'goodbet.with S, Walls up. He ran well;but was not good enough,. "_

Explorer,is m the.pink of condition■ nd will be heard of from nowon.-■

. Rpsullus should win shortly .when

..e company.ls not.too strong.. ; .'".Hipo, withH. Gray up, had his. first

:un at, the meeting m the conciudlhg\ jvent.; On this .occasion Gray, could'not get a run on the fence and hadto bring his mount out from the calls,and try and pass four horses. to win.

Himpo's form the first day was" nofluke. / ''_

Esthonla will land when the tracksget soft. ; " ....-""■' -:'

Royal Abbey should score any timethe company is not too good.

The Thames Trottintr Club are hold-ing their annual meeting on March 8.Nominations for all events close withthe secretary, Thames, or Mr. R. L.Absolum, Otahuhu Trotting . Club,Auckland, on Thursday, February .21.

TrottingNOTES FROM NORTH.

(By "Renown.")The Australian, Some Jazz, Is* weir

named and track watchers at Alexan-dra Park are looking forward withinterest to see this wonder going atfull pace.

Another of the same team, SparklingPronto, gives promise of turning .outa top-notcher.

Some of Peter Moko'a progeny arem work at Otahuhu and look, liketurning out useful.

Devonport Is only a suburb of Auck-land, but it is reported to possessmore alleged bookmakers of the"Kathleen Mavourneen" type than anycity m New Zealand.

Auckland trainers present at Wa-nganul did not appreciate the dustfrom the tracks

Jean Darling went a good race whenshe ran second m her second attemptat Wanganul and would havewon onlyfor interference In the straight.=

Battery Bell went a good race from72 yards behind at Wanganui. Thogelding finished second to LittleLogan and with a little improvementhe will bo a winner.

.lenny Wa'lace won over two mileson the seoond day and has improvedbeyond nil knowledge. She did an-other round after tho race just- to showthat there was no ill-feeling.

Rose Pointer Ib on the Improve nndknocked considerable off her previousbest at Wanganui.

Auckland trotting enthusiasts arewondering why Horbllwyn did notvlHlt the north at Christmas. Amaidenthat can win easily off 3.58 on thefirst day and then run fourth afterbreaking twice with a handicap of 204yards should have been able to wina raco it the northern meeting. Thismenus that he was doing about 3.3(3.

Little did Guinea's Bupporters athome think that he would only haveeljjht tickets invested on his chance ofsuccess when he was placed secondat Wanganul. A case of winning onwhat they did not know.

la tho Morton Memorial, decided nttho Bame meeting, Ivy Audubon (withher penalty) was asked"to do 2.50 fora mile and a quarter. Surely thepenalty was a little heavy, as shewould have to be a wonderfully im-proved mure to do this lime.

Tho unfortunate experience of theWanganul Trotting Club m connectionwith Jt« recent meeting, at which thototuilftiuor recolpta showed a fallingoff of thirty per cent, and the ntton-danco was disappointing, has led toconsiderable Hpeculution as to thefuture of the club. It appears to bogenerally agreed that the club willhave to go back to tho old idea ofsandwiching its mooting In with thoWanganuJ Jockey Club's Cup ilxture.It also seems that it would be a wisemove for the club to arrango with theJockey Club for the use of its cour«ofor a few years, by which time itwould bo able to erect a grandstandand other necesnary appointment* anits own course. It Is an open secretthat the club made nearly £1000 ayear for three or (our years while itraced on the racecourse, but it hasdone no good since it purchased Itsown property. The big slump camealong just nfter tho purchase nnd thisput tho club back badly. Sine* th«now course wan used the totnlinaiorreturn* have not been half of whatthey wer» while th» mooting* wft«held mi tho racfi'our/e. The positionIn a Hrrimi* «>n«* for Ihr club, but itI* to )>* hop'.'fi rh-'H thr dltflcultlPß willlie gvcrninii1 xrul m tliii- courec ili».»":h)b will 1»j pl.'t«:vd on a boikkl fooling.

SOUTHERN SIDELIGHTS.

(By "The Toff.'.')Forbury concludes to-day.Lognnwood Is favorite for the Dun-

odln Cup. Great Blngen and GreafHope will keep him scratching.

Kean John has got through a lot ofuseful work, and will take a lot ofbeating at Forbury.

Isn't Away a stunner?Peterwah' is favorite for the New

Zealand TrottingStakes. He will haveto step along to beat Early Harvesterand Sister Beatrice. According to allaccounts Peterwah is not a trotter, buta fiyingmachine. , .'

Roving Don will have a biff follow-ingat Forbury. He la a cut above theaverage.s

Messrs. Clarksbn and Graham haveexchanged Ratana for Gold Bud. Theformer Is again m J. Bryce'a stable.

A. G. Wilson 1» making a slow, butsatisfactory recovery from the nccl-'dent that occurred at the NewBrighton meeting. He may be seenmthe sulky at Forbury.

A couple of bobby-dazzlors have ar-rived at Auckland from Australia.They are Sparkling Pronto and SomeJazz. These are some more for thorAuckland horses to chase round at theforthcoming meetings.

! Nelson Price Is now located at New!Brighton where he has Coil,Blue Star,Echo and Gold Bud underhis care.

B6x Seat ts still out m the paddock.He will riot be required to sport silkagain till August. j

Agathos Is apparently sound. .Itis.Mr. Channing's intention to give hisold favorite another chance to add tohis already good list of winnings. ;

Lottie Direct is settling down with!age. Sho la a nice trotter and seems;to stay fairly well. |

Though always on tho lean side St.Anthony trots best when he is light taicondition. ,' '

Countryman Is bright and perkyafter his holiday, and Is again In work.

Rorko's Drift Is still kicking up adust at Add'.ngton. Tho veteran knowsevery post and nail on tho fence. Hehas been round them so often.

Be withKean John."

A likely novice, is Nelson Mao, 'He1h aRood pacer and should not bo longIn winning a raoc.

A. Fleming has decided to treatEvent to a Jengthy .holiday.

Realm la fast getting into his bestshape. So look out.

A three-yenr-old .brother to LadyJoan la making a lot of friends at Ad-dington. '

Snowfihoo Is sound again, and Isdoing nil tnat ts required of him atheadquarter.).

E. Berry i3 setting on eplendldlywith Sunny .Urn, and Judging- by.thoway hoIs trotting Inhis work, it won'tbo long before he salutes his Honor.

Arthur Cox is putting Ina good dealof tlmo wlui a threu-yenr-old troltwrby CJrt-at Amlubon. Tho younucsterexhibits aKootl deal of promise.

Double Kvont la an attractive pacer,and can't he {"«>.

Don Wild !« fairly Jumping out ofhi* Nkln. Hii is ono of the quiet tipsfor th« Duno.lln Cup.

Ngarota'H succobb nt Goro has gotthe crowd i-ucHslnK aa to how good«he I«. Fftßhforj Queen began smartly,but once Njcareta': bind won tot go it\va« Rood oyj to FVRhion -Qu««n nndcompuny. aikl Fanhion Quean mnofool.

There I* every reanon to think thatGala Pointer will win tho JJr«t «hortrae« the \a h*t for.

Whon IrJ»h Imp b«t On)a Pointer ntOore nhc patIn dividend of nearly halft\ century.

RrlcUlayer !»" a eon»l«t<»nt Hut un-luck hor«e>. IT<» i« not auiytng on b«won an he promised to.

Awny m*» hummer. Up Jogged In fttOor#«. ri^'NtpJlfti? 4.-N fop tho two milejourney.

(!r<v>l('mm: w:w :\ comjx-Utyr at theOortr fUum:. m the rro«r«n«Jv« Han-

dicap he stood on the mark. His por-tion of the stakes at the meeting wasnil.

Kentucky Direct has a good bit 6t'speed and when ready ho will win arace. He is pretty good on heavytracks. .

The first time RosaPointer -Is gearSdup for a mile saddle race she will beatmore than beats.her.

Jimmy Kicbmondhas turned sour.Qrattan Chimes Is not racing up to

expectations. She is well enough bredto win anything, '

Lord Nepean was all to pieces atManawatu ani Wanganui. That wa9not his form.

Macanda has developed into a very'promising four-year-old. After Win- ,ning on the first day at Wanganui, hefollowed Oakhampton home on the■second day registering 3.22 for thejjpurney.

Todd Bells Improved with every raceon the northern circuit. The old trat-

j ter now threatens to come back to hisbest form.

The Southland bred mare JennyjWallace is making good under thesupervision of W. A. Scott, who is apast master with trotters.

Herbelwyn again demonstrated thathe is acorker. This wanonthesecondday at Wanganui.

Rio Alto is o tricky customer,buthecan trot fast and con stay, He waswell backed by his party when hoscored on the second day at Wanganui.

Grey Peter was named as the win-ner of tho LiverpoolHandicap at Wa-nganui, but he spoilt his chance bjrbreaking at »«. criticalstage of the con-test.

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For Interfering with Jasper m th*Suburban Handicap at Wanganui, W.Bryce. driver of Dorno, was fined £25.

Daphne WUdwood can go faßt anashe can stay, but she is not an every-day customer, ...»'.

Doctor Dillon's form at Mannwattt;,and at Wanganut waaa long waybelow

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his track essays.Respect again failed to win at Wa-

nganui. Perhaps she wants a rest.Jasper met with serious interference

on the second day at Wanganui. Heis abit above the average so will nothave to wait long to even up thebalance-sheet.

Dome Is a good going youngster, andshapes aja if ho willreach good com-pany. '

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The Shrew Js a long way from beinga good one* On his showing at Wel-lington he looked to have a roynlJchance at Wanganui, whore he was Jeasily accounted for.

Directive Js pretty useful up to &milo and a quarter. He will win an-other sprint or two.

Tho Mouso wna reported to bo a cor.talnty the ur«t time it was geared up« t MannwfUu, but it failed. At Wn-nffanul the best It could do wa« tôchitMO Joan Audubon home.

Ararawa's showings at Wnnganulwerea long way below her PalrneratonNorth performance. Sho will Improvewith racing.

A ripping jfoodkind of a gwon pacerId Joan Audubon. Sho will be hurd tobent at autumn gatherings.

Manna put up n couple of good raeeton the Wellington. Manawatu, Wa«ngnnut rircult. but *he was not quit*etipnble of annexing the big end of aHtuko.

J. R. Corrjgnn. of Hawora, had ablfInnings at Manawatu and Wanganuifixtures. All told his horaen finishedtlrat m clffht events, but one was dig.qualified. Among the raota his horstswon were the Manawatu Cup and th*Wanganui Cup.

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Ji H. Jefferd has transferred histeam temporarily to Hastings whilehis private track at Ngatarawa is;being done up.

The team consists of Rapine, ToArms, and a trio of untried two-year-olds. Rapine appears to have greatlybenefited by the let-up,and when nexthe races (m the autumn) will be abetter horse than m the spring1. As atwo-year-old and three-year-old theMartian gelding proved that m theautumn he was at his best. The Mar-'tian three-year-old filly To Arms hasnot yet sported silk this season. Lastseanon her form shown was not evenmoderate, but her'party considers thatIn the interim she has imprpved con-siderably. The two-year-olds fullyprove their trainer's words that theyhave been well done. As yet they arebackward for this time of the year,and will notbe raced until the autumn.

Mountain Top by now must havecost her owner the price of a goodhorse. She has been carted all overthe island to contest maiden events,and is still able to compete m them.Her second at Foxton marked herfourth In that position.

Clvilform was not taken to Tren-tham, due to the fact that satisfactorytrain arrangements could not be made.

Although Battle Knight did not ac-cept on the first day at Trentham hißowner did intend going down forthe concluding two days. Again thesame reasonas Clvilform's owner.

Hastings stables w,ill be well repre-sented at the Poverty Bay moetings.this class ofmeeting being more mthe line of the present horse m train-ing at Hastings.

Mountain Peer, if he keeps on thename way, should win a good hurdleevent when winter comes around.With only lOst 71b to carry m theJumpers' Flat at Poverty Bay nextThursday, ho has been given a greatchance.

Valley Rose at the Hastings meetingclearly proved shewasable to"go a dis-tance by the manner In which shefinished second m the handicap. Sheis doing everything that is asked ofher. In the Gisborne Cup, with Bstlib, should bo hard, despite the pre-sence of Scotch Mixture (9st 3lb).

Since Wairoa Thelc has been morethan pleasing his native party. She,too, goes to Gisborne to contest theCup.

Don't forget that Martona goes tothe PovertyBay district to contest theHack Scurry. Battle Knight, who isalmost invincible In welter races, alsomakes the trip.

Mlkl Thomas never misses the tripto "Gold Top" town, and what is more,never misses a stake. Haurongl andClvilform are booked.

TheGreonmeadows- trained and own-ed AJax was very costly to stay-at-home punters In his "Wellington en?gagements. Appears as though hisreputation has been exaggerated.

All Marimba's Douro Cup failurewas also costly. While a few did sup-port Penelophon, her failure on thefirst day prevented many from havinga good win.

Jim McCracken has his King Soultgelding m great heart, and should hedecide on the Gisborne trip a wad ofHastingsmoney follows.

First Salute, who on account of thehnrd going some few weeks back, hadto bo onsod up, is to rejoin the activelist immediately.

Tho continued recent .rnins weromoHt welcome to trainers hero, al-though v religious body enmped on thoraeecoursom tents did not Join In withtho trainers m th<j thanksgiving.

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PARKER PUNCTURES PETTIFER.A fair house greeted the programme

submitted by the Napier Associationon.Saturday evening last. The pro-fessional contest between Jack Petti-fer, of H.M.S. Chatham, runner-up mthe Army and Navy championships,1922, and Eddie Parker created nolittle interest, as both being youngmenwith good reputations, something outofthe ordinary was expected. Parkerstripped well, but not as well as whenhe fought Stone at Hastings, when hewas 41b lighter. The Jack Tar appear-ed a little beefy, especially from thehips down. The contestopened quietly,:for the first two rounds, while Parkerwas giving himself ample time to be-come acquainted with his opponent;He learned that the Chatham lad pos-sessed a heavy punch, so was preparedto give no chances. The end of thesecond round Parker got going a little,connecting to the face nicely withstraight lefts. The opening of thethird saw Eddie beginning where heleft oft the previous round, going forhis man, scoring with a left to theface and a heavy right and left to thebody. Then a clinch occurred, and onthe break awayPettifer swunga heavyright which Parker was only half pre-pared for, and was lucky to escapewith-a damaged eye only, as had theblow! landed where directed it musthave been a k.o. The New Zealandernow made use of his condition, mak-ing thepace a cracker, which had Pet-tifer doing his best, standing up toeto toe and not giving an inch. Thefourth' followed on m the same man-ner, with Parker continuing to gainpoints with clean shots to face andbody. The fifth round the end.On the sound of the gong Eddie rushedhis man, scoring well with straightlefts and right hooks to the face, butthe Jack Tar only shook them off, andagain exchanged punches. .Then EddieBent m a powerful short left to' hisopponent's body, which with any otherthan, one of England's boys of thebulldog breed would have been a k.0.,but this lump of gameness for thecount of five was stretched out on hisback, when he rose to oneknee, takingthe count to nine. Parker was notplow to take advantage of the positonearned, and quickly shot home a rightand left to the face, followed by thesame to the body, which again hadthe sailor boy on his back, and on thecount of seven the towel was thrownm. Many present considered on seeingPettifer Jump up that the official sec-ond, Bob Jefferies, should not haveskied the towel, as the gong wouldhave saved him. Twenty seconds wasleft, so this could not have saved him,and Bob's action' was a most humaneone to a brave Jack Tar. Both menwere loudly cheered on leaving thering. Parker finished well and with-out fear of contradiction, there is noone m this country at his weight tobeat the Timaru lad. and when hetaken on, Stone at Timaru a lot ofHawkes Bay chips will follow himsouth. . v

The ten-round professional contestwas preceded by five amateur bouts,which werenot quite up to the GeorgeAldridge standard. Seastrand wonfromDrieberg, Richardson from Swee-ney, McKenzie from McKeown, BillStevens from Scarfe, .and H. Maddoxfrom W. Stevens. The house as awhole gave vent to their feelings whenthe decision went to Maddox, whonever won a round, being outgenerall-ed, outfought, and outboxed. No won-der Stevens sa}d, "Iam through." Sec-retary George Aldridge, m introducingthe principals m the next bout, couldnot be heard for some time, the housecontinuing to express their feelings.Aldrldge's first audible words werp,"Don't blame me;Ididn't do it"

PUG PARS.After all there will be no fight at

Wellington this week. The localassociation were desirous of puttingthe bantam pair, Charlie Cann andSid Briekman, on, but the formerwanted to come m tit Bst 81b. Thisthe association would not agree to,and they are to be commended on theaction they took. A bantam Is abitntum, and if Cann cannot pull theright weight he has no right to beknown as a bantam. It is hard luckfor Brickman, but it must be att-mltted that the association wero tak-ing a bit of a risk In putting on himas one of the principals. They will,no doubt, m the near future give hima trial when they have looked Into hisrecord a ITttle more fully. The fansalso will be disappointed, but per-haps they have had a good turn per-formed for them. There is no needto worry. As soon as tlie associationcan get the hall again they will stageanother bout, a bout that will pleaseconsiderably more than the one justdropped.'Tim Tracy's letter: "Two fine pupilshave joined myclass, one alightweightnamed Hughio Purvis, from England.It he remains m Wellington he willbe a champion. The other, Jack Rob-erts, is a fine featherweight. He shouldmake good by the next tourney."

Fred Hansen is looking very fit withall the hard work he is doing and isready to fight anyone m his own classas soon aa there is an opening.

Mr. J. Johnston, mine host of theRoyal George Hot?!, Newmarket, hasdonated a trophy m Uc shape of amedal for the moat cdontlflc amateurat the forthcoming JJew Plymouthtournament.

Em Young has taken on a big con-tract Inagreeing: to incut Tom Heeneyfor the heavy weight title at Toko-maru Bay on February 20. Em hasnot had sufficient experience to fit himto meet a man of Hceney's calibresome contend, but Twin Souter's pupilIs young and strong and as game asthey make them. Ho la training har*d.and hopes to make a good showingagainst Heeney.

The Stratford Sports nnd PastimesClub ure thinking of putting on anamateur boxing tournament at the endof this month. Their aim Is to try andmatch the New Zealand champion. A.McCorrnack, with Mills for the starbout. There will also be bouts of thelighter weights, and there seems to bono reason why the club should nothave a very successful evening. WillMcConnnck write to the secretary.Mr. W. It. Foley, Stratford?

The Taumnrunul Association havebeen making inquiries if Charllo Cnnnwill be able to meet Hert McCarthy,oi Auckland, at the end of February.

Rrn young, the Wansanul heavy,j*ny« he would be pleased to jflve JackHoward a scrap on his way back fromTokomaru Hny. Vounß l» alno willingto meet Pettlfer, nnd has £50 to sayhe can pet the decision.It was thought that Jinny- Stone

would got tho right In Wellington thinmonth, but that Napier incident putthe finishing: touch on him a« far n«the Wellington association are con-cerned. It peerns to the writer ft prettyhunt attitude fur tlu1 nMot'lntlon totake up. especially after the HawkeflBay Association's n>«oHitinn. Convic-tion or no conviction the public ofWellington wimt to B«*f the rmtch-boumed Stone, but it looks very much

llke:they are going to miss. Gis-borne are going to have him on Feb-ruary 14, when he will box a no-de-cision-; bout with Lin Robinson, andTimaru will see him m action on the21st trying out Eddie Parker again.i» Ifmatters go off to time table HarryMay, the welter champion, will meetLarry-Lasher at Auckland on Feb-ruary 26. The title is not to be in-yolved. Harry left Wellington thisWeek for Palmerston North, where heintends to put m a few days beforegoing to get ready" for his en-gagement.'

Clarrie Blackburn and FreddieSmith were to have met at New Ply-mouth onFebruary 14, but the formerhas decided to forfeit the match.Maybe it is just as well as it wouldhave beena verybitter contest. Black-burn 'unfortunately put a certainstatement m writingconcerning Smithand the reference leaked out. Clarrienever intended to do Smith any harm,but still the damage was done, andthis has not tended to make the pairthe best of friends. It is silly for aboxer,to take up such an attitude, asthe average fan does not. wish towitness a grudge fight

—he only de-

sires to see two good boys, and sports,m the ring. Take the writer's tip,the pair of you, and cut out theridiculous feud.;Wanganui fans are to be given atreat on the first night of the races,when Larry Lasher and Eugene Vol-aire will try conclusions. It is to behoped that the association will receivethe support they deserve, for m thepast/ pro fights have not taken on Inthe River town. ■ The scrap set downfor February 21 will be a good oneand, on paper, there should not be 'adull moment.

Once again to the attack is GeneralSid Godfrey. Iguess if Napoleon wasalive to-day he would have Sid on hisstaff, as, without doubt,he is the bestdirector of campaigns that has beenseen m action m Sydney for many ayear. . Sid does not fight too often.Oh, dear no. He bides his time andthen executes a masterly attack (onthe purse of the fan),collects the spoilsand retires tohis mountain retreat (theBald Face Stag) to plan for the nextoffensive. Just amonthago he foughtBelgian Louia Plees and received £.COOas his share. Then he was going toretire (once again). But Bert Spargowanted to try him out and, why, herewas another cool six hundred to pickup. So he advanced and .picked itup. Bert was troubled -with a badknee, the result of an injury he sus-tained ma tramaccident some monthsback and did not chow his best form.It will be interesting to see if Sidwill hang on ( for another month andthen take onBilly Grime, who is itch-ing to have a smack at the title holder.(The title has reverted toGodfrey ow-ing to the absence of Dwyer for sixmonths.) Billy has three clear-cutwins over Spargo, yet the latter getsthe fight m preference. Put, $f course,Sid has a say m this, and Sid is awise old dog, a master tactician.

Eddie Parker and Jack Heeney areto fighttat Qisborne on February 20,and the middleweight title will be atstake. »

Em Young and Tom Heeney arescheduled to meet at Tokomaru Baythis month.

- .There is just a possibility that the

Boxing Council will not grant HarryStone apermit to fightnow thathe hasa conviction,up against his name. Butis >he tlje only.onem the game who hasa conviction recorded against him?The writer has every reason to believethat at least,one fighting m New Zea-land at the present time has a con-viction for a muchmore serious offencechalked opposite his name.

Word from' Sydney about Llew Ed-wards, tho Welsh wizard, states that heis.getting along well. Snowy Flynnhas the following to sayabout the ex-lightwelght champion, who now weighsabout lOst 101b: "Edwards's break-down m health has been attributed tomany things, but the specialist, Dr.Lynch, of Sydney, who has been hand-linghis case, declared that the troublewas caused through a nerve m the legbeing injured, probably through run-ning on hard roads. That theory isborne out by Edwards's work with meduring the last 18 months, for after afew rounds sparring on a hot day Ihave seen that leg quivering, butIampleased to say the symptomshave beendisappearing steadily." T' 3re is sometalk of Llew trying tho come-back.

"He's the greatest football player Intho country, the mid-west believes.He's a human dynamo, a fiery furnaceof activity, is Harold Red1 Orange,ofthe University of Illlnolß footballteam," says the "Boxing Blade." "Andho wants to fight Jack Dempsey. Heconvinced this ambition when he wasm Wheaton High School and only 16years old. He is 18 now and ha« im-proved m weight In tho difference be-tween 1145 and 178. He has figuredcarefully that he will be a pretty fair-sized man when he reaches 22 or 23.vWlth his speed m action and his eager-ness on tho field he should make agreat fighter, if he can learn the gameBnd la.taught and coached carefully mthe tremendous amount of ring tech-nique that hemust have wh^nhe startsout. Mike Cantrell, of Wheaton,one ofthe best trainers m the country, dis-covered his fighting ambition. 'He's awonder at everything a great athleteshould have.' said Cantrell. 'He hasboxed twice with the same trick. Hecan be made one of the greatest fight-ingmenm the world If he keeps up hisambition to fight.' "

Luis Angel Firpo or "Dead PanLouie," ftfl he Ifl sometimes called, isgetting m bad with hlB countrymen mSouth America and ail through asulky temper. When ho called at LaPaz, capital of Bolivia, he wan greetedby cheerlne crowds, who called "LongLive Luis," but before many minuteshad elapsed the tune had changed to"Denth to Firpo." They were Incensednt the "Bull's" complete indifference totheir warm welcome. Firpo must havecnrrlfld a prouch the size of a haystackwhen ho landed 1>» T-a Ph«. for he didnot oven ralae his hat m recognition ofhis welcome. Hih uxouch was evident-ly developedbecause tv scheduled matchm the city was called ntt, and althoughb!g demonstrations and football unmi'Kwere held m his honor he signified hisdispleasure by staying away. Nexttime Luis goes up against Pempsey,the La Par. people hope his face willhe walloped off. It is said 'that lh<-Latin races have sunny natures. Th"Htm must have been behin.l a cloudwhen the "Bull from the Pampas" Hrntsaw light. Ho would be a pleasantcompanion to be marooned with on adesert Inland.

l>rt Hrown would llko to meetllrlckmnn nâln under any asffoclattun.and frela K»iro that ho can gnln thedt»ci»lnn. Brown's stylo of fisrhtlng»)iot))(l suit the boxing public, and heshould hnvo liulo t*oublo In pet-ting plenty of matches. He holdn ndpclMlo'n ov^r Brlokman nt the Auck-land rhampionflhlptt two yearn ago.Care of the Fire Station. Hamilton.wi!l find him at any time.

Toddy Hayes, who trained JnckDcmiMwy for Ills. rtKht with G*or|ti»i»CmptMitler. recently Klcn^d to rwiuntAwork

'JSB the champion'n trainer.

Dempsey has been trying to secureHayes's services for some time, andthe classy little trainer'finally decidedto give up his position as athleticdirector at the new Hollywood Ath-letic Club and again join the Dempseyforces. Jerry, the Greek, who trainedDempsey for the Gibbons and Firpobouts, will be retained by Dempsey.but Hayes will be chief trainer andmanager of the champion's affairs.

J. O'Brien, writing from Hamilton,states ithat the Frankton Associationis holding a tournament on Saturdaynight. The association tried to getthe services of Bert Brown and HarryHudsonma ten roundbout for apurseof £50, but unfortunatelyBrown hadalready signed to fight Derry Clinton,the clever Palmerston North boy, atShannon on the same date. The ama-teur turn will be between Chas. Hag-gie, of Ngaruawahia, and GordonBrown, of Auckland, and a good fightis expected to result from this match.Among- other bouts scheduled to takeplace on the same evening are twospecial four-rounders, m which C.McKnight is to meet Anderspn orVeitch, while Hanson and Solomonwill be seen m action m the other.

The Te Kuiti Association's tourna-ment is to be held on February 8, andthe association have secured the ser-vices of Nelson McKnight and JimSmith m a special return bout of sixrounds, which shouldprove abig draw.Another match that is to be staged atthis gathering is the meeting of themidgets Stewart (Hamilton) and La-tham (Te Kuiti).

From across the water arrived mWellington this week Andre Dupre,the French featherweight, who hascome over to New Zealand to try hisluck. Andre, with his countyrman,Gene Volaire, made the den of thewriter the first port of call after get-tingrid of all the Customs flummeries.He is a likeablelittle chap, modest asGene, and all he wants is a fight toshow his qualities. Dupre came out toAustralia three years back with M.Eudeline, and was one of the Criqui,Wyns, and Charles party. He met allthe cracks of his weight m Sydneywith varying success, and just whenhe was getting to the top of his formhe was called to go to Noumea tofinish off his military training. Sincehis return from the island possessionof France he has filled out, but he hasbeen showing good form at LesO'Donnell's gym m Sydney. He comeswith the hall mark of Will Lawless,the, Wellington Association's rep. mSydney. Any association wishing toget m communication with him canfind him, care of "Truth," Wellington.

Mike Flynnand Jimmy Semmens areto fight at the Sydney Stadium to-night. This gives Mike the chance hehas been looking for, but on formJimmyshould win. The pair met oncebefore, and the declteion went to Sem-menson a foul

—a verydoubtfulbreach

it was, too.A recent cable fromEngland to Syd-

ney reads as follows: "LightweightHughie Dwyer's damaged left handhas not yet recovered. His injurycompels him to abandon his matchwith Ernie Rice. He will return toAustralia at an early date." It is anfortunate ending to his world's trip.He had two contests m America, win-ning the first and losing the secondagainst Joe Welling. An Injured lefthand and an abscess m his ear pre-vented him from showing the sameform to the American public as he hadshown m Australia. Then he triedEngland, and was matched with ErntaRice. It was thought that he woulddo much better, but apparently hewill have no chance of showing hisability m England, because of his In-jury, and he is going to return to hisnative land.

Johnny Dundee is now going outafter the long distance boxing cham-'pionehip of the world (says the "Box-ing Blade.") The featherweight cham-pion's pursuit of opponents during thenext two years will take him to everypart of the United States ,not to men-tion Great Britain, France, and Italy,his manager, Jimmy Johnston, an-nounced. Dundee plans to fight once aweek for 24 months. He figures ongoing through with more consecutivering battles than any other boxer mthe history of pugilism. Furthermore,his barn-storming schedule providesfor him to do battle m any one ofthree classes

—featherweight, light-

weight,and welterweight. After clean-ing up In America

—if all goes well

—the Scotch "wop" will set his batteredcountenance toward England, wherehe expects to gather m a few cham-pionships. Incidentally, he says thereIs 25,000 dollars as a side bet that hecan lick Benny Leonard or MickeyWalker, the light and welterweightkings.

Seven world's championships wereawarded United States boxers by theInternational Boxing Union In Parisrecently, says the Paris correspondentto the "Boxing Blade." Battling Slklwas deprived of his title of light-heavyweight champion of the world,the category being left vacant. Ame-rica made a clean sweep m all theother classes. The National BoxingAssociation of America was requestedby the International Union to designatean American light heavyweight cham-pion or organise competition amongthe boxers of this class, the finals tobe held before July 31, 1924. The In-ternational Union will organise a sim-ilar competition In Europe, and thewinners In the two competitions willmeet to decide Siki'a nticcessor to thetitle. Georges Carpentier, owing tohis failure to respond to the FrenchBoxing Federation's request of August25, is debarred from competing for thechampionship m ICurope. The follow-ing boxers were recognised ns world'schampions by the union:

—Flyweight,

Pancho Villa: bantamweight, JoeLynch; featherweight, Johnny Dun-dee; lightweight, Benny Leonard; wel-terweight, Mickey Walker; middle-weight, Harry Greb; heavyweight.Jack Dempsey.

An echo of Luis Firpo's recent wailfrom the Argentine, concerning hisfight with Jack Dempsey. was receivedat the meeting of the Athletic Com-mission Of New Yorlc recently, saysthe New York "Telegraph." It wasm the form of a resolution providingfor the strict enforcement of the rulerequiring a boxer to retire to tho farcorner of the ring after scoring aknock-down over his opponent. Thefeature of the resolution is that thereferee shall not start counting overthe fallen man until his rival has start-ed walkln* to the corner of the rlnrfurthest from tho floored boxer.Itwillbe remembered thatDempsey was cen-surod severely for his alleged infrac-tions of tho rule during his memorablefuss with Firpo. Supporters of the"Wild Bull" declared that Dempseydid not give the South American theIfgal Interlude after Mooring him, andFirpo revived this complilnt when hearrived m his home country. Thowordingof the resolution Ina.s follows:"When a knock-down occurs, the tlme-keooor shall Immediately arise and an-nounce the seconds audibly as thovoiapse. The referee shall first s<»<> thatthe opponent retires to the farthestcorner, and then, turning tit/ the tlm»-keeper, shall pick up to tho count Inunison with th<» timekeeper, announc-ing th<> second* to the box«*r on th*Poor. Should the boxer on his feet fa'lto stay In the corner, the referee »n<ltimekeeper shall cphko counting untilhe ha« ho retired. At the tenth countProviding the termination of the roundhas not hapocned In the meantime, h"will strike the gong twice. If a roundnhnll naturally terminate during »knock-down, ihe timekeeper shallsound the gon«r twice, thus indicatingthe termination of tho thre*»-mlnuteround as usual, nt the sam»> time an-nouncing the KPcond that tho knock-down count ended."

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A BAKE HOUSE BOTHERA GAME OF CROWN AND ANCHOR

DID IHE BOSS KNOW?(From "Truth's" Hawkes Bay Rep.)

Tender memories of the days oF training camps, transports, andfront lines, when the good old game of crown,and anchor wasalmost as important as anything else to tho men who donnedkhaki, were brought back when, at the Hastings Magistrate'sCourt last week, Detective Fitzgibbon.calledon a batch of happyhustling Hastings gents to answer a number of queries.

First on the list ,waa John AndrewWeathered, a well-known and respect-able "kneader of dough," who wascharged that on January 2, being theoccupier of premises m Karamu Road,he knowingly and wilfully permittedthe same to be used as a commongaming house.

A trio of young gentry, John Wil-liam Fitzgerald, James B. Carter andGeorge William Rae, were then charg-ed with being found m a commongaming house on January 2. Fitz-gerald and Rae were charged that, onJanuary 2, with intent to defraud byfalse pretences (to wit, ill-practiceIn playing with dice), they won fromWalter Fleming Dagg £6 10s.

Fitzgerald and Carter were furthercharged withhaving the use of Weath-ered'B bakery and using It as a com-mon gaming house.

Lawyer B. J. W. Hallett, for all ac-cused, pleaded not guilty.

As far as the game was concernedit was Walter F. Dagg who

"BLEW THE GAFF,"for he told the Court how he had metFitzgerald m the Grand Hotel on thedate m question. "Fits" wanted theloan of a "fiver," and said he wasgoing to be the man to tell his palsto come m carriages and go away mwheelbarrows, or, m other words, tobe the banker m a crown and anchorgame that evening. He wanted wit-ness to hold the money and pay outfor him. Walter agreed and. laterm the evening "went to the bakery,where "Fitz" gave him £5 to backthe bank. Walter then had £5 mnotes and about 30 "bob" m silver ofhis own. There were three othersat the bakery, and the crowd wentup in' the loft, where the game com-menced. At first it was small betsof 5/-, but with Fitzgerald as bankerthe lid was raised and the stakesincreased. Walter reckoned he wasfinding about £ 6 10s for the bank andRae was winning most. On one ortwo occasions Rae had anOPPORTUNITY OF SEEING THE

DICEbefore they should have been exposed,and although witness was responsibleforpaying out it was "Fitz" who usual-ly paid out to Rae. Eventually thebank had paid out £11 10s, and £610s of this belonged to witness., Fitz-gerald only won about three or fourtimes, during which a total of £15 10swas won and lost. When It wasfinished Walter smelt a rat, told Raethat.the game was unfair, and askedfor his money back. Rae, however,made a dive for the window, andwhen Walter went for him "Fitz" tooka hand and, assisted by a man namedHarris, prevented witness from going.Witness then told Fitzgerald that thegame was unfair and accused him ofshowing the dice before the bet wason, but "Fitz" denied doing so. Finallyhe .decided there was no place likehomo, so he "took his hook."

In answer to Mr. Hallett, witnesssaid he had played crown and anchorm France and once m New Zealand.He did not go home and get the dicefor this game and was only presentfor the fun and company. He

LENT MONEY TO THE BANKand expected to get It back again.iThere was no arrangement by whichhe and Fitzgerald were to put In £6each and share the proceeds.| His Worship: Why did you not stopplay when you first noticed that thedice wereexposed before the bets weremade?

—Ihad to give myself time to

think what Iwould do.The next witness called was Nor-

man James Duley, who stated thathe visited Hastings m October, whenhe met Fitzgerald. "Fitz" asked himif he had any money and whether hecared for a game of poker. Witnessiagreed and "Fitz" pointed to Mr.Weathered, who was m the hotel atthe time, and said they wouldbe goingalong In a few minutes. He alsosaid he.had a small "cocky" who wasgoing to play. The "cocky" turnedout to be the accused Carter. * Theywent to Weathered's and played pokermd. banker. Witness had £29 onaim and the largest bet was £22 10sa side. Witness's money was put onthe table and covered by Carter with£5 and the balance by a cheque fromMr. Weathered. This made £46 onthe table, but witness could onlybring down a paltry four Jacks. Thiswas no good against Carter's goodhand

OF FOUR ACES,but witness was not by any meansa calf, uml promptly told Fitzgeraldthat he thought he had been takendown. He told the same thing toDetective Fitzgibbon the next morn-Ing. In company,with the detectivehe went to the bakery and the detec-tive asked Weathered if he had Beenwitness (Duley) before. Weatheredreplied that ho did not know. Weather-ed was then asked if he was awareof the play on the previous Wednes-day and that witness had been takendown for £29, and the reply^was "notto his knowledge." In fact Weatheredsaid he did not know there was agame on. In regard to his cheque,Weathered said he did not think hewas required to say what he gave hischeque for. What his men did afterhours waano concern of his. Weatheredsaid he would wash his hands of thewhole affair and started to walk away,but the detective told him that try-ing to shield his men would Hltelyland him m more trouble. They thenwent to tho bakehouse, but, before en-tering, Weathered had a word or twowith Carter, but when he went tospeak to Fitzgerald the

DETECTIVE INTERFERED.Carter told the detective that he

had not seen witness before, but lateradmitted that he had won a fewpounds at poker. Carter came towitness and said he won £18 andoffered to pay it back. WeatheredpnJd witness £18 In cash on behalfof Carter. Weatherod's answer tothe detective's questions woro hostile.

Questioned by Mr. Hallett, witnesssaid ho did not gamble, but had agame when there was one going.Dur-ing a game of poker Weathered wassent for, and when ho camo m Fitz-gerald asked him if. ho would lendCarter a cheque for £1? 10h. Weather-ed went out to draw it. No mentionwas made of what the money waarequired for. but Weathered could seewhat was going on.

Detective FUzglbbon mentioned In-cidentally In his evidence that mcrown and anchor the chances were

FIVE TO ONEm favor of tho banker. Ho inter-viewed Rae. who denied, noeing thedice beforo tho bets woro made. Rneuuld that DugK wont for him at th<?<ml of the giimi1,w»ylng that ho wouldkill iWm. The dctirctlve il***»* relatedthe conversation at tho bakohouso asoutlined by the previous wltno«s.

To Mr. ilallett witness *aid Mr.Weathered wan a well-known andreapectablo citizen, but lniteftd of iu»-niMtlng "witnemi he used hl» pmU'avorxIn favor of Carter aod Fltz^sruJd.

Weathered might have done this tokeep out of the proceedings, but ithad a contrary effect Witness toldthem that if they satisfied Duley'.acomplaint, and if he had "no furthercomplaints, that would be the end ofit as far as Duley was concerned. Hehad had previous complaints regard-ing illegal" games being carried on atWeathered's bakery.

For the defence, Mr. Hallett con-tended (1) That no common gaminghouse waa carried on; (2) that evenif it was, it was not carried on byWeathered; (3) that the other defen-dants bad not the use of the housewithin the meaning of the Act becausethey were there without the know-ledge of Weathered; and (4) that

THERE WAS NO CHEATING,and if there waa anything wrongdone It was done by Dagf, who wentthere to make money and got theworst of It and squealed.Inhis evidence Fitzgerald admitted

having had a quiet game of crown andanchor at Weathered's on January 2,but since that he had been dischargedby Weathered. He Was dischargedthe day Weathered was served withthe summons. It was Dagg whosuggested the game and they agreedto put m £5 each m the bank— so-50,win, lose or draw. Witness suggoat-eded the bakehouse as the boss wasaway,and at play witness shook thedice and Dagg lifted the tin. Daggmostly paid out, but on two occa-sions he underpaid, so witness paidthe balance. No one could Bee thedice before the: bet, and the gamewas played on the square. The bank

HAD A BAD SPINand witness lost £ 9 and Dagg saidhe would carry on himself. H« didso, and produced bank deposit slipsto represent the money. Carter, how-ever, reckoned the slips were notworth the paper they were writtenon, so the game ended. Witness didnot hear Dagg ask Rae for the money,nor did he suggest there had beencheating, although he did say so a fewdays later. On January 2 Weatheredwas not at the shop. He was atClive. Witness did not have per-mission to play the game, and onOctober 17, when poker was playedfor money, Weathered said he wouldsack anyone he found gambling there.The night Weathered came In duringthe game he told them they must stopas he wouldn't stand it

Detective Fitzgibbon: Rae was apartner with you?

—No; Dagg was.

Is it not true that you can do whatyou like with cards?— Not thatIknowof. If Icould Iwouldn't be work-ing. '

Did you deal the cards when Duleyhad four jacks and .Carter four aces?

—No.

-"Were you arrested at Whakatu for

not paying a fine-for playing two-upat Shannon?

—Tea; that was my first

conviction. "Iwaa.one of thirty.The accused Carter said ho

DID kOT KNOW HOW TO PLATcrown and anchor till Dagg explainedit and told him to "shower It down."There was no collusion between himor tho others. He often :borrowedmoney from Weathered. Before any-thing was heard of this prosecutionhe had given a month's notice toWeathered,

Rae's evidence was similar to thsothers for the defence.

John Andrew Weathered,mevidence,said he had been m business m Has-tings for 17 years and for nearly 80years m the district. He had noknowledge that gambling was goingon on his premises until he saw thecards on October 17, and on his ap-pearance the party broke up. Carterstill owed him money-— about £60.

To Detective Fitzgibbon: Fitzgeraldhad been dismissed and Carter hadgiven him notice. He did not paysurprise visits to his bakehouse as hetrusted hia foreman. When tho de-tective spoke to him he said he knownothing about it and that ha was notgoing to be dragged into It

His Worship said he did not thinkhe could convict on the charge ofcheating, as such an allegation mustbe proved beyond reasonable doubt,and this had not been done. Thischarge would, therefore, be dismlaaed.He decided to look into certain au-thorities quoted by Mr. Hallett beforegiving his decision m regard to theother charges.

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THE WORLD OF BUSINESS(By "CAMBIST")

THE NATIONAL TOBACCO CO.,LTD.More Capital Needed For A Rapidfy-

Growing Business.A Prosperous Future Predicted.

"Cambist" against takes up his penon behalf of the above recently-formed company with the avowed in-tention of Inducing the investmentof capital m the tobacco growing andmanufacturing industry which it iswholly responsible for. On formeroccasions when reviewing the pros-pects of this particular local industryhe had almost entirely to rely uponthe process of deductive logic as ap-plied to rather limited facts connectedwith the business experience of theAuckland Tobacco Syndicate and ofthemerged old company with the samename as the above concern. At this"moment of writing he is working onthe experiences of the company whichis. offering six thousand preferenceshares to the public. These investi-gations have satisfied him completelyas to the soundness of his formerdeductions and they have also stimu-lated him to a deeper confidence mthe immediate and future buccbss ofthe National Tobacco Co., Ltd. Forthe consideration of all those wnogather enlightenment through reading

this financial column he will set downfrom his own"-personal Investigationsthe salient features which are re-sponsible for the

GLOWING FEELINGSwhich he places before the public. Inthe flrßt place he has learned thatthe preferential dividend of 8 per cent,

for the current year has already beenearned, and, therefore, the fortunateshareholders who are on the registerof the company can count upon thedue payment of their dividend fromthe start of the first year. That, mitself, is quite an unUBUal experiencewith investors of new undertakinga,and it gives a solid indicationof whattobacco growing and manufacturing mable to" do for those who had thepliibk and confidence to enable them

Ito invest their moneys therein. Ever|Mince this young company pushed for-jward the commercial realisation of itsmanufactured products the sales haveincreased with wonderful rapidity.Each-month's transactions show in-crease over the previous oneß, whilefor twenty days' trading m the monthof December the highest record hasbeen scored. These are practical evi-dences that the use of New Zealandgrown tobacco is spreading favorablyamongst the consumers of this com-pany'B products. It is just as well*to say m this connection that thecompany now places upon the marketall of its goods m a highly attractivepacking. Its tin containers and itspackages of smaller quantities are mpoint of artisticfinish easily on a levelwith imported brands and more gen-erally acceptable for display purposesthan any others which reach the Do*minion. Of course, this sage policyreflects a vast amount of credit for the

SOUND BUSINESS SELLINGMETHODS

adopted by the present managementof the company. But then, there ismore than a pretty package or brighttin container to account for the grow-ing sales of the manufactures m ques-tion; there is the supreme quality ofthe goods. In the course of the fac-tory sido of the business and m thecareful and constant laboratory test-ing which attaches thereto, each mix-ing or blending of the various leafgrowths has become more efficientthan the'earlier efforts m the produc-tion of a first-class article. This sideof the business is highly technical andof supreme importance to the com-pany and its shareholders. It is, Ifone 'may'say so, still more in»P°rta«Jto the consumers of the variousbrands of tobacco which are* now onsale Theße tobaccos are made frompure New Zealand grown leaf raisedm severalparts of the Dominion. Eachdistrict has shown that the local soilsproduce a leaf which often differs ma marked degree *rom other leaf cul-tivatedm the same manner at nearby

or further distance.. Thus, what sproduced on the Auckland gum landselves a type very distinct from thatproduced m the Nelson province or InHawkes Bay. In the blending ofthese varying qualities or types thegreatest skill*1« required, for withoutthe practical knowledge necessary forthe productionof the proper grades ofthese tobaccos we should be given anunreliable quality which would makefor adverse movement on the part ofconsumers. No one finds fault withquality when they find that it tocontinually

AN IMPROVING QUALITY.That has happened with the outputof this company— the quality of everylßsue since the company commencedto manufacture has not only beensustained, but Itha« risen to a higherstandard of perfection. Smokers ofthe voracious consuming type to which"Cambist" belongs have recognisedthat its brands give an assurance ofsteadiness of quality, improving aroma,sweeter smoothness, and increasingsatisfaction with every fresh pipeful.It is this which has caused the smok-ers of The National Tobacco Co.'sbrands to adhere to them, and alsoto become ardent "barrackers" for itamongst their own personal friends.Hence the growing consumption of theweed, hence the larger trado ordfcrswhich roll m from the distributors ofthe tobacco. The manufacturing ex-perience already filed In the recordsof this company is fast amounting tothe stuge of becoming an a«sot of tran-seendant monetary value to the com-pany. It is a thing which must be-!come a marketable "goodwill" m thenear future.

Since the company has started Ithas conducted its business without the,aid of a bank overdraft. This wasrendered possible by the subscriptionof 9000 preference shareH offered lastMay. It has avoided all trade lia-bilities as It purchased the leaf, paidits workers' wages, and met distribu-tion expenses on a cash baHis. Besidesthis. It has reduced to very Binallfigured the HubllitleH connected withthe old connections taken over on theformation of the present company. Ind word, the company la

ON A*SOUND BASIS,and. Kuch being the case, Its financialposition is one to be envied. "Cam-bist" attributes a great deal of thinto the enormous profits which themanufacture and sale of the tobaccocarries with H. Otherwise, In hisopinion, it will well nigh be Impos-nlblo to curry on buslnesH on so smallh capital as £3000 paid up. Thetobucco growers nre small needy menwho mu.Mt get their cash on gatheringtheir crop, and they have been paid"cash on delivery' from the mart. Theraw product la worth from one shillingto. say. L/C vcr lb. The gap betweenthe selling price of their tobacco (thelowest In tho Dominion) and the priceof tho raw leaf Is Mufilcicntly wldu toallow of the Inflow of a vast amountof realised money gathered In thecourHt; of manufacturing. But thehuitlm'SM 1* KrotvlriK fmU. Grower*are enierlnw Into the cultivation oftubuct'o l<*:if with enlhiiHluMm In alltllrecUons uiul there mu«t now be pro-vided for these worthy people a eanhmarket which will encourage them tofurther extend their operations, bring-ing more and more leaf grown In theDominion to thl« factory

—tho pioneer

m the Industry. The matter of plac-ing the t>uuO Hhurvs. which carry 8

per cent, interest, should be an easyoperation, for it has a ground work ofsuccess topoint to and also a certaintythat the industry is one that is

FIRMLY ESTABLISHEDat both ends, namely, on the primaryside, the growers' interest, and alsoon the commercial side, which em-braces manufacturing and distribu-tion. What money is expended onthe raw leaf comes back again wellbuttered In the sales account. Thatis how the tobacco trust has grownto such enormous proportions. TheNational Tobacco Co., Ltd., puts apure, Undoped tobacco on the market.This makes their brands superior. Inthe shareholding list of this com-pany are seven medical gentlemen whostand high m their professional cal-ling. They were attracted to thecompany after testing its products.They, for the most part, recommendtheir patients and military hospitalsto use these tobaccos as there is solittle nicotine m the mixtures, andalso because there are no dopes em-ployed m the make up of these goods."Cambist" thinks it right to remarkthat he rejoices m the fact that hecan buy these tobaccoß at 8d and 9dper ounce, which gives him a savingof 3d per ounce for pipe fuel. Theeconomical consumption of tobacco onthis baslß 1b very marked, for it islike a free gift of an ounce of splen-did tobacco for every three ounce*smoked. When persons who have notas yet sampled New Zealand tobaccobecome aware of these facts it is cer-tain that the consumption of thiscompany's brands will leap into largequantities and provide large profitablecash returns to the company.

Bank managers are considered to begood judges of an investment. On theshare list of this concern are thenames of six of these plutocraticcitizens. "Cambist," asan old banker,

BESTOWS HIS BLESSINGupon these, his brothers, and he hopesthat many more of the fraternity willhasten to avail themselves of thisopportunity to get incorporated m thishighly profitable business. There aresome solicitors interested as share-holders m the concern. Good men,who smoke while they prepare theircostly briefs and therefore enjoy asoothing solace as a ses off to thesordid considerations attaching to bigfees honestly earned m the pursuit oftheir ancient profession. Hundreds ofwell-wishers to the tobacco Industrystand proudly with their Investedmoneys m this company. The latterare also smokers of its brands. Theyare persons who are giving fine ser-vice to the Dominion as they helpgreatly to the growth and develop-ment of this wonderful country ofours. The 6000 shares now on offershouldbesnappedupmlarge and smallparcels m a very short space of time.

The tobacco industry has a verygreat inducement to those who areafraid of labor troubles for the reasonthat those who are directly interestedm it have no possible' inducement to"strike" for higher wages or betterconditions. This Industry pays thehighest wages and the company pro-vides excellent working conditions forits employees. As to the growers,their returns are so satisfactory thatthey are already

INCREASING THEIR OUTPUTand many .others are . entering theculture of the narcotic leaf. The work"of the growers is a pleasure, not atask. Their returns are only six toeight months m coming to them fromthe time the seed is set to the balingof the cured loaf. The cash awaitssatisfactory sampling at the hands ofthe buyers. "Striking" is, therefore,out of the question. The business isso profitable that it can be conductedon lines equal to the noblest commer-cial ethics. To give some Idea ofwhat It is capable of doing for in-vestors "Cambist" will finish by quot-ing from recent figures some facts re-lating to various tobacco enterpriseswhich have just reached him.It has been remarked that the to-

bacco habit grows m spite of condi-tions of unemployment, poVerty m themasses, the circumstances arisingfrom war and pestilence. For thepast fifty, years consumption, hasmounted up and up. In the same

period hundreds of fortunes have fol-lowed from the path of the growersright up to the task of the manu-facturer. Millions of conserved wealthhave forced great combines and truststo such enormous accumulations ofestablished capital that they have be-come the envy of many persons andthe bete nolr of soap box orators. Theprofits of the Imperial Tobacco Co.were last year £7,199,076 comparedwith £6,927,641 the yearbefore. The

"USUAL HUGE DIVIDENDwas declared and a gift of one newshare was made to every holder ofthree shares In that remarkable com-pany. The net profits of the British

-American.Tobacco Co. were £4,400,783,and on the invested funds a dividendof 25 per cent, on the ordinary shareswas paid. Carreras, Ltd.,paid 16 percent, and carried forward £62,632. TheArdath Tobacco Co. paid a 25 per cent,dividend, and granted a bonus of 5/-per share m addition. Twelve and ahalf per cent, was paid by CopeBrothers and Co., and £100,000 wasadded to reserves, while over £56,000was carried forward. There arenumerous other small concerns whichcould be quoted, all of which gavesplendid returns on the capital invest-ed, but why string out the list anyfurther? "Cambist" would like to saym closing that,m his opinion, we havegreat possibilities of relationary profitsm the company now under notice.There is a highly profitable field leftfor the New Zealand enterprise forthe Government has given consider-able excise abatements to this com-pany as it wishes to help on the In-dustry m a very practical manner. Thepotential value of tobacco growing mthe Dominion could only be expressedm millions once it gets going. Thesame applies to the manufacturingprofits which already have given proofof themselves m the venture now un-der notice. Is It not eminently wiseto consider this proposition upon thebasis of its merits? That such con-siderations would lead to the totalabsorption of the 6000 shares nowavailable is "Cambist's" opinion, and,further, that so soon as these shareshave been allotted a further issue of£12,000 must take place. To saythat there is only room for £30,000m this industry is to admit that thesubject has never been considered ma manner worthy of sound businessacumen or that a vital issue haß

been" brushed aside with thoughtlessabandon.

THE FARMERS' UNION TRADINGCO. (AUCKLAND), L,MITED.

A Commonsense Arrangement.

Lightening The Load And PullingTogether.

The creditors who are interested asdebenture-holders or depositors, by avote of 89 per cent., as against 11 percent, of those who opposed the re-adjustment of the terms, which theymet to consider on January 18, haveagreed to accept a lower rate of in-terest (6% per cent.) on the deben-tures and to grant an extension of theperiods on which the first emissionwas dated from. Practically thesecreditors have adopted a new contractwith the company, involving one percent, reduction m the rate of interest,and giving an extension of five years'currency to the debentures. Further,they also have agreed to relieve thecompany of the payment of Incometax. The amount of capital represent-ed at the meeting was £ 209,933, sothat it will be seen that keen interesthad been evinced m the proposals bythese particular creditors. Over 150persons attended. The business wasconducted Ina

CORDIAL AND PRACTICALMANNER.

That veteran of co-operative associa-tion, Mr. James Boddle, who is chair-man of the company, presided, and, onclosing the proceedings, he was heart-ily cheered by the assembly.

"Cambist," when reviewing the pro-posals of the company a few weeksago, predicted Such a consummationof the scheme. It will.redound Inconsiderable financial easement, notonly to the company and its creditors,but to the whole economic situationwhich is now approaching general re-adjustment. This wise method ofmeeting unexpected trading difficul-ties sets up a standard which couldbe aimed at, with advantage,by manyother concerns, and, what is more,would enable an early return to mod-eration of prices and enlarged profit-earning capacity. The Farmers' Un-ion Trading Co. (Auckland), Ltd., touse a soldier's term, is "set." Itscapacity for good service is once againmade possible. That means, ofcourse,a brighter and more prosperousfuture. Its debenture-holders anddepositors are now secured m a pro-per manner, which is a decided gainm itself. A good bargain on bothsides, based upon tangible security

—that is the way to "lighten the loadby all pulling together."

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4fm± mm^L\ (£sdownand £5 peryearfor 4years)will secureM^ " |p jk for youone acre of land near Nelson, will plantmßhbi jJIM^_ 500quick-growing pines,and will maintain the

a j| plantation tiIcuttingcommences. In the districtm2JÔ Wmßm pine trees 12 years old are now worth £ Ieach

for fruit cases alone. You can conclude that m10 to 15 years, your acre willbe a valuable holding, for which youwill get asharecertificate which will be constantly increasingm value. You can sell,give away or otherwise deal with this certificate. Thereturn should certainlybe much better than Post Office intere»t for the same period on £25.The public companyis being formed by men of good standingm Nelson to buy3,481 acres of suitable freehold, situated onemile from Bclgrove RailwayStation. 600 acres are already planted, and coming on perfect'y. On iheproperty other pines of various ages are. and have been growing for years mhealthy condition,and some havebeenprofitably dispoiedof. 400 acresare tobe excluded (or fire breaks, leavingsome 3,000 acres tobe planted with about500 treesto theacre. Thecapitalhas thereforebeen dividedinto 3,000 sharesof £25 each, representing roughly one acre to each share or approximately

ONE SHILLING PER TREE!Look back and reflect. Have you ever seen a proposal so readilyunderstoodor so likely to increase your capital ? The danger of fire is practically nil. Itcan be insured againstm the StateFire Office, and the Provisional Directorsare arranging for (his to be done.Cutting can commenceml5years. 150 acres th<n cut willy'eld over £5 perthare prcfit, le ving 2850 acres un'ouched. Cutting anolhrr 150 acres thefollowing year will yied about £8 per share profit, leaving270Dacres standing.As cuttingproceeds seedlingsgrow, thus establishing a permanent forest onihe property.

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EVERY NEW ZEALANDER SHOULD BUYTOBACCO SHARES

No industry can offer a safer, sounder and moreprofitable investment than the tobacco industry m NewZealand at the present time.

Wherever this industry has been successfully intro-duced, wealth has followed m its wake, and fabulousprofits are everywhere derived from the cultivation and

,manufacture of the fragant weed. Why should Newr Zealand not share m the profits now flowing into the

pockets of foreign manufacturers and trusts? Whynot keep the money m the country for the benefit ofher own people?

Now is your opportunity of participatingm the hugeprofits that are m store for this big New Zealandenterprise.

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NATIONAL TOBACCO CO.LIMITED

(A Company incorporated under the Provisions of ". 4jL

: VThe Companies Act, 1908.")' ' '''

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Capital- £.30,000

Divided into 30,000 Shares of £1 each.

In pursuance of the Prospectus of the above Company dated 10th dayof April, 1923, and filed with the Registrar of Companies, 9000 PreferenceShares of £1 each have been allotted and

6,000 8 per cent Preference Shares of £1 eachare still available. The terms on which these shares can be taken upare as follows:—

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2/6 to be paid on application, 2/0 on allotment, and balance by callsof 2/6'per share at intervals of,not leas than two months. THE RIGHTS

" attaching to the various classes of shares are fixed by the Articles'ofAssociation. The Preference;$j,harea entitle holders thereof:

—<a) To a fixedcumulative preferential dividend at the rate of £3 per

centum per annum omthe amount paid up thereon for the time■'"■. ■■: ■ being. . ■

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:""';■ <b) To priority over th& -ordinary, shares m the distribution.of ;v surplus assets on a.winding up^ hut to no further rights m" the, v. /profits and assets of the.Company.

' (c) To;convert these sharea when fully,paid up into ordinary sharesof equal value (at the"option of the holder), ° . '

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The following is a brief resume of the New Company's position sincecommencing business m July last:-^

Sound financial pooitlon. Total Extinction of ail Trade Liabilities.—The Amalgamation of the old Cdmpany with the Auckland Tobacco Syndi-cate,under a newBoard of Directors, has brought about a wholesome changem the financial position of this combined concern, there being practicallyno trade liabilities, except those taken over from the Syndicate and asubstantial credit balance at the' Bank has taken the place of the former. overdraft. . ' -

Profitable crops and immense possibilities.— From its Riverhead planta-. tion the Company has extended its operations to other parts of the country,

and numerous individual farmers have embarked jupbn tobacco growing, asa side lino, with excellent results, the returns redeived by them from the* Company, for the dried leaf, tr^chingdn-fijmie cates \£,6o- per acre. Thia

t demonstrates again the immense possibilities of pie tobacco industry} noother field crop yields such high returnfe, and such?quick returns," the periodfrom planting out to the baling of the dried leaf, ready for shipping, seldomexceeds 7 months.

And just like wine land spirits, tobacco Improves with age,,and rnayêkept m store for 4 years and more, every year of Btorage adding to i)t&market value. : ■

r ■.... .. ■ .Improved types produced on poor giim lands.

—Tobacco thrives on almostnny soil, and excellent types have,been produced on the barren clays of the

Nelsonidistrict, as well as on the poor gum lands of the North! Povertym the noil seems to be essential for the production of a high class leaf,,.and the superior types grown on;these sterile, lands have enabled the Com-uuny to considerably improve the quality of its manufacture.

Company's brands popular and firmly established on the market.This high standnrd of quality has added largely to the popularity of thetobacco, und the Company's brands are now firmly establishedon the market.

Increasing Sales; December record month.—

Sales are steadily Increasingand December, m spite of the intervening holidays, has turned out a recordmonth. ..■'.'.'.- '■"''■.:' ■/.■■,

Favourable comments by Medical Authorities-— Medical Doctors haveproclaimed the N.Z. article to beiabsolutely pure and free from dope, con-taining none of those elements that are injurious to heart or nervoß It1badmittedly a wholesome smoke with less ,nicotine, surpassing all othersm flavour and aroma. So flattering are the comments from all parts of thecountry as to the smoking quality that the time may riot be far distantWheri the Company's goods wilt command a bigger sale m N.Z. than any ofthe imported brands, ■

Excisd Duty.— Recognising the necessity of further assisting local in-dustry, the Government haa again renewed tho concession, fixing a lowerrate of duty for N.Z. grown tobacco, and this enables the Company tocontinue to sell at old tyrlceii, and m this way extending to tho consumerthe benefit of this concession. :'.;'? .'

fManagemßht^-The services/<)£ Mr. Gerhard Husheer have been securedtor another term of seven years; and greater powers have been invested mhim. This la a matter of congratulation as the wide experience andexpert knowledge possessed by Mr. Husheer insure that the interests ofshareholders will bo well looked atfer. mieiests or

THE NATIONAL TOBACCO CO., LTD.DO NOT FORGET THAT, IF YOU BUY 8 PER CENT. PREFERENCE3HAREB, YOUR PROFITS ARE BY NO MEANS LIMITED TO 8 PERCENT., BECAUSE YOU ARE ENTITLED TO CONVERT YOUR PREF-ERENCE HOLDINGS AT ANY TIME INTO ORDINARY BHARESWHICH MAY RETURN YOU TWjCE THE PROFITS OR EVEN MORE.

The payments nre made easy—

2/6 per share on application, n further2/0 on allotment, and ttye balance spread over 12 months. Shareholder/3will be credited with the full dividend.

£3/2/6 dofwrrwlll Beisuro 25 fihareH; £6/5/- down f>o shares- C l2/10/---down 100.share*; £2^.down 200 shares, and so on m this same proportion.If you wish to support Local Industry and secure a profitable invest-ment for your money,'cut out tho application form and return same alonewith your deposit, to:—

**THE MANAGER, NATIONAL TOBACCO CO., LTD., NAPIER.

THE. NATIONAL TOBACCO CO. Ltd.APPLICATION FOR CUMULATIVE PREFERENCE SHARESOF £1 EACH.

(Preferential both as to Capital and Dividend), beuring interest at the rateof £8 per centum per annum. Theso shares, when fully paid up, areQonvortlble Jnto ordinary shares of equal value, at the option o( tho holder.

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do hereby apply for £1 Sharon m tho above

Company, and Ienclose £ .(being 2/6 perShare, tho amount payable on application). Iagree that » further paymentof 2/6 per Share Is payable by mo on allotment, and the balance by «iiu ofnot. more than 2/6 per Shuro made ot IntervalM of not leas than two monthsand Iagree to be bound by the Memorandum and Article* of AsKoeluiiunOt the Company.

DftUd this ..day of ....19

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The Ladies

ChainNow, dear ladies, a word m your

ears, which "M.8.C." hopes are rougedaccording to fashion's latest decree.In order to obtain that elusive charmm the use of powder you must firstof all choose it with care. The white-faced woman must use white powder,the pink and white peaches andcreamy onemust buy pink color, whilethe darker skins should know noother powder than cream color. Thereis nothing elusive about the womanwho, by an unskilful use of powder,has produced a bright heliotrope coloron her cheeks. In fact, face make-up of any kind must be applied withextreme care and forethought. Haveyou ever seen a girl who imaginesthat she is perfectly lovely, but whosehand had slipped when she was ap-plying the carmine to her lips andthere is a streak of it under her nose?Isn't she a scream?

Manner, as distinct from personality,is something which "M.8.C." has beenstudying quite a lot, and,has come tothe conclusion that for a woman acomposed and even manner is a won-derful asset. Appearance is a bigfactor, but it must be very big in-deed to make up for an atrociousmanner. Distinct personality is rare,but is always charming. People pos-sessed of personality seem to getthere some way, whether for goodor for bad. If for bad, It Is notcharming, but carries an Irresistibleforce. A handsome woman with acolorless manner ceases to be attrac-tive, and is even worse if she gushesoverwhelmingly. We all know thekind that must be played up to, thebreezy, talkative kind who try to beoriginal when really they are not atall, for all their quips are second-hand. They amuse for five minutesand bore you stiff m half an hour.There is one thing about the garrulouswoman, she. does not require playingup to; she goes on to a good finishwhile you quietly ponder over theposition m the Near East or whetheryour new dress will be black andwhite or just black.

Some uncommon wraps are seenabout, but the uncommonest so farwas abroad on Saturday night. Itwas composed of what appeared tobe the skin, or surely skins, of awoolly lamb. "M.8.C." trembled tothink what would happen if a wolfwas around anywhere.

!! !! !!Jam making: Is not the all day affair

that it used to be m the bad old days.Our more enlightened housewives haveit boiled.up and bottled m next to notime. The old-fashioned ones used tobegin early and finish late. The fruitwas put into the^preserving pan andallowed to simmer away for the great-er part of the day till it turned verydark and distinctly jammy looking.All jams appeared to have the sameflavor— that of jam. By the presentmethod each has Its own particularfruity flavor, with an absence of cloy-ing sweetness. The secret of it israpid boiling. Once it comes to theboil let it bubble rapidly, stirring well.

:: :: ::It ia refreshing to find what a

number of mothers take their littlechildren out into the open during thefine weather and let them play aboutm the beautiful sunshine, Unfortu-nately there are still quite a lot whowill not bother. With so many peoplepacked into the one house, as is socommon m the"* city, the childrenshould be out most of the day. Thereis a pernicious habit amongi thesemothers of spending their Bpare time,of which they have aulte a lot, gos-siping to one another to the neglectof the children. They feed and clothethem, and there their duty appearsto end.

A deputation of women has askedthe Minister of Justice for New SouthWales to provide for members of theirsex on juries. Prima facie, we ladieshave made much m our favor. Nowwe can stand for Parliament; can acton municipal bodies; enter the learnedprofessions as doctors or lawyers;work m banks or mercantile offices asclerks, accountants or typistea; actas "chauffeuses" or ticket collectors,and tackle men's jobs generally mother ways

—well, there seems to be no

reason why we should not also situpon juries and assist m condemningpersons of either sex to be fined, im-prisoned, or even sentenced to death.It Js all a matter of taste. Some ofus, we admit, might like this kind ofwork; but there are thousands whowould shudder at the thought of un-dertaking it. But the "light punish-ments Inflicted recently" were com-plained about m a free and easy way.The members of the deputation were,of course, referring to New SouthWales. Their remarks would cer-tainly have no application to NewZealand, where, especially m regardto this class of offence, heavy sen-tences are being Imposed.

She is awise bride who pretends shehasn't heard them bofore when hetells her that kind of stories.

Dr. Agnes Savlll has written a book,"Music, Health and Character," whichdeals In part with the effect of musicon the human organism and puts for-ward the theory that music haß hither-to been neglected aa a method of heal-ing, though It waa well-known to theancients as a health promoter. Ameri-can doctors are more alive to the pro-blem than they are on the other sideof the worldand have made several in-teresting studies into the question. Forinstance, an asylum doctor tabulatedthe effect of music on the inmates. Noless than 12 per cent, of them whowere submitted to a carefully chosenmusical treatment improved under it,38 per cent, being completely cured.Herr Krlesler relates how a youngwoman was cured of a fever by hav-ing a certain record played overseveral time*. And there is the weli-authcnticiitcd case of Mrs. Dora Muntzwho was cured of Hlcoping sicknessafter 102 days by Hoffman's playingof a Schubert Sonata, though she hadpreviously failed to react to a I-IhziRhapsodic. This tallies with the ex-perience of tho Greeks who found thatthe music hud to be specially selectedto Bult tho disease. It would seemthat future doctors would lu-od anothercourse this time m music b#»fon> thoyare considered tit for their profession.*

Savoury Sausage Pie.—

Frewh prônshould bo eorvod with the pic Fivowiusnges. four slices of fat bacon, twoonions, nm»hcd potato, salt, pepper, alittle gravy. To prevent the snusasosfrom bursting, put them Into boHlnpwater for live mlnuton. Tho lattershould be slightly t?altod, and thosaucaßOH pricked with a fork. Takea pio dlHh, grease it Bllghtly, nnd lineIt with fried onion. On thej?e plncethe eau»ageA. nnd then the atrip* ofbacon. Season with salt and pepper,nnd add the rest of tho onion. PourIn a tevr tableapoonfulu of gravy andfltook. nnd cover with a good thicklayer of manned' potato. Salt andpepper nhoiild hnvo boon added to thlfl.Mark tho pic dnintily with a fork, andbake In a fairly even oven for halfan hour. ISxlni thickened gravy mayhv «<T\tf(l with It.

Danish T.rJpe.—

Take a piece of tripelarge enough to fold over, make astuffing withonions, alittle sage,breadcrumbs, salt, and pepper. Put a thicklayer of this on one half of. the tripe,fold the other on to it, and sew theedges together to keep the stuffing m.Put m a baking tin, lay a few slicesof bacon on the top, and bake forabout an hour. Arrange on a hotdish, and pour some good brown gravyover, thickened with a little flour.Serve with mashed potatoes.

Dutch Baked Potatoes.—

Required:Potatoes, lajrge ones, about 21b; fatpork, fresh or pickled, or bacon, %lb;parsley, chopped, one tablespoonful;onion, chopped, one tablespoonful;pickles, chopped, one tablespoonful;salt, pepper to taste. Scrub the pota-toes and bake them, unpeeled, m theirjackets. Meantime, cut the pork intosmall pieces, also the onion. Putthese m a frying pan and fry themgently till a light brown

—there will be

sufficient fat from the pork. Do notfry quickly, or the pork will not becooked thoroughly.: When the pota-toes are soft, cut off one of the endsfrom each and scoop out the flouryinterior with a teaspoon. Put thepartthus removed m a basin with the porkand onion and the fat from the pan,and add the parsley, pickles and sea-soning. Mix well, and carefully, re-fill the potato-cases. If it will not allgo back, never mind. Bake the re-mainder m little heaps, like rock cakes,on a baking-tin, Put the now stuffedpotatoes back m the oven to get pip-ing hot. Serve m ahot dish with; Ifliked, a tureen of brown sauce.

MOTHER'S BLOUSE.

Home Dressmaking.

Mother is making a blouse for her-self. It is not her first attempt Shehas had to economise ever since shewas married.

Poor mother! She has turned herdresses, made pyjamas for hubby (putthe bulge m front, instead o£ the back,m the first pair); she has cut downdad's clothes for Bert and Jack

—In

fact, the machine that was purchasedyears and years ago, on time payment,truly may be credited with havingbrought up the family— clothed them,anyway.

But the latest bit of work—

theblouse!

Mother looks troubled as she asksthe only daughter, "Did you notice ifthere was any of this stuff left whenIbought the piece, Ellen?"

"No; that was the last of it; thesalesman mentioned it,Iremember,''is the reply.

And Mother groans. Then she mut-ters, "Oh, Iam a fool

—an awful

fool!"Dad looks up from his reading and

asks, "What's the matter, dear?""Oh, I've cut both sleeves alike; andIdon't think there's a possible chanceof matching the material," Mother ex-plains sorrowfully.

"What's the odds! Throw the dashedthing away and buy more stuff," Dadsuggests. Then there is a longsilence." Suddenly Mother saysagain, '1am afool— an awful fool!" this time m atone of delight. ■ _. ■

Dad and Ellen look up at the sametime, and they query alike:

"What is it?""Well," Mother begins to explain,

and starts laughing. Soon she goeson with the explanation. "It's allright, thank heaven! Well, Iam re-lieved! One sleeve was turned insideout. That's what made roe think Ihad cut them both alike."

And the making oX the blouse goesonagain.

WHO SAID SHREWD?

How He Married Them Off.

Said Farmer Brown to his crony,Farmer White: "What beats me isthat you've got all your gals marriedoff comfortable 'thout ever trying,whilehere's me with a house full'o' singledaughters. I've done everything In mepower to give the gels a chance. I'velet 'em Invite nice young fellers, an'I've ben around all the time t' try an'help these likely chaps enjoy them-selves. I've done everything Ican.My gels ia fairly good lookers, theydress smart when they ain't working

—ah' they know how t* work, too; bothey're certain t' make good wives.

"Moreover, they'll all have a decentbit o* cash when Ipass out. P'r'apathem young fellers think they'll havet' wait too long for that same bit o'cash, 'cause I'm so hardy an' healthy-looking; but none o them haß gave anysort o* a hint that wny. I'm jest won-dering what tho trouble Is."

Farmer White suggested: "The rea.-pon your gels Ib single Is that y" knownothin' about glttln' them off. Ididn'tlet mine Invite no young fellers t' th'"ouse. Instead, Ilet 'em get th* ideainter their 'cads that I'd shoot thefust one I caught insido, my fencecomln' after my gels: but Itook carenot t' be at 'ome when Igot a' lnklln'that any feller was comln* on mich a'errant, Idone everythln' Icould togive 'em th' idea that none o' 'em wasgood enough for a daughter o' mine.O' course they sneaked nuetin'a withthe vgels an' so on. Two o' mine run-ned off an' got married, and th' chapsthat got th' others 'ad t' do a heapo' pleadln* afore Igave me consent.

"Young tellers don't want .gelachucked at 'em. That'B th' mistake youmade; an' you stayed round an' nevergave 'em a chance to do a bit o' quietcourtln'. You'll 'aye t1 ttart ell overngen

—my way."

14 iSfcuQC —SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1924.

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The Hollywood debutantes are mtears. John Barrymore has finishedhis work before the cameras at theWarner Studio filming "Beau. Bruin

-mcl," and has left for.New. York totake up his stage production,of "Ham-let.", leaving, Jack Warner,Director Harry Beaumont, the casteof "Beau Brummel," and the entirestudio staff gave "Jawn" the greatestovation he ever had.

Irene Rich -will be seen m the newWarner classic, "Lucretia Lombard," ascreea adaptation of the novel byKathleen Norris. It tells of a womanwho had a radiant physical beauty,as well as a high intelligence. Ofnecessity, many adventures befall her,and it is said that Irene gets mixedup m a nasty forest fire, that burnslike anything, and makes things gen-erally inconvenient.

The print of "Tiger Rose," the "War-ner's screen version of Belasco's fam-ous play starring Lenore Ulric, hasarrived m New York, and. from allaccounts, is breaking records. It iasaid to be a-marvellous picture, andthat'; Miss Ulrfc "oqt-tigers" the"Tiger Rose" of the stage.

Four bjgr productions are under wayat the Warner Brothers' studios mCalifornia. They are "Broadway AfterDark," "Babbitt," from.Sinclair Lewis'snovel; Elinor Glynn's story, "How ToEducate A Wife;" and "Lover's Lane,"from the famous play by Clyde Fitch.These pictures will be distributedthroughout JS'ew Zealand as MasterPictures.

Dorothy Dalton

Itis likely that Clara Bow and Gas-ton Glass, who have been chosen to.play m Robert Service's story of MonteCarlo, "Poisoned Paradise," will goto Europe for scenes of this 'MasterPicture which cannot be accuratelyMimed m America. " "> -.

:: :: ::The flying ballet In tho J. C. Wil-

liamson "Aladdin" pantomime at HerMajesty's, Melbourne, promoted keenrivalry amongst the ypungsters whodesired to be included In tho cupidswho soared aloft. The candidatesSvere submitted to a severe test, andeach was swung into the air severaltimes before the final selection wasmade. Grace, nerve, and confidencewere essentials taken into account mpicking the flying ballet. Weight doesnot count. The gleaming silver wiresfrom which the cupids soar over thestage are tested before every flight,and the. men at the ropes, under thechargeof Alec. Muir, the head mechan-ists, are all experts. It is impossibleto break these wires by a direct strain.Only a kink can cause them to snap

—and the rigid precautions taken pre-vent this occurring. Stage flying is,positively exhilarating. The youngsters

describe It as "heavenly."IT It M

Betty Compson will have the leadingfeminine role m the forthcomingJosephHenabery Paramount production, "ThoStranger," according to announcementby Jesse L. Lasky. This is anadapta-tion by Edfrld Bingham from JohnGalsworthy's story, "The First and theLast." Richard Dix and Lewis Ston.owill p]ay tho principal male roles, andall three players will be co-featured.Mian Compson has been appearing mBritißh productions for several months,but has returned to Hollywood readyto begin work.

is :» ::"Folks, I'm glad to say, 'Howdy,

friends,' and togrip you by the hand,"says Bill Hart. "It IS oneof the hap-pieet events of my lifo. Particularlyam Iglad because Iam able to ap-pear before you In the role of one oftho greatest Woatgrners that everlived,Wild BUI Hickok. History don't tellyou much about .Wild Bill, and I'mplumb tickled that it's my Job to doso. History has kind of paosed WildBill up, but he wouldn't give a whoopbecause he was made of the kind ofstuff that made the great West. Thocountry that raised Wild Bill Is sureproud of him, and to bo able to por-tray for screen posterity this noblocharacter Is one achievement I've al-ways longed for. Wild Bill Hickokwas the fastestman 'on the draw' thatever lived, but that's the least of hisfame. He was one of the civillsers ofthe frontier,a daringscout whose thril-ling exploits aro epic adventures, afearless law-and-order man, whosebravery and uncanny Bklll with /hissix-guns made him tho Nemesis of allevil-doers; m short, one of those ho-men who made it possible for us folksto reap the fruita of our West to-day.In returning to the screen Isincerelyhope to convey to you the great spiritof the country m which Iwas raisedand which Ilovo so well. I'm glad togot back, folks, because I'vo missedyou all a whole lot. So haR my littlepnlnt hons, and he'« not letting meget away with anything. He's comeback, too."

Allan Dwan has comploted the fllmring of "Blk Brother," a screen versionof Rex Beach* story, at tho Para-mount Lonpr Island studio. Almostns many scones woremado outside thestudio h« In. Tho Htory 1b one of NowYork ffang Hfo, and tells of tho effortsof Jimmy Donovan, a pang loader, tocorrect hie wnys and caro for the littlebrother of his chief lieutenant who ha»boon killedby n rival. Ingetting thesescones Mr. Dwan took his company onto Avenue A and to Bellvue Hospital,to the Harelm Casino and other placesdescribed m the book. Most of hischaracters were actually recruitedfrom the environment described m thestory, and were portrayed without achange In attlro and with no trace ofthe make-up usually considered nocos-«ary before a motion picture camera.Mr. Dwan went m for extremerealism,he nny«. Tom Mooro han tho role oftho gnnir Ifnder, ErtHh Roberts playstho feminine leftd. Raymond Hftttonnppc<nrs «« the <loj><> (lend, and MickeyDennett, the *cv<«n-y<»nr-old younjr»ter.piny* thr part of Ou« boy. Other piny-prs irtrlti'V f*hrtrli»« H«»r\dori»on. JooKinK. Pnul T'nnror. NVUI K«fll«»y. Wil-!t«m B!ark. Mi)t>n H«»rtnujt. IHorcnccAtihrook, a?id Yvonne Hughes

"Marriage is a great institution,"satii a comedian once, "but who wantsto live m an institution?" BettyBlythe has based her latest film on theassumption that people want to livem this institution m spite of its. dis-advantages, and she has set herselfthe task of telling on the screen "TheTruth About Wives." There is hopeyet for the men who do not under-stand their wives.

Miss Clemence Dane is loud m herpraise of the film version of her play,"The Bill of Divorcement," a MasterPicture. "Most of it," she says, "isexactly as it happened m my mind.To see one's 'behind the scenes' ideasso perfectly realised is almost un-canny; but the whole thing is ad-mirable."

:: :: ::The use of glycerine tears to ex-

press screen emotion is evidently uni-versal. They can be seen slitheringdown the face of the racehorse m"Little: Johnny Jones," a MasterPicture, starring Johnny Hlnes,. thepopular Broadway comedian.

Betty Blythe has left America forEurope again. Betty has been back-wards and forwards so often duringthe last year that it is suggested thatshe buy a monthly season ticket.

Harry Myers, who will shortly ap-pear m many comical situations m"Brass," was asked if he want-ed to see Rin-Tin-Tin (the famousdog), and Myers inquired if it were aHenry Ford production.

"The Virginian," the famous Wes-tern novel by Owen Wister, has beentransformed into a graphic and well-made picture. The caste, headed byKenneth Harlan and Florence Vidor,is excellent, and the settings are very■beautiful, especially those of theWyoming cattle country.

5 J :: ::'"The Tale of the Golden West" Is a

celebrated production, famed m opera,stage and literature. It is a tale ofthe stirring days of the Forty Niners,of the gold rush m Sonora, of the wildlife of the pioneers, and the romanceof one.of them. It was filmed on theactual locale of David Belasco's fam-ous stage success. Warren Kerriganand Sylvia Breamer head an excellentcaste. ,

:: :: ::Emory Johnson found himself treat-

ed as a Mayor during his recent visitto New York. He paraded Broadwaywith a brigade of police officers, to themusic of the crack firemen's band.■ Hereceived all this honor because he hasshown the heroism of civic employeeson the screen. He is the producerof "The Third Alarm," m which thefireman is the hero: "In the Name ofthe Law," which Idealises the police-man; "West-bounds Limited," whichgives the railway man his flare, and"The Mail Man."

George Pearson has just returned toLondon from Paris after obtainingsome fine "shots'^ of exteriors for"Squibs," with Betty Balfour andHugh E. Wright. With the permis-sion of the police and the Ministry ofFine Arts the camera has securedsome fine views from the top of theArc de Trlomphe, perhaps the mostcommanding point m Europe. A re-markably true and intimate Parisianatmosphere has been secured for thisfine Master Picture.

Wesley Barry, as mischievous asever, but more grown-up m appear-ance, plays the title part In "ThePrinter's Devil," and pursues hiscareer with a vengeance, as well asthat of chief engineer and reporter ofthe "Briggsville Gazette.".. HarryMyers, who played .the never-to-be-forgotten Yankee m "A ConnecticutYankee m King Arthur's Court," hasan equally droll part as editor of the"Gazette." Katherlne McGuire playsthe feminine lead.

A Corsican VVendettaa—

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and genial TomMoore clad m strange garments make"Mr. Barnes of New York" one of thebrightest and most charming comediesever made. Tom Moore is at hisbrightest In this Master Picture, to bereleased shortly.

Wallace MacDonald has made loveto eighteen stars

—on the screen. One

believed him and married him, DorisMay. Miss May plays the leadingpart In "The Foolish Age," a delight-ful Master Picture, also featuring BullMontana.

Ada Rove, the principal boy In J. C.Williamson's "Aladdin" at Her Ma-jesty's, Melbourne, has ulayed m everysort of theatrical production with thoexception of grand opera. And finehas taken every sort of part, fromLittle Willy (when she got frightenedand. forgot to soe the angels!) to thoOld Man of the Sea, principalboy, and■ovenLady Teazle. She was the orig-inal Lady Hollywood In "Ploradora" mLondon, and taught Grace Palotta(whomade such ahit m the role mAustralia) the "business" before shecame to Melbourne. "That," saidMissReeve,"was a labor of love, for Iknewshe wouldbe abig success."

Tott Dal Mdnte, the beautiful youngcoloratura soprano of the J. C. Wil-liamson-Dame Nellie Molba GrandOpora Company, is only twenty-sevenyears of ag-e, and, according: to Mr.Henry Russell, the artistic director ofthe company, pretty as a picture."Her last performance at La Scala,Milan, prior to her departure for Ame-rica en route to Australia, was one ofthe most notable occasions In prmnrlopera m that historic theatre. EveryBeat wns sold out at £2 each. Theopera was "Lucia di Lamracrmoor,"with Dal Monte m her greatest role.At the conclusion of the mad scenethe whole houso rose tobestow on theprlma donna a wild outburst of enthu-siastic appreciation. Hats and hand-kerchiefs were waved m tho air. TheBcono was indescribable. Dal Montewill glva a nerios of concerts m Ame-rica, England, and on the Continentwhen she returns after her Australiantour. Those concerts will be underthe J. C. Williamson direction, and foreach «ho will receive a fee of 3000 dol-lars (about £000).

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Marriage and Divorce:Q.: What does reasonable access to

children mean when the wife hasg-uardianship of them? Has husbandno legal right regarding them?— "Su-bscriber" (Lyttelton).

A.: If the terms of the access werenot prescribed by the Court, thenreasonable access would depend on thecircumstances of the case

—once or

twice a week at suitable hours. Yourrights are limited by the order of theCourt

Q.: VT*** gets separation orderagaintt husband. Persuaded by hispromi>=-a8 she has the order cancelledand resumes co-habitation- However,his violent temper makes her life amisery. Is this a ground for divorce?What are other grounds for divorce?,—

"One Concerned."| A.: You have no ground fpr divorce.The other main grounds are cruelty,desertion, drunkenness, three years'separation, adultery, murder. Inflictinginjury. #Housing, Rent, Rates:

Q.: Agreement Is signed lor theerection of a house, to be completedm a specified time. Can person for.whom house is beingbuilt claim boardand lodging for,himself and familyif house is not built, within the timestipulated?

—"Digger" (Wellington).

A.: Depends on the express termsof the agreement and the conduct ofthe parties. It is usually difficult torecover penalties under a buildingcontract.

Q.: (1) What notice to quit mustbe given to a sub-tenant, and mustit be written? (2) Can rent be in-creased if sub-tenant does not vacate?<3) Can hehe ejected without an orderof the Court?

—"Fireworks."

A.: (1) One month's notice m writ-ing must be given. (2) If rent is in-creased consult the LaborDepartment.(3^ No.

Q.: Can a soldier who has houseunder the discharged soldiers' settle-ment scheme sell to a civilian? Canhe let the place?

—"Anxious" (Welling-

ton). 'A.: You cansell to acivilian provid-

ed the consent of the Land Board andof the Minister of Lands is obtained.You can let the place.

Q.: When boarder pays a week madvance Is It necessary to give oneweek's notice before leaving?

—"In-

quirer."I A.: Not If you have actually paidfor the week ahead as the boardmoney would serve m lieu of notice.

Q.: Person lets house to wife of re-turned soldier. Husband later takento mental hospital. The Public Trus-tee guarantees the wife's rent, andafter wife leaves house, being ninemonths behind m rent, the PublicTrustee denies having guaranteed rent.Wife later separated from husband,who is financially unsound. Can per-son claim arrears of rent if husbandbecomes a bankrupt?— "D.T."

A.: You would have to prove In thebankruptcy. Rent is, under certainconditions, one of the preferentialclaims.

Q.: Tenant gets notice to quit onNovember 20. On December 3 land-lord accepts the rent paid to January1. Is tenant entitled to another notice?Can landlord put tenant out to let ma partner In a dairying farm? Theproperty affected Is a four-roomedhouse with four acres of land. Nothingm writing. Can tenant claim for im-provements?

—"Tenant" (Wairoa).

A.: Tenant is entitled to a freshnptice to quit As the property is adairy farm it is not protected by thehousing legislation, and you can beevicted after an order of tho Court isobtained. You cannot claim compea-satio,n for the Improvements.Wages, Pensions:

Q.: Does a young man of 19, whoia committed to a reformatory insti-tute for three years get wages whilethere?

—"Mother" (Dunedin).

A.: He may be credited with wagesranging from 16/6 to £1/1/- per weekif he has dependants and the amountearned would be paid to the depen-dants.

Q.: Ifmother wont to Ireland wouldsho continue to get her war pensionas dependant of son killed m the war?—"Mother" (Wellington).

A.; Yes, payment is made throughthe High Commissioner, London.

Q.: (1) Widow with child who Is mreceipt of an epidemic pension re-marries and child's pension ceases.Husband deserts her and falls to pro-vide maintenance. Can the child'spension be resumed? (2) Can theSydney "Truth" bo obtained m NewZealand?

—"Constant Reader."

A.: (1) No. You must look to yourhusband for future maintenance foryourself and child. (2) No.Insurance, Commission:

Q.: Aperson offers a land agent £20commission to sell property. Owing todelay In selling vendor pays £15 only.Land agent claims for balance of £5.What is the position?

—"Constant

Reader."A.: Unless time was the essence of

the contract, do not see how you canavoid paying the £5 balance agreedto be paid.

Wills and PropertytQ.: Man dies without a will. Does

widowed daughter-in-law with threechildren get any "bare m his estate?

—"Armada."

A.: Th« children get the share thattheir father would have received hadhe been alive.Legalt

Q.: Person buys ft house and putsit In his wife's name. Cnn a mar-ried step-daughter claim any inter-est In the property when wife dlea?

—"Devonport."

A.: No.Q.: (1) Boy steals cheque form and

forges signature to cheque. Father ofboy verbally promlHos to pay theamount if proceedings arc stayed, butho doesn't do no. Has the party whocashed the cheque /any chance of re-covering the amount from the boy, orwould he be charged with abetting afelony? (2) Can Interest be chargedon accounts?,— "Long Credit" (l»uke-rau). :

A.: (I) As there Is only verbal evi-dence of tho arrangement not to pro-secute, proof of abetting the felonywould be difficult. In any cane, thocivil remedy was available, and thearrangement mny have been not toHike civil proceedings. (2) Interestcan be charged on accounts overduefrom the date Interest la demanded.

Partnerships:Q.: A rabbiter who has a partner

abßConda with the earnings of thopair. Who la responsible for tho moneytnken away, and how'cnn recovery"beeffected?— "Fair Play" (Hanmer).

A.: Lay an information against ab-scomlcr. Being n partner he wasHUthorlsed to receive payment duo toboth, and so your only remedy Isagainst your "comrade." You couldsue him on a civil action.Finance, Companies, Etc.!

Q.: Can & tradesman charge Inter-est on account? If so, under what

conditions and at what rate?—

"In-terested."

A.: Interest at 8 per cent on overdueaccounts from date interest has beendemanded can be claimed.

Q.: Is an undated 1.0.U. valid, and,if so, for how long?

—"A.8.5."

A.: Yes, as evidence of an accountstated. Valid for 6 years from timeof debt or for 6 years from time ofany acknbwledgemenL

Q.: In19i6 a person lends £100 toa friend; same is acknowledged by an1.0.U. Borrower has several timesbeen asked to repay the amount, butsays be is unable to do so. What isthe best course?

—"R.S." (Dunedin).

A.: Sue for money lentQ.: If mortgagor (first mortgage)

goes bankrupt, how can mortgagee gethis money, and can mortgagee takeany action before espiry of mortgage?—

"J.C." (Petone).A.: Your debt is secured on tho pro-

perty, and so you would get yourmoney by selling up the place. Youcan exercise power of sale at any timeif default has been made under themortgage.

Q.: What stepscan be taken againstwidow owing £550 on mortgage, butwithout means?— "Constant Reader"(Clyde).

-A.: Exercise power of sale and re-

alise on tho property.

Q.: (1) Insurance company is ap-pointed trusteeof an estate, and underwill has to invest £2200 as providedunder the Trustee Act. Is beneficiaryentitled to a stated percentage? Pay-ing at present under 4 per cent. (2)Can beneficiary claim statement show-ing how money is invested and show-ing the amount Of interest received?(3) What fees is the company entitledto each half year?— "Waitati."

A.: (1) There is no specified rate ofInterest which trustees mtfst invest at.They can ' deposit money m ;theP.0.5.8., which pays only 3% percent. (2) You can certainly call for astatement. (3) The fees payable woulddepend on the will. If no mention ismade, then reasonable 'fees must bepaid. ' :

Q.: What Is the time limit for thepayment of interest under a mortgage?Ifnot paid within the period what canmortgagee do?

—"Mortgage" (Te

Kuiti).A.: The usualperiod is14 days after

the dates fixed under mortgage. Ifinterest is not paid then, sue for it orsell the property.

General: -Q.: What institutions care for ille-

gitimate children?— "J.W." (Stratford).A.: Various State institutions and

certain religious and charitable institu-tions. Inquire from Education De-partment, Child Welfare Branch.

Q.: (1) Can person under 21 buyliquor at a brewery? (2) Can severalfriends subscribe amongst themselvesfor the purchase of liquor for con-sumption by them and send one ofthe number to the brewery for thedrink?— "L. H. McKenzie,"

A.: (1) No, (2) Yea, provided buyeris not under age.

Q.: If father and mother of an il-legitimate child are both agreeable tohave child registered under Its father'sname, can that child take and use thatname?

—"R.N." (Horoplto).

A.: Iffathermakes declaration ofpa-ternity the child may take and use itsfather's name. If father does notmake declaration, but raises no ob-jections to the child taking his name,child may do so.

Q.: Can a youth under 21 be servedm an hotel bar with a soft drink?—"'G.F.K?/,' (Pahiatua).

A.: Yes, if the drink is quite softQ.: Does probation for two years

for a first offence under the CrimesAct amount to conviction? What isthe shortest time that must elapse be-fore the period of probation ceases?

—"Mountains" (Otira).

An In this case, yes. You can applyfor your discharge at any time if yourconduct and circumstances justify It

Q.: (l)tMust a minor obtain herparents' consent to her engagement?(2) If minor is not living with herparents can she claim her belongings,which are nt home, and which arewithheld by them?— "Query" (Auck-land). v.. A.: (1) No. (2) Yes. subject to anylien, and provided ownerhlp can beestablished.

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