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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7282, 9 October 1933, Page 6

At dbout 4.30 p.m. yesterday a late model sedan car left t.ho road oti the Mangalainoka side’ of Pahiatua. It turned on its side and bursting into flame was completely demolished. Sods of earth lying on the roadside were used by helpers to suppress a car Arc at Manakau on Saturday afternoon. The motor was owned by Mr. Anderson, of Wellington, and by their prompt action, passersby were ablo to save the body of the car from destruction although the fire did considerable damage in the vicinity of the engine and floor boards.

Rarely in New Zealand history has membership of the Legislative Council offered such attraction as appears to be the case at present. It is stated that no fewer than 100 applications, for consideration in the fresh appointments, have been received by Ministers. When the question was, raised with the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. G W. Forbes, he smilingly replied that the "statistics” relating to such a matter did not interest him, although lie was aware that more than usual interest in the subject was being displayed. He could give no information as to when the fresh appointments would be made.

Cyclists were criticised severely at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Automobile Association, when Professor P. H. Powell complained of the motorists themselves. He often rode a bicycle, he said, and when he did so he found that the behaviour of motorists towards him and other cyclists was certainly ungcntlemanly. A motor-car would turn a corner or stop with practically no warning right in the path of a leaving him to get out of a difficulty as best he could. He agreed when he drove a motor-car lhat. cyclists were a nuisance; but when he rode his bicycle he found that motorists were also nuisances.

A prevalent offence in Wellington at the present time is the stealing of radiator caps of motor cars and the handsome caps of a partiuclar make of car arc coming in for special attention. Recently an owner of the make of car iri question had his radiator cap stolen, and when he applied to the agents for a new cap ho was informed that they had received six similar requests from owners who had had their radiator caps stolen, but no new caps were available in New Zealand, unless they were taken from now cars. The offence is hard to detect, as the thieves are known in some cases to work in couples, one man taking the cap from (lie car and passing it on to an accomplice, who speedily gets out of sight. •The High Contracting Parties shall cot in any case or under any pretext be compelled to surrender their own subjects or citizens, whether by birth or by naturalisation, provided that the naturalisation’took place previous to the commission of the crime or offenco giving rise to the application for extradition” This is the official Gazette way of announcing the position as regards extradition to Portugal of fugitives from justices who may be found residing in New Zealand or oilier parts of tho British'Empire, or of New Zealanders and other British subjects from Portugal to the country where the offence took place. England’s extradition treaty with Portugal has been ‘ amended in the above way. and the provisions apply to the Empire as a whole; hence tho Gazette notice.

By 13 votes to 3 the Auckland City Council carried a motion congratulating Mrs. McCombs, as a City Councillor of Christchurch, upon being the first woman to enter the Now Zealand Parliament. When Councillor Rosser brought forward the motion it was opposed by tho Mayor (Mr. G. W. Hutchison) and four councillors on tho ground that it could not be altogether dissociated from party politics, which, with politics in general, tho council had striven successfully for years to exclude entirely from its discussions. The Mayor remarked that while every councillor would agree that Mrs. McCombs deserved the heartiest congratuations, it would create an undesirable precedent for the council in its official capacity to congratulate her. Councillor Rosser, in reply, said that no question of party politics was involved.