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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7287, 14 October 1933, Page 6

Fifteen. Stipendiary Magistrates of New Zealand petitioned Parliament on Thursday, stating that they wero dissatisfied with the remuneration now being received by them for their services, and praying that they be given relief.

A particularly painful accident beMr I. Beaumont, of Bainesse, when ho was thrown off a set of discs, one of which ran over his instep before the horses stopped, and cut half-way through his foot. It will be many weeks before Mr Beaumont will be able to walk about again. The Wellington City Council on Thursday evening supported the suggestion of the Invercargill City Council that a remit bo submitted to the next Muncipal Conference with a view 7 to obtaining legislation to increase the proportion of insurance companies’ levies to fire bards, thoreby making a reduction in the contribution by local bodies.

Addressing a largo and most appreciative audience last night on “Maori String Games” and “Now Zealand Birds and Songs,” Mr. Johannes u. Andersen, the noted authority on Maori lore and natural history, said it always gave him great pleasure in Palmerston North to find that the residents appreciated the real beauty of the lacebarks, kowhais and other New Zealand native trees by the number growing in the gardens about the city. He expressed the opinion that by encouraging the growth of these trees particularly the berry and nectar producing varieties, many of tho native birds that had become rare would come back.

As a sequel to the Queen Carnival at Dunedin, in which articles were raffled to raiso funds, four chairmen of various committees appeared voluntarily in tho Police Court at Dunedin yesterday to answer charges of establishing a lottery by which prizes were gained by mode of chance. The Magistrate indicated that he had every sympathy with tho objects of tho campaign to raise funds for tho relief of distress, but said it would be improper for him not to enter a conviction. Three of the defendants w 7 ere each fined £1 and costs and a conviction only -was entered against the fouth, but on a charge of selling liquor at a dance he was fined a similar amount. The dance also was promoted to assist the queens’ funds.

“It. is going to be a very dry summer,’’ says an old Wangan i gardener. “How do you know?’ 7 lie was asked. “From observation,’ 7 replied the old man. “The magpies are building their nests closer to the ground this year, and I’vo always found this is a sure sign of a dry and windy summer.” ‘lt would appear, 7 ' said counsel in tho Arbitration Court at New Plymouth, “that watersiders should never take a holiday, because of tho danger of becoming unfit through inactivity. 77 The question which was being discussed (says the Taranaki Herald) was the effect on tho heart of inactivity in a person usually engaged in heavy work. It was stated by a medical witness that such inactivity tended to a deterioration of the heart muscles, which would not bo fit for taking up the same class of work immediately after a “spell.”