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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17607, 9 November 1922, Page 13

Read the Lyttelton Ads. You will find it worth your while to shop where value it offered "THE PRESS." "THE WEEKLY PRESS." REMOVAL NOTICE. rpHE LYTTELTON OFFICE OF THB J- CHRISTCHURCH PRESS CO., Lm, has been removed to New and Modem Premises in the Canterbury Hotel Building, Oxford street, where all orders for our publications and all classes of printing will be re:ei\ed by our representative, Mr W. Miller. P. SELIG, Manager, Chriatohurch Press Co., Ltd. J. MILLER, LTD., Est. 1874., Shipwright!, Boat and Yacht Builder*, Dock Head, LYTTELTON. Estimates given for boat bxjili> iiSG. SHIP REPAIRS, DOCKING. Two Slips for Trawler and Small CraiL TJp-to-date Wood-working Machinery i» stalled. 12 and 10ft Dinghies in stock. Builders of Linnet, Canterbury's represent tative for the Sanders Memorial Cup. Punts and Rafts on Hire. 'Phoflb 2655 (Chiistchuroh). FORBES, LTD. BIG REDUCTION IN CARPENTERS' TOOLS. OWING to onr being overstocked in this class of goods, we ars endeavouring to reduce o'lr stock, and have decided to lower the prire* to bedrock. We invite thepubUe to inspect our window display. Notice out prices as compared with town prices before Jott buy. K6698-6381

One incident in connexion with wireless telephony that happened in the city the other morning was scarcely appreciated by the resident in a house to the wall of which was attached the rods and other gear necessary for carrying the aerial (says the Dunedin 'war"). This gentleman was lying in a. warm bath meditating in that comfortable frame of mind that is induced by just the right temperature, when Budaenly there came a heavy gust of wind, accompanied by a still more startling crash. < The bather eat up, and to nis astonishment looked out on an -unimpeded view of the public highway. The wind, it appears, had caught j the aetrial. and the Rtrain liad torn ! out the brickwork until a big ho!e had been made in the wall. The bather was in n quandary. Should he "lie low" an<J risk being bricked in in Ma bath, or fihould he reveal himself in puris natirrabilis to the knot of cirious folk who had gathered in the roadway P While in this state of indecision, with a bias townrds "safety first," help arrived, and his modesty was pr<-«Tred, while security was attained. But he has-not timo for the "new fantrloa I craae" of wiretoss boV>ohony whinb requires rods an f ? wires sh-ono- moiie-h ' to tear the side of a man's house out at an inconvenient moment. ! Work has begun on tho first of a chain of 20 hotels for motorists, ex- ; tending from Vancouver, British rv,l. umhia, through "Washington, Or«rr--i California, and Nevada. Thes? w. '> will be one day's automobile rm j apart, and will be constructed on the j unit plan. They will provide the ; motonst with comfortable quarters and j food supplies, also equipment and re- • pair shops.