25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 87, 6 January 1933, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Fall in Price of Wool (From "The Dominion,” Jan. 6, lp08.) The fall in the price of wool is having an effect on the loading of the Home trade steamers, and the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer, Kalpara, which is expected to complete discharge to-day, is to go out into the stream to await orders. It is stated that if the price of wool had remained up, there would have been a rush of wool for the steamers, but as a result of the drop in the price, growers are not. anxious to 'get their wool on the Home market at once.

The New Zealand Government training ship Amokura, which has been on an extended cruise In southern waters, going as far south as the Bluff, arrived in the stream on Saturday morning, and now lies at her old moorings off Pipitea Wharf. The cruise has been an interesting one for the boys, and furnished a series of excellent lessons for the future men-o-warsmen. The Amokura was at Lyttelton on New Year’s Day, and was visited by a large number of people, who exhibited a keen interest in the Dominion’s navy and its personnel.

There was trouble on the ferry steamer Maori the other night ou the trip from Wellington to Lyttelton. A saloon passenger who was drinking at the bar became so sportive that he poured , a whisky down a steward’s back instead of down his own throat. The steward protested against such treatment, but his protestations only increased the boorishness of the passenger, who was backed up by a friend, also full of Christmas cheer. After a melee both of them were handcuffed and locked up, still si niggling and using language that was thrillingly vivid in expletives.

Intensely cold weather has been experienced in Europe. In Austria. Belgium. and several other parts of the Continent, the temperature is down to zero Fahrenheit. Numbers have been frozen to death. Several deaths are reported from the English provinces.