The Dunstan Times Monday, October 17th, 1938 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dunstan Times, 17 October 1938, Page 4

The Dunstan Times Monday, October 17th, 1938 LOCAL AND GENERAL

An ordinary meeting of the Vincent Hospital Board will be held in the Council Chambers, Clyde, on Wednesday, October 19th, at 10 a.m. Owing to an epidemic of measles the Tapanui School has been closed until October 26th. The annual meeting of the Molyneux Gold Mining Coy. is to be held at London on October 18th (to-morrow.) W- T- Beveridge Ltd., the Cycle and Radio People of Dunedin announce in this issue that they are closing their Cromwell branch. As everything must be sold some great bargains are offered in bicycles and accessories. Some idea of the great reductions being made will be gleaned from the fact that Dunlop Tyres (usual price 6s 9d) are being offered at 3s 9d, postage free. A start was made last week at Ngatapa (Gisborne) with drilling operations in the search for oil by the New Zealand Petroleum Company. The most up-to-date plant has been installed and the work will proceed twenty-four hours a day. . There is every indication that next season’s crop of pip fruits will be just as heavy as last season, said Mr B. G. Goodwin, orchard instructor to the Department of Agriculture in Christchurch, {after an inspection of some of the principal orchards. Another successful season, he said, depended largely on whether damaging frosts were experienced late in October and early in November, soon after blossom time. Reports also indicated that orchardists were expecting a bumper harvest of stone fruits. Lachlan John Grant, a prominent South Canterbury man, and a farmer at Clandeboye was sentenced by Mr Justice Northcroft to six months with hard labour, on a charge of failing to stop and give all practicable assistance after an accident. The charge arose out of the finding of Mrs Kate Maxwell Johnson on the roadside on June 21st. Eight miles away Grant’s car ran into a telegraph pole, and it was the inference of the prosecution that the car had been deliberately run into the pole to explain the damage done when it struck the . woman, who had a leg fractured. Counsel made a plea for a monetary penalty, but His Honour refused on the grounds that it would be making discrimination between a man of means and persons in poorer circumstances. At the Sydney wool sales on October 12th there was keen and widespread competition, at which the recent firm prices were well maintained for wellgrown free wools. Buying on Trench account was again a feature, with good support from Yorkshire, Germany, Belgium and Japan. Greasy merino realised to 17 yd. The offering consisted of 12,024 bales, ol which 11,670 were sold and 777 disposed ot privately. What must be regarded as a record haul of eels—for this district, at any rate—was caught recently in the lagoon on me property of Mr F. W* J. Crosbie, "Weka Bush/’ Menzies Ferry tsays the Wydham ‘Herald’). An eel trap containing the carcasses of two rabbits was submerged last Saturday afternoon, and when raised on Sunday morning was found to contain 212 eels. On Monday morning 50 eels were got, and on Tuesday 20- Some of the monsters were over s£ft, Jong and weighed up to 36ib.