LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 April 1933, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Liverpool and James mines wil both be working, to-morrow.

The temperature at Greymouth at 9 a.m. to-day was 46 degrees, one degree below Arthur’s Pass, the lowest reported in New Zealand.

A New Zealander now in Loudon in a letter to a friend in Dunedin, writes: I found the following notice in one of the largest motor-body building works in England. I think it speaks for itself: —“Work faithfully for eight hours a day and do not worry. Then in time you mdy become the boss and work 12 hours a day and have all the worry.”

The Health Department received 15 notifications from the Canterbury and West Coast districts last week. One case of scarlet fever and two of diphtheria were reported from the West Coast, and from Canterbury there were six of scarlet fever, one of puerperal poisoning, three of tuberculosis, and two of dysentery. Two deaths from tuberculosis were recorded in Canterbury.

Private advice has been received o£ the death in Denmark, on February 21, of Professor Johannes Schmidt, 56, who was the leader of the Danish Oceanographic Research Expedition in the vessel Dana, which visited New Zealand in 1928, the scientific leadersincluding Professor Schmidt and Dr. Andersen, who has also died since he visited Auckland, Wellington and other centres. —Press Assn.

Escape from what threatened to be a serious accident was made, by several men, when the car in which they were travelling to Westport _ races yesterday, turned over into a ditch on the road near Charleston. The grader was working on the road, and in attempting to pass it, the car went oyer the edge, and came to rest on its side. The ditch was about five feet deep, but the fall was broken by a thick growth of gorse. The occupants were uninjured, and the car escaped damage. The grader, and man power hauled it back to the road.

Peters’ Great Bargain Sale. Packed to the doors to-day. Hundreds of bargains left. Get in while the going is good.—Advt.

“White pine orders are petering out,” said a local timber merchant to a “Star” reporter to-day, “and judging by the Australian orders it looks as if the season is about completed. Three white pine mills closed down last week, and three more will close for a fortnight for the Easter holidays.” He added that at the present time, there was hardly an order of any description, and that those mills which continued cutting would in all probability, have to “strip” the timber until the new season commenced, towards the end of July.

Greymouth’s thrifty housewives are taking advantage of the exceptional bargains offering at Peters’ Gigantic Bargain Sale. It’s too good to miss. Be there to-day.—Advt.

The most troublesome disease that the honey producer has to face is foul-brood, which is so contagious that a hive so infected is invariably completely destroyed by fire—bees and all (writes the “Post’s” Palmerston North correspondent). The disease therefore means a very serious loss to apiarists who have the misfortune to have their hives contaminated. Foulbrood, has at times been rampant in various parts of the Dominion, and it has for a long time been recognised that if a cheap means could be devised of disinfecting hives and combs, thousands of pounds would be saved the industry. Formalin has been proved efficacious, but the method is too costly. The Plant Research Station is at present engaged on the problem, and it is hoped that its investigations will beai' fruit. They are concentrating on a formula which, if successful, will mean that beekeepers will be able to treat, their combs for a. fraction of a penny.

Good quality black miners plush 4f wide, 9/6 per yard at S. Burnet; White’s, The High Grade FurnisherAdvt.

“There is one tendency of presentday journalism which I deplore,” said Sir Henry Braddon in the course of an interview with a. Southland Times reporter. “I refer to the growing habit, of even the most reputable journals in Australia, of taking brief extracts from public utterances of speakers and printing these as if they represented the substance and spirit of the speech. When a man is speaking he is not always on his guard to the extent that he is when writing. He does not weigh every word. It would seem that reporters are looking for any incautious word, any unguarded epithet. These will be welded into the semblance of a speech which is reallv utterly foreign to the sentiments which the speaker intended to express and did express. There is no attempt to present to the public the true spirit of the utterance. All that the papers seem to be concerned with Is to give their readers something verging on the sensational. 1 am not. referring in any way to the New Zealand press, which. I trust, has not adopted such methods.’’

Always an event of great importance is the arrival of the new season’s goods. Ladies will be particularly interested in the autumn showing. Twenty cases have already been opened while others continue to arrive. There is a wide selection In Frocks and Coats, featuring the latest models and shades while the exclusive millinery is sure to appeal. Fabrics too, include many new weaves and effects covering a comprehensive range of delightful new colours. We cordially invite your inspection.—C. Smith, Ltd.—Advt.

4. W' " Uncle Sam is well iE the limelight to-day, and he manages to keep well within its focus. We hear that he holds the greatest quantity of the world’s gold, but can’t find much use for it. Then he closed his banks for a few days just by way of a change. And now we read that he is going off prohibition, being convinced it is a delusion and a snare. That, of course, is a very cheerful piece of intelligence for it means that while Uncle Sam may make his own beer and may feel satisfied with it, yet it’s “a guinea to a gooseberry” that he won’t be content with any whisky except Dewar’s Imperial, the same brand as sold in all leading hotels. Griffen and Smith, Ltd., Agents, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Westport.—Advt.

Gold was quoted at 120/11 per ounce, fine, in London, yesterday.

An accident occurred at the Cobden quarry, yesterday, Mr Thomas Maloney, 30, married, having one of his arms fractured, when a piece of timber ho was lifting fell on him, after he lost his footing. He was admitted to the Grey River Hospital, and underwent an operation, to-day.

There is a man in Otago who, in finding his own way out of the depression, seems also to have forestalled the Government by a year or two in its small farm scheme. Tiring of trying to make his business pay, he bought a few acres of scrub country, planted a fruit and vegetable garden, and sold the surplus; he runs a few cows and supplies the local blitter factory; a few fowls supply the house; and surplus eggs to help buy necessaries from the grocers. Recently he displayed his comfortably-clad feet to a visitor, asking, “How much did the boots cost?” “Threepence,” was the guess, and it wasn’t far out. He had made the last, raised the beast, tanned the hide, and all the material purchased was the hemp and eyelets.

The assigned stock of Aitken and Peters bought for fraction of wholesale cost, being sold at given away prices. Don’t let this opportunity pass. —Advt.

A Waitahuna West ratepayer had some very positive remarks to make to the Bruce County Council in a letter read at the meeting o£ that bodg this week: “The rates are due again,” he wrote. “I do not know who I am, wliat I am or wliere I am, but -what I do know is that the council thinks that. I am an inexhaustible source of money. The rates are altogether out of reason, and they must come down to the 1909 level again. The whole business is rotten. What is the use of paying chairmen £4O per year, when the inspector, if he is any good, should be able to decide what the roads require without the chairman making inspections? The council meets too often. The meetings could be curtailed to one every three months and, in fact, like our useless Parliament, might even be closed down altogether. Anyhow, those high rates must come down or they will not be paid.” The letter was received.

Our Millinery section advise they have purchased a large range of new season’s Trimmed Felts in browns, navys, and blacks, and are offering these at the special price 12/6. An attractive offer. —C. Smith, Ltd. Advt.

Rather a remarkable case of endurance and persistence on the part of an unemployed Auckland girl has come to notice. She borrowed ~£1 from her grandmother, an old-age pensioner, with whom she was living, and then started off on the road, carrying a small pack on her back, to see if she could reach Wellington, and then take boat to Nelson, where she thought she might get a job in the hop gardens. On the way down she received many lifts, and even got the pack carried by a goods train on one occasion. The settlers were very kind to her, and only on one occasion.had she to sleep out in .'the open all night. She succeeded in crossing to Nelson in a small boat, but found when she got there that work was not plentiful, but managed to earn a little money while there. After a while she decided to take to the road again. Tramping and getting lifts, she finally reached Dunedin, where, although amongst strangers, her pluck was rewarded and she got suitable work. Writing home last week, she said she would soon be able to repay the £1 she borrowed, and that, after all the tramping and trying experiences she has been through, she knows how to appreciate a good job.

Special price reductions for Eastertime. 25 per cent discount will be allowed for all cash purchases of the following lines bought between April 12 and 22 at B. Dixon’s Ltd., Tainui Street. For the children. All Dolls, Toys, Table Games, Fur Animals’, Children’s Hand Bags. For the adult. All China over 5/- in value. Sports Goods. Carrying Bags, Scissors, Knives and all Cutlery.—Advt.

Easter Specials. Easter Cards and. Post Cards with greetings 3d to 6d each. White Prayer and Hymn Books for Brides from 5/. to 10/6, Confetti 3d a. tube. Wedding Serviettes with Silver decorations 1/- a packet. Reference Book on Wedding Etiquette, “What to Do at Weddings” 1/6; /The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage” 2/-; “Wedding Etiquette 3/-; Horse Shoe Confetti 8d and 1/- a box, at B. Dixon’s, Ltd—Advt.

Carnival Goods for Easter. Coloured . Paper Caps and Hats 4d to 6d each. Bundles of Paper Streamers assorted colours Gd a. bundle. Masks 3d o 1/-. Carnival’Balloons 3d, 4d, Gd. Folly Dolls 1/-. Bon Bons 2/- to 7/6 a dozen. Carnival Confetti 3d a tube. Crepe Papers with Easter decorations 1/3 a bundle. Crepe Papers all colours and shades Gd and 9d a bundle. Paper Doyleys Gd, Bd, 9d a packet. Paper Serviettes 1/- to 1/6 a bundle. Fancy Fruit Doyleys l/o to 2/6. Gold and Silver Tinsel Threads 3d, 6d, Sd. Sparkling Jack Frost 9d. Procurable at B. Dixons, Tainui Street. —Advt.