NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 181, 3 August 1938, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Notice to Jurors. Jurors -who were summoned to appear at . the Supremo Court, Palmerston North, on Thursday, August 4, are notified that they are discharged from attendance. Jurors summoned for Monday, Bth, at 10 a.m., Trill attend in accordance with their summonses. Invercargill's New Post Ofllce.

Before a big crowd yesterday afternoon the Postmaster-General (Hon. F. Jones) laid the foundation stone of Invercargill’s new chief post office. The Minister discussed the development of postal facilities in Southland. This de velopment, he said, had been as rapid as the development of the province.— Press Assn.

Mantles of Greatness. “The Prime Minister and his associates have been claiming that they are clothed in the mantle of Ballauee and Seddon,” said the lit. Hon. J. G. Coates, in an address at Mount Albert recently. “It would be interesting to have the record of what some of these gentlemen used to say about Seddon, those who now say they wear hh mantle. ’ ’ Reunion on a Ship.

Two Aberdeen school chums of moro than 25 years ago enjoyed a pleasant reunion in Auckland on the arrival from England of the motor-ship Salamaua. One was the master of the ship, Captain Andrew Smith, and his friend was Mr. Gordon Ritchie, who now liv'es in Auckland. Their last meeting was iu their home town during the war, and when tho Salamaua first visited Auckland last year a reunion was thwarted on account of Mr. Ritchie’s absence in Australia. Term of Wide Significance.

“What do you mean when you say you had a drink!” asked Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in tho Auckland Police Court when a man, who appeared in answer to charges of assaulting another man and of using obscene language, was giving evidence on his own behalf. The magistrate observed that the expression used by accused was a term possible of wide significance, and his suggestion was confirmed when accused oxplaiucd ho had had between 12 and 14 drinks during tho day. Fresh Bread Preferred.

“I am. becoming more and more certain that people like fresh bread,” said a witness iu tho bakers and pastrycooks’ dispute in the Court of Arbitration at Wellington, in giving evidence concerning the need for early starting in tho industry. Mr Justice O’Regan: I have read in the health columns of the newspapers that stalo bread is more beneficial. Witness: My experience, at any rate, is that people like fresh bread. If I don’t get my orders delivered early I lose business.

Retailers’ Difficulties. As an illustration of what the retailers were up against a member read to the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce at its meeting last evening a let ter received by his firm from the Court of Review, stating that a debt of £4B had been adjusted to £lO to be paid in four equal instalments, the first of which would be duo on September 1, 1939. Another instanced a case where only 3s in tho pound was being receive ed, while a third mentioned that a man who was receiving similar assistance arrived in a motor-car to pay what was due.

Sales Tax Policy. The sales tax was mentioned by Mr. E. H. Andrews and commented on by the Prime Minister at a civic reception to him in Christchurch. “I have heard ihem talking about the sales tax for the last fortnight,” said Mr. Savage. “The very people who put the tax into operation blame the Government for leaving it there. If the Government puts into operation the national superannuation scheme, I won’t complain if others leave it on tho Statute Book. And if you give anybody tho opportunity of taking it off, it will be your funeral, not mine.”

Shy Doctors. A hope that the shyness of medical men in addressing tho general public would bo gradually overcome was expressed by Mr. Frank Maeky, chairman of the Auckland branch of the British Medical Association, at a lecture at —.e Auckland University. Doctors, said Mr. Macky, were in the habit of speaking only when spoken to, keeping modestly in the background and not obtruding their opinions. He hoped that this tendency would cease by degrees, and he was suro that some members of the profession, if they could be persuaded, would be able to impart really valuable information.