Mt. Benger Mail WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9, 1938. Be Just and Fear Not. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mt Benger Mail, 9 February 1938, Page 3

Mt. Benger Mail WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9, 1938. Be Just and Fear Not. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr J. R. Benson, 8.D.5., dental surgeon, advises that he will visit Roxburgh on Thursday, Feb. 1/, and may be consulted at the Commercial Hotel, Roxburgh during the hours of 10 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. A sitting of the S.M. Court will be held in Roxburgh on Tuesday, 15th February. Mr F. L. McFarlane, postmaster, Lawrence, reports that the comparative rainfalls for the month of December were:—Lawrence, 173 points on 14 days; Raes Junction, 144 points on 13 days; Roxburgh, 224 points on 13 days; Tapanui, 240 points on 14 days; Balclutha, 204 points on 12 days. The sale of Health Stamps will be discontinued within the course of a few days. Those who have not already assisted this valuable cause and desire to do so may still assist by the purchase of a supply of these stamps from the Post Office. A smart bit of county contract work is recorded from the Heriot district where Messrs Kitching and Finlayson are said to have carted and spread 800 cubic yards of gravel over a mile length of road in 2£ days. MANY people are of the opinion that glasses will detract from their appearance. This need not be so as many elegant types of frames and mountings are now available at Hugh & G. K. Neill. Limited, Consulting Opticians, 93 George Street, Dunedin. 5 A Wellington message states that Hon. D. G. Sullivan has advised the New Zealand Farmers’ Union executive of his decision that local bodies shall be exempt from the regulations fixing the price of motor spirits. He proposes to introduce an amendment at an early date to provide for areas covered by the price-fixing regulations. Necessity is said to be the mother of invention (remarks “Mercutio,” in the New Zealand Herald). The latest is the story of the motorist at Devonport (Auckland) who attempted to invent a suitable substitute for water when his radiator supply became exhausted in a queue of motor cars awaiting the arrival of a vehicular ferry boat for Auckland. He threw caution .to the winds, and poured the contents of a bottle of ale into the radiator. The result was an unhappy one. The ale commenced to boil, the presence of hops to make itself abundantly apparent, and the inventive motorist to feel like the man who dropped the collection plate in church. One fellowmotorist was unkind enough' to suspect the presence of a Devonport brewery. The following interesting paragraph appeareed in Monday’s O.D. Times under the heading of 71 Years Ago:—The “Tuapeka Press” says:—“ The cement hills at Wetherstones are proved to be payable; indeed, there is every reason to believe they are as rich as the famous Blue Spur at Gabriels, the cement being identical in composition, and, in fact, a continuation of the same stratum. Here is a field for labor and capital which will take many years to exhaust, and we could point out, did space permit, many more equally promising enterprises in this district, which may require only a moderate outlay and perseverance to develop them, to the great benefit of the promoters, the settlement of the district, and the enhancement in no slight degree of the general prosperity of the Province. ’ ’ In connection with this many old resideents aver that the auriferous resources of our district—particularly Wetherstones and Gabriels Gully (says the Tuapeka Times) —have not been exhausted; that in short under up-to-date methods of mining the district would produce handsome returns giving at the same time employment for many men.