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Northern Advocate, 27 September 1919, Page 4

Recently it was reported in England that an exporter who desired permission to send a pedigree colt to South Africa was askd by the War Trade Department whether the pedigree colt was a Shorthorn steer. In the House of Commons Sir A. Geddes admitted the tale was true. The War Trade Department, he added gravely, secured the expert advice of the Board of Agriculture on the matter. (Laughter).

With the object of encouraging citizens to take a greater interest in their gardens and street frontages, the Amenities and Town-planning Society of Dunedin has (reports an exchange) arranged for a series of six competiions for prizes, and the time for preparing gardens for these has now arrived. The competitions are expected to induce healthy rivalry in the production of tidy, attractive, and picturesque surroundings to homos, which must, of course, have the broader general effect of adding greatly to the atractiveness of the whole city. Those taking part, therefore, do much more than merely confer a benefit on themselves. The competitions have been so arranged that people with quite small front gardons as well as those with larger and more expensive plots have provision made for them.

Says the Christclmrch "Sun": Christchuro]_.i.s progressing. It has now at loast one claim'to beiug in advance of any other cityUn tho whole of Australasia. Running orj. its streets now is an elc.tric taxi cab, tlie first of its kind in cither the Commonwealth or the Dominion. For absolutely comfortable travelling by taxi—for the comfort and 'pleasure that gives.the passenger an atmosphere of real luxuriousness—there is nothing to oqual the electric car. It runs without nqisc or vibration —so smoothly that it'gives tho very poetry of motion —and without sudden jerks of starting or stopping, and it does not offond the nostrils with the fumes of petrol. There is no more pleasing way of getting about the city and its environs than by the electric taxi now on the streets, for, apart from the fact that it is such a smoothly-running, odourless vehicle, it is a particularly comfortable car, of a type which is in close approach to tho' limousine.