News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 14 January 1941, Page 4

News Of The Day

Hunt for Octopii While searching for sea eggs under the rocks at Whakatane a party of Maori boys discovered a number of octopii. The octopii were driven out of their lairs with long sticks, and six of them were dragged up on to the beach and killed.

Remanded to Kaikohe. Charged that at Taheke he had received the sum of £2, knowing it to have been stolen, Tora Solomon, 27, a Maori labourer, appeared at the Whangarei Court this morning. Detective J. B. Finlay asked for a remand to Kaikohe on Thursday. He said that further serious charges were pending. The remand was granted by the magistrate (Mr Ferner).

Children for Health Camp. By the express today, 50 children left from Northland for the Health Camp at Port Waikato. As at present the main health camp at Auckland is not available for use for the children, the Port Waikato Camp has to be used*and there there is only limited accommodation. This means that the children who left today will be the only children going this year from Northland. They came from the Hokianga, Bay of Islands, Whangarei and Dargaville districts.

American Telephones. Seventeen million telephones—about half of the world’s total—are controlled by the Bell organisation in the United States, and, though New Zealand’s share of the world total is less than .6 per cent., a New Zealand telephone engineer, Mr Charles S. Plank, of Wellington, who spent two years in the States under a grant from the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship, was given every facility,by the Bell organisation,, with which he worked, being treated as if he represented an organisation of comparable size. The Bell organisation had a staff of about 350,000, Mr. Plank said. Its laboratory workers numbered 4600, of whom 2000 were world-renowned engineers, physicists and chemists. They had reached an advanced stage of technical development and efficiency. As an instance Mr. Plank quoted the fact that when he once put through a long-distance call from New York to San Francisco over a 3200-mile land line, the time between his speaking to the operator in New York and his speaking to the wanted person in San Francisco was 31 seconds. (

“Deceptive” Glasses. When does a “deceptive” beer glass not deceive? Some solution of the problem may be derived from a trade explanation of the term. A circular issued by a firm dealing in glasses for the Sydney licensed bar trade stated: “To assist you to order hotelware for the Christmas season by mail or! ’phone, we are enclosing our latest illustrated hotelware booklet. For ex-1 tra profit we recommend the use of the! 6oz deceptive larger glasses made ini a 7oz mould at 7/- per dozen, and 16! or 17oz plain deceptive schooners at! 15/6 a dozen.” The president of the United Licensed Victuallers’ Associ-! ation, Mr N. H. Connolly, following* the receipt of this circular, went to; headquarters for an explanation. He! was informed: “Such glasses are used i in saloon and lounge trade and by many j milk bars and refreshment shops. ‘De-1 Ceptive glass’ is a term well known toi the trade. It does not mean that the| customer loses anything in the mea-f sure supplied; but many like to take I their drinks from what appear to bef larger glasses/’ \

Repairs to Hospital Board’s Cottage. Repairs, costing £ 100, are to be carried out by the Whangarei Hospital Board to the cottage, owned by the board, at Waipu. The work involved mainly consists of the installation of a drainage and sewerage system.

Bowler Pall-bearers. When the body of Mr T. H. Nobes, who had been a keen member of the Whangarei Bowling Club, was interred at Maunu Cemetery yesterday four members of the club acted as pall-bearers. They were Messrs T. Brewis, J. Cleverley, O. Englund, and F. Cutforth.

Kitten in Traffic. Perfect calmness in traffic is the thought that should be instilled in the very young. The quality was seen this morning in a small black kitten, not more than a'couple of months old. It was crossing Rust Avenue .at the Bank Street junction. A motor van had pulled up to allow other traffic to pass. Calmly the kitten walked between the wheels and unhurriedly reached the opposite footpath.

His War Effort.

Feeling that he was obliged to give his services because of a shortage of skilled men, a Mosgiel resident of over 70 years went to the Middlemarch district recently to assist in shearing. In spite of his age and the fact that he used hand shears, he managed to shear 100 sheep a day fairly steadily. The work was made harder, he said, because the season had made the wool very dry, with little yolk. It was heavy shearing, but he was satisfied that he had made his contribution to the war effort.

Wen a Draught Horse. A ticket-holder in many patriotic raffles, Mr J. O. S. Miller, Timaru, had a surprise when he was advised by the Canterbury Patriotic Committee that he had won a draught horse, the prize in a raffle conducted at Cheviot. In a letter to the committee, he said that he had travelled a good deal about the South Island since the war, and had arrived home with a pocketful of tickets in raffles of all descriptions for patriotic purposes, but the draught horse was the first prize he had ever won. He had at first considered retaining the horse, but had since instructed agents iri Cheviot to sell it.

Small incomes enjoin the necessity of practising economy but whether your income be large or small Henry Wilson’s famous low prices will make it go further. Don’t miss the big New Year bargains at Wilson’s and aftermath of a record year’s trading. W. 9