Oranges Too Expensive

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 28 March 1938, Page 6

Oranges Too Expensive

1 ‘ Too dear altogether.” was the comment of a Christchurch retailer, when ’ | she pointed out that Jamaican oranges | ers were obliged to pay £2 a case for, | these oranges. "They are not in very I good order either.” she added. Go the Whole \\ ay ' ll we continue making appeals to ! the Government for assistance, we j should turn round and ask them to 1 farm our properties.” observed Mr M. Fleming. ;*t a meeting of the North : Canterbury executive of the Farmers' Apples—and Apples Townspeople whose knowledge of dessert apples is limited to such well- : known varieties of Cox's Orange Pipi pin. Delicious. Dougherty, and Rome j Beauty, can have no idea of the num- ; ; her of varieties which apparently arc j being grown in New Zealand. The fruit j grading and inspection regulations is- j | sued apply specifically to forty-seven . I varieties, including Edward Lippiatt, i Frimlev Beauty. Glengyle Red, Irish j Peach. McLiver's Winesap. Mr Glad- | stone. Salome . Shoreland Queen and Willie Sharp, and also cover "other dessert varieties” which are not enumlerated. Presbyterian Centenary i The first meeting to discuss the cenI tenary thanksgiving scheme under the ! auspices of the Presbyterian Church of ! New Zealand will be held to-night in i Auckland at St. David’s Church, when i the Molerator. the Rev. R. N. Alley, will | preside. The celebrations will be held j in 1940 and will commemorate the first | Presbyterian service held in New Zea- ; land, conducted under the karaka trees on Pctone Beach, on 26t.h February, j 1840 (states the "N.Z. Herald"). A sug--1 gestion was made to the General Asj sembly of 1936 that one of the methods ; by which the centenary of the Church . in Dominion might be celebrated was the raising of £250.000 for the financing of various already existing funds and the inauguration, of others for the extension of the Church’s work. The ! proposal of giving consideration to the | matter came in the first instance from ! the Auckland Presbytery and the Auck- | land committee under Mr S. J. Harbutt j has been asked to carry the scheme i through. The objective now is the I raising of a fund of £300.000 to be ] known as the Presbyterian centenary i thanksgiving fund. The fund will be ! used as follows:—£200.000 less certain j sums for the liquidation of congregai tional debt; £25.000 for work in the | home. Maori and foreign fields; £25,000 1 to be funded and the income to be used ! tor the augmentation of ministers’ and i home missionaries’ stipends; £25.000 for the beneficiary fund; £25,000 for sites ! and buildings. Supplies of Slack Coal Low Stocks of certain classes of coal, more especially of slack, are very low in Auckland as a result of the stoppage of deliveries from the idle mines at Huntly (says Saturday's Auckland "Heraid”). Some industries which are users of slack are faced with the prospect of having to suspend operations in the near future because of the dwindling of supplies. Tattersfield, Limited, was compelled on Friday morning to close its fellmongery department and pay off hands because it had insufficient slack coal to carry on. The necessity by Tattersfield, Limited, to close its fellmongery section comes at a particularly inopportune period, for it was busily engaged in scouring wool for Continental buyers. Even if the rnen at the mines resume work shortly, it will probably be several days after that before supplies arrive in sufficient quantity for the department to reopen. Industries which are coal users were, generally speaking, in a difficult position regarding supplies when work ceased at the mines, reserves having fallen belcvv normal because deliveries had been irregular as a result of the shortage of ’ailway trucks. As the cutting oft of supplies from the mines through the deadlock has taken place at a time when very little household coal is used, retailers’ stocks are sufficient to last for a considerable period. Unusual Hobby While travelling round the world. | Mrs R. B. Moore, of Bolivar, New \ ork, has made it her business to collect dolls for her daughter, who is school-teaching in America. “We have had to buy a special trunk for the dolls l have bought so far on this trip.” said Mrs Moore, when speaking to a “Daily Mail” representative at Napier. From a parcel among her luggage, Mrs Moore produced the New Zealand recruit to this novel collection of dolls a Maori wahine with a piccaninny on her back. Mrs Moore wanted assurance that the doll was really Maori. “I | have tried to collect dolls showing naj live types in every country I have visitI ed *” she saic *. “My daughter has made j a special display of them in her school j so that the children can gain from them I a very good idea of what the native j race s in other parts of the world are ; like.” Praise for the young women of | New Zealand was voiced by Mrs Moore They are good looking and healthy.” : she said, “and are easily keeping pa9e ! with the women of the other .side of i the world in dress and education. The New Zealanders I have met are all j charming and kindly people.” I “What's up. Bill?” asked the “fare” of f j J IIS . °ld pal. the bus driver, “you look ! ’s if you'd pawned your luck and lost the ticket. Ain't ad a smoke fer a blanky week. George.” said the bus driver gloomily, “and doin’ wifout me pipe don't suit me constitooshun. The ! missus, she sez. spending money on ; Dacca is just chucking it away.' She ; don’t smoke ’erse'lf. That’s why." " Ave a smoke along o’ me.” suggested j George genially, producing a tin. The bus driver’s eyes glistened "My word!” he said, “me fav’rite brand! Cut Plug j No. 10. Carn’t resist that. George!” He filled up. lit up. and in ten minutes was a different man. “Ah!” he said at last. "I chucked me Cut Plug No. 10 to please I the missus. Now I'm taking it on again i to please mcself—and this time it’s for keeps!” Absence makes the heart grow fonder, so does abstinence, sometimes, especially if it’s abstinence from “toast- 1 eri" —whether you smoke Cut Plug No i l i (Bullshead). Cavendish. Navy Cut , No. 3 'Bulldog). Riverhead Gold or Desert Gold * '