NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17940, 20 May 1920, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Cabinet haa voted a gam of £5000 foe additions to tho Wanganui Sohool. Sugar is in -very short supply in Masterton, and 6onu of tho retailers hive run rig-Jit out. MUavin's Oat 'Malt Stout specially recommended for invalids. Nothing to equal it for etrength-proclucing. Quarts, pints, nips....

it has been suggested that members of tho Board of Tr«ua> should consist of men whose inoomes do not exceed £300. Tho Pahiatua County Council has decided to support tho erection of a toLlgate in tho Gorge. The Auckland branch of the- Returned Soldiers' Association is urging tho requisition of timber for tho building of soldiers' homes.

It is possiblo that the Wanganui Garrison Band will go to Ballarat next year to compete in the Australasian championship. Kor children's flacking cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 9d, 2s 5d.... Many towns in lingknd are busily engaged in bringng their street lighting systems up to date, as it was impossible to improve them during tho war. A Northern Wairoa sawmill has received an oiler from a Sydney lirm of £5 per hundred super foot for tho wiiolo of its kauri timber output. ' Tho housing trouble is partioulaxly acute at Balmereton North, where, it is stated, there are practically no dwellings to be rented or leased, and sales are effected only at extremely high values. Sugar-cane Bacon. —We have secured the services ol o specialist in bacon curing. Wβ bow claim to have the very best bacon procurable in the. dominion. Prices, as usual, the lowest.—Barton and Trengrove.... "Half the parents nowadays don't teach their children the things that they should be taught. They leave- tho moulding of their young lives and general well-being to the school teachers," was tho remark of Mr Wallace (chairman) at tho annual meeting of the Wellington Sohool Committees' Association recently. As instancing , the great shortage of labour, the chairman of tHe'Eltham County , Council' mentioned at a, meeting recently that four tenders had been called for work in connection with the county, but not a single tender had been received. • It. your hair tailing! Waters' Hair Restorer will stop it. 2s 6d at Waters' Pharin.ifv

The stick insect, which is uncommon in Southland (eays the Times), usually measure? from three to foup inches in length, but an exceptionally fine specimen recently discovered by Mr T. Darnels measured at least nine inches. In shapo and colour the insect bears such a close resemblance to a twig that only a very minute inspection would enable one to see through its disguise. The North Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board has resolved that the work of erecting an open-air home for children at Cashmere Hills bo gone on with, aa soon as opportunity offers. The sum in hand, with the subsidy, for this purpose, amounts to more than £6000.

Fit' for the Prince.—lß,ooolb smallgoods weekly speaks for Itself. Country stores: We can supply you with smallgoods of the highest grade at reduced rates. —Barton and Trengrove, loading butchers.... The eroction of a new grandstand at the Hutt racecourse was sug-geeted recently (says the Wellington by a member of the carpenters' deputation to Mr Massey oa one of the projects which might well be held over for a year or two till the house shortage had been overtaken "There appears to be a chance," replied Mr' Massey, with a smile, "of sportsmen having to do withoul races for a year or two." "There appears to bo a somewhat pop* lar, though quite erroneous, impression among the general public that the medaJ* (or modal ribands-) of deceased soldiiera may be worn by their next-of-kin," states an la» structioa issued* by General Headquartera. "No authority for such a practice exists. Use Waters' Ohap-Lotion for those rough hands; Is 4£d posted.—Waters' Pharmacy.... After a great hunt along the shores of the Firth of Thames, Detective Gourley and an Auckland Customs official suoceedecL recently in arresting a Tongan who had smuggled himself into New Zealand without passing the alien test. The man was brought before the Auckland Police Court and was order*! to be returned to his island home.

For whisky, brandy, rum, gin, port, sherry, etc., and ales and etoute, all of finest quality, try Wm. Crossan, "Waterloo," Caversham.... "This lady requires no introduction, your Worship," said Senior Sergeant Willis when a woman was charged at the Wellington S.M. Court with .drunkenness. "Thia is her 178 th appearance in this court." The prisoner, in extenuation of the offence, said that she had not yet got over the arrival of the Prince in town. Why go on suffering from "Nerves?" Gpt Marshall's Fospherine tordayl... It has been decided that in future 25 per cent, of the proceeds of the sale of articles made in occupational and vocational workshops must be paid to _ pubho account, whero materials are supplied by the Government, in order to cover the approximate cost thereof. The instruction does not apply in cases where materials have been purchased out of Red Cross Funds. Separators, horse covers, boots, crockeTT, cutlery; in fact, merchandise of every description is what you can get at Riach and M'Lennan's, of Anzao (square. These people havo mado such a name for themselves in tho Dunodin commercial world that they are now recognised as one of the first storee of the city.... A wedding party assembled m a Carterton church recently, but had to depart without any ceremony being performed, owing to the non-arrival of the bridegroom, who sent a telegram from Wellington announcing the fact that he had met with an accident and could not atwnd. Have you secured your winter of woollea underwear? If not, don t delay. Wo havo a full range, and pricee are still moderate; but they will be scarce and dearer later on.-A. F. Cheyne and Co., Local'officers of the Poet and Telegraph Department ate of opinion (states the Manawatu Times) that the separation of control of the mechanical and administrative branches, by the appointment of two controlling officers at £1150 each instead of one at £1900, would result in handicapping unfairly the lower branches of the scirvr.ee by grading them down from the lower salary instead of from £1500. A serious drop in wool atfects us all, but; how does this affect you? For a limited time we undertake to supply you with a pair of all-wool colonial knitted stockings in shades of grey, heather, and black at the extremely low price of 3s lid. These are warm, good dyes, and .just what you need for winter. Just try one pair, and if you find that we have exaggerated their worth wnd them back, and we will cladly refund you all expenses.—Address: The Liberty, Princes street South.... A well-known local farmer (saye the Otautau Standard) with a humorous turn, took an effective method of eecunng a. couple of light-fingered gentry recently. By the merest chance he overheard a conversation behind his garden fence, which led him to believe- that there was a bkehhood of some of his chaff being lifted without payment. Waiting till the pair were on their way to his stable, he procured hia double-barrelled shotgun and located himself at the corner of the shed commanding the door. v When tho two appeared, each carrying a bag of grain, ho silently got up behind and blazed both barrels m the air. The result wae spectacular. Both bags were dropped) Mid record time was made in reaching the nearest fence. Along tho top of the fence ran a barbed wire, and thereon one of tho .parties left tho best part of a good suit The solid demand for "Bourbon coffee riiows the public's appreciation of a good article If unobtainable from your grocer, send direct to the manufacturers, JJurjos, Ootftcon, Dunodin.... . Good progress is bang made by the committee of the Christehnrcli High School Old Boye' Association in colkctang funds to erece a, memorial to tho memory of the 150 old boys of tho school who fell in tho groat war A mm of £1000 has been collected towards tho £2500 required to erect an arch, and gateway at tho entrance to tho, now sohool which is about to be built at Biccaron. .