NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19134, 31 March 1924, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Reserves Committee of the Eketahuna Borough Council lias planted 10,000 gam trees in borough reserves during the last year. Carpets and linoleums at readjustment prices at Scoullar and Chisholm (Limited)... It is estimated that about 4000 people have loft or will leave New r Zealand to visit the British Empire Exhibition. If they spend an average of £SOO cadi this means the transfer of £2,000,000 from the dominion to London.

For quickest and best remits leave films at Waters’ Pharmacy, under Savoy....

Is Rugby a religion? Judging by an event which occurred at a town in the bush the other day it is (says the Wnirarapa Ago), for an important municipal function was postponed for half an hour in order not to dash with a football match which was being played in an adjacent paddock.

“Is it not a fad; that when strange cattle are brought on to (he land they will invariably damage the fences,?” asked counsel of a witness in a civil case at the Palmerston North Court (reports the local Times). “It all depends on the feed on tlie land they occupy.” was the quick reply. Tlie Mayor of Napier said the other day (reports an exchange) that it was characteristic, of the residents of Napier that if a subscription to send footballers away or some other such purpose was needed, the money soon came forward, but in the case of helping flood sufferers there was not such a ready response. Chapped hands? Use Waters’ Chap Lotion.—Waters’ Pharmacy, under Savoy...,

Mosgiel, Mosgiel, Mosgiel: Have you inspected tho comprehensive stock at S. .S. Harvey’s jewellery, etc., establishment?.. There are indications (says the Auckland Star) that there will be a big number of bankruptcy petitions filed this year. At the Auckland' offices no fewer than 18 people have filed during the present month. Meetings of creditors havo been arranged for every day t*ds week. _ _ You can visit Crossan’s trom town—if armed with a 14-rftle tram ticket ■ seven times! Costs only one shilling!.. A writer to tho Fox ton paper (the Herald) complains that the caphared German guns allotted to that town otnJ not treated with proper respect. At present they are lying in the borough council’s yards ana are ’“being used to train pumpkins oyer.’ Special arrangements for fuvnishing at Scoullar and Chisholm (Limited)... ‘T do not think our young men ought to go out of New Zealand, because I think there are as good openings for them in tho dominion as anywhere else,,’’ declared the Prime Minister in one of his speeches in his electorate (reports the Auckland Star). He took comfort from the fact that all the New Zealanders whom ho met at Homo' or in Canada told him they wore coming back.

Housewives appreciate the fact that can procure cooked pork dainties this hot weather. Saves fire lighting and cooking. Our famous sugar-cured bacon is tho beat procurable.—Barton and Trengrovo, pork department, Manse street, Dunedin. ’Phone 2163...

“R.I.P. Gone but not forgotten by their unfortunate customers who done their collars in.” Scrawled in a largo uncertain hand, this (states an exchange) was tho legend which was stuck: on the locked door of an Auckland shop which, till recently, had been occupied by two Chinese laundrymen.

Barton and Trengrovo supply tho primest quality meat and smallgooda procurable at the lowest price. Joints cut to suit all purees and fancies. Give us a nng, or drop us a card, if unable to call. 'Phones 2163 and 3230.—Manse street, Dunedin...

The demand for houses to let in Ashburton is stated to be unusually heavy; in fact, during the last fortnight there have been relatively more inquiries than at any time since the boom. The demand cannot by any means bo satisfied, as houses to let are almost unprocurable in tho town. Just take time to consider how advisable it is to shop in Mosgiel. We havo all tho newest goods, and the prices are the lowest. See the display for infants in our showroom. These goods will surprise you.—A. P. Cheyno and C 0...

A fat Maori woman at Makirikiri sports found the high jump a most fascinating thing to watch. She marvelled at the manner in which the jumpers defeated the laws of gravitation, and when the winning leap was mad© she sprang to her feet and shouted : “Hey ! --Hey ! Easy 1 to bird 1” The well-known hostel, Prince of Wales’s Hotel, Dunedin. AH loest brands of liqnoe stocked; moderate tariff. Chsa Hinchcliff. proprietor....

Few people realise the enormous power required to drive a vessel like the battle cruiser Hood through the water at her lull speed of 31 knots. Her engines develop 150,000 horse-power, and, if she were tied up alongside New Zealand, she could provide energy nearly equal to the three hydroelectric schemes considered necessary for the North Island—Mangahao (24,000 h.p,) t Waikaremoana (40,000 h.p.), and • Arapuni (96,000 h.p.)—a total of 150,000 h.p. Public appreciation of quality is shown by the demand for “ Bourbon ” coffee. Breakfast is made an attractive meal when “Bourbon 1 ’ graces the table. All grocers... Ladies of Milton. They’re correct, these new velours for coats and costumes now showing. 54in, 14s 6d.—“ Big Store.”... “That this conference affirms that the first duty, of a Labour Government on taking office shall be to strike a capital levy to finance legislation providing for insurance against unemployment and sickness.’’ This remit from the Christchurch Printing Trades is to Ire discussed at the annual conference of the Labour Party at Wellington. The Napier and Roskill branches propose that the advisability of affirming the principle of the capital levy be considered. A local carrier who owns a 30cwt Vulcan Truck states that for economical transport it has no equal. Two tins of petrol for a week’s work of eight hours each day ta the regular petrol consumption... “It will bo a good thing for Labour if its leader could be persuaded to study the principles of industry which have been practised by Mr Henry Ford with such remarkable success that he is now able to produce the cheapest article of its kind in the world, pay the highest wages, and get the biggest rate of production, all this be it noted accompanied by the gradual elimination and the now practical abolition, of overtime in his shops." The above is an extract from the annual report of the Wanganui Employers’ Association. “ Daring the wild orgy of speculation and extravagance after the war, due to the inflation of the currency, local bodies as well as private individuals got into the tide of credit, and the Government had to check them," remarked Mr G. R. Sykes, M.P., at a municipal function in Eketarma recently. “ Whether they got value for their money is for them to determine, but I wish we could apply the principle to all the good people of the dominion; we would be fax better off,” be concluded. Oculists’ prescriptions should be entrusted only to specialists,—Peter G. Dick, D.8.0.A., F. 1.0. (London), specialises in oculists’ prescriptions. 490 Moray place, Dunedin....

Tho Education Department is not in a. position to pay a subsidy for tlie purchase of gramophones for school nee. The Director of Education wrote to the Canterbury Education Board: ' With reference to your memorandum regarding the introduction of gramophones into the schools in order that some attempt may be made to teach musical appreciation, I have to inform you’ that the department is in full sympathy with the project but regrets that other matters of greater urgency prevent in the meantime such liberal _ support being accorded as might »be desired.” Thirty years’ study of the borer was claimed by a witness in an Auckland Supreme Court action recently. He stated that in the spring the borer reached. the beetle stage. It was a tiny grey beetle, and it flew, but not to any great extent. Tho beetle laid the eggs, and in a badly infected house he had known the little beetles to be swept down, almost, by pints. The grub would often attack a board, and leave it, while the adjoining board might be found to be riddled by the pest. The grub would find a soft place before starting its depredations. Ohanism (849). —Sweet is the scone where gonial friendship plavs (0. W. Holmes). Get it from the Oban Hotel. No order is tool 5ma11.... A number of Marinin farmers (states the Wanganui Chronicle) had a bad experience with the recent gale. Some beautiful hiccrne paddocks were completely ruined, temporarily by the salt spray. In one paddock where the lucerne stood about 3ft high every leaf was shrivelled off. and now notning but a forest of stalks remains. The lucerne will come again, but in the meantime a vast quantity of good fodder has been destroyed. Carrots likewise suffered to the extent of the foliage being withered, but the roots are not injured. The grass also suffered. and carries so much salt that it is proving injurious to tho cows. As the result of tho recent flood (states the Tribune) numbers of dead sheep were found piled up against tho fences, either drowned or suffocated by (he pack of other bodies above them, and prompt measures were' taken to skin tho carcases. Several butchers were engaged at the work and, in a few instance?. a slight movement indicated that there was a spark of life yet left in sheep apparently lifeless. In such cases the sheep were chafed and wanned, set on. their feet and nuslied along until the motion set up ciroufation, when the animals quickly recovered and made off briskly on their own

account. One night recently (states the Hawke a Buy Herald) some of the sheep which had been taken to the show ground at Hastings for the purpose of the sheep clog trials at the winter show wore worrioc! to death, an examination of the carcases showing thai each animal had been severely bitten about the neck and left shoulder. Fourteen of the sheep were killed and three others so badly injured that they hud to he destroyed. The worrying was evidently the work of a dog, and so a watch was kept the following night, when a dog was found among the sheep' and was' instantly shot. Patches of l.lood on the dog’s hair established his guilt. Some folk 'have very funny notions. They’re fond of nostrums, nills, and potions. But it your nerves are badly ehakin’ Try a course of Hitchon’s bacon. "And so say all of us.”..