NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20930, 21 January 1930, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Speaking at the Grocers’ Conference in Christchurch last week, a delegate said it was true that grocers were confronted with many difficult problems to-day. ino high cost of living was not the worst problem—the cost of high living was worse than that. • , ■ Applications for harvesting work are still being made at the Ashburton lahou. agencies, but this class of work will be out of the question in most parts of the county for some little time owing to the recent flood in the Ashburton and Hinds Rivers and the heavy rams experienced throughout the country (says the Ashburton Guardian). A few harvesters, unable to find positions, are willing t? take anywork that is offering, while some are now Peeking team work. / Conn’s antiseptic mouth wash, recommended by leading dentists; price 3s and ss.—Only from Conn’s Pharmacy, Ltd., High street, Dunedin... ' ■ -There has. been an extraordinary run of miniature fish in the Auckland harbour which are regarded as at least first or second cousins to whitebait and make tasty meals when fried in batter, borne of Auckland’s small boys have been raping a fine harvest with hand nets. due tiny fish are in keen demand, and the equivalent of 18s for .a benzine tin full has been paid by fish dealers. _ The elderly proprietress of a Sydenham sweet shop left two empty lemonade bottles on a side counter of, the store early the other day. A little later a small,boy came in with two bottles and collected his twopence refund. The boy went out, and the woman went to put the bottles away. It was then she realised that she had bought back her own two bottles, which the boy had taken from the side counter. _ , _ , , Grandism (922): Grand Hotel wines and spirits are as distinct from all others as the separate notes of a song... ' A rarity in the shape of a pure white deer has been seen several times lately on the Mason’s Bay road (states the Stewart Island correspondent of the Southland News. This freak does mot often occur, and several fruitless Shots have been fired at the animal by sportsmen keen to secure this curiosity. It is pure white, with apparently no ttface of red, though’ it is of the red deer variety. About 100 lambs, which had just been shorn on a farm at Tokoranpi recently, died from the effects of a bitterly cold southerly ‘ gale (states a report from Hunterville).. N ' The best sports coats value in Dunedin this. year, is at “Ascot.” corner Princes and . Rattray streets. They have 250 coats in single and double-breasted to pick from; prices from 17s 6d... , During December, the total number of consumers in the South Canterbury Power Board district was raised to 3228, the number of new consumers connected in December being 15. One probable sequel to the recent heavy i*ain : will be the loss of a portion, of the grass-seed yield from crops which had been “ stocked ” in the paddocks during the last week or two (says the Gisborne Times)-, , Turning, in order to dry the grass again, will be necessary dud this process always means a certain percentage of extra loss. Considerable interest continues to be manifested in Poverty Bay ryegrass, and one farmer had visits from three agents in the course of a day or so, all of whom took away samples of his seed. Owing to enormous demand for Barton s famous sugar-cured .Bacon, more, and yet more Pigs are wanted to meet it; highest current prices.—Bartons, bacon curers. Manse street, Dunedin... Although a most necessary structure, the new reservoir on'Mount Edeu strikes the eve rather painfully (says the Auckland Star). The old one was hidden in a slight dip on the plateau where it was excavated, but the new one covers more ground and a great slab of bare concrete wall looms up on the hillside j’ust across the road from the tea kiosk. If it cannot be hidden by banking up earth, people who like the mountain would suggest that creepers be planted to mask the disfigurement. ' , . . , Appreciation of the work being carried out in the secondary departments of district high schools was expressed when inspection reports of the departments were considered at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board the other day. Mr B. C. Banks said that the standard was almost as high as that in fully-equipped secondary schools. , - Oil baize for covering kitchen tables, a new selection now to hand; very low prices. Send for samples to Grays Big Store. Milton, where the big values are... A strange adventure of a two-year-old girl in Bethnal Green is engaging the attention of Scotland Yard detectives. About mid-day a young woman of about 25 asked a man named John Underwood, in Chilton street, if he would take care of the child, which was in a perambulator. She handed him 4s and went away. Underwood remained in charge of the baby until 3 o’clock, and, as the woman did* not return, he informed the police. They took the child to a Bethnal Green institution. The baby rvas claimed later by its mother, Mrs Cristine Collins, of Columbia road, Bethnal Green, who said that she had sent a servant out with the child and that she had not returned. One of the many queer' things that happen.while London is fast asleep! Four young undergraduates left a Strand restaurant at 2 a.m. and made the amazing discovery that road-breakers were busv in the vicinity. Forsaking their car,' they joined the “vandals,” and with a pick-axe, a shovel, a sledge hammer, and a wheel-barrow, they did their worst, the hammer-striker being particularly “ offensive,” urged on, as he was, by the applause of an interested crowd. In the end, after a few “ false starts,” he nearly drove _ the wedge into the concrete out of sight, and having satisfied his inclinations, ho and his friends got into their car and drove off.

A Court dress made recently by a wellknown London dressmaker was of satin and taffeta, on which was sprayed £do worth of cold, to make it shine like cc.it-cf-mnil.

Under the Salvation Army’, farm, aet- ' tlement immigration scheme \ v from 1C to 1° left’for the Salthe Tamm rGcc n tly, and ieiY« nu ration Army tivinung farm at After some time tiieic l v ey rt __ rri 1Q under the ■scheme is 7J4. 1( j re . A Timaru fisherman told a tiera fis[ . porter that very few big rd t ; V„d Ld been made recently Gournaid m red cod are exceptionally seoice. groper and flat fish were in nlv In consequence of the MJ 'supply, prices were above norma . tteVcal fishing boats went out last ncsday. It was expected that. u weather cleared, there would be good catches, especially in B r ?P® 1, . g co t. “ Manufactured in Incbinuan, in land! the India Super Tyres. although- ne * to New Zealand motorists, hate 3 established and enviabie repntation am g 4fesais*>VAr»« v Pearce at a meeting o£ the Wanganui Automobile f e by ferring to the present re e u * a “. o ? J“ „ a y nection with the amendment of the motor regulations. . , t; itv n t the 0 o “s.r s xs, sen? to 1 '!? ran gem cut! for the.forthcoming national championships Grey River • ~t f ae3 work was dation was marked out, woi also commenced on . tho , h c “ b fl fn i en gth of latter will run under the full ieng “ he recenl seating tensions, and ' Will assist greatly in mminusiiw aff shortage. The sout icrn sule of tlie owns ld opS-r- n^w 500 ra P ng O e P Ladies’ Sanitary °Towels (Southail-s) per dozen shield! 2s |d and 2s 4^lld! K%eRB! Ck Po S sted S to any^address.F ‘“ It \ R Cer l3 the r odds’ to expect a . mto e o£ Nofth 6 Auckland /olds,”saiAilrs by bicycle* motor car, or rik* redecided to renew the request for a reS Tmonth ago Poverty Bay fruitgrowMS;discufsed favourably a proposal to adopt parols of uniform-sizes year a large meeting of growers resonre s 'j lr SEpf'uns ‘"iS"v»s p m “rl r 5. BOW.™ to togg «“ scheme, owing to cb °L made to paration, .but an effort is nemg have it put under way. Wales Do not miss this, rnnee -w n -. WowS. M HiSchcliff. pripn-; * ° Three d!fe-saving 1 teams were standing omffilford Beach othCT day mJpeadi^ ness to commence a competition Cup, when a canoe caps|ed 60,, ”£SS unable to swim. Her companions managed to get ter on to the upturned canoe whi£ . life-saving team was rushing to the rescue. 61 J’ist as the beltman reached ter Sh Mrs ol ß P Sharman, of West Glen InneS, New South Wales, had a pleasant surprise a week before Christmas when bhe Svenffi 10 £1 notes in the corner of an old pillowslip, which had been a wedding gjft P from her mother “auy Tfar 8 . ° B (riff did service in the house tor a number of yeSs, and. then Mr Shaman took it for his camp 23 years ago. Since then the pillowslip has te e V n w=L !onl of Queensland and New South Wales con tinuallv Eventually Mrs Shaman decided that the pillow had. exhausted its . “W* f^dfhoweven^e^discovered,the . notes, which were dated m tne earf> ni Tumbull’s- Sample Room. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, ate SatMflf 7 iUßsuaj, h{ . this week> Bumn^piSafe in fall swing. Your inspection mv:t.es A F. Cheyne and C 0... A certain amateur meteorologist in Lower Hutt considers that he can foretell the mo7row>s weather by. the previous evening’s flight of starlings. H ttey fly low bad weather is ahead; if hmh, the reverse Recently he was expounding hi. theory to a visitor and the homeward Sesf later a second lot of sterlings. P^inan ItoSTame ttap medium height and the visitor went home with a greatud miration for the sagacity o£_starlingß in leaving nothing to chance. But what to expect 8 of the weather the next day he j: s Yinf know. As a matter of fact, tmnext day’s weather was a bit of all sorts, so perhaps the starlings were right aftci 31 Workers, these Interest you. Famous Scots grey working shirts, 6s lid, “ r “ striped cotton tweed trousers, cu “ te> tom?, sizes 9 to 6. flj. & lldj CHOm earner vests, tweed-lined, 10s 6d, posted anywhere for cash.— Kilroy and Suth land Ltd.. 192 Princes street Dunedin... Lying between Tonganro National Bark and the large tract of country inthe Kaimanawa State Forest there stretches a huge area of undeveloped AlthongU one of the most .isolated districts in. New Zealand, this piece of country is increasingly popular with trampers vW prefer the rugged, virgin land totte well* worn environs of the park. This j ear two Palmerston North parties paid a visit to the district, one from the Manawatu Tramping Club and the _ other led by Mr C. T. Salmon. Discussing his trip, Air Salmon was enthusiastic about the possibilities of incorporating portion, at. any rate, of the area, now chiefly Native land, in the park. At pTcseu-, with the Dominion’s population ot about 1 500 000, the National Park was probably sufficient, but in the future such a playground a.s this would be of inestim" able value. The increasing demand for “ Bourbon ' proves the housewives’ appreciation of a genuine breakfast beverage. j bon” is produced by A. Dune and Co.; coffee specialists, 32 Octagon, Dunedin... Over 350 sheep perished recently in a torrential rainstorm which swept a quiet valley bordering the Kahuterawa Stream, where it debouches from the Tararuas, in the Manawatu district. Seven hundred slieep had been shorn, and weathered safely during the dawn brought an easterly jfale. BKviy pelted in torfents, converting the beautiful green flat on which the sheep grazed into a lake. The sheep were turned on to the road, and every effort was made to drive them into the shelter of sheds and a few trees. Those that reached the-shelter were saved, but the remainder died where they fell. A large pack of dogs assisted in the efforts to save the sheep. Wet and cold, the farm hands had at last to resort to carrying the sheep to shelter. iill nightfall everyone worked at this, but with darkness the animals still in the open were left to die. Some walked into the creek, and were so enfeebled and cramped that they were drowned. Others stood transfixed, and when pushed tell to stay down and die. Seven valualWmtud rams were saved by being earned, info the woolshod. Miss J. A. Poppe, owner of the sheep, has lost at least £SOO worth of stock as a result of the storm, Shakespeare didn’t write his plays, Say people who’re mistaken; But thcrea one thing that no °te doubts— • j It’s Hitchon who cures good bacon. .pJ