NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20965, 3 March 1930, Page 14

NEWS IN BRIEF.

That the West Coast climate is not as bad as is sometimes stated is proved by the fact that some ripe lemons, perfect in colour and shape, were grown outside by Mr H. D. James, of South Beach. The Mid-Canterbury Aero Club is the recipient of a silver cup from an anonymous donor for competition among pupil members. The nature of the event will be decided by the Central Committee of the club. With harvesting and freezing works absorbing a good deal of labour, Mr H. G. Naylor, secretary of the South Canterbury Hospital Board, stated to a representative of the Timaru Herald that the unemployment position, as affecting the board, had considerably improved. The increasing demand for “ Bourbon proves the housewives’ appreciation of a genuine breakfast beverage. “ Bourbon” is produced by A. Durie and Co., coffee specialists. 32 Octagon. Dunedin... In hurried talks with some of the English farmers, an Auckland Sun reporter was given the impression that farming in England is not all that it should be. Several of the visitors complained that Germany and .France were dumping their products into England under Government 'subsidy and this, made conditions still worse for the Englishmen. A peach stone thrown, from a motor car on the Main South road, Taranaki, went through the open window of a passing service car and struck a woman passenger, who was seated behind the driver, on the face, and inflicted a small cut below the eye. The incident shows the danger of throwing things but along the road on the traffic side of a vehicle.

Conn’s Footrot Cure. Only two applications needed to cure footrot in sheep or cattle; prices, 5s 6d, 10s 6d, and 255, only from Conn’s Pharmacy, Ltd., High street. Dunedin...

Although the largest fish ever caught on a rod and line is said to have been landed off the South African coast (says' the Auckland Sun), the visiting African farmers were so impressed with the first New Zealand game fish that they saw the other day that the immediately made arrangements to be photographed alongside it.

“ All. kinds of democratic. Socialistic, and Communistic fads are offered as remedies for the ills the flesh is heir ' to, on the roads that lead to the kingdom of God; but they get us nowhere,” said the Rev. J. F. Goldie (ex-president of the Methodist . Conference) in the course of his ordination charge at Wesley Church, Wellington, on Monday night. “ The other day we read of a German who had discovered a new method of locomotion. By means of rocket propulsion he was going to reach the moon. He started, but we read that they picked him up in a dared condition in an adjacent field. And so with the moralist, the new religionist, the Socialist, and the Communist, and others with their grotesque devices for the salvation of the race. If you look for them you . will find them in a dazed condition, somewhere not far away. The minister of the Gospel must know and be able to indicate the reason of their failure.” 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-breastci ro pick from; prices from 17s 6d...

Miss L. M. Houseman, a visitor from England, who is in Christchurch, has written the following tribute to a New Zealand railway station garden: —“ Travelling alone through New Zealand, I one day had three hours to wait for my train at Lumsden, Southland,. where X was pleasantly surprised to find a lovely little garden with seats in it, close to the station. I settled there on one of the seats with my book, and enjoyed the flowers till lunch time. During a delicious lunch at the station refreshment room, chatting with the manageress, I heard more about the garden, which was made only last August, she told me. She also said that lately, there had been a competition for station gardens on that branch of line, and that the prize was given to Lumsden. On returning to my seat in the garden, I found the gardener, Mr G. W. Johnson, at work and made friends with him (being a keen gardener myself at Home). He told me how he had worked at the making of this garden from its first beginning, and pointed out all the plants he had raised from seed and planted out, with great success. They all looked thriving. They were arranged with such good taste in grouping and colour schemes that the effect was a great credit to him. He told me that he is an engine driver on the Southland line, and that in his leisure time he tends this very pretty garden. A large rose bed in the middle is called 'England. 5 One at the side, containing heather, is 4 Scotland, 5 and a third is ' Ireland. 5 lam sure that other travellers who may have to wait for a train at Lumsden will find the beautiful flowers as cheering as I found them. 55

Do not miss this; Prince of Wales house wbisky. 10s 6d; four or more, 10s. Fine old port, 3s.—C. Hinchcliff, proprietor. Phone 10-721...

"Good heavens, what's that?" exclaimed an Auckland resident who was standing near the end of Queen’s wharf, Auckland, the other morning. The cause of his excitement was four derelict motor tyres, black and gleaming, which were bobbing in the tide almost exactly in line behind one another. With a “ property ’’ head at one end and a tail at the other, the line would have represented in a realistic manner the mythical sea. serpent.

Best quality Boiling Knicker Elastic, 6yds for Is; post free from Gray’s Mail Order House, Milton. Send to-day Is in stamps... Tests are being made by the Public Works Department of all the concrete roads recently laid down by the Christchurch City Council (reports the Sun). Cores have been taken out of the roads by a drilling machine, and these are to be tested to ascertain the strength of the concrete.

For a young country New, Zealand is shaping well in the divorce, line, but the “ milling ” process here is quite slow compared with Chicago, where last year one family in every 103 was broken up with the consent of the taw. Decrees were granted at the rate of one every hour. There were 9670 cases, and over half that number of- children were affected. Women’s petitions outnumbered those of the men by three to one. Save your eyes. Consult Peter 6. Dick, D.8.0.A., F. 1.0. (London), optometrist. Peter Dick, jewellers and opticians, 490 Moray place (opp. City Hotel)... Following Professor Murphy’s address to the New Zealand Society of Accountants, the other day on “ Principles of Public Expenditure,’’ a member of the society suggested that the professor should become a member of Parliament. Professor Murphy: There are two reasons, why I would not become a member of Parliament; jlfirst, because I don’t want to; and second, because I should not get my deposit back. “ The officers of my department say that there is land in Rangitikei which carries seven sheep to the acre; I have come to-day to make sure,” declared the Minister of Lands (Mr G. W. Forbes) at tj)e opening of the Marton Show the other day, "because if I told them that in the South Island they would call it a fish story.” Grandism (957): Ours are not out prices on something new, but lower prices on really old well-matured . wines and spirits. Grand Hotel... “ This man’s difficulties are of his own making, and cannot be pleaded as an excuse for him,” remarked his Honor, Mr Justice Blair, in the Napier Supreme Court, when referring to a case in which a plea was being made for a bankrupt. “ His case reminds me of that of the man who murdered his mother and father and then asked for leniency on the grounds that he was an orphan,” remarked his Honor.

The Burke’s Creek Coal Company, which recently took over- the property of the Reefton Goal Company, and'installed extra machinery, has put the plant in working order, and a trial run at the beginning ‘of last week gave excellent 1 results. The pumping- plant is now working 24 hours daily to clear the water out of the dip workings, so as to enable coal to be won from that section, of the property. Special shipment ladies’ woven marl art. silk jumpers, newest V neck style; two pockets, trimmed contrasting colours; red-white, black-white, royal-white, fawnnigger, red-black, red-navy, green-nigger; 18s gpods all at 11s 6d. —T. Ross,. 130 Princes street...

“ The only place he' works well is in gaol/' said Chief Detective Hammopd, when Ganesh Givan, aged 29 years, a big Hindu, was fined £2 or seven days* imprisonment for drunkenness. “He just came out after serving a sentence and molested two young ladies near the Ferry Buildings, frightening them greatly. He is an outcast, and even hie own countrymen won't' have- anything to do with him. He is lazy, and won’t work. Although efforts have been made to send him to. India he won’t leave.” : Much merriment was provoked at the' annual meeting of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce the other afternoon by an amusing slip, intentional' or otherwise, on the part of the newly-elected president, Mr D. J. Wesney (says the Southland Times). Mr Wesney. who had just taken the chair, called for nominations- for councillors to fill the vacancy caused’ <( by the expiry of the four gentlemen whose terms are np.” Invercargill is a Scotch community and a moment or later everybody laughed. These towels are sterling value: Coloured striped guaranteed fast to washing: 18 by 38, Is lid; 20 by 42, 2s 6d; 23 by 49, 4s 6d per pair. White Admiralty, 24 by 48. 4s lld_ per pair, posted anywhere for cash.—Kilroy and Sutherland, Ltd., 192 Princes street, Dunedin... Statistics presented to the Wellington Harbour Board the other evening showed that during the month of January 160,298 tons of goods were handled on the Wei* lington waterfront, as against 141,638 tons last year. The total tonnage of trading vessels which arrived during the month was 334,012 tohs, as against 360,571 tons for the same month last year.' The tonnage of vessels departing was 219,971 tons, as against 151,434 tons last year. Trade at the port of Greymonth con-

tinues to show a general increase. Last month . the timber exported totalled 1,796,400 super feet, bringing the total, since April 1 last to 3,523,470 super feet, in comparison with the same period last year. The coal exported in January was 20,607 tons and the total for 10 months was 262,4614, tons, an increase of 62,865 tons. ■ General cargo inward showed an increase of 20,190 tons, and outward 235 tons.

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 there is no continuous work offering, the secretary to the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association (Mr E. F. Willcox) has been able-to find a little casual employment for a number of unemployed returned soldiers. Through the association subsidising private people, a number of the men have been given a day or two of gardening work, which otherwise would have been done by the people themselves. About £IOO has been spent by the association this year in subsidising this class of employment. A good story concerning the failure of a young woman in the Invercargill Corporation offices to comprehend fully an inquiry made by an ardent golfing enthusiast of Timaru is at present going the rounds (says the Southland Times), It appears that the golfer asked over the telephone whether Invercargill possessed municipal links. The young woman was dubious. She would see. Back she came with the information, “Yes, we’ve got a mayoral chain.” Country Storekeepers.—Handle the tamous, acknowledged best, smallgouds in the South Island, and increase your turnover: liberal margin.—Barton’s. Manse street...

Farmers iu all parts of Canterbury are beginning to rail their grain, and officials of the transport office of the Railways Department are having an exceptionally busy time in arranging for toucks (says the Christchurch Sun). Up till recently grain has been coming in only from the North Canterbury districts, but now the farmers of Mid-Canterbury are getting their grain railed as quickly as they can. As a rule, Methven is a little behind the other districts in this respect, but the grain has started to come in from that district in large quantities. Railway 1 officials say that it ie one of the biggest rushes they have experienced.

Annual Summer Sale in full swing.' Bargains for all. Special display of School wear this .week See windows, all at Sale Prices. The Mosgiel Warehouse.—A F Cheyne and C 0... Discussion on the employment of marred women teachers by the Wanganui Education Board recently was productive of at least one bright flash of humour. Mr J. K. Hornblow, who was advocating an amendment of the Act to afford the. board discretionary power with regard to appointments affecting married women, had had prepared a list of married women teachers employed by the board with brief remarks concerning each. He commenced to read these.. taking care that no names were divulged, confining his remarks entirely to other details! “ Here 5 s one, 55 he said, “ salary £250. husband a commercial traveller. Here 5 s another, salary £275, and husband still alive. 55 He seemed surprised at the laughter that ensued. Yes, I s m back in dear Otago, Ne s er again to roam: For 1 can 5 t get Hitchon 5 * ham When T*m away from home...