NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21446, 22 September 1931, Page 14

NEWS IN BRIEF

Mrs John Martin, of Martinborough, has presented 10 pairs of canaries to the Wellington Zoo. A letter of thanks for the gift is being forwarded to her. Fourteen members of the nursing staff of the Palmerston North Public Hospital were suffering from influenza last Monday. . ■ For the first time in 32 years Dalgety’s Annual Wool Review contains the words “Australia and New, Zealand ” instead of the single, submerging term “Australasia. - ' This fact was brought to the attention of councillors of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce the other evening. The chamber had written three times to Dalgety and Co. requesting the change, but only at the fourth attempt was it lucky. The council decided to send a letter of thanks. Your inspection invited at the Mosgiel Warehouse. New Spring Goods opening daily and all at New Prices to suit your gurse. Call early.—A. F. Cheyne and A settler in the upper reaches of the Wangaehu Valley road stated to a Wanganui Herald reporter that he had been in the district for over 40 years, and the other day was only the third occasion on which he had noticed seagulls flying over the farm.

The Russian viewpoint was placed before the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce the other afternoon, when Messrs L. J. Duflou, Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand agents for Russian products, wrote sending a bulletin conveying Russian trade propaganda. The communication was received with laughter. “ I lost miles of fencing which cannot be replaced because the land is moving still,” stated a Hawke’s Bay farmer giving evidence before the Hawke’s rßay Adjustment Court. Detailing further losses, witness stated that on the day of the earthquake, he lost 36 head of stud cattle, killed through boulders rolling down the hillsides.

T. Ross, specialist for Sanitary Goods: Southall’s Sanitary Towels, Is lid and 2s lid packet: Compressed ditto.. 3s lid dozen; Menex ditto, 2s 3d, 2s lid packet: Sanitary Belts. Is 3d and 2s 3d: Sanitary Knickers, 3s lid. —T. Ross, 130 Princes street.. A piece of singular good fortune befell a resident of Napier, now resident in Hastings, who lost his house in the earthquake, during last week-end, when, .in opening an oyster, one of a sack from the north which he was sharing with some friends, he discovered two blackish objects in one of the oysters (states the Telegraph), but on polishing these turned out to be large and lustrous pearls. It has not yet been determined how. great is their value in hard cash, but it is freely, rumoured that by their sale the finder hopes to rehabilitate himself in a residence on a new site and return once again to his old town.

Chatting to a Taranaki Herald report** the other morning a well-known New Ply* mouth resident gave a cure for the prevailing influenza. Take an ordinarysized grape fruit, wash outside skin clean, then cut the whqle fruit into small piece* and pour over a quart of boiling water. Allow to cool, and drink at regular period* during the day. The patient, too, should fo to bed and fast for two or three days, t was explained that in the grape fruit skin there is a natural quinine not contained in any other citrus fruit, so that while either the lemon or orange might be beneficial they will not effect the cure the grape fruit does. A surprising reply to the questionnaire submitted by the Auckland Women’s Unemployment Committee to local manufacturers was forwarded by the owner of a well-known factory (relates the New Zea.-. land Herald), who was asked to suggest means of increasing production and providing more work for women and girls- t “ One cause of the present slackness of trade is the * no-hat fashion ’ among young men,” he said. “This has caused much unemployment among hat and cap manufacturers, but a word from the girls would alter this fashion.” y / “As your salesman, it gives me great pleasure to report that, in spite of the general slackness of trade, India Tyie sales have increased 1 by 50 per cent.., and motorists now swear by the'tyre with the red ring.—The Otago Farmers,-'distribu-tors.”.. . • • ' . ',<

For the modest price of Is a visitor to the weekly Westfield fat stock sale, /which is held every Wednesday,, can buy a ‘ real live calf should such a purchase hold any attraction. In recent weeks scores of “ bobby ” calves have been sent in from the farms (says the New Zealand Herald), and such is the state of the market that many a farmer has found himself: out of pocket on a consignment of under-nourished and “ scrubby ” little animals. The usual charge for conveying a calf to market is Is a head, and after the auctioneer’s commission has been deducted the owner of the calf has found himself owing money. We are always open to buy well fed Bacon Pigs, highest market rates for 1101501 b. Cheques by return mail. —Barton’s... • “We take, off our hats to John Chinaman in this locality,” remarked an Ohakune resident to a Wanganui Herald reporter. ‘ The resident pointed out various areas under cultivation, and stated that this bad been due to the enterprise of . the Chinese. He estimated that last season some 300 acres in various parts of the district had been planted in vegetables to supply the ready demand in Auckland; and other places. The owners of the land are required to 'stump and break it up, and the Chinese then take a three years’ lease, at a rental of £lO. per acre. The soil appears to be well adapted for growing cabbages, swedes, and similar crops. At the present firne other areas are being stumped for the purpose of vegetable growing. New Spring goods are being opened up now at Gray’s Big Store, Milton... A reminder that the site-of Gisborne i* largely alluvial in origin was provided last week (says the Poverty Bay: Herald) by the discovery of a large-diameter totara, log at the junction of two streets., The discovery was, made by a contractor’s gang in the course of preparations for installing a petrol pump. ’ About two feet below, the surface of the footpath the diggers came upon the obstruction, which proved to be in an admirable state of preservation, the dampness of the . soil having affected the soundness of the timber to only a negligible degree. Doubtless ■ the waters of the Waimata River lapped the spot at no very distant time in the past, and the log is presumed to have been stranded after a fresh. Heavy timber is believed never To have - grown in that locality, at least within the memory of man or the scope of records. Grandism (1440): We are daily making new friends and keepingold because the people appreciate GrandTSotel quality Wines and Spirits... : Illustrating the extent to .which equality of the sexes has been established in Russia, Mr-J. A. Brailsford, in the course of a lecture, to the Masterton branch of the Workers’ Educational Asscciation, stated that an Englishwoman who recently visited that country said that the third officer of one of the, Russian, shite in which she travelled was a girl of 20. In another ship a girl was being'trained aa an engineer. Of a party of dockers seen going out to unload a ship, one-third were stalwart women. The same visitor saw a regiment of Russian women soldiers; all volunteers. Two women, Mr Brailsford mentioned, had attained the rank of general in the Russian Army. Appreciation of the Railway Board’s action in reducing railway fares was' expressed at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce the other evemhg. A resolution was carried: approving of the action of the board in reducing fares and expressing the hope that, the new rates would ■ have the desired effect of making the railways pay. , Ex Otaio we have landed the. ncyr Season’s Blue Mountain Jamaica —the finest coffee grown on earth. Only obtainable from A. Dnrie and Co., coffee specialists, 32 Octagon, Dunedin... During the quarter ended June 30, 27,0961 b of letter air mail were carried from England, compared with 20,834 during the corresponding quarter of 1930 — an increase of 36 per cent. The carryings to India were again larger th an those to any other country—viz., 78601 b, ae compared with 6740 in the June quarter ,of increase of 17 per cent.

“The troublous times that the nation is passing through give clear indication of the need for the highest possible training of the national intelligence in all its • varied aspects,” wrote the New Zealand Educational Institute in a letter to the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce. The institute advocated smaller classes- in schools as a means of securing a high national intelligence, and it made a plea for support for the maintenance of the standard of education. . The chamber decided to receive the,letter and to distribute leaflets on the subject to members. Why pay over £5 for your suits? See our special all-wool worsteds for S9s 6d. Thornproofs, all shades and sizes. at-79s 6d; extra heavy all-wool navy blue suits now 97s Cd, usually £6 6s. No suit over £5. Pattern sent so you can compare our quality and prices.—“ Ascot.” Princes street, Dunedin... , J The possibility of Timaru being selected as the locality of a rubber factory, the promoters -of which are now seeking for a suitable site, was referred to in e, special report presented to the Timaru Borough Council by the electrical engineer. The report was. the outcome of conversations the-engineer had had at Christchurch, during which-it was stated that thire was a probability of a rubber factory commencing operations in New Zealand, and that the promoters of the company wero looking for a site for a factory, the chief requirements being low rates, cheap electric power; and a plentiful supply of artesian water.

“The old-fashioned hen idea is quite a good one,”- remarked a speaker at a meeting of the council of the North Canterbury Acfclimatisation Society, -when the question of obtaining an incubator was under discussion. . He went on to gay that in England, where climatic conditions were practically the same as in Canterbury, incubators were largely used, and had been quite'successful. Barton's supply Country Storekeepers, finest small goods freshly made /daily. Liberal retail margin...

, If an ambulance, conveying an injured person to the hospital, becomes involved in a collision, and the patient dies, who is to say which was responsible., for the death, the first or second accident? This question wag asked at a meeting of the General Committee of the Canterbury and West Coast Centre of the St. John Ambulance Association. The meeting decided to secure a legal opinion as to the association’s position in such a -case. Farmers’ unions and chambers of commerce are charged by the Pubic Service Association with inspiring the publication of attacks on Government employees, and the recent annual conference of the executive of the association in Wellington discuss'd means of replying to criticisms. The Public Service Journal stites:— “The insidious campaign which had been so persistently carried on in the press, and by various organisations throughout the country against the public service was very fully and ably debated, and the executive committee wag empowered to. set up a publicity committee to combat, in co-operation vith the various sections, similar misrepresentations which may he made in future.” Rugby players have done their dash. And many matches taken; Don’t- let your body run to seed. Eat plenty Hitchon’a 8ac0n.,..