NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21671, 15 June 1932, Page 12

NEWS IN BRIEF

One of the proposals put before Sir Apirana Ngata during his tour of North Auckland was that a Maori newspaper should be started. It was proposed to publish it at Whangarei. A total of about .£5500 has , been advanced by the Government to assist Wairar rapa farmers whose stock were suffering from a shortage of winter fodder as a -, result of the summer drought. Altogether _>, about 200 farmers front Opaki southward, \ the great majority in the South Wairarapa, have received assistance. About 890 tons of hay have been purchased, the bulk in Hastings, and about 100 tons in the Manawatu. A crowd collected on the Newton King wharf at New Plymouth the other day to watch the antics of a crowd of . Indians from the Tymeric who were painting part of the ship. Directed by-a venerable patriarch in a stubble of grey whiskers, the little black men swarmed, and climbed about the side of the ship like monkeys. One was perched precariously on a large bolt holding the rudder.' When he endeavoured to climb back on to, a thin plank, a brother native hit him on the leg. They jabbered incessantly and pro-, vided excellent entertainment for the crowd on the wharf. Overcoats, in brown and fawn checks, with all, round belts, at the new low prices —79 s 6d, Raglan Coats 59s 6d. Come in and try one; patterns sent to country customers.—“ Ascot.” corner Princes and ~ Rattray streets,... From time to time one hears stories of the limit of acquisitiveness, such as the stealing of milk from a cup of tea, the taking of wheat from a blind fowl, etc.;, but this little story of the keen thief at Opawa takes some beating (says the Christchurch Sun). A family went out the other afternoon, and when it returned it found that the house had been ransacked for valuables, and that nothing had been overlooked. Even the rabbit that had been left roasting in the oven for the evening meal had been/ borne away, doubtless to sustain the intruder for further depredations. A rather naive request is contained in a letter just received from by , the local corresponding secretary of the Overseas League at Blenheim (Mr R. P. 'Furness). The Edinburgh Committee of the league has organised a department for the distribution of newspapers, periodicals, etc., to lonely persons in the Dominions, and the writer of the letter points out that “it will greatly assist this work if you would be good enough to supply me. as soon as possible, with the names of lonely persons in your country, who are unable to procure magazines, etc., for themselves.” How the information is to be .obtained the writer does not say. ‘ Grandism (1666) : Before you throw & party buy the right refreshment—-dial 11-542 or, visit the Grand Supply Store. Our prices suit the times..’. Gelignite when frozen becomes supersensitive, and on no account should any, but approved methods of softening it for. use be resorted to. an expert in high explosives told a Christchurch reporter, when' commenting on the northery tragedy! • where a woman and child were when gelignite placed near a' kitchen oven' for softening exploded. This man declared that putting gelignite in a stove was asking for a fatality, and added that the general ignorance of safety, precautions in use of explosives in this country was amazing, -considering that there were ' many clear and simple laws of safety. Nearly all explosion accidents arose through carelessness or ignorance. Explosives were quite safe when handled properly. ■’ Milton people, wanting a good Cup of / Tea should go along to Gray’s Big Store.. They have a large range of Teas, to suitall tastes... V ’ > .•■ i “ Women form. 75 per cent, of the pas-, sengers on excursion trains,” said a rail; way official to a Christchurch Sun, reporter. “ They seem to have more, go in them than men, and they are, in a sense, more adventurous than.men. If it were not for the women passengers, it probably wouldn’t pay to run excursion trains at all.” This view was borne out by the secretary of a Christchurch tramping club, who said that the majority of the members of his club were women. They were keener on walking than men;' and were more willing to put up*with some discomfort on a tramp. Mountaineering was a different matter, of course, but here women again were beginning to show their prowess in climbing the. more difficult New Zealand ; peaks. . It’s Overcoat Week at the Mosgiel Warehouse. 98 Ladies’, 38 Girls, 72 Men’s, and 28 Boys’ Coats, all at*ss in the £ reduction. See window displays. Call early and select yours. Selling Coats since 1882. —A. F. Cheyne and C 0... . Mr J. Connolly. M.P., strongly disapproves of the proposals to be submitted by the New Zealand and British Empire frozen meat exporters to the Ottawa Conference. New Zealand, he said, should regain, the power of disposing of its own ■ meat, a power that had been handed to j overseas-owned organisations to the detriment of the New Zealand producer. When engaged in quarrying stone from the base of the hill near the Scarborough Tea Rooms at Sumner, Borough Council workmen uncovered ' the entrance to a. roomy cave. A search revealed the fact that it had once been occupied by human beings, as shown by numbers of rocks neatly piled along one side. As far as can be ascertained, no other evidence of human habitation was discernible. Under the will of Mr Robert Alexander Houston, of Auckland, clerk, who died on April 12, provision is made for several charitable bequests. Sums have been left as follow:—To the trustees of the Dr Johnston Presbyterian Orphanage, Ireland, £100; foreign missions of the New Zealand Presbyterian Church, £100; New Zealand Presbyterian Church home missions, £SO; the Second Donagheady Presbyterian Church, Burndennet, Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland,, £2OO. Bartons allow liberal concessions to country storekeepers handling their famous smallgoods. Try Bartons famous saveloy*... ■ * , . , , . "... - ’ “ There are two kinds of art critics, one, the inspired amateur, who is no judges ; but knows what he likes, and the other kind, who knows what to like, said Dr J. S. Elliott.’ in the course of his speech when opening the autumn exhibition of the New Zealand Academy of /Fine Arts at Wellington. If painting a picture was an art, he said, so also was criticism of a picture an art, which required longtraining, much experience, intellect, and, above all, sensibility and feeling. First-class samples of gold have been found in- the last few weeks near the foot of the Wataroa Glacier, where 25 prospectors, including half a dozen Christchurch men, are located. Their camps are situated from eight to 25 miles up the Wataroa Gorge, the farthest inland being almost at the edge of the glacier: Much of this country has never been previously explored, and the prospectors have to traverse rugged and precipitous hillsides and river bed in order to reach likely gold-bearing places. ' _ “ Bourbon ” for breakfast! Each tin of “ Bourbon” now encloses a, leaflet giv- ; ing instructions for making coffee. Also 1 obtainable from the proprietors, A. Duns and Co., coffee specialists. 32 Octagon, Dunedin... . . ■ "However we may be situated individually, I notice that collectively we are disgustingly rich,” said Mr Roland Hill, at the afternoon session of the New Zealand Jersey Qattle Breeders’ Association the other day, pointing out that the accumulated fund account showed a total of £23,000. In England, he said, a similar association had found itself in a like position, and it had formed a benevolent fund , for widows and orphans and unfortunate members of the association. “It is np to Ua to do something like that here,” he added, “ and the widows and orphans should get something out of it.” Fishing under the Taupo fisheries has ended for the season. In April everything pointed to a good finish, but notwithstanding that the.river was in flood • twice, the season finished with no freshrun fish in the river, and what fish there were, were very hard and shy. By far the best bag was 22 fish from the Poplar and Gull pools, taken by four Wanganui anglers. Probably the best fish were a 10-poundcr caught by Mr Beauchamp in the Poplar, and an BJIb brown trout taken by Mr Swanger in Major Jones’s. Anglers fishing Taupo and its rivers have formed an anglers’ club, in an endeavour to see what can be done to improve existing conditions. In the morning whan you waken What .you need is Hitchon’s.Bacon; ... Don’t forget this good advice* You’ll enjoy it—try a slice...