NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21976, 10 June 1933, Page 20

NEWS IN BRIEF

i It is understood that an increase of id per lb in the schedule'price-for fat lambs has been made. Rates for wethers and ewes are unchanged. • A valuable shipment of stud draught horses, comprising 12 Clydesdales, valued altogether at about £IOOO, left Wellington by the Wanganella for "Sydney on Thursday. They were consigned to Tasmania. • - ■ ■ . ■ r

A joyride unlawfully taken at Greymouth had unfortunate results. The three-seater car of Mr H. Melville was removed ■ from a garage and was found about. midnight in a wrecked condition. Mb had evidently swerved- from .the road, and had struck two fairly substantial cabbage trees with sufficient force to fell them. The radiator of the car was smashed, the springs broken, the mudguards and bumper bar twisted, and the body damaged. Your sight is the most precious of the senses; ■ therefore you cannot afford to neglect it. Consult our registered Opticians, ■ Mr K. A. Bridgman, Mr P. K. Dick. Oculists’ prescriptions a specialty.. Peter Dick, jewellers, watchmakers, and opticians, 490 Moray place, Dunedin; phone 13-308... “ I regard- Australia ns a more dangerous rival to New Zealand on the English butter market than Denmark,'’ said Mr J. Hine, a candidate for_ the Dairy Board, in an address at Stratford. “So long as Australia has good seasons she is more dangerous. Australia also Has a Paterson scheme, and 33 1-3 per cent, exchange as well to enable it to dump butter on the English market.” “It is a choice between the devil, of low prices and the deep sea of the quota —how deep no man knows —and it is better to have the devil we know,” said Mr W. Grounds, chairman of the Northern Dairy Conference, in an address at a 'sitting of the conference at Kaitaia. Mr Grounds opposed the imposition of a dairy quota, declaring that North Auckland would be more seriously affected than any other part of New Zealand. “It is only ignorance that makes people long for ‘ the good old times,’ a term one often hears repeated,” said the Rev. J. Harris, speaking at the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Cambridge Terrace Methodist Church, Christchurch. “ Those who repeat the term would be the first to curse the good old times if they had them back. If we had those, times back, it would have to be with reservations.” “It is remarkable that a young country like New Zealand should be celebrating the diamond jubilee of so many of its schools,” said the Mayor of Christchurch, Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., at the opening of the Opawa School Jubilee Gates last Saturday. “ That our education system should be so soundly established is a tribute to the pioneers, who realised the importance of a good education system.” Mr Sullivan added that he was not sure whether the schools. of_ to-day maintained the high standards set in the early days. Can you do good work with blunt tools? We employ experts to set and sharpen your saw, scissors, shears, knives, mower, etc.; satisfaction guaranteed.—Dickinson’s, Limited, 245 Princes street, Dunedin...

In addressing the Society for Imperial Culture at Christchurch on “Modern Tendencies in Drama.” Professor Shelley prefaced his remarks by defining drama as a serious attempt to portray the true facts of life (reports the Christchurch Times). Through the drama the stage aimed at a constructive ideal. In New Zealand the professor had not noticed any constructive ideal to which the people contributed! The people of this country sought only material comfort. The speaker had looked everywhere, from the head of the Government to the boy in the street, for an ideal, but could not find it. There was an amusing aspect of a hail storm at Christchurch the other afternoon. The cadets of the Christchurch Technical College unit were lined up eagerly awaiting the speeches of the general officer commanding the New Zealand Forces (Major-general W. L. H. Sinclair-Burgess. C 8.. C.M.G.. D. 5.0.1, and the Minister of Defence (Mr J. G. Cobhe) when the hail started to drum on the iron roof of King Edward Barracks. It was hopeless for any man to attempt to speak against it (says the Sun), and fo r 10 minutes the boys had to wait for the speeches

A party of three Whakatane sportsmen who set out recently for a day’s pighunting in the vicinity of Mount Tarawera had an unenviable experience. The weather became cold and showery, and the party was unable to. find its way back to the car, and was" compelled to spend the night in the bush. . The second of the three original red deer stags liberated in the Rakain Gorga' district has been shot by Mr A. Paypter, a Christchurch stalker. The stag, which was identified by a backnotch cut in the left ear, was one of the herd released in 1907. As the stags were-three or four years old when they were obtained from Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire, the animal was a fair age. Its teeth were almost worn away. All-wool Roslyn worsted suits reduced to 49s 6d are one of the gifts at the. sale. Sox Cd a pair and shirts 5s lid, working trousers 9s- lid are wonderful bargains. Postage paid anywhere. Ascot, corner Princes and Rattray streets... ■ ■ ' ■’ ’ '

In the course of an address on grass land farming at the Waikato Winter Farm School at Claudelands Mr A. H, Cockayne, assistant director-general of agriculture, said there were 30.000,000 acres of grass land in New Zealand, 17.000. of which bad been made by man and the balance by Nature. Of these 30.000. acres there were 5,000,000 devoted to dairying, and 25.000,000 to meat and wool production. Mr Cockayne said the 5,000,000 acres given to dairying could be gradually increased to 8,000.000. The present production per acre was 80ll> of butter-fat, which could be rapidly raised to 1251 b, and more slowly beyond that figure by the scientific development of grass land farming. Doctors prescribe “ the best ” every time. In an emergency don’t depend on neighbours. Order now from Wm. Crossan. Waterloo, Gaversham...

“The depression will end this year,” declares the Sunday Observer, Sydney’s new weakly newspaner, in its first issue. ‘•‘Already,” says the Observer,“ it' is breaking up, under the impulse of saner nationalism, healthier public finance, and sounder trading. The World Economic Conference, for which delegates are now assembling in London, will assist the process, making it more, orderly. _ The recovery will not be fast, and it will be painful at timeS. It should be perceptible in 1934, definite in 1935. Much will depend on the Economic Conference.” Made with cold water and milk in equal parts and “ only just ” brought to the boil, “Bourbon for breakfast ”■ is a food in itself. 'Full instructions in, every tin... -

By comparisoh with the last two years restoration building and. rebuilding at Napier are vanishing to a pin-point. For instance, last month IT permits, valued at £2817, of which £2250 was taken up in permits for building three houses were issued as against 26 to the value of £71,?06 in Alay of last year, and £22,574 in 1931, the last-named, total being low on account of the work of restoration not being fully under way. t There, were three bankruptcies at Napier last month—-that of a motor trimmer, a fruiterer, and a fanner—as against six in 1932. , The number of persons who do not know the engine number of their motor cars is surprising’' (says an exchange). Some do not even, know that all engines are numbered. An example of this ignorance was reported in Wellington last week, when a/woman rushed up to a traffic inspector and said: “Inspector, can you tell me. the. engine number of a 1928 model —— ? ” She was amazed when she told that engines, were numbered individually and not according to the year of their manufacture.; Up-to-date methods in the buying arrangements enable costs to_ be cut down, which in turn reduces prices at’ Gray’s Big Store.;. . ■ Judging from OpotikiV. experience (says the Auckland Star’s corresppndent), the dreaded white butterfly is likely, to be a big pest for most of the .year, and when it spreads tp the North Auckland district it will he in evidence there right throughout the year. Although . a number or frosts has been experienced in Opotiki this autumn, the butterflies soon put in an appearance on. sunny days, and the caterpillars are very numerous _ on cabbage, cauliflower,' and nasturtium plants; From these observations it would appear that the butterflies are/able to stand fairly cold weather before they become dormant during the winter period. As a result of 1 the despicable act or some person unknown a well-known Alarlborough drover last two valuable, dogs by poisoning the other ’night’ (says the Alarlborough Express). It was evident that strychnine meat was thrown over the gate at the owner’s house in’Springlands, for not only were the dogs found dead, but near the gate were the bodies 6f two hedgehogs in the mouth of one of which was a piece of lethal bait. To* a man relying for bis living on his dogs, the loss of two out -of the pack was a heavy blow, apart from the fact that the selling value of the aninials was between £lO and . £ls each. A sidelight on the happening is the fact that the whole of the next day the drover’s small child carried a pet eat about in order that there would be no danger of it picking aip some of the poisoned meat. Alay Bargains' a huge success. No matter what your wants you spend arid save by calling on us. Call early. The Alosgiel Warehouse—A. FT Cheyne and C 0... , ' .

The opinion that; it was regrettable that more consideration was not given to the problem of taking preventive measures against the committal of boys to Borstal Institutes was expressed by the Rev. P. G. Hughes at a Rotary luncheon at Timaru, It was gratifying to know that the inmates were being trained to be good citizens on their Restoration to the community, but be thought more should be done to remove the necessity of sending them to such institutions. It’was false economy on the part of the Government to curtail the services of the Child Welfare Department. He thought that much good would come of a conference of ministers, school teachers, and police, and suggested that Rotary was' a suitable body to take the initiative in" the matter, ■ ■ • \• ',

. Grandism (1973):; We blend the best with careful pains, in skilful combination and every bottle of Granyi.n contains our business reputation—ss bottle..-. ♦ The recent Wet weather at Greymouth has once again demonstrated that, in a climate like that of the West Coast, with its average yearly rainfall of about 100 solid brick walls 1 are anything but satisfactory, as they allow the moisture to penetrate to the interior' of the building (says the Grey Star). The cavitywall system, adopted in 'recent years, ia an effective prevention, the cavity between the double brick walls stopping the moisture going- through the inner wall. An illustration may be quoted, the building being that of one of the local bodies. All the walls were'erected on the cavity principle and the building remained quite dry; but the exception was. found in the strong room. Two of the outer walls of this room w r erfe built solidly, and it was not long before the interior of the strongroom became quite wet. The dampness could be plainly noticed on the inside of the door, while the bindings of the record hooks were adversely affected. The trouble was overcome by ■ the erection of extra walls inside the strong room, and the establishment thereby of the cavity system. -. 'V : ' • ' ”

Nothing but praise from consumers of our famous sugar-cured bacon from BJd lb.—Barton’s, Manse street.. Recently the matter of rabbit poisoning with briar-berry jam was brought to the notice of the Government by the Marlborough A and P. Association in view of the destruction of native-bird life by this poison, and its use was recommended to be discontinued if at all possible (says the Marlborough Express). The association has before it a reply from the Minister of Agriculture, who stated that the matter had been looked into, and he was advised that while briar jam was used a good deal as a rabbit poison in the Marlborough district, the local inspector had seen no evidence of the destruction of birds by„ its use. He was, however, watching the position closely, and was to submit a further report in due ' course. “I may say that briar jam is not used to any extent, if at all, in, other districts.” the Minister added. Mr M. E. Wood, who brought the matter-up, remarked that it would be difficult; perhaps; to produce concrete evidence to place before the inspector of bird destruction, but he had received information that all manner of dead birds had been seen'along briar jam poison lines. I went along to Milton Town With this good end in view: To buy some Hitchon’s Bacon, No other brand will do.. .