NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21998, 6 July 1933, Page 14

NEWS IN BRIEF

The ways of the law are sometimes difficult to understand. One of its lesserknown anomalies (says the New Zealand Herald) is that the maximum penalty for stealing any article from a vessel in port is 14 years’ imprisonment, but the maximum penalty for stealing the vessel itself is only two years’ imprisonment. Concern was expressed at the widespread depredations of both land and water vermin, and their harmful effects on certain kinds of game, at a meeting of the Manawatu sub-committee of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. It was agreed that every sportesman should do his utmost to keep the pests in subjection. Your sight is the most precious of the senses; therefore you cannot afford to neglect it. Consult our registered opticians. Mr R. A. Bridgman, Mr P. N. Dick. Oculists’ prescriptions a specialtyPeter Dick, jewellers, watchmakers, and opticians, 490 Moray place. Dunedin; phone 13-308...

Mr _ Reg. Tapley, producer of “ I’ll Leave it to You, to be presented by the Repertory Society the week after next in His Majesty’s Theatre, states that the cast is the most promising he has yet had anything to do with.

The desirability of altering the name of the New Zealand poorman orange or grapefruit to the Kawau orange is to be represented by the Auckland Citrus Committee to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The committee has reached a decision that the Dominion should concentrate on the cultivation of the Morrison seedless strain or poorman orange, which'is regarded as pre-eminently suitable as a breakfast fruit or for preserving. _A special clearing line of good-quaßty Kaiapoi blankets, large double bed size, for 35s at Gray’s Sale, The Big Store, Milton...

The remarkable strides which the poultry industry is making in the Dominion is evidenced by the fact that it is expected that 12,000 cases, or 360,000 dozen eggs, will be exported this year, as compared with 5264 cases exported last year. This announcement was made at a conference of egg marketing agents and poultry producers convened by the Department of Agriculture in Wellington. 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.., “ One of the worst blunders in the history of New Zealand legislation,” was Mr R. H. Quilliam’s description of the Mortgagors’ Relief Act when speaking to New Plymouth Rotarians and a number of farmers from the Urenui. He claimed that the application of the Act was having an indirect but distinctly derogatory effect upon the fulfilment of contracts. “The idea that the mortgagee is a Shylock should be removed from every mind,” he said. “Many of them are actually in poorer circumstances than the mortgagors, and other of them are widows of settlers relying for their income on the proceeds of some mortgage.” June Bargains a huge success. No matter what your wants you spend and save by calling on us. Call early. The Mosgiel Warehouse. —A. F. Cheyne and C 0...

It was decided at the conference of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, on a remit from the Gore branch, that local associations should be circularised with a view to ascertaining the possible support that would be accorded a pilgrimage to Egypt, Gallipoli, the battlefields of France and Belgium, and to the British Isles. The proposal is that the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association might undertake the pilgrimage in from two to three years’ time if the support promised is sufficient to warrant the chartering of a vessel to convey a party consisting of New Zealand exsoldiers, their wives and families. Nothing but praise from consumers of our famous sugar-cured bacon from Bid, lb.—Barton’s, Manse street... To be able to see the Kaikouras near her own home from Taranaki was the experience of Miss G. Acton-Adams, a Christchurch, visitor to New Plymouth, who made an ascent of Mount Egmont the other day. Miss Acton-Adams, who made the climb with a guide, found conditions excellent, and steps in the ice which had been cut by a previous party were used. Visibility remained good until early in the afternoon. A good trip of four hours and a-Quarter was made. Later in the afternoon mist drifted over, and conditions became worse. Don’t blame the butcher. Get that carving, knife sharpened. We employ experts who sharpen knives, scissors, and all edge tools, ground Tuesday or Friday. Satisfaction guaranteed. Dickinson’s, Limited, 245 Princes street, Dunedin... Over 3500 miles were covered in the North Island by Mr F. Reynolds, of Whangarei, one of the officials, appointed to examine motor mechanics knd garages under the new classification scheme put into operation by the New Zealand Garage Proprietors’ Association. The next examination will be held in October.

“One of the faults of this country is that the older man devotes, perhaps, too much time to such pastimes as bridge and golf,” said Mr A. G. Lunn, in the course of a debate held by the junior division of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. Mr Lunn said a tendency could be noted among some of the older members of the community to make a more or less serious occupation of pastimes which should be a relaxation.

Grandism (1995): Everyday connoisseurs recommend Grand House whisky to their friends. And this is why: It’s the best. Scotch thoroughly matured. 12a bottle... All candidates for charitable aid are not as deserving as they might he. Thus, when a husky 15-stone man called at the New Plymouth mayoral chambers last week to demand assistance, he met with an unexpected response from the Mayor (Mr E. R. C. Gilmour). When referred to the charitable aid authorities the man became abusive, and Mr Gilmour ordered him out of the building. “It would take a man to run me out,” he replied. Mr Gilmour, who in his young days practised something of the Japanese art of jiu jitsu, then proceeded to “ run the man out ” with conspicuous success. So far as is known the man made no further applications for relief in New Plymouth. All-wool Roelyn worsted suits reduced to 49a 6d are one of the gifts at the “ Ascot Sox 6d a pair and shirts 5s lid, working trousers 9s lid are wonderful bargains. Postage paid anywhere. Ascot, corner Princes and Rattray streets...

Applications made at Palmerston North under the revised conditions of the No. 10 building scheme now total 62, representing an aggregate value of £33,311, and the estimated labour cost involved is £9OOO. This will carry the subsidy in varying proportions. Authority to proceed with 25 jobs, involving an outlay of £8269, including £2449 for labour, has already been received (says the Manawatu Evening Standard) Sanction for the others is coming to hand daily. The number of men who will be employed on all jobs already applied for is estimated at 305, and the number who will be absorbed on works already authorised from Wellington, is 152. • Doctors prescribe “ the best ” every time. In an emergency don’t depend on neighbours. Order now from Wm. CTossan, Waterloo, Caversham... Reference to the origin of Maori cabbage. a crop with which the Department ofi Agriculture has been experimenting recently, was made at Christchurch by an officer of the department (states the Christchurch Times). In some parts of New Zealand, before the advent of the rabbit pest, he said, Maori cabbage was very plentiful, and provided abundance of feed for stock. It gradually disappeared, however, from all except inaccessible places when rabbits became plentiful. The Maori cabbage at present being grown was probably a slightly different type from that of the early days, but only experiment could show whether or not it was going to be suitable feed for sheep. The origin of the early type_ of Maori cabbage that was very plentiful some 40 or 50 years ago was shrouded in mystery. Some investigators considered that it was the progeny of some type of vegetation introduced to New Zealand by Captain Cook. Of course, added the officer, this was merely conjecture, b\it no one seemed to be able to furnish a better explanation of it» appearance. ’ What has happened in the stars? Venus sought in love by Mars; While new worlds in great oration Sing their love for Hitchon’s bacon... -