NEWS IN' BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22053, 8 September 1933, Page 16

NEWS IN' BRIEF

Who owns the oldest.motor car in use on Southland roads to-day? asks the Southland Times). This question was prompted by a ride a reporter had recently in a 1915 model tourer which had been purchased at a very modest figure by a secondary schoolboy. Come and see our show to-night. We are open till 9 o'clock Friday nights.— Scoullar and Chisholm. Limited... The uncommon spectacle of a school of porpoises disporting themselves in the Waitemata Harbour was witnessed the other morning by a lady observer whose balcony has a harbour view (says the Auckland Star). She was enjoying the prospect of the Dominion and Commonwealth navies afloat on the Waitemata when the leapiug porpoises swept into the picture—an appropriate matutinal greeting from,Neptune to the Australian fleet. ■;'"''"'•■ On a cold night nothing equals a good adjustment such as Wullie Crossan prescribes at his famous "Waterloo.".. " Personally. I rather sympathise with the young lad who does not want to go on a dairy farm." said Mr Alexander Stuart, M.P. for Rangitikei, when declaring the Youths' Afforestation Camp at Kaitoke open (reports an exchange). He said that a cow he had attempted to milk bowled him over ( planted one foot on his chest, and pinned hi.n on the broad of his back, and another she placed in the milk bucket. It was no wonder that he had not looked kindly upon cows after that. In those days, too, bails were not so, well supervised as they are now. However; he considered that it would not do the lads any harm to spend a year or two on a dairy farm. Highest grade sugar-cured bacon troin 7£d by rasher.—Barton's. Manse street ; What might have been taken in a superstitious gathering as an omen occurred after a supplier at the annual meeting of the Cardiff Dairy Companyhad risen to take exception to a remark by the chairman.' Mr C. A. Marchant. that suppliers other than directors had to take the greater part of the blame for defects, in milk leading to imperfection in coloured cheese. As the supplier sat down after his mild explosion another of an artificial nature occurred, a radiator cord leading to a hot-point fusing with a startling flare and disconcerting buzz just behind his head. To some of those present the phenomenon 'seemed to lend some support to the objection. A busy time for gardeners. Make a good job of it. Gray's, Milton, have the right tools to make for easier, quicker, nGeitfir' work "Chamois" leather does not come from chamois, but from sheep. That was one of the things demonstrated to the Minister of Lands (Mr E. A. Ransom) when he visited the Woolston Tanneries (reports the Christchurch Press). It was explained to him that although long ago chamois leather came from the skins ■ot chamois and deer, nowadays practically all of it came from sheepskins. The skins were split, and the flesh side of the split skin was used to make the soft polishing le'ather known for household purposes as " chamois." True chamois leather was used only for special purposes. ■ -' Grandism (2051): We suggest that you buy a ■sample)jboitle of any of our wines for Is or spirits 2s. Once you try them you'll stand by them...- , . A picture of lambs grazing in a pasture, with a silhouetted map of New Zealand prominent across one corner, heads an advertisement for foods in the London Dally Telegraph for August 3. The text of the advertisement, which covers all kinds of foodstuffs, places Aew Zealand lamb as the main item of the week. "We stress the advantage of including this excellent New Zealand lamp in this'week's menu," it states. Shoulders (41b to 51b weight) are priced at 9d per lb, and legs (51b to 61b) at Is per lb. The prices for the same cuts of English lamb are Is 2d and Is 4d per lb. Tinned New Zealand lambs' tongues are priced at Is Id. . , Fifty-first annual winter sale now on. £3OOO worth of specially-imported winter goods only 4 months in stock to be cleared at end-of-season prices. See special window displays. Call early; your spection invited.—A. F. Cbeyne and Co., The Mosgiel Warehouse... ; ' " \ It was stated at last meeting-of .-the■ Council of the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society by Mr J. MTJonald that it, had recently been estiblshed that rainbow trout were running up the Rangitata River (says the Timaru Herald). Anglers had complained, that the snowfed rivers were becoming depleted fOt brown trout, and if the rainbow would run it might pay the society to stock the Rangitata. The chairman (Mr T. «• Mackay) said that the North Canterbury Society had liberated a lot of rainbow, but the money had been wasted, because the fish had gone to sea. ". ,-" Ex Port Dunedin, our new; seasons Blue Mountain Jamaica—the world s best! Also, Kenya and Mysore. .All British grown coffees.—A. Dune and Co., coffee specialists. 32 Octagon. Dunedin j - One of-the most popular figures at the recent World Economic Conference was Jock, the barman, writes Miss Joan Littlefield, special correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance, He says that during the conference he sola 10,000 cups of tea, 6000 cups of coffee, 10,000 lagers, and 21,000 gin fizzes. (Jra fizz was' by far the most popular cooling drink, apart from lager, with the delegates. The exotic foreign drinks that were "featured" in' the bar 'were a disappointment. "We did sell one bottle of vodka, one bottle : of arack and a few samples of a Turkish drink called arki," said Jock, "but apart from them, the foreign specials were a washout.i S.O S.—Profits lost. Only value saved at Ascot Sale. All-wool Overcoats, were 755, S.O.S. Sale Price, 37s 6d. Also, Thornproof Suits, brown shades; fo 0"t S.O.S. Sale Price, 655; ai sizes.— "Ascot," corner Princes and. Katrray 8 A Wanganui Rugby enthusiast blames a " stunting" sir pilot for a barked shin. Just after a Rugby match had concluded this enthusiast had his attention drawn to the aerial acrobatics of the airman almost directly overhead. With his eyes aloft the pedestrian was making his way toward the exit gate when he came into violent contact with a box, much to his disgust, as he was, so to speak, brought to earth " with a painful reminder. , Do you know that Dickinson s repair Electroplate. Pewter or any metal? Have that old favourite teapot repaired. Best workmanship and prompt service.— Dickinson's, Limited, Sheet Metal Workers. 245 Princes street, Dunedin... "I have come to see you about that burglary at Peebles's store." So ran a sentence in a talkie nlm shown at Eltham recently (says the Wanganui Chronicle}. The film was made in Engand, and it was a remarkable coincidence that a few days ago a burglary occurred at Mr G. M. Peebles's store at Eltham. The incident caused the audience a great deal of i amusement. .. on A pair of mountaineering boots, 20 years old, was worn by Mr A.. D. Mead, president of the Ruapehu Ski Club,, at National Park recently. He also used a pair of skis of the same age, which were among the first skis imported into New Zealand. Although the leather bindings have bad to be renewed in places, the wood is still serviceable. ' They were first used in the vicinity of the Waihohonu hut in 1913. Country storekeepers supplied on worth-while terms.—Barton's. Manse st... A candid cyclist caused laughter *>n the Christchurch Magistrate's Court reccntly, when he was charged with -riding a bicvcle at nijrht without a light (says the Press). The defendant was asked by the magistrate, Mr E. D. Modey. S.M., why he had not walked. Well, 1 had been' down that way for months and months, and bad never seen a policeman on the road," repliedJthe defendant. He wak fined 10s and costs. . . 'V variety of excuses for failure to obtain a radio liceuse were offered to a radio inspector by a man who was charged before Mr W. R. M'Kean, S.M., in the Auckland Polite Court.with operating an unlicensed wireless set. "I called at the man's house and was refused admission," the inspector said. "At the door he told me that he had overlooked taking out a license because big wife had just died. A little later he said he had overlooked it because he was getting married again. Finally he asked me what was a good tale to tell." The man, who did not appear: was fined £l'los, with costs, the fine being 10s greater than that usuallv imposed in these cases. A hungry man did stuff and cram Till he was fairly swollen, _ . ■ And kept on eating Hitchon s Ham Till he's nearly had a roll in... ,