NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22064, 21 September 1933, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF

Limited supplies of new season’s green peas from the Swanson district are now passing through the Auckland markets. Prices are high, ranging from Is to Is 4d per lb. A gathering of particular interest to Freemasons will be held at New Plymouth • on March 7, when the forty-second convocation of the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of New Zealand will take place. It is understood it will be attended by about 150 representatives from chapters throughout the Dominion. 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 specialty. Peter Dick, jewellers, watchmakers, and opticians, 490 Moray place, Dunedin; phone 13-308... Two black swans are nesting at the edge of the ornamental pond in the Auckland Domain. The nest, built of twigs, stands out of the water at the pond’s_ edge, close to the path, and the mother is sitting on a number of eggs. Although the nest is within reach of passers-by, the aggressiveness of the birds makes it dangerous to go too near. Special ' Spring Show Now On. New Goods in all departments. Prices to Please. Call early; we are always pleased to show you round. The Mosgiel Warehouse, A. F. Cheyne and C 0... The West Coast herd testing group will this year contain about 2000 cows. It will cover the territory from Inangahua Junction to South Westland. There will be three testing officers this year instead of four as last year when the number of cows tested was more than 4000. The West Coast'Association has adopted the by-laws of the Murchison Association. Regulation dust bins delivered free m city. Have you seen our dust bin containers? Just the thing to keep everything tidy.—Dickinson’s, Limited. Sheet Meta! Workers, 245 Princes street... “We will toast the King,”_ said Mr T. - T. Bell, president, at the Kaierau Rugby Club’s annual dinner recently (says the Wanganui Herald). “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” opened the “ song leader” (a Maori), lustily, forgetting for the moment the. nature of the toast. Hastily correcting himself, he gave the looked-for note and swung his charges into a happy rendering of the National Anthem. Gray’s Big Store is well provided with all requirements for spring cleaning. Toko- , mairiro residents may have the home beautiful at least possible costs... The new dairy Season in the Gisborne district has opened encouragingly, . with the prospect of a' further production re-; cord, if climatic conditions are anything like normal (states the Poverty Bay Herald). Steps have been taken to enlarge herds wherever possible, while the expasipn of the herd testing movement of recent years has been responsible for higher production records, which have gone to almost the 4001 b mark under test, while it is also believed that one small herd even surpassed this figure. ; It ris understood that efforts will be made shortly to hold a special display, week in Temuka on the lines made by the business houses in recent years. The idea is to endeavour to brighten trade prospects.: Several suggestions which have been put forward will be considered

by a meeting of business men. Grandism (2062): Winning and holding goodwill—last year—this year—next year. Grand Hotel Home Supply Store for better wines and spirits... Owing to the fact that several accidents have.occurred in recent years on bridges where two narrow rows of longitudinal planking have been used, the Public Works Department has decided that the longitudinal decking on bridges shall be placed the full width of the roadway or shall be omitted altogether and only transverse deck planks used. Advice to this effect was, received by the Hauraki Plains County Council at its meeting last week. Local bodies could use the method found to suit the local conditions best. These instructions were to apply to existing bridges, the,change to be made gradually./ ■■■- Highest grade sugar-cured bacon from 7Jd by rasher.—Barton’s, Manse street... A lady ,who was tending a plot close to the weather board of her house at Wanganui East recently discovered a nest of white butterfly chrysales. A recently-hatched butterfly fluttered down from 1 behind the board and prompted the gardener to investigate. She had no difficulty in filling a jam jar with chrysales that were at hatching point. “ Isn’t it • strange that whenever anything is given to Christchurch somebody always has something against . it? Take the case of the art gallery.” This statement was made the other evening by Mr C. S. Thompson at the meeting of householders called to support the building of an intermediate school in Shirley (says the Times). Later Mr K. W. Hawke* M.P., said that Christchurch people must have a Donnybrook about' a thing-before it was done. “I hope that the Donnybrook over this school is finished and that the work will. be begun,” he concluded. 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;. £5 ss; S.O.S. Sale Price, 655; all sizes.— “Ascot,’’ corner . Princes and Rattray streets...

“ In the harbour and foreshore of Wellington,” said Mr R. Semple, MJ*., at the first annual smoke concert of the Wellington Harbour Board . Sports and Pastimes Club, “ the people of Welhngton'have assets for which they should be proud.” He pointed out that the marine drive was the equal of any in the world, but that it could yet be greatly improved and beautified. “ Such work could be carried out with money now being spent in promoting unproductive labour,” said Mr Semple. “The City Fathers will wake up some day to a realisation of the relative importance of such work.”

Country storekeepers '■ supplied on worth-while terms. —Barton’s, Manse st...

Cremation has been gaining ground in the public favour since it was introduced in Wellington in 1909. At the end of 1910 there were only. 13 cremations, in 1920 there were 213, and up till the end of 1930 769 cremations had taken place. No fewer than 313 cremations have taken place since 1930, making the total to date 1082, a greater increase in three years than in any previous five.

With 15 days to go before completing her semi-official test, a four-year-old Jersey belonging to Mr P. J. Petersen, Blixten (Taranaki), has produced 1024.401 b of butter-fat in 349 days. She is expected to reach 10601 b by the end of the period, thus adding further distinction to a herd that last year secured the world’s championship for Jersey production with Woodland’s Felicie, a cow bred by Mr H. C. Sampson.

Ex Port Dunedin, our new season’s Blue Mountain Jamaica —the world’s best! Also, Kenya and Mysore. All British grown coffees. —A. Durie and Co., coffee specialists, 32 Octagon, Dunedin... Comparisons between New Zealand and American hotels that are decidedly unfavourable to the former are. made by Mr W. A. Appleton in an article in the Accountants’ Journal on his recent American tour. Writing of the hotels, and in particular the Fairmont and Mark Hopkins, Mr Appleton states that one had only to enter one of these hotels to realise how inadequately New Zealand is served by its hotel system. “It is true that we have a few really first-class houses,” sayes Mr Appleton, “ but for the most part our buildings are hopelessly out of date.” Daylight saving is the only “saving" we can save at present. Rejoice over it in anticipation at Wullie Crosean’s “Waterloo.”..

It seems that the best. Bohemians do not get drunk. Puhoi, north of Auckland, was settled by immigrants from Southern Bohemia, who came by way of Hamburg and Liverpool many years ago. j They brought with them old customs, costumes, and dances; and sometimes, writes “Tangiwai” in the New Zealand Railways Magazine, “ they kept up the dances for three days, and weren’t tired then. . . . Also, there was usually a dordly barrel of beer on tap in or about the

ballroom, but no Puhoian was ever seen the worse for liquor.” Some of the Bohemians" served in the Maori War, and while they were in the fighting field the women kept the axe and saw going, loaded cutters with firewood for Auckland, and carried on the farms.”

There’s countless products advertised The public to allure, But give to me before them all The ham that Hitchon’s cure...