NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22065, 22 September 1933, Page 14

NEWS IN BRIEF

Whitebait catches at Greymouth last week-end showed a little improvement on the returns secured by fishermen so far this season. The Invercargill City Council’s meeting the other evening began at 7.30 (says the Southland Times) and ended at 12.25 a.m. This is, so far as can be learnt, a record —though not one which councillors or reporters appreciated. Come and see our show to-night. We are open till 9 o’clock Friday nights.— Scoullar and Chisholm, Limited... The remnants of an aeroplane stacked on a railway truck attracted attention at the Otahuhu railway station recently. On the side of the truck somebody had chalked the intriguing notice: "Travel by rail.” A Christchurch motorist discovered a cock pheasant on the road between Governor’s Bay and Teddington the other afternoon. According to him, the bird was a fine specimen, but when he pulled up and attempted to get near it, it stood not upon the order of its going and went through the fence and into the paddock nearby with all the speed it could muster. Special Spring Show Now On. New Goods in all departments. Prices .o Please. Call early; we are always pleased to show you round. The Mosgiel Warehouse, A. F. Cheyne and C 0... ’There was a regular battue among the dogs on a station at Mohaka on a recent occasion, when five of them met their Waterloo while worrying sheep (says an exchange).. This was after they had accounted for six sheep and a lamb. Two other dogs were shot at Springhill Station, and. according to the statements made not one of them wore a collar to enable identification to be effected. The dog tax collector is now to be, asked .to supply information on this point. Do you know that Dickinson’s repair Electroplate, Pewter of any metal? Hav< that old favourite teapot repaired. Besl workmanship and prompt service.— Dickinson’s, Limited, Sheet Metal Workers, 245 Princes street, Dunedin... . Part of a pewspaper 70 years old was discovered by a Mount Albert resident recently when he was removing wallpaper preparatory to repapering a room. On the scrim under the wallpaper were strips ol newspaper from the issue of the New Zealander, dated June 16, 1863. The paper was in a perfect state of preservation and a strip containing advertisements tor auction sales was as legible as it must have been on the day when it w«u Gray’s Big Store is well provided with all requirements for. spring cleaning, lokomairiro residents may have the home beautiful at least possible costs... The fire engine will no longer have a monopoly of an electric siren, for at the last meeting of the Invercargill City Council authority was given the traffic inspector to purchase one of these cacophonous warning devices (says the Southland Times). Under the new Motor Vehicle Regulations a traffic inspector’s machine must be equipped with a siren, which is to be used to signal motor drivers to slop or to make way to a traffic inspector in the course of his duty. Grandism (2063): Always first, in social prestige. Now at .prices everyone can afford. Tagona -3s 6d, Aragon 4s, Granvin ss, Glovjn 6s. Try them once... "We would appreciate a visit from tne inspector,” a farmer from the Marua district told a Northern Advocate representative the other day. Recently a neighbour of mine was motoring into town when, a 'calf ran across in front of his car. it was knocked...down ana its leg broken, so that the driver had to inform the owner; and'have the animal put out of its misery. On, the way m he had to stop his car several times to drive cattle off the road. Some were straying in a particularly dangerous ■ place on a hillside cutting. . Highest grade, sugar-cured bacon trom 74d by rasher—Barton’s. Manse street--2 After years of valuable service in the cause of humanity, the death has occurred on Waiheke Island of a horse known to all the residents and hundreds of picnickers who visited the island. The animal, a popular and faithful friend, vati used by the representative on Waiheke of the St. John Ambulance Association solely in the work of the association... it carried its rider to all the football patches and other sports fixtures, as well as to accident calls. It wa« particularly well known to visitors to Oneroa Beach, ana regarded by large numbers as an old fl gQ d S —Profits lost. Only value saved at Ascot Sale. All-wool Overcoats, were 755, S.O.S. Sale Price, 3is 6d. Also, Thornproof Suits, brown shades; £5 os, SOS Sale Price, 655; all sizes. "Ascot,"; corner Princes and Rattray A novel idea was presented by a member of the Napier Borough Council recently. He said that if the council decided to Proceed with the building of a civic block, they might well consider the question of including an aquarium as part of the museum section. He knew of no other town in New Zealand with a really good aquarium, and he thought the present time was opportune °r g[‘ ing thought to the question. It would be a continual source of attraction tor people coming to Napier from . outlyin? districts and towns, he added, but. apart from that, it would add greatly to the instructional equipment of the museu . Should the council decide to continue with the civic block plan I certainly thiqk we should discuss the inclusion of an storekeepers suppliedl on worth-while terms.—Barton’s, Manse st.. . The mineral spring on the Tikipunga road showed renewed activity the otqer L,ght, and three pools in the middle ot the macadam frothed and bubbled away merrily (says the Northern Advocate). A crowd assembV.d to see the phenomenon. A- man with a spade thought he should do something about it. On his lifting a mig stone, a miniature geyser shot up- wo • ever he pushed further, with the res It that th" 1 water trickled away and the effervescent went into retirement ones n '¥he large increase in the number of shags on Southland rivers was mentioned at the monthly meeting of the council of the Southland Acclimatisation Society, and members discussed the steps to taken to combat the nuisance. The president (Mr James Robertson) said that an arrangement could probably be come to with angling clubs if ammunition were provided and prizes given for a senes of "drives” to be undertaken, but the difficulty was that these could be undeitaken only at certain periods of the year. Ex Port Dunedin, our new season s Blue Mountain Jamaica—'the vorWsbest. Also, Kenya and Mysore. A 1 British .grown coffees.—A. Dune and Co., coffee specialists,-32 Octagon. Dunedin... . The secretary of the Timaru Agncultural and Pastoral Association has, received a letter from the Minister or Agriculture (Mr C. E. Macmillan) , stating that there was no immediate intention on the part of the Government to lift the embargo on the importation or stock from countries in which footramlmouth disease existed. The matter would come up for further . consideration now that the Prime Minister had returned, but the association could rest assured that in the event of any suggestions being formulated for the removal of the embargo stock owners would be given a tnu opportunity to consider them and express their opinions. , „ . » Daylight saving is the only saving we can save at present. Rejoice over it in anticipation at Wullie Crossan’s “Waterloo.”.. ■ A new departure has been made in the arrangement of the names on the ballot paper for the election of the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce (savs the Press). In recent years the names have been placed in a circle in alphabetical order, but it was fount that members voting showed an inclination to start their selection of councillors from the letter “ a ” and work round the circle alphabetically. It was seen that the circular form of ballot paper had little advantage over the straight list if the names were so arranged, and that nomtnees whose names began with letters well up in the alphabet might have an ad vantage in the voting. To obviate this the names of prospective councillors in the present election for , the 1933-34 council were drawn for positions, and it is expected that the new arrangement will stop any tendency to select the 20 members of the council alphabetically.. When Jack sails o’er the bounding eea Salt pork’s his daily ration, But when ashore he sets his course And steers for Hitchon’s bacon...