NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22121, 27 November 1933, Page 14

NEWS IN BRIEF

A novel feature recently erected in the playground of the Tahuna School Morrinsville is a swing for the children which operates a pump and pumps up v. nter from the deep w’ell to fill the sch tanks. , The second shipment of new seasons lamb from Gisborne was shipped by tha Port Huon, which left last week for. Home. The vessel carried 15,957 carcasses from Gisborne. , That Christmas feeling is becoming evident just now. Milton residents will note the fine display of high-grade Groceries for the festive season at v Gray s Big Store... ~ A sea lion found its way up the mouth of the Aohanga River, in the Wairarapa, recently, and made several visits to a sandpit on the Aohanga Station property. The unusual visitor was an object of curiosity, but the employees of the station made no attempt to capture it. Making arrangements for the accommodation and feeding of about 10,000 jieople is one of the main problems that face the authorities in connection. with the anniversary celebrations of the signing of the Treaty of Waitaugi, to be held at Waitangi in February. We make, and mend, any metal article. Prompt service and satisfaction guaranteed.—Dickinsons, sheet metal workers, 245 Princes street...

It has been decided to commence growing tobacco at Mount Eden prison, and tiic magazine buildings, which were taken over from the Defence Department some time ago, have been converted to factory and storeroom premises. The whole of the alterations and machinery have been constructed by prison labour. “Every year we discuss the scheme tor a Dominion mark and we listen to the same sot of objections, but nothing is done,” said Mr A. M. Hollander, at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association. “ This year we took a great step forward, but still nothing was done.” He indicated that probably Canterbury would take action to give a lend in.the matter. . Turnbull’s sample room, _ Middlemans, Saturday, 25th (late night), Monday, 27th, Tuesday, 28th, and Wednesday, 29th. Special showing of spring and Christmas goods, all at November bargain prices. A call will be appreciated. A. F. Cheyne and C 0... • i Evidence that outsi/es in lemons, rivalling those from more northern districts, can be grown in the Masterton district was given the other day when a fine specimen from a tree grown by Mrs MKenzie, Puke Te, was shown to a Daily Times representative. The lemon weighed Iflb and measured almost 6in in diameter. An unusual position arose during the taking of a ballot te fill three vacancies on the committee of the Whangarei Bax inn- Association, at a special meeting tne o tf,er night. Two of the nominess received 14 votes each and the remaining two seven votes each. A coin was spun to decide who should be the third member 6 The pohutukawa trees fringing , the Takapuna Beach are gradually breaking into flower. A large tree near thecentre of the beach is already covered with red blooms, and. with a continuance of warm weather, it is expected that the whole belt will be a mass of crimson considerably in advance of Christmas, the traditional season for the flowering of the pohutukawa. ' , Most people enjoy good coffee once its taste is acquired it holds the consumer. The favourite Boufbom brand appeals for its strength and flavour. Instructions for making in each tin... At the Auckland Methodist Synod the chairman, the Rev. E D. Patdjett speaking upon the subject of selfishness hindering the work of the church at large. “The real sting in Communism is its unselfish idealism in seeking to sink a narrow individualism in the service and for the good of all." he said, “ The church in the new world, if she is true to her mission, will steal the thunder of Communism.” . _ , That the huge debts incurred by countries through the Great War had not made the world as a whole any poorer was a statement made by Mr J. EStrachan in his address to the Christ church branch of the National Beconstruction Association the other night. He said that the debts were something that redistributed, of altered the distribution of the wealth that was still to be produced. „ ... . . The Rotorua Borough Council has just completed* a unique drainage sclleme in the sewerage reticulation of the theimai area at Whakarewarewa Pa. • The scheme necessitated the laying over 1700 feet of mains in ground varying, in tempera ture from 130 degrees to 212 degrees In many cases large fissures were discovered beneath the surface, the ground had to be reinforced with special acid-resist ing concrete. Serious injury nas narrowly averted on one occasion when a bank on which two men were workm, was blown out by steam,, but neither man was hurt. The accuracy of the prelim inary survey is indicated by the fact that the work was completed for less than the estimated cost. Grandism (2118) .’ . Sent y> th , sa ™l tion, and greeted with grabibnde—Gran vin, the strong • brandy wine ‘ ndl viduality, charm, prestige. 5s bottle... All over the Canterbury. Plains and in the lower foothills shearing is m full swing and the fine weather has favoured itl first of the new season’s wool ia already in store, and more-comes f*rward each day. It seems probable tha. the allocation of 25,000 J? r ™ first Christchurch sale on December - will be filled. It is anticipated that the wool will have been affected bj the dry winter. One good result from the opening of the shearing season has been the employment of many extra a* • even although positions are only temper instance of commercial enterprise on the part of Japanese match manufacturers is their production of a box »}* the title “The Maori on the label. iue box is evidently intended for the Zealand market, and it bearsAot 1 spvim» tation of a Maori woman at a hot; spun,, It Rotorul V Zeatod U grt the - country to warrant the notice ot uio Tananese, for there recently appeared a match box with a kangaroo on the label. Somewhat incongruously. Fuji-Yama shown with the kangaroo. . Christmas and New Year holidays apnreaching* fast 1 Don’t delay in ordering ?he nectary hamper of assorted drinks from the specialist. Wm. Crossan. Waterloo, Caversham... . ■ . «Tf is easv for a motorist to avoid a cyclist with*a dog, whereas a number of accidents are caused by motorists tryto dodge a dog that is wandering, all ovlr the rfad/’ stated a protest against the proposed by-law to prohibit the lead docs by cyclists, received by the Borough Council at its meeting the other evening from the Poverty Bay Kennel Club. The letter contended that it was safer for the dog and the owner to have the dog on a lead, rather than that it should lie allowed to run at large when it was liable to he run oyer, while the owner also was liable to be hurt whi trying to watch his dog instead of 1 * ing where he was going. The club desir d permission for only one dog to be led w i cvclist. The council, however, resolved that the proposed by-law should stand unaltered. As General Smuts was making his way to the aeroplane liner by which he was returning to Africa after his recent visit to Great Britain, he stopped before on, of the Air Ministry police and at once remembered having seen him before. On inquiring where, he was told it was at the Felice Conference at Vereemging, m the Transvaal, in 1902 Immediately general Smuts added that he remembered the policeman as the trumpeter who used to stroke the long tail of the general s favourite Basuto pony, for which t . English lad had great admiration. The distinguished South African soldier and statesman had a long talk with the policeman, who afterwards told an interviewer that though he was only 15 years of age when he first saw General Smuts, li ahv avs thought, of him as the kindest o> all the Boer generals, though over 30 years had passed since the Peace Conference. the only change in the general was, he said, the removal of the long heard that he wore in the days of . the war. General Smuts had never since seen him, he added, until the day he recognised him at the aerodrome. When text you go a-shopping Down in Thames street or in lees; Don’t merely ask for bacon, Say “Hitchon’s if you please. ..