NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22294, 21 June 1934, Page 14

NEWS IN BRIEF

The recent heavy rains have interfered with farming operations generally in South Canterbury, and farmers are finding it difficult to sow their wheat, especially the earlier lines such as Velvet and Hunters. Present indications are that there will be a shorage of these lines unless the present fine weather holds. For the dark mornings you >will require an Alarm Clock. Inspect our stock ofJaz, Westclox,' and other makes, plain and luminous dials. Prices from 8s 6d. — Peter Dick, jewellers and opticians, 490 Moray place, Dunedin.. . A counterfeit half-crown which was circulating in Invercargill was shown to a Southland Times reporter the otherday. It was dated 1928, and although the impressions on the coin corresponded with those oh a genuine half-crown it was not perfectly round, its edge was not properly milled, it could easily Tie cut, and it failed to ring when thrown on a hard surface.

How long does it take to drink a glass of beer? This point was raised at. a recent sitting of the Wellington Magistrate’s Court, when a 'lawyer, defending a man for after-hours drinking, pointed out that although there were five marks on the bar. counter it did not. follow tlxat five glasses of beer were consumed. “A man would take up his glass five or six times,” he said. “He would not drink it down all at once.” -

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: “X do not think people are quite so poverty stricken .this year,” remarked Nurse Maude in the report which she presented to the annual meeting of the. Nurse Maude District Nursing Association Trust Board, in Christchurch. “ There seems to be more’ work,” she added, “ and some of the men have gone back to their own trades, and women and girls are finding more employment. Still, we, have a long, way to go before we reach normal times.” , Not the least of the trials of radio salesmen are the activities of. “ joyrideis ” —persons who obtain sets for days, and sometimes weeks without any intention of buying one—according to a statement by a member of the trade. So acute has the position become that at least one Auckland firm has issued instructions that no demonstration sets are to be made available on Mondays, except to'genuine “prospects.” Wrestling matches are broadcast on Monday nights. Gray’s have a Rood selection of Millinery, Cardigans, Hosiety, Dresses, Coats. These goods have been well bought and keenly price,d. Tokoraairiro should make their purchases at-the Big Store... Sucked, into a 30-inch .culvert pipe by swirling water, a Hamilton (Ontario) baby, aged two, was. swept 50ft under a road and rescued from a creek on the other side. A roan rushed into the creek , and, battling waist deep with the strong current, managed to seize the child just as it was about to be swept down the side of a mountain. . - . , . i Several of Masterton’s principal business houses are at present in splints, while the work of restoring the damage caused by the earthquake of March 5 last, proceeds apace. Although three .months have elapsed since the. shake, work on some buildings is just being commenced, while in other cases a start has yet to be made. The north-eastern end of the business area, which received the full force of the shock, shows more signs of the destructiveness of the earthquake to-day, than it did the morning following the visitation. Most of the buildings damaged by the earthquake are not only being restored to safety, but a considerable sum is being expended on reconditioning work. ■ Coffee for breakfast, fresh and fragrant! I Ask your grocer for the “Bourbon brand. Instructions in every tin. Prepared by “ Durie’s,” coffee specialists, 3Octa.ion, Dunedin,.. _ The decision • of the Auckland Transport Board in respect to the removal of tramway centre poles is being carried out as opportunity offers' (says the Auckland Star).' These traffic dangers^will soon disappear from Jervois road,' for-an arrangement has been completed between ■ the board, the Post and Telegraph-De-partment and the Auckland Electric Power Board, whereby the three authorities will share in the use of the new poles, to be ereccted to carry the span wires. ; _ , . Grandism (2292): The Wine products of the Grand Hotel—Granvin, Aragon, Tagona, Glovin, and now Ginger Wine — are thoroughly reliable.... . Forthe first time in his life, Lora Bledisloe, last week, was presented with a bouquet (says the- Auckland Star) - The occasion was his visit to a lipreading demonstration by members- of the New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing, and at the conclusion of it he was asked to, accept the bouquet; Lord Bledisloe,,with a,smile, observed that the occasion was indeed an histone: one for him, as he had never previously received a bouquet. Adding that: nothing was more characteristic of New Zealand than I its manuka, he selected a spray of it, and placed it in his button-hole. - Knitted Wear Week at the Mosgiel Warehouse. See window displays. Call early —A. F. Cheyne and G 0... ; _ Some of the ban-ackers at Eden Park have yet to learn the lesson of the hoy and the frog allegory (says- the Auckland Star). It gave the boy delight to throw ■ stones into ; the pond ■ and watch the antics of the frog in escapi ug from the firing line. “ It’s fun to me, the boy said.' “Yes,” replied the frog, “ but it is death to me." There was a. roar of laughter from a section'of tne spectators on Saturday when-a Grammar forward, standing.'with his back to a penalty kick,, received the full force-of the ball on the back of the head, and went down under the impact. Later m the game the same player was removed from the. field suffering from concussion. Everything of the best at the "Prince of Wales Hotel, Princes street, Dunedin.— Chas. Hinchcliff, proprietor... The curator of the Dominion-Museum, (Dr W. R. B. Oliver) said last week that the museum had received, the body of a strange sea-bird, which'.had been nicked up by Major R- A. Wilson, of Bulls, while walking along Foxton beach. It -was a specimen of the Mediterranean shearwater, the first ever known here. Dr Oliver said the Mediterranean shearwater was related to the New Zealand mutton bird, but was larger, and about the same size as the New Zealand pigeon. The particular form to which it belongs breeds on the Atlantic Islands of the Azores and Canaries. , In the non-breed-ing season it strays'as far down as,the seas about the Gape of Good Hope. This specimen had probably wandered par to the eastward in the same latitude as a straggler. This is the .first record of the species in New Zealand, according to Dr Oliver.' The nearest locality where the Mediterranean shearwater _has previously been recorded is Kerguelen Island, in the South Indian Ocean; ' Now is the time to encourage native birds to your garden. Feeding -cups and filling tins obtainable at- Dickinson s Ltd., eheetmetal workers, 245 Princes street. • • - From north to south and .-from east to west or the Dominion effectual .live wind-shields are needed to improve the local climate and the, general farming conditions, and thereby ensure the greatest seasonal yields and the maximum annual revenue- being won from the different branches of our agricultural and pastoral industries, according to Dr D. L. Freeman, of the fields division of the; Department of Horticulture,' (states the Nelson correspondent of the Wellington Evening Post). Dr Freeman; said that the greater part of each provinefe in New Zealand which was devoted to the production of farm crops or to animal husbandry.was almost shelterless and well-nigh shadeless. Until each farm was provided with appropriate lines of trees and hedges to furnish much-needed shelter, and trees were estab- ] ished at suitable distances on; the farm pasture lands to ensure desirable shade, the yearly loss on each farm would be palpable and the annual national loss, which was the total of all losses which occurred on each individual farm, would be colossal. In the Waimea, and _iu Nelson province generally, miles of shelter had - been sacrificed in the destruction of hawthorn hedges to save orchards from firebliglit. ' ~ Yes. in a name there s something, one. Thus Hitchon’s should be takeb For prince and peasant long to dine On Hitchon’s ham and bacon.. ■ ' -