NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22295, 22 June 1934, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF

Good progress is being made w'ith' the! erection of the hew town clock'tOwerm the : Jubilee Gardens, Cambridge. v" ; When finished the tower will be 44ft':6in in height and over 30ft has been- already built in reinforced concrete. 'The bells have been installed; and ; with the '-'■ fourth stprey practically completed; a -start'is being made to erect' the clock machinery. Come and uee our show to-uigut. : We are open till 9 o'clock Friday nights.— Scoullar and Chisholin, Limited;,*.;

When- called to. give evidence.'during the hearing of a civil case in the Auck-; land Supreme Court, a young city .business man unhesitatingly walked: into the prisoners' dock facing the judge. '-., The witness, who. was apparently unfamiliar with court procedure, was slow to realise' his error, and did not vacate the doek in favour of the witness-box until: he wag peremptorily called upon to do; so by the court orderly. "' . . '. "The manner, in which the- Wanganui Automobile Association has- sign-posted the roads in its:.district is very, credit: able," remarked a Hawke's Bay visitor.• He said; that he had experienced no dif- . ficulty in finding his way about, and was, very pleased with the distinctness with which the routes were indicated. -- "> For assorted supplies of best brands you cannot do better than order from Wm, Crossan, " Waterloo," Caversham, Orders attended to pronto... . • . A tribute to the quality of New Zealand. butter is contained in a letter. re-, ceived by ah Auckland resident, from his sister in Kent, England. The writerstates that she has used Dominion butter for several years, and "has found it of perfectly even "quality,; (Bind excellent. flavour. A friend; who\ always uses New Zealand butter is in the habit of .buying three months' supply, for;;» large family, at a time, and has never ' had a complaint to make. ■'-.--'-..■ Gray's have a good selection of MUlinery, Cardigans, Hosiery, Dresses, Coats. These goods Tiave been well bought.- and keenly priced. Tokdmairiro should make their purchases at the Big Store.., , ; / Surprise at the variety of the scenic attractions compressed in the compara-' tiv'ely small compass of New Zealand was voiced the other,day by Mr G. Crossman, of South Africa, now on a visit to Christchurch. Mr Grossman is director of the Union Produce MarL-Ltd;, a fir in of Durban'Woolbrokers.: He: stated tnat he and Mrs Crossman had been .most. agreeably surprised with'New Zealand: lii South Africa one had to travel vast distances to visit the favoured spots. The mountain scenery in New Zealand .was something, entirely new for. them, and the glaciers were particularly interesting. New Zealand was well known throughout South Africa, the footballers having'; advertised the country.well. "■■■-.,. Coffee for breakfast, fresh and fragrantl Ask your grocer for the.". Bourbon brand. Instructions in every tin. ; Prepared by .'" Dune's,".coffee specialists; .32 Octagon, .Dunedin..." ;,. V ■ Frequently during his address on the world outlook at the Wellington, Dr F* W. .Norwood; ;oi\ the City Temple, London, who is an Australian by birth, interspersed his more Berious remarks with subtle humour;.-/;' One. of his ■ best efforts was his reference tothe:comr I ing of Australia's "pilgrim fathers, v the point of • which vas not by any means i lost on his listeners. "We Australians | say jt is no wonder, that we are a fine race of people,' since our original Btock ; was especially selected by the best judges in England," Dr Norwood added amidst renewed laughter: ' As a. result of ; the Christchurch Tramway Board's decision to levy /aerate there are many sheepfarmers and dairyfarmers- who have been forced; into the anomalous position of having.to help to keep the trams going, (says the Sun). The rate is equal to £1 0s 2d; on every £IOOO of. capital value, and the-majority of the farmers concerned are igoing to feel the impact of this fairly severely. In the Sumner borough, far instance, the bulk fit its 3800 acres is used for sheepTgrazing. Grandism (2293):." Warm welcome, courtesy, alert attention to your .needs. The Grand Hotel has built up a lasting reputation on quality'and servicp... - *;-;■■. A further complication has entered the question Of when a trailer ..is. not da. trailer, but a movable house. Recently the executive of the Automobile Association. (Hawke's Bay) considered a. letter upon this subject from the .North.lsland Motor-Union, which stated that a trailer used for the carriage of camping gear 'fras a" motor vehicle; and must be licensed. "This of course," added the writer,- does not apply to caravans, which are held-.-to be movable houses, and not'designed solely for; the carriage of goods and passengers." Caravans axe therefore exempt, as they are houses on wheels., ■. ■"- -.-!;• Katikati, the well-known 'farming 'district some 20 miles from Waihi/where the Vessey' Stewart settlers located themselves in the early 'days;, is .nowexperiencing a revival; of'the sawmilling industry (says a. northern report). At one time it was « ;centre of. the timber industry, and numbers of bushmen were employed some - distance from - the township. * A mill. has-, just been completed, where special machinery for the turning out of fruit cases and sawn timber has been installled. The principal timber used at the present" time is pihus msignus, which can _ be ; dbtained in large quantities in the district*. - -■■' ' .";'!■ KnittedlWear 'Week at the; Mdsgiel Warehouse. See window, displays.; Call early .—A. F. Cheyne and Co:. V- r; v -;'.; : . ;"■ •.' " Since leaving Peking, the old- capital of China, almost two years ago, it ..has been : a continually increasing amazement to me how very little'the outside world seems to know or care - about that wonderful people," said Dr, C. W. Parr m an address at Christchurch. •Dr Parr was associated with" the Yenching; University, Peking, for several years. "The new China is rising from the ashes of the old, and is being developed by. the students," he said. "As in other countries, the student world is. the /great storm-centre '". in China, to-day; 'and the wave, of intense,nationalism .'that has developed everywhere since the Great War is particularly sti-bnz among Chinese students. Their libraries are flooded with every grade of western literature, and the most radical publications are freely available, and eagerly read by them. Everything of the best at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Princes street, Dunedin.—• Chas. Hinchcliff, proprietor....;. ...

The largest shot fired for some time in the Greymouth Harbour Board s quarry at Cobden was followed by an impressive spectacle last week. .Four hundred tons of stone; in one" solid block, came hurtling down over ; a ridge on to the roadway. As the stonestruck the railway track a piece weighing from 20 to 30. tons flew 'off/.bounced across the road, smashing the kefbihg and crumbling the asphalt footpath, and, broke through a fence, ending with a huge splash in the Grey River. Fortunately, the rock bounced on the, road between the water and gas mains, and neither-wag damaged. The road was partially blocked. .The shot fired was one of a series planned 7 tb" make the quarry face safer. Much stone has yet to be:brought down. The quarry is out a little distance from the road; which is closed immediately before and after the firing of each shot. V"

We make, and mend,, any metal Article. Prompt service and satisfaction "guaranteed.—Dickinsons, sheet metal workers, 245 Princes street.... ,

,An old-established ; firm of, surveyors, who recently went into an area'to verify a survey they completed about 20. years ago, were considerably surprised with 4be havoc which had been played with the survey pegs. Those which had been left undisturbed' (states the icle) were as good-almost .as'the" day they ?were put in, but others had evidently been pulled right out.and others had been m very badly mutilated.' The. acts 'ox thoughtless people had caused them much needless work, and had also-cost the owners of the land much extra expense. It was not generally known, one of the senior surveyors said, that there .was ,a heavy penalty attached to pulling up or destroying survey pegs, and it would t be a good thing if school teachers impressed on their scholars the necessity and advisability of protecting pegs/ whichv were the emblems of the title and boundaries of the land; ' •'.'.' . •" " / ' ■''■"■ Ses, in a name there's something fine; Thus Hitchon's should be taken ( For prince and' peasant longr to "diae. On Hitchon's ham .and bacohi.*j :- : ; ■