NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22659, 26 August 1935, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF

A Marlborough County ratepayer who owed rates amounting to three shillings and threepence was sued for the amount at the Blenheim Magistrate's Court last week. The County Council got judgment for the sum claimed, plus three times the amount in costs. Contending that the question of the weekly half holiday was a matter for decision by individual districts, the council of the South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce withheld its support from a proposal made by the Manaw'atu Em- - nloyers’ Association that Saturday should be adopted as a national half-holiday. This is clean-up week at the Big Store, Milton. You are invited to visit Gray* bargain tables and to w r atch the spring goods arrive... ■ In some districts in. India there are many snakes, and the residents when out at night carry a lantern so that they may avoid treading upon them, consequently when a party of men were leaving a house where they had been lavishly entertained each carried his.lantern. Next morning one of the guests telephoned the host of the previous evening congratulating hini on the success of his efforts to entertain his friends and thanked him for the good time they had all had. The host thanked him for his kind remarks, but added: ■ “ But you might return my wife s parrot cage which you took instead of your lantern.” , . , Do without luxuries, but take necessaries regularly. Wm. Crossan supplies the necessaries from the Waterloo Hotel. Caversham... An excellent sample of kapok has been grown on Mr T. S. Ferguson's farm at Pyes Pa. near Tauranga. The plant tvas grown in a sheltered position facing north, and'ft has a total of 78 ripe pods. The pods are sin long, but in their green state they were gbout 9in in length. Ibo silkv fibre is a splendid sample. The plant came from Australia. A decision to declare a plant known as “Paterson’s Curse” a noxious weed was made by the Manurewa Town Board recently- A specimen of the plant, which was' stated to be spreading rapidly m the district, and causing concern among farmers, was received at the boards previous meeting for identification. The weed grows unchecked to the detriment or grasses and clovers as stock do not relish

’’"Last week of Sale. Buy, now and eare on every A good selection in each Department. Call to-day. Your inspection invited. The MPS2 le l Warehouse A. F. Cheyne and C 0..“Yes, the town is leaner than the country, but they don’t squeak so much, agreed Mr E. S. Parker at a recent meeting of the Marlborough Power Board, when the question of granting a reduction in the charge for current used for milking machine motors was under discussion, Mr C E. Costello had remarked that-the town people, Who still had to pay a good price for the privilege of lighting their bI J°P windows, might be as lean as the country Pe Whe’n a witness in the Supreme Court at Wanganui recently was asked the value of gold-mining shares he bad, fa e replied that they “ might be worth something to dav and nothing to-morrow. He toen looked hard at his Honor the Chief Jus tice. Sir Michael Myers as though trying determine the value. His Honor. There is no use looking at me. -I dont know the value of raining shares. Grandism (2657); Keep well and enjoy freedom from colds and other winter ailments. Glovin Rum Punch, 5s bottle, 2s 6d large flask (10oz)... . - A Government analyst who was givinS evidence in the Supreme Court, Napier, regarding a certain poison, was asked by the" foreman of the jury,. How many grains of poison would it take to kill a eat’ ” He replied that be could not saj, because there was a good deal of variation in the effect of the poison on a human and on an animal. “Of course,„ a cat would have nine lives to dispose oL inter jected Mr Justice Reed, amid ? r v n _ The vigilance of a postal P® cl^ T • n deprived the Wellington RujSbjr Union of conscience money to th small sum of sixpence. Wellington Rugby Union. Is Herewith. Conscience money. Thou God Seest Me. Th wordJ were printed on a piece of paper enclosed with a shilling n posted to the union by somebody who had evidently heard the whispering voice of conscience, but the secretary announced at the meeting of the Management Coin mittee a few nights ago that the umon n-nnlfl receive only sixpence as he naa had to pay a fine of 6d before he could claim the letter. The anonymous sender had made an unauthorised enclosure, which was detected by the vigilant official. You cannot do good work with blunt tools We employ experts who sharpen and set saws of any size. Satisfaction guaranteed.—Dickinson a Limited. 24d Princes street... Steps are to be taken by the Napier Harbour Board to expedite the dredging work involved in the development scheme at the breakwater. The board decided at its meeting last week that the engineer should prepare specifications, inviting tenders for the removal of approximately 500.000 tons of material within two and a-half or three years. It was also deemed that inquiries should be made regarding the chartering of a suitable dredge to assist the Whakarlre.. . „ . “ The wettest place in the world, is tn - description given of the island of Kauai, Hawaii, by Mr A. P. Hills, a, residenbon the island, who arrived in Christchurch last week, beginning a holiday visit to New Zealand. Mr Hills qualified his remark, however, by adding that the heavy rainfall of 600 inches in a year fell only in a certain part of the island. In other parts, he said, the annual rainfall mignt be “only 100 inches.” ... .. In reply to a question raised by tuNorth Island Motor Union, the Commissioner of Transport, Mr C. C. Godfrey, has given an opinion that the motor iegulations do not prohibit angle parking of motor cars where it is provided for m the local by-laws. The commissioner said that permission would require to be specifically set out in the by-law. At a meeting of the council of the Automobile Association (Auckland) Mr G. Henning said that angle parking should be used wherever possible. He mentioned that the introduction of angle parking in Karangahape road had proved most successfU Kenya coffee, a good medium; Mysore, a better body and richer flavour; and Blue Mountain Jamaica, the worlds best, all obtainable from “Dunes, coffee specialists, S2 Octagon, Dunedin... The English Library Association Record unwittingly confers a new distinction on Dr Guy H. Scholefield, New Zealand parliamentary librarian. _ln a personal paragraph recording his visit to England following his attendance at the International Library Conference at Madrid the magazine refers to him as “ Parliamentary Librarian and Dominion Architect, General Assembly Library, New Zealand. The reference to Dominion architect presumably arises from his position as director of Dominion archives. It was while Mr Alan.C. Browne, the English artist, was camped at the Aylmer Bivouac at the head of the Franz Josef Glacier that he discovered the extreme methods adopted by one man to keep warm. In the man’s absence one day- ne made the bunk and to his surprise found that besides sleeping with a big woollen sweater over all his day clothes, which were considerable, his bunk yielded two big, soft mattresses, three pillows, a kapok-filled eiderdown, a tent fly-sheet eight feet square, two grey blankets stitched together to form a sleeping bag and seven grey blankets on the top of that! And still he complained of the cold. “Taking the handwriting of children by and large, I am beartily ashamed of it.” This comment was passed by Mr E. F. Hemingway, chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, when addressing a meeting of School Committee delegates in Palmerston North. A committee member had asked Mr Hemingway whether, as an old teacher and chairman- of the Education Board, he thought the use of pads instead of slates was conducive to good writing. He replied that the matter was outside the jurisdiction of the board, but he agreed there was nothing like the attention paid to handwriting in the schools to-day that there was years ago. The majority of present-day children seemed to write frightfully. Some'of the best writers, he had noticed, were Maoris. I know a stingy Scottish lout, The cash is all he’s keen on; Yet Hitchon’s ham he’s ne’er without. That’s all he spends a bean 0n...