NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22719, 4 November 1935, Page 18

NEWS IN BRIEF

“ There’s too much of this asking ine court for the suppression of names; the thing is getting a farce,” retorted Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North, when a request was made in this regard. The present railway facilities at Tima Hi were criticised as unworthy of the town by the Mayor (Mr T. W. at last week’s meeting of the Tiniaiu Borough Council, which, after hearing the Mayor’s report, decided to seek the assistance of the Railways Board in having improvements made to the station. Grandism (2717): Money doesn’t go far now-a-days, but you will get the utmost value at the Grand Home Supply Store... “ I do not suggest that you should be over-generous with other people’s money, but you should not be parsimonious or niggardly,” commented his Honor the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in the Supreme Court at Palmerston North the other day, when addressing the jury on the question of damages claimed in a collision case. “I would ask you to do as I would myself if awarding damage*).' - added his Honor, “ that is to give the few pounds more rather than the few pounds less.” He warned the jury* however, against awarding merely nominal damages, or an amount sentimental or punitive. Flies bring disease. Keep your (endows and house clear of these troublesome pests by using our fly baths. Quality meat safes stocked in all sizes.— Dickinson’s, Limited, Shectmetal Workers, 245 Princes street... “A case came under our notice the other day where a consumer had filed down a halfpenny to the size of a shilling and put it in the pre-paid meter,” remarked the chairman of the Southland Electric Power Board (Mr W, Hinchey) at the monthly meeting. “ The house changed hands, and when the meter was opened by the collector the fraud was detected.” The board decided not to prosecute in the case, but made it clear that prosecutions would follow in similar cases in the future. “ Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Salvation Army, Y.M.C.A. and Rotary Clubs are international in their organisation,” said Air Marshal Sir Robert Clark-Hall during the course of a lecture on pacifism in the Navy League Hall at Christchurch recently, “I have yet to read, however of an exchange of fraternal greetings between the pacifist societies of London and Christchurch, Berlin and Rome and Tokio and Moscow. That is one of the weaknesses in the movement,” The coming election will be a mixed one. But notei .lt is notified that all parties are welcome to discuss matters at the Waterloo, Caversham... Professor Bertram Thomas, the Arabian explorer, and his wife arrived in Sydney from New Zealand the other day. Professor Thomas said that he was intensely interested, when visiting the Waitomo Caves, to find the interiors very similar to those of the caves he discovered in Southern Arabia. He would place them in the same geological period. In New Zealand caves, however, glow-worms abounded, and these were much more agreeable tharf the gruesome leaf-nosed bats which filled the Arabian caves. An unusual incident occurred at the Tomoana Showgrounds last Tuesday when Mr G. W. Busby, a visiting pig-breeder from Masterton, was slashed across one of his knees by a boar (says the Napier Daily Telegraph). He was entering one of the pig pens when a white boar rushed at him. Before Mr Busby could defend himself or get out of the pen the animal had ripped his knee. The wound is fairly deep, and the injured .man is receiving careful medical attention. Kenya coffee, a good medium; Mysore, a better body and richer flavour; and Blue Mountain. Jamaica, the world’s best , all obtainable from “ Durie’s,” coffee specialists. 32 Octagon, Dunedin... The Bishop of Waikato visited Raglan last week in connection with the confirmation service, and in the evening was entertained by the Anglican and Congregational Churches’ adherents at supper in the Town Hall. “Now the bishop dailv loves a cigarette at short intervals between speeches and cups of tea,” states the Raglan County Chronicle. “We do not know his favourite brand, but it must have had a very nice aroma, as the custodian of the hall, a typical Hieland man, with the characteristic high sense of duty, sniffed it from afar, and following the trail of the aroma discovered the bishop to be the culprit. Now smoking in the Town Hall is a heinous offence in the eyes of Donald, and he made no bones of asking the bishop ‘to put out that cigarette.’ The bishop gracefully complied with the request and Donald returned to his seat by-the door to sniff some more, whilst the bishop and those in close proximity laughed heartily at the episode.” For successful baking the housewife must have the best quality in the ingredients. Milton people can get the right goods at Gray’s Big Store... The reason why the local whitebait season seemed to come to a sudden and untimely end (reports the Marlborough Express) is said to have been the presence in the vicinity of the Wairau bar of large numbers of kahawai, which preyed on their tiny fellow-fish. Visitors to Queen Charlotte Sound during the past few days have also reported seeing shoals of kahawai, which caused great consternation amongst the herring population, which was further eaten into by the depredations of gannets and barracouta-birds. whose diving feats were a source of much interest to the beholders. “The executive, after considering tho subject of general trade with Australia, and after consulting all chambers, made representations to the Government, pointing out that New Zealand and Australia being at par of exchange with one another, but both at a discount on sterling, Australia is reaping an unfair admintage over Britain in the New Zealand market,” states the annual report of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. “In view of the one-sided trade at present existing between Australia and New Zealand the executive urged that tlio Government endeavour to bring about an arrangement more advantageous to the Dominion. Failing negotiation of an arrangement that would give New Zealand a greater measure of reciprocal trade, it was suggested that steps be taken for reconsideration of the present trade agreement between the Dominion and the Commonwealth. The executive has since framed a remit on the subject for the consideration of the annual conference.” Spring Cleaning Specials from the AJosgiel Warehouse. White and Biscuit Curtain Nets, from Is 3d yard. Fancy Coloured Nets, 2s 6d yard. Silk Nets, from Is lid yard. 27-inch Runner, 6s 6d and 8s fid yard. Hearthrugs, 5s lid up. Electrolux for hire, 5a full day.—A F, Cheyne and C 0... The danger of allowing very small children to play unattended in a street was forcibly borne out in Napier on a recent evening (says the Hawke’s Bay Herald). A motorist, proceeding steadily along Carlyle street, near the police station, about 8 p.m., observed a small girl, about three years old, slowly crossing the street. He slowed down his car to a snail’s pace to allow the child time to clear his car. Just as he did so another car, travelling in the same direction, essayed to pass his car, the driver apparently not having noticed the child on the road. Just as the second car got alongside the other, the child emerged from in front of the first car, and came into the view of the second driver. A sudden swerve just enabled the passing car to miss the little girl by inches. It was a very narrow escape indeed, and one for which, had an accident occurred, no" one could have reasonably been blamed. Early in August Mrs J. Timms, a fisherman living in Kaikoura, obtained from the stomach contents of a groper, caugiit at Kaikoura in 80 fathoms of water, a fish which he forwarded to the Canterbury Museum for identification. Mr Timms has recently'received a reply from Professor R. Speight, curator, in which be states that at the time the fish was received it was not. possible to identify the type, so the fish was sent to the Australian Museum, which replied that the fish is being returned to New Zealand. The report says that the fish is new to science and does not belong to any known species. “ Where are you going my pretty maid?” “To buy some Hitchon’s ham,” she said. “ Well, bring me some Hitchou’s bacon, too, And I’ll have a treat ae well as you.”..