NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22741, 29 November 1935, Page 18

NEWS IN BRIEF

A total of 6408 ounces of gold was produced on the West Coast and entered for export from New Zealand during September, 1935. The quantities from the various districts were as follows:—Buller County 190 ounces, Grey County 913 ounces, Inangahua County 2163 ounces, Westland County 3142 ounces. Grandism (2739): Well! Well! judging by the requests for Christmas price lists it looks as if 'most everybody will be having a "Grand" Christmas... A resolution of protest against the action of the delegates attending the recent Dairy Board conference at Wellington in voting for a system of group marketing of produce before consulting the factories they represented has beefo passed by the directors of the Newail Co-operative Dairy Company (reports the Taranaki Herald). Some idea of the popularity of photography among the tourists on the Strathnaver may be gained from the fact that just over 300 rolls of film were brought ashore the other afternoon (states the New Zealand Herald) to be developed and printed by a Queen street firm. . As the average number of exposures on a roll is eight, this represents the "snapping " of over 2400 pictures between Sydney and Auckland. A representative of the Australian head office of the firm accompanied the travellers, selling cameras and films on the trip, providing information about photography and collecting the exposed films for processing at Auckland.

Come and see our show to-nigm. We are open till 9 o'clock Friday nights Scoullar and Chisholm. Limited.. Paddy, the Wanderer, Wellington's much-talked-of dog, is in the limelight again. It has been arranged that he is to go for a trip in an aeroplane. The big Airedale is to be taken up at Mastertou in the Wairarapa Aero Club's new Moth. Paddy, by virtue of his freedom of the city, has travelled, it is claimed, in every form of conveyance, public and private, except an aeroplane and a submarine. The largest shipment of motor vehicles to reach New Zealand from Great Britain in one vessel arrived at Auckland by the Rangitata last week (states the New Zealand Herald). It comprised 540 motor cars and 12 commercial vehicles, of a total value of between £BO,OOO and £90,000. The consignment included cars and motor trucks, the majority of them for Auckland and Wellington. New' Zealand is now one or the largest buyers of British motor manufactures. Willie Crossan, of the Waterloo Hotel, Caversham, gives every attention to orders entrusted' to bis care, and insists on prompt delivery. Don't forget... How many Chrfstchurch people remember that many years ago the Richmond district went under the name of " Bingslands? " asks the Christchurch Press. To the Police Department it stills retains its original name, and although Richmond is used in the telephone book for general convenience, the district for which the Richmond Police Station is the centre, is still known as the Bingsland police district, and that name is used in official papers. . The assistance of the Unemployment Board in testing the oil deposits at Waitara has been secured, and drilling will begin in a few weeks. Members of the board recently visited Waitara, and also the oil wells at Moturoa. As a result, the board has decided to grant financial and advisory toward ascertaining whether the indications of oil at Waitara are likely to lead to the establishment of the oil industry on a payable scale.

Christmas time and the holidays now within easy reach, the Milton housewives do well to get their grocery supplies at Gray's Big Store... .-: ■ J It is a sigh of the modern trend that women are now much keener in keeping alive the national music and dancing of Scotland than menfolk are,"states an exchange. In any national dancing compete tions for children in the Dominion there are four or five girl competitors to every one boy. In piping, too, women have inxaded the field against the men, and Motueka, in the Nelson district, has a women's pipe band which is-said to be little, if anything, below the standard of the best male pipe bands. This band is a feature at the Caledonian Society's meeting and sports gatherings in that district. '

High praise for the programmes of the New Zealand Broadcasting Board was given by Mr D. D. O'Connor, a visitor from Australia. New Zealand had probably the best recorded programmes in the world, and, through the records given, New Zealand listeners were being given the best of the world's music, he said. Very commendable, too, said Mr O'Connor, were the efforts of the board in bringing to New Zealand overseas artists of high repute. In Australia broadcasting stations made every possible use of the local talent, and some of it was very good, too, but for the quality of the programmes presented, although they were recorded, the New Zealand stations would be hard to better.

Best quality regulation dust drums obtainable at Dickinson's, Ltd;, tinsmiths and sheetmetal workers, 245 Princes street, Dunedin... Apropos the farmer and the climate, a townsman relates the complaint of a farmer friend from the King Country. " This weather," declared the farmer, a woolgrower "is going to knock £350 off my wool cheque." The sceptical townie required to know how this was arrived at. " Well, my sheep were all ready for shearing when the recent spell of wet weather set in, and the shearing had to be indefinitely postponed," explained the pastoralist. When the fine weather comes I must wait for several days' sun to get the fleece dried out. Meantime the pastures are full of bidi-bidi awaiting just four days' sun to burst into the sticky stage, and when I get my sheep mustered for shearing the fleeces will be matted with bidi-bidi, a condition which will knock twopence per pound of| the selling price of the fleece."

Kenya coffee, a good medium; My6or<;, a better body and richer flavour; ana Blue Mountain Jamaica, the world's besi- : all obtainable from " Durie's," coffee specialists. 32 Octagon, Dunedin... \Many thousands of cases of apples in Gisborne orchards will be rendered uselees (states the Poverty Bay Herald) as a result of damage caused by the last hailstorm which passed over the district. The damage was done mainly in the Hexton and Patutahi areas, and young fruit in Hexton orchards was so badly marked by large hail that much has been badly disfigured. The Patutahi hail was smaller, and, although the marks are correspondingly emaller on the fruit, the perforations are more numerous, and the apples when mature will be rendered just as useless. In order to minimise the damage, orchardists will take care when thinning to take off fruit which received damage, and as large quantities need to be removed from a very heavysetting the , actual losses, from hail may not be so great as was at first believed, while much- of the lightly-damaged apples, though unsuitable for export, will be marketed locally. However, the losses should extend to several thousand cases.

Spring Cleaning Specials from the Mosgiel 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 Bs»6d yard. Hearthrugs, 5s lid up. Electrolux for hire. 5s full day.—A F. Cheyne and C 0...

Some comments on dairying conditions in Denmark were made by Mr N. P. Adams, of Wharekawa, near Clevedon, who returned to Auckland by the Rangitata recently (states the New Zealand Herald). Mr Adams paid a fortnight's visit to Denmark to study dairying methods. Mr Adams said he had nothing but the greatest admiration for the manner in which the Danes organised their greatest industry. Machine milking in Denmark was practically unknown. Whole families milked by hand, and in cases where there were large herds extra labour was engaged from nearby villages for morning and evening milking. 'Nor was there any home separation, Mr Adams continued. The milk supply was sent to the factories, where it was graded and separated, while the skim milk was subsequently returned to the farms f6r use in pig feeding. Conditions in New Zealand and Denmark certainly differed, but Danish methods were amazingly efficient and appeared to haye a marked bearing on the quality of the butter produced. A dog to guard a bone may bite. But if I'm not mistaken; Cats and kiddies, too will fight, Like mad for Hitchon's bacon...