NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22751, 11 December 1935, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF

Despite the unfavourable season, the lambs which are being killed at the Longbuvn Freezing Works are reported to be of good average quality. The total killed daily is round about the 2000 mark. At the height of the season, however, 5000 lambs are handled daily at the works. Only one of the two butchering chains is operating at present, but the other will be manned in a week or two.

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... "We have here to-day 275 beautiful photographs of beautiful children," remarked Sir Robert Anderson when declaring open the other afternoon the Plunket Society's fine exhibition in.H. and J. Smith's lounge, Invercargill. "As they grow up you wonder where much of their beauty has gone to, for so many men and women seem to lose it," he added with a smile.

When borough pound matters were under discussion at the meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council the other evening Mr H. D. Caro mentioned that he had recently had the misfortune to recover a mare belonging to him from the pound. " However, I was not so unlucky as one mare went in and a mare and foal came out," he added, amid laughter. Grandism (2749): At Christmas parties all over Otago and Southland hundreds of folk will drink and enjoy Grand Hotel Wines and Spirits... Increased accommodation for the pheasants and similar birds is being provided at the Auckland Zoological Gardens. An area of ground on the opposite side of the path in front of the existing pens has been cleared,- and a row of permanent bird houses with roomy runs is being constructed on it. The scheme will relieve the congestion arising from recent acquisitions.

Whether or not the sheep which saw its likeness in a shop window at Ai"amoho the other morning (says the Hawera Star) was amazed, annoyed, or disappointed with its own appearance swiil probably never be known. The animal was one of a mob being driven through the suburb by a Wanganui farmer, and immediately it saw its reflection in the window charged with the full force of a miniature battering ram. The incident was sudden and unexpected, and the net result was a badly broken window and a very surprised sheep. Gray's, of the Big Store, Milton, are well prepared in all departments for the Xmas trade. A visit to this store is well worth while... What is the limit of the dustman's service' to residents? This question was raised at the meeting of the Takapuna Borough Council last week during a discussion on the clean-up week. The Mayor (Mr J. Guiniven) stated that he had noticed that one ratepayer, who had a repair shop, had put out the whole of a broken-back axle, casings, etc., with his rubbish tin. If people were going to pile up their yards with stuff like that it was their responsibility to get rid of it, he said. The Mayor added that there was power under the Health Act to compel residents to keep their properties clear of rubbish. The chairman-of the Works Committee said that that was the attitude which it had taken, but the members were under the imprsssion that.the council had undertaken in clean-up .week to remove any rubbish irrespective of it 3 nature. The committee believed that a payment should be demanded for heavy rubbish. The council's inspector informed the meeting-that the previous »week 70 tons of rubbish was carted to the dump. It was decided in future rubbish should be confined to household material, and that a charge should be made for other material.

During the hot dry weather of summer don't drink too much water, unless you impregnate it with a few drops of Wullie Crossan's best. All best brands stocked at the Waterloo...

A woman who was walking along Vivian street, New Plymouth, near Dawson street, just before dark the other evening saw a furry object scamper past her, hastened by the eager barking of several dogs. The animal jumped no fences, but scaled a power pole 1 with remarkable agility. There it perched on a wooden traffic sign, where it waa recognised as a young opossum. It was thought the animal might climb sufficiently high to electrocute itself, but it was content to look down on those gathered below. When the crowd dispersed and all was quiet it made its getaway. "The position now is that, instead of discouraged clergy and hostile people, wa have clergy full of hope and keenness, and a people eager to have the gospel preached to them," states Archdeacon Hori Raiti in an article dealing with the progress of the Maori Mission in the Waikato Diocesan Magazine. "It can safely be said that more Maoris have come l under the influence of the Church in the past nine years than did in the 60 odd years intervening between the war and our bright year 1926. The mission committee realises that, people have supported the mission for over half a century under very discouraging conditions, and are glad to be able to show that the bread which haa been so generously cast upon the watera for so long is now returning. It is hoped that our people will be encouraged by the big forward movement that has been made ajid may again give generously on Christmas Day." Spring Cleaning Specials from ths.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 Eunner, 6s 6d and 8s- 6d yard. Hearthrugs, 5s lid up. Electrolux for hire, 5s full day.—A. P. Cheyne and C 0... "What about translating all this into Maori tongue?" a3ked a Maori supplier at the special meeting of the Whangaiei Dairy Company last week when the hew articles of association were being considered, and many legal points were bein" explained. " You have been talking away., the supplier said, " and we say yes, yes, or no, no, but we don't know what you are talking about." The chairman said lie would translate the motions if he could, but he was unable to speak the tongue. However, he thought that the few Maori suppliers present understood English sufficiently well. The unusual sight of a vicar with a basket on his arm collecting empty beer bottles on a Sunday morning was described by the Rev. H. V. Salmon to members of the Devonporfc Borough Council at a meeting last week. Mr Salmon, who is vicar of the Holy Trinity Church, Devonport, was explaining to the council the reasons why he was not anxious that the Parish Hall, adjoining the church, should be hired for public dances. "It is certainly a novel task," said the vicar, emphasising that the bottles were, without exception, " empties." The council decided to take no further action in the matter. Why borrow your neighbour's lawn mower? Yours io a better machine if Dickinson's sharpen it. Dickinson's, Limited, 245 Princes street, Dunedin... The first of the new season's shipments of stock left Wanganui at the end of last week in the holds of the coastal steamer Holmdale, which sailed for Picton. The Holmdale loaded over 80 head of yearling cattle, and included in the consignment were two valuable Polled Angus bulls. The weather was favourable for a good passage to Picton. A departure from Picton the same day was the Canteiburv Company's motor ship Foxton, with over 400 sheep for delivery at Wanganui. Large quantities of stock are at present moving north and south by rail and road. When the season is at its height big consignments of sheep arrive at Wanganui each week from D'Urville Island, Picton and Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds. That various phases of aviation will in the near future provide opportunities for the employment of young men was the opinion expressed by Mr A. C. Maxwell a member of the Christchurch Boys' Employment Committee, in an address to boys, of the Fifth and Sixth Standards at the East Christchurch School the other morning. Mr Maxwell said that in the next few years aviation would take great steps and that with it many avenues of employment, such as engineering, the construction of aerodromes and hangars, and the building of the machines would lie thrown open. Another industry which promised to give employment to a number was the motor-building industry. Remember those who need a lift, Whose funde are badly shaken; And for the poor, no better gift Than Hitchon's Ham or Bacon...