NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22810, 20 February 1936, Page 18

NEWS IN BRIEF

The opinion that there should be established some sort of board to examine the prospects ahead of an. industry before it was allowed to start was voiced by Mr W. E. Winks when' speaking; at a meeting at Palmerston North. New Zealand, he thought, would be running into all sorts of dangers if it allowed Various industries to crop up, as they had done in the past in Australia, and bring about over-production. Grandism (2808): .Men and products inspire confidence according to the degree in which their promises are kfept. Grand Hotel Home Supply Store...

Four taxi drivers drove their cars to a Palmerston North hotel early on a recent Sunday morning to find, according to their story, that the call was a bogus one. As they left the .premises, ho we vex - , they were confronted by a sergeant of police, and the sequel was their appearance in the Magistrate’s Court, charged with being on licensed premises after hours. The defendants w r ere given the benefit of the doubt.

Are your eyes troubling you? Our Optical service - s at your disposal.—Peter Dick, Jewellers and Opticians, 488 Moray place, Dunedin. Phone 13-308... The first of the season’s quinnat salmon (says the Christchurch Press) was killed in the Hurunui River, near the mouth, last Saturday morning. The fish, .which was an excellent specimen, weighing 301 b, was taken with rod and line by Mrs A. Gillanders, “Mount Seddou,” Dpmett. Fishei’men will readily sympathise.with, the fisherman at the Napier breakwater who hauled in no fewer than 17 eels of varying degrees of length and strength. This catch (says the Hawke’s Bay Herald) was obtained in the short space of one hour, which ended abruptly when the disgusted fisherman consigned his haul and one completely tangled fishing line to the depths of the adjoining sea. Crossan’s hampers of assorted drinks are always approved of, and his patrons are reminded that Easter requirements should be now considered...

Reference was made at a Napier,Rotary Club luncheon by Mr J. Tattersall to the sealed trains by which German subjects cross the Polish Corridor. from one part of their country to that on the other side of the Corridor. Instead of having to go twice through the formality of a Customs inspection in a short distance, the trains crossing the Polish Corridor from one part of Germany to another are sealed, and pass through unchecked. The gift of a chain of office for the Mayor of Hastings has been offered to the Borough Council by Mr B. M. Kessel, and was accepted with thanks by the council at its last meeting. Mr Kessel has not yet completed the design, but is now at work upon it. The chain will be of silver, and its design will be similar to that adopted for such emblems by other municipalities.

Summer dress goods have come under the price-reducer’s pencil at Gray’s Big Store. Milton residents should inquire here if in need of dress material..,, .. A tender for the excavation and clearance of . the site for the new isolation block at the Napier Hospital was provisionally accepted by the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board recently. A sum of £SOO is involved, and work will be commenced as soon as the necessary approval of the Minister of Health is forthcoming. The following remark was passed at the Bakers’ Conference at Wanganui; “The men of the future may be the women.” A delegate stated that it looked as if the women had got into the pastry-cooking business a}l right and they would probably get into the bread business also.

Back-to-echool-week at the Mosgiel Drapery Warehouse. Regulation High School uniforms and all school clothes at special prices. See window displays.— A. F. Cheyne and C 0... “Beautiful" was the only comment made by Canon E. B. S. Hammond, of Sydney, when he was driven through the avenue of trees in Grey'street, Hamilton East, in the course of a visit to the Waikato Land Settlement Society’s property at Kairangi. “ What a remarkable asset to the town,” he remarked later. “ One could not wish to see anything more beautiful than these trees.” “ The southern end of the town, including South Karori, is becoming infested with ragwort,” said Cr J. Purchase,' at the last meeting of the Makara County Council. “Apparently the average person does not realise what ragwort means to the farmer, otherwise they would not have let it spread as it has spread.” The council decided, on Cr Purchase’s motion, to draw the attention of the Department of Agriculture to the weed. " Bourbon ’’ for breakfast! This favourite coffee makes strong appeal to those who know the worth of a genuine beverage.—Duties, Specialists, 32 Octagon, Dunedin. '

Speaking of patent breakfast foods at the Bakers’ Conference at Wanganui and the profit thereon, Mr Miller, Invercargill, said that the manufacturers of these bought his material at £6 per ton and solfi it at something like £j6oo to £IOOO per ton. It was like the manufacturers of pills who manufactured at IJd per box; it cost him. 9d to advertise, and he sold at Is, and made an enormus profit. The baker bought his flour at £l3 per ton and sold his finished product at £26.

You cannot do good work with blunt tools. We employ experts who sharpen and set saws of any size. Satisfaction fuaranteed. —Dickinson’s Limited, 245 'rincee street... “ The law is always common sense,” stated Mr Justice Blair at Palmerston North when advising a jury concerning aiding and abetting in crime.' “It is surprising how much it is ordinary, everyday common sense.” Everyone who took part in a crime was as guilty as the principal. Even if a blacksmith put a point on a jemmy for a man who said he was going to use it to break into a house, and did so a week later, the blacksmith would be guilty with him. However, after an accused person had been found guilty, judges, who were “ supposed to have a bit of common sense,” could make a distinction. Nevertheless, any person who took any part in a crime contracted a liability, “guilty or not guilty,” and the law made no distinctions. Tenders, it is understood, are to be called immediately for the erection of a new brewing block for the Marlborough Brewery Company to replace the structure that was destroyed by fire nearly a fortnight ago. Plans have been already completed for a new building, which (says the Express) will occupy the site of the former structure. It will be similar in design, but somewhat larger. On each of the four floors will be a huge 1000gallon kauri vat enabling the capacity of the plant to be increased to 800 to 1000 gallons at a brew, according to requirements. All the old plant was rendered practically useless by the fire and is being replaced by new and up-to-date equipment, all electrified. Steam will be supplied from a new boiler to be installed in a detached boiler house. Formerly the boiler room wag on the ground floor of the brewery. A portion of the cellar" ;affected by the fire is to be renewed. The very thing for folk to eat Is heaps of Hitchon’s bacon. It makes them comfy, fat and sleek. Or I am much mistaken.,. -