NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22963, 19 August 1936, Page 18

NEWS IN BRIEF

Interest is high in the announcement of the discovery of a germ for the wholesale destruction of rabbits, for their infestation of vast areas of pastoral country in the north constitutes one of the greatest problems of its stocking, and of alarming denudation. Sir Charles Martin, when chief of the Division of Animal Nutrition at Adelaide University, became interested in the problem, and has worked earnestly on it since his return to Cambridge. The germ, it is reported, attacks only the rabbit, but it will be subjected to exhaustive tests before animals are infected on a large scale. Grandism (2961): Here’s Douro Invalid Port, a delicious blend that will give you glowing comfort; 5s Bottle. Grand Home Supply Store... A new British industry which has made marked progress is the production of woven asbestos fabrics. At a recent exhibition examples of dyed and even printed fabrics suitable for decoration were shown. It is anticipated that the demand for these fireresisting materials for schools, halls, theatres, kinemas, and wherever the dangers of fire are most to be avoided, will increase rapidly as the remarkable achievements in this new manufacture become better known. Gray's Winter Sale continues at the Big Store, Milton, until Saturday, August 29. With increasing costs housewives do well to keep this well in their minds... The Foveaux Strait oyster bed was described at a recent meeting of the economic biology section of the Wellington Philosophical Society as one of the richest in the world for its size. For more than 60 years it had been worked, and yet the annual landings from this field were higher to-day than they had ever been. The average catch a day was 60 sacks a vessel engaged in dredging. Contrary to general belief, the Foveaux Strait oysters were not mud oysters; they required a shell or grit and gravel bottom. Why burn your fingers with broken pot or kettle lids? Bring the size—we can supply.—Dickinson’s. Ltd.. 245 Princes street.. Redfern (New South Wales) Council the other night went through its whole business programme in eight minutes. It was the shortest meeting for 40 years, according to the Mayor (Alderman Gilmore). “At the usual council meeting there is too much talking done,” said the Mayor at the conclusion. “We had nothing of a contentious nature before us, and for once my aldermen saw little necessity for discussing routine matters.” The opinion that the new railcars should be equipped with a whistle similar to those in use on railway locomotives, the whistle to be operated by compressed air, was expressed by Mr L. Chisholm at last Wednesday’s meeting of the executive of the Automobile Association (Wanganui). The meeting decided to send the suggestion to the annual conference of the North Island Motor Union at Carterton for discussion. Ex Fordsdale and Rangilata. our new season’s Blue Mountain Jamaica. Only from A. Durie and Co., coffee specialists. 32 Octagon, Dunedin.. They had not long been married and all was bustle in their suburban home, as they were going out to a dance. She came into the dining room with a pair of curling tongs and asked him to heat them for her. Having no sisters, he had not been faced with such a task before. He pushed the metal ends of the tongs into the glowing coals. When they were glowing nicely he took them to his wife. She raised the tongs to her hair. There was a faint sizzling and a. smell of burning. They did not go to that dance, and it will be some time before the hair on that side of her head grows to its former length. . , , „ Called upon to do a rush job following the Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ woolstore fire at Port Ahuriri. the wellknown carrying firm of Barry Bros.-, Ltd., set to work with 12 lorries, two tractors and a crane to clear the large site preparatory to constructional work on the new building. Work began on the job on the day following the fire, and at the end of six days the whole of the tangled mass of iron, girders, burnt wool, and general _ debris had been removed, and the site filled in with a thousand or more yards of spoil from Barry Bros.’ quarries m Burns road. Many complimentary remarks have been passed regarding the efficiency and speed with which the work was carried out. The buildmg contractors are now at work on (he foundation of the new wool stores, which will be ready for the Hawne s Bay Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd., in time for the forthcoming wool season.

Moderation in all things, is a good principle in daily life. A nip now and again of Wullie Crossan’s best is extreme moderation, but two nips are moi - e satisfying... “I want to remove a misapprehension about the amount of money which is s’upposed to leave the country,” said Mr R. M. Stewart, when replying to the toast.of “The Motion Picture Industry,” at a dinner at Wellington recently. “Ten million feet of film is imported into this country every year,” said Mr Stewart. “That represents a great outlay of capital. For every £ 1 the New Zealand public spends in picture entertainment only Is lOd leaves the Dominion. The rest is spent locally.” “I anticipate that, within a very short time, a Government commission will visit the district to consider overlapping in cream collection between the Whangarei and Waipu companies,” said Mr D. H. MTCenzie, the chairman, at the meeting of the Waipu Dairy Company. “Whether we lose or gain suppliers in the apportionment of the boundaries, we will gladly abide by the findings, and the sooner the problem is tackled the better it will be for both companies. It has been suggested for many years that the companies concerned should settle the matter, but in practice that has proved impossible. With the differential payments on grade, we will have to make every endeavour to secure the premiums for top quality.” Overcoat Week. Ladies’, maids', girls’ men’s, youths’, and boys’ overcoats all at special prices this week. See special window displays.—A. F. Cheyne and Co., the Mosgiel Warehouse. In the course of an address at the Mayor’s sportsmen’s dinner to the English Rugby League team at Auckland, Mr W. |l. Fee, chairman of the Auckland Cricket ' Association, said that cricket authorities went green with envy at the attendances at football, and wondered what was done with all the money. People might ask where the flies went to in the winter time, but he wondered where footballers went to in the summer time. He was inclined to the opinion that then the thoughts of footballers turned to duty, and apparently it was their mating time. Mr Fee's following remarks were drowned in the laughter and applause, but it was evident that he was appealing for better reciprocity in the patronage of the two games. Rooms and balconies overlooking the expected route of next year’s Coronation procession in Piccadilly, London, are being sold at from 200 to 500 guineas. • Seats are fetching from 5 to 20 guineas; balconies sold to individual seat occupiers are fetching £750. Fourth floor flats in the West End area of the procession of the route are being offered at £2OO for Coronation week. Money spent on accommodation to witness the Coronation is expected to total £1.000.000. When you get up in the morning And you’re anything but bright, Remember Hitchon’s Ham, my boy. It soon will put you right..