NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22999, 30 September 1936, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF

The sum of £250 has been received by the Auckland University College to be spent on books for the library. Tire gift was made on the condition that the name of the donor should not be published in the press. Unanimous support for a proposed levy of 2d a head on all pigs killed for local consumption or export was given by the executive of the Farmers’ Union (North Canterbury district) at a meeting the other day. The levy is intended to supply approximately £6OOO of a total of £IO,OOO necessary for a national scheme of recording and research for the pig industry of the Dominion. The Manawatu Pig Recording Association is seeking support for such a scheme. Grandism (2997); Keep this in mind: You cannot buy Grand Hotel Quality at less than Grand Hotel prices. Home Supply, Princes street... A resident of Babylon, near Dargaville, Mr G. R. M’Leod, found a piece of ambergris on the west coast, near Mongonui Bluff, about 12 miles north of the Chases Gorge camp. The ambergris was brought to Dargaville and deposited with a bank. It weighed 25$lb, and its market price is stated to' be about 5s per ounce. A Dargaville resident who forwarded some ambergris to London recently for sale had the consignment returned to him, as there is no demand on the market for it. To-day and Wednesday, 291 h and 30th inst, will be devoted to special bargain tables at Gray’s Big Store, Milton.' This store spares no effort to keep values and quality right for local residents...

Anglers and other sportsmen are notoriously long-winded in talking about their special mysteries. The meetings of the council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society are in keeping with this aspect of the reputation of the men it, represents. <• Nearly every monthly meeting of the colmcil recently has continued from 7.30 p.m. until near midnight, and the last meeting was no exception, fox it ended after 11.35 p.m. Some months ago the council decided that meetings should not go on beyond 10.30 p.m.. but it has apparently been found that three hours’‘talking is not enough. An unusual Incident occurred during the Junior Championship final played over 36 holes at the Matamata Golf Club’s links recently (states the New Zealand Herald), when the winner, W. D, L. M’Donald, was dormy two. In the act of driving from the thirty-fifth tee, he was seized with severe cramp in both legs. Medical attention was given and the match was resumed after a delay of 20 minutes./ The last hole was halved in seven. 1 Turnbull’s 1 Sample Rooms, Middlemarch, Wed. 30th. Special showing of new spring goods, ladies’ and children’s frocks, coats, and hats, curtains and hearthrugs; men’s and boys’ wear. Call early.—A. F. Cheyne and Co., Mosgiel.. / An important-looking package, bearing Polish stamps, and marked “ Probabe z Wartosci,” which arrived by registered post for an Auckland (resident the other day, had the recipient guessing: A dictionary revealed that “probabe z wartosci” meant “samples without value,” but the mystery was not solved until the package was opened. The recipient found the “samples” were three collars' which he himself had inadvertently left in Warsaw when living in that capital last September. “A definite assurance will be given the Government that the requirements of dairy factories in New Zealand for white pine for butter boxes', will be given priority, even if the export trade has to be curtailed substantially,” said Mr A. O. Wilkinson, secretary of the West Coast Sawmillers’ Association, after a meeting bf the association at Greymouth the other day. “The Government has recently expressed fear fdr the adequate provision of the supply of white pine for butter boxes for the requirements of the whole of New Zealand,” said Mr Wilkinson. He added that the new red pine price list would be available within the next day or so. Mrs M’Pherson came in this afternoon and she said: “ I’m no askin’ Mrs M’Nab to my party, as I asked her once before, and she never ‘recuperated.’ ” You can always recuperate at Wm. Crossan’s Waterloo... Considerable discussion on a secondhand truck which had come into the possession of the Waimairi County Council, took place at the fortnightly meeting the other night. One expression of opinion was that it would be better to 7 ‘ fit a new truck to the steering wheel,” while in his report the engineer stated that eight broken axles had had to be replaced and that in his experience the hand brake had never worked. Also, he said, the engine required considerable overhaul, a battery was needed and the rear brakes were not efficient.*

A motorist travelling through the street of Waiuku recently was surprised to see 13 local residents bearing down on him, each trundling before him a wheelbarrow with a passenger. The race was one of about half a mile from the Post Office to the football groundj and was part of a campaign to assist the sports queen in a carnival which was being held.' An officer’s sword, probably a relic of the Maori Wars, has been ploughed up at Omarunui, and presented to the Hawke’s, Bay Art Gallery and Museum by Mr Flewellyn King. The sword is well preserved, and has a brass hilt with a regimental crest on it. Why burn your fingers with broken pot or kettle lids? Bring the size—we can supply.—Dickinson’s. Ltd.. 245 Princes street.., ■■ In an endeavour to provide food for native birds, which have suffered by the destruction of bush through fire and milling, the Waimarino Acclimatisation Society has launched a campaign to encourage residents to plant trees and shrubs bearing edible berries or flowers containing nectar. It is hoped to induce tuis and bellbirds to visit private gardens and parks. Last year some hundreds of plants and cuttings were distributed, and, although some did not survive the winter, a fair proportion appear to be well established. “Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.” That inscription, painted in large white letters, was the former occupant's farewell message as he vacated his business premises in Timaru. He was engaged in work, the basis of which was thq oncepopular horse. The inscription no doubt applies to those who have brought the motor industry to its present flourishing state and who have made the horse take a back seat. Ex Fordsdale and Rangitata, our new season’s Blue Mountain Jamaica. Only from A. Durie and Co., coffee specialists, 32 Octagon. Dunedin... A Hastings business man, who has just returned from a visit to Wellington, was heard by a reporter to “ thank his lucky stars that he lived in Hastings and not in Wellington.” A little demonstration of diplomacy ascertained the cause of his “ jubilation ” as arising out of the fact that he had learnt that the'Wellington City Council proposed to levy a rate of 20s 4d an inch on certain Willis street property, and an intimation was given that probably there would be an increase next year. Mild interest was caused in Lambton quay, Wellington, recently by a modern version of the old and popular “ bumping” sport on English rivers. One of the trams that occasionally turn from the quay into Hunter street slipped the overhead points and was left stranded with the trolley-pole swaying aimlessly. The car occupied part of both sets of rails, effectively barring south-bound traffic. Although the double-decker construction of the tram enabled officials' to prod with a pole near the seat of the trouble, the pole could not be replaced because it was swinging behind the junction of the overhead lines. Impatience or helpfulness settled the matter, a following tram, with a series of butts, bumping the first tram clear. Hitchon’s bacon is the best, For fifty years has stood the test; No other food betwixt the poles. Can satisfy like Hitchon’s r 0115...