NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23002, 3 October 1936, Page 28

NEWS IN BRIEF

A proposal that the Hamilton High School Old Boys’ Association should adopt a school tie to be worn on suitable occasions caused some amusement at the annual meeting of the association the other morning, but nevertheless it was agreed that the wearing of a tie would be more suitable than the usual practice bf wearing a blazer. The matter was referred to the incoming committee. Hotel Central (late Jackson’s), 100 Princes street, Dunedin, recently renovated for the comfort of visitors to Dunedin. . . ’ The opinion was expressed at a meeting of the Boys and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs’ Executive at New Plymouth recently that some difficulty would be experienced in getting entries from the children for the root crop competitions owing to the labour ' involved. The position was that many of the children were having to.assist in the work at the shed and felt they could not do the two.' This was due to the difficulty in securing labour, and, further, there were many small farmers who, even if labour was available, could not afford to pay the higher wages demanded. For the dark mornings we have alarm clocks from 8s 6d.—Peter Dick, jewellers and opticians, 488 Moray place, Dunedin, C. 1...

As a result of the celebration of the jubilee of the church building during the year,, says the annual report of St John’s Church, Wellington, an interesting relic has been received in the form of the mallet and silver and ivory trowel presented to Sir James Prendergast, Chief Justice of New Zealand, by the contractor, and used by him over 50 years ago at the laying of the foundation-stone of the present church building. They have been presented to the church T»y Mrs Helene Hall, a relative of the late Chief Justice. Socialism, Communism, and Bolshevism have always been a queer mixture, but there is no. distinction made to visitors at the Waterloo Hotel, Caversham.... Enthusiasts in other countries take their music very seriously. Mr Adolph’ Mann, lecturing to music teachers in Christchurch the other evening, recalled the time when there was a raging controversy regarding the music of Schomberg. A recital in Vienna was followed by a free fight, in which the contestants broke the chairs over each other’s heads. “One man, who had noticed a fellow composer applauding, hit him in the face,” added Mr Mann. “Then he said in German, and it sounds much better in that language, ‘I can understand you applauding, for you also write pig music.’ ” Special showing of curtains, cretonnes, shadows,, hearth rugs, squares, and linos, this week. See special window and interior display. All new goods. Prices right. Buy' now.— The Mosgiel Drapery Warehouse. A. F. Cheyne and C 0... “There are 30 more girls attending the school than boys,” said Mr E. Wilson, headmaster of the Hamilton High School, in a statement to the Board of Governors the other day. Mr Wilson stated that the explanation was that far more was being dene for the ’ girls than for the boys. The school had a hostel for girls and none for boys, while the commercial classes for girls were a considerable attraction. There were no facilities for leaching handwork to boys in the school. If the boys’ hostel had been b.uilt as was hoped some years ago, there would have been 120 boarders to-day. Mr Wilson considered that all secondary schools should be equipped with plant for teaching boys handwork, such as carpentry and engineering. Ex Fordsdale and Rangitata, our new season’s Blue Mountain Jamaica. Only from A. Durie and Co., coffee specialists, 32 Octagon, Dunedin... A young totara tree is to be planted in the yard of the new Maori church at Putiki to commemorate the visit of the Native carvers who are carrying out the decorative work for the edifice. It is an old east coast Maori tradition that wherever carvers have been at work a totara tree shall be planted, and Mr Pine Taiapa, an east coast Maori, who is in charge of the party working at Putiki, visited Wangaehu during the last week-end to obtain a young totara, about 7ft in height, which he had found growing there. Totaras have been planted at Rotorua, Otaki, and Waitara by Mr Taiapa in accordance with this custom. This is the first occasion since 1862 that Maori carvers have visited Putiki., In that year two Wairoa Maoris visited the local pa to give instruction in the grt of carving., Why borrow your neighbour's lawn mower? Yours is a better machine if Dickinson’s sharpen it.—Dickinson’s, Ltd., 245 Princes street, Dunedin... Next year classes set aside for the reading of newspapers will be introduced at the New Plymouth Boys’ High School, said Mr W. H, Moyes, principal. Each class would devote one period a week to the reading; of current newspapers, the object being to ensure that every pupil had a good knowledge of current world affairs. It was essential that every boy should have a knowledge of world affairs, and the best way of getting this was through the newspapers. While on his visit to Europe; Mr W. T. Trethewey, of Christchurch, who has returned home, spent some time in Germany, where he was Impressed by the activity and friendliness of tha people, its modern buildings and fine motor roads. Referring to these roads, Mr Trethewey said that they were straight for long distances and wide - enough for four or five cars abreast No speed limit applied, and crossings had been eliminated by taking cross traffic either over or under the motor roads. In England something similar had been done with the building of the new arterial roads. These, however, were not as straight as those in Germany. Grandism (3000); For nearly ten years Grandisms have appeared daily in the Otago Times. Readers rarely, if ever, read the same one twice... After having run for several minutes without a stop, the quiet monotone of the town clerk’s voice was interrupted at a recent meeting of the Riccarton Borough Council by Cr F. George’s inquiry: “Excuse me, but are those the minutes of the last meeting? I rather fancy they relate to the previous meeting.” Reference to the minute book from which the clerk had been reading disclosed that Cr George’s surmise was correct. The loose-leaf sheets of tha bound record of the council’s proceedings had become transposed. The clerk said that the minutes of the meeting before last had been signed on tha ' wrong page, and this had further confused matters. Health and enjoyment of home comforts depend so much on the quality of the goods used. This feature of business gets careful attention at Gray’s Big Store, Milton, when buying to fill the needs of their customers... An enthusiastic German stamp collector, Dr Ing Roland Eisenlohr, of Frankfurt, has addressed a request to the Napier Aero Club to forward to him any air mail stamps procurable in New Zealand. In his letter. Dr Eisenlohr says that he is an old aviation hand, “and, being an enthusiastic stamp collector. I should like you to send me the various air mail stamps of your country on letters addressed to me by air mail. Moreover, please send me an envelope which has been mailed from one place to another in New Zealand.” Dr Eisenlohr concludes by saying that he would be glad to do in return the same for any member of the club who was willing to enter into , such a service. The envelope containing the letter is marked, “Mit Luflpost Par Avion, via Indien and Australien." One of Germany’s latest issues, the Olympic Games stamp, is a central feature on the envelope. A taxi man whose hours were long. Exclaimed by gosh I’m far from strong; If I wish to stick upon my feet. It’s Hitchon’s Ham I’ll have to eat..