NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23015, 19 October 1936, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF

Over 300 trucks of bobby calves have been railed from Morrinsville railway station this spring. As each truck carries from 80 to 100 calves, this represents upward of 30,000 calves sent away from Morrinsville station alone. Two cows, which are sisters and belong to Mr G. H. Clark, of Centre Bush, are doing their best to show a profit for their owners. One has just given birth to two calves and the other I has gone one better and produced (three calves, and the five are all well. Last year the firslt cow also had twins, and the other cow had one calf, making a total of eight for the two cows f. the two seasons. Grandism (3013): There is no loneliness where there is a bottle of Granvin, the golden Brandy Wine; 5s large I bottle, 2s 6d large flask... Angle parkinghad a short life in Christchurch. Adopted by the City : Council on June 29,* it was cancelled by a further decision of that organ i- : sation last week. The regulation covered the inner traffic area, but was actually only enforced in Hereford street. Business people in Hereford street peti- , tioned the council to reconsider its de--1 cision, and at the last meeting a xe- ! commendation by the Traffic Committee agreeing to withdraw the regulai tion was adopted. , Two large eels taken from the Waikanae River recently each weighed 1 231 b. One caught by Mr Tom Parata, I of Waikanae, was 54 inches long, with ■ a girth of 18 inches. On opening it, it proved to contain a trout 15 inches long. Another eel from the same district had in it three small trout. An eel taken some time ago from the Wairarapa.’ River also contained three trout, each 15 inches long. Ashpans (black, brass, or copper fronts) made to fit your grate. Also, log box linings, etc., made to orderDickinson’s. Ltd., sheet metal workers. I 245 Princes street... -

There is a large section of the general public which shrinks from appearance in the courts of law, even though only called upon as witnesses in a case. This was demonstrated in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court the other day, when the driver of a car involved in an accident said there were some 20-odd people about at the time. “ I asked many of them if I could take their names as witnesses," he said, “ but that just seemed to make them walk avay. They did not appear to want to be implicated in the matter at all. Only two men offered me their names, and they are both here to-day." A despicable theft is reported to have occurred at a, Blenheim farm, the owner of which is an inmate in hospital. As there had been nobody to see to his poultry, of which he had a large quantity, some neighbours undertook to feed the fowls and collect the eggs, which they stored away in a shed. After these had steadily accumulated it was thought that they should be sold, but apparently someone with a keen business instinct had got in first, for when the eggs were called for there was: no trace of them.

Special shoeing of curtains, cretonnes, Shadows, healrth 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... The possibility of Auckland some day becoming a free port was mentioned by the chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, Mr C. G. Macindoe, when speaking at the farewell to the Minister of Finance (Mr W. Nash). He said that with its endowments it was hoped the board woiild be able to establish a unique record as far as ports ot the world were concerned. It had always been his desire, to live for the day when they could declare Auckland a free port, and he did not think that that day was so very far away. He said it was not generally realised the part the board had played iri the building of Auckland, for much of the'commercial activity of the city was centred on sites reclaimed by the board. This work had not been to the detriment of the port, for they bad improved facilities and given deep berthage. This work of reclamation was not yet finished.

Ex Fordsdale and Rangitata, our new season's Blue Mountain Jamaica, Only from A. Durie and Co., coffee specialists. 32 Octagon. .Dunedin.. Improvement to the main arterial roads in the Auckland province is proceeding steadily. If the present rate of progress is maintained hll main centres throughout the province should be linked by modern dustless roads within a few years. Tenders are being called for the improvement and sealing of the last section of the Great South road in the Waipa County, and when this work is completed there will be a continuous paved and sealed road from Auckland for 110 miles southward. ( : .

There is an outcast member of the blackbird family frequently haunting High street, Marton. It is marked like a magpie, with white predominating, but it is not an albino, for the eyes are not oink. Last year a blackbird with a white bar round its throat was often to be seen in the grounds at “Cedar Hill," Tutaenui road, and possibly the bird seen in High street is an offspring. It is certainly a curiosity, and as such seems to be suspect by others of' the tribe, for it customarily peeks for worms on its own. He opened a bottle of Whisky and threw the cork in the fire! He was a man after my own heart! It was a bottle of Wm. Crossan’s best and straight from the Waterloo... That New Zealanders do not make the use they should of their best snowfields, with the opportunities they offer of touring and climbing on skis, is the opinion of Mr Colin Wyatt, one of the most eminent of English ski-runners, who recently returned from three weks of ski climbing at the head of the Tasman Glacier . in the Mount Cook region. Mr Wyatt is so enthusiastic about the ski-ing attractions of this region' and the adjacent parts of the Southern Alps that he intends to return to New Zealand for a further ski-ing holiday next winter if he can possibly manage, it. He has been visiting New Zealand as a delegate from the ski clubs of Great Britain to the New Zealand Ski Council.

Spring cleaning time is well provided for at Gray’s Big Store, and Milton housewives will do well to inspect their stocks of curtain nets, rugs, linoleums, brooms, brushes, paints, etc., while this special work is in progress... “ Things are booming down in Karamea, and Little Wanganui is looking more prosperous than ever,” remarked a member of the Te Aroha’s crew when referring recently to Wanganui’s namesake on the rugged West Coast of the South Island. “The harbour entrance is improving, too." the sailor chuckled. “A big flood a lew weeks ago cleaned things up a bit. We have the choice of two channels now. At low water „there is a depth of six inches in one and nine in the other. No, it’s not a joke. We were michty grateful last trip when we saw a couple of shags swimming on the bar. Things are booming all right.” A letter of thanks to those who have contributed to the remarkable volume of stamps forwarded to him has been received from Mr Herbert Gardiner, the crippled ex-serviceman now living in England whose circumstances were mentioned at the last annual meeting of the Gisborne Returned Soldiers’ Association. Mr Gardiner, who formerly lived in Gisborne, and who is completely paralysed as the result of war injuries, has found an absorbing hobby in the collection and exchange of stamps, and through the agency of Mr Frank H. Robb, Manutuke, large numbers of New Zeaalnd stamps have been forwarded to him in several parcels. Mr Robb, in passing on the thanks expressed by Mr Gardiner, suggests that postmarked specimens/ of the recent “ commerce ” issue offered by the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department would be welcomed by the stricken soldier.

Said a stoutish lady in a hurry. As she bust her corsets in her flurry, “This Hitchon’s Ham’s no doubt the thing That’s got me in the fix I’m in.”..