NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23055, 4 December 1936, Page 20

NEWS IN BRIEF

The age of the Temuka and Geraldine Agricultural and Pastoi-al Association's show was the subject of discussion at a meeting of the committee of the association recently. At the last meeting of the committee the age of the show had been raised, when it had been suggested that next year's show should be a jubilee show. Several members said that the first show had been held more than 50 years ago, and that it was only the reorganised body that had reached its silver jubilee. At the meeting the secretary, Mr W. F. Evans, reported having searched newspaper files for records, and'he submitted a copy of a reoort of the fifth annual show, held in 1879, published in the local paper. He also produced a certificate awarded by the Show Committee in the year 1875. Have you ordered your Xmas Ham? Why not? Our. own cure. Lamb from 8d. —J. W. Thomas, Stuart street...

Complaint that one of the occupanrs of a house adjacent to Kilbirnie Park (Wellington) had contracted a severecold through a cricket ball having broken the window 'of a house was made in a letter received at the last meeting of the Wellington Cricket Association's Management Committee. The letter had been sent first to the City Council with a request that the matter of repairing the damage be attended to immediately as a serious illness might result. The council had passed the letter on to the Wellington Cricket Association, but members ■■>£ the committee felt that they could not be held responsible for either the cold or the damaged window. The secretary (Mr A. Varney) pointed out, however, that when the wickets were allocated by the City Council this year it was expressly stated that the association was responsible for any damage. It was decided to refer the letter to the club whose team was playing on the wicket from which, it was alleged, the ball had been hit through the window.

Christmas supplies are well in hand at the Big Store. All departments are overflowing for the festive season, and Milton residents are well advised to purchase at Grays... Back-country scenes in the Rakaia region are featured with an article on "Samuel Butler and New Zealand," appearing in the latest number of the Geographical Magazine, the British publication. The story of Butler's association with Canterbury is told by H. J. Massihgham, and the photographs illustrating it were supplied by Mr J. D. Pascoe, the well-known Canterbury mountaineering enthusiast. Mr Pascoe's pictures "include fine views of the headwaters of the Rakaia. the Whitcombe Pass, and Mount Evans. The Geographical Magazine circulate? throughout the British Empire, and the appearance of these photographs and the article will have given wide publicity to the province. You cannot do good work with blunt tools. We employ experts who sharpen and set saws of any size. Satisfaction guaranteed.—Dickinson's. Ltd., 441 Princes street... A new research laboratory to serve the whole of the Taranaki dairy industry is to be established at Eltham, as a result of a conference. The New Zealand Rennet Company is to provide the building, and the Taranaki Federation of Co-operative Dairy Companies will supply the equipment. Experts of both organisations will collaborate on problems affecting the two concerns. The federation will, however, maintain its separate identity. Grandism (3053): Sent out with satisfaction. You will greet it with.gratitude. Your Christmas parcel of wines from the Grand Hotel... That speed is the keynote of modern business is the opinion of a New Plymouth resident who last week received a newspaper from Honolulu. The paper, a Saturday afternoon's > issue, carried on the front page a picture of President Roosevelt's arrival at Washington, D.C., after his re-election. The photograph had been taken on Friday in Washington, sent by the Associated Press wire-photograph service to San Francisco, when it was despatched by the Philippine clipper plane bound for. Honolulu. The picture travelled approximately 4900 miles in 28 hours, at an average speed of 175 m.p.h. Come and see our show to-night. We are open till 9 o'clock Friday nights.— Scoullar and Chisholm. Limited... A good story was told by the Acting Governor of Fiji at the recent meeting of the Legislative Council (states the Christchurch Star's Suva correspondent). He said that while in London prior to taking up his job as Colonial Secretary in Fiji, he hunted the whole of London to obtain a copy of Hazlewood's Fijian Dictionary. When he found one at last it cost him 30s. and he discovered that the book had been taken from the library of the Colonial Office by a " very distinguished individual." Christmas cheer will be enhanced by a nice hamper of Wullie Crossan's wines and spirits. You can trust Wullie to supply the best... Since the institution of the railcar service between Christchurch and the West Coast a few months ago the service has been appreciated to such an extent, particularly by West Coast residents, that the Railways Department has initiated new services on the coast with the same car, providing greater travel facilities between Hokitika. the terminus of the journey from Christchurch, and Reef ton, the northernmost working station on that line. The new service includes a daily run between Hokitika and Reefton, and, except on Saturdays, an additional run between Hokitika and Greymouth. There is great indignation amongst the residents of Plimmerton (Wellington) at the destruction and wounding of seagulls by rifle shot on the Plimmerton beach. A number of birds have been wounded, and if the shooting is allowed to continue, apart from the wanton cruelty, it is felt that the beach will lose one of its interesting and attractive features—the flocks of mackerel gulls whose tameness and beauty are well known. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police. 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... Figures quoted by the retiring president of the Auckland Manufacturers* Association, Mr J. A. C. Allum, at the annual meeting, indicate that the number of persons employed in factories in the Dominion at the end of March last was almost equal to the high figure of 1928-29. Mr Allum said that at March 31 there were 79,358 factory workers, as compared with 80,618 in 1928-29. The present figures showed a substantial improvement on the low figure of 68,697 engaged in 1931-32, which, said Mr Allum, was probably the depth of the depression. Strength, flavour, aroma! All are found in the favourite " Bourbon" brand of coffee and chicory. "Bourbon " is produced by specialists. Instructions in every tin... Flesh with all the flavours of a fruit salad is the unusual property of the fruit of the monstena deliciosa. A specimen of the plant, a native of Mexico, is growing in the glasshouse at Brooklands, New Plymouth, and last year Mr T. Boulton, who is in charge of the gardens, picked the first fruit since the exotic was imported, says the News. This year he is watching the growth of the second crop, two fruit about the size of a small cucumber and covered with a knobby green rind that will scale off when the delicacy is ready for eating. A peculiarity of the plant is its habit of sending out streamer roots from the branches to obtain nutriment from the ground. Another novelty among the plant collection at Brooklands is a species of magnolia tree with a flower scent strongly suggestive of port wine. Said a miser, checking oer his pile. "There's two things really make me rite* . „ There's Hitchon's Ham and my gluttony; • V 4. _* .. They drag me nigh to poverty."..