NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23110, 9 February 1937, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF

■ “I think that’s a record,” said the Mayor. Mr E. R. C. Gilmour, when the New Plymouth Borough Council meet* ing concluded the other, night. The council sat for only 35 minutes, though they got through a considerable amount of business in that time.

Why borrow your neighbour's lawnmower? Yours is a better machine if Dickinson’s sharpen it.—Dickinson’s, Ltd., 441 Princes street. Dunedin... Convolvulvus growing in the drains was a development which was to be greatly feared, remarked Mr H K. Green, at a meeting of the' Manawatu Drainage Board recently. The weed was spreading down the drains and. he said, if it became general, would entail a great increase in the labour of cleaning. The chairman (Mr P. G. Mildon) remarked that a good frost would kill the weed, but Mr Green commented that the roots would remain.

It was Friday, the day of one or Iwo fat dividends at Trentham (says a writer in the Evening Post). The girl was bright-eyed and in great form—almost jumping out of her skin, as they, say about horses tuned up. Said a friend, “ Well, how are you getting on-making money?” “1 should think I was,” replied the lass. “ Having a wonderful time. Landed a £35 and a £24 divvy—and I don’t know d chestnut from a gelding ” It transpired that she had come by such wealth by tha good old device of pushing a needle through her race book.

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“All the conferences in the world won't get anywhere until the destruction of bush can be stopped,’’ said Mrs Knox Gilmer, speaking at the opening of the Wellington Horticultural Society’s midsummer show recently. Mrs Gilmer expressed pleasure that the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr W. E. Parry) had decided to call a conference of interested bodies to discuss road beautification. This was a matter of great interest to the society, she said, but she was afraid little progress could be made until the public mind had been properly educated. To, accomplish this she suggested the broadcasting of educational talks. “If we had had more of these talks,” Mrs Gilmer added. “ I am sure the ‘ new chum’ who set fire to scrub,at Lowry Bay in a northerly gale the other day would have known better.”

There would be no war among nations if there was a common fellowship such as exists on all occasions at the Waterloo Hotel, Caversham... “I don’t think you have milch to learn from any other country in the world about the exhibition side of the motion picture business,” Mr C, Munro, managing director of Hoyt’s Theatres, Ltd., Sydney, told members of the 33 Club, who are, motion picture exhibitors and distributors, at their luncheon in Wellington. Mr Munro. said he had visited Auckland. Wellington, and Christchurch. Theatres there compared well with those in Australia or anywhere else in the world. An alpine traverse was made recently by two Christchurch girls, Miss Margaret Smith and Miss Alice Woodward. Leaving the Weheka hostel on a, fine morning, and accompanied by Guide C. Parfltt, they made excellent time up the Fox Glacier as far as Purgatory Creek, where both girls had their first experience of rock work. The night was spent in the. Chancellor hut. The party rose early next morning to begin the traverse of the snowfields leading up to Newton Pass and on to the Alma hut. The top of the pass was reached about mid-day and after a short rest a start was made for the Alma hut. Progress was difficult owing to the soft snow, and not until 7 o’clock that evening was the hut sighted, the climbers having taken 14 hours to make the traverse.

Buyers, in and around Milton are having a good time at Gray’s “Big Store ” Sale. Millinery, dresses, dress materials, clothing, and hardware all have their special attraction..., “Oh, isn’t it cold,” was the oft-re-peated expression of a visitor to New Zealand from Central Africa recently. He was shown the scenic wonders of the Dominion, and while he was admiring them there frequently went up the cry, “My, but isn’t it cold.” At last he reached Rotorua, and on the first morning was taken to Whakarewarewa, where he stood for some time near Pohutu Geyser. Almost lost in the steam, the visitor stood, saying nothing until suddenly he called out joyfully: “ But, gee, this is great —a, steam-heated park; at last I am warm.” '

Complaints have been made by members of the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society that trout are being lost because of the diversion of water from the Opihi River into the Levels plain irrigation races, where an electric fish barrier has not yet been installed, and it has been said that many of the fish have been seen stranded and dead on adjoining land where the water has flowed from the races. The ranger to the society said that there was no doubt that the river was being depopulated of trout. Fish had been seen in the races, end it was certain that they would not find their way back into the river. As long as water was being diverted without the fish barrier being installed the trouble would continue.

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...

The opinion that McLean Park, Napier, was eminently suitable, owing to its position in relation to the, business area of the town, for the purposes of a magnetic observation station was expressed by Mr Wilfred C. Parkinson, an American magnetician attached to the. Carnegie Institute, in , an interview while he was visiting ' Hawke’s Bay. “The park offers ! itself splendidly for observations such as those 1 am carrying out, for the reasons that it is well away from any high buildings and is not likely to be built upon in the future.” Mr Parkinson said. “It is desirable that the observations, which are made periodically, should be carried out at the same point on each occasion, but, owing to the changes wrought by the earthquake, it was not possible to reoccupy the station last employed when an observer from the Carnegie Institute last visited Napier.”

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Visitors to Napier this summer have been puzzled by several decaying shells protruding from the bed of the inner harbour, which was raised by the earthquake six years ago. Similar in shape to the mussel which is found clinging to rocks, most of the shells average 12 inches long, but one or two reach 15 inches. Just after the earthquake thousands of these shells were to be seen in the mud, but since then many have been removed by the curious and others have been broken and destroyed. Dr W. R. B. Oliver identified one of the shells taken from the harbour as being that of the horse mussel, or fan mussel. He explained that before the earthquake there were beds of these mussels in the valleys on the sea bottom, where the animal life on which they fed was evidently rich. The mussels were embedded by their pointed end straight into the mud up to two-thirds of their length, and the remaining third was covered with a dense growth of seaweed and sea animals. The mussels were raised above the sea by the earthquake, and soon afterward the growth and animals died and fell away, and the decaying shells were left resting upright in the mud.

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