NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23118, 18 February 1937, Page 18

NEWS IN BRIEF

“ Drive slow and see our city—drive fast and see our jail,” inscribed on an old building in Grey street, Palmerston North, has much more Significance at the present time than ever before. It is not only a warning to motorists, but serves to convey the “ Semple ” rules of the road. Many readers will learn with regret that Driver’s. Dunedin’s oldest established book shop, is closing down. The premises have been sold, and stocks must be cleared within a few days. Parents of school children will find the clearance sale particularly opportune, as the new year’s text books are being offered at a very special discount... When Mr E. Preston, of Tauranga, caught a swordfish off Mayor Island the other day, the fish sounded and drove its bill into the ocean bed at a depth of 50 fathoms. The angler could not move it with the rod and line, and used a “ traveller ” with three sets of hook triangles, let down attached to a schnapper line. Two sets of triangles caught in the flesh of the swordfish and held. With the aid of the lines, the fish was hoisted to the surface and landed. Go where you can hear things! Where good humour prevails! Where the best drinks are obtainable! No place better than the Waterloo Hotel, Caversham... The familiarity with which counsel treated exhibits of gelignite and detonators during the hearing of an alleged breaking and entering case drew comment from Mr Justice Callan in the Auckland Supreme Court recently. The jury smiled nervously on one occasion when an orderly dropped the explosives and, when counsel persisted in laying the exhibits on a ledge from which they wdre in danger of being carried off by counsel's sweeping robes, His Honor pointed out that the deputyregistrar was taking no risks in placing the packages in a safe position on his desk. 1 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... A familiar landmark in Wellington —the big electric 2YA sign on Mount V ictoria—no longer sheds its red beams ever the harbour at night. No decision has yet been reached about whether the sign will be replaced with another sign referring to one of the two transmitters which will be located in the present building .on Mount Victoria. The present 2YA plant will soon be transferred to Titahi Bay, where it will be used as a transmitter for 2YC. A new one-kilowatt transmitter will be installed next month on Mount Victoria, the present 2YC plant being re* tsined as a standby for the other three transmitters. Grandism (3115): The most severe test of friendship is whether it will stand a loan; be independent; get your supply at the Grand Home Supply... A request for thd declaring of an open season against pukeko in the coming shooting season was made to the meeting of the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society -in a letter from its South Wairarapa branch, which said that the birds were becoming a pest in the district. It was decided to advise farmers affected that they could apply for permits to shoot pukeko. The council also decided to have a ranger watch the Wairarapa Lake for poachers while the ducks are young. The Government was faced with the problem of overcoming the waste which resulted from the destruction of native bush, the Minister of Public Works (Mr R. Semple) said in addressing the members of the Southland County Council the other afternoon. The problem was man-made, and for this reason the Government wished to know what the consequences would be before it gave permission for new roads through native bush country. 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... In replying to addresses of welcome at a social given in his honour by the parishioners of St. George’s Church, Frankton, Bishop Cherrington said that when he left for England a year ago he hoped to raise £SOOO with which to wipe off the debts of several Waikato parishes. Of this amount he was certain of £1250, but he expected that further gifts would follow and he would not rest until more was obtained. A farm hand, Mr Samuel Martinson, employed by Mr J. Gow, of Otakiri, received a severe electric shock and burns While assisting to move a haystacker across a paddock. Mr Martinson caught hold of the steel pole to steady the stacker when the top fouled an 11,000volt power line. He was admitted to the Whakatane Hospital. Strength, flavour, aroma. All are found in the favourite “ Bourbon ” brand of coffee and chicory. “Bourbon" is produced by specialists. Insi ructions in every tin... A shortage of contractors for road construction and sealing works was mentioned at the last meeting of the Oroua County Council by the engineer, Mr R. I. Harding. He stated that only one tender for sealing the Makino road had been received and that from a firm which had other jobs in hand. It appeared that all contractors in this field were unusually busy. “A gleam of lioht at last,” remarked the Mayor (Mr T. C. A. Hislop) at the recent meeting of the Wellington City Council, when a recommendation was made by the Works Committee that a dispensation should be granted from full compliance with the by-laws to enable welded steel connections to be used in the construction of the new hangar at the Rongotai Aerodrome. Mr Hislop said that he spoke with feeling, for he had had to put up with the abominable racket for months past, as had hundreds of others in the same part of the city. , In Sydney riveting in that manner was not allowed, and there were restrictions of some sort in practically all the larger cities of the world. It was hjgh time that the Wellington by-laws were brought .up to date, not necessarily to prohibit riveting, but to require the use of hydraulic pressure machines where possible. Cr M. F. Luckie, chairman of the By-laws, Committee, said that he would be pleased to take it as an instruction that the cKy solicitor and the city engineer should prepare a by-law to bring riveting practice in Wellington up to modern practice. . Best quality regulation dust drums obtainable at Dickinson’s, Ltd., tinsmiths and sheet. metal workers, 441 Princes street. Dunedin... The presence in the Ronga reserve, Marlborough, of a rare specimen of clematis, the flower of which was a distinct yellow, was mentioned at the last meeting of the Pelorus Scenic Board by the secretary, Mr W. J. Elvy. The vine, he said, was spreading over a fairly wide area in the bush, and was flowering profusely. The chairman, Mr P. R. Wilkinson, said that he had seen this clematis in Taranaki, but he had not known before of its existence in the South Island. , Although the Pohutu geyser, in the Whakarewarewa reserve, Rotorua, almost invariably plays after heavy rain, and while the level of the neighbouring lakes is high, the geyser has steadfastly refused to give any sign of activity during the past two months. Before the end of November the geyser was particularly active, and established a record for the number of shots during successive months. Despite the heavy rain which fell between Christmas and the New Year, and at other periods, the geyser has remained quiescent, disappointing many hundreds of tourists who have visited the reserve in the hope of seeing it play, but it has been observed that during the full period of Pohutu's quiescence two small unnamed geysers close to the main vent have been particularly active. Though Hitchon Is sometimes short of verse. Don’t you be mistaken; The delusion from your mind disperse, , He’s never short of good bacon. . .