NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23413, 31 January 1938, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF

Three enlarged photographs of scenes of the arrival of the Southern Cross on its first trans-Tasman flight to New Plymouth on January 11, 1933, have been presented by the New Plymouth Borough Council to the New Plymouth Airport Board. The pictures, which are of great interest, and will be of historic value, will probably be hung in the Airport Board’s meeting room. The prompt action of a motorman of the Wanganui Corporation tramways was responsible the other day for avoiding a ' serious accident which might easily have resulted in a number of passengers being injured. An incoming tram was travelling down the avenue at a fairly brisk pace shortly after 1 p.m. when a motor car approaching down Plymouth street stalled near the tram line. The driver, intent on starting the engine, apparently did not notice the approaching tram, and the car was slowly crossing the line as the tram bore down on it. The motorman acted quickly, and reduced speed by sudden application of the brakes, so that, although the car was struck, little damage was done. Visibility was bad, and, had not the driver of the tram been intently loking ahead, the motor car would have been struck amidships with great force.

Grandism (3407): Sherry contains much iron and also a greater proportion of tonic vinosity than any other wine. Jerez Sherry—Grand Hotel... While in Melbourne recently Mr R. B. Seabrook, of Hamilton, saw what is reputed to be the most elaborate motor car show room in the world. It was built by a wealthy Australian Squatter and among its contents are .paintings valued at £IO,OOO. The firm,' which stocks only three makes of expensive English cars, is said to be run purely as a hobby and not for pecuniary gain.

The re-numbering of houses and business premises in New Plymouth has been completed. Each home has been allotted a new number, as has also each business unit, and a complete set of re.cord plans filed in the borough office. “It is pleasing,” said Mr C. Clarke, borough engineer, in his report to the council ■the other night, , “to note that most householders immediately had the new numbers affixed to their premises.” Coffee Mills! We have imported a few small coffee grinders suitable for household use.—A. Durie and Co., coffee specialists. 32 Octagon. Dunedin...

Mqtor cars in Australia were dearer all found than in New Zealand, said Mr R. B. Seabrook, a Hamilton business man who has just returned from a short visit to the Commonwealth. He thought that this was probably due to. the fact that all car bodies, irrespective of the place of manufacture of the chassis, were made in Australia. On the other hand, petrol was slightly cheaper than in New Zealand. . ' At the last meeting ol! the Wellington Hospital Board, upon the recommendation of the House Committee, the decisions to purchase a deep therapy X-ray plant at a cost of. £ 1.657 10s, and that alterations be made to the stand of the present deep therapy plant at an estimated cost of £ 100, and to the existing stand for sinus work at an estimated cost of £l3O, was reaffirmed. For those people who are on the move' at this holiday period we caa recommend Gray’s Big Store, Milton, as a reliable place to replenish: stores or secure those oddments, which' may have been forgotten...

A Waipukurau motorist with a, new car found himself- in something of a predicament recently when he got caught in the flood, and at the same time ran out of petrol.. He had gone to a house in St. Joseph street to take the occupants to higher ground. Water was pouring across the road at the entrance to Russell Park, threatening to cut off his retreat, but when’he tried,to start his car he- discovered that he had run out of petrol. Two urgent calls for petrol to a garage brought no response for some time, and the motorist decided he could wait no longer. A taxi he had sent for towed him out of the danger zone—and just at that moment a breakdown truck arrived with his benzine. Turnbull’s Sample Rooms. Middlemarch, To-day (Mon.), 31st., Tues., Ist, and Wed., 2nd. Summer Sale in full swing. 'Everything reduced. Call early. Your inspection invited.—Mosgiel’s Drapers, A. F. Cheyne and Co. .; An anxious time was spent by the officials of the Marlborough Scottish Society the other evening (says the Marlborough Express); when it was learned that the Tamahine, on board of which was the haggis specially ordered from Wellington for the annual Burns celebration, was running an hour behind her scheduled itime. As the ceremonial linked with such an occasion makes •ho allowance for such a calamity as the absence of Scotland’s national dish, the society’s secretary made a hurried trip to Picton and waylaid the package containing the delicacy at the wharf when the vessel berthed. There was more than one sigh of relief when the haggis was safely delivered at the hall, and the nrogramrae was immediately commenced after a delay of almost an hour.

Best quality regulation Dust Bins, strongly made from Galv. iron; obtainable at Dickinson’s, Ltd.. 441 Princes street. Dunedin,...

A deadly combat between two larre swordfish was seen frojtn . the Hokitika beach last Monday afternoon. It lasted for a considerable time. When it had finished one of the fish came close iu to the waterline and was secured bv the spectators. A sledge was built and two horses were used to pull the giant fish out of the water. From the tin of its spear to the end of its tail it measured 13ft 6in. Its girth was sft 6in. The perpendicular fin was 4ft 6in long. The fish, which was badly scarred as a result of the fight and weighed nearly 8001 b, died shortly after being hauled ashore. It is thought that this is the first time the species has been captured in the South Island. It was railed to Christchurch last Tuesday, having been purchased for the Canterbury Museum. “ You motor cyclists are in a more responsible position than most other road users. There is no reason .why you should not keep on the . left Figures show that motor cycles are responsible for more than their share of accidents,” stated Mr G. N. Morris, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Dargaville, when, as-a sequel to a collision between a motor cycle and a motor car, Edward Archie Schick tyas charged with having ridden a motor cycle on the incorrect side of the road. Orders for liquors forwarded to W. Crossan, Waterloo Hotel, must be signed, give address and be acgom-, panied by remittance... , Sea-lions (bulls, cows iund calves) in characteristic pore on a rock-bound beach, beautifully modelled, with penguins close at hand and bretakers foaming at the foot of forbidding granite cliffs—all miniature models, but to exact scale—form an entrancing little diorama which has been completed at the Dominion Museum, This is the work of the class which Mr F. Tose has been conducting for the last two months and serves to illustrate the latest ideas in museum technique. As time did not permit the making of a full-size exhibit, this miniature scale model was constructed instead. The basic principles involved in its construction are applicable to full-size groups, and those who have been learning from Mr Tose to be *" museum preparators” will be able to apply the principles learned to the mounting of groups of animals and birds in the various museums, throughout the Dominion. ■_ Mr Tose, who comes from California and \yho has been working under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation, has left*Wellington for a short tour of the North Island before returning to Honolulu. Have you tried Kitchen's pork saveloys, pork sausages, or Oxford sausage (cooked)? If your grocer can’t supply, ring our Blinedin branch, 12-344. Milton phone 23... >;•>•