NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23500, 14 May 1938, Page 28

NEWS IN BRIEF

“I read in'a leading newspaper m. New Zealand that people in this country lived on three animals—sheep, pigs, and cows,” remarked the chairman of the Whangarei County Council OVir J. A. S. Mackay) at the monthly .meeting. "A large number of the people now choose to live on another animal —the goat who pays rates,” he concluded amidst laughter. . , It is easy 10 eruercam your friends when y#u have a case of assorted wines and spirits on hand. Crossan’s “ W aterloo” delivers promptly... Early winter in Southland has been as mild as mid-spring. Even the birds have been misled, for they started to build nests. With the weather taking a colder turn, these building operations may have been suspended till spring really does come. Three cases of injury, one,rather serious, from metal studs in football boots occurred in the last playing Saturday, said Mr R. J. G. Collins at a meeting of the Management Committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union. His complaint prompted a discussion on the dangers that might be caused by metal studs in boots, and it was decided to advise players that an inspection of all boots would be made, and that a ruling be obtained from Wellington about the use of aluminium studs. ’ We make and repair met articles or every description, also set and sharpen lawn mowers, shears, saws scissors, etc.—Dickinson’s. Ltd. 441 Princes street, Dunedin..

“ The cost of this building will come out of revenue which previous board? have raised, and when the building is completed the money will be lying in the bank ready to be handed over in payment.” remarked the chairman of the Kamo Town Board (Mr M. Mclnnes), when speaking at the official function to majrk the laying of the foundation stone of the new library and Town Board offices.

Among the heavy sufferers in the recent jHawke’s Bay floods were beekeepers on the plains surrounding Napier and Hastings. The apiary instructor to the Department of Agriculture (Mr L. Reisterer) said that many thousands of bees had been drowned. A number of beekeepers have had their entire apiaries destroyed. Visitors lo Dunedin will find .accommodation at Hotel Central 100 Princes st’-fet lo their liking.

Floods.- washouts, soaked clothes, drenched skins, and other adverse conditions entirely attributable to the weather .have driven manv optimistic North Auckland sportsmen back to their firesides. What must have been a sore sight for those returning empty - handed was the spectacle of a halfdozen brace of cock pheasants awaiting transport on the Whangarei railway station. Passengers viewed the harvest with envious eyes or with admiration. and riot a few gunmen wondered why some people seem to have all the luck.

“ The trots do some good,’' said the chairman (Mr E. Parlane) at a meeting of the Christchurch Tramway Board., when the board’s revenue for last week was under consideration. It was shown that takings for the day, when the inter-Dominion trotting championship meeting ended at Addington, were £lB3 more than those for the corresponding day a year ago. Grandism (3494): Quality buying from the same regular source has made possible the low prices for quality wines and spirits at the Grand... Records were made in telephone development and telephone business during the past financial year. Toll calls went up by 10.17 per cent, representing 1,337,036 more than the previous year and bringing the total to 14,480,207. Not only was the telephone more extensively used, -but the service was extended at a record rale. The final month of the year saw 1675 new connections. During the whole year the net increase in telephone connections was 9456, an advance of 7 per cent., a rate of expansion which has never previously been equalled. It brought the total number of telephones in use up to a record point of 147,846, says a statement. issued by the Post and Telegraph Department.

Special showing of Autumn Goods. Cali and see our attractive window and interior dispiays.—A; F. Clieyne and ,Co., the Mosgiei warehouse... “ Being a Scotsman. I am, of course, in favour of controlled tipping,” said Mr W. S. Mac Gibbon. a Citizens’ Association candidate for the Christchurch City Council, at an election meeting at Woolston amid hearty laughter from an audience which seemed to be impressed by the case made out by Dr John Guthrie (candidate for the mayoralty) in favour of this system of rubbish disposal. The system, he said, had been tried fully in larger cities than Christchurch, and no objection either on the score of public health or on the score of inconvenience to residents had been raised. The value of turning waste land into beautiful parks and reserves was obvious. In reporting to the Management Committee of the Wellington Rugby Union on the state of the grounds for Rugby in Wellington, one member stated that the goal posts at the Porirua and Emerson street grounds were in a rather dangerous state. He had been told that the posts at Porirua were of iron and had no padding, and thal a player there recently had struck his head on one of the posts and it hod *' rung out chimes.” The Emerson street posts were stated to be of unpadded, sharp-cornered wood. An investigation is to be made. Coffee! The world’s best—Blue Mountain Jamaica— freshly roasted and ground daily is obtainable from the coffee specialists, A. Durie and Co.. Octagon, Dunedin. . , ■■ Addressing graduands during the Capping Day proceedings at Christchurch the chairman of the Canterbury College (Mr C. T. Aschman) said that be was not going to offer any advice. It vyas a principle claimed by age to give advice to the young. It was the privilege of youth not to accept that advice. He would confine himself to a few things that he wished the graduanos to remember when they quitted the University for good. Passengers embarking at Auckland during March totalled 2819, compared with 1929 in March, 1937, according to a report made to the Auckland Harbour Board by the traffic manager (Mr W R. Golden). Arrivals last March numbered 1356, against 1269 m the corresponding month of 1937. Ihe departures in March of this year comprised 1936 for Australia, 606 for Canada and the United States, and 2u for the Pacific Islands, while arrivals included 1040 from Australia, 116 from the Pacific Islands. 98 from Canada and the United States., and 78 from the United Kingdom. Grocery well bought for quality and cost enables Grays, of the Big Store, to supply housewives in Milton with ingredients for cooking which ensure satisfaction and good health in the home... Some of the onlookers at the Supreme Court at Auckland recently had a narrow escape from being commandeered for duty as impromtu jurymen. By the unusual manner in which the cases before two judges synchronised in the conclusion of evidence, lunch time arrived with three juries out and • a fourth occupied hearing a case in session. When the afternoon sitting was commenced in the downstairs court, only 10 jurdrs were left on the list of those called up for the session. The right of the presiding judge to order the closing of the doors, and to call up for jury duty such number of persons as were required to fill the jury was mentioned. However tile necessity for such random cast was obviated by one of the three juries then in session on forming their judgments returning with a verdict, and the required jury for the next case being filled from their number. Fight like the famous Light Brigade; The fort'will soon be taken; Fight for freedom, fight for trade, Urged on by Hitchon’s bacon...