NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23501, 16 May 1938, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF

Moving pictures of the damage done by the flood in the Esk.Va.il- v , Hawke's Bay, and the work of vne volunteers assisting settlers were taken by Mr E Bierre. cameraman for *ox Movietone News. , v j, “ Pass Big Boy. Ell am I half full vet" This undignified notice was seen on the rear of a visiting sedan car in ■n Wanganui street one recent afternoon. Apparently the owner of the vehicle believed that anyone who had 1 he nerve to pass him was driving dangerously in doing so. The Big Store. Milton, is well stocked with the many comforts needed in winter. All goods are marked at net cash prices, and everything/ from soup to tea. socks to overcoats, lingerie to frocks and coats are in keen demand at James Gray and Sons... “A lot of us think we are indispensable, but not one of us is indispensable. 1 would not be missed five minutes,” observed Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at Palmerston North, when declining to grant an exemption from jury service. You will not be sitting all the time, his Honor told applicant. At a meeting at Pukekohe in connection with the outbreak of eczema among live stock, it was stated by an official of the Department of Agriculture that in England 'the number of veterinary officers averaged one to f.verv 14.000 head of live smck, in New Zealand the average was one to every 57,500 head. A mean theft was committed recently in Mount Eden. Auckland. A Maori woman whose charm of manner has created for her a wide circle of friends as she barters kumaras for unwanted clothing in and about the city and suburbs, left her kumaras and a coat outside a gate. When she returned from her call a few minutes later they had been stolen.

Fines of from 5s to 15s and costs were imnosed on 26 defendants who were charged in the Police Court at Auckland, before Mr C. R. Orr-W[alker. S.M., with operating unlicensed radio sets. The majority of the offenders had received warning letters, which had been ignored. Only a small proportion appeared in court. Ex Doric Star, the first of our'new. season's “Jamaica’’—the world’s finest coffee. Only from A*, Durie and Co., coffee specialists, 32. Octagon, Dunedin...

*• This business about contacting with criminals in gaol is a bit overdone, ’ commented Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at Palmertson North when counsel for two prisoners awaiting sentence pleaded leniency on the ground that, as young men, they would be likely to be made criminals by a sentence to prison. . “ Some have come out much better men than they went in—we never hear about these.” said his Honor.

An unusual accident occurred on a recent afternoon, when a paisenger in a motor car travelling between Pukekohe and Waiuku suffered a broken leg as a result of a severe jolt received when the car was travelling oyer an uneven road surface. The victim was Miss Jessie Duthie, of Kitchener read, Waiuku. She was admitted to the Auckland Hospital.

Make good house-keeping easier. Call and get an estimate for- installing a modern stainless sink-bench. Made from silvery “ Monel Metal,’* this bench is stainless, rustproof,’ hygienic, and maintains its beauty indefinitely.— Dickinson's Ltd., 441 Princes street. Dunedin...

The bank of sand which gradually encroached on the sea wall at New Brighton during the. past few months has now disappeared, due to exceptionally high tides. The Borough Council has been trying for some months to remove the bank, with little success, but it was washed away in a few hours by the pounding seas, the wall now appearing at its full height., The tides were so high that in places they found their way over the sandhills on to the roadway. Out of 50 applicants selected by the area officer for the third drrft of the territorial Special reserve (says the Christchurch Star-Sun) only two did not reach the high physical standard demanded. , Forty-eight of the 50 chosen candidates were almost 100 per cent, perfect in health and physique. Figures such as these prove that young New Zealanders to-day are carrying oil the country’s traditions of health and fitness.

Grandism (3495): Growling at: wot weather won’t make it dry; but a nip of Old London Dock Rum cheers* and comforts; 12s bottle.—Grand... “Southland cannot have, railcars too soon,” declared Mr J. A. Lindsay, railways district traffic manager, in his address at the social tendered to him in Invercargill on the occasion of liis retirement. “We have been looking for the displacement of mixed trains by railcars, eight of which are expected shortly. Mixed trains arc satisfactory neither to the public nor to the department, because they have to be run at times to suit sbhool children and the few passengers, rather than to suit the goods traffic. Travel is slow, and the load for goods is cut down. We cannot'have railcars too soon.”

Residents in some of the isolated flood areas in Hawke’s Bay sometimes find grit in their bread, blit they do not mind. It occasionally becomes embedded there when loaves are dropped from aeroplanes. The people who are receiving supplies from the air cannot say enough in praise of the airmen who are assisting them, and the deepest regret was expressed on all sides when it was learned that two of the fliers had been injured in the Pukuratahi crash.

Special showing of Autumn Goods. Call and see our attractive window and interior displays.—A. F. Cheyne and Co., the Mosgiel warehouse... An American visitor, after dining at a house on Cashmere Hills, was being driven back to the city one night recently by hi,; host, and was asked his opinion of Christchurch. After some deliberation, the visitor replied, “Well, this is the first time I have, seen a cemetery illuminated by Neon light;!”

Because of her frequent visits to the war zone in Japanese waters, the tanker Nordanger, recently at Wellington, has prominently painted on her side.; am} deck the national colours of Norway. The Nordanger. which is di. - charging fuel oil from Sumatra, usually runs from San Pedro to Japan, but she has not yet been, interfered with in her voyages in this trade. Whenthe flood waters leave the large area still covered between the main Napier-Wairoa road and the foothills north of the Esk River, farmers will bo faced with the unenviable task of disposing of scores of drowned sheep that have been caught in the submerged fences. Where they-could be reached some of the carcasses have been skinned, but the. neighbourhood: hr.; been rendered unpleasant, because of the odour of putrefaction.

It is easy to entertain your friends when you have a case of assorted wines and spirits on hand. Crossan’s “ Waterloo". delivers promptly... The kookaburra which was brought back from Australia with the returned soldiers’ Anzac Day contingent and which is now in the Wellington Zoo, was not smuggled into New Zealand, according to Mr J. Langridge, curator of the zoo. Mr Langridge said that the bird should neither have been taken out of Australia without a permit from the Australian authorities, being a protected bird, nor brought to New Zealand before a permit had been procured from the Internal Affairs Department. The entry of the bird was stopped by New Zealand Customs officers. who consulted the Internal Affairs Department, and the latter gave permission for the bird to be brought into the country on condition that it was sent to the zoo.

Have you tried Hitchon’s pork saveloys. pork sausages, or Oxford sausaee (cooked)? If your grocer can’t supply, ring our Dunedin branch (12-344). Milton (22)...