NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23512, 28 May 1938, Page 32

NEWS IN BRIEF

The unorthodox action of two Maoris in conveying the body of their father to the tribal burial ground on Mokoia Island without a certificate of death being issued was responsible for a visit being made to the island by the coroner, Mr W. L. Richards, and three police officers and the exhumation of the body of Mr-John Graham Te Kiri, aged 83 (remarks the Waikato Times). The body will be reburied on the island.

Balls and parties .are well catered for and all orders receive the best attention when addressed to Crossan's Waterloo, Caversham.. An interesting display at the Christchurch office of the Government Tourist Bureau is a cut-out representation of the new railway station for the city. The display gives a very effective idea of the new station, with the cellophane windows illuminated from behind, and models of cars and trucks and cut-out human figures placed in the foreground. " The women servants in the hotel were infected with the spirit of polo, and they were riding their brooms around the house," said Mr C. Meredith, assistant.manager of the New Zea--land'Polo All Blacks, in describing the team's stay at a. Sydney hotel during the tournament in which the Australasian Gold Cup was annexed. Mr Meredith made the remarks during thrs complimentary dinner tendered to the players in Cambridge last week. Turnbull's Sample Room, Middlemarch, Mon., 30th: Tues., 31st.; Wed., June 1. Special showing of new winter goods.—A. F. Cheyne and Co., theMosgiel Warehouse .. A warning to young New Zealanders concerning recruitment for. rubber plantations in Malaya has been issued by a London society of planters through the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr D. G. Sullivan). "The society issues a warning to the people in New Zealand that, before accepting positions as rubber planters in Malava. they should ascertain that they will receive adequate salaries, etc.," said Mr Sullivan.

"Some delegates at the provincial conference of the Farmers' Union in Auckland considered that parents Were not anxious to have children, as they were merely required as cannon fodder. One delegate, however, stated that it was just as Intelligent to refuse to raisechildren because they might be required for cannon as it would be tr» refuse to raise sheep because they might contract facial eczema. Visitors to Uuneditj will nnd acconi tnodation at Hotel Central 100 Princes street to their liking.. "In retrospect, the year might h« regarded as one approaching boom conditions; business has been good generally, and in our own case has surpassed anything previously experienced and has exceeded anticipations when the estimates were prepared 12 months ago," said the chairman. Mr F. Purnell, at the annual meting of the Wa-nganui-Rangitiki Electric Power Board at Wanganui recently. "Nevertheless, an air of doubt and Uncertainty has persisted, and the conduct of the board's business has not been without its anxiety for those responsible," he said.

The old Auckland railway buildings now occupied by the Unemployment LaDour Bureau will shortly be demolished to make way for the site for additions to the Chief Post Office. This work will start very soon. I n the meantime the Public Works Department is preparing two floors in Nathans Buildings, High street, for the bureau. Already a portion of the premises is in occupation. Ex Doric Star, the first of our nsw season's " Jamaica "—the world's finest coffee. Only from A. Durie and Co., coffee specialists 32 Octagon. Dunedin...

During an address on " The Geology of the Waikato," given in Hamilton. Professor J. A. Bartrum, of the Auckland University College, said without doubt the pumice deposits in the Taupo area were the greatest in the world. American geologists had told him that they were astounded at the extent of the formation and had never seen anything to approach it. Professor Bartrum mentioned ihat pumice was initially, frothing rock formed when the Waikato was being subjected to severe eruptions. "I have been fruitgrowing in New Zealand and other countries for 20 years, and I can honestly say this season is the worst I have ever struck anywhere." With these words a Pakowhai orchardist summed up the season now rapidly drawing to a close, when conversing with a Hawke's Bay HeraldTribune reporter, recently. Four storms in the past few months hav« meant a severe blow to the industry. We make and repair met articles ot every description, also set and sharpen lawn mowers, shears, saws, scissors. etc.—Dickinson's. Ltd. 441 Princes street. Dunedin..

Although farmers generally have realised with something of a shock that their 1937 income is far below expectations, it is interesting to see that even a large estate of nearly 8000 acres, unencumbered, shows a return of only £960 12s Bd," writes a reader of a Hawke's Bay paper. This sum was the profit shown by the Josiah Howard estate account for 1937, and yet. a few years prior to Mr Josiah Howard's death, he paid a tax of £2700 on the income dejrived from this estate.

A loss of 1200 acres of hill pasture owing to slips during the recent flood was experienced by Mr W. McKinnon. of Rock Station. Te Pohue. Hawke's Bay. Mr McKinnon said the slips did not merely take away the pastures, taut also took away the soil right back to the bare rock. Much of his hill country will be of little use in the future. The effects of the earthquake of 1931, which was particularly severe in the Te Pphue district, were undoubtedly responsible for the serious slipping. Mr E. R. Dampney, Ealand Station, is also a heavy loser through slips, and he estimates he has lost 1000 acres of paslure. He doubted whether much of this land could be restored to pasture. Grandism (3506): To the ear it gives tune, to the eyesight fresh vigour, and the scarecrow expands to a corpulent figure. Sedina Tonic Wine, 8s 6d...

Prominent anglers in the Geraldine district fear that runs of quinnat salmon in the Rangitata during the next few years may be affected adversely because of the heavy floods in the river during last summer (states the Press). A real "old man" flood occurred at Easter, and old residents reported. that they had never seen a bigger one. It is feared that few quinnat would live through the tumbling mass of boulders and gorse bushes. One angler reported that when the flood dropped hundreds of fine, big salmon, some up 351 b, were lying dead, scattered through the beaten-down gorse bushes and small dry watercourses. Another man reported that he saw many salmon smolts (fish in an intermediate stage) dead as well. Even eels and lampreys were killed.

The May bargains at Gray's Big Store, Milton, are receiving favourable, comment and resulting in very satisfactory sales... "When I left the United States for London on my way to New Zealand, everyone told me that the cost of living would be much lower here," said Miss Nan Reynolds, who has returned to Hawke's Bay after living in America for 14 years. "So far this has yet to be proved," she said. Miss Reynolds explained that her shoes had cost her a great deal more than a similar pair in America, and from her observations nearly all imported-goods were verv much dearer. While she admitted that primary products—meat, butter, eggs, and so on. were cheaper —motors, places of amusement, and general amenities cost very much more. ' _'.,■■' Of all the girls that Jack knows, He thinks Molly is the best, And of all the bacon ever tried, Hitchon's stands the test...