NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23515, 1 June 1938, Page 18

NEWS IN BRIEF

“ School children nowadays don’t get enough drill. As they grow older I’m pleased to say that their carriage gets a bit straighter,” said Dr G. E. Waterworth at a meeting of parents of pupils at the Napier Intermediate School the other evening. Dr Waterworth added that more physical exercise and drill would improve the stature and health of the children. Turnbull’s Sample Room, Middlemarch, Wed., June 1. Special showing of new winter goods.—A. F.' Cheyne and Co., the Mosgiel Warehouse. . , An example of surveying de luxe was to be seen on the road skirting McCormack’s Bay recently (says the Christchurch Star-Sun). Above a theodolite, placed on the roadside, was a big beach umbrella, gaudily striped in orange and black. Its purpose, apparently, was to keep the sun from the instrument. / An unusual incident in the hearing of an accident claim at a sitting of the Supreme Court at Napier recently was the evidence of an aged Maori woman, Heeni Unaiki. The witness could not speak English and the cross-examina-tion was carried out, accompanied by expressive gestures, with the aid of an interpreter. Such statements that “a car was lazy”—travelling slowly—api that she was waiting “ in the stable the bus-shed—caused amusement. 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.. .

Speaking at New Plymouth the other night in the interests of the development of music as a cultural art Dr E. F. Fookes said it was not necessary to a musical appreciation that a peraon should, breakfast on a sonata, have lunch qff a concerto, dinner off a symphony, and have a rhapsody for supper. A new factor besides death and illness to be considered in estimating the time that a wife depended for support on her husband was jocularly mentioned by Mr Justice Reed during the hearing of an accident claim in the Supreme Court at Napier last week. “I supose we ought also to take int-j consideration the risk of divorce,” he remarked. " Divorces end so many marriages these days.?’ Make your work lighter—Have those blunt tools sharpened by our experts. Satisfaction assured. Dickinson’s Ltd., 441 Princes street, Dunedin...

A motorist who had parked his car in Courtenay street. New Plymouth, was noticed just after noon the other day gathering speed in an easterly direction with a portable "No parking” sign sitting on the bumper of his car. A strident tooting from a fellow driver warned him that something was amiss and he stopped and removed the encumbrance.

“ We must go ahead and recover some of these outstanding rates,” declared Mr F. S. Scott, chairman of the Waimairi County Council, when the county clerk (Mr G. S. Cowper) asked for authority to sell two properties on which the rates had not been paid since 1919. “We cannot go on like this,” he added. “We must have the rates if we are to carry on.” The authority was given.

Grandism (3509); The quality of Aragon Spanish Wine is well known, and sells at a low price. Furthermore, it gives the customer complete satisfaction. 4s fid... Expressing his appreciation of music as a listener at a meeting of the British Music Society in New Plymouth the other night, Dr E. F. Fookes, who was elected the first chairman of a New Plymouth branch, said that in his young days he " played tally ” from music practice in order to play football. Had the process been reversed he might, instead of becoming an international Rugby player, have been a musician of some attainments.

“If I fine these men, as counsel suggests, the fines will only be paid back by the Government in the form of sustenance,” said Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Auckland Police Court when two seamen pleaded guilty to deserting from the steamer Hertford at Auckland. Evidence was given that at the present time the shipping company had no positions available. Both accused were remanded for sentence.

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Christchurch radio listeners who were searching the short waves the other evening got a surprise to hear, above the loud hum bf engines, a voice announcing that its owner was flying “ above the coast just east of Christchurch.” The voice went on to say that there was a bank of cloud below, but the lights of the city could be seen reflected in the clouds. The explanation was that the broadcast was being carried out from a Wigram machine engaged in night flying exercises. Hearing a squeak that was not mechanical when he started his car one morning last week, a New Plymouth motorist lifted the bonnet, and out from the engine hopped a very small mouse. The cold weather might have driven the intruder to seek the company of spark plugs and a warm engine at night, but the morning’s surprise cleared up the mystery of a biscuit left carelessly in a pocket beside the dashboard a few days ago and laier found half-eaten. The motorist had, he confessed, suspected a hungry passenger. Winter Colds will soon be prevalent. See that you have a supply of rum in the home. Crossan, of the Waterloo, Caversham, keeps the best. . A witness in a divorce suit in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth recently siad he was “ one of the leading M.C.’s ” at a dance in the Wharehuia district, and related that he had seen the respondent and co-respond-ent at dances and go home together in a car. Counsel for the respondent asked him if “as a leading M.C.” he would have stopped anything wrong had he observed it. “Why should 1? ” queried the witness. “ Surely it would be your duty to keep the dance clean,” said Mr J. H. Sheat. “The party was clean,” said the witness. “He was master of ceremonies,” said the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers), “ not master of conduct.” Have you tried Hitchon's pork saveloys. pork sausages, or Oxford sausage (cooked)? If your grocer can’t supply ring our Dunedin branch (12-344), Milton (22)...