NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23702, 9 January 1939, Page 14

NEWS IN BRIEF

The present holiday period has brought a strange miscellany of vehicles on to the roads. One of these, which was seen at Windsor Park, Hastings, during the last few days, was an old open car on which had been painted numerous amusing slogans such as “ Our car is paid for; is yours? ” When a yacht capsized off Paraparaumu Beach, Wellington, the other day, an aeroplane ready to drop lifebelts put out from Rongotai, but a rescue had been effected when it arrived. After capsizing, the yacht drifted about three miles with the four people clinging to it, before they were rescued by dinghies which set but from Paraparaumu Beach, after they had been in.the water about an hour. The new regulation dust bin, strongly •constructed from galvanised iron, large size 7s, smaller 6s. delivered city and suburbs. —Dickinson’s, Ltd., 441 Princes street. Phone 10-096...

Canadian kelp-meal was included in an assorted shipment of Canadian foods which was despatched from [alifax recently to New Zealand. The kelp-meal is to be used for medicinal purposes. Seaweed or kelp contains a heavy percentage of mineral salts, notably iodine: The raw kelp is cut up, dried, and then pulverised, approximately 500 pounds being neces- r sary to pro.duce 100 pounds of meal. While visitors to the Kommodore Johnsen, now at New Plymouth, were being shown over the ship by a cadet they offered their escort a cigarette. He accepted it, but put it in his pocket, apologising for his action by explaining that he was not allowed to smoke while on duty. He had barely finished when one of the officers passed him. nudged him in the back and said a few words in German. , The cadet blushed and laughed. When asked to explain the remark he said the officer had murmured as ho passed, “ I’ll clean out my pipe for. you" Facts are truths—undeniable.. For instance, world travellers could vouch for it that, nowhere outside of the Caversham district, is there a Crossan’s Waterloo Hotel. Search the world as you may... After an earthquake shock a man stopped in Broadway, Palmerston North, last week, and gazed at the top of the T. and G. building. Seeing him looking, others became curious, arid also gazed. Then an epidemic of gazing swept along the footway, with inquiries as to what the other person was looking at. Nobody seemed to know, yet each new arrival was unable to suppress the urge to gaze heavenwards. Arid more than an hour later groups were still as curious and still nobody seemed to have a reason. Adverse weather is held responsible for the shortage of strawberries in Wanganui this summer. One grower who usually picks 150 chips a day at this time of the year is this year picking only 50 chips. High prices have been realised, ■ • . Grandism (3695): The biggest things . in life depend upon the smallest things. No order too small or tpo large for the Grand—Home Supply Store..* Motorists on the Main North road from Christchurch, near Leithfield; on New Year's Day were treated to an unusual sight when they saw a cabin monoplane flying towards them; not more than about 60 feet above the road; The passengers in the aeroplane, which had apparently flown down from Blenheim, could clearly be seen waving to the motorists as they passed Overhead. , As it is being dried but m a special room in Wellington, airmail salvaged from the ill-fated flying-boat Calmirnia, which met with , a mishap in Iraq in November, is being delivered. A letter received in Palmerston North bears unmistakable evidence of its immersion in the waters of Lake Hah- ~ baniyeh. Stained and minus the revenue stamp, it carries, a rubber stamp impression, " Received in damaged condition ex flying boat Calpurnia.” The contents g Christmas card were ruined by the water. . ■,. . Holiday makers when in the vicinity of Milton will find Gray’s Big Store a good place to replenish stocks. . Well bought grocery, hardware, drapery, and boots are available at this shop... Dated 1909, A 25-rouble note which carries a head and shoulders photograph of the Czar of that time, is in the possession of a Palmerston North resident. The front of the note Is a light pink with grey printing and.fancy figure-work, while the back is green on one half and pink on the other. The note carries two signatures and Is an example of exceptionally fine printing. The paper is similar to that used for bank notes in New Zealand and is in an excellent state of preservation, despite its 30 years of age. Crushed underneath a tractor when it overturned on a hill, Clifford John Utting, aged 31, contractor, of Wairoa avenue, Birkenhead, suffered broken ribs and a fractured collarbone when working on a property sit Birkdale, Auckland, last week. In order to remedy a fault which had developed in the machine. Utting was standing behind the tractor. With Utting underneath it rolled some distance down the hillside before coming to rest against several trees and a fence. The accident was not seen. Utting staggered across the paddock for 320 yards and collapsed upon reaching the nearest house. He was taken to the Auckland Hospital, which reports that his condition is not regarded as serious. 1939 Bargains Bigger and Better, It s frock week,. See special window.displays. Ladies’ frocks from 3s lid up. Every frock reduced. Call early while the selection is good.—Mosgiel’s Drapers. A. F. Cheyne and C 0...The Australian actor. Bert Bailey, iriseparatelv associated with Steel Rudd’s great Australian, character “Dad,” to which he has given world recognition on stage and screen, obtained a great personal thrill from his Auckland visit. There were no pictures on Christmas Night, and ‘‘Dad had a night off, which he spent in a reunion with his elder brother, Mr Johnstone Bailey, a retired farmer of Wharepoa, Thames Valley, whom he had not seen for 40 years.

Quality Coffee! The world’s best— Blue Mountain Jamaica freshly roasted and gqpund daily, is only obtainable from A. Durio and Go., coffee specialists, 32 Octagon, Dunedin.'. . „ , The weather in Gisborne recently has been marked by unusually low grass temperatures, according to observations taken at the Gisborne aerodrome meteorological station. A frost of 6.3 deg was recorded one morning last week, while on the previous Friday the grass temperature was even colder with a frost of 7.3 deg. These figures are surprising when it is considered that Gisborne’s severest frost during the winter was one of 6.3 deg, recorded on July 10. Have you tried Hitchon’s pork sausages, pork saveloys or Oxford sausage (cooked)? If your groces can’t supply, ring our Dunedin branch (12-344), Milton (22)...