NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 18

NEWS IN BRIEF

"A 'rogues' gallery," remarked Mr W. S. Bamsey when the New Plymouth Borough Council's recently-announced dossier system for traffic offenders was mentioned at a recent meeting in New Plymouth of the Automobile Association (Taranaki). "I am a man of 75 years. I havs been a farmer all my life, and all I can see is prices going down, down, down," said Mr W. Hair, of Kimbolton, at a mass meeting of farmers in Feilding. " I have never seen such deplorable prices, nor such a bad slump. £3 we have in the sheep farming industry to-day." Donald says he can always strike bright ideas after three nips at Crossan's "Waterloo." He says it's always good stuff there... . . Choosing a novel way of advertising their ball held recently at Hastings, members of the Young Farmers' Clubs visiting the town paraded down Heretaenga street on a farm tractor Two members, carrying a suitably inscribed banner, marched in front as an advance guard. The annual migration of field mica towards winter shelter has led to. a strange friendship being formed in a Wellington suburb. Some time ago a householder who keeps a canary-in a cage hung in a covered pox ch.-dis-covered a mouse in the cage, apparently on good terms with the canary. Tha mouse was eventually trapped, and tha ranary showed signs of distress and loneliness. Next morning, however, the nanary was as chirpy as ever—another field mouse had taken up residence in »be cage. Special showing of all new Autumn and Winter Goods in the showroom: Children's. Maids' and Ladies' Knitted Goods. Winter Frocks. Hats and Coats. Call early while the selection is here. Many goods we will be unable to replace—Mosgiel's Drapers. A. F. Cheyne and C 0... Much surprise was registered by the Geraldine borough staff when, while attending to a blockage in the pipe line which supplies the gutters with water, they found a huge eel lodged in on« of the openings of the four-inch cast iron pipe. The eel, which had been, dead for some time, was about three inches and a-half in diameter, and weighed 13 to 20 pound. A further surprise was received when a large trout was also found in the pipes, having become stranded when the eel. iammed the pipe. The line has been opened and replaced with .nine-inch concrete pipes. "It is a libel to say that the Pxtraim Islanders are a decaying people," said the surgeon of the Rotorua, when that liner arrived at Wellington from London. "They are strong and healthy and good-looking, particularly the women." People liked to say that the Pitcair-ni Islanders were a decaying race, he said, but this was an absolute fallacy. There were now 230 of them on the island, and they were looking fit. The Rotorua called at Pitcairn on the way to New Zealand. Buyers in the Milton district will find Gray's well stocked with the newest styles for winter wear. The inner and outer man is well catered for at the Big Store... A proposal that carcasses of pigs in the Northland Bacon Pig Championship should be liown from Kaiapoi .has proved to be impracticable. Mr C. P. Butler, secretary, reported to the executive of the A. and P. Society that it had been found that the cost of flying the carcasses would amount to over £2OO. The project was too costly to prove practicable. "It is an advantage to move slowly, for by doing so you can take in and appreciate the significance of each move," declared Mr T. L. Seddon, Mayor of Feilding, when speaking at the mass meeting of farmers at Feilding recently, referring to economic changes which had been brought about rapidly in New Zealand. "You and I have to balance our budgets, but a Government can, and sometimes does, stave off the fatal day; but it is my firm conviction that a Government cannot escape, ultimately, the necessity of balancing its Budget." Quality Coffee! The world's bestBlue Mountain Jamaica freshly roasted and ground daily, is only obtainable from A. Durie and Co.. coffee specialists. 32 Octagon, Dunedin... I "Meat-buying firms are now carrying the baby—and a very profitable child it is, I imagine," commented Mr W. W. Mulholland, Dominion president of the Farmers' Union, In the course of some remarks he passed on the meat quota, at the annual meeting of the Manawatu provincial executive. He added that it was a fastgrowing baby and would no doubt become a lusty one by the end of the year—while the farmers would be left with nothing to carry but the losses.: The opinion that the greatest problem affecting the farmer in the raising of nigs was not th« inadeauacy of the guaranteed prices but the shortage of labour was expressed at the annual meeting of the Waikato District Pig Council, by Mr L. Watkins, of Tirau. " Pig-keeping," he said. " is not an easy job. It requires a great deal of time and attention, and the labour is simply not available." Grandism (3820): If the bottle carries the Grand Hotel label, you know it's really good wine and is the greatest value obtainable at the money... Some idea of the many calls on the time of the Mayor of a borough, even though it is not one of the largest in Taranaki, was given by Mr J. P. Hughson, Mayor of Waitara, to the Borough Council meeting recently. He said that during 10J months last year he had attended 204 meetings, an average of four days in every week of the year, on council business. They comprised 41 council meetings, 34 public meetings, 7 conferences, 87 attendances at the Mayors rooms, 9 deputations, 7 opening ceremonies, 2 parades, 14 interviews, 1 civic reception and 2 crowning ceremonies. Just before midnight last Saturday, the large poster board outside the Trinity Congregational Church, Christchurch, was uprooted and smashed by six young men, who also attempted to damage the fronts of shops nearby. A witness told the Rev. D. Gardner Miller of the incident, and said that it was not the first time that there had been such behaviour in Manchester street at that time. Mr Gardner Miller told a reporter that " the larrikins were going home from a dance not far away." He believed that "the gang of them" regularly went past there. The damage they had done came to several pounds, he said, and he felt that police supervision of the area on Saturday, nights would be justified. 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... The addition of a padded cell to tha equipment of the Hastings Police Station will fill a want which has been obvious for some time past. Lack of accommodation for violent cases, has caused the local authorities some concorn, and it is following representations made by Senior Sergeant G. Sivyer that the Government, through the Public Works Department, is rectifying the deficiency. The necessary equipment for padding one of the cells arrived at Napier a few days ago. and is to be installed at Hastings shortly. On account of the poaching and illegal sale of toheroas from the Ninety Mile Beach, the Marine Department has appointed the sergeant of police at Kaitaia an inspector of fisheries under the Fisheries Act, 1908. Persons are warned against the unlawful sale of the shellfish and also the taking of greater quantities than are allowed by the regulations. It is also an offence to dig toheroas with a spade of a greater width than four inches. Have you tried Hitchon's pork sausages, . pork saveloys or Oxford sausage (cooked)? If your grocer can't supply, ring our Dunedin branch (12-344). Milton (22).,.