NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23866, 21 July 1939, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF

Lambs have already made their appearance on some of the farms in the Temuka district and a good percentage of twins is reported. The weather has not been favourable for the new arrivals, being very wintry. Four songs composed by Mr Gordon Mcßelh, of Wanganui, were sung by Mr Roy Hill from the national broadcasting station at Wellington on Wednesday night. A pianoforte suite and an instrumental trio written by Mr McEeth will probably be broadrast later in the year. This is Carpet Week at Gray’s Big Store. Milton. Call and see the floor coverings in attractive colours and designs... Asked bv the magistrate if he had anything to say, the defendant, in a breach of traffic regulations case heard in the Magistrate’s Court at Napier recently, replied, “No complaint, your Honor.” “ Possibly n oj.. but apparently someone else has.” was the prompt comment from the Bench. “I think that if a referendum of housewives were taken they would favour their husbands working until S o’clock on Saturday afternoon.” said Mr W. J. Gilberd at a meeting of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce, when the question of the Annual, Holidays with Pay Bill was under consideration.

This week’s special at Scoullar and Chisholm. Rattray street. Heavy British Linoleums in all wanted colours and designs for only 6s lid yard... “ I understand there is only one girl in Christchurch who can do this work,” said a member of the Canterbury Rugby League recently, when the question of purchasing monograms for referees’ jerseys was under consideration. The secretary (Mr H. B. Rogers) was finally instructed to order from an Auckland firm which make monograms on mass-production lines. A large plate-glass window in a Manners street, 'Wellington, shop was broken when a front wheel came off a motor car recently. The car, which was an old model, was approaching the Willis street intersection when the near-side front wheel came off. bounded across the footpath and crashed through the window. Apart from the broken plane of glass, no damage was done. Special showing of all new Autumn and Winter Goods in die showroom: Children’s, Maids’ and Ladies’ Knitted Goods. Winter Frocks. Hats and Coats. Call early while the .(election is here. Many goods we will be unable to replace.—Mosgiel’s Drapers. A F. Cheyne and C 0... A Czechoslovakian family who have fled from their country arrived in Auckland from Sydney on the Wanganella on Tuesday The family consists of father and mother and three daughters, and they intend to settle in Auckland. Their plans for the future are as yet undecided and in the meanwhile they will live with friends in the city. As concrete proof of the new friendship between Britain and Turkey, New Zealand returned soldieis are extending greetings to Turks with whom they fought during the Great War. The New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association has sent a message of friendship to Turkish ex-servicemen expressing gratitude for the successful completion of an alliance between the Empire and Turkey. < Ex “ Taranaki.” A full supply of our new season’s Blue Mountain Jamaica—the world’s finest coffee! Only obtainable from A. Durie and Co., coffee specialists. 32 Octagon, Dunedin.,. Ski competitors in Taranaki are training steadily in preparation for the New Zealand Ski-ing Championships to be held on Mount Ruapehu next month. Judging by the high standard of ski-ing displayed on Mount Egmont at the week-end, prominent competitors, such as C. Ambury (Taranaki champion). B. Murphy, P. Schwieters. and the well-known twin competitors, Pat and Joan Murphy, of Taranaki, will provide a strong contingent to compete for the New Zealand titles. , Grandism .(3875): A fine substitute for Rum—Glovin (Rum Punch), at half the price of Rum; meets trying times. 5s 6d bottle. Try it h0t.,.. Most people on some occasion have been guilty of absent-mindedness, taking home a loaf of bread instead of a pound of steak, or buying a mouse trap instead of a packet of cheese, but one of the most dreaded lapses of memory, is that of posting a wrong article. When in a hurry it is a very easy matter to pop your library book into the letter box with your left hand instead of a parcel with your right, An Auckland woman recently wrote a letter, with which she was eager to catch the mail. After waiting for some time for the rain to cease, she gave it un as a bad job and donned coat and hat ivd slipped the letter in her handbag. On Her return she said to her husband. “Well. I’m glad that’s posted.” and thought the matter had ended, but a couple of davs later the postin')" naPed. and, after questions about the tradesman she de°lt with, to her astonicVirnent. handed h°r an old envelope with her arocer"- list and o + Hor notes or, Hack. urgent Tetter was rMU in her nurse.!

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Applications for assistance totalling 174, an increase of 56, were received in the last fortnight by the general assistance committee of the Christchurch branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. The Employment Committee obtained permanent employment for one man. and two were placed at the Harewood aerodrome. The branch’s membership now totals 2074. compared with 1985 at this time last year. Dunedin has a membership roll of 1604.

“It is not easy to sell goods with the former advocates of . free spending now urging everyone to save; but the problem of replacing stocks sold is even more difficult.” states an article in the July issue of the New Zealand Draper, Clothier, and Boot Retailer. “No one knows exactly where he stands in the matter of supplies of goods, either from local or overseas sources." Reserve funds overseas from the sale of exports had been disappearing rapidly, but not because the Dominion was importing too many everyday household requirements, for these formed only a small portion of the total imports, it continues “In spite of this fact, the Government became panicky and rushed to stop almost all imports except their own requirements, and business has been thrown into the worst confusion which has existed in our century as a British country.” Canister sets, bread bins. etc., make useful gifts. Call and inspect our selection. We are open Friday night.— Dickinson’s. Ltd.. 441 Princes street. Dunedin...

An Auckland woman was in a shop buying some clothes and had laid aside her fur- while she tried on a garment. A little while later she Went to nick ud her fur and it had vanished. Anxiously the shop assistant questioned her. “ Where did you leave it? ” The customer pointed out the place on the table. “It may have been sucked through the window. ’ said the assistant. “ I will go down and have a look." She ran down the stairs, and in the street she found a man beneath the window holding the fur and wailing for somebody to come and get it. “The difficulty about these cases is that we so often misunderstand each other,” said Mr Justice Callan during the hearing of a compensation claim in the Arbitration Court in Christchurch recently. Counsel often misunderstood witnesses, he said, and the judge misunderstood counsel. His Honor referred also to a difficulty caused by the use in the gase of long medical terms. “ These big words; are ant to mislead us.” he said.

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