NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23952, 30 October 1939, Page 12

NEWS IN BRIEF

Five tuis were seen on one kowhai tree in Whangarei recently. A milkman in the early .morning saw he birds in a tree drinking nectar, from the kowhai blossom. .. That only 50 per cent, of the pupils attending the Wanganui. Technic;! College avail themselves of the free issue of milk was reported to las, week’s meeting of .the Board of Managers by the principal. Mr I. E. New-

“Paint and preserve,” that s the slogan now. With LustrUss . Anvil paints you can do both. Buy it from Gray’s, Milton... , , . The following sign is posted by the roadside as you enter a Western town in the United States:—4o76 peop'_ died last year of gas. 29 inhaled it. 47 put a lighted match to it, 4000 stepped “inoculations against typhoid at Jim rate of four a minute are being carried out at Hopuhopu military camp, ■ At the men and officers in camp, nearly 3000, are being treated, each receiving two injections. After an m iecDon < man is excused for duty for 24 horns, and after that he has light duty only for 12 hours'. It is stated that the mass inoculation is a usual precaution m "'nrtnkTSeOl: IP. the runtJng expenses that keep you out of breath Study economy—shop at the Grand Home Supply Store... Mr V F. Fisher, ethnologist ..-at the Auckland War ‘ Memorial Museunv wh o has iust returned from a visit to-uit United States, praisrd done bv American museums among enn dren especially’ that- of the Children Museum in Boston. a '\ d J m in »trailside ” museums established. in woods and park-lands outside New York for the benefit of youth orgam* Jatons by the American Musetun o Nntm-al History. These little couec Uols iS. were houseOt cabins, and gave a fine ’’f j y jo ■ the fauna and floia of the count y immediately around them. Tn the early days of wireless even expert. 6 thought that the lonmr the Postmaster at Timaru in tri the Timaru Rotary Club ot. xuesd Thinking that amateurs might prove a nuisance the authorities decided that little harm would be done if t -y wei granted permission to use shoit wa\ transmitters. But actually it had since been found that the short waves were the best for distance andthatthy ic miired less power. Many yeats a„u one New Zealand amateur had contacted England by short wave and had used no more power than was used foi an ordinary electric light, i . , Special showing of all new Goods in the showroom* Children s. MaicL and Ladies’ Knitted Goods, Winter^ FrocksHats and Coats. Call early- while the selection is here Many goods we w ! be unable to replace— Mosgiel s Drap ers. A. F. Cheyne and C 0... During the past six years school children have contribute^ the mangmficent sum of £1391 5s 9d towards the cost of maintenance for children admitted to the Health Camp, says the annual report of the Children’s Health Camp Association In addition the sum of - £llO 12s 2cL vas raised from school concerts' organised bv the Headmasters’ Association. During the past two years representations have been made to the Catholic education authorities to include the Catholic schools in the school envelope appeal. Since 1935 some 139 Catnolic children have been admitted to the Otaki Health Camp from various Catholic institutions in the Wellington district area and the cost of maintenance, amounting to approximately £847 8s 6d. has been met by the associations funds. Said McNab to McTavish: “When I come tae Crossan’s Waterloo ma purs strings seem tae open; but just hae one the noo, Sandy.”..

Striking e parly telephone, and accompanied by a terrific clap of thunder, lightning shattered an arrester on the telephone at the residence of Mr R. J Barber, of Shannon, setting light to the wallpaper and scrim in the living room. Mr Barber, who was near by. quickly extinguished the outbreak before much damage was done. It was later found that the lightning arrester on every telephone on the line, eight in number, had been shattered, a private line connecting Kaihmua road with Kingston road having been struck by lightning. About halfway along the length both wires were melted through and severed. Recently a painter was busily- engaged painting numbers on the bow and stern of an Auckland ferry boat. There were four numbers to be painted, and upon completion it appeared to the layman that “ someone had blundered,” for two of the numbers read 124 while the others read 421. Whether this was intentional or not is a matter for conjecture. but from appearances it would seem that the painter bad made a mistake. Still, the craft is a ferry boat, a dquble-ender so far as bow is concerned. and the 421 at the stern one way becomes ■ 124 when the ferry reverses direction without turning and the stern becomes the bow. 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)...