NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24334, 26 June 1940, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

While taking a drink recently. Mr R. Dunford, of Whangarei, swallowed his false teeth, which lodged in his gullet. He was taken to the Whangarei Hospital, where the teeth were removed. Valuable experience is being gained by New Plymouth Aero Club pilots, who have been accepted for the Air Force, by taking full advantage of the facilities offered by the club, and anumber of cross-country flights have been made recently to Wanganui. Wellington and Napier. ‘•The butterfly is a kee n worker, slicks to his job. and does get results,” said Mr W. J. Poison, addressing farmers at Hastings recently, speaking of the white butterfly pest and turnip crops. ./ Buy now New Goods, just opened up; many cannot be replaced. Shop early while the selection is good. Gifts for all at Mosgiel’s Drapers. —A. F. Cheyne and C 0... Asked by one pf his listeners , to speak a few words of the language of the Solomon Islanders, the. Rev, E. C. Leadley, who recently delivered an address on this subject to the Hastings Rotary Club, obliged with a rendition of the Lord’s Prayer as it would be spoken by a native of the islands. It is doubtful, however, whether Rotarians were greatly enlightened. “Many people appear to have destroyed their dogs,” commented Mr R. Day, chief inspector, in his monthly report to the New Plymouth Borough Council recently. He said that registrations were 80 fewer than last year. Eighteen clubs are now affiliated to the New Zealand Chess Associatioru Because of the disturbed state of Europe, Mr A.. Steiner, the well-known Hungarian chess master, has postponed his departure for New Zealand. Grandism (4164).—There’s a kick in every nip. Glovin. the warm winter drink; it's better hot at bedtime; 5s 6d bottle.—Grand Hotel... “ We have turned the hospital into a free house since the fire,” declared the chairman of the Southland Hospital Board (Mr T. Golden), when a member remarked on the additional number of mattresses which the board had ordered for the reopening of the Kew Hospital in September. “ When you give a free show you expect to have to provide additional room; and it is the same with free hospital beds. People are getting hospital-minded.’ “The wonderful way in which New Zealanders are received in England has always been well known, but it is even more pronounced since the war began,” said Mr H. C. Holland, who has just returned to Christchurch from a trip overseas, in a talk to members of the Society pf Accountants. Mr Holland said that the English people had been agreeably surprised by the way the dominions had rallied round, and were pleased with them. “I don’t think they really thought the dominions were going to do what they have done,” he said. The constant care—the ceaseless responsibility of Crossan’s “Waterloo’ is to send hampers of the best spirits procurable. Be prepared for a hard winter... =•-" There were several meetings in Tim-, aru one night last week and one wellknown citizen must have become slightly confused as to the - venue of the one he was interested in as he wandered into the Horticultural Society’s annual meeting and took a seat. After a moment’s cogitation he decided he was in the wrong place and hurriedly left for his "rightful destination, the Chamber of Commerce. “ The Old Country's struggle is our struggle,” said Mr A. J. Murdoch, » member of the New Zealand Dairy Board, at Timaru last week, when he appealed to members of- the South Island Dairy Association to increase their production of cheese, He sounded a warning that when the struggle was over. Dominion butter producers would face keen competition from margarine on the Home markets. _ Important vitamins, which it was claimed lifted the nutritive value of the product to that of butter, had been included and means of scaling down production costs in the dairy industry would have to be investigated. “ Waste not. want not.” Do not discard household tinware, garden implements, etc., when they can be expertly repaired at small cost. Send to Dickinson, Mytton, Ltd., at 204 Crawford street (south end), near the 0va1... This all goes to show that education, is not an unmixed blessing: that it can have unpleasant consequences. A young Auckland woman recently bought a budgerigar, one which, the salesman assured her was definitely out of the ordinary—it had been educated to talk and to imitate other birds. The young person had the cage containing the budgie wrapped up m brown paper, left the shop, and. boarded a tram for home. Perhaps the unusual motion annoyed it, or perhaps it regularly exercised its vocal chords at this time of the day—whatever the reason, the intelligent.little “budgie” seemed to take upon itself the job of entertaining the other passengers of the crowded tram from beneath, its covering of brown paper. Without any warning it began to give forth throaty noises that the uninitiated would swear came from none other than the beak of a lusty young rooster. As her fellow passengers eyed her curiously, ; the young lady blushed a delicate rosepink. The conductor battled his way through the crowd. Quietly, but firmly, he spoke to the young woman: “ Excuse me, lady, but you are not allowed to carry poultry on the tram.” Hair Brooms, Banister Brushes, etc.. Enamelled in your favourite colour; Cream and Green, Cream and Red; and Cream and Blue, for sale at James Gray and Sons, Ltd... Policemen are fair game for all collectors for worthy causes, and so the members of the staff of the Timaru Police Station were cheerfully ready when lucky packet collectors called on. them recently. Inspector M. Flanagan’s best selection was two cakes of chocolate, and first prize went to a detective who drew a bag of coal and a pair, of , socks. The, detective’s im 4 , mediate superior, who was receivng congratulations on the anniversary of his natal day, gazed blankly at a pair of baby’s gloves, but the only blush discernible was on the face of a constable towering over six feet who unwrapped a string of beads. Cyclists who are travelling at top speed, have rather an advantage over traffic inspectors who are walking, as _ one inspector found the other night. The inspector was standing opposite the viaduct at Caroline Bay. Timaru, when two cyclists came speeding down the hill out of town. One cyclist was without a light. “ Where is your light?” shouted the inspector. The man on the bicycle who was now.well past him, shouted, rather too innocently, “Do you want me?”. “Too right I do,” was the reply, “but I don’t expect to get you.” Have you tried Hitchon’s pork savelovs, pork sausages, or Oxford sausage (cooked) ? If your grocer can’t supply ring our Dunedin branch (12-344). Mil. ton (22)... One of the many Fifth Column stories now current in England concerns the German servant girls who were once so numerous there. By no means all of them were Jewish refugees. Some months before the war began the German Embassy in London ordered them to go home to the Fatherland. Now, via Holland, comes the report that these girls have been incorporated in Hitler’s parachute squads. A girl, it is said, is attached to each group of parachutists. The idea is that she will be dropped with the men over an area in England where she worked as a servant. Knowing the country, she would be able to guide them in their work of sabotage.