NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24481, 14 December 1940, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

Boys are understood to have broken into St. Agnes’s Church Hall, Tayforth (Wanganui), one day last week. They scattered sugar on the floor and dropped ice-cream cartons, but no damage was done to crockery. Entirely eliminated from the military dictionary in New Zealand now is the word “ conscripts,” which has been replaced by the inelegant coined term “ ballotees.” Anyone drawn in ballot, whether volunteer or not, comes under that heading. . Grandism (4306): We deliver, a single bottle anywhere just as readily as a case, and that single bottle at wholesale price.—Grand Home Supply... Grown in a Mangere hothouse, the first hothouse grapes of the season are now selling in an Auckland fruiterer s. Although they are well developed and of good quality, it is too early in the season for grapes to come forward in appreciable quantities, and rates are likely to be high for some time. The present retail price is 7s 6d a pound. The National Patriotic Fund Board has purchased 200 copies of a largesize portrait of his Majesty the King for distribution to officers’ and sergeants’ messes and recreatipn huts in all the mobilisation camps in the Dominion. In the portrait the King is wearing the uniform of a field-mar-shal. , . , . 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... Quantities of buttons suitable for shirts or trousers for the soldiers are still needed, according to a statement made by the Comforts Committee (Patriotic Fund) recently. Difficulty was being met in buying the buttons, it was stated, so that it was hoped that a generous response would be made to the committee’s appeal. The following telephone conversation is said to have occurred between two well-known European personages: Adolf (impatiently tapping mouthpiece of telephone): “ That you. Muss? ” “Yes, that is me!” Adolf: “Have the Greeks all those picked Italian troops out of Albania, yet? ” Muss: “ Where are you talking from, Adolf, London? ” Attractive kitchens lighten the household toil. Let us quote you for a silvery “ Monel Metal ” sink-bench unit. —Dickinson, Mytton, Ltd-, situated at 204 Crawford street (south end), just off Anderson’s Bay road. Phone 10-096...

The crocodile recently shipped from Singapore to the Wellington Zoo, which died soon after its arrival, has been set up as a Dominion Museum exhibit by the taxidermist, Mr Charles Lindsay. The crocodile was a fine specimen. but the long sea voyage and change of climate proved too much for its constitution. Its mate died a few days before it arrived. Both were only half-grown, measuring about five feet from snout to tail. New cloth shoulder badges were to be seen on the uniforms of some of the New Zealand airmen who marched through the city streets of Auckland on Wednesday of last week. Surmounting a flying eagle, with wings outspread, were the words “New Zealand,” so that airmen going overseas can in future be immediately identified. The men wearing them were sergeant pilots, who also wore the customary large “ wings ” on the breast of their tunics.

Don’t miss! Order to-day—a hamper from Crossan’s Waterloo Hotel, Caversham.. .

The need for promoters of dances and other gatherings for patriotic purposes obtaining permits in proper form before such entertainments are held was stressed at a recent meeting of the Wellington Metropolitan Patriotic Council. The matter came up on reports of two suburban dances; these cases are to be further investigated, and if the circumstances are found to be unsatisfactory the appropriate authorities will be informed of the breaches of the regulations controlling the collection of funds for patriotic purposes.

“The work of the school teacher is essential, even under the present troubled conditions, and in future its importance will tend to increase.” said the Minister of Education, Mr H. G. R. Mason, when he recently naid an informal visit to the Auckland Teachers’ Training College and addressed about 500 students. Education, he said, must play a great part in assisting people to turn to advantage the mechanical progress being experienced in the world. Suggestions for the Christmas Shopper at Grays’ Big Store, Milton: Fancy Goods, Handkerchiefs, Table Linen. Sheets, Towels, etc... Admiration of the fine spirit being displayed by the people of the United Kingdom was expressed at the annual meeting of the United Kingdom Manufacturers and New Zealand Representatives’ Association in Wellington. “ I think the least we can do is to show our solid appreciation of what they are doing,” said Mr S. B. Browne. “England is fighting for the freedom of the world and it behoves us to express admiration of tii? efforts of the people in the United Kingdom.” “It is amazing the lies the Germans nave been told.” comments the writer of a letter recently received by a Napier resident from a relative in England. The writer—a woman—relates that she had seen numerous “ dogfights ” in the air and several Germans had baled out. On landing and being taken prisoner the men usually asked: “ Where is our army stationed? ” and would not believe that there was no Gerrpan army in-England. “They have been told that Scotland. Wales and Ireland are all in German hands and that only London remains to be captured.” adds the letter. Further “ news ” given by the prisoners was to the effect that the war “ would be over by Christmas ”

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