NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24506, 15 January 1941, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

It has been the custom of the Gonville Sctfut Troops, Wanganui, to name its annual camo after some distinctive feature of the camp. For this reason the camp at the mouth of .the Kaitoki stream during the recent holidays was known as Camp: Waikiore because so many water-rats ■ were found in the vicinity. A camp/at Castlecliff a couple of years ago was known as " Makakaho," after the waving plumes of the toitoi. When the Scouts were camped at Mr G. F. Moore's Bushy Park estate they named the camp "By Gosh Camp, because of the unusual prevalence of the expression. .*,-«, Grandism (4331): Our best advt. is the quality inside every bottle weseii. Play safe.' Shop at the Grand Hotel Home Supply Store... • Mr Robert Lennon aged 50 single a farmer of Matapouri, who was gored by a bull, is now in the Whangarei Hospital suffering from a fractured spine. His condition is serious. _At about 4.30 a.m. Mr Lennon was bringing in the cows for milking when he. was attacked by the bull. His cries attracted the attention of Mrs R. Grant, an Auckland visitor who was holidaying with Mrs E. Grant, who lives, near Mr Lennon. Help was summoned, but difficulty was experienced in moving the bull, which was standing over Mr Lennon. Pitchforks and crowbars had to be used to drive it away. . Special Sale of Ladies' Frocks from 5s lid, 7s Hd. 9s lid, 14s 6d and 19s 6d up. See windows and in the-show room. Every Frock in stock reduced. Call early Mosgiel's Drapers. A. F. Cheyne and C 0... . ■ . , ' During the New Year Pairs bowling tournament at Wellington (states the Dominion) a jack was burned (illegally interfered with) in an unusual manner. A drive sent the jack vertically into the air, and one of the players, who was standing at the head caught it, responding, perhaps, to an impulse of cricketing days. Eye-witnesses were doubtful whether it would have come to rest in the rink and in play, but, anyhow, it had been touched, and a rule which applies when a jack has been burned, giving privileges to .the opposing side, had come into operation. A girl aged 18. Miss Ruby McKay, owes her life to the prompt and plucky action of her brother Leslie, aged 15, who jumped fully clothed into a river and supported his sister until assistance arrived, says a Gisborne report. Miss McKay fell from the railway bridge at the Willows into the Waiapaoa River. Knowing that she could not swim, her brother immediately jumped in after her and managed to hold her up until a boat was brought to the scene. Miss McKay was taken to the Cook Hospital suffering from shock and a dislocated jaw. When sending foodstuffs to soldiers overseas pack in airtight tins as supplied by Dickinson Mytton, Ltd., 204 Crawford street, nearly opposite Otago Farmers' Co-op. .. A short time after the publication of an advestirement in the Manawatu Standard a pipe which was lost in unusual circumstances was recovered. The owner, a garage proprietor, had placed it on the running board of a car which he was filling with petrol, and when the car moved off with the pipe the owner gave up hope of recovering an expensive and valued Christmas present. He received word, through the advertisement, however, that the pipe had travelled safely on the running board of the car to Pongaroa, some 60 miles away. Only the very, best quality liquors sold at Crossan's Waterloo -Hotel. Caversham... '•••,"•!.■ A rare spectacle presented itself high up in the summer iky late recently one night in Christchurch, when the moon appeared perfectly balanced between two of the planets, probably Jupiter and Mars. Viewed away from the glare of the city in. the clear atmosphere above Sumner it commanded immediate attention. Through ordinary field glasses, the moon, just over half, looked like a dazzling silver bowl with a very uneven brim and with the larger planet below and to the left. So clear was. the air that the three adjacent constellations, Orion, Hyades, and Pleides, shone brilliantly through y .the. bright light, and six of "The Seven Sisters" were clearly visible to the naked eye. Spr,ead over a wide arc and including as it did some of the brightest and best-grouped stars in the Milky Way, this rare celestial picture was one to be remembered for a long time. ■ % ' Harvest needs for the farmer are now in stock at James Gray and Son's " Big Store," Milton. Forks, scythes, twine, 0i1... A bronzed plumber, of North Shore, Auckland, who has just returned from a country farm, says he is a very satisfied man with his pockets bulging with good new Reserve Bank notes. People are always saying what high wages plumbers earn at their trade, but he says that harvest work on the farm is a much better paid job, plus plenty of fresh air, and living like a lord all the time, meals being served nearly every two or three hours. They are called " snacks," but they are really meals. It is quite true long hours are worked and early rising is the rule, but there is no worry, no ladders to climb, and the harder one works the more satisfied the farmer is, as he sees his shapely stscks rising in a sunny atmosphere. The farmer was glad of his help, and he was never so well paid in his life. He is now looking for a farm, and when he buys one his plumbers' tools will be put away for good. Have you tried Hitchoh's pork saveloys, pork sausages or Oxford sausage (cooked)? If your grocer can't supply, ring our Dunedin branch (12-344). Milton (22)...