NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24630, 11 June 1941, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

The letters which continue to reach residents of Invercargill from soldiers who took part in the Greek campaign, say«s the Southland News, all have the same refrain: "Thank God we have a navy." See the new season's Mantles, FrocKs, Coats, Hats, and Knitwear All the new styles and colours and at unbeatable prices. Call early, many cannot be replaced" Your inspection invited Mosgiel' Drapers A F Cheyne and Co..

At the height of a rainstorm on Thursday night - the Napier Fire Brigade was called out on a false alarm. If the alarm was sounded deliberately (says the Hawke's Bay Daily Mail) it was a poor Joke at the expense of the firemen, who got thoroughly soaked. Grandism (4447): The Grand Hotel cellars carry to-day the largest and better stocks than any other Hotel in the Dominion.. .

The recent warm north-westers have brought chimonanthus, the flowering apricot, and the japonica into bloom in Christchurch. In many gardens chimonanthus, or winter sweet, and the japonica are already flowering, though not proliflcally, and the flowering apricot is still in the bud. Daphne is also flowering early this year.

When sending foodstuffs to soldiers overseas pack in airtight tins as supplied by Dickinson, Mytton, Ltd., 204 Crawford street, nearly opposite Otago Farrflers" C00p... 0p...

An unusual case of vandalism and stupidity is reported by Mr C. J. Cutler, curator of the Newtown Zoo, the cutting and slashing of the elephant's saddle. Repairs cost £5. Mr Cutler more .than suspects a visiting party of adults 'who did the rounds in town, and, in search of still further excitement, did a round on the elephant. For Soldiers' Parcels, Grays, of Milton, can supply a wide range of suitable goods, including one-pound tins of butter...

" This has been a very prolific season for rabbits in Southland," declared Mr A. G. Diack, at the conference of the Southland executive of the Farmers' Union in Invercargill when urging that rabbits should not be permitted to occupy storage space in the freezing works or on refrigerated ships, to the exclusion of mutton and beef.

"Pack up your troubles in your old. kit bag' and buy a bottle of Crossans Waterloo Whisky.—Only the best spirits 501 d...

''They would not be worth much if they behaved like mine," remarked Mr R. M. Rickard at a meeting of creditors in a bankrupt estate in Hastings, when the bankrupt admitted that he owned a set of golf clubs over 20 years old.