NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24633, 14 June 1941, Page 13

NEWS IN BRIEF

A letter received from London, says the Waikato Times, states that apples there are costing 4s 6d a lb, consisting of four apples only. Another luxury Is tomatoes, which at the' time the letter was written, were being sold at ,10s a lbSince the impressment of .303 rifles was ordered two months ago the police, in the Hamilton district have collected 1423 weapons. When the Impressment is completed it is - expected that ’ 1500 rifles will have been handed, in. ‘ ■ The regulations specify that all householders have a Tetter box. placed close as possible to the street front. Dickinson Mytton, Ltd., can supply. \Address: 204 Crawford street, nearly opp Otago FannCT " The Greek women really are beautiful. and they would put the womenfolk of New Zealand td shame in the way they, work,” writes Gunner P. Maguire, of Christchurch. , , - ■ , - ~ , " There’s enough rag there to clean all the planes They; can ; get into New_, Zealand,” commented the clerk of the Havelock North Town Board (Mr W. H. Anderson) concerning the collection made by the Girl Guides last Saturday. This is the story of Lena, the hen. owned by a Hastings resident and surely one of the most remarkable hens in Hawke s Bay. Lena flies through the scullery window. alights on the sideboard and lays an egg-in an ornamental fruit bowl. - Always the same bowl, always on the sideboard, but Lena will not lay elsewbSre. For Soldiers’ Parcels, Grays, of Milton, can supply a wide range of suitable goods, including dne-pound-tins of butter..*-•<:-There- is no likelihood of a general shortage of tea, according to MrTL E. Thomas, the Food Controller. Additional fifth period import licences up to 30 per cent., he said, had been issued to tea importers, so that they could, import a quantity equal to one and a-half times that of the tea Imported in 1938. _ Work will start almost at once in Christchurch on the erection of the second set of pensioners’ cottages under the £20,000 loan obtained by the City Council. Eight blocks, of thirty-two units, will be erected at. a cost of £15,424. this being the lowest tender. Other tenders ranged up -to £20.893. ‘ ~, "Whisky is the life of man , u it■ bought from Crossan’s Waterloo Hotel. Caversham —only the best kept... The effective signalling which could now be undertaken by members of the Women’s War Service Auxiliary in Christchurch was illustrated -to a meeting .of women at Ashburton by Mrs Cecil . Wood. She said that a signalling corps was practising in a motor garage when some Air Force men came in to watch. Their attention to the “No Smoking ” rule was drawn by signalled instructions, with the desired result. . The Christchurch City, Council is at present finding work -for 228 men under No, 13 Scheme, it was reported, by the Works Committee at a recent meeting of the.council. “Some months ago.” the report stated, ” the number was about four hundred, but the National Service Department has recalled many of these men and sent them to work in the country.” See the new season t Mantles Frocks, coats. Hats, arid Knitwear All the .new styles - and colours and at unbeatable prices Call early, many cannot be replaced Your inspection invited MosgieT Dvanets A F Cheyne and Co , At a Napier bus terminal recently an obviously inebriated passenger weaved his unsteady way among' the crowd on the platform, and’with careful navigation reached the steps of a bus about to depart. Teetering, on his feet, he addressed the driver solemnly:,” Going or coming? ” Replied the driver, taking the situation in at a glance: “ Going. . . . Coming?” In an institution not 100 miles from Timaru one octogenarian had a lesson sharplv brought home to him when his neighbour, ’ rather older than himself, heard him criticising the Empire’s, chances against the hordes of Hitler. A'walking stick brought down on a head -entirely devoid of thatch left no doubt about an Allied victory on this occasion. Grandism (4450): The " Grand Hotel” on any label inspires public confidence. For better wines or spirits shop at the Home Supply Store... “ Fallacy, misconception and superstition form a great part of the beliefs of mankind—English-speaking people no exception,” said Mr A. Lexington Jones in a talk to the Christchurch Businessman’s Club. He proceeded to expose and contradict a number of them: that baldness is caused by wearing a hat, or that it is curable; that it is possible to disinfect the air of a room: and that it is bad to have flowers In a room at night. The unpopularity of Che sales tax in Australia was alleged by Mrs Lillie Bierne, Australian lecturer on “ the New Economics.” during an address in Hamilton recently. She said that in Alberta, where there was a Social Credit Government, the 5 per cent, sales tax had been removed and Instead a 3 per cent, bonus had been given to consumers of Albertamade goods and of benzine.