NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24635, 17 June 1941, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

Over seven inches of rain fell at North Mount Egmont during the 48 hours ended at 8 a.m. on Thursday. Christchurch traffic inspectors are to wear St. John Ambulance badges on their sleeves. All the inspectors have been examined in a course of first aid, and their badges are to denote that thev are now duly qualified. 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 Mosglel’ Drapers A F Cheyne and Co.. The first notes of the shining cuckoo this season were heard in Palmerston North a week ago. This migratory bird is known to the Maoris as pipiwharauroa (bird of distant flight). Up to the present 138 women have been trained as herd testers and a further 32 were being trained at Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, in May. Grandism (4452): Grand House Whisky, the daddy of them all; our stocks are limited: half-bottle, 7s 3d; large flask. 6s 3d; small flask, 3s 6d.—Grand Hotel... The arrival of Rudolf Hess in Scotland provided British humorists, professional and amateur, with splendid material. A London newsboy chalked on his placard: "Extra!! Return of Loch Ness Monster.” Wholehearted approval of the defence system set up by the Fitzroy unit of the Home Guard on the coast was expressed by Colonel W. J. K. Jennings, D. 5.0.. chief staff officer of the Home Guard, states the Taranaki Herald. He considered the defences had been conceived on sound lines. “ Heigh Ho! and a bottle of rum ” to keep out the cold this winter. Obtainable in the best quality at Crossan’s Waterloo Hotel, Caversham...

Burglaries occurred in four business premises in New Plymouth on a recent night, and, although the thieves went to a great deal of trouble, they had little reward for their energies, the greatest amount stolen being £3.' The fact that there are no Maori residents in the 1220 population of Havelock North is revealed in the annual return of the Census and Statistics Department. It is one of the few local bodies in the Dominion with no Natives living within its boundaries.

Do your bit towards preventing waste by having pots, pans, kettles, etc., repaired by experts at. Dickinson Mytton’s factory. 204 Crawford street, nearly opposite Otago Farmers' Co-0p... “We don’t want to go along comfortably, thinking that the Germans will crack after a while; they won't,” Colonel W. J. K. Jennings, chief staff officer of the Home Guard, told New Plymouth guardsmen. ” They are tough, and we have got to be tougher.” About 120 soldiers who have returned to the Papakura mobilisation camp from leave in Northland have been placed In isolation as a precautionary measure following the outbreak of cerebro spinal meningitis in the north. It is stated, however, that there are no cases of the disease at the camp. For Soldiers’ Parcels, Grays, of Milton can suppler a wide range of suitable goods, including one-pound tins of butter.., A farmer at tire Armed Forces Appeal Board at Christchurch said that a lad of 16, on a farm under his control, was doing the ploughing and driving of a s;x-horse team. The chairman said it was a change to hear of a lad of that age being able to do that work. , An appellant, who was 13 days too young ” to escape the ballot told Captain G, H. Anderson, at a sitting of Hit Christchurch Man-power Committee, that a man of his age had to watch his health and he could not be expected to be in camp all the week and still look after his farm at the week-end. “On the contrary," said Captain Anderson. " the older men have come out of camp feeling the benefit of the camp.”