NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24685, 14 August 1941, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

“It is proposed to call it the polyclinic, inlfeu of the administration block,” stated Mr J. H. Hall at a meeting of the Gisborne Borough Council, when discussion turned on the proposed administration block at the Cook Hospital. Mr H. H. De Costa: A rose by any other name will smell as sweet. End of Sale argalns for Ten Days only at James Gray and Sons, Ltd., Milton. Coats, Frocks, and Millinery at greatly reduced prices... _ Whan 6 and J Companies of the Hamilton Battalion of the Home Guard were on the rifle range conducting their group shooting tests recently an excellent performance was recorded by a guardsman whose age is in the vicinity of 70 years. He scored the possible, his five shots being In the circumference of a florin. If, as Is said, easy sleep is the sign of a clear conscience, such a conscience, is not a wholly unmixed blessing, says a man who lives in Riccarton. On a recent night he caught the last tram for home, and, dozing off in his seat, did not waken again until the tram was back In the Square. Taxi fare home cost him half his week’s pocket-money. 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.. A motorist travelling south from Auckland recently was more intent on watching the football match at Hopu Hopu between Papakura and Hopu Hopu military camps than watching the road, with the result that he provided the soldiers with some added entertainment by careering off the highway and ending up near the fence skirting the road. It was necessary for him to cover a very bumpy path in his journey back to the road. Don’t waste time trying to work with blunt tools: get them sharpened by experts at Dickinson Mytton’s factory, 204 Crawford street, nearly opposite Otago Farmers’ Co-0p... On behalf of the children of the Presbyterian Sunday Schools of the Dominion, a parcel containing chocolate and sugar, condensed milk, tea and cocoa has been despatched to Freddie Harrison, of Hendon, London, the six-year-old boy who saved his two sisters, aged 10 months and three years, when their home was destroyed by bombs. The money came from interest on a large sum that was raised by the children for missions. It will soon be time to think about ordering your Christmas hamper from Crossan’s Waterloo Hotel. Cavei’sham,.. Many new stories go round in the air raid shelters in which Rhinelanders spend four or five hours a night. People ask: “ Where should we be to-night but for our beloved Fuhrer? ” The answer is: “In bed and asleep.” Another question is: "I wonder what dear Hermann will do to-morrow? ” The answer is ’’ Commit suicide,” since Goering once foolishly declared that he would commit suicide if the British ever penetrated the aerial defences of Germany.