NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24733, 9 October 1941, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

Chessmen with pegs to fit holes in the board so that games played aboard ship would not be upset by the roll of the sea have arrived at New Plymouth for presentation to the Taranaki Museum. The donor is Mrs Mira Brown (Auckland).

The early construction of another floor on top of the recently completed four-storey block at the back of the Chief Post Office in Auckland was announced by the chief postmaster, Mr C. Clark, at the annual reunion of the Auckland section of the Post and Telegraph Employees' Association and Officers' Guild. This is the " Dulux " season. Renovate your kitchen, your furniture, your car. Dulux will stand outside conditions. Buy it at Gray's, Milton... Greatly increased work had been thrown on chemists bv the free medicine scheme, said Dr C. J. Miller in an address at Auckland. There had been a general increase.' of about 100 per cent, in the demand for dispensed medicines. He caused much amusement bv adding: "And then they have the nerve to take a basketful of bottles that they got the free medicine in back to (he chemists and ask to be paid for them."

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-op. . . The largest bullock ofTered at the Westfield sale yards (Auckland) for some time, a rising four-year-old Hereford estimated to weight more than 12001 b. was sold by and Co. on account of Mr W. J. Higham. of Papakura. The animal, which Mr Higham had been keeping for show purposes, realised the top price for bullocks of £lB.

An increase in the number of kiwis at the Kapiti Island bird sanctuary is reported by the caretaker (Mr A. S. Wilkinson). He states that the birds are now well distributed over the whole sanctuary. Their feathers, caught up in the hooked grass, have been seen in'most-parts of the island. The report adds that the natural spread of the forest trees has provided these bush dwellers with sufficient cover. 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 C 0... A remarkable example of Home Guard inventiveness was shown recently when Sergeant D. Perriam, A Company, New Plymouth battalion, produced a large, folding scale model of a double apron barbed wire "fence to instruct men In wiring. The ingenious use of colours clearly shows the order of the tasks. The advantage of the model is that when guardsmen again do wiring out of doors they will be able to concentrate on the practical work with , the thorough knowledge of the theoretical side. "My name is legion "—Waterloo Hotel! Caversham. Dunedin... The National Day of one of the few countries in Europe not under the Nazi yoke, Portugal, fell last Sunday. It marked the formation of the republic in 1910 after the abdication of King Manoel 11. An explanation of the procedure followed in issuing warm clothing to New Zealand troops in the Middle East was made by the secretary of the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Fund fMr H. S. Feast). Knitted garments were put aboard transports for use by men on guard duty. Men were not supplied with warm garments when they left New Zealand, as they travelled through the tropics. The National Patriotic Fund had now sent direct for the cold nights in Egypt 40.000 each of scarves, balaclavas, and mittens for distribution. No woollen comforts were sent to men in Fiji.