NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24790, 15 December 1941, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

A valuable collection of New Zea-. land stamps has been presented by Sir R. Heaton Rhodes to the Canterbury Museum. The collection represents what has been Sir IJeaton's hobby for many years. . Wise housewives secure all their Xmas baking requirements_ at “The Big Store,” Milton. Quantity prices operate in buyer’s favour.,, Over 30 tons of whitebait were taken from the Waikato. River during the 1941 season, which ended on November 15. The quantity distributed fresh to the public was estimated to be between seven and eight tons, while thi amount canned was In the vicinity of 24 tons. ... See the new season's Mantles. * rocks, 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.. , No fewer than 10 cheese factories in the Manawatu area are now working night shifts, thus turning out two “makes” of cheese a day m place ox one. This change also applies to five other factories in the district, extending from Paraparaumu to Kai Iwi (beyond Wanganui) and as far as Matamau, in Hawke’s Bay. . k . Don’t miss this Christmas! Order your hamper to-day from Crossan s Waterloo Hotel, Caversham. Phone 22-156. ',.■■■ A small steel splinter hurled more, than 300 yards from a quarry where a demolition squad of the Auckland Battalion of the Home Guard was •giving a* demonstration on Sunday morning, passed through the roof of a house. A woman standing at the kitchen bench narrowly escaped being struck by the falling splinter. The squad had buried a steel girder in a trench at the quarry for the demonstration. When a charge of gelignite was fired, a jagged piece of metal was detached and forced out by the explosion.