THE Opunake Times Established 1894 Office: Fox St., Opunake. TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1948. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opunake Times, 6 April 1948, Page 2

THE Opunake Times Established 1894 Office: Fox St., Opunake. TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1948. LOCAL AND GENERAL

What’s osn the Menu? Barraclough’s prime beef and mutton will assist .’the house-wife to provide tasty, suitable meals to please Dad and 'all tire family. Tender and juicy stewing or braizing beet always assured. Ring Barraclough’s, 15 Today.* R.A.0.8. Official Visit. A reminder to R.A.0.8. Lodge members appears in this issue advising that those who wish to visit the Hawera R.A.0.8. lodge on the occasion of the official Regalia visit next Monday should notify the secretary before- noon on Thursday next. A bus will be hired if sufficient inducement is offered. N.Z, Pine would make Newsprint, While in the United States lie had visited a Texas newsprint plant where paper was made from pine similar To that growb'- in New Zealand, said Mr. Walter Nash on his arrival in New Zealand last Thursday. He was especially interested because of the possibility of newsprint being manufactured in New Zealand. Travelling Broadens the Mind. “You know, for what it’s worth, my opinion is that there’s nothing so civilising as travel. If some of the Dictators • had travelled more in countries other than their own, what a different world it might have been today! If people like Hitler had seen more of the outer world, and met other peoples in their own countries, well, w,ho knows hut what their • megolomauia might have been curbed'and the world spared the fire and slaughter of war.” (Tom Clarke speaking, in the programme “Letter from London” in the BBC’s Overseas Service.) American Wool Interest. American confidence in the future of Britain was demonstrated by the purchase, at a reported cost 1,000,000 dollars, of a 150-year-old Yorkshire woollen mill by a Washington tailoring firm. According to information received by the New Zealand Wool Board the mill last year produced fabrics worth 400,000 dollars, operating at half capacity. The plant has 240 looms. Production is to be stepped up, and most of it will go to the United States where British woollen goods are regarded as the world’s best. Fraak Tree.

A tree which to oil appearances is a maple is producing* apples on a section at Otatara, near Invercargill. The owner of the section was walking through his property when he saw an apple lying on the ground. He knew there were no apple trees on the section. Looking about he discovered several smaller apples not far from the first one, and he noticed they were .all lying near the foot of a maple tree. Looking up at the maple tree itself, he was amazed to discover there were clusters of apples* on the es.“Do Not Disturb. r *

One criticism of New Zealand was that there seemed to be a general conspiracy in the hotels to wake-up all visitors at 7 a.m. with a morning cup of tea, said Sir Ben Lockspeiser, chief scientist to the British Ministry of Supply, in an address to the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers. “I’m one of those visitors who are not fit to, be spoken to before Kt a.m. and this T o’clock business is not so easy,” he said. “However, I have just- discovered a notice in one hotel which reads, ‘Please do not disturb this visitor.’ I placed that outside my bedroom door with remarkable success, so I am going to steal that notice. It will be the most precious piece of luggage in my possession.”

Public Meeting. A public meeting, convened by the Mayor, Mr. R. H. Huybson, for the purpose of launching the United Nations Appeal for funds to feed hungry children in Europe, will be held in the Town Hall Tonight. All citizens are urged to attend. Ladies’ Coif Club Meeting. All members and intending members are advised by advertisement in this issue that the Annual Meeting of the Opunake Ladies’ Golf Club will be held in the Clubhouse' next Saturday afternoon commencing at 1.30 p.m.

H.S.A, Branch Re-Union. The Annual Re-Union of the Opunake H.S.A. will he held in the Drill Hall next Monday evening. A good programme with a sit-down supper has been arranged and members should enjoy a most pleasant evening. A full attendance is requested New Treatment.

British doctors are hopeful that a new drug may be “highly beneficial” in the treatment o£ pulmonary tuberculosis. Known as Para-amino-salcylio acid, or PAS for short, it is tried in British hospitals, thdugm it is qmphasised that it has not been in use long enough yet for any cures to be claimed. It can be given by mouth In tablet form. An Old Gu?e. The Chinese have been making extensive use of peucillin for 3000 years without knowing it, states a message from Peiping. Throughout the centuries, native Chinese doctors have been treating wounds with compresses of fresh mould gathered from damp places, a rough method that was highly successful. Doctors in China have decided that this was due to the presence of natural penicillin in the mould.

What’s Im A Nam©? “While I was in New York, the well-educated 'head of a big business, who had been using the word ‘Anzac’ wrongly in an advertisement, inquired quite seriously when he was reproached : ‘But isn’t an Anzac a small, furry, creature like a koala bear?’ On another occasion which came under my personal notice a preacher was appealing for funds for missions. After painting a worc[-picture of his congregation enjoying every comfort of civilization, he has a contrasting description of the harzardous and hard lives of the missionaries, among the savage tribes of darkest Africa, the head-hunters of the South Seas and the primitive and ferocious Anzacs cf Australia.” (Gavins S. Casey “Calling Australia” in the BBC’s Pacific Service.)