NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Witness, Issue 4048, 13 October 1931, Page 28

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The demand for hairy wools resulting from the introduction of talking pictures was mentioned by Mr D. J. Sidey at a lecture given recently in Christchurch. “ The necessity for making theatres suitable for sound created a demand for heavy carpets made from carpet wools,” said the lecturer.

Arrangements are in train for the starting of community dancing in Craniner sqpare on November 3 (states the Christchurch Press). It was proposed at first that the dancing should be on Latimer square, but as the noise from the trams would interfere with the music for the dancing, a change to Cranmer square was decided upon. The Mayor (Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P.), has been successful in enlisting the assistance of Professor Shelley and also of a small sub-committee to organise the dancing, which will consist partly of folk dancing and partly of ordinary dancing. While at Bremen the New Zealand party of farmers were taken to the Fruit Auction Market. The bidders do not speak. Every buyer has a numbered seat with an electric button in front of him. The action of this button records his bid on a clock over the auctioneers’s seat. All cases of fruit are numbered and are opened on a travelling platform running the whole length of the building. and this platform passes in front of the buyers. The party was greatly pleased to learn from the proprietor of the market that New Zealand apples had a ready sale in Bremen, and were very much sought after. Indeed, he said, they could not get enough of them. The trend of events in Great Britain in recent weeks doeg not in anv wav weaken the case for the establishment of a central bank in New Zealand, said Professor H. Belshaw. of the Auckland University College, in an interview (states the Star). He added, however, that it would be unwise to give full effect to the recommendations in the report of Sir Otto Niemeyer until exchange stability had been attained; and that tGe present might rather be regarded as a favourable time to prepare a draft of the necessary legislation, so that a central bank could be established as soon as circumstances warranted it. In relatively prosperous times the necessity for such an .institution was liable to be overlooked.