LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LII, 2 January 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Mr. A. E. Wainwright wishes all his customers a prosperous and happy m-w year. The Taranaki Chain Stores have an important new advertisement in this issue, with regard to their various -vares. W-ith Idle object of obtaining oilboring options in and around the township of Awakino, it is understood a geologist has recently been making investigations and conducting negotiai ions. What is surely one of the most novel advertising mediums is a hillside; covered with gorso near Wanganui. A certain Jinn handling a noxious weeds spray, have literally written the name of their line on the hillside in blazing letters with their spray, the dead gorso standing out in marked contrast to the green of the rest of the hillside. A correspondent writes to Percy Plage, of the “Evening Post’*: —Dear Percy, —I would willingly forego my share of the dole to lie able to read the minds of the secretary and members of the -Seamen ’s Union when they noted the other day that three men took the Duchess from Wellington to Auckland —a job which (he union considered required I t men.

'Have you any family’” asked mmsi’l of a Maori debtor in 1 lie* Hastings Court. “Yes, two children,” was the answer. ‘‘Counsel: “Have you any money V’ —“No.” “Do you keep your family.”—“Yes, I keep (hem.” “Well, if you’ve no money, how do you keep them?” asked counsel. “Well,” answered the native, “you sec, I semi my wife out to work, and my boy, he goes out to work, too, so I get enough to keep them.” Au unusual and difficult operation was recently performed at Gisborne by Mr. F, Valentine, on a half-grown sheep dog. The dog showed signs of acute suffering and was walking as stilly as if it had swallowed a ramrod. The dog was chloroformed and the surprising discovery was made that he had swallowed a wooden skewer 7in in length. The operation was a complete success, and not long afterwards the dog was able to run about again, though obviously suffering from the effects of the operation. How the dog was able to swallow a piece of wood Tin long is a mystery, which Mr. Valentino was unable to explain.

‘‘We must honestly face the conclusion that the modern tendency is ultimately not to clothing, but to nakedness,’' writes Mr. J. G. Flu gel, assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of London, in “,Tho Psychology of Clothes,” which is published by the ‘Hogarth Press.’ Ho quotes, amongst others, Professor Knight Dunlop, who holds that within a, few vears, women will not wear clothes, and cause little commotion by doing so. Encouraged thus, we may with greater equanimity contemplate the possibility of dress destined to be but an episode in the history of humanity. Man, and perhaps before him, woman, will go about his business disdaining the sartorial mil dies whereon he supported himself during the earlier loitering stages of the advance of culture,” Mr. Flugel says. He contends that modesty can interpose no reasonable obstacle to nudity, nor in tho long run can economics or hygiene. He applauds nakedness in many circumstances as a convenience which ilocs not offer any serious objection so 'ong as then' is, some kind of sartorial harness lo allow us to transport with reasonable case the instruments required in daily life.