LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, 6 January 1941, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

The farewell evening to be tendered Mr. C. P, Bates and family is to be held in the Town Hall supper-room on Thursday night instead of 'Wednesday night, as previously arranged. a, basket from ladies attending the function will be appreciated.

Describing the care with which the Leader of the Opposition had to choose his words, Mr. S. G. Holland, M.P. for Christchurch North, told a meeting of National Party supporter s that. he had never had to record a complaint about misreporting in all his speeches since he entered politics five years ago. He said the newspapers and the reporters richly deserved to be paid a tribute.

Speaking of the traditional Christmas message, “Peace on earth, goodwill towards men," the Ven. Archdeacon Bullock, preaching at St. Peter’s Anglican Church recently, said there wa g justification for believing in an alternative reading, “Peace on earth to men of good will. ” That'implicd fci-at there could be no peace for men of ill will aijd justified us in carrying on the present struggle for justice and right. While there was ill will, there could be no peace.

The destructive potentialities of highpressure hydraulic machinery were mentioned by Mr. T. G. B.eck, engineer to the Public Works Department for Canterbury, in an address to tho Christchurch Business Men’s Club. Mr. Beck was describing tho hydraulic jacks which will drive the huge steel tunnel! iug shields through the glacial moraine at Lake Tckapo. These jacks would operate at a pressure of 75001 b to tho square inch, not n particularly high pressure in hydraulic engineering, ho said. Yet if the oil from one of these jacks was permitted to pass through a pin-hole it would emerge at 6.00 miles an hour, and if ten men stood in a line in the path of the jet, it would pass straight through them like steel wire. Those huge forces wero readily controlled, and hydraulic inachin cry carried out, safely and easily, some of the most formidable engineering tasks. ;

Cigarettes led to an amusing bread: of pr9lui.se case at Adelaide recently. Juliet, it appeared, d,ote s 0/1 cigarettes, while Bojjioo loathes the fight —and smell—of them. So love's you fig dream became a nightmare, and quarrels were frequent. At last t'te young man bluntly told the girl that if she would not give up smoking he would have to give her up! Hence these tears. Amid rears of 1} lighter some of the early love letters were read in the court. At last the judge, remarking'Hat it seemd to be ‘a silly lover’s, quarrel,’ advised f.h? partie s to retire and see if they couldn't ‘makp ft up again. ’ They did! The fascination .that fijg/frettbs possess for some women I —men tool —is simply Jrresistible! Look at the run on Biverhcad Hold and Desert Gold, the two leading cigarette blonds, so fragrant and soothing! Both are ■'■toasted.' That’s why they’re so good —and so harmless;! There arc also chree toasted brands for the pipe, Out Plug No. 10 (Bnllshead), Cavendish, and Navy Gut sfo. 3 (Bulldog). No liner tobaccos are manufactured. But beware of imitations!

Tlio finder of a bathing costume lost on the Beach Hoad is asked to leave same at the “Press” Office. A reward of £f is offered for the return of a gold 'Wristlet watch lost at the beach. ’the popularity of t’. c paddling -j col and s-.vburning bath at the beaeu is shown by the over increasing number of people availing themselves of each. , The paddling pool, being perfectly safe, is in great demand for the little ones, , while the older children who can swim delight in the swimming bath as do the adults. . Those Avno wish to build in fire-proof, uoror and termite proof materials should build in Gibraltar board, a hundred per cent. JNow Zealand pro fact. Fail particulars can be obtain Cvl from Messrs C. F. Millward and Co., Wanganui, One of* the objects of the Home Guard is to assist in tbc case of emergency. Probably the first time that unit of the Home Guard has gone into action was Saturday last, when the Otokaikc unit carried out shearing operations, states the “Otago Daily Times.”’ One of the sottler s in the district, who is a returned soldier, has been ill for the past twelve mouths, and at the first parade of the unit it .wa s decided that, as a state of emergency existed, the Home. Guard should live up to its aims by taking over the task of shearing the settler’s flock of approximately 500 sheep. Twelve Guardsmen paraded at the woolshed of a neighbour, who placed her machines at the disposal of the unit. Each of the fwclvo Guardsmen gave of his best, and the spirit of enjoyment felt by them through a labour of love more than compensated for the physical af-ter-effects. It should be added that when volunteers were called for, practically the whole unit (some fifty strong) offered their services.