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Southland Times, Issue 19461, 28 January 1925, Page 6

The Government Meteorologist last evening wired the following forecast: “Present indications are for variable and strong winds, south-east to north-east ruling. The weather will be squally, dull and misty, with heavy rain and flooded rivers in, many parts of the North Island and the north-east districts of the South Island. The barometer will be rising soon in the north, and falling again in the south.”

The boy, C. Lowe, who was kicked by a horse at Surrey Park on Monday morning, sustaining severe injuries to his face, was reported by the hospital authorities last night to be progressing favourably. A Wellington telegram states that the City Council has decided against the proposal to institute all-night trams, on the ground that the number of people engaged in night work does not warrant such a departure.

In connection with the Oteramika Jubilee celebrations on friday, it is announced that owing to the Health Department’s instructions that children under 16 are not to attend picnics, the Committee has decided to postpone the children’s portion of the picnic. The rest of the programme will be carried out as arranged.

A New Plymouth telegram states that after 25 years’ continuous activity in New Plymouth, the Polynesian Society’s headquarters is to be transferred to Wellington, negotiations being formally approved at the annual meeting last night. The membership is now 328, being the largest in the history of the Society. Mr W. H. Skinner (New Plymouth) was elected President and Mr M. Smith (Wellington) secretary.

As an example of how it pays to advertise, a case may be quoted in which a Christchurch motor firm advertised in some of the Sydney papers their tourist trips over various parts of New Zealand. The secretary was greatly surprised on opening his private box the other day to find that there were no fewer than 85 letters from Australian people anxious to know all the particulars attached to the trps.

The oldest building in the Hutt Valley, a house built by Mr Percy eighty-five years ago, and now occupied by his sons, is being pulled down to make way for the new railway. A condition of the sale of’ the land was that the owners be permitted to remove and re-erect the building. The timber is excellently preserved, and a long life is considered to be still ahead of it when rebuilt. —Wellington Association telegram.

Motorists of Southland have now four more days in which to register their cars and cycles, Saturday being the maximum date specified by the Motor Vehicles Act. Motorists unregistered after this date are liable to a fine. Inquiry at the local Post Office yesterday showed that only 785 out of nearly 3000 vehicles have as yet been dealt with, so it is anticipated there will be a general rush towards the end of the week.

Speaking to a Mataura Ensign representative, Mr F. C. Glass, Brazilian representative of the Evangelical Union of South America, expressed profound admiration for the New Zealand Plunket Society, and also remarked that he was very much impressed with the healthy appearance and wellbehaved nature of the colonial juvenile. In Brazil, he said, he knew of families of 10 and 12 with only two children living. He was determined to make every effort to establish a body similar to the Plunket Society in the South American Republic, and with this end in view he was collecting all the information he possibly could with regard to its organisation.

When the Waimate put hurriedly to sea on Saturday morning, says the Gisborne Herald, she carried with her a number of local watersiders who had been working in the holds, and who were unable to be sent ashore. The men concerned could not be given proper accommodation aboard, and were forced to spend the night on a cold iron deck with only a few blankets. Needless to say their night was far from comfortable, and the fact they they were well compensated for their enforced stay aboard the vessel does not alter the fact that some better provision should have been made. The vessel had few cabins, but it is stated that the men were refused permission to sleep in one of the holds where wool was stored because of the danger of fire.

“The company regards this as a very serious offence,” declared Detective Nuttall in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Friday apropos of the case of Alfred Thomas Sharp, who had deserted from the steamer Kumara. Accused, continued the detective, was the vessel’s chief steward. He absented himself on the previous Sunday, and was not heard of again until arrested by Detective Tricklebank in the act of boarding the Marama on Thursday. The man had been in charge of a large quantity of stores, and was in a totally different position from the ordinary seaman. The vessel had since left New Zealand, and the company had been put to considerable inconvenience. Sharp, who advanced no explanation for his conduct, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.

When going on a honeymoon trip it always pays to make full inquiries as to whether trains stop at small country stations. A few days ago a newly-married couple thought they would dodge their friends and any display on the railway platform, states the Featherston correspondent of the Wairarapa Standard, Accordingly they motored through Featherston with the intention of catching the train at Pigeon Bush. To their astonishment they were informed that the mail train did not stop to pick up passengers, so they returned post haste to Featherston, where they arrived just in time to see the train steam out. To make matters worse, there were quite a number of their friends to witness the episode. After a few greetings they turned round and made for Masterton.

One of these little incidents which help to restore one’s confidence in human nature occurred on board the s.s. Marama during her last trip from Sydney to Wellington. Just as the boat was leaving the wharf there rushed upon the scene the inevitable late passenger, a woman travelling second class. She arrived after the gangway had been lifted, but she was very anxious to get on board, and many willing hands helped her over the rail on the deck. Unfortunately, her handbag, swinging by a strap from her arm, caught in something and fell between the ship and the wharf, and with it some £2O, representing her entire supply of cash. It was too late to retrieve it—the steamer was already sheering off—and the woman found herself heading for a strange country, penniless and alone. It was then that two of the finst-class passengers—Miss Bowes and Miss La Travers —hearing of her plight, started a subscription amongst their fellow-passengers, and in a very short time had raised the full sum of £2O, which was handed over to tne owner of the lost handbag.

A telegram from Masterton states that heavy rain has been falling in the Wairarapa during the last 24 hours, considerably more than an inch having fallen. In outlying districts many crops have been flattened as a result.—Press Association.

Judgment by default was given in the following undefended civil cases by Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M., at Winton yesterday:— J. A. Wilson v. George Evans £6 2/3, costs £1 5/-; H. Anderson v. Wm. Warnock, junr., £5 10/-, costs £1 10/6; P. H. Luscombe v. W. A. Morrison £2O 17/9, costs £3 10/-.

What should be somewhere near a record for the Horowhenua district for wool production by a hogget was established by a purebred Romney wether belonging to the Boys’ Training Farm, which, shorn at the beginning of December, clipped 171 b. Several ewe hoggets from the same flock furnished 161 b fleeces.

At the public demonstration held at Wanganui last evening of a warning device suitable for erection at railway crossings, invented by Mr A. Pearson, a resolution was passed urging the Chairman of the Railway Board to investigate the suitability of the apparatus for railway purposes and to su the invention to trials in the Wanganui section.—Press Association.

The danger of smeking in motor ’buses was referred to the Devonport Borough Council by the North Devonport Ratepayers’ Association. It was pointed out that only recently a lady passenger had had her dress burned. The possibility of the benzine fumes becoming ignited was also mentioned. The council decided to warn ’bus proprietors tht.t they must take steps to suppress smoking, otherwise their licenses would be cancelled.

A Wanganui resident had a rather painful experience on a recent morning, and as a result is now nursing an eye that a prize-fighter would be ashamed to own. Vv hile proceeding to work an inoffensive little bee playfully got behind his glasses and settled on his eye. Instinctively the man closed his optic, and made a hasty sweep to remove the offender. The consequences, however, were more than he bargained for, for, besides being , stung, he dashed his glasses to the pavement, where they were shattered.

New Zealad dairy farmers must expect to meet with very keen competition in the near future. At present they enjoy the advantage of superior quality, and continuous efforts must be made to retain that supremacy (states the New Zealand Mercantile Gazette). At the same time it must not be overlooked that other producing countries are giving close and serious attention to this problem of quality, and, though they may possibly never attain to the high grade of the New Zealand product, they will not be very far from it, and this nearness will prevent New Zealand butter soaring unless we are fortunate enough to secure an exclusive market like the Danes.

The purchase of ninety new and rare varieties of orchids was completed by Sir Edwin Mitchelson, president of the Auckland Racing Club, during his recent visit to Australia. The transaction was made on behalf of the Auckland Racing Club, for addition to the already fine collection of these plants gracing the gardens at the Ellerslie racecourse. The new collection of orchids was acquired in Sydney from Sir Rupert Clarke, and was selected by Sir Edwin Mitchelson from 400 plants in Sir Rupert Clarke’s possession. The greater number of the orchids in the Australian collection are identical in variety with those already to be seen at Ellerslie, but the ninety plants selected are quite new to Auckland. With the arrival of the new shipment the collection of orchids at Ellerslie will total close on three hundred, ’and will be the finest collection of orchids in either Australia or New Zealand. The nurseries at Ellerslie are already known to be without a rival either in the Dominion or in Australia.

Cheap Seaside Excursion Saturday, Train 9.38 a.m. Riverton 3/3, Colac 3/9, Orepuki 4/9.—Advt.

The Health Department and Municipal Authorities are to be congratulated on the manner in which they have organised precautionary measures to ccmbat the threatened epidemic of Infantile Paralysis. At the same time their efforts will be in vain if the citizens fail to recognise their duty in the matter. All householders must thoroughly disinfect their premises and when thinking of disinfectants one naturally thinks of JEYES’ FLUID.—Advt.

A meeting of the committee of the Radium Appeal Fund will be held in the St. John Ambulance rooms Esk Street, on Friday night at 8 o’clock.—Advt.

Intending visitors to the final sale of Bainfield Romneys on Friday next will note that this year the sale is being held at Waitoru Homestead near Wallacetown township instead of at Bainfield as formerly. A motor bus will leave Wright, Stephenson and Company’s premises, the Crescent, Invercargill at 9.30 a.m. and 10.30 a.m. on the day of the sale to convey buyers to Waitoru. — (advt.)

W. Kee, silk merchant, Arcade, is offering some particularly attractive lines: Striped Fuji Silk in 10 different stripes, 29in, 3/9; Coloured Crepe Suede in a large range cf shades, 38in, 5/3; shot Duchess Mousseline, 37in, 6/6. —Advt.

To-morrow morning sees the opening day of- Thomson & Beatties end of season clearing sale.—This is a real clearing sale, all seasonable goods now on hand are marked at prices that must shift them.— You will find here garments right up to the minute in fashion, marked at clearing prices,—Advt. TO CHECK INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Daily drop into the child’s nostrils half-a-teaspoonful of Fluenzol diluted with warm water. Also rub Q-tol into the nape of the neck. This checks growth of the malignant organism.—Advt. With the object of preparing an Exhibit of wheat and oats for the Dunedin Exhibition, Fleming & Company Limited., invite growers who have especially good crops to save some half dozen sheaves when harvesting. Particular care should be taken to protect the sheaves from discoluration and shaking. Farmers interested are requested to communicate with Fleming Company Limited, (P.O, Box 24, Gere), who are undertaking the packing and storing of the exhibit until it is required.—Advt.

Lennie’s Removal Notice.-Messrs Thomas Bros., who have taken over Lennie’s seed and florist business, wish to notify the public that they are removing to larger and more up-to-date premises in Briscoe’s Buildings, Dee street, and by keeping only the best kinds of seeds, plants, all florist and garden requisites they hope to be able to meet the demand of every garden enthusiast in Southland. (Everything for the garden). (Advt.)

The beverage everybody likes—Baxter’s Far-Famed Rava Tea—pure, popular and pleasant, 2/10 per lb.; reduction of 2d per lb in 51b and 101 b packets. Drink Rava.— (Advt.)

Negotiate all hills on “top gear.” Use “BIG TREE” MOTOR SPIRIT. It gives steady power and greater mileage per gallon. All garages.—Advt. Good lighting is one of the least expensive of all the comforts of a cheerful home. H. Lincoln, of 137 Clyde street, is specialising in good quality electrical installations at reasonable prices. Phone 1594 for estimate.—(Advt.).

Ring Time.—The time when young man’s fancy lightly turns, etc., but his thoughts are occupied also with the pretty ring he saw in our window, marked at a price he was able to pay, and with which the lady was simply delighted. We have many such rings still left, all different in design and price. T. M. Rankin, Jeweller, Tay street. —-(/-dvt.).

The following example of the courage of maternity is vouched for by a Levin resident. He was digging in his shrubbery when his attention was attracted by«a thrush which sat on a closely-set shrub nearby, and which was ruffling its feathers and uttering discordant cries. Guessing that there was a nest there he approached, when the bird flew away, but immediately returned and repeatedly darted at him, flying to within about a yard snapping its beak and continuing to utter its angry cries, apparently trying to drive the intruder away from the vicinity of the nest. Being rather curious to see what would happen, he approached the nest, parting the branches and looking in, but strange to say this had an effect quite contrary to what he had expected. Once its nest was discovered, the bird apparently became resigned, and sat quietly preening its feathers some ten feet away.

Everyone knows the effect produced by placing a small wooden figure in the centre of a piece of string and then pulling the latter taut. Three human beings produced the same effect under peculiar circumstances at an Auckland street comer the other evening. A mother and an elder sister, each holding a hand of a small child walking between them, were hurrying to board a tramcar. They had just stepped from the pavement to the street, when a motor-car came round the comer with a warning blast on its horn. The mother ran on, but the elder sister, frightened by the car, dashed back again. Both still held the child, who, in the centre of these “poles” pulling in opposite directions, was jerked from its feet and held suspended in the air, just in front of the motor. When order had been restored, the mother had something to say to the sister about the evils of running back across streets when traffic comes on the scene.

A returned soldier residing in South Taranaki received a very acceptable Christmas present last month in the shape of & fairly substantial sum of money which he did not know he possessed. It appears that before going to the war he put a sum on fixed deposit for twelve months with one of the leading investment societies in Stratford. Leaving his papers with relatives in the district, the deposit slip was either lost or destroyed during his absence, and no demand was made for the money at the expiry of the twelve months. When the soldier returned on the cessation of hostilities, his memory was somewhat impaired regarding money matters, and the fact of owning this money was entirely forgotten by him. As the years went on and no claim was made to the society for principal or interest, inquiries were made by the secretary throughout the district as to the rightful owner, and eventually the lucky depositor was found through the aid of relatives, and the money with interest added was duly paid over to him.