IN TOWN AND OUT

Southland Times, Issue 21072, 2 May 1930, Page 6

IN TOWN AND OUT

. NEWS OF THE DAY. Trades Displays at the Show. The indications at present point to an exceptionally fine display in the trades section of the Southland Winter Show. Applications for space have been very numerous and all available space will be occupied. * * * » Southland Cheese. Although the entries for the Southland Winter Show do not close until to-morrow, the entries for the cheese section received by the secretary up to noon yesterday constitute a record. The entries are well ahead of those received for last year's show.

Opening of Radio Studio Postponed. Owing to technical difficulties having been encountered regarding the installation of land lines from places of entertainment to the new studio, the Radio Club has found it necessary to postpone the official opening of the studio for a fortnight. The more important lines will, however, be installed at once.

Display of Flowers. In past years the Flower Show held in Invercargill during May has been held apart from the Southland Winter Show and a separate charge has had to be met by those who desired to see the flowers, but the flowers will form an important part of this year’s Winter Show. They will occupy a central position in the hall and will be on view to all who inspect the other exhibits without any extra charge being made.

Cyclists in Collision. Shortly before 9 o’clock last evening two cyclists, Gordon Sims, aged 20. of Boundaryroad, South Invercargill, and Donald Atkinson, aged 15, of Lorneville, collided on the road in front of the Lome Farm Home. Sims was riding a motor cycle and Atkinson a cycle. Both were removed in the ambulance to the Southland. Hospital, where it was discovered the boy Atkinson was suffering from a compound fracture of the right leg and Sims from injuries to the head.

Cohesion Of School Committees. At the monthly meeting of the Southland School Committees Association last evening a circular was received from the South Island Federation of School Committees Associations outlining the advantages to be derived by committees from joining their respective associations. Considerable discussion took place by members who mentioned that for a small annual subscription any committee could join the association ami undoubtedly more advantages could be obtained by cohesion. The meeting decided to support the circular. His Master’s Voice. An Invercargill resident, who is spending a holiday in Sydney, found that it was quile unnecessary for him to sit down in his hotel and write home. All he had to do was to walk into a gramophone recording shop, make a pleasant speech conveying messages of endearment and post the record home. But that is not the end of the story. He owns a dog which is very attached to him and which has been sorely missing him. When the record was put on the dog grew wildly excited and ran barking all over the house and garden trying to find his master, whose voice he had immediately recognized. * * * - sis Station 4ZP to the Rescue. Station 4ZP is going to be of benefit to the people of the province in many ways. This week Mrs Long, wife of the manager of Milford hostel, found that- owing to an alteration in the movements of the Tutanekai she would be unable to return from Invercargill to her home for several weeks. She was most anxious to let her husband know, but as the track was closed this would have proved a very difficult matter had not Station 4ZP come to the rescue. The reception at Milford is very clear and on several occasions Mr Long has written to Mr Parsons reporting favourably on the transmission. * * * * Large Potatoes. Gore bids fair to become an Irishman’s paradise judging by a sack of potatoes which, containing not one potato under 11b in weight and several up to 2 Mb. is the splendid return of Master R. Hamilton, a nine-year-old nupil of the Gore Public School. The potatoes have been forwarded on to Dunedin for final judging in connection with the comnetition among Boys' and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs in Southland. Twelve pupils of the school, all members of the agricultural club, dug over 40 sacks of potatoes from their plots. The potatoes were described as of good quality, while the yield is a splendid testimony to the knowledge gained by the boys thron-h the promotion of the club. The competition in which Master Hamilton competed is the junior section for boys up to 12 years. The size of the plots in this section is 1 -70th of an acre. In the intermediate section, for boys up to 16 years, the size of the plot is l-40th of an acre. Last year there were 167 members of agricultural clubs in Southland. The cash value realized on the crops was £420. This year there are 400 members and it is exbected that the crops will yield over £lOOO. ,