NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 75, 1 August 1929, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

NOTES FROM ALL' PARTR. THE DOMINION DAY BY OAY. HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE, CHATEAU TOKGARIRO. Chateau Tongariro is quickly approaching completion, and already heavy bookings have been made for the summer months. It is understood there will be a big official opening in November. PILLION-RIDING. Though pillion-riding has .been sanctioned by law the chief traffic inspector at Christchurch, Mr H. Macintosh, docs not favour it. He told members of the Pioneer Sports Club that 13 motor-cyclists with pillion riders bad been killed during the past year in Canterbury, \vhile nearly as many more had been maimed. SHEEP-FABiOTG. An increasing number of farmers of the Cambridge district have gone in for sheep this year, and so far the season has been a good one, the lambing returns being excellent. The lambs are coming in earlier than usual, and on several farms a large percentage of ewes have already lambed. The mortality also is low. On four leading sheep farms in the district there are already nearly 5000 lambs. BEER BOTTLE IN CHEESE. Mr W. H. lorns, chairman of the Dairy Produce Board, in hi s monthly review of the industry, related a curious instance of jejther carelessness in manufacture or wilful mischief. He was dealing with, insurance cover and explained what it did not insure producers against. "For instance," he said, "if cheese develops a bad flavour due to faulty milk, such deterioration is not covered; nor is the loss which was incurred last season by reason of a beer bottle being found embedded in the centre of one of the cheese." The bottle, apparently, was empty. TIT FOR TAT.

A practical joke played on an old sandwich man at an Auckland street corner the other day had an ignominious ending for the poker. A smartly-dressed young man took out a pocket knife and cut one of the cords of the sandwich board, which fell to the ground. The old man followed the practical joker, and, catching him by the nose, pulled it so vigorously and persistently that the young fellow was brought down on his knees, much to the amusement of the onlookers, who had assembled in considerable force. The sandwichman released his victim, went back for his boards, repaired the damage, and calmly continued his duties. AH OLD MAX'S FEAB. Several days after the burial of a relative in a Wanganui cemetery, says the Herald, an elderly man called upon the undertaker and said he had been worrying about the way the mortal remains were laid to rest. He could not get the thought out of his mind that the casket had been placed the Avrong way round. He refused to be reassured by the undertaker, and to set the old man's mind at rest it was decided to uncover the casket and let him see for himself. This unusual procedure took place and the eld man was finally convinced that the head of his deceased rela • the was lying in the correct position. THE CHAIX LETTER. As an imposition on the credulous, the chain letter excite more amusement than interest. This remarkable product of distorted imagination has made its appearance once more—this time at the Dunedin Star Office. An anonymous but earnest correspondent, styling himself or herself "Good Luck," has despatched to this office a mysterious epistle indicating that Dame Fortune will be disposed to smile on the linn if it passes the letter on. According to the writer, dire penalties will follow if such a procedure is not complied with. He or she is optimistic enough to predict that, the letter will journey throe times around the earth. A waste-paper basket will serve to sever the chain in this case, says the Star. ,