FRUIT FOR AMERICA.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 287, 8 January 1915, Page 10

FRUIT FOR AMERICA.

market! FOR APPLES. Press Association. WELLINGTON, January S. The Department of Agriculture has received a cable from Mr G. L. Tacon, from Buenos Ay res, who is visiting South America on behalf of the New Zealand Government to inquire into the prospects of the sale of New Zealand fruit. Mr Tacon advises that there is a profitable demand for large coloured apples, and that shipments should be made from March onwards. The greatest care should be exercised in grading and packing, there being complaints in this respect concerning last year's shipments.

Six cricketers who played for Lancashire arc now in the Army. Spooner and Lieutenant Brooke are at the front, and It. Garnett, Dean, W. Tyldesley, and H, Tyldesley have recently joined. In a box placed outside Kgham (Surrey) Post Office by a lady over 200 packets of cigarettes, besides cigars, tobacco, and matches, have been deposited by local residents for the East Surrey Regiment.

Sergeant E. If. Chi Ids, brothers of Major Childs, were presented with longservice medals,

At Messrs Nairn & Son's nursery on Monday last Miss B. Roberts, who is leaving the firm after seven years' service, was presented with a handsome silver jewel case, suitably engraved, by the employees of tlie nursery. Advice has been received by the New Zealand Catholic Federation that the Very Rev. Dean Eegnault, the' Very Rev. Dean Holley, and the Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy (rector of St. Patrick's College), will arrive in Auckland on Monday next. The rev. gentlemen, who attended a General Chapter of the Marist Order in Belgium, had some interesting and arduous experiences at the outbreak of the war.

Lieutenant W. M. Thorn, Ist Canterbury Regiment, has been notified that he has been given a commission in the Fourth Reinforcements, and is to proceed to Trentham on Wednesday next. Lieutenant Thorn, who is a member of the staff of Messrs T. Borthwick & Sons, lias command of the Marist Brothers' Cadets, which he inaugurated over five years ago; he is also a member of the Christchurch Accountancy Students' Society, Christchurch Catholic Club, District Officers' Club, and a prominent member of the Marist Brothers Old Boys' Association.

A Press Association telegram from Invereargill states that at a meeting of the Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board held yesterday l)r Stanley E. Brown was appointed, subject to the Minister's approval, to the position of medical superintendent at the Southland Hospital, a position rendered vacant by J)r Barclay's removal to Wellington. There were nine applicants for the position. Pr Brown had been acting in a temporary position since Dr Barclay left, and prior to going to Invereargill was in charge of the Wangamii Hospital for a short period,

Bargains. All that the word implies will be told in Graham, Wilson, and Smellie's Sale Catalogue appearing in Monday -morning's papers. Price after price is reduced to half and less than half, yet the same high quality goods for which the firm is so weil known are the only kind offered. You only need to see them and you will learn what this sale means in savings on all classes of general draperv and'furnishings. .48 BRILLIANT VICTORY For the TWIN KING DICKS. MOTOR AND SIDE CAR RELIABILITY TRIAL OF 150 MILES:— H. Tranter, "King Dick," FIRST. Reliability, FIRST. Petrol Consumption, H. Tranter Ist, R. L. Kennett 2nd. Both riders secured Absolute Non-Stop Runs. The TWIN KING DICK Defeated ail Make 3 and Powers for the fourth Time in Succession, demonstrating ouce again that for Sidecar work the TWIN KING DICK has no equal. TWINS v. SINGLES. The result of the Petrol Consumption again goes to prove that, not only is the TwinCylinder KING DICK more Reliable, but is even more i economical to run than the Single-Cylinder. INSPECTION INVITED. TRIALS BY APPOINTMENT. JONES BROTHERS, LTD., Sole Agents, Opposite Clock Tower, MANCHESTER STREET. H. S. Jone3, Outside Representative. .^