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Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1929, Page 8

There are over 250 girls in Christchurch who think that they would? make good ushers for a picture theatre. From 8 o’clock last Monday morning till well after noon (says the Christchurch Times) they kept applying at the Grand Theatre, where applications were being received for appointments to the new Majestic Theatre. And for the 12 jobs that are available over 250 applied. There were all kinds of girls—young girls, thin girls, tall girls, small girls, girls with bobbed hair and girls with long tresses, in fact girls of every class and creed.

Canadians and Americans probably lead the world in their manner of cele-. - brating Christmas, according to Mr. C. F. Bennett, who returned to Auckland by the Aorangi on Sunday after an extended tour abroad. “The principal city streets in Canada and the United States bear signs of the approach of Christmas as early as the middle of November,’’ Mr. Bennett said. “They are festooned with greenery, bunting and Christmas bells and are illuminated at night. The shops are beautifully decorated and display huge Christmas trees, while one largo store in Vancouver had some of its staff trained in leading the common* ity singing of Christmas carols, to which the public is invited each morning from early December. A wonderful atmospheie is created, and it does not pass for nothing. It certainly stimulates early Christinas trade.” A fine tribute to the natural discip- . line of British sailors under shipwreck conditions, as exemplified in the case of the Manuka, was paid by one of the speakers at a meeting of the Harbour Board (reports the Dunedin Star). In such a case as that of the Manuka, it was not a matter of disc pline as ordinarily understood; it was rather an orderly expression of the instinct of helpfulness in time of stress. The British “shell back” was built that way. Another fine instance of instructive helpfulness and expert seamansnip, it was stated, was supplied in the case of tho salvage tug Dunedin. Without any preliminary fuss she slipped away in the darkness of midnight, and despite tho fact that the darkness was accentuated by a baffling fog, the Dunedin was at her destination in almost record time. Risks were taken, no doubt, because it was a case of helping the helpless, but - skill and experience were behind the daring which took tho direct course to the scene of the disaster. Unfortunately the Manuka was beyond salvaging, but there was nevertheless some satisfaction in knowing that assistance • as so readily available for a vessel in distress.