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Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1933, Page 6

The theft of a strip of carpet 18ft. long from the Selwyn Anglican Church, Mangere East, has been reported to the police The carpet, which extended from the chancel rail to the altar, was valued at £6. A similar theft was committed last August from St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Onehunga. Mr. J. W. Andrews, Mayor of Lower Hutt, who has returned from a visit to the goldfields of Otago, was greatly impressed by the large number of men on the fields. Some lucky strikes came under his notice. In one case a young man was out rabbiting, and when climbing a hill caught hold of a tussock to pull himself up. The grass came away in his hand, and from the cavity made 940 z. of gold was taken. One of Professor A. H. Tocker’s most vivid memories of his stay in- the United States, according to his address to the Advertising Club in Christchurch the other day, is his visit to Swift’s Meat Works in Chicago. He said Swift’s had decided that the best answer to those who attacked them was to arrange personally conducted tours through their works, and an enormous number of people went through every day. The organisation of the industry was something to be remembered.

Suggestions that the electricity committee had “got a bit of a scare on,” that it had "money to throw away” and that it “was panicky” were made by councillors at the meeting of the Christchurch City Council when the committee submitted a proposal that the Municipal Electrical Department office block at the corner of Armagh and Manchester Streets be strengthened at a cost of between £lO,OOO and £12,000 to safeguard it against earthquake risks. The report stated that there was a danger from the projecting cornices in the event of a severe earthquake and that there was unquestioned risk to both the staff and public, besides serious disorganisation of business. The council decided to secure a report from the city engineer.

A good fish story comes from Waipukurau. A party of residents of that town with visions of splendid sport to be had later in the day set out at three o’clock in the morning to make the long trip by car to the Wakararas. They duly arrived at their destination and spent a day fishing the streams there, but not one amongst them was successful in securing a catch of any kind. They arrived back in Waipukurau with their efforts and many miles of travel having gone for nought. Such was not the results of the same day’s fishing of a 12-year-old Waipukurau holder of a license. With a companion he walked a mile or so up the Tukituki, from Waipukurau, and at the end of the day he returned with four two to three and a-half pound fish in his bag. This, it is understood, Is not the first occasion this season upon which this youthful follower of Izaak Walton has, by the size of 'his bag, put to shame his elders.

Market gardening is not unknown in New Zealand, but we have nothing to compare with what is done in that kind of farming in California. Mr. R. J. Dunlea, of Auckland, who, with his wife and two daughters, has returned from a holiday to California by the Mariposa, spoke with amazement of miles of beans and thousands of acres of lettuce. “You drive in a car at 50 miles an hour for a considerable time past nothing but lettuces,” he said. “They stretch as far as the eye can see, acre upon acre. And they are wonderful lettuces, too. It is the same with beans. One ‘patch’ of beans covered 11,000 acres, just ordinary common beans. It was scarcely conceivable. Everything is done by irrigation, for their rainfall is negligible. But for irrigation California would be a desert. As it is, it is a garden. They take three and even four crops off the same land.” All the rivers, he said, were damned into reservoirs, and the water was used for irrigation purposes. The beds themselves were dry, with trees growing in them. “The women of New Zealand are worming their way into men’s fields everywhere,” said Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P., at the opening of the Karori Lawn Tennis Club (reports the Post). “The House of Representatives was a man’s field for many years, but women have even found their way in there now. Some people are of opinion that this will make a difference. Of course, it will make no difference to the members, for we all wore the white flower of a blameless life before Mrs. McCombs came. But in some respects there will perhaps be a difference, for Mrs. McCombs, as a lady, will be able to say something to which gallantry will prevent us replying. Now there is in the House a place called Bellamy’s. I am sure you will all have heard of it. It is a place where you can get excellent coffee and tea, and other drinks if you wish them. I am told that these other drinks are excellent. Bellamy’s is the restaurant of the House. It was invented in the House of Commons many years ago by a man named Bellamy, who ran a little pie shop that developed into the regular mealing-place of the members. Now, there used to be a notice on the door of Bellamy’s. It read, ‘Ladies not admitted.’ I don’t say that the presence of Mrs. McCombs had anything to do with this, but that notice is gone.” Many more lovely frocks and coats have arrived at Scanlan’s Melbourne Corner and the firm’s showroom stock is now at its best. New models in trimmed millinery have also opened out and patrons of the store may rely on seeing one of the finest collections in Taranaki at prices exceedingly reasonable. Inspection invited.' No one pressed to buy.*