GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 7 October 1926, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

One of the Borough Council's new Federal-Knight buses started running for the first time, yesterday. It was put on the Hassall Street route.

Reports from the country concerning lambing, percentages are of a very satisfactory nature. The lambing lias been good everywhere; one hundred per cent, tallies are quite common, and the lambs, with an abundance of feed of the right kind, are doing tvell.

On Tuesday night a number of the pupils of the Timaru Girls’ High School, accompanied by the Lady Principal (Miss Barr, M.A.), gave a concert at the Old People’s Home. The programme, which vas excellent, was welf received, encores being numerous, and the visitors were accorded, by acclamation, a hearty vole of thanks.

Judgment for plaintiffs, by default, was given in the following civil cases, heard before Mr E. 1). Mosley, S.M., at yesterday’s sitting of the Timaru Magistrate’s Court: —Porter and Dawsop Ltd (Mr C. AV. AVebber) v. B, Hobbs, claim £1 ss, costs 9s; Westport Coal Co. (Mr L. M. Inglis) v. A. S. Clark, claim £1 4s, costs Bs. In a claim for £3 10s, an amount in dispute in regard to a painting contract, brought by Thomas Murray (Mr C. AV. AVebber) against Samuel Campbell (Air L. 0.. Andrew), plaintiff was non suited with costs £1 Is.

At the meeting of the Timaru AA romen Citizens’ Association last night, the president (Mrs Keinslied) announced that she bad received an invitation from the Mayor of Timaru to attend a social gathering in honour of the Governor-General and’ Lady Alice Fergusson, to bo held in the Bay Hall to-morrow night. Airs Keinslied remarked jocularly that when such an invitation was sent to a man it was to include, his wife, but she noticed in this case that she was not to be permitted to invito her husband to accompany her. (Laughter.),

The rain which set in last weekend appeared to have almost spent itself yesterday. 'To pastures, cereal and root crops it has done a very great, deal of good. Though the subsoil was not dry, the series of nor’west winds which blew during September, absorbed the surface moisture, and as a result, pastures which had previously been green and succulent, were showing signs of “going off.’’ The timely and very welcome showers of the past few days, however, have revived them in a wonderful way; and invigorated as they now are, with the earth warm to steaming point, their growth is very rapid. The same remarks apply to the cereal crops; and there is now an abundance of feed for all classes of stock. The rain held up farm work, such as planting potatoes, but the good it did was infinitely greater than any little inconvenience it may have caused. The fall in Timaru, which extended over six days, totalled about one inch.

All who attend the Timaru A. and P. Show this year will have an opportunity such as they have never had before, in that they will be able to see what is Claimed to, be tho greatest dairy cow in the world. This is the noted Friesian, Burkeyje Sylvia Posch. Born in 1912, this famous milk and butterfat producer was imported into New Zealand from Ontario, by Messrs H. North and Sons, Omimi, Otago, and her owners intend to place her on exhibition at the Timaru Show this month. Burkeyje Sylvia Posch holds no fewer than seven certificates of record for yearly tests under the New Zealand Department of Agriculture. It is estimated that her total yield for the whole period she has been producing, is 220,0001bs milk, and over 73001 b butterfat, a total which it is said, has not been equalled by any other dairy cow of any breed in the world. Burkeyje Sylvia Posch first came into profit on March 25, 1914, and from that time was continuously in milk for over eleven years. She was fifteen clays less than two years of age when she was tested for her first C.0.R., and that year produced 605.201hs butterfat. For the other six certificates which she gained, her yields were: G10.421b5; 679.861b5; 731.571b5; 983.201b5; 710.871b5; and S64.3Slbs, a total of 6085.501bs butterfat.

The first of the monthly meetings of the Timaru Amateur Photographic Society for the season was held on Tuesday evening. The business for the evening called for the attendance of all members and others interested in amateur photography, yet there were very few present. Mr E. H. Pryor, of Dunedin, gave an interesting account of the official photography of the Dunedin Exhibition; of the organisation required beforehand, and of the team work of nine or ten camera men at the Exhibition, and a much larger number employed in a large specially fitted studio for development of plates and printing. Only plate cameras were used. Special efforts had to be made to get out prints for newspapers, as these were wanted promptly, and must be rushed through to the mails. Photographs of the opening day, and of other special occasions had to be thus prepared. Then there were pictures for view books (several editions of these), and post cards in thousands. Most of the camera men had had little or no experience and had to be taught, and so also of the studio workers. Results were sharply tested, and surprisingly little fell below standard. This was attributable to the excellence of the plates and gaslight papers used. Numerous specimens of prints and enlargements on these papers were handed round, and evoked high praise for their quality. Supplies of these papers are to be available in Timaru. Mr Pryor added a lantern lecture on a trip through the French Pyrenees in May, the pictures showing extremely steep alpine heights under remains of winter snows, with narrow, ravine-like valleys. He wound up with a showing of sitting room cinematography, with 30ft films abouL 3 inches in diameter. Mr Pryor was cordially thanked for liis intereating evening. The president, Mr Kinghnm, then presented the Cups won in the grade competitions last year;—Advanced grade, Miss Lindsay; A grade. Mr IX. Stuart; B grade, Miss Latimore.

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