NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18546, 17 April 1930, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

When a witness in the Arbitration Court in Wellington was being questioned as to the use of weekly timesheets. etc., in tearooms he said he did not think they would be of any use. He used to put up copies of the award in the girls’ room, but they were soon pulled down, and when he put up time-sheets the girls tore off the corners to light cigarettes with.

May 10th will be gala day at Seadown. There will be numerous stalls and all sorts of interesting competitions. The fair will be opened by the Rev. Clyde Carr. M.P. The proceeds are in aid of the school funds.

Scene, a small race meeting in the old days. Two racegoers are on the steps of the stand when one suddenly claps the glasses to his eyes and says, •They're off.” “Don’t be an ass,” says the other, “the last race is already over.” “I know,” says the first, “but I’m speaking of the bookies.”

The new carriages to be used on the Auckland-Rotorua railway service will come into use soon after Easter. The chief object in building the new carriages is to offer the travelling public, particularly visitors to Rotorua, comfortable accommodation designed to compete with the growing motor traffic. The seats in the first-class cars are capable of adaptation to three positions, namely, day. semi-lounge, and total recline. Vestibules replace the open platforms, and the windows are frameless, opening like those of a motor-car. Observation cars, fitted with lounge chairs, will be attached to each train.

“The introduction of foxes into New Zealand for any purpose would be such a pernicious action that the farmers of the Dominion would be fully justified in taking direct action and killing them wherever they were to be found.” stated the secretary of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Mr A. E. Robinson, in commenting on the suggestion to the Auckland Fur Club that foxes should be bred in New Zealand for the fur trade.

Easter attractions for this week at the curtain specialists:—36in. fadeless casement cloths in nine good shades, 1/45 yard; 50in. silk finished casement, 1/11 yard; lovely new striped nets on deep cream grounds, 1/45 yard; 40in. wide. Bedding, bedding bedding —single “sleepwell” mattresses from 34/6; double “sleepwell” mattresses from 44/6; buttoned camp beds 15/6; single buttoned flock beds from 23/6; double from 36/6; kapoc cushions 2/11 each; real down quilts, single bed 24/6; double from 29/6. The quality of our goods, combined with low prices, keeps us busy. We specialise in soft furnishings.—R. P. Carter, 290 Stafford St. ..

“Good Lord! If it isn’t Dick! Put it here. . . . Remember the time we tipped ‘Snubbs’ into the baths. . . . Remember the apples we pinched. . . . And the yarns we used to have in Cameron's shop. By the bye—got your blazer yet, and your tie? Then follow me, friend to Cameron’s once again.”