TRAVELLER’S GUIDE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19300, 29 September 1932, Page 2

TRAVELLER’S GUIDE.

Trains Leave Timaru. For Dunedin — 2.2 a.m., and 11.50 a.m., Mondays. 3.46 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays. For Christchurch—--4.18 a.m. Mondays. 1.54 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 4.34 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. 9.0 a.m. and 4.50 p.m. Sundays only. For Invercargill—--11.33 a.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Arrivals at Timaru. From Christchurch—--1.55 a.m. and 11.42 a.m., Mondayc, 11.25 a.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. 3.38 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays. 12.5 a.m. and 9.26 p.m. Sundays only. From Dunedin—--1.46 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. From Invercargill—--4.10 a.m. Mondays. 4.26 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday

This afternoon, the Boys’ High School Band will appear at the Crown Hotel corner in furtherance of the Charity Day appeal.

The retiring president (Mr J. L. Passmore) in the course of his remarks when moving the adoption of the annual report at the annual meeting of the Otago Motor Club, said that last season it was the Government’s intention to increase motor taxation, and if it had not been for the stand taken by the North and South Island Motor Unions, the motorists of this Dominion would have received a very severe shock. “The motorist of New Zealand,” Mr Passmore added, “is one of the heaviest taxed in the world. On a 16 h.p. car in Belgium the tax is £2 15/-, in France £9/2/6, in Germany £l3/11/-, and in New Yoek £2/17/6. Work out for yourself what it costs you in New Zealand, and you will find that it costs you somewhere between £ls and £2O. If the motorists of New Zealand to not rally round their local motor organisations and strongly protest, they will soon find increased taxation, and the roads going back to what they were 10 years ago.”

The Charity Challenge Cup for annual competition, Police and Court v. Rugby Union and Referees, is on view in the window of Mr F. J. Dunn, Stafford Street.

As an alternative to dipping, some 600 tick-infested wethers have been shorn at Fordell durirfe the past fortnight. G. D. Phillips has shorn 400 and Mr R. Stewart 200. Mr Phillips states that there has been an outbreak of tick infection In the locality this spring, resulting in the early shearing. “We usually shear the dry sheep fairly early and get them fattened off. This year the appearance of the ticks either meant that we had to dip them or shear them, and we chose the latter alternative,” he said. As a rule shearing does not commence in the Wanganui district until the first week in October.