GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19379, 31 December 1932, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS

“The Timaru Herald” will not be published on Monday next. A special excursion train from Dunedin will run to Timaru to-morrow. While in Belgium and Denmark, Mr E. J. Ulander, of New Plymouth, was pleased to see the firm hold New Zealand honey had got in those markets, and to hear extremely favourable statements made concerning it. What little New Zealand fruit had reached those markets had also been well received, but Australia was able to undersell us in this connection.

Speaking on “The Great Tribulation” in the Levin Presbyterian Church, the Rev. J. S. Pate said the two best commentaries in the world were the Bible and the daily paper. “Read the two together and you have a feast.”

Yesterday the Mayor of Timaru (Mr T. W. Satterthwaite > forwarded the following telegraphic message to the Mayor of Napier (Mr J. Vigor Brown) in connection with the launch disaster: “The sad news from your town was received by the citizens of Timaru with feelings of deep regret. Will you kindly convey to those bereaved our deepest sympathy with them in their sorrow.”

A middle-aged woman had an unfortunate experience yesterday afternoon when crossing Stafford Street in the vicinity of Hutton’s. As she stepped off the pavement she was struck by a passing cycle ridden by a boy, and was thrown face down on the street. The spectacles which she was wearing, broke and the glass inflicted a bad cut on her nose. She was taken to a near-by shop, where she received attention.

Poultry are starting to go out of favour in the Waikato. Most of the dairymen there specialise on butterfat and eliminate anything else that does net yield a profit. Practically all keep a few poultry to supply themselves with eggs, but even these are beginning to disappear on some farms. Fowls are now regarded not only as a nuisance, but as a sideline that is at present yielding no profit, and as a result they have been discarded by several of the farmers.

Wellington’s pro-Cathedral. St. Paul’s, is to *be remodelled, advantage being taken of the Unemployment Board’s building subsidy scheme. The scheme proposed is that the church shall be lifted bodily so as to enable the rebuilding of the present front in permanent material, the extension of the length of the building towards Mulgrave Street, and the removal of the north aisle; the question of a tower or spire is to be decided later. Whatever is done, the present interior is to be retained.

The shooting season in the north, for god wits will open on Sunday. The arrival of these remarkable birds from their nesting homes in Siberia and Alaska began considerably earlier than usual this season, and it is now nearly two months since their appearance on the North Auckland peninsula in large numbers began to be noted. The birds are grey in colour when they arrive here, but before they assemble for their methodical departure on their return journey in April they have assumed a bright chestnut breeding plumage. They are comparatively tame and easy to approach prior to the beginning of the shooting season, but after that they immediately become shy and wary.

Work has been proceeding rapidly in connection with the main pool of the new blue bath at Rotorua, the workmen putting in long hours so that it will be available to the public for the holidays. The bath has been filled with fresh water for the testing of the submerged lighting system. The test proved very satisfactory. The bath is 100 yards long and 40 yards wide, with a capacity of approximately 150,000 gallons. The depth of water ranges from eight feet to four feet six inches. There is a balcony around the bath, which will give ample accommodation for spectators when racing fixtures are held. It is considered that the bath will be one of the finest in the southern hemisphere. It will be completed early in the new year.

The “great depression” is blamed for many thing-. We heard of a fisherman the other day who upon landing a. miserable quarter-pound trout, muttered: “Aw! What can you expect in these hard times.” But the fish to-day are really as big as ever, and are there fer the man who has the best tackle to catch them. At England, Mcßae’s you can get the best tackle at the following low prices: English split cane rods at from 55/-, trout reels at from 2/6. Trojan casts 1/6, trout flies at 3/- per dozen