NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19669, 11 December 1933, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Temuka residents showed great interest on Saturday night in a Morley Vale coal display. The display consisted of an electrically-driven engine, drawing trucks of Morley Vale coal out of the Morley Vale mine into Mr Palmer’s auction rooms

New Plymouth greengrocers this week are in the unfortunate position of receiving many orders for root vegetables which they are unable to fill. The position, according to one retailer, is annual, chiefly due to the change in seasons, but this year the root crops are later than usual, and for the next fortnight housewives whose homes are not blessed with a garden patch will be unable to secure carrots, parsnips, turnips and beetroot. At Wanganui the season is more advanced and little difficulty is experienced in securing root crops. But most of the root vegetables sold at New Plymouth are grown in the town.

Souteris Christmas Shoe Pair is the talk of the town. Wonderful bargains are the talk of Timaru. Larger selection at lower prices attract customers. Ladies’ canvas walking shoes from 7/6 a pair, at Souter’s Christmas Fair

The ingenuity of Americans who found the period of liquor prohibition rather irksome is reflected in an interesting pamphlet which has fallen into the hands of a Dunedin resident. In giving publicity to material called “wine bricks,” purporting to embody the crystallised juice of the grape, it explains that, with the addition of water, the bricks can be made into a very appetising wine. However, the public are specially “warned” not to keep the beverage longer than five days, or else it will ferment and become alcoholic.. A “warning” is also given against the use of sugar, it being stated that the addition c ' a certain quantity of sugar to dissolved wine bricks will produce such-and-such a percentage of alcohol. It may be presumed that, despite the alarming prospect, the sale of wine bricks and sugar in America went hand in hand.

Rheumatism is successfully treated with Rumatox. It promptly relieves the pain and loosens stiffened joints—results which are due to the property it possesses of expelling uric acid from the system. No matter how long you have suffered, try a bottl.e and you will obtain relief at once. We also recommend it equally as well for neuritis. Price 2/6 and 4/6 bottle. E. C. Ayres, Ltd., chemists, Stafford St. South and 21 Arcade

The railway service of New Zealand was praised by Mr A. F. Clayer, chief train controller of the South Australian railways, in an interview in Christchurch. Mr Clayer, who is on a brief health visit to the Dominion, praised the speed of New Zealand trains, and the comfort of the passenger carriages on the lines he had travelled over. Since his arrival in New Zealand, said Mr Clayer, he had been greatly impressed by the speed maintained by the railways of the Dominion on the narrow gauge tracks. It far exceeded the speed of many South Australia.', broad gauge trains and it certainly exceeded the speed of narrow gauge lines in his States. One of these was the line from Broken Hill to Peterborough and Port Pirie, on which the average speed was never more than 40 miles an hour. In addition the speeds in New Zealand were as good as those maintained on broader gauges in Australia. The passenger rolling stock of the New Zealand trains compared very well indeed with any train in Australia. The carriages and sleepin w berths were comfortable, and in addition heating and electric fans were provided. The Melbourne to Adelaide express was not so equipped, although it was very hot ; n the summer and cold in the winter.

Varicose Veins. There is no need -o suffer any longer from thh complaint We have just imported an entirely new production in the form o' a silk elastic stocking. They are made in flesh colour, of a new weave and so light and thin that they can be worn in the nott weather without any discomfort. They can also be worn absolutely unnoticed under modern silk hosiery. Being so closely woven they are much stronger, yet lighter in weight. These cost no more than the old kind. Every pah guaranteed. Call and inspec' E. C. Ayres, Ltd., chemists, 76 Stafford St. South and 21 Arcade, Timaru

If figures mean anything, then one must realise that in spite of the low price of Island produce Fiji is in a very healthy condition. The latest Customs returns show that while the estimated revenue for October was £21,666. the actual amount received was £32,848. This, compared with £19,963 received for October last year, shows an increase of no less than £12,885. For the 10 months of this year the total Customs revenue was £227,733, as against £178,876 for the same period in 1932. The position is that, taking all sources of Customs revenue, including import and export duties and port and service tax, there is an excess over a similar period (10 months) of 1932 of no less than £52,459. What has caused the increase seems to be regarded as somewhat of a mystery, as all business houses complain of dull times and little money coming in, and the Government has quite a number o r unemployed upon its hands requiring relief. The position for the European employee is emphasised by the increasing habit of employers of employing Indians as clerks and assistants, and also young women as clerks and typists Many useful positions which maintained married men are now filled by those referred to. and so industrial distress has increased. Speaking at the Travel Club’s luncheon on board the Monowai, reports the “Auckland Star," Mr David Larson, trade counsellor to tht Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, said that there were two motives at the back of the activities of a travel organisation—the economic, and the giving of pleasure to the visitors so that they would come again and urge their friends to come also. “The financial *s the most important,” said Mr Larson, “at least for the success of the.travel organisation enterprise. When the people of the country begin to recognise that every passenger disembarking from the ships of the world mean shillings *.n ’ pounds to them, they will cater more to the wants of the traveller. The fact is that every traveller who steps off the gangplank is a source of new money. This point is not always rppreciated, even by the business men, until they have made a study of the matter. Every traveller is a financial asset, and the more you have the greater the new revenue. The ships which arrived in the port of Auckland on Monday brought you £20,000. In other words, if the visitors spend 30 d iys in New Zealand they will spend for living expenses about £20,000. This does not include the steamship fare or what may be termed unusual expenses. The tourist trade for the years 1930 and 1931 »the last figures that I have available) was worth £1,440.000 to the people ol New Zealand. This ww the estimated expenditure for living expenses. During these same years you exported £1,491,000 worth of gold, sil or, coal and other minerals. Comparatively, the tourist trade ' as worth as much as your mineral exports.”