NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

The estate of Mr Stuart Leslie Rutherford, of Leslie Hills, North Canterbury, has been sworn for probate at less than £150,000. The will provides for no public bequests. It is expected that death and succession duties will exceed £50,000.

A recent survey of the visiting nationalities in Los Angeles schools and colleges discovered that 48 nations of the world have students there. These are enjoying their studies and obtaining first-hand information concerning American life. This attendance of foreign students is helpful in bringing about a better world understanding.

The infant mortality rate for the Dominion for the year 1933 is 31.60 per 1000 live births. This is a trifle higher than for 1932, when it was 31.22, but is still a creditably low figure as judged by the experience of only a few years ago.

Ladies, save 10/- by ouying your golf shoes at Souter’s winter shoe sale. Ladies* uskide studded rubber . sole and heel lace golf shoes at 18/11 a pair; ladies’ strap golf shoes at 15/11 a pair. Souter’s winter shoe sale. Note our only Timaru address, 252 Stafford Street North

Kidney Trouble is more than a distressing ailment. It is a trouble that may develop into a serious illness. At the first sign of kidney weakness, usually a sharp pain in the back, swelling of the feet, a tired languid feeling, it is desirable to aid the kidneys to perform their important work. Ayres’ Compound Bucliu will put your kidneys in good working order and eliminate all waste products from the system. Price 2/6 bottle. E. C. Ayres, Ltd., chemist, 78 Stafford Street South, Timaru

Sucked into a 30-inch culvert pipe by swirling water, a Hamilton (Ontario) baby, aged two, was swept 50ft under a road and rescued from a creek on the other side. A man rushed into the creek and. battling waist deep with the strong current, managed to seize the child just as it was about to be swept down the side of a mountain.

A counterfeit half-crown which was circulating in Invercargill was shown to a “Southland Times" reporter the other day. It was dated 1928, and although the impressions on the coin corresponded with those on a genuine half-crown it was not perfectly round, its edge was not properly milled, it could easily be cut, and it failed to ring when thrown on a hard surface.

"I think the Waikato Land Settlement scheme is only an introduction to a big scheme on similar lines that will eventually solve our unemployment problem,” commented Dr. H. E. Annett at the Waikato Farm School. “There is nothing else lor it. The time will come when more people must settle on the land on 50 to 60 acres or slightly larger farms.”

“Imacure” will stop the most troublesome cough in a few minutes. It will immediately remove that tickling in the throat which is so very annoying. Price 2/6 a bottle from L. B. James, prescription chemist, Timaru

Worm Syrup.—lf your child is fretful and restless, jumps in its sleep, grinds the teeth at night, has bad breath, appetite voracious or entirely lacking, these are the symptoms of worms. Our tonic worm syrup quickly expels the worms and after a few doses your child will be happy and healthy again. Pleasant to take and children like it. Price 2/6 bottle. E. C. Ayres. Ltd., chemist, 78 Stafford St. South. Timaru

Things commencing to lock up —Thomsons' have taken delivery of nearly remainder of the famous purchases made by those previous to wool advance. One line alone bought cost 5/2 to land, now costs 8/4, or.ly one item been advanced by Thomson. Are here to benefit our customers by acting wiselv. Bargains all along the line; “make a bargain give bargain” Thomsons’ motto. Coati. frocks, dress materials, underwear, flannels, blankets, flannelettes, witerproof coats; wools, very right in thee, daiD sales 60 to 202 one day previous week; the senior young lady there herself doing 180 bolts 1 to 4 ounra Friday last, the wet day; the mill ~P. e ° p t 1 ® Thomsons do with stick faifrifully to them, it will not be forgot. Timaru wool 65—4/3 head

Efforts to establish a hostelin Auckland for unfit single men oi sustenance are being made by a committee of the Down and Out Misson, which conducts its activities in AlbO't Street. The scheme, designed to cate for men who have no homes, is modelea on the lines of one now operating in Wellington.

Ignorance of the situation of New Zealand is shown in a copy >f a newspaper published in Missoiri, United States, which has been reoived by a resident, of New Plymouth. The paper publishes a finely printed (holograph if a Maori poi dance at Waitangi. The caption beneath the illustration reads: “Song and dance al the equator. On the island of Waiijngi, in the New Zealand group, the poi dance celebrations cause consideable pndeful rivalry. This group ion the Te Rehia rosebowl, presentedqy the wife of the Governor-General.”

Over 400 railwaymen in the Canterbury district, which deludes the whole of Canterbury nortijof Tiny aid, Westland and the isolatli Westport section, will, by the decsion of the Full Court, receive reducions in the rents they are paying forhouses owned by the Railway Departnent. There are in New Zealand 10-day, 3505 houses owned by the Ralway Department and occupied b employees. These represent a capiti expenditure of £2,000,000, which hs since been written down to £1,600,00.

Recognising the alaming diminution in numbers of tfe grey duck within the Wellington acclimatisation Society’s district, and 1 view of the urgent necessity of a qfinite plan to supplement the naturi breeding of the bird, the society t its monthly meeting decided, on th motion of Mr W. J. H. Haase', to enorse the principles of establishing sitable breeding grounds at the Masfcton hatchery. It decided also to refejthe question of establishment of pout to the game committee for a fulls report cn the proposed scheme.

If there were, amqg the audience which heard a lectu) by Dr. W. A. Macky at the Otago Diversity recently, any theorists wb claimed that wireless has an ffect upon the weather, they must lave hastily discarded that view fcfore the lecture closed. Dr. Macky Sited that at any given moment 100 ffihes of lightning per second were oc<rring somewhere in the world, so tha 13,000,000 horsepower of electricity was continually going to waste. Atthe conclusion of the lecture, Dr. R. Jck referred to the figures quoted, and stated that for anyone, in the facet them, to suggest that the comparatlely small amount of electricity invo£d in the use of wireless could hav any effect upon the weather was riiculous.