NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19853, 17 July 1934, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Patrons of the Ritz Dance Club are always sure of a good night’s entertainment, and last Saturday was no exception. Visitors were present from all parts of the countryside, as were members of the local and visiting harrier clubs. Useful prizes were a feature of the novelty dances, and the winners were: Misses Mackay, McKee, Tapp. Austin; Messrs Hunter (2), Dodds, and J. Shewan.

The Scottish Society's week-end dance on Saturday evening attracted a large crowd, which increased by the time the w'altzing competition commenced. There was a keen public interest in the competing couples in the third series, the dancing being of a high standard. Those who qualified to participate in the final were: Miss Dunnett and Mr Currie, Mrs Sinclair and Mr Bond, Miss Leathern and Mr Black. A very enjoyable dance programme, which included numerous novelties and competitions resulted as follows:—Miss Thomson (board honours), Miss Galbraith (special), Mrs Hattie and Miss Bates (novelty), Mr Chapman (board honours), Mr Keen (novelty), Mr Burrow's (special). The Ashbury Ladies' Bowling Club will hold a social evening In the Cafe Carlton on Thursday, at 7.45 p.m. Saturday, July 21st. last day of Souter’s Shoe Sale. Special cuts in prices for the last week of Souter’s successful shoe sale. Note our only address 252 Stafford Street North. No connection with any other shoe store in Timaru. Commencing at 1 p.m. to-day at 50 Raymond Street. A. N. Oakey and Co. will conduct a clearing sale of Kriesler Radio, household furniture and also the property under instructions from Miss K. Courtney. In the event of wet weather clients are requested to ’phone 41 for information. “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

By means of a scientific process, perfected by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, kauri gum can be made absolutely pure and completely uniform. Samples of gum purified at a plant at Henderson were furnished to manufacturers in England through the New Zealand High Commissioner’s office, as well as to manufacturers in America and elsewhere, and tests of these samples gave most encouraging results, justifying anticipation that the kauri gum industry will be re-established on the world's market.

The Samoan youth who comes to New Zealand to improve his education in English is very keen to appropriate any common sayings that he may hear in use among those with whom he becomes acquainted. He is also very prone to parade his knowledge, but not always wise in his application of it. A youth, wdio has not long returned from the Dominion to his home in Apia, has written to a friend in Dunedin, and part of his letter runs:—“l found my people in the very best of health. So let the devil have his due.”

Influenza and Head Colds.—There is no better remedy for Influenza and head colds than Febro. It quickly relieves those aches and pains, and reduces temperature promptly. Take Febro at the first symptoms of ’flu or colds in the head, and this remarkable remedy will promptly break up the most stubborn attack, and therefore prevent complications setting in. Price 2/6 per bottle. E. C. Ayres, Ltd., 78 Stafford Street, Timaru

There is promise of a revival of interest in flax-milling in the results, just released, of extensive and exhaustive trials carried out by the British Admiralty with ships ropes manufactured from phoitnium tenax. An authority, discussing the question with a reporter said that the experiments had proved beyond all doubt that the better class fibre produced in New Zealand was second to none in the world, not alone for service conditions in the navy but also" for general use in the mercantile marine.

Bronchial Coughs and Colds on the Chest. —Take a tried and proven remedy made by a chemist of experience. Tusso Is what we recommend. It is simply wonderful for bronchitis or the stubborn cough so prevalent at present. It quickly effects the removal of phlegm from the chest, relieves congestion and makes breathing easier. Price 1/6 and 2/6 per bottle. E. C. Ayres, Ltd., 78 Stafford Street, Timaru Sale continues at Thomsons, a few days only; time for flannels, all wool, 1/41, 1/6, 1/9, 2/3 —white, pink, Shetland greys, navy, all wool Bruce navy bloomers 3/6 up—misses. Big Kaiapoi and Roslyn rugs fringed 10/9 to 35/6; 190 silk rayon 61 to Sarawak silk crepe 8/3; gentlemen’s all wool sox lid to Roslyn and others 2/11, curtain nets 36in 6!d, similar in silk in silk or silk and cotton 1/3 to 1/11; bedspreads 3/6; pure wool blankets, every size 14/11 pair up; satin nesta at sale 4/6 to crepe; new Jeanettes 2/3 and 2/6. white handkerchiefs 2d to gent’s krinkle trench d.b coats 55/* and lower, working trousers, all sizes 4/9, others 7/11, 9/6 etc.; cutter great authority in cutting trousers. All wool jumpers 4/9, crepe silks 1/5, per bolt of 4oz. Wools, all grades 75d, coats, the dress of the people

As the Old Boys’ Swimming Club is holding its annual dance on Thursday in the West End Pavilion, the usual Saturday evening function will be a card tournament. The pavilion will be specially heated.

Describing the ferocity of the New Zealand sparrowhawk Mr E. F. Stead, in an address in Christchurch recently, said that on one occasion he wanted a friend to stand up and let a hawk dive at him so that the speaker could get a photograph. “The hawk pounced all right,” he continued. “It seized my friend’s cap in its claws and flew' across a ravine with it, dropping it so that he had to climb down 400 feet to recover it. He was not nearly so amused as I was.”

Only three days after the French Government had bestowed on him and his wife the insignia of Knights of the Legion of Honour, Mr John Jaffe died at his villa, at Nice, recently, aged 91. Mr Jaffe, who was formerly a prominent Belfast industrialist and chairman of the chamber of commerce of that ctiy, had lived at Nice with ’ trs Jaffe since 1385, and was a highly esteemed member of the British colony on the Riviera. He was a great friend of France, to -which he had made many generous gifts, notably Napoleon’s library, whiol; he secured when it was about to be purchased by another country, and presented It to Malmaison. Deceased had also made valuable contributions to the Louvre and to the Ma'ssena Museum, Nice, where the presentation of the insignia was made in the presence of a large and distinguished gathering.