NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19944, 31 October 1934, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Last year in New Zealand there were 251 eases of twin births, counting only cases where both children were born alive, according to the annual report on vital statistics for 1933, which has just been issued. There were two cases of triplets. On the average, one mother in every 95 gave birth to twins or triplets. In 70 of the cases of twin births, both children were males, and in 73 both females. In both the two cases of triplets, two of the children were females. A hearty laugh was raised at a meeting of the Wellington Education Board during a discussion on the treatment of Wellington in connection with the provision of a training college for teachers. One member was holding forth at some length on Wellington being left out in the cold, and referred to what was acquired by other centres. “And what does Wellington get?” he wound up. The answer quickly came from another part of the room: “Wind, and plenty of it!” The qualification was added that nothing personal was intended. Captivating buttons Thomsons’ side window—no doubt a spring carnival. See the neat central window; divine shapes, the woman beautiful, those lovely drooping shapes. Miss Hofland has the happy knack. Pandanas, Panamas, Leghorns, very things beside the charming trimmed millinery; felts too, summer felts besides the various straws. Sand crepe at 2/-,-36in; 7 1 pieces Saturday last, all one price 2/6, ! d.w.; novelty rush hats 3/11, Warner’s I and the other imported novelties, 500 yards Fuji silk, Ninghai, Sakusan 1/1 to 2/8, check trimming silks as well 1 and every attractive line; hailstone | silk lOid self do. 73d, carpets and i linoleums from 1/111, try our tailor; Mr Solomon knows how to make a suit. j “The soft answer that turneth away wrath,” commented Mr W. E. Leadley, lat Monday’s meeting of the execuj tive of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association when a letter from Miss Muriel Ockenden, the i honorary secretary of the Christ- : church Branch of the League of | Nations Union, was read. The letter ■was as follows: “My council wishes to j inform you that it regrets that your j association has not found it possible to affiliate with the Union, but at the same time I have been asked to ex- ! press to your executive our apprecaii tion of the difficulties which have prevented you from affiliating. May we send you our expressions of cordial goodwill and may we hope to achieve in the future a closer association which, we feel, would be as profitable to our union as to you?” In an address given at Auckland. Mr Walter F. Boyle, United States Consul, said that, although the American Constitution was a written document, the nation had adopted, practically without change, the English common law, I which was still the basis for the : American legal system. | A stone taken from the Glastonbury church in Somersetshire, England, has been secured for the Christchurch Cathedral by Mr John Booth, who is at present visiting Great Britain. Bishop West-Watson said that he had received advice from Mr Booth of the shipment of the stone for the Cathedral. Mr Booth, a cablegram from whom he read, was also endeavouring to arrange for other relics, especially from Jerusalem. Glastonbury is a most historic borough. It is claimed that it was to Glastonbury that Joseph of Arimathea came bearing the Holy j Grail and there founded the first Christian church in Britain. The main ruin of early churches and abbeys was ! purchased by the Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1907, and became the property of the Church of England in 1909. In 1914 a beginning was made with a scheme for making Glastonbury a home of legendary drama. To-morrow in their Mart, Morton and Co. will sell, on account of the I Official Assignee, a large quantity of I ! household furniture and furnishings, | | in the bankrupt estate of C. C. Pater- ■ J son; also splendid upright grand piano [ and lovely oak bedroom suite. Par- j j ticulars appear in our auction columns. , ! H. Allchurch and Co. insert a re- j | minder of the sale of household furni- I ture and effects which they are holding j at The Rialto, Beswick Street, at 2 o’clock to-day, on account of Mr L. W. j Fuller, who has left for Australia. I Ori. Friday at 1.30 at Wentworth Mart, Messrs Runciman, Pryor, Ltd. will choid an auction sale on account l ot deceased estate, of contents of 5roomed house and 100 boxes bedding plants. The next instalment of the unemployment ttevy falls due to-morrow (November-1), and on the same date the third instalment of the emergency unemployment charge of lOd in the £1 on income other than salary or wages. To-morrow night Miss Moncrieff, who has just returned from four and a-half years with the Y.W.C.A. in Peking, will tell of her experiences in a lecture at the Y.W.C.A. club room, Oxford Buildings. Souter’s Shoe Store are celebrating their 29th anniversary of business life in Timaru by holding a gigantic footwear sale. Twenty-nine years ago the proprietors of Souter’s bought out Mr C. Bowker’s boot business in Stafford Street South. Sixteen years ago he bought out Mr J. E. Reid’s business at 252 Stafford Street North. A few years back he sold out the South End business and concentrated on one shop, that of 252 Stafford Street North. An up-to-date store was built some four years ago. See for yourselves the bargains that Souter’s offer at their 29th i anniversary sale. Address, No. 252 j S'afford Street North. Note: Only ! one store in Timaru. ... Uddasal, teat and udders salve is an excellent healing antiseptic salve for general farm use. Specially adapted for the treatment of sore and cracked teats, cow pox, cracked heels, cuts etc. Price 1/6 a large tin from L. B. James, Prescription Chemist, Timaru Nerve Tonic. Most people need a good tonic in the sping. Nervita is the best remedy to regain health and strength. It also enriches and purifies the blood. Try it for building up the system, brain fatigue, weakness, depression and ’oss of appetite. Convalescents thrive on it. Recommended as the best tonic on the market. Price 2/6 and 3/6 from E. C. Ayres, LtdChemist, 78 Stafford Street South, Timaru. ... Varicose veins.—No need to suffer now. We have just imported a new Elastic Stocking, flesh colour, thin and j light in weight, and can be worn in the hottest weather without discomfort. Being so closely woven they can ; be worn absolutely unnoticed under ' modern silk hosiery. Think of the long 1 summer days ahead and the wonderful support these new' elastic stockings 1 will give. They cost less than the old kind as we import them direct. Price ■ 15i- a pair. E. C. Ayres, Ltd- Chemist. Stafford Street South, Timaru. ...