NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20051, 7 March 1935, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Perfectly good tomatoes are rotting on the vines : .d on the ground in many market g dens in the Hastings district. A Pakowhai resident showt=d a visitor his tomato crop and stated that the price did not warrant him touching the fruit (or is it a vegetable?). “The best price I can get is Id per 1b.,” he said, “and to attempt to market them at that price is throwing money away, bt -.ause my accounts sales would show a debit instead of a credit.” In many other gardens a similar state of affairs exists. The Pakowhai man also pointed to large vegetable marrows, which, he said, were practically unsaleable, and the best he could hope for was Id each.

New Zealand butter and milk powder are used almost exclusively on the Cunard line passenger ships, according to a dining saloon official on the Franconia, when it arrived at Wellington in the course of a world cruise. The officer, who has been with the Cunard line for a number of years, told a “Wellington Post” representative that New Zealand butter was considered the best available, while the milk powder was thought by some passengers to be superior to the fresh milk obtained in some countries.

At Thomsons’ fine showings new goods direct from leading factories; new designs linoleums; half dozen on view front shop as sample pieces; Axminster carpets, the real thing, 12/a yard, one or two on view island window for a few days; dress window, too, with novelty materials, brush wool and fur trimmings; kolinsky fur 1/3 per yd. up; ermine fur, silver fox, broadtail and other favourites; novelty belts, patent, kid, suede; matinee armwear 1/- to 2/6, ladies’ wide end ties 1/11, choice neckwear, taking goods; new bows and scarves for older ladies; Malta 3/6 to 10/6, ladies’ ordinary wear 1/- to 2/6, child’s 101 d and 1/- up; winceyettes, crepe de chene; winter rayons, unlimited variety. Shrowroom proving great attraction Coats, hats, frocks, costumes, unerringly becoming. Everyday prices. Raincoats 24/6, woodbine silk, morocaines, too. See the windows and doorway. Great values; becoming goods. Thomsons’

At 2.30 p.m. to-day on the site at the corner of Arthur and York Streets, A. N. Oakey and Co, will submit .to auction in the estate of Mrs C, A. Hoggarth, a four-roomed wooden house and section of 27.5 perches on which it stands. Full particulars of the property appeared in last Saturday’s “Herald.”

The appropriate dre; . for a witness in the Supreme Court was in question during the hearing of an undefended divorce action at Auckland. Counsel for petitioner said he proposed o call a witness who was in his working clothes and had no opportunity to dress correctly for the occasion. Counsel added that the man was not wearing a tie. When the wiine- was called, Mr, Justice Herdman commented, with a smile, “He is better dressed than some who appeal-.”

A blue flame which burst from the top of a water main plug at the corner of Broadway and Station Street, Newmarket, Auckland, astonished passersby, and gave warning of a shortcircuit in an underground power cable (says the “Auckland Star”). The flame, which was about 18in. in height, burned for about 15 minutes, surrounded by smoke which issued between the concrete flags of the footpath, but went out immediately the power was cut off. The cable, which had been in use about 16 years, was only slightly damaged.

Although the staffs of all public institutions in Germany are compelled to greet each other with the words. “Heil, Hitler,” while the right arm is lifted in the Nazi salute, most of them put very little enthusiasm into the greeting, according to a New Zealander who has just returned from Europe. His visit to Germany took him to several scientific and educational institutions, and although the regulation greeting was observed by the staffs, the words were merely grunted and the salute was no more than a flap of the hand below the shoulder. The Nazi leaders were commonly referred to in private conversation as “our little gods.”

General Smuts has urged very definitely that the fundamental affinity between Britain and America is such that any policy which ignores it is calculated to have a disruptive effect on the British commonwealth. For hundreds of years the people of the Far East have been exploited by tne Western nations. Not content with fortunes from the sale of goods they have sold to Easterns the tricks of manufacture. Japan, the most progressive, has now brought the chickens home to roost and the Federation of British interests, to combat Japanese competition, is, according to Wickham Steed, endeavouring to sell to Japan, for “a mess of industrial pottage, any chance of effective British participation in a system of collective security against war.”

Enthusiasm ran high at the conclusion of the performance of “The Wind and the Rain” by the Williamson Company at the Grand Opera House, Wellington, on Saturday evening. On the fall of the curtain Mr Thirlwell came forward to thank the audience for the splendid reception which had been given the play—the clever play by the New Zealander, Dr Merton Hodge, He traced the rather amazing history of the play, now well known, and happened to mention that the author’s father, Mr Alfred L. Hodge, of Patea, was in the audience. Attention was immediately directed to one of the boxes, where a little greyhaired man stood up and bowed his acknowledgments. As the applause was persistent, Mr Hodge, speaking from the box. said what a great pleasure it had been for him to see for the first time the play which had been written by his son, and the honour which had been done him by the splendid reception the play had been given that evening. Mr Hodge referred to the fine production which had been given “The Wind and the Rain” by the Williamson management, and the company of players headed by Mr Thirlwell. He was sure that the honour they had done his son would be shared by all New Zealanders.

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