NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20096, 1 May 1935, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

The Railway Department advertises in this issue the calling of tenders for the purchase of houses at Waihao Downs.

The Timaru Municipal Band is holding a card and dance social in the band room to-night.

At 2.30 p.m. to-morrow on the site, just off Brenda Street, Watlington, A. N. Oakey and Co. will submit to auction 16 acres 37 perches of land under instructions from the mortgagee. Full particulars appeared in last Saturday’s “Herald.” ....

To-night at 8 o’clock the annual general meeting of the Timaru Orchestral Society will be held in the Cafe Carlton. All members of the orchestra, subscribers and friends are cordially invited to be present.

H. Allchurch and Co. advertise particulars of a sale of building materials to be held to-morrow on the premises 37 Sophia Street (next to Public Trust Office) commencing at 1.30 p.tfi- Further particulars will be seen in the auction columns of this issue

The Y.W.C.A. is holding a Chinese Fair this afternoon and evening in the Club Rooms, Oxford Buildings. Miss A. M. Moncrieff, M.A., of Pekin, is coming to Timaru to open the Fair at 2.30 p.m. The club room has been decorated with a large number of Chinese posters and scrolls, and there will be a special stall of Chinese brassware for sale. A delicatessen and cake stall, a work stall, bath stall and sweet stall have been organised by various groups, and a novelty will be the- white elephant stall which will contain a great variety of goods for sale. Afternoon tea will be served. In the evening a programme of Chinese music and a tableau of the willow pattern plate will be given. Miss Moncrieff will also give a talk on Chinese- fairs and bazaars.

It is authentically stated that the Labour Party intend to contest the Invercargill seat at the coming general elections. Two names have been submitted to the local committee—those of Mr W. M. C. Denham and Mr S. V. Raines —and a ballot will be taken. The name of the successful nominee will then be sent forward to the National Council for approval.

“I am reminded of a story of the celebrated Judge Parry,” said Mr Justice Frazer, in an address to the New Plymouth Rotary Club. “He had just spent an arduous day adjudicating upon a rather complicated building case, and was travelling home o:i the train when he chanced to hear two working men engaged in the building trade discussing him. They were quite oblivious to his presence, and they spoke their minds freely. Finally, however, they summed the matter up by saying the Judge was ‘a blinking old fool, but he done his best!’ If,” continued the speaker, “when very shortly I leave my position t as Judge of the Arbitration Court, New Zealand will say of me that I was ‘a blinking old fool who done his best,’ I could not ask for a better epitaph!”

High praise for the hospitality of the Japanese was paid by Mr. Charles CcMullen, an American tourist, who was interviewed in Palmerston North. He instanced the recent world conference of the Red Cross In Japan and said that while the delegates were there they were provided with free hotel accommodation, having to pay for their meals only. They were given every possible concession in other ways, and railway excursions were free. Personally, he had been entertah .ed in several Japanese homes and a kinder people to strangers and a niore courteous race he had yet to meet.

In the course of a wireless broadcast recently Mr Robert L. Ripley, the originator of the “Believe It or Not” series of film short features, referred to the Waitomo Caves in New Zealand as the most wonderful sight in the world. Mr Ripley visited New Zealand in 1932 in the course of a tourist cruise of the Pacific. He made an overland tour of the North Island, during which he visited Waitomo.

Little has been done to check the spread of German owls in the Dominion, according to a report presented at the recent annual meeting of the Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand. “Although the executive has offered to participate in the cost of exterminating the owls, nearly all the acclimatisation societies have declined to co-operate, in spite of the fact that they were responsible for the introduction of this vicious pest,” stated the report. Nerve Tonic: Ayres’ Nervita is the best tonic to take when you feel run down and the nervous system is all unstrung. It is rejuvenating and strength giving when you are depressed through overwork or worry. It quickens circulation, improves the appetite and increases muscular power. As a remedy for neuritis it is unequalled and can be taken by the most delicate persons, as it assists digestion, and is recommended wherever a restorative and vitalising medicine is required. Price 2/6 and 3/6 a bottle. E. C. Ayres. Ltd., chemists, 78 Stafford Street, South. Timaru Indigestion: When you feel that your digestive organs are not working properly, if you suffer from severe stomach pains, wind or fullness after eating, or acidity of the stomach, try our indigestion mixture. You will enjoy quick relief. This mixture contains those ingredients which aid indigestion and tone up the nerves of the stomach. Price 2/6 and 4/6 a bottle, E. C. Ayres, Ltd., chemist, 78 Stafford Street South, Timaru