NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20107, 14 May 1935, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Commencing at 1 p.m. to-day at 132 North Street, A. N. Oakey and Co. will hold a clearing sale of Fritz Kuhla piano and superior household furntiure and effects on account of Mr R. Holmes, who has left for England. The property will also be submitted immediately after the furniture auction. If wet clients are requested to ’phone 41 for information. The firm also give preliminary notice of a clearing sale of household furniture and effects to be held on Tuesday, May 21, at the corner of Wai-iti Road and Sehvyn Street on account of Mrs H. Belcher, who is leaving Timaru. The dogs falling into a gorge 200 ft deep was among the incidents of a pig hunting expedition made by Auroa residents at ’ Kohuratahi, Taranaki, recently. The resourceful hunters knotted supplejacks to form a ladder to reach the bottom of the cliff and used other supplejacks as ropes with which to draw the dogs up. An assurance that the Railway Department was doing everything possible to prevent fires being started by sparks from engines was received by letter at a meeting of the council of the New Zealand Forestry League held in Wellington. While the reply was considered satisfactory to an extent, the members agreed that the practice of discharging hot ashes from engines on the side of the railway track, especially in dry weather, should be stopped. Some idea of the cost of producing a musical comedy in a small town like Blenheim is to be gained from a glance at the Blenheim Operatic Society’s bal-ance-sheet • for last year’s “Kissing Time” production. Rent and lighting of the theatre absorbed £57/1/3, rent and lighting for rehearsals £B/10/-, producer’s fees £6O, purchase of music £lB/12/6, liberettos £6, and so on, the total expenditure for the show being £256, while the takings were £223. Under the rule in Britain, which permits a woman Civil Servant W’ho leaves on marriage to return if widowed, 100 go back each year.

“If I were an autocrat with complete powers and the money to do it, I would not be content unless every child enjoyed the benefits of school life up to 16, and a continued physical education up to 18,” said Dr. Cyril Norwood, president of St. John’s College, Oxford, and formerly headmaster at Harrow, when opening a new gymnasium and swimming pool at Reading School. Dr. Norwood took the opportunity “to plead to the whole. nation” to give earnest and immediate consideration to their need for real physical education for everybody. "We are no longer a nation in direct contact with the land or the open air,” lie said. “We live in towns and cities and are deprived of a definite proportion of fresh air and sunlight. We should not accept the results of these artificial conditions in any fatalistic spirit, but ought to counteract this condition by suitable physical education.”

An entertainment of exceptional merit attracted a gathering of enthusiasts to the Scottish Hall, which was filled to its utmost capacity on Saturday evening. Four hours of a popular pastime in a dance programme which suited the public taste, was much enjoyed, a feature being the “all comers” specialty event, when floor space was at a premium. Those who were the recipients of complimentary and special prizes were accorded victors’ honours: Miss Head (novelty), Miss Frasey (“all comers” special), Mr Stevens (novelty), Mr C. Woods (“all comers” special).

The scenes of gaiety at the Ritz Dance Club last Saturday week were repeated on Saturday night, when a Jubilee Week wind-up dance was held. The hall was prettily decorated with appropriate emblems, and the big crowd thoroughly enjoyed themselves with masks and squeakers, balloons and streamers, Always popular, the novelty dances saw everybody take the floor, winners of the handsome prizes being: Misses J. Smith, I. D Ennagli, Nelson (double honours). E. Marshall, Brookland; Messrs R. Mack, A. Johnson, S. Hassall, E. Whitehouse, T. Yates and Mulander. Tucked away in the most unsuspected places and close to a busy street in Wanganui (says the “Chronicle”), a little “white eye” built its nest. Sometimes passers-by must have almost touched the concealed home, while at others it must have come so near destruction that its fate hung in the balance. The little bird knew isg craft thoroughly, and so skilfully was the nest constructed that it was only by accident that it was one day discovered. The nest was built beneath the surface of a hydrangea bloom which was produced last week at the Wanganui Acclimatisation Society’s meeting, when it was an objejct of curiosity and admiration. Tiny, compact, a perfect work of art, the nest was so snuggled under the flowers of the bloom that only a very close inspection revealed its presence, and the hydrangea, strangely enough, had been growing at the front gate of a suburban home only a short distance from Victoria Avenue.

The procedure in regard to the change-over in the weekly half-holiday from Thursday to Saturday will be of particular interest to residents of Temuka, Geraldine and Waimate. These three boroughs voted in favour of a change to the Saturday halfholiday. The result of the poll is communicated to the Minister of Labouf who is empowered to name a date on which the change can take effect within three months after the gazetting of the poll. The Temuka Borough Council intends to recommend that the change should become operative in Temuka and Geraldine on the same date.

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