NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20108, 15 May 1935, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

It is felt by the Auckland Harbour Board that the lighthouses at Moko Hinau and Cuvier Islands should be linked to the mainland by wireless, so that communication may be established with the outside world in the event of an emergency. At the present time the only way the liglitkeepers can attract attention to their lonely homes is to allow the lights they tend to go out, and naturally, it is only in a case of emergency that they do this. As the islands are outside the harbour limits, the board has not been able to establish wireless communication, but it has taken the matter up with the Marine Department with the hope that the necessary action will be taken. In reporting to the board this w T eek the harbourmaster, Captain H. H. Sergeant, said that in his opinion both islands could be linked up with the board’s wireless stations on Tiritiri Island and at Mount Victoria. Those services had been running most satisfactorily for several years, and he felt sure that if the board’s suggestion was adopted by the department it would ensure constant communication with the lightkeepers and would add enormously to the efficiency of both islands.

The Timaru Municipal Band is holcD ing a card and dance evening in the bandroom to-night at 8 o’clock.

The North Canterbui*y Acclimatisation Society’s rangers have been making strenuous efforts to apprehend offenders believed to be poaching ducks in the Avon, according to a letter received by the general committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on Monday. The secretary of the Society stated in his letter that it was known that poaching was going on, especially in the Dallington district, and many hours had been put in by one of the Society’s officials in an endeavour to detect the offenders, but so far without success. A member of the committee said that the police were also investigating the matter.

To-morrow at 1.30 p.m. at the Wentworth Auction Mart, a sale of general household furniture of every description will be held.

Regulations published in the “Gazette” issued this week reduce from £lO to £5 the fee for a certificate of naturalisation. There are also several machinery clauses setting out the Procedure to be followed, and the form of declaration to be made by a New Zealand woman who marries an alien and wishes to retain, while in New Zealand, the rights of a British subject. The regulations have been issued under the British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in New Zealand) Act, 1928, and the British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in New Zealand) Amendment Act 1934-35.

The “Abstract of Statistics - ’ states that in view of the fact that all trading bank notes which have been paid into any trading banks since August 1934, have been withdrawn from circulation, and that trading bank notes ceased to be legal tender over three months ago, it is surprising that there is an amount of £817,800 represented by such notes still outstanding on April 15 last. A substantial part of the amount is represented by hoarding of old notes, which have not been exchanged for new notes, and some trading bank notes are still probably in active circulation. Over the period in which notes have been issued in New Zealand the amount lost or destroyed by various causes has represented a considerable sum. In many cases hoarded notes may not come to light until the death of the holder, and it probably will be many years before it will be possible to assess accurately the extent to which notes have been permanently lost or destroyed.

Tills is a true story. It happened In a hairdressing saloon at Greymouth, and goes to show that even the man who claims to be observant may slip up sometimes (states the Grey “Star”). A few days ago a man left the chair, put on a hat, and left the saloon. The next man left the chair, discovered that his hat had disappeared, and that another was in its place. A mistake had been made and the hat taken wrongly was in due course returned to the saloon. Knowing that another customer was a friend of the man to whom the hat belonged, the hairdresser asked the said customer to inform his friend that the hat had been returned. He agreed, and at the same time declared that he would never make a mistake like that, and would always know his own hat in any circumstances. He left the saloon, and duly gave the message to his friend. Then the friend discovered that the observant one was not wearing his own hat. but that of the friend, which he had taken by mistake when he left the saloon.

Nearly 8,000,000.000 cigarettes are smoked by Londoners in a year. This startling total (says a writer in the London “Evening News”) means an expenditure of about £19,742,440 in addition to nearly £6,000,000 spent on other forms of tobacco. Coincidentally with London’s increased cigarette consumption—due largely to the growth of the habit among women—more cigars are being smoked. For instance, in 1932 cigar consumption in Britain was, iri terms of avoirdupois, 284,1671 b. In 1934 this figure had increased to 403,6771 b. While the nonsmokers naturally complain that millions are wasted in smoke, it is an interesting fact that more than 17,000 people are employed in actual manufacture, and that in Greater London there are about 8000 shops Wigaged solely in the selling of tobacco and tobacco accessories. These shops pay in the aggregate about £400,000 per annum in rates, one large factory alone being rated at £23,000. With these facts in mind, is it correct to say that London’s £26,000,000 worth of tobacco has truly “gone up in smoke?” In terms of sterling, London also has nearly £15,000,000 worth of tobacco now in hand, waiting the call of the manufacturers. When duty has been paid this tobacco will be worth £58,000.000.

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