NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20250, 28 October 1935, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Commencing at 1.15 p.m. to-morrow at 26 Rugby Street, Highfield, A. N. Oakey and Co. will hold a clearing sale of choice household furniture and effects for Mrs E. Ibbetson, who is giving up housekeeping. Pull particulars appeared in last Saturday’s “Herald.” .. “We in Australia are just as anxious as you are that the Empire shall hold together,” said Mr R. H. Nesbitt, Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, in an address to the Hastings Chamber of Commerce. In many quarters it had been said that Australia had not lived up to her undertakings under the Ottawa Agreement, remarked Mr Nesbitt, but Mr Walter Runciman, as president of the Board of Trade in Britain, had stated that through the Ottawa Agreement, Australia’s importations of British machinery and metals had increased in value from £BOO,OOO to £3,400,000. When Australia was struck by the depression, said Mr Nesbit, and was faced with staggering deficits, the Prime Minister of the time put 78 items on the prohibited list. That was before Ottawa. There was a change of government later, and the whole 78 were taken off again. There were now more than 600 items on the tariff sheet, and 90 per cent of them gave preference to British goods at the rate of 15 per cent., and in some instances the preference rate was as high as 45 and even 70 per cent. New Zealand was not a high-tariff country, but Australia’s tariff against foreign goods was relatively much higher than that of New Zealand. The United States Senate recently passed a bill authorising construction of six key Army air bases to guard Alaska and the frontiers of the Panama Canal nations. A Press Association message from Dunedin says that it is understood that ticket No. 55,852, which w'on the prize of £I,OOO in the recent Tattersall’s Consultation, and was taken out under the name of “Spring,” is held by a syndicate of seven employees of a prominent firm of Dunedin solicitors. The possibility of some definite decision being given by the court some day whether police documents should be available in civil cases was mentioned by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in the Supreme Court in Wellington on Tuesday afternoon. The point arises from time to time, and of more recent times it has happened more than once that police constables have been ordered by the court to produce certain documents. It cropped up again on Tuesday (says the Wellington “Evening Post”) when Mr H. F. O’Leary, K.C., suggested, after a constable had given evidence, that it might be as well if the constable produced a plan he had made at the time of the accident, which was the subject of the action. His Honor said he agreed that it would not be contrary to public policy if the plan was produced. The constable had already given evidence on marks, etc., shown in a plan h- had made at the time of the accident. The plan might be of vital importance, added his Honor, and on his instructions arrangements were made to have the plan produced. Nervita is recommended where a restorative tonic is required. For the aches and pains of neuritis it is unequalled. As a tonic it increases mental activity and is a boon to anyone rundown through . overwork or worry. It improves circulation, restores the appetite, and imparts muscular power and vigour to the whole system. Price 2/6 and 3/6. E. C. Ayres, Ltd., chemists, TimarU. .... We have just received a striking tribute to the efficacy of our rheumatic remedy Rurnatox. A sufferer in Christchurch, after having tried all remedies in vain, sent to us for Rumatox. He states that he is now quite rid of this long standing complaint and his system is now restored to its original healthy state. It is equally effective for gout, lumbago or sciatica. Price 2/6 and 4/6. E. C. Ayres, Ltd., chemists. Timaru.