NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20282, 4 December 1935, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

In connection with the Historical Pageant, “Early Days in England,” to be performed in the Timaru Park on Saturday next by the various groups of Women’s Institutes, an illustrated explantory programme has been prepared and is procurable from all booksellers. The viewing of the pageant will be much more appreciated if the story is absorbed before-hand. Also, to view the pageant in comfort, seats may be reserved at Begg and Co.’s, and in anticipation of the large crowd attending, an early application for seats is advised

The proposed air service to Mount Cook should be an accomplished fact by the end of the present summer, reported Mr R. L. Wigley, managing director of the Mount Cook Tourist Company, to a tourist conference at the Hermitage on Monday. Mr Wigley said that as soon as the grass on the aerodrome built near the Hermitage had grown a license would be granted the ground and a service begun, which would bring transport to Mount Cook to as modern a system as to the Westland glaciers.

To-day in their Mart, Morton and Co. Ltd. will sell by auction, at 2 p.m., splendid household furniture and furnishings, on account of Mrs Cameron and others. Everything is in first class order and for absolute sale. Particulars appear in our auction columns.

Next Friday at 2 p.m., on site of new hospital, Bidwill Street, Morton and Co. sell by auction a splendid lot of roofing iron, timber, sheds, bath, etc. The timber is well preserved, shed and porch in excellent order, bith and hot water service being equal to new. The lot will be sold without reserve.

The Pleasant Point Returned Soldiers’ Association has arranged a concert on Saturday in the Pleasant Point Town Hall at 8 p.m. The Temuka Pipe Band will play in the township from 7 p.m. onwards.

A forecast that at least one of the tourist! cruising vessels to visit New Zealand next summer would make Lyttelton its port of stay in the Dominion was made at the tourist conference at the Hermitage on Monday. Mr Wigley said it was estimated that one of these cruising vessels at Auckland left in the city about £IO,OOO in providoring and wharfage charges, irrespective of what the passengers personally spent. Such a sum would be of immense benefit to the South Island.

“I was somewhat surprised to find that there is still a lot of unemployment in England,” said Mr Walter Johnson, formerly drainage overseer for the Wellington City Council, who has returned to New Zealand after having been in England for the last 18 months. “You could see almost any day 2000 unemployed men on the football ground,” said Mr Johnson. “The trouble seems to be that these men have become so accustomed to living on the dole that they don’t want work. Many of the young fellows don’t look for work at all. It seems as though one section of the people were keeping the others. Things may have been worse, but they are not too good now. in the unemployment problem.”

“This Dominion, because of its remoteness from the busy centres of world trade, its size and the exceptional topographical features and the difficult and varied meteorological conditions, as well as by its geographical situation, has been probably the last country in the world to undertake the serious development of aviation on a commercial basis,” wrote Mr E. A. Gibson and Mr D. S. G. Marchbanks in a paper read before the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers. “Probably the delay that has taken place has been all to the good in that we can, if we will but use the experience gained in the old aviation countries, profit by their mistakes and lay the foundations now of a system of air transport as sound as any in the world.”

We have just received a striking tribute to the efficacy of our rheumatic remedy Rumatox. 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.

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. •