NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20335, 6 February 1936, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

To-morrow in their Mart Morton and Co. will sell several good fishing rods, reels and general fishing gear on acount of owner who has given up fishing. Articles are now on view. Mr F. M. B. Fisher, the former New Zealand Davis Cup lawn tennis player, who has been resident in England for many years, will be a competitor at the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association’s annual championship tournament, which will begin at Wilding Park to-day. Mr Fisher, who was a member of Parliament from 1904 to 1914 and was Minister for Customs, Marine, and Pensions for the last three years of that period, has a record of 40 years’ first-class lawn tennis. He has competed with success in tournaments in all parts of the world. He has been doubles champion of New Zealand on many occasions, and for a time was chairman of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association.

The Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department states that it was announced a few days ago that the launch Tiafau, whrich was lost between Apia and Pago Pago had been washed up on the beach on the island of Tuasivi. From advice received from the postmaster at Apia, it would appear that portion of the mail carried by the vessel had been recovered, but full particulars are not yet available in New Zealand.

The thoughless manner in which bottles are thrown about beaches, to the clanger of bathers, is shown in the number of cuts from glass treated by the St John Ambulance Brigade. During the Christmas holidays 81 of the 466 accident cases treated at beaches near Aucklnad were caused by broken glass (states the “New Zealand Herald”). The worst beach was Mission Bay, at which 27 mishaps resulting from broken glass were treated, while there were also large numbers at Blockhouse Bay, Tltlrangi and Point Chevalier.

Mr J. H. Robertson. Official Assignee at Christchurch, has received notice of the appointment as Registrar of the Waikato-Maniopoto and Tokerau Native Land Court districts, and will leave Christchurch shortly to take up the new position in Auckland. Mr Robertson has be6n Official Assignee in Bankruptcy at Christchurch for the last six years, and has been one of the most popular officers in the Puolic Service in the city. He will leave for Auckland on February 15. Pending the appointment of a successor to Mr Robertson, Mr A. H. Gibson, of the Magistrate’s Court staff, Christchurch, will act as the Official Assignee. Varicose Veins.—We have just received from London by parcel post, a fresh supply of new elastic stocking for varicose veins. They are thin and light in weight, specially strong and are invisible under silk hose. Each stocking is specially tested before leaving the English factory and carries a guarantee from the maker. Note thi brand. “Longlife.” Price 15'- a pair all sizes, dold only by E. C. Ayres Ltd., chemists. 78 Stafford Stree: South. Timaru Catarrh.—Nasal catarrh is dangerous as well as unpleasant. It induces physical and mental dullness, undermines your health, and if neglected leads to serious throat troubles, deafness, bronchitis, and stomach catarrh We have a remedy for this complaint, called Catarrhine, the prescription of a well-known London specialist. After using this remedy for a short time the head noises, deafness, constant spitting, dizziness and catarrhal headaches all permanently disappear. Price 3/6. one month’s treatment, from E. C Ayres, Ltd., chemists, Stafford Street South, Timaru