NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20638, 29 January 1937, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

To-day at 1.30 p.m. at Wentworth Auction Mart, Messrs Runciman, Pryor, Ltd., will offer by public auction on account of Public Trustee as adminstrator estate late Alexander Ernest Green (deceased) his household furniture, carpenter’s and . garden tools, Zaney Gill radio, etc.; also at same time one Essex four-door sedan motor-car. Morton and Co. Ltd., will sell today in.their modern mart on account of Mrs J. Goldie and others a large entry of furniture and sundries. Astonishment at the number of Australians and New Zealanders who get “gloriously blind” at private parties was expressed by Viscount and Viscountess Dillon, in an interview at Adelaide on the liner Narkunda, on which they were returning to England after a holiday tour of New Zealand and Australia. The one idea at parties of Antipodeans, even those who should know better, is in popular parlance, “a glorious blind,” they declared. “Such a thing would not be tolerated in English private houses. Guests there are expected to ’carry their liquor.’ If they don’t, they are not asked again. In England a man may become ‘tight’ at a regimental dinner, club dinner, or night club, but at anyone else’s house he must never drink more than he can carry. It simply is not done.” Except on the subject of drinking at private houses, a fault which they think the people will outgrow, they had little but praise for New Zealanders and Australians. Their views, summarised, are: They are likeable, pleasantly-spoken, wellmannered; they generally do not take the same pride in their appearance or in their homes as. do English people. Trains will be. running between Napier and Wairoa, on the East Coast route, by the end of July next, according to estimates formed by Public Works and railway officials from the remarkable progress which has been

made lately with work of rehabilitating and completing that section of the line. Although there are other relatively minor works to be completed the entire project is really governed (says a Napier correspondent) by progress on the Mohaka viaduct, which was the principal single undertaking left unfinished when the work was suspended in 1931, and which when completed will be the largest structure of its kind in the southern hemisphere. According to present calculations the viaduct will be completed in another six months—a good deal earlier than was originally planned. The same period will suffice for the completion of other minor works as well as for clearing and restoring the balance of the permanent way which had been laid before 1931. Progress with the viaduct itself has been remarkable. It is only a few months since the concrete foundations on the sides of the gorge and caissons standing out from the river Itself were the only signs that a great engineering work had been started and abandoned. To-day piers and huge spans of steel towering more than 300 ft above the river level foreshadow the early completion of an immense undertaking.

Keep Away All Germs.—We specially recommend Formalin Lavender as a spray for rooms and closed motor cars Price 1/-, 2/- bottle. Sprays for using this can be obtained ircm us, price 1/6, 2/- and 2/6. Stewart’s disinfectant Is the most powerful germicide to put in the drains and sprinkle arounr the yard It has a pleasant smell and is highly effective as a killer of germs. Price 1/- large bottle or 7/6 gallon tin. Any of these articles sent post or rail free. E. C. Ayres, Ltd., chemists. 78 tafford St. South, Timaru

Keep free from all Germ- by using any of the following: lodised throat tablets 1/6 bottle, antiseptic throat tablets 6d and 1/6 tin, formalin throat tablets 1/6, germosal gargle 2/-, antiseptic nasal drops 1/6 eucalyptu.- 6d and 1/-, antiseptic throat spray 2/-, camphor 2d, 4d and 8d block, permanganate of potash as a gargle 6d end 1/packet. We deliver any of these articles to any part of the town or suburbs without any extra charge. No extra charge if posted to the country. E. C Ayres, Ltd., chemists, 78 Stafford Street South, Timarq ....