NEWS AND

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21001, 1 April 1938, Page 10

NEWS AND

To-day Morton and Co.. Ltd. will hold their weekly sale commencing at 9.30 with fruit (heavy consignments of apples and peaches, tomatoes, etc., which must be cleared.) At 12.30 p.m. the poultry will be sold to be followed by a Mart sale of furniture, including two three-piece suites, chesterfields, easy chairs, dining and bedroom furniture. This furniture must be cleared as a heavy entry is expected next week. At 2.15 p.m. a property on account of a deceased estate will be offered. The property is at Washdyke and full particulars were in yesterday’s issue.

To-day at 1.30 p.m. at the Wentworth Auction Mart Runciman Pryor, Ltd. will hold a sale of office safe, desks, carpets, furniture, piano, ranges, and general household furniture, etc.

H. Allchurch and Co. advertise a very big fist for their Rialto sale to-day, commencing at 10 o’clock with hundreds of cases of fruit. At 12 o’clock with poultry and pigs. At 1.30 they will sell a Cooper & Duncan 13-coulter drill, also a quantity of roofing iron and other lines. At 2.15 they are selling on account of a client a quantity of superior household furniture and effects. Details will be seen in the auction columns.

A pause in his speech inserted at the wrong moment brought temporary discomfort to the Hon. Adam Hamilton (Leader of the Opposition) when addressing a political meeting in Hastings. Mr Hamilton was criticising the Labour Party when he remarked: “If there are any evils in this country, I am one—.” Here the pause became evident and the audience broke into laughter. “You got a good laugh at my expense that time,” good-humouredly observed the speaker, who finished by saying he was one who felt that these evils must be removed.

“We are tending to superficialities when we try to reform our conditions; even this society is an ambulance at the foot of the cliff rather than a barrier at the top,” said Miss P. M. P. Clark, principal of the Christchurch Girls’ High School, speaking the decay of home life in New Zealand at the annual meeting on Wednesday of the Canterbury branch of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children. “The first need is spiritual health. I do not feel that we can get at the root of things without a very definite system of reconstruction and help from those who are specially trained to give that help.”