NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21065, 17 June 1938, Page 13

NEWS AND NOTES

“If I were looking for some other place to live than New Zealand.” said Mr Edgar Harper at the Wellington Rotary Club luncheon, “I think I would go to California, or after that to the Hawaiian Islands. House property is only half or at most two-thirds of tne price it is here, and fruits of all kinds are at least as cheap, if not cheaper than here all the year round, while other facilities are on a par. The bottom has fallen out of the Californian orange market. You can buy oranges at ten cents a dozen, or from three to five cents apiece for superlative fruit.” It struck him as remarkable that there was a network of long-distance bus routes all over the country, which charged much lower fares than the railways. It was pleasing to see that in the clothing trade British goods, such as woollens and worsteds, were getting a better hearing, while London was more and more being taken as the model for men’s clothing. In the case of women, however, Los Angeles led in the fashions. The quality of the rebottled liquor was very poor. Morton and Co. Ltd. will hold their weekly auction of poultry, wheat, potatoes, furniture, etc. to-day in the mart commencing at 12.30 p.m. At 1 p.m. they will sell by auction a Chevrolet tourer 1928 model in perfect running order. The car is registered and must be sold to-day. A suggestion that Anzac Day be declared “closed” at noon was made at the annual meeting of the Brooklyn auxiliary of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association. One member said that if the day was declared closed at noon business could be resumed in the afternoon, as was done in Australia. Mr E. C. Hale, a member of the committee of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association, said it was really too late to refer the question to the Returned Soldiers’ Association conference this year, but that it could be held over for further consideration.

To-day at 1.30 p.m. at the Wentworth Auction Mart, Runciman Pryor Ltd. will hold a sale of piano, furniture, pictures, linoleum, carpets, etc.

"Boys to-day are bottling beer in one brewery in town, and it is not right,” ‘said Mr H. E. Denton, when the employment of youths in breweries was under discussion in Conciliation Council on Monday. The assessors for the Brewers’ and Maltsters’ Union contending that public opinion would support them, claimed that it was as contrary to principle for a youth to be employed in a brewery as it was for him to be on licenced premises. It was provisionally agreed that the employers’ claim to employ one youth to every four men should apply only to the Dominion Yeast Company, and there only in the bottling of vinegar.

H. Allchurch and Co. will sell at their rooms, The Rialto at 2.30 p.m. to-day under instructions from the mortgagee that beautiful two storeyed brick residence situated 98 North Street. Their usual weekly sale will be held commencing at 12 o’clock with poultry and pigs.

A suggestion that the Christchurch City Council accept a bronze bust of Mr T. E. Taylor, a former Mayor of the city, was considered by the council on Monday. The suggestion was made in a letter by Mr R. B. Owen, who asked the council to accept the bust on condition that it was placed in the outer wall of the old City Council Chambers, now occupied by the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. It was reported to the council that the consent of the Chamber of Comerce, which was required to the proposal, had been given, and the council decided to refer the proposal to its works committee for consideration.

Built for carrying passengers and mails between steamers in the roadstead at Nauru Island and the shore, a fast 28-foot motor-boat will be launched from the yards of Messrs Collings and Bell (Auckland), in the next few days. The boat, which is to the order of the British Phosphate Commission, is of unusual- design and construction. It has to negotiate the surfbound gap in the reef and when not in use is to be hoisted in davits near the loading cantilever. To minimise the risk of swamping, the boat is divided by transverse watertight bulkheads into four compartments. The forward one is for mails, the next for the helmsman, the third for the engine, and the r.fter one for the accommodation of about 12 passengers. In view of the arduous service, the boat is of exceptionally strong construction. Her speed will be about 16 knots. The boat will be taken to Nauru Island shortly in one of the commission’s phosphate ships.

“This is the forty-fourth divorce I have heard since yesterday morning.” said Mr Justice Reed in the Supreme Court at Auckland, on Tuesday, when issuing a decree nisi. “It is the twenty-second in which there are no children born of the marriage. I make no comment. I just state the fact.’’

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Rheumatism.—Rumatox is a scientific remedy for rheumatism. Don’t go on suffering with aching, swollen u oints. Rumatox will effectually rout from your system the poisons that cause the trouble. Even in long standing cases it reduces the swelling quickly and restores the system to c. healthy condition. It is just as effective for gout, lumbago, sciatica and neuritis. Price 2/6 and 4/j bottle, postage 6d e;.tra. From E. Q. Ayres, Ltd., chemists, 78 Stafford Street South, Timaru