NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21088, 14 July 1938, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

A jumble sale will be held to-morrow in the Wentworth Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in aid of Y.W.C.A. funds.

His Worship the Mayor is in receipt of cheque for £192, being part proceeds of “Stroke of Luck’’ Art Union towards the Mayor’s Community Benevolent Fund.

While walking along the beach at Blaketown, Greymouth, on Monday, Mrs Fagerlund, of Guinness Street, found a lump of ambergris which weighed 11b 81oz. The ambergris has been sent to Christchurch for sale. The Customs Department at Wellington is at present confronted with an unusual problem in classifying for duty purposes a “musical saw” imported by a Wellington resident. Although to outward appearance the saw is an ordinary article of hardware, it can be played as a musical instrument, using a type of bow and two small hammers. As a musical instrument the saw would be assessed at a considerably higher duty than if it was admitted as an article of ha ’dware. “Previously we were able to hold our social evenings for £3 15/- to £4. but expenses now amount to about £6.’ said Mr E. P. J. Trevena, chief of the South Auckland Caledonian Society, at the annual meeting. With the charges now being enforced by the Musicians’ Union, and other increased costs, it was difficult to provide a social evening without a loss, Mr Trevena said. He added that the society was not the only body to suffer as the situation had to be faced by every dance hall proprietor. An example oi the efforts made by Americans to complete a job in as short a period as posible was seen by Mr J. R. McKenzie, of Christchurch, while attending the Rotary Convention at San Francisco last month as the delegate of the Christchurch Rotary Club. “The Municipal Auditorium building is to be used as the Hall of Friendship.” states Mr McKenzie in a letter to the

club. “The medical conference has just been held in this buildings, and this conference was finished the day before Rotary started. It was necessary to have everything removed and redecorated for th? Rotary Convention. Two hundred and fifty men were put on for

the job, and in 48 hours they had it completely redecorated. There are more than 2000 rose plants, trees, and shrubs of every description. Such decorations I have never seen before. This is the only building which will accommodate the vast crowd that will attend the President’s ball, and it will be necessary to remove the whole of these decorations for to-night’s ball, when they will be replaced again for Wednesday night.”

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