News in Brief

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 683, 9 February 1933, Page 8

News in Brief

Capitalising a Mishap. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has donated the propeller damaged in the Southern Cross's landing at Palmerston North on Saturday to the local aero club. He gave it for the benefit of the local unemployed and other deserving purposes. It is proposed to cut the propeller into sections, which will be autographed by Sir Charles. By this means it is expected a large sum will be raised. * Poultry from Britain. In a spacious cage 'on the after deck of the liner Rotorua, which arrived at Auckland from London this week, were three aristocratic birds which have been consigned to a South Island poultry fancier. They were Black Hamburgs, a cockerel and two pullets, and all three were pedigree birds. In spite of the fact that the Rotorua was seven weeks at sea, and in the tropics for the greater part of that time, the birds stood the journey perfectly. Flourmilling Industry. The depression has not affected the flourmilling industry in Australia as much as other industries, according to Mr G. Gillespie, managing director of Gillespie Bros., Ltd., flourmillers, of Sydney, in an interview w ith a ellingtoil newspaper man. Mr Gillespie said that last year Australia started to export wheat and flour to the East, and as a result millers were kept very busy. Although wheat was bringing low prices, the grower also had benefited considerably by the opening up of this new market.