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Wairarapa Age, 24 May 1928, Page 4

At the Magistrate’s Court at Timaru yesterday the proprietor of a local furmituro establishment was fined £3 for a breach of Setcion 41 of the Gaming Act, 1908. To advertise his business defendant had offered to give any piece of furniture in his shop to the winner of a lottery. No charge was maoe for entry. One proprietor of the newspapers which published details of the lottery, was fined £I.—(P.A.) Urging at the Empire Week luncheon yesterday that British women should rely upon British and not upon foreign art in matters of dress, Mrs 8. Fletcher told a story that .gave quaint emphasis to her appeal. Once, in journeying along a road near Bulawayo, she met a couple of Matebele warriors who looked magnificent in their native garb, each of them wearing a leopard skin and carrying several shining assegais. Soon afterwards she met a Matebele chief who a was proudly conscious of being fashionably dressed. Ke wore a white dressed shirt, a silk top hat, each a beautiful specimen of its kind, and nothing else. Mrs Fletcher took credit for the fact that she was able to exchange polite salutations with the chief and hold her laughter until he was safely out of hearing.