The Waipawa Mail FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 20 February 1925, Page 2

The Waipawa Mail FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The centres at which the teachers refresher courses will be held are notified in this issue.

Ninety applications under the Mortgages Final Extension Act, 1924, are set down for hearing at the Supreme Court session in Napier. While the Health Department's regulations regarding the epidemic are in force there will he no Methodist Church services at Ruataniwlni. Mr E. A. Caerlyon-Bennett, teacher of singing, will be in Waipawa on Tuesday, 24th inst., and may be interviewed at Mrs Swain’s studio.* An assortment of ladies’ cotton vests, in short sleeves and sleeveless. Prices from Is fid to 5s fid. Can be seen at Bryant ’%s during sale.* At the meeting of the Waipukurau Borough Council on Monday evening authority was given to rnisd £I4OO and £250 to complete the theatre, and also to levy special rates.

For spare parts for dinner sets, tea sets,, odd cups and saucers, plates, Mason jar lids, teapot lids, mustard pats, etc., try Bryant’s.*

Extensive alterations arc contemplated by the Railway Department in (ho running of the Napier-Wellington express train. It is also proposed to give direct one-day communication between Napier and New Plymouth. Mien's sports suits! We stand alone for variety in men’s sports suits. All well cut and well made, ranging from 52s fid to 79s fid.—D. H. Edwards and Co. 11 Amongst the civil actions set down for hearing at the Supreme Court sittings at Napier commencing next Tuesday, is one in which William Clark is claiming £4(15 from Hector Owen Dillon and Percy Edmund Dillon as a share of beneficiary under the will of the late A. Dillon.

While playing “Isolde” at the Liverpool Olympia, Rosina Buckman, the talented New Zealand singer, was waving a torch as a signal to “Tristan” when her silk dress ignited. Luckily she was near the wings and an attendant enveloped her in a wrapper and suppressed the flames. The dress was destroyed, hut Miss Buckman was unburned. It was a miracle she was not burned to death before the tiudience. “Traversing the distance the Main Trunk does, oil a narrow gauge, I think the railway and the comfort of travel on it are a credit to the engineers who designed it and the Department that administers it,” declared the Hon. J. Jelley, M.L.C., Leader of the Legislative Council and Chief Secretary of South Australia, who is visiting Wellington. “If anyone who condemns the Main Trunk would compare it with the AdelaidcMelbonrne journey, on the ln-oad gauge, they would appreciate what I mean,” ho said. “In New Zealand, yon have the one-buffer trains, which are noiseless from that source; the two-buffer system makes such noise that it is practically impossible to sleep. ’ ’ Men’s Palmer Nap trousers! Another big swag just arrived, and although the wholesale price has advanced, we are still selling them at 10s fid per pair. Undoubtedly the best working trousers on the market. —D. H. Edwards and Co.*

The following programme will he given by the Municipal Bond to-mor-row night, commencing at 7 o’clock: March, “San Lorenzo” (C. Silva); song, “Sing Me to Sleep” (Edwin Green); waltz, “Three O’clock in the Morning” (J. Robledo); intermezzo, “Secrets” (C. Aneliffe); selection, “Kenilworth” (M. Ravner); march, “Young Recruit” (G. Southwell); God Save the King. We are showing a range of cotton crepe de chine with becoming stripes. Usual price 4s 6d. Reduced to 3s 9d. Bryant’s sale.* Two of the Titnaru Borough Council's by-laws fixing the maximum speeds round corners at six miles per hour and across street intersections at eight miles per hour were upset by Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court at Titnaru last week. From his own experience in 1920, he was satisfied, he said, that a car going at four or six miles an hour was not under proper control. He would have to hold that the bylaw setting out the maximum speed at six miles per hour round corners was unreasonable, and therefore ultra vires.

A ear is only as good as the spirit in the tank. Fill the tank with “Gold Crown Gasoline” and get the best out of your engine. “Gold Crown” is always obtainable at Bryant’s.* The enormous spread of prickly pear in Queensland and other parts of Australia has often been commented upon. It is of interest to note (hat a company is being promoted in Australia which claims to possess the formula of a secret poison which kills off the prickly pear. The process appears to be a machine which crushes the growing prickly pear and at the same time sprinkles it with poison, which prevents further growth. One machine can dear eight acres per day at a cost of 20s per acre. Already an area of 317 acres at Musswellbrook is stated to have been successfully cleared, and is now under crop. A point to be considered is whether the same process, if adopted in New Zealand, would eliminate furze and blackberry, and thus open for cultivation large areas 'occupied at present by those noxious weeds.

Just a few let! in youths’ white drill helmets at 3s, and men’s Panama hats reduced to 7s (id. Sale now on at Bryant’s.*

The Railway Department has been losing a large amount of revenue in its dining rooms since the inception of the “Limited” express service between Wellington and Auckland. At Martou Junction, writes the travelling reporter of the Wanganui “Herald,” only about half the number of people are having meals, compared with the number at this time last year. Night travelling has eliminated, to a large extent, the eating and drinking linbil so prevalent on the Main Trunk al one time, and maybe in that direction some good is being done, in that scores of people with weak digestive organs, but who cannot resist the tinkle of the tea hell as the train rushes into the different stations where tea is served, are at least giving their stomachs a rest from over-feeding. Ladies’ D. and C. corsets, stocked in all sizes, and also D. and A. elastic girdle corsets. Prices 12s fid and 21s at Bryant’s.*

Since the wireless telephone, the first of its kind in New Zealand, has been installed at the Mansion House, Kawau, it lias proved of great convenience to the general public and shipping (states the “New Zealand Herald”). Recently the Government launch, en route to the various lighthouses with mails, had occasion to use the station. The launch was compelled to call in at Kawau to shelter at 2 o’clock in the morning on its way to call relief front the mainland to a ease of sickness, the lighthouse-keeper at Cuvier Island being seriously ill. Had the plant not been installed it would have meant serious delay, owing to the fact (hat (he nearest telephone was a considerable distance off. As it was, immediate connection was made with the authorities in Auckland, and a steamer was despatched to the lighthouse without delay. Recently the Kawau station spoke to a steamer off Lyttelton Heads, a distance of 550 miles. It is stated the speech was as clear as if talking through a telephone across Queen street. “Marmite” makes delicious sandwiches—both wholesome and appetising. “Marmite” is a product of the Sanatarium Health Food Company. “Marmite” takes the place of meat —and is obtainable in all sizes at Bryant’s, the health food specialists.*