LOCAL & GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXV, Issue 6, 23 July 1937, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Tuesday next is Waipawa’s visiting day at Pukeora Sanatorium. Gifts and delicacies may be left at Mrs Mason's.*

The schools of the district will reopen on Monday after the special week’s holiday arranged to enable members of the teaching staffs to attend the New Education Fellowship lectures at Wellington. Breakfast foods—4’s Diamond rolled oats, Is 8d; loose rolled oats, 4d lb. or 31b. for lid; s’s oatmal, Is Bd, loose, 4d lb. or 31b. for lid; Creamoata, Is 9d packet.—Bryant’s.* A huge octopus with tentacles 22 feet long came' ashore near Petone yesterday morning, apparently in a dying condition. It is the biggest ever known in Wellington waters and of a size very rare outside the tropics. It had been beaten by the waves and it is not likely to remain long as a spectacle. It has been photographed, and this is the only record likely to survive its decease.

Men’s fleecy-lined lumber jackets, and are we selling them? Shades of bottle, maroon, and grey and brown check, 4s lid to 7s lid. The most serviceable garment for work.— D. H. Edwards, Ltd.* The Palmerston North Hospital Board was somewhat startled when it was advised by the Funeral Furnishers’ Association that all charitable aid funerals in future would cost £7 10s plus Is a mile each way, when a hearse was required to travel beyond the city boundary. In view of the fact that the Board paid only £1 19s (including mileage) for the year just ending, members were at a loss to discover a reason for the sudden large increase. It was decided to bring the matter under the notice of the Minister of Health. Boys’ navy flannel shirts. Special prices to clear. Sale price 5s lid to 8s lid.—Bryant’s Sale.* “I think it is a terrible thing to say that when other countries are going ahead we have to go back: to No. 5 scheme,” said Mr T. McNab, Mayor of Mount Eden, at a. meeting of the Council, in commenting on an application for work for 25 men for eight months under the Government’s new scheme of subsidy at the rale of £4 a. week for married men. “To-day there are about 8000 men out of work in Auckland, and the position is as bad as it was at the peak of the depression. It is a disgrace to the administration. They are making a terrible mess of it, ’ ’ added Mr McNab. Nestle’s malted milk, the ideal beverage for young and old, Jib. tins Is (id, lib. tins 2s 9d each; Ovaltine, Is 4d, 2s sd, 4s 2d; Aulsebrook’s drinking chocolate, Is tin. —Bryant’s.* It is the desire of the present Government that everything possible should be donetto provide satisfactory maternity services, not only for the women in the towns but in the remote country districts as well. The Hon. the Minister of Health has, therefore, appointed the Committee of Inquiry into Maternity Services in New Zealand, and is desirous that every organisation or person who has any information or suggestions that may be of value should have the opportunity of interviewing the committee. All interested persons are urged Ho communicate at once with the secretary, so that sufficient time may be allowed for all concerned to have the opportunity of meeting the committee at the various places it will visit. Particulars regarding the place and date of sitting are advertised elsewhere in this issue. Back to school, Monday. Stock up at Bryant's sale. Boots and shoes at special prices.-—Bryant’s Sale.* The Cabinet has decided to provide £2500 a year for three years for the work of the New Zealand Radio Re-

; search Committee, which was appointed recently by the Government. This is mentioned in a report presented to ’ the Minister in charge of the Depart- ! ment of Scientific and Industrial Rej search, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, by ! the chairman of the Departmental council, Professor H. G. Denham. The committee, which has already started its work, will concentrate on three main lines of investigation. These are:—Research on the ionosphere, which is the dominant factor in the transmission of wireless signals to distant points; research on the reception of distant signals, involving measurements of direction of arrival, angle of incidence and polarisation, more particularly of European short-wave signals, with special reference to British Broadcasting Corporation transmissions; research on the ground attenuation of waves under New Zealand conditions. Drink coffee for health! Thrift coffee essence, Is bottle; Big Value coffee essence, Is bottle; Symmington’s, Is and Is lOd bottle; Strang's soluble coffee, Is 5d tin.—Bryant’s.* Navy school raincoats. Fleecylined. Sale price 12s 6d to 19s (id. Sou’-westers to match, 3s (id each.— Bryant’s Sale.* Men’s warm wool dressing gowns. Smart checks and self shades. These are not a luxury, but a necessity for the winter, and they’re made in England. Only 47s 6d, at D. H. Edwards, Ltd.* “Health is Wealth!” Nobody can do well unless they feel well, and you can’t feel well unless you feed well. The “Trocadero” (Napier) supplies good food, well cooked), and plenty of it, The “Trocadero” is open Sundays and holidays.? Eutoca honey, small jars Is each, refills lOd each, medium jars Is Bd, refills Is 5d each, large jars 2s 6d, . refills 2s each; honey in the comb, Is . eaeh.—Bryant’s.*