BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 June 1932, Page 4

BREEZES

Worth Patenting. “So that new girl of yours is lu/y?” “Lazy! Why, the other morning I caught her putting popcorn into the pancakes to make them turn over them-, selves.” - w'-" ■ ' i * * The Helping Hand! Oswald (writing a letter to his f iend): “Dear Bob, you know I love Louise, but her father objects to our marriage, and if she can’t be mine I’ll surely have to commit suicide. What do you advise?” His friend answered: “Carbolic acid, old man.” * * * * Low Food Prices. The London correspondent of the “Intransigeant,” Paris, recently expressed astonishment at the low cost of living in Britain, where butter and eggs cost half as much as in France. He cited various prices, and then exclaimed, perhaps, enviously: And these are the current rates in London, even though the pound is 96f. ” Britain’s “black week” of September, 1931, has served, lie declared, to shake England out of her somnolent state. “Her eyes are wide open,” he adds. “To-day everyone understands that the well-being of all depends on the well-being of each.” * * * * New Zealand’s Example. New Zealand orehardists are held up to the rest of the world as an example of great progress in improving methods. The London ‘ ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ ’ stateslt is difficult,to get many of our growers to open their eyes to the fact that it pays to improve methods of cultivation, gathering, packing and grading. An object-lesson is provided by New Zealand. With fewer trees in bearing, the export of apples this season is estimated at about 250,000 bushels more than last year, as a result of care in cultivation.” * * * * The Adventurous Sex! “Women form 75 per cent of the passengers on excursion trains,” said a railway official to a Christchurch “Sun” reporter. “They seem to have more go in them than men, and they are, in a sense, more adventurous than men. If it were not for the women passengers, it probably wouldn’t pay to run excursion trains at all.” This view was borne out by the secretary of a, Christchurch tramping club, who said that the majority of the members of his club were women. They were keener on walking than men, and vere more willing to put up with some discomfort- on a tramp. Mountaineering was a different matter, of course, 'but here women again were beginning to show their prowess in climbing the more difficult New Zealand peaks. * * * * Destruction of Deer.

Two of the Government parties which have been engaged on deer destruction for some months have concluded operations and met at Hanmer Springs, says a Christchurch newspaper. The parties have covered a largo area of country. One, headed by Mr J. McNair, worked on the north-west side of the Spenser Range; the other party, headed by Mr K. E. Francis, worked on the south side of the same range. McNair’s party penetrated into some rough country, the men carrying tents and supplies on their backs for the greater part of the trip. The other party was more fortunate, being enabled to use packhorses. Between them the shooters accounted for about 4009 deer, in addition to the badly-wounded -which got away and would ultimately die. As was to be expected, the deer were more numerous in the • country least accessible to the tourist stalker, this being the case on the area at the head of the Alfred River in the Maruia country. Where it wa,s possible to do so, the skins were saved and brought out where opportunity offered. The parties were met at HanmeT Springs by Captain Ycrex, organiser for the department.