News From All Sources

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 125, 28 October 1930, Page 2

News From All Sources

Hotel Tarffs Reduced. One of the signs of the times in Sydney is the reduction of hotel charges, .says the Melbourne Argus. Not for malt and spirituous beverages, it is necessary to explain, but for bed and breakfast. Astute hotelkeepers and hotel companies are facing tile situation in the only intelligent way. They know they cannot expect the volume of country trade, as heretofore, unless they offer, special inducements. Even then the results may not be equal to those of past years. A Runaway Trotter. A trotting horse harnessed to a racing sulky bolted from the Harp of Erin, at Ellerslie recently. It went down the back streets to Onehunga, and when turning out of lower Albert Street into Princess Street it stumbled and fell. Regaining its feet, it continued up Princess Street, across Queen Street and along the Onehunga beach road and the esplanade, right up to Hillsboro’, where it was finally halted, after travelling about seven miles. Control of Motor Boats. Provision for the control of outboard motor boats is to be included in the first Harbours Amendment Bill introduced into Parliament, stated the Minister of Marine in a letter received at a recent meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board. Following the receipt of many complaints from the public during the summer months, the board has been communicating with the Marine Department on the subject, but the nature of the legislation to be introduced has not yet been stated. Care with Vacuum Cleaners. Mr. A. E. Moss, electrical engineer, stated at Monday’s meeting of the Stratford Borough Council e that a fatality had been reported in the press resulting from a vacuum cleaner beingused to ch an a motor-car. Many people had these cleaners, on which a leakage of current could easily occur; and if a person was standing on the earth.when there was such a leak ho would have little chance of letting the instrument go. He thought people should be warned against using vacuum cleaners outside houses unless specially designed for the purpose. Ten Shilling Notes Scarcer. The scarcity of ten shilling notes is being felt rather severely by shopkeepers (says the Christchurch Times). Tobacconists are particularly bitter against their withdrawal. One city tobacconist stated that on a recent evening he was called on to give away almost £lO worth of silver in the quarter-hour after 5 o'clock. “People come in to buy something worth a shilling, and tender a pound note,” he said. “Luckily we were prepared for it, but it means carrying more than twice as much change as we usually do.” A Good Screw-Driver. “They did not take it away at all. A man came and did something to. it with a screw-driver,” said Mr J. H. Burnet at a meeting of the trustees of the Wanganui Museum, when a letter’ was received from the power board stating that the meter at the museum had been removed, tested, and found correct. Mr Burnet said that the present month’s bill was about half as much as that for the previous month. “About that screwdriver,” remarked one of the trustees facetiously, “we would like the recipe.” Doctors’ Motor Cars. A suggestion that motor cars used by doctors should be fitted with a special badge to distinguish them, so that allowances might be made for them being parked for longer than the time permitted when the new parking restrictions come into force next year, was discussed at a meeting of the council of the Auckland Automobile Association. Dr. Lawry said local medical men intended approaching the City Council on the matter and the association decided to support them. A Rude Awakening. “Buy British Goods!” The slogan must have been heard in almost every home in New Zealand, yet very little notice appears to be taken of it as the following Invercargill example, following so closely on New Zealand Industries Week, indicates: Recently a little girl who resides in the city celebratecj a birthday, when she was the recipient of 15 gifts from her young friends. The parents later were looking at the presents and discovered to their astonishment that 12 of the 15 articles were made in Germany and the other three in Japan.