NEWS AND NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

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Amongst the new registered is Cleary's, Limited, men’s outtitters, Hamilton. Capital, £2OOO, divided into £1 shares. Subseribers, John Domonic Cleary, 1950 shares; and Henrietta Cleary, 50 shares.

“I noticed in the ‘Looking Back’ column of the Guardian the other day that 25 years ago over 20 new members were elected to the association at one meeting,” said Mr W. J. Doak (president of the Ashburton A. and P. Association) the other afternoon when calling for new members (reports the Guardian). “But you will find the sons of all those men yvorking in the town noyv,” said a member. “They are of the ‘collar and tie’ crowd. The old days yvere the days, when there yvas more slogging done than now.”

Possibly the most forward move that has ever been made by that progressive body, the Napier Shopping Week Committee, is to be made in connection with Napier Shopping Week this year. Arrangements have been made for the running of a special free train from Hastings to Napier on the Wednesday.

Although most people are ayvare of the fact, for the benefit of others wo wish to draw your attention to the first-class small goods service handled by E. T. lla'les, Butcher, Victoria Street, 'phone 14-13. Brayvns, luncheon sausage, saveloys, black -puddings, hums, etc., are always available.

Nearly every farmer in the Waikato realises the necessity of medicines, not only for the family but for the protection of his stock. He knows too well that his reliable “medicine 'chest” is Baillies' Ltd., Chemists, Hamilton. A ring to 1626 will connect him where he is sure to procure the most efficacious veterinarian remedies.

Undcr-yvater radio tests off Hatteras and Beaufort, North Carolina, have been temporarily abandoned, due to the noise the oysters yvere making. The first time that oysters interfered yvith radio tests yvas off the Pacific. Now the Atlantic oysters appear to have joined in the common resentment against interference. The sound caused by the oysters is described as “humming.” Summer days are not -too far ahead. Do you remember tile fun you had last summer—river trips, a day at the beach, or a drive into the country? Put more sunshine into the coming days by becoming the owner of a Columbia or “H.M.V.” Portable Gramophone. Easy terms arc being offered by L. V. Martin and Go., Ltd., Victoria Street, Hamilton. The necessity for the production of plenty of volume yvas brought forcibly i before the notice of the competitors at j the Gisborne competitions on a recent j night (states the Poverty Bay Herald), I yvhen Mr Cyril Toyvsey, judge of the musical items, mentioned that during the afternoon he had extreme difficulty in hearing some of the voices in a certain section. The majority, he said, had no voice at all. They appeared to be singing something, but not one word of yvhat yvas being sung reached him in the dress circle. The characterisations were good, but this yvas of no use if iie could not hear the songs. Have you had your ride in the neyv Ford? Call on the Ford Sales, Collingwood Street, to-day and let us hear your opinion on this great car. The Polish Cabinet has ratified its concession to the Harriman group for the yvorking of certain rnctal foundries. A gallon jar of a Sharpe Bros’ beverage is yvortli an ocean -of anything else. Ring 1594 and set our delivery department in motion. The success of the aeroplane auxiliary mail service from the liner lie de France lias been recognised by the British Post Office authorities. They have consequently accepted a mail for America by that service. This vyill be marked “catapult air mail.” Half-a-croyvn per half ounce yvill be charged in addition to ordinary postage. Lampshades and cushions in fine variety at "Minell,” Ward Street, where -the price is always right. A very unusual accident occurred not long ago in the Camberwell Neyv Road, near Pennington Oval, London, a syveep knocking a brick off a chimney and sending it to the pavement. Nobody .was hurt. There’s a yvealth of power in a single jar of Boyd’s Spring Ointment. “The -ointment that heals.” Antiseptic, curative, unrivalled. 1/0 jar, Boyd’s Chemist, Hamilton East. Hearing, as a rule, is more acute with the right ear than yvit-h the left. The Manchester Corporation has restricted flag days to 12 yveek-ends a year. It*is just about this time of the year -that one needs a jar of Boyd's Spring Ointment. Procurable only from J. 11. Boyd, Chemist, Hamilton East. Hundreds of bees escaped at Euston station, London, from the boxes they yvere travelling in. We arc sole Waikato Agents for Avery Scales. Any class ol’ scales adjusted or repaired; reasonable charges -—• Iremonger and _ Evans, Frankton Junction, ’phone 2887. In the Wieliczka salt mines, at Cracow, Poland, there are altars shrines, and statues made of salt. The rule of the road has just been altered from left to right in Portugal.

A resident of Newtown, Sydneycomplained to the , local council that Liberty Street wels R- dangerous plo.ee for pedestrians. Owing to their haying easy access to heaps of blue metal, with which the road was being repaired, children were making things lively for passers-by, who were m danger of being injured. Council decided to refer the matter to the contractors. •

From the day we first opened our premises our aim to give complete satisfaction in all classes of footwear repairing has always succeeded. J. Roseman, Footwear Repairer, Victoria Street North.

“You cannot use a demonstration car on Sundays for social purposes, and if a salesman took me out in such a car with a view to a sale he would be liable for trading on Sunday,” said Mr C. R. Orr-Waiker, S.M., to a witness in the Timaru Magistrate's Court the other morning.

“One of the best staffs Riversdale has ever had,” remarked the chairman of the Joll Dairy Factory when a vote of appreciation was proposed to the manager and staff at its recent meeting (reports the Hawera Star). “They know their work all right,” he added.

There is now great activity amongst amateur gardeners, all striving to eclipse their respective .effort of pre-: vious seasons, and certainly as a result of observation, a good season is promised. Essential to garden success are suitable implements. Make sure by pro-curing them from the Prime Hardware .Co., Ltd., Victoria Street, 'phone 1862.

Last night our house was plunged into gloom. No! the lights didn t fail. The gramophone spring broke. We took it to the repair expert, B. 0 Bergersen, “The Byko,” 351 Victoria Street, who fixed the trouble in short lime and at moderate cost. If the ocean were dried up the quantity of salt remaining yvould be enough to cover 5,000,000 square miles with a layer one mile thick.

The tvpe of theft commonly known as “shop lifting” is generally confined to the cities, but during the past few weeks several persons who indulge m this undesirable practice have made their appearance in Greymouth and turned their unwelcome .on local tradesman (remarks the Grey River Argus). In one case a mercer had several expensive shirts stolen, and In another instanco an overcoat disappeared. A certain amount of pilfering has also been reported by several grocers.

Tho Lord Great Chamberlain Is an officer who has the peculiar privilege at the coronation of attending tho King in his bedroom. He gives him clothes, and hands the yvater for the King to wash his hands before the banquet. This officer is alloyved £2OO Instead of the furniture of the King’s bedroom, yvhich yvas formerly his property, but he always devotes the money to charity. He is entitled to 40 ells of crimson velvet for his robes, and he receives the gilt basin and the towels used at the coronation.

No matter yvherc you live come to the Grand Cafe, Ward Street. Why ? Because the most deljciou-s fresh fish is sold here. ’Phone 1659.

Aeroplanes yvhich will carry two people, with a compartment for luggage, for about 4d a mile, can now he purchased for £650.

If the Ail Blacks yvere as efficient as tlie all black Tau-piri Coal they yvould never he beaten. W. J. Graham, ’phone 2914, yvill deliver your order.

For some years the annual cost of running the village of Stogumber, in West Somerset, lias been between Is 2d and 2s Gd.

Who first contended that a change was as good as a rest? It is well nigh evident the remark originated from a man or woman who had just had the appearance of the home changed per medium of artistic decoration, and, if the job was well done it whs more than likely executed by \V. 11. Pricker and Son, Painters and Decorators, Ward Street.

Carde’s, Frankton, Ladies' Black Rubber Coats, all sizes, b/11. Boys oilcoats half price.

The Japanese Government has decided that as traquillity has been restored in Manchuria it will recall its 2000 troops from that country.

Save money 1 Mend your own 'footwear. But be sure to get the leather from W. I. Could, Victoria Street.

At an inquest at Preston (Eng.) on Lieutenant-Colonel P. W r . Baker Young, aged 4 9 years, a Territorial officer, it was stated that he was with four or five other officers, and just before retiring Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Kennedy, of Diversion, offered to give anybody a Hying somersault. Colonel Baker Young bent down, placing bis hands between bis legs, and Colonel Kennedy, seizing ids wrists, lifted him about four feet in the air. He then lost his grip, and Colonel Baker Young feii, his head striking the lloor.

A shopkeeper’s responsibility to a customer who enters his shop was mentioned by Mr E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington in the course of a judgment. The duty of an occupier towards a person who lawfully enters upon Hie premises is to use reasonable care for the safety of that person,” said Mr Page, “lie is bound to use reasonable care in ascertaling any dangers which exist on the premises and lo guard sufficiently against damage accruing therefrom. Tile rule applies not merely to the land or buildings, but also to the chattels thereon."

The name “Spalding” needs no introducing to the public as it lias always set a high standard relative lo sporting goods and accessories. The local sole Agent is Edward Jones, Saddler, Victoria Street. Tennis enquiries are now coming to hand. Repairs and re-stringing receive expert attention here.

Madame Snadon, Dressmaker and Costumier, .right hand stairway above Hooker and Kingston’s, Victoria Street. Any order large or small receives careful and prompt attention. Prices moderate.

“That only shows that about these lighting cases there is a considerable amount of darkness,” was the epigrammatic remark of the magistrate (Mr G. Cruicksbank, S.M.), when a man, charged in the Invercargill Police Court the other morning (reports the Southland Times) with failing to carry lights on his motor-car, explained that lie had made sure that they were in order before he left home and had noticed they were still alight when he returned, yet for some inexplicable reason they had been temporarily extinguished on the journey.

It is one of the most frequent comments by visitors that the appearance of Wellington would bo greatly improved if tlie hills were not in the main bald (relates the Post). This will no longer be a reproach, owing to the excellent work done by the director of parks and reserves (Mr J. G. MacKcnzic). It is generally commented on that everything lie plants thrives, especially the native shrubs and trees. During the last winter 10,000 trees have been planted on different parts of the Town Belt—hardy pines, cypress, w'attles, pohutukawas, ngaios, and karakas —and within a few years the pock-marked appearance of these reserves, due to the planting holes, will give place to many shades of green. Pohutukawas are expected to do well on parts of Mount Victoria. Ten thousand trees have made a very small hole in the director’s nurseries, where there are- still over 70,000 young trees, including GOO pohutukawas.

Make your child’s birthday a success by -ordering some of the famous soft, drinks of J. A. Clark, Cordial Manufacturer, Hincmoa Street. “The deciding point of.any party.”

A Shanghai (China) paper, mill is utilising the. reeds which grow in profusion along the river banks us a raw material, its capacity is about 4b,000.rearnis a year.

A Warsaw message states that an extraordinary -tragedy resulted from a soldier posting five hand grenades to his parents. He suggested that the contents of the parcel yvould be handy for fishing. While the puzzled recipients of the grenades yvere examining them one exploded. They yvere both killed and the house yvas badlydamaged.

The yvorld’s -best artists seem to have congregated in Hamilton, or at least their w-orks are in evidence. At the Devon Art Depot, the yvater colours, etchings and other reproductions are so .plentiful and reasonably priced that, despite the amount you are prepared to spend, you yvill leave this shop, yvhich is situated 235 Victoria Street, well satisfied.

A man yyffio disregards the advice jf his doctor is as foolish as the man yvho is his own layvyer.—Mr Douglas Cowburn, tlie Gamberxvell coroner.

Next time you have a blow-out, puncture or any such similar fate, bring your troubles to the Central Vulcanising Works, Go-Uingwood Street, Hamilton, J. Blackball, Proprietor.

Mr Cairns, the Thames magistrate, to a husband said to have quarrelled w hilc drunk with his wife and her mother: You want all the brains you possess to deal with two women of that relationship. Your wife plus your mother-in-law can do you down sober, much less drunk.

Fashions favourites in latest felt hats. White, grey, toiege and gregc.— Glencoe House.

Mr Registrar Friend at Clerkenwcll County Court to youthful clerk to solicitor: Don't he in a hurry. You may be Lord Chancellor some day, but you have plenty of time yet.

Last few days of School Holiday Sale at Juvenile Band Box, Victoria Street.

It is authoritatively stated that one well known shot accounted for 50,000 wild ducks during his sporting life.

It will not be long before warmer days will bring back memories of tedious cooking in oppressive kitchens under trying conditions. Yet it depends on yourself whether to avoid them or not, for at your service is the •'Belling” Stovettc, which with element oh top and boftom of oven is capable of cooking a full course dinner for five persons. The price demands your inspection at the Hlectrie Construction Co. of New Zealand, Colhngvvood Street, Hamilton.

A Woman to Manchester Magistrate He is a supreme witness. The magistrate told me lo supreme him because he wouldn’t come to court.

We are very often told of square dealings but what about dealings in squares? In fact J lou B et Willey Bros., Furnishers, 17 Rostrevor Street, near corner Victoria Sired. This week we are featuring a beautiful slock of linoleums and squares, all of latest designs,.and landed recently to advantage under the new Customs regulations.

judge Sir Alfred Tobin, al Westminster: I have a very large photograph of myself sent with the sugges- | firm that I should order a hundred or so copies, f didn't want it and t didn’t care to destroy it. I put.it in a j drawer. Am I liable? Why should 1 j be at the expense of returning it? i ; have still got it, and they have not , sued me for the price.