NEWS AND NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17805, 2 September 1929, Page 11

NEWS AND NOTES.

INTERESTING ITEMS. i -“A lot has been said concerning the warfare of stoats, weasels and rats Upon our native birls," said Mr E. V. Sanderson at a meeting of the Bird Protection Society at Wellington, “but I say the greatest enemy of our wild life Is man—the poacher.”

Our corselettes correct all faults in the’figure.—Glencoe House.

At the meeting of the Roseneath Electors’ Association Mr D. McLaren referred to the live body of residents at Houghton Bay. “They built a hall for £550 and mortgaged It for £BOO. They mU3t have been Scotsmen." (Laughter.) He added that the hall was duly incorporated, and that it now belonged to the district as a whole.

“Now,” the little ’flu germ said, “I’ll give that man a cold in the head Alas I The little germ is dead—-“Anti-Flu” got him instead.

“We have heard a lot from the Minister of Education about giving our educational system an agricultural bias. I wonder he does not get a gramophone record made of it.”—Mr H. G. Diokic (Patea) in the House of Representatives.

Anti-Flu is a powerful remedy for influenza and colds in the head, and is sold for 2/~ per bottle by J. M. de Montalk, Chemist, Frankton.

“The Supreme Court is a veryfoolish place for you to come into when you are under the influence of liquor,” remarked Mr P. H. Harper, S.M., at Gisborne, when a statutory first offender was charged with being drunk in the Supreme Court. The man was convicted and discharged.

The eyes of the world arc at present turned to Palestine, where smouldering Arabian jealousy, of the Jew has iprung to fiery massacre. Britain’s task to ensure reconciliation between the two races, Is indeed difficult, and the cure hard to effect. Talking of cures, there is nothing to surpass the efficacy of Baillie’s Kowhai Cough Cure—l/6 and 2/6. Baillie’s Ltd.,* Victoria St., Hamilton.

At the Borough Council meeting at Gisborne the bus manager was authorised to procure two sample • instruments from America for recording the movements of the buses while on service.

' The stopping of three days’ pay from the salary of a master at a Wellington college because he had been absent on a Friday and Monday' to attend the diamond wedding of his parents was characterised as a “very petty” thing at.a meeting of the college board of governors.

Id per dozen is all it costs to put down eggs with Sharland’s Egg Preservative. 2

Even elderly women like to wear the latest in hats. —A solicitor at Tottenham.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. First aid for coughs, colds, influenza,