NEWS AND NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

INTERESTING ITEMS. ' • I J During September the Palmerston j North Charitable Aid officer issued , 672 rations to 87 cases, as compared : with 562 rations to 80 cases in the ■; previous month. j In these days of high prices there j is consolation in the fact that Find- | lay’s Bread costs no more than it did t in other years. This nutritious, body- | building food is packed full of those health essentials, vitamins, and, besides this, the flavour of Findlay s Bread makes it popular everywhere. Order from the Bakery, 'phone 1526. With 10,000 tulips in bloom Mrs M. R. Johnstone's property, “Airlee," at Upper Plain, Walrarapa, has been a magnificent sight. Mrs Johnstone threw open her garden to the public to aid the Masterton Beautifying Society’s funds.

Once more the sunny days are here again, and the trees have donned their most colourful apparel. Talking of apparel, have you seen the new summer goods now displayed by Alick J. Connell, Men’s Wear Specialist, Wesley Buildings? All the requirements of this season are now to hand, and what a colourful selection. New ties, shirts, socks, sports wear, they’re all there, and at the right prices, too. Call in and see these lines. The following are the figures for the Masterton Municipal Library for the month of September, 1930: Books issued—Fiction, 4142; travel, etc., 42. Books added: Fiction, 28; travel, etc., 9. Subscribers at end of August, 546; new subscribers, 2; subscribers left during September, 9; total subscribers at end of September, 539.

During the past ten years the hearts of hundreds of children have been delighted by the dolls’ prams made by Louden and Hawkins, Ward Street, and judging by the wonderful selection offered this year, there will be more happy youngsters at Christmas. These prams, as well as wooden toys, tricycles, etc., can be obtained on a small deposit.

In view of the prevalence of cases of wrongful conversion of motor-cars the executive of the Wairarapa Automobile Association is recommending the North Island Motor Union to take steps to have the law amended at the earliest possible moment to make sucli conversion more rigorously punishable.

How many people stop to realise, when buying timber, the attributes of really good material? Do they look for evenness of dressing, proper seasoning, and all those other points that go to make or mar successful building? When they order their supplies from the Sawmillers’ Timber Trading Co., Ltd., Ward Street, they need not look for defects, because the high-grade New Zealand timbers supplied by this firm are guaranteed to the last fool as being absolutely reliable, true to grade, and suitable for any and every class of woodwork.

Heard in court at Wanganui, when Mr G. W. ,Currie was examining a debtor: “Do you go to the races?” Debtor: “No." Mr Currie: “You were at the last Wanganui races.” Debtor: “I was given a complimentary ticket." Mr Currie: “It’s curious how rfiany debtors have complimentary tickets.”

There are few people who do not suffer the pain and discomfort of corns, in fact, they are the commonest affliction of man. But they can be •easily banished, too, by an application of Forsythe’s Corn Cure, a really wonderful remedy for these foot troubles. Try a Is 6d bottle from H. N. Forsythe, Chemist, Wesley Buildings. “Debtors have no right to absent themselves from court and then later apply for a rehearing when they find they cannot pay the amount,” said Mr J. 11. Salmon, S.M., when an application was made in the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui for a rehearing of a debt case on which judgment was passed the previous week.