MASTER BUTCHERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1927, 9 December 1913, Page 7

MASTER BUTCHERS.

DECISION RE CHRISTMAS CLOSING. At a largely attended meeting of tho Master Butchers' Association held last evening the qunstion of Christmas closing was discussed. It was decided by a large majority that all Wellington and Petone shops which como under the jurisdiction of the association _ shall close from Christmas Evo until tho following Monday morning. This period includes Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and the Saturday and Sunday following. The Saturday will bo a holiday on account of it having been decided to hold the butchers' picnic on that day.

The Lyttclton By-election is to be held to-day. A great deal of interest is being taken in the contest. Timing motorists lias been reduced by the Royal Irish Constiibulnry to an in volvcd mathematical process. At Kingstown Police Court tho rate of speed was worked out in two eases at 29.104107 and 2G.10G109 miles per hour respectively. ■ Living in one house in French Street, Teignmouth, are thirteen persons whose combined ages total 870 years. Four of the thirteen are eighty years of age, four others are seventy, two are.sixty, and the others fifty. Eight are old-ago pensioners. For .several years phosphorus, ns a remedial agent, has been growing in favour. It enters into tho composition of almost all preparations designed to suoply excess re wnsto of body tissue. ifedical knowledge is neccssary to ensure proper dosage Obsolete warships which cost .£2,000,000 to build were sold at Portsmouth for ,£IOO,OOO. Three of tho earliest submarines realised nit average of less than .51(10 each. The Royal Sovereign, a warship launched in IKOI,. and. for years the pricltv of Ihe Channel Fleet, was gold for Harry (discussing football game): "You know younsr Johnson'! He'll be our best nian scon." Dorothea: "Oh, Harry, what a nieo way to propose!"