NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 94, 15 January 1935, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF

Gorse and Grass Fires Five calls to gorse and grass fires were received by the fire brigade yesterday. Three of these were to Khandallah, one to Wadestown and one to Taitville. Fire in Newtown. Minor damage to the scullery and rear of 19 Picton Avenue, a five-roomed house, was done by a fire which broke out shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday, before it 'was extinguished by the Wellington South fire brigade. The building is owned and occupied by Mr. Richard Calvin, who was burning off preparatory to repainting the house, when it caught fire. Ascent of Remarkables. As the result of an expedition which they undertook the week-end before last. Misses Honor Partridge and Phyllis Scott, of Dunedin, are now able to claim the distinction of being the only women to climb two peaks of tlie Remarkables. Accompanied by C. Clayton, A. Wallace and R. Robertson, of Queenstown, they left at 10.10 p.m. on the Saturday from the foot of the ridge at tlie Frankton end to climb the Remarkables, and arrived at Lake Alto at daybreak. After breakfast there, they commenced the ascent of the peaks, arriving at 12 o’clock at the top of the middle peak, and at 1 o'clock at the top of the peak on the left from Lake Alto. The party arrived back at camp at Lake Alto at 2.10 p.m., left at 2:45. and arrived at the foot of the ridge at 6.15. The Milk Bar Arrives. • For the past two years or so milk bars have been becoming increasingly common in Australia, even to such an extent as to cause concern to brewery interests, and during the present summer a number of these have been established in New Zetland, where they are serving to a certain extent the purpose of assisting an industry that is sadly in need of help. Several milk bars are now to lie found in Dunedin says the “Otago Daily Tinies,” and at one in particular, where the drinker may grasp a ‘"handle” in the accustomed bar-room fashion, there are many different flavours to choose from. lor the drinks are not composed simply of milk, but are made up on a basis of milk, all kinds of fruit flavours being introduced. Chilling completes tlie process. A mechanical cow, which chews grass, bellows, and swings its tail while it is being milked lias proved au effective advertisement for the milk bar.