LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 April 1923, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Goldlish were used during the war to test the water in which gas-helmets were washed. With their help it was possible to discover whether all poisonous gases had been removed. MY jit'e now feeling the first snappy nights of Winter. Farmers .should now look for warm covers for their stock wliiili can he procured at hodrock prices from Harley's, Groymoutl, The howling tournament was < oncluded yesterday a t Nelson, in which 72 rinks from various parts of the Dominion competed. The filial was won by G. Dee (Richmond), his rink defeating tlial of Reid {Victoria (Tub, Wellington). On Saturday night the up-train to Rev.amii rail into a -lip at tho other side of the tunnel above Dmiollie. tho engine getting hogged so greatly that anothei had to he sent to extricate it. It was after 3 o'clock on .Sunday morning before the train returned to Greymouth.

“Some (4 these words are too big lor me; 1 am not a scholar and must have time to think them out,” said a Maori witness at the Nelson Supreme Court (states the “Mail”) uhofi under ei'oss-oxnmmation. The witness, however, appeared to have a good knowledge of the English language. Declaring that retailers of fruit are treating the public and the growers unfairly, a grower from Mosgiel rev. rsed the usual order and interviewed a southern reporter. He said that he had just seen in a window apples mark cd at Id per lb. They, he was certain, w ire the same apples lie had received at I'd [er lb. Moreover, lie had seen li.ais in Christchurch nil sale in a market al 2s (ill per ca-e. The cases conlaimd over 40lb. ami they were retailed at from 3d per lb upwards. There was in: reason why they should not be -old much cheapor. hut the instances quoted wertl only typical of the policy ol keeping fruit at a price that Kept th" public from Inlying it in the quantities that they otherwise would. The hundreds of rases going to waste thi-sea-on were a strong argument in lavoiii' of cheap fruit for the people, which would result in the growers’ favour by increasing the consumption.

News has trickled through to the. suiith during the past lew days ol an nut break amongst the native divers at the Thursday Island pearling station. mivs the .Melbourne "Age,” and fears have been expressed that the outbreak was likely to develop into a conflict between the white pearlers and the natives. Confirmation ol the news, however. has been difficult to obtain. Eater il was learned that a report ol the incident, which was said to have involved the divers and the pearl fishers, who are stly white people. In oeiilliet, had been forwarded to the aut Imrities in Melbourne. Questioned more rece inly, officials id the Home and Territories Department stated that there had been no disturbance at the pearling sat ions, hut new ? had been received of trouble between the pearlers and the divers in regard to wages. All the divers an- employed on indenture, «’nd they had requested that their wages he increased beture the pearling season, which commences after the northwest monsoons at a Lout the oiicl of February was opened. So far the dispute lias not been settled.

Mr M’. S. Brannum. an American lumber company proprietor who is at pivseul touring New Zealand with Ins family, in the ouurse of , onvcrsatioii said that he was .surprised at the excessive prices charged for motor cars in New Zealand. Similarly petrol, which lost:- rotigblly Is a gallon in America, costs 2s (id a gallon here Another 11 na. in.,l n,|>ii."d him v.a. (hat in some cases imported good- were sold at less than New Z, ala ud-maile goods. AVliile ill Queenstown he had been shown good quality hoots, which had her‘ii made in New Zealand, which -old at abnui 7s p.v pair more than imported footwear. Surely such a position should lie remedied. In hi- opinio, Now Zealand could not _ progress unless a policy of immigration on a large scale was adopted. The population of ihe Dominion was not sufficient lo efficiently work the country, to make tlie most of its wealth of natural resources or to eiiilivat ' il as ii should !•;■ cultivated. The United States

would never have become the nation it was without the millions oi immigrants who comprised its cosmopolitan poinil.;timi. “Otago Daily limes.'

The women of Great Britain and Ireland excel in physical iharm because the standard of the rainfall upon -km The influence of the rainfall upon skin texture ami eolouiiiig i> plainly shown fiv the complexions of women living in iji,-. wettest quarters of the l nited Kingdom (writes January Mortimer in an English exchange). the Stolen mist” is a skin emolient. and the sain" niav he said for the “Devonshire drizzle" and the “drisky” zephyrs ol Cornwall. In Ireland, also, where the rami';. || is high, the women are famed for i he delieate colouring of the clicks and Hie bright ness of the eyes. Our moist air prevents that early wrinkling of the shin of lh.« face seeli among women of the southern races of Europe. he bloom of the Italian and Spanish hellos wanes all too soon in the ardent ami constant sunshine. The large proportion of blondes in England accounts pnrtlv for the esteem for our beauty. In old English “fair" moans .beautiful. The dark blondes among English women are the most admired by visitors from the south of Europe. Nevertheless, most of the famous British Beauties are of the brunette type. The celebrated Gunning sisters were not very lan', am Lrulv Hamilton, a typical EnR '■”> IDauty. had dark chestnut hair. lie supreme charm of British women is pigmentation. the product of mixed races and a humid climate. It has been m;tod that- the darker types among women tend to increase, and n M - dieted Hint tin. ideal lovely woman M the future will he a brunette resembling Trackeray’s Rcautrix F.-moml. •'■ brown beauty.”

Tlie great value of herd-testing j strikingly exemplified by the story at- ; tached to a Shorthorn cow owned at ; Horotiu, a few miles out of Hamilton. : This cow, which is now well on the ■ load to putting up something in the j nature of a world's record, was c nside red l»y her owner, Mr (*. 1- ■ Hall. ■ as being the worst animal in lih herd j because she required so much stripping, j He tried to sell the beast to a neigh- ; hour, but the neighbour replied that lie did not want culls from another farm, and promptly refused the ofier. V\ hen the Waikato Farmers’ Union Herfltesting Association was formed, Mr Hall was one of the first to join it. and then rams the wonderful discovery that the despised cow was not only the best cow in his herd, but ea-i!y the best in the district, and qualified to take a high place among the most valuable cow* of the world. Small wonder that it took a long time to strip her for the machine had not been left on long enough, and no encouragement given her to produce to her iidlest capacity. This wonderful cow has given in p;.j days 99-1-31 b. of milk and 529.321 b of bntterfat. which production is all the more remarkable in view et the fact that she has never received any artificial food, and has been milked by machines only twice a day, and as a member of a herd of 63 cows.—(3\aikato Correspondent). Sickness and vomiting from a disordered stomach may be relieved by taking SHARLAND’S FLUID MAGNESIA. Fresher than the imported.

“\Vo!!!"ii of tlio newest American y<nr book. reveals that driving lorries, cleaning sire'ets, ami plumbing have become, during and since the war. “as much feminine occupations as playing the piano and sewing fine scams wire generations ago." Surveying the occupations of women throughout the

world, the year hook tinds that overalls. grea>o. and heavy manual labour no longer have any terrors for them, hut that there may now U seen women •‘stevedores, dock labourers, sailors, and deck hands." Women, the yearhook note, "are now successfully doing the work of blacksmiths, machinists, carpenters. Urn kiuakors. tinsmiths, wood choppers, and goods clerks on railways. They are also driving delivery lorries, keeping livery stables, cobbling shoes, and washing out hoik i s."

Side by side with this increase in the physical lahaPSto-of women is chrouiciled the feminine invasion of the higher professions. There are now 17:!S women iawyrrs. judges, and magistrates; 1 757 eh rgymen. 11.1117 women artists. 7dl!* women physicians. IS2‘> women dentists. 1117 women architects, and 11 women engineers. Nan fewer than i5.54!1.0l I women are employed and paid in the I'nited States, and of the G7S occupations under review only T! do lint yet boast- of women recruits.