NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Motor-lorries are securing the hulk of the wool trade so far this season, and already thousands of bales trom South Otago have been conveyed by road vehicles to the wool stores in Dunedin. The grower says it is cheaper and more convenient to load the wool on to a lorry at the shed on the farm, as it is taken into Dunedin and safely lodged in the store the same day. -Cartage is saved to and from the train, and the cost ot freightage per bale is in favour of the lorry. A Greenfield farmer informed a Ral(bitlia "Free Press” representative that the lorry charge from his place to Dunedin was 8s (id a hale, whereas the combined steamer and railway charges came to a little more, and he saved the cartage at both ends.

lie lurched into the nurseryman's shop in a manner which betokened the fact that he had been celebrating the cashing of his wool cheque not wisely but too well. "Hullo, old snort! Must tnk ill’ wife home something to sweeten her up. Gimme two of those plants" -pointing at some just inside the door). "What's their name, so that 1 can tell her!'" "Those,” said the nurseryman, are " Mellaleuccaleiiecadendrons.” The inebriat'd one staggered hack and ejaculated, "Strewth, gimme a couple of rose bushes."

"Never he tempted to give up your studies in the course you are taking to go out to work for high wages as unskilled labourers,” was the advice given by the Hon. C. E. Statham, M.P., to the hoys at the Dunedin Technical High School break-up. "Far too many hoys," he added, "are giving up the study for trades and professions to earn high wages at unskilled labour. For them a day of reckoning will come, and they "ill he sorry that they took that; step."

In spite of the many warnings the public reeivc concerning the dangeron.-. finalities of petrol, employees of Messrs E. Clarkson and Foil, builders. Colombo .street, attempted to mix-safe-ly a quantity of petrol and boiling water, with the stove for the heating of the water only about two yards away (says the Christchurch “Press”). Naturally the vaporised spirit was immediately exploded, and the small shed "here the proceedings took place became a mass of flumes. The brigade was summoned and the (lames speedily subdued with a hand-extinguisher, little damage being done to the shed, though one of the men was slightly burned oil one arm.