MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1924, Page 3

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

HANG A FEW MOTORISTS. LONDON. Jan. 15. In an action ari tn; r , out of a collision between a cyclist, and a motor-van. Judge Cliier at Shoreditch Coiinly Gotirt yesterday held that flic cyclists ease failed, as he had neglected to keep a proper look-out. Judge Ciller said: My sympathy, if [ had any. would be with the plaintiff l cyclist), rather than with the defendant. because t-verhody knows that almost always motorists drive about intteii too last ill Loudon. If they see me crossing the road they run straight, at me. hut if thev s**e an omnibus crossing the load they pull directly. 'That is the practice now. and until a lew motor-drivers are hanged lor murder or kept in penal servitude tor life for manslaughter as they deserve, it will go on.

London is made up ol elderly men and women trying to get out o| the uay of vehicles which arc untitled by their speed for the streets ol London, and w- have to put up with it. ATTACK ON COCKTAILS. NEW YORK, .lan. 1!) Sir Charles lliglmm, the publieity expert, is conducting a vigorous campaign in this country in favour of teadrinking by Americans. Ills linpe is. wiih t lie aid of Prohibition, to wean Americans from the cocktail habit and induce them to establish the English custom of having afternoon tea in ofliees and homes. The campaign is the result of an ar-, rangeinent made by the Indian teagrowers wiih the Indian Government, by which all export tax of Ad per rwt will be levied on tea, the proceeds of which are to he devoted to advertising in American neU'spftpPi'S* In a sjieoeh last night Sir Charles said that WOO,OOO will probably he expended in the next five years in popularising tea-drinking in the United Stales. licit ish manufacturers, he added, are about to inaugurate a concentrated •■drive" on American markets, their feeling being that Anglo-American rapprochement with the motto, "You sell to us. and wo sell to you ’ forms the only sound way to cancel the BrilL!, debt to this country. QUICKER MILKING. LONDON, Jan. IS Milking methods are developing on now lines as the result of the great increase of milk yield in modern dairy rows. First, it became necessary to milk the heavy yielders three times instead of twice a day. Now some cows arc being milked on both sides at once, two milkers operating simultaneously, an experiment which is being tried on Mr Findlay’s famous herd of Friesians ai Glasslaw. Stonehaven. The herd includes the first J.OOO-gallons-a-year cowin Scotland. Findlay Clara 11. So far the double milking has resulted in one cow increasing her yield bv half a gallon in three days without an increase of food.