NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1924, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

A woman visitor at Eastbourne (England) has been using a live parrot to complete; tin* colour scheme ol her dress. Downed in white, this woman ol fashion lias been walking aboard carrying a white sunshade underlined with gre*e*n. I poll tin* handle ol her para-id was perched a green parrot with a white breast.

"I tllillk it would be a good ielea it he council, when the recon-t ruction of the read- is being e*arried out. took steps to lutVi* the Weird- •WeleollH.e to 1 uvereargii! 1 worked inio the* roadway at th<* boumlarie- ol the town. said

ouneillor 11. .1. Fan-ant at the < 01111■i! meeting reports the Southland

•'Times.", While tin* suggestion was received with a good deal ot laughter b\- seccral coillie illors. the novelty ol tin* idea appealed to them, and tin* Mayor said that it could he considered at a later elate.

■When you were before me la't time you made a statement that does not agree with what you sav now." stud Mr E. D. Mosley. S.M.. to a judgment debtor in the Timarti Magistrate’s Court (reports the "Herald )• "Well." replied that iiidiviehial. ""bat 1 said before must have been a big dream." The .Magistrate reminded hi 111 that the Court was not the place to ilivnm.

A Wanganui firm is importing . a consignment of -lava sugar,- which will arrive at an early dale (announces the "Herald"). It i- stated that tins sugar is of first-class quality, and will be about J- 1 per ton cheaper than the Auckland product, even allowing for tin* recent reduction.

That the British workman is a loyal subject was demonstrated the other day (remarks the "New Zealand Herald"). When the scholars attending H,o E.lemlale School were assembled for Hi,* saluting of the Hag and the singing of the National Anthem, a * r rollp of men engaged in the st ruction work on the E.lemlale Road iniineeliately in front of the school, at erne dolled' their bats and stood to atuuiti.m. The* headmaster Mr C. A. Seuiadeiii. wlm reported the Kiel to the school commit tee, said the example was not lost 011 the scholars .

So many ladies’ drosses were slaslit.,l while their wearers were standing in one of the Brisbane theatres wait-

ing for se*ats that the theatre niana.c,*r called in two detectives to discover if possible, the cause. They sne.eeel,,,i While* a young lady was standin.* in the t heat tv she felt someone mating her' dress, and she grabbed the baud of a man. The two dotee- , ix. s pounced upon him. and loinid that lie had a sharp knife in his possession. Andrew .lack Donaldson. *'!'2. „ plumber, was remanded on the charge of wilfully destroying the dress.

An important event in the history »l ill,* peert- e.f Southampton took place ,e„ .lime 711 1. when the* new GO.CDDt<>n floating dock was formally inaugurated by H. R .H. the Prime of Wales. Tin* dock lias been provided l,v the Southern Railway to enable the largest vessels in rbe* World using the port, the White- Star liner Leviathan to be repaired and overhauled. Those vessels are Poblt and <).-,()|t iii length overall, respectively. s> that they eoidel not be- aceomnm,bated in the longest existing graving dock at Southampton, which has a length of !Hft Ain. They can. however be easily bamlled ,m the floating dock, which is IMiOfi in length. The floating el, irk will al.-,i be* used for the ('lllla i*il liners Aquitauia and Ileiviigaria. since, although the latter vessel lias been docked in tlie graving dock, flic operation was particularly difficult owing to the fact that the vessel's overall length of '.)!)■'>ft left very little 1-learanee) at the ends. Hiere are five* other graving docks at South amptoii ranging from 111. to •lilt. 111 length, so that with the new dock now available it will bo possible t" deal efficiently and economically ‘with ships of all sizes.