NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The collapse of a seel ion of scaflolding at the new .Masonic Temple at Itl'.'iiluum on Ttie-dav morning re.-lilt-ed, slates Ihe Marlborough Express, in Mr Carl Callaway, the boxer, who wa- engaged in carpentering work, sustaining slight injuries. Mr Cnllnwtiv was working on a lower sealloldiug when an upper one lollap-ed. the heav\ ti'nl er falling -ome ten feet on 1,, the mm below. A heavy beam -truck All Call.maC- Icil shoulder. lonising Ihe I'ganiciils. Medical altciitii.n was required and the injured man will he tumble to work again lor at least a week or two. Mr Hon. I’atcliel I. who was on Ihe upper Seallohling. tell with the limber hut was unhurt.

Sillier was mi the board at the I'ire Drigade hall at ( hristi hnl'cli on Thursday night re),orts the ''Press." when the alarm gong dunged, and festive firemen iu-he.l for helmel.s, axe-, and .cats thru lice I the walls. The famous old "mounting in hot haste" scene was baldly in it. As the men m rambled mi the engines w hich were housed in the sui per room mid iho guests .stood op in the riush •if l! moment, niotois were startcil op and feminine distress was lainfullv obvious. x I Then tame the ioyfitl news that il was only a false alarm. Superintendent Wnrnc" made some scathing reiim-ks

about the aliirmisl who had l.con | raeCsnig at Kj reyiloo when lie was rej lying Io a toast, hut Mr A. Williams v.a.s mo-t fi.-'t ililo in hi- .statement about the "mean mrs" who endeavoured to ■send cut firemen on su'd wintry nights. He said that it he was on the Il.'iich lie would give them six months' !.uI risi nmeiit and also a Hogging every inot l l!i. litis hr- 1 lett'aik .seemed itiiglilil.v to the liking of tin' |.entile nsscmhled.

M hen Elinor Dlyn returned In l.oitdon, she made several observations concerning the social customs in Hollywood. "Where else in the world," 'he asked, "will you find a coloured conk bursting into the drawing room to say: 'You folks better hustle to dinner, il you don’t want all the .stub to got cold.’” Aliss Civil airs hei views on the education ol wives in her! story, "How to Educate a Wile." which has been made into a .Master picture, featuring .Marie Provost and -Monte lllue.

Fashion notes from abroad say that "spectacles to match” arc one of the lads of the moment, states the ".Melbourne Argus.” Sonic little time ago we read, of a girl seen at an art exhibition in London, who was wearing «ill l a yellow and black costume red tortoise-hell, rimmed glasses, which were taken as intended to "heighten the harmony of here castume," whatever that may mean. Hut now we learn that not only does milady look at the world through spectacles rimmed with jade or brilliantly coloured j enamels in tones to -uit her costumes, hut that she may do so through any shaped rim she pleases. Heart-shaped, triangular, or square, diamond, spade, or club, site may choose whatever shape proves most becoming, and it is said, indeed, that these glasses are) proving so becoming that women with I perfect sight are wearing them with ordinary glass lens, ft is little touches like tin's that illustrate the j utter futility of talking about such ; things as the standardising of wo j men's dress. \

A striking instance of inllation and subsequent deflation of land values was mentioned to a "Taranaki Herald representative l.v a farmer from South Taranaki. A farm was sold by him three or four years ago at lift wet'll L’.'iO and Lott per acre. Subsequently it changed hands on three more occasions, and the last man paid a deposit of CloOn as part of a purchase at tin.’ per acre. Recently lie found it impossible to carry oil 'frith his heavy obligation to moot. The upshot has been the dropping out of the in-

tervening mortgages ami the original seller (£ho holder of the first mortgage, of course), rather than burn the last man off the farm and have it route hack on his hands, lias accepted a mortgage at the price of too per acre —little more than one-half of the value put upon the land during the foolish period of inflation. ‘■Kven though " r c have a railway running past the factory, motor lorries can cart our produce 111 or lo miles to New Plymouth os a ton cheapei than it can lie sent by rail,’' said Air .1. lirown, chairman of directors ol the llukctnwa Dairy C ompany at the meeting of shareholders (reports the "Taranaki Herald"). It was a remarkable fact, said Mr Jlrown, lint it meant a considerable saving to the company, which intended .•.ending all its produce liv motor lorry. They had frequently been nlvised that railway freight charges were being revised, hut had not yet heard of any reduction. The company had arranged a contract for tile cartage of t lie coming season’s produce by motor lorry, and tin* figure represented a saving of Is, to Is till a ton over present railway charges.