MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1928, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(By Telegraph- Per Press Association.)

'PIT FOR TAT. BERLIN. Jan. 27

■‘Germany cannot he expected to participate in victory celebrations, ami has advised its linns not to exhibit at the Milan fair, to mark the tenth anniversary of the declaration of peace.” This was the Government's reply i•> the Italian invitation. Italy, accordingly. has refused to exhibit at the Cologne fair. COURT FINES. PALMERSTON N.. Feb. 6. Failure, to eradicate the hawthorne on her property within the Palmerston North fire-blight area, cost Catherine Wilson £2 and costs at the Magistrate's Court, an Orchard Inspector lor the Department, stating defendant was only one out of a hundred and sixty owners, who had not complied satisfactorily with the notices sent out. Lye Gee Long, aged 65, who pleaded ,'uilty to a. charge of being found m possession of opium suitable for sniokin.r was fined £SO and costs. Accused ,1 been previously convicted and lined for having permitted opium smokmg on bis premises.

TIN HARE CO.MRANY. LONDON, Feh. 27 . The Southern Canine Racing Stadium, the first greyhound company t> fail, had n capital of £50,000, of which •u 12,000 was subscribed. imp liquidator pointed out that LMn had gone to the promoters ami i.. - in preliminary expenses, including CboO a venr for a mechanical director, who was paid to work tho hare which the company did not possess. he cine assets of the company were lorn valued at £6O.

A SECOND “ROSE MARIE.’’ LONDON. I*eli. Clitics praise “Lumber Love, whi<l was first produced at Birmingham before a crowded and enthusiastic and.

ibe “Birmingham Gazettes di.i mafic critic predicts that it will be a second » Rose Marie.” and pays a tnlmte to the charming music, m t,K . vision of which Berte Adams and Miss Emmett Adams collaborated. The London “Evening News s-iy it is delightfully tuneful amT extiaordinnrily vivacious.

MILK SHORTAGE. AUCKLAND, Feh. A serious shortage in Auckland's milk supply is threatened « n, f ss " occurs shortly in the exception ll> weather now being experienced thiou„ out the province. The position. £ rapidly becoming acute !Uld 110 . every possibiltiy that the retail put. of milk will shortly he further increased to 7jd per quart. Supplies sent distributing firms by dairy farmers are dwindling daily, and it is earedthat if conditions do not materially impiore within the next few weeks strnige measures will have to he taken < ■ regulating retail sales. One leading firm of retailers, with many b«r..clttS; will be forced to limit its sale « during the coming week-end. and certain that many household demand, will have to he curtailed.