NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2574, 1 May 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

_ On the premises of one of the local hotels (says the Wanganui Chronicle) may be seen the unusual sight of a cat mothering a fox terrier puppy. The two sleep in the r.same box at night, but in the day the puppy chases his foster mother and causes her to seek safety by .scaling the fences. “The directors of a dairy com-

panv represent the brains of the people who put them there, yet they are damned with destructive criticism every morning of their lives,’ - ' forcibly remarked Mr J. G. Brechin, at a dairymen’s conference in Master ton. “That is the spirit which deprecates the good work they do accomplish, and everything they do to their credit is forgotten. Constructive criticism is not given as it should be, and that is the rotten part of our co-operative companies” he added. At the annual meeting of the Wanganui Acclimatisation Society last week, Mr J. Driver said there was no danger of heather being a nuisance, as it would not grow on good soil. It grew on the intermediate country below the snow lino, and would provide food for sheep, cattle and grouse-. The difficulty about getting grouse to New Zealand was the heat of the tropics but he believed it would be possible to bring the eggs out from Home.

A Gisborneite has received from abroad fourteen Russian bank notes the total sum represented being 581,001 roubles (states the Poverty Bay Herald). The notes are somewhat like our own bank notes, except of course that the language is different. The largest note is no bigger than the small ten-shilling bank note in circulation here. In pre-war days the sum mentioned above would have been equivalent to a considerable amount in English currency, but now, of course, the amount it represents is infinitesimal. Soon New Zealand should be supplying herself with Dominionmade handles for axes, shovels, rakes, picks, hammers, and adzes, as well as elothes-pegs for the busy housewife (says an exchange). At a meeting of the Canterbury District Committee of the British Empire Exhibition, several very fine samples of the articles were on view and are made from the Southland beech, and compare most favourably with those at present imported from America and made from American hickory. The handles are just as cheap if not slightly cheaper, and the wood has a perfectly straight grain.

A unique sight was witnessed on the Wanganui East tennis courts on Wednesday, when father and son fought out the final for the Wanganui tennis residential championship (says the Chronicle). The players were Mr 8. Powdrell and his son, Dir .J. Powdrell. The father lost on the first set, but thereafter showed that he was still head of the household, winning the remaining sets. The scores were 4 —o, ti —4, (i —2, <> —3. The name of Powdrell, which lias bulked so largely in the tennis world for many years past seems destined to be prominent for many years yet.

Following oil the recent condemnation by Dr. O’Farrell, Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst, of the present fashions of low-necked dresses and short sleeves worn by women, Heading Melbourne churchmen have been invited to express opinions. Those who ventured opinions agreed with few exceptions, that while, in some cases, scanty dresses were to be deplored, girls as a rule, knew how to dress with becoming modesty, ami that it was only in occasional instances that the laws of propriety were broken. One prominent divine contended that if there were no harm in wearing lowcut dresses at balls and parties, as had been the case for many years past, there was no harm in wearing them on the streets.