NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4523, 28 October 1930, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Blowing out the electric lights is no longer a joke. An electric lig’ht that can be 'blown out with the same small pull that extinguishes a match is on exhibition at the Westinghouse Lighting Institute in New York.

Blackboards have at last been made of glass, after many experiments. In making the glass about 25 :per- cent, of black chromite, a mineral consisting of oxides or iron and chromium, is added to the raw materials.

One of the coldest spots in the world is in Soncy in Texas, at the ' 'iafboVatory of the United States Bureau of Mines, where helium for inflating dirigibles and balloons is produced, this requiring a temperature of 300 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.

The library committee of the Auckland City Council has adopted a recommendation that the German flag captured at Apia, Western Samoa, which for years has been on v'ew at the Auckland Public Library building, should be sent to the Auckland Wajr Memorial Museum along with other war relics.

“Many people look upon freedom as the ‘untrammeled ability to enjoy pleasure, as if there were not the whole world of difference between true joy and happiness on the one hand and pleasure on the other,” said Mr. W. A. Armour, headmaster of Wellington College, when speaking at a Toe H function on Saturday night last. “There is no joy in life like the joy that comes from ‘sweating together in a common task.’ The greatest joy in life comes from the realisation that effort has been applied and obstacles overcome.”

Two debtors, Chinese, both benriny the name of Hop Wing, were proceeded against in the Magistrate’s Couirt at Temuka last week. They are partners in a shop and garden, and when one is in charge of the shop the other works in the garden, and vice versa. The ser-

geant of police mentioned in Court that the only information he could get when serving the summons was, “All de same, Hop Wing.” The Magistrate suggested that, one should be called (Chip Chop, and inquired how the sergeant knew one from the other, to which the ofliccr replied that one was the bigger man, but the smaller one had the most liabilities.

There is evidence that the cost of living- is dropping. Indications meet the eye as one perambulates the city, says the Sydney correspondent of the “Melbourne Argus.” Various placards tell the tale. It was mentioned not long ago that at one large store, David Jones’, in George Street, morning coffee, or tea with a biscuit and a cigarette, were provided for sixpence. •This was followed by strawberries and cireain for twopence at Grace Brothers’ 20-acre emporium at Broadway, Glebe, with the additional attraction of a free ’bus to the ferries. Anthony Hordern’s, doubtless feeling the competition of the cutting establishments that feature low-priced goods and cheap refreshments, now put on afternoon tea at fourpence, and advertise a “full and plenty” fish luncheon at ninepence, Buckingham, in Oxford Street, set forth a lordly menu. The star item there is this luncheon: —Roast turkey, with green peas and roast potatoes, followed by apple pie or chalrlotte russe, for I/C. 'Other establishments are competing similarly. The city man now reads his morning paper to see where and how he may profitably vary the club lunch, giving out to an acquaintance chanced upon doing likewise that “It is good to know how' one’s -fellowmen live.”' It is probable- that the third Tate places feel this competition.

“Give me a pipe and a good detective yarn and I wouldn’t call l the Queen my Aunt.”- Thus a : wellknown Wellington journalist to the writer the other day. “1 remember,” he went on, “when I couldn’t smoke more than a couple of' pipes at a time with comfort. Too : much nicotine in- the imported tobacco. Now 1 use toasted New Zealand and can smoke till further orders with keen enjoyment. It’s the toasting that does the trick, old man. Guts out the nicotine, so that you ean smoke for hours on end if you want. And doesn’t the toasting bring out the flavour and bouquet! Theirc are only four brands of toasted—“Riverliead Gold,” “IC!avendish,” “Navy Cut No. 3,” and “Cut Plug No. 10.” All different strengths and all best 'sellers.’ I prefer “Navy Cut No. 3” myself. But it’s all a matter of taste. My tobacconist says, the New Zealand toasted is preferred by most of his customers to the foreign brand.” This smoker’s .verdict is the general one. And he says: ? Tt’s the toasting that does the trick!”—Ad vt. 128,