NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22987, 16 September 1936, Page 14

NEWS IN BRIEF

" One member of Parliament whom 1 tried out with this test did not show up very well. But. of course, that does not prove that the test was defective," declared Mr E. H. Rountree. principal of the Wanganui Intermediate School, when discussing the value of intelligence tests during an address to Wanganui Rotarians recently. Grandism (2985): Popular prices, but unrivalled value. The Grand Home Supply Store offers exceptional value in wines and spirits... A century ago men and' women would have thought in terms of horses and carts, but the modern tendency, especially in children, inclines thought to motor vehicles, a farmer told a Waikato Times reporter the other day. He said that while he had been harnessing his horses recently, two small children had watched his actions carefully. " I know what he is doing," said one in explanation, " he is putting motor tyres on their necks." That Westshore will be more popular than ever this summer is the opinion of a Napier business man who owns a bach at the seaside resort. He told a reporter the other day that during the past few weeks he could have let his bach four times over. " The demand is particularly keen." he added, " and I shall be very much surprised if this summer does not provide Westshore with a record number of visitors." Special showing of curtains, cretonnes, shadows, hearth rugs, squares, and linos, this week. See special window and interior display. All new goods. Prices right. Buy now.— The Mosgiel Drapery Warehouse. A. F. Cheyne and C 0... If the Christchurch Cathedral Choir is to be maintained as it is at present constituted, about £2OOO will be needed, according to the latest issue of the Church News. This amount, it is stated, would be enough to keep the choir for three or four years. The hope is expressed that the Dean and Chapter estate would have by then recovered itself sufficiently to give enough to carry on the services of the Cathedral as before. In 1930 the amount available from the Dean and Chapter estate for the maintenance of the Cathedral services was £2OOO. The Chapter last month received a report that the total amount available for the next few years would be £BOO. A budget prepared by the Chapter laid down the essential expenses—salaries of the organist and the verger, office work, estimated general expenses, organ tuning, power, laundry—as £1165. Provision of £350 for the education of choir boys is made, making a total of £1515. It is explained that this budget is the minimum on which it seemed possible to continue the services as they now are, and to keep the boys' choir intact. It is also a budget —it is added —which makes no allowance for the payment of lay clerks. Outside Crossan's Waterloo: " Hullo, Sandy, fit's makin' ye sit there in the cauld?" "Whist, mon, I've dropped a bottle o' whusky, and I'm waiting for it to freeze. It was Wullie's best.".. The destruction of game birds by vermin—wild cats, weasels, stoats, rats, and evert " hedgehogs and shags—throughout the province was commented upon at a meeting of the council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. It was said that the public generally did not /ealise that legislation had been passed permitting such pests to be killed on sight, and an appeal was made to trappers and shooting sportsmen to assist in minimising the evil. The Auckland Zoological Society advised that during one year trappers reported having killed 2000 rats and many wild cats in the watershed reserve on the Waitakere Ranges, the only bird sanctuary near Auckland. After a study of the manner in which motorists pulled. out from the kerb in the business area of Gisborne, the resident A.A. patrol, Mr D. M'Gregor, has drawn the conclusion that the majority of accidents and near accidents are caused by the person in charge of the car. He noticed several motorists who looked out their right-hand windows when backing out, and said that their vision would be obscured of approaching traffic almost until they had completed their manoeuvre. The patrol advised motorists to glance through their rear windows, and felt sure that if this was done they would have little trouble with cyclists or other oncoming traffic. Why burn your fingers with broken pot or kettle lids? Bring the size—we can supply.— Ltd.. 245 Princes-street.. When prisoners and slaves were condemned to earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, all work was considered to be a disgrace. Now that the good angel of invention has removed the opprobrium people realise the wisdom of the old-time Maori, whose gospel was "He orate malii' (work is life). Following a similar line of thought, it has been possible to translate the legendary span of life to four score years and 10 by moderate living. Now a leading life insurance board of directors in New Zealand have inspired us to live another five years by declaring that. all premiums will cease and insurances will be paid to those who live to 95. While looking at its best, the lawn on the Government reserve at the toot of Shakespeare road is being removed to make room for the Napier automatic telephone exchange. The turf is being taken to the Marine parade and relaid in the area which used to be the children's playground. In removing this turf, accurate work is required by the borough employee. He first divides the lawn into squares measuring a foot each way. Then, with a special implement, he scoops out each square, and the turf is relaid at the parade foreshore much in the same way as tiles are laid. When relaid, the turf is rolled and watered, and if the job is done carefully the grass is none the worse for its change of environment. Nowfthat the new goods are out, the freshness of spring pervades Grays Big Store at Milton. Procure your supplies there, thereby transferring some of this freshness to your honu>... A fire in a dust van, the actions of a nervous horse, a collision between the dray and a brand-new motor car, ■ a narrowly averted collision between a i pedestrian and another car, near disaster to two policemen and a prisoner, 1 and, finally, the extinguishing of the fire, all within the space of two minutes, formed a bustle in Dalton street, Napier, the Qther day which caused great excitement among spectators. The. driver, looking behind him at the smoke, narrowly missed a collision with the police car, then backed into ! a lorry, causing little damage, and 1 finally managed to extinguish the fire, i In the meanwhile, however, a young ! woman, her eyes firmly fixed upon the smouldering dray, stepped directly m the path of an approaching car, and the squeal of brakes testified to another narrow escape. Ex Fordsdale and Rangitata, our new season's Blue Mountain Jamaica. Only from A. Durie and Co., coffee specialists. 32 Octagon. Dunedin.. Early New Zealand had no roads, but the plenitude of canoes turned the rivers into roads. When the pakeha made roads, the canoes were neglected, even on the Waikato; but canoes figured prominently when .the Waikato tribes that had been exiled in the King Country by the war returned to the remnants of their ancestral lands on the Lower Waikato. It is now about half a century since white people living on the lands confiscated from the Maori saw the canoe flotilla of the Waikato tribes sweeping down the Waipa and waikato Rivers" on the return migration. Mr James Cowan, who writes on this subject in,the Railways Magazine, adds that Princess Te Puea is reviving the canoe flotillas that were the olden pride of "the Waikato. The first of a fleet of seven waka-taua, or war canoes, is being constructed at Waingaro. in the bush near Ngaruawahia. If for the wedding or the birthday You should really want a treat, Try some Hitchon's ham or bacon, It's truly wonderful to eat...