NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24407, 19 September 1940, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

Every man of the Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment, turned out on Tuesday night of last week, when a general alarm was sounded in the mobilisation camp on the Wanganui racecourse as a result of threatened damage to marquees and tents by a heavy gale, accompanied by rain. The alarm was given at 6.45 p.m.. when the large Y.M.C.A, recreational marquee, containing indoor sports and reading facilities, partly collapsed. The contents were removed and the marquee let down. Milton ladies look the part of a Queen when .attired in one of the ensembles now showing at Gray’s Big Store... “ Some people, especially women, just cannot keep their hands off,” commented the chairman (Mr F. A. Swarbrick) at a meeting of the Hamilton Domain Board, when the subject of the indiscriminate picking of. flowers on domain lands was being discussed. A report made by the foreman stated that he had caught a woman picking daffodils. Buy now New Goods, just opened up; many cannot be replaced. Shop early while the selection is good. Gifts for'all at Mosgiel’s Drapers.—A F Chevne and Co.. The need for a more adequate memorial to Captain William Hobson, the first Governcr of New Zealand and the founder of Auckland City, was stressed by several speakers at the annual ceremony at Hobson’s grave last week. Pointing out that the centenary of Hobson’s death would fall in two years’ time, Mr Spencely Walker expressed the hope that by then the war would have ended, and they would be in a position to pay a tribute of respect worthy of the founder of the city. The Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, said many people felt that a statue of Hobson should be erected, and the Rev. A. B. Chappell said he hoped that from these annual pilgrimages there would emerge some memorial worthy of the man they were honouring. Grandism (4237); This wintry weather London Dock Rum provides a plecsant and wholesome beverage. Sold in five sizes of bottles. Grand.. . Trout liberations in the Waikato m preparation for the fishing season are being undertaken, and some thousands of fry will be liberated during the next few days. In the Punui and Kaniwhanawhana Streams 15.000 brown trout fry will be released, in the Mangatapu and Waitomo Streams 20,000 fry, in the. Lower Waihou 15.000, and in the Pokaiwhenua Stream 20,000. The Hamilton, Cambridge and Huntly Clubs will.liberate 100.000 fry in the Waikato River between Horahora and Huntly. Rainbow flngerlings will be released later. Have you seen the three-m-one bins for storing flour, Dread, and sugar? These arc showing at Dickinson MyttonV Showroom, 204 Crawford street, nearly opposite Otago Farmers’ CoP Low-flying aeroplanes of the Royal New Zealand Air Force have become a regular item of interest for people in Wanganui since the Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington’s Own), took over the camp on the Wanganui Racecourse. On Monday, on Wednesday, and again on Friday of last week planes “bombed” the camp and enabled the troops there to conform to a mock air raid. Although the machines which did the bombing were a great deal slower than the type used in the “ real thing ’’ in the theatres of war, they gave an insight to what could be done. Shout ” for your friends with Crossan’s Waterloo whisky—the very best Gel your next bottle from Waterloo Hotel. Caversham... . A motorist travelling along Napier terrace about midnight on a recent evening was surprised to see a small figure of a child clad in pyjamas standing at the gate of one of the houses. He stopped the car and went back to the child, whom he found to be a girl, and noticed that she was walking in her sleep. He asked her in a quiet voice where she was going, but the sleep-walker broke into a run along Napier terrace for a couple of hundred yards. The motorist followed, and when the girl stopped he again asked her the same question. The child immediately took to her heels and ran back to the house. The occupant of the house, with whom the girl, who is eight years old, is staying, heard the gate click, and footsteps on the veranda, and ultimately the opening of the door. He went to investigate, and found the child standing in the doorway with her eyes wide open and staring straight ahead. She made no demur when he picked her up and put her back to bed.

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