NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24410, 23 September 1940, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

A heavy-weight Maori who enrolled in the Home Guard was asked if he could manage a boat. "Yes, if it will hold me." he replied. A self-sown tomato plant in a sheltered part of a garden in Mount Eden, Auckland, has borne a fully-ripened tomato for about three weeks. Other tomatoes on the plant are now ripening. It is unusual in Auckland for outdoor tomatoes to risen before December. , Grandism (4240): Mellow, n-.atured by age. Matchless in flavour and bouquet. Grmd House Whisky. Only the best money can buy. 13s 6d bottle... It is the exception that proves the rule, and William Patrick Riley, a Napier seaman, learnt that " Silence is (not always) Golden," when Mr J. Miller, S.M;, fined him £1 10s. costs 10s, in the Napier Magistrate's Cour-t" on a charge of failing to give information to a traffic inspector. Freak lambs have not been altogether uncommon in the Waikato. but a freak lamb recently born on a farm near Hamilton would be hard to equal. First of all, it had two heads, the extra head being more or less balanced by the fact that it had six legs. A pair of tails completed the monstrosity. The lamb was alive when born and its actual body was reported to be normal. Do your bit towards preventing waste by having pots, pans, kettles, etc.. repaired by experts at Dickinson Mytton's Factory, 204 Crawford street, nearly opposite Otago Farmers' C00p... 0p... The most unexpected contribution to the waste reclamation drive in Wellington so far has been a remarkable collection, gathered together probably over many years, of the once popular and now long illegal shopping token coins. The donor suggested that the tokens have a greater value to collectors than as scrap bronze and the committee has sent them to the Wellington Numismatics Society. There are about 200 of them. „, _ " I object to being told what milk I shall drink, what clothes I shall wear, and what bread I shall eat. I object violently," said a speaker at a Christchurch meeting when a milk-zoning scheme was considered. "These people in Wellington who are telling us what we shall do are our servants, not our masters, and we will not allow them to dictate to us." (Cries of Hear! Hear!) A woman's voice: "Yes, that's just what we're fighting against in the present war—against dictatorship.' "Waterloo" whisky cannot be bettered anywhere. Order your next supply from Crossan's Waterloo Hotel, Caversham... ,■'..... Probably for the first time in its history the outside enclosure stand' at the Wanganui racecourse is being used for church services. The Ist Battalion. Wellington Regiment, holds its services there on Sunday mornings while m camp at the racecourse. The padre is Chaplain Parr. Each man is supplied with a hymn book and the band of the Wellington-West Coast Regiment accompanies the hymns. The three Sundavs the battalion has been in camp have been gloriously fine and still, and the singing of such hymns as "Lead Kindly Light" by hundreds of voices has made an impressive ceremony. Spring cleaning is now under way, and Grays, of the Big Store, Milton, are prepared for this great event with good stocks of brushes, paints, brooms, buckets, soaps, furnishings, linoleums and mats... The unusual record of the hole-m----one being recorded twice in the one day on the same links was achieved at the Hastings Golf Club's links at Longlands during the week-end. The first to do so was Mr Vic Hutter, a secondyear golfer, who holed out from his-tee shot at the sixteenth hole, a distance of 150 yards. Later in the day. Mr A. K. Hansell, of Palmerston North, a wellknown tournament player, who participated in the Hawke's Bay Amateur Championship tournament at Waiohiki last week, holed out in one at the fourth hole, a distance of 101 yards. A big "hole" in the hole-in-one insurance . fund resulted from this dual performance. One of the interesting tests set r for men undergoing military training in Wanganui is judging distance. Recently the special company of the National Military Reserve. Class II (Returned Soldiers) had opportunities to test vision and judgment both, operating from the Wanganui airport. One mark chosen was a ship berthed at Castlecliff wharf, and the estimates of distance varied from one mile to three and a-half. Later in the day the company marched to the south mole, to a DOint opposite the ship in question. When the men got there they were looking rather bitterly for the chap who estimated the distance to be just under a mile. 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 Clievne and Co . ;

The fact that humane killers for the despatch of suffering stock cannot fee operated at the present time because of lack of ammunition was mentioned by Mr A. F. Wimsett, inspector of the S.P.C.A.. when tendering evidence in the Palmerston North Magistrate's Court recently. Mr Wimsett said imports of the particular type of ammunition required were at present banned, while it was not beins manufactured in the Dominion, nor were supplies available in the warehouses. Using the traffic inspector's car. with its loud-speaker arrangement. Mr G. W. B. McCormick. chairman of tlvs c -mmit'.ee organising the collection of waste materials in Hastings, made a last-minute rally round the town, urging residents and business people to place their contributions on the pathway in anticipation of the collection. On' his round he had several amusing acknowledgments. A taxi-driver sought to push his taxi broadside on to the nearby footpath, while a pedestrian auickly jumped off a pa'.hway as though to indicate that he was not to be included in the collection. Outside a well-known stock agency firm two well-known business Deople were tinkering about with a car. and the injunction to "put your waste on the footoath this afternoon " prompted one of the men to indicate that this particular car might well be included in the collection. Have you tried Hitchon's pork saveloys, pork sausages, or Oxford sausage (cooked)? If your grocer can't supply ring our Dunedin branch <l2-344> Milion (22)..