NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24424, 9 October 1940, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

All county councils in New Zealand have been asked by the New Zealand Counties’ Association to contribute to the relief of air raid distress in London. ■ This was explained by the chairman, Mr C. Flavell, at a meeting of the Heathcdte County Council last week. The association asked the council to contribute £ 10. That grant was readily agreed to, and Mr Flavell said that, if all counties contributed, it was expected to raise £ 1200 for the fund. Don’t waste time trying to work with blunt tools; get them sharpened by experts at Dickinson Mytton’s factdry, 204 Crawford • street, nearly opposite Otago Farmers’ Co-0p... “Sport, Ancient and Modern,” was the subject of an’ address given by the vicar of St. Matthew’s Church, Hastings, the Rev. W. T. Drake, to a number of lads connected with the racing stables in Hastings. Mr Drake impressed on the boys the importance of striving' to give their best in the job they had set out to do, and appealed to them to play the' game of life in the right spirit and in an ".upright manner, so that they would become in” later years honoured and respected members of the community. Don’t forget to include “ whisky ‘ from Crossan’s Waterloo Hotel in your Christmas Hamper this year... The .requirements of members of the Expeditionary Force in England were described by Sergeant L. E. Judd in a letter from England to his parents, Mr and Mrs L. V. Judd, of Hamilton. In answer to his mother’s inquiry, he said that all that would be really acceptable would be coffee, sweetened milk, barley sugar and metal polish. ‘Anything else can be bought here just as cheaply as in New Zealand, he said, “but coffee and sweetened milk are invaluable, particularly for an emergency drink on manoeuvres. Sergeant Judd also said that handkerchiefs were always acceptable. Walking into the office of the chairman of the Invercargill Traders’ Patriotic Assistance Committee (Mr J. D. Campbell) recently, a man who wishes to remain anonymous expressed his appreciation of the efforts of the committee by handing over g donation of £ 100 in notes as an early contribution towards the proceeds of the gala day which the committee will conduct on November 1. He said he considered that the committee had done remarkably good Work in raising more than £2OOO for patriotic purposes, and he wished to make his gift as a mark of appreciation. Men who like that smart. appearance which good clothing gives will find a good selection at Gray’s Big Store. Milton... Expenses incurred by the Heathcote County Council in the recent commission which decided against the inclusion of a small area of St. Martins in the Christchurch City approximated £SO. But, according to Cr F. W. Freeman, at the meeting of the council last week,, the decision of the commission, which decided against the petition, was more than satisfactory for the council. “It is satisfactory to see that those people on the other side, who thought they had the ball at the toe. were found in the wrong,” Mr Freeman said. “ It is all very well for people to agitate to go out of the county into the city, but pleasant to see that, when the proposal is looked into by an impartial body, the decision is w,ith the county. But I see that it has cost us about £SO for the little flutter.”.-,.V The county’s share of the costs for the case was £ll 14s 9d, but that did not include legal costs. The council paid half of the amount of costs' involved. 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. Cheyne and C 0... . ■ The new regulations permitting dairy farmers to carry their neighbours’ milk with their own to a dairy factory would be welcomed in Southland, said an. official of the Southland Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union, the other, day. The details so "far given indicated that any farmer taking advantage of the permission, would have to pay full heavy traffic licence fees, instead of the half . rates granted to / farmers carrying only .their, own pro-/ duce, but as the owner of the. Terry would no doubt charge his neighbours for the service he was providing! he would be able to afford the full fees. A stimulating expression.;. Of . .the manner in which British .people 1 - are - facing damage to their cities and homesby German air raids is containedviti /a;-' letter received by an Auckland business man who wrote to an. English manufacturer offering to take charger of his family during the war;. In WY fusing the offer, the manufacturer wrote by air mail: “ Were the situation as terrible as some of our prrends.; overseas may be given to understand;,I would take a different attitude. Quite frankly, I think it is the feeling, of at least the vast majority of families in England that they will stand up to the difficulties, no matter how hard they become, and- see the, := whole thing::

through.”Grandism (4254): That ".wrong^side. of the .bed ”, feeling cart' be completely J charmed away with Southard’sJLbhdph. • Dock Rum. 13s 6d bottle... ssS'The unusual change-over from bul- - lock teams to Diesel tractor will be made on a Wairarapa sheep run in a few weeks. Instead of giving up their bullock teams for horse teams two generations ago, as most New Zealand settlers did, the owners of this particular property have continued since the. earliest days of settlement to use bullock teams for all the haulage work done on the run. reserving horse teams for the ploughing. Now the tractor will take the place of horse teams for ploughing and bullock teams for haulage, and will also open up 200 extra acres of scrub land each year for new ploughing. The bullock teams are at last to be given up for several reasons, the chief ones being the difficulty of getting suitable bullocks, which must have strong horns, the increasing difficulty of finding qualified drivers, and the high cost—-about £3OO a year—of feeding the bullocks. ; Have you tried Hitchon’s pork saveloys, pork sausages or Oxford sausage (cooked)? If your grocer can't supply, ring our Dunedin branch (12-344), Milton (22).