500,000 Bobby Calves

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 November 1933, Page 4

500,000 Bobby Calves

It is calculated that duriq , son just closed a total oi; mately half a million bobV , was slaughtered from tha(,| the province south of AucL W ork for Teachers H The Canterbury Educati;; is inviting applieations to I tions in schools under its cbj largest list of vacancies tbe| had for some time. The feafe latest list of positions issu| Education Department is ti are 16 vacancies for seeonds teachers, including one at! chuch Technical College, oi Ashburton High School, oi Timaru Technical College, & the Waitaki Boys' High Scboi 'Phones for Motorists , j The providing- of telepM | , munieation on the sparselyf^i stretch of the Blenheim-We .1 Road between Birch Ilill si Rotoiti for the benefit of a| requiring assistance, was discw a meeting of the MaaiborolgS mobile Association (states/J press) . It was decided that jl office at the Raglan homestes • Wash Bridge, and some soit ' box half-way between there! ; lake, would best meet the (4 the secretary was instructel| to the Chief Postmaster foriw tion on the subject. j l || "On," Not "Naught" j Telephone users who ha! for a number containing ! must have observed how the; girl has repeated the numb edly saying "oh" instead of " There is a reason f or this. Ti is being tried all over Netf with a view to ascertain wfo "oh" is easier to hear overt than -the "naught." Subscii asked therefore, when callb! number as 103, to say: three," and not "one naugK Fast Enough Indicating the tempo at ^ iness is done in America, ner, in an address in a Tin$ tre, illustrated his point by a case of the dear old lady ' invited to subscribe toward i of Obstetrics at the Otago siay. "No," she told the f "I've had a family of eigK and they came fast enough any electric chair." (laughh Hnled in One ' . Playing at St. Andrews./ on Saturday, Mr. H. T. Gi® out in one at the short fc1 hall used for the first time the second time Mr. GilhfS complished the feat in 40 y® the first occasion being at J® about 10 years ago, when h tenth hole in one. Maoris and Iron A quaint story illustratin? torted values that the Maoi early days in this country a® some pakeha eommodities Bishop Bennett during an a® the Hastings Rotary Glub. y had been speaking of ® which might he called y "Iron Age," when the natft6 ginning to learn how pakeha axe, the spade, and d and steel implements. woman in the Bay of Islanfl^ had a single naii given to pakeha, and the womans was greatly incensed. He violence on the innocent trifling present, to which w had taken a fancy, and his1 so great, and. the stir that caused was so profound, ually a formal court of M to be held to- smooth out tW The husbaiid's belief was tbs would have given a won$ rieh gift unless he had beettj love with her, and he "wa® ' fied until the whole matteS lahoriously explained toj^