IN TOWN AND OUT

Southland Times, Issue 21095, 29 May 1930, Page 6

IN TOWN AND OUT

NEWS OF .THE DAY. Women’s Rest Room. t The Southland County Council, at its meeting yesterday, decided to vote £2O towards the upkeep of the Women’s Rest Room in Forth street. A letter from the Town Clerk (Mr C. L. Grange) stated that the attendance during the year was 16,205 and of that number probably 70 or 80 per cent, were country women. / **’ * * A Severe Gale. Late on Tuesday night- and during' the ’early hours of yesterday morning, Gore experienced a gale of unusual severity. While no damage of a serious nature has been .reported, there were several instances of minor damage being caused to fences. Some idea of the force of the gale may bo gathered from the fact that one of the street lamps at the corner of. Main and Preston streets was blown from its sockets. Strangely enough the lamp bulb was not broken. « «■ * * Bare Majority. Hearty laughter greeted offe player in the senior match at Gore yesterday, when he emerged from a solid —and evidently willing—scrummage, minus his jersey. Pending the arrival of more togs he continued on in his pants and bare pelt. After a supporter had found a jersey, and given it to him he further amused the crowd with his ludicrous antics, through putting it on back to front in his anxiety to protest his manly torso from the chilly blast. * * * * A Clock Strikes—No Tick. In the small hours of yesterday morning the Gore town clock evidently went on strike, for it did not strike. This happening put quite a few people out of their reckoning as they glanced up to see how many minutes they had in which to reach work. Imagine their feelings when they discovered that the clock had departed from the path of unerring accuracy and had stopped at five minutes to eleven the previous night. The , stoppage was no doubt due to the strong wind which was blowing at the time. * ♦ » ♦ Mistaken Identity.

It very rarely happens that a mother mistakes her own baby and even in the case of twins there is usually some small feature which serves to identify one from the other. A case of mistaken identity in regard to two “babies” occurred at Gore yesterday afternoon, however, when a proud owner took the wrong one and did not notice his mistake until communicated with by the rightful owner, who did not regard with affection the baby left in . its place. They were twin “baby” cars parked together in Mersey street, and in the failing light of i'he late afternoon bore a very close ’resemblance. * * * * Changing Invercargill's Name.

“I could not have been hurt more than if I had been pierced with a sword when, during my recent stay in Queenstown, I read that an individual in Invercargill wanted -to change the name of the city,” said Mr J? ‘W. Smith in the course of proposing the toast of “Agricultural Interests” at the antjijtil banquet of the Winton Agricultural and Pastoral Society last evening. Mr Smith, who stressed the need of a proper appreciation of one’s own home town and province, made reference to' the valuable work of the early pioneers and to the necessity of retaining ' Invercargill’s name as a memorial to their efforts. Applause greeted the sentiments expressed by the speaker.