GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 13 April 1926, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

A kca has, been added to the stock of birds at Tiinaru Domain, this having been presented by Mr Janies Meehan.

Only one suspected ease of> scarlet fever lias come under tbd notice of the Health authorities in South Canterbury this month.

There was a continuance of hot summer weather in Tininru yesterday, when a bright sun shone from a cloudless sky, and the tlrermoiYicter registered 78 degrees in the shade.

A number of children from Greymouth schools passed through Tiinaru yesterday afternoon by the 1.47 express, on their return bomb after a trip to the Exhibition.

The Tiinaru Borough Council have decided, as an experiment, for one mouth, to run a bus at 8-5 p.m. on the Waimatnitai route, commencing on April 9.

During the past three weeks Seventeen building permits, representing a total value of £4552, were issued by the borough building surveyor (Mr J. H. Howitt).

The takings at the municipal hotsea water baths for March were approximately £47 9s. Massage treatment realised £'94 Is, and the revenue obtained for baths amounted to £T3 ISs.

At a sitting of the Timaru Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr P. A. Raymond, J.P., a first offender, charged with drunkenness, was convicted and fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment.

The quadrant fences at the South Canterbury War Memorial have been erected, and concrete kerbs put in, defining tile paths. Other minor work in connection with the final laying out has also been done.

With the closing date of the Dunedin Exhibition drawing- rapidly near, people are now visiting Dnticdin iu larger numbers than ever before. The express trains which passed sduth through Tiinaru yesterday each carried the maximum number of passengers.

Fishing in the Opihi one night last week. Air D. Lindsay, of Dunedin, landed a fine specimen of quinnat salmon, the fish turning the scales at 12{Ibs. This is one of tho few occasions on which one of these fish has been taken out of the. Opihi, as they generally run up snow rivers only.

The third special train to take North Canterbury .school children to tho Dunedin Exhibition left Christchurch at 9.25 a.in. yesterday and passed through Timaru at 12.90 p.m. This is the largest school excursion to visit the Exhibition, there being a total of over COO chi'dren. All tile excursionists were asked to wear Canterbury colours—red and black. Arrangements are now being made for a fourth excursion of school children on April 19.

The receipts for the seventeen days ended April 9, from the municipal omnibus service amounted to, £477 9s 2d, made up as follows :—Wai-iti Road £'ls4 10s Spl,. North Street £94 16s Id, Evans Street £'G9 5s lOd, King Street £SB 15s 6d, Hassall Street £57 10s Old, Church Street £4l ]6s 2d, surplus Is lOd. Tho receipts for the previous twelvci days totalled £916 2s lid.

There were slaughtered at the Timaru municipal abattoir during the month of March 310 cattle, 1626 sheep, 220 lambs, and 26 calves. Of these, three cattle and four sheep were found to be diseased. The killing for March, 1925, was 302 cattle, 1483 sheep, 38 lambs, 20 calves, and the revenue was £173 8s Od, as against £193 Is 6d for March of this year.

The rieketty bridges of the Raupeliu district are responsible for an amusing .story in circulation among motorists who have toured the National Bark. Several of the bridges bear warnings that they are unsafe for vehicular traffic. Acting oil this information, two cyclists dismounted at one of the bridges, and cautiously carried their machines- over.

The manufacturers of the new black and white number plates now being issued to motorists are not anxious to let the New Zealand-made feature of their product be forgotten. To each set of plates, wrapped in brown paper when handed out to the motorists, is pasted a strip of blue paper, setting lorth the details of a statement that the plates are 85 per cent. New Zealand made, the remaining 15 per cent, being British.

With the advent of colder weather and chilly nights, the demand for a dependab e hot-water hag grows insistent. England, Mcßae, Ltd., have a fine new assortment of guaranteed hot-water hags, which, ill spite of the advance in the rubber market, they are offering at prices as low •as ever. “Unique’’ 8 x 12 at IQs, and 10 x 12 at I.ls (3d, Barnet-Glass G x 8 at 7s Gd, S x 10 at 9s, 8 X 12 at 9s Gd, 10 x 12 at 10s Gd. Remember these bags nre guaranteed, and call at, the Progressive Hardware Store for yours to-day.