After the meeting of the Licensing Committee at Naseby adjourned, as there were a good many visitors present in the town, the Mount Ida Curling Club had its ice lit up with petrol gas, supplied by Mr Evans, of Wedderburn.
A most enjoyable game took place, the visitors joining in with members of the club.
The ice is now about four inches thick, and promises to last throughout the season.
Curling has been going on now for about a fortnight at Naseby, and if the ice on the big dam proves satisfactory the bonspiel will probably be held at an early date.
• The many patriotic ladies in New Zealand who have used up all the available supply of wool in the country in knitting balaclavas and comforters for the troops will be pleased to learn that New Zealand factories are shortly going to turn their attention to making the required wool.
At a meeting of the Wellington Industrial Association on Monday night the secretary reported that he had rung up the woollen companies to know if they were not manufacturing this wool.
It seemed that they had been manufacturing knitting wool in the past, but it was not quite of the sort wanted for balaclavas, caps, etc.
They had a lot of that wool on hand, and nobody seemed to want it.
They now intended to turn their attention to the particular kind of wool wanted, and in a short time there would be plenty of New Zealand knitting wool available.
He thought that it was satisfactory to know it was to be spun here.
• The bogus £1 notes which a gang of counterfeiters gave Auckland as an Easter present in 1914, are evidently still in circulation.
These notes are excellent counterfeits, and the only method of detection open to an ordinary person is by the number which is the same in every case - 169,948.
Last week one of the notes was passed in at the Auckland Post Office Savings Bank, and later another of them made its appearance at the Auckland Savings Bank, both having reached there in the ordinary course of business.
About a fortnight ago another of the spurious notes was found in the streets of Hastings, so that it is obvious that although the forgery was discovered a couple of days after they had been circulated in Auckland through the totalisator and a number of small business shops at a time when the banks were closed, it is evident that the counterfeits had got well into circulation.
• Some Oamaru business people ''fell in'' rather badly last week, when Inspector Jackson of Timaru paid a visit to the town and assisted the local inspector in the application of a test to see how the Thursday half-holiday was being observed there in the matter of selling tobacco.
After closing hours Inspector Jackson visited six places, including two grocers' shops, two tobacconists, and two billiard saloons.
At five of them he was able to buy cigarettes without any trouble, though at one place he was advised to keep it quiet as it was against the law.
The inspector observed that he was aware of the fact.
• A rarity in the shape of a frost fish came ashore at Milford Beach on Saturday morning.
The fish, a beautiful specimen measuring 4ft 9in, was picked up by Mr Angus Nicholson.
It was exhibited, and excited great admiration, many people seeing a frost fish for the first time in their life. - ODT, 24.6.1915.
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