LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5390, 20 February 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual Paeroa. District High School picnic this year is to be neld at Puru, Thames Coast, on Friday, March 1.

Nominations for all. events to be run at the Ohinemuri Jockey Club’s meeting, run at Paejroa on M"'rcli 16 and 18, close to-day at 8 p.m.

The number of people taking part in the railway excursion to Tauranga on Sunday constituted a Dominion record.

The membership of the Auckland Automoblie Association on January 31, 1929, numbered 9372, a nqt increase of 1792 since August 31, 1928.

Ivan Sokolie, charged in the Supreme Court at Auckland on Monday with causing bodily harm, was ordered to be detained in a mental hospital for further examination, and his trial was postponed accordingly.

Requests to the N.Z. Plant. Research Stations for specimens of New Zealand plants have lately been received from England, the United State|s, and Soviet Russia, the latter being for the University Herbarium at Tomsk, Siberia. Surely an unusual spot for our flora I Some parcels 'have already been despatched and others will follow.

The M.S. Port Hobart sailed from Wellington on Thursday night for London, taking the first shipment of the present season’s apple crop. The Horticultural Division of the Department of Agriculture, reporting on orchard conditions, states that there is a medium crop of most varjet’es at Thames.

it can scarcely be that some children living in Paeroa have never, been as far as the Coast or seen the ocean, yet, when the headmaster questioned Standard 111. no less t,han 15 answered in the negative. In like manner, seven in Standard IL had never travelled on the railway.

The moth observed on ragwort at Manga,tautarl, and othejr places in the Waikato, and referred to in this paper, lias been identified by the Agricultural Department to be t.he larvae of the Homcosoma Vagello. This, genus is c.ismopolitan in range while the spopic vagello is of fairly common occurrence in New Zealand.

Mr F. M. Strange, chairman of. the. Thames Valley Po,wer, Board, in addressi.ig, the Morrtnsville branch of the N.Z. Farmers’ Union on the board’s activities, said that many difficulties had been' fac.edl in the Thames Valley area. In the country main line reticulation was heavier than revenue, so tha.t no comparisc'n could be made with city boards. The Thames Valley Board's charges were approximately the same as those of tlie five chief boards in New Zealand As to a reduction being made, that defended on the attitude of. the Government. At the present Horahwa., Waikino, Waihou, and Kerepeehi stations were feed points. The Government. charged £lO for the first 200 K.V.A. and for all over that £B. This was an injustice, said Mr Strange, a n d it was hoped that in the nepr future a flat rate of £8 would be introduced.

The racejh'orse which went down with the “Kanowna” on Monday was the tw<>year-old Hongj, by Thespian. If was purchased' at a New Zealand yearling sale last year, was owned in Melbourne, and trained by J. Smedley.

A Wellington paper states that one of the interesting discoveries we owe to the intrepid explorers of the Arctic and Antarctic reg,ions is that, the c.ure for a cold is more; cold. The members of the various South Polar expeditions nave frequently stated that they never develop a cold: when the temperature is below ze,TO, but the moment they arrive in New Zealand thev begin to sneeze. The journal adds, in jocular vein, that in the near future the treatment for severe colds and influenza may resolve itself, into an aeroplane voyage to the South Pole. Somehow we think “there’s a nigger in the wood-pile somewhere.” The writer of tlie; above probably got mixed up with his information, confusing life in polar lands with aerial flight in those regions, which go more or less hand in hand to-day. Cold itself is not a cure for colds or influenza., as witness the present mad, unabatable rush of. influenza through Europe, where practically unprepedently frigid weather is being; experienced. The fact of the matter is that ’flu, is cured by flying at. high altitudes. This has frequently been proved) lately. Personally we do not know why, but perhaps because of. the clea.r rarefied atmosphere clearing out and rejuvenating the respiratory organs. People with lung trembles are often ordered to h :<T h mountains, and no doubt in the future courses of treatment by aeroplane flights will supersede the 'Older/cure.

Big, reductions in ladies.’ footwear. Greatest bargains ever offered for 14 days; big variety of styles and colours. See window display.—Masters and Son.*

Ar English tourist while “doing” the Waikato recently was surprised and disgusted to notice so many Maori women enjoying their pipes. On his return to Auckland he mentioned the matter to an old colonist, remarking that it was a sure sign of the degeneracy of the Maori race when their women smoked pipes. Said the New Zealander: “Well, if that Is so, the Irish women of the working class must nave been degenerating for a good while, because I remember seeing them smoking clays in Dublin when I was a boy.” The tourist said no more. There is nothing wrong with pipe smoking for man or woman so long as the right tobaco is used. Choose a brand as free from nicotine as you can. That’s all. Our New Zea-land-grown tobaccos contain only a trifling percentage of nicotine, and you can’t beat them for flavour and aroma. You can smoke them for hours, and they won’t do you any harm. ' Ask for Riverhead Gold, mild ; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium; or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullhead), ful 1 strength.*