THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5436, 17 June 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

• A slight earthquake tremor was felt in Paeroa this morning. The post office clock obliged with the exact time of the occurrence as the movement stopped it as 10.20. No damage was done, although suspended objects in some shops swayed dangerously and doors swung ominously. Constable Dawson arrested a youth this morning for theft of money from his employer. He will be tried in the Juvenile Court this afternoon. It is a sad fate that lies in store foAanyone who kills the goose that lays the golden eggs. There is in Wellington (states the “Dominion”) a London millionaire’s son who is endeavouring to make a living as a salesman. A few short years ago this young man announced to his father in London that he desired to get married. “Bless you, my son,” said the father, “get married as soon as you please, and call upon me for everything you require.” The wedding was duly celebrated, but imagine the father’s feelings when he discovered that he had to pay out £16,000 for the happy young couple within eighteen months. He called his son into his counting-house, and said "This condition of affairs cannot continue. I am going to pay the passage money for yourself your wife to New Zealand, and set aside a sum of money which will bring you in exactly £5 a week.” Upon this modest income the young couple, who so recently had silver spoons in their mouths in London, have now to do the best they can in Wellington. “Your wife’s a very hard-working woman,” said the Hon. G. W. Forbes to a farmer down Kaikoura way the other day. “Yes,” said the farmer, “I wish I had a couple more like her.” They staged a mock trial at a Central Otago township recently. The prisoner was—Tobacco. There was a judge and jury and a large attendance of the public. Many witnesses were called, and counsel having addressed the Court, the Judge summed up. He said accused (represented by a wellknown local resident) had hosts of friends and many enemies. He was accused of being a poisoner. But when tobacco poisoned people it was their own fault—they smoked the wrong kind. Imported tobacco was mostly full of nicotine and therefore highly injurious. Happily, however, there were other kinds—those produced in New Zealand, for example, by the famous National Tobacco Co., the pioneers of the tobacco industry in the Dominion. The question for the jury was : “Is tobacco guilty or not guilty oi' poisoning ?” The verdict was : “Not guilty, so far as the National Tobacco Company’s tobacco is concerned, because it is toasted (as no other tobacco is) and quite innocuous.” The Company’s “Riverhead Gold,” “Cavendish,” “Navy Cut,” and “Cut Plug No. 10” are all toasted.* Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Influenza Colds.