LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2393, 16 February 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Chinaman who was charged at Wanganui last week with having a 111 thy backyard was named William Hum.

Cyril Edwards, injured in n collision on the Bunny 1 liorpe-Fcilding road on 251 h dunuary, died at the Palmerston Hospital on Tuesday.

A swarm of bees invaded a Master! on church on Sunday morning, and. for a while made matters interesting for the congregation. Best Factory Butter is only 1/4 at Bauckham’s. ’Phone 52.*

A Levin resident wjio had between 50 and GO acres of harvesting to do, states that he was swamped with applicants looking for work, upwards of 100 interviewing him with the hope of getting a job.

Mr Arnold Stevenson advertises that he will convey passengers to Wirth’s Circus at Palmerston N. tomorrow and Saturday evening. The fare will be ss. Book your seats immediately.

Splendid line of Sheep Tongues, 1/- per tin, at Bauckham’s. Telephone 52.*

Applications are invited by ‘the Borough Council for the position of operator and custodian of the Town Hall. Wages £4 per week, and free house. Applications- close at noon on Monday. Schedule of duties may be seen at office of this paper. The Manawatu County Council advertise its intention to take four acres of land under the Public Works Act, situate in the county, for the erection of workers’ dwellings. Objection must be lodged in writing with the County within forty days.

Gibs. Sugar 2/6 (not Java), at Bauckham’s. ’Phone 52,*

The following letter came into the hands of a Raglan business man, and was written by a dusky subject of the Empire. While not very coherent, it is very evident that the writer was an intensely disappointed man: “My dear Sir, —Raglan Royal Coach Alan —1 shall beel much obliged to you. What for not send my box. I am waiting for my box that for you have bring. My box then not yet bring, you give me reply soon. You sen the answer to me a notpaid without stamp letter. Never forget reply please. Mr box K at Mr house. Mr what gives reply to you. Why not yet send my box. You send my box to the T station. lam waiting for my box that for you not give me. Reply soon; L have given money to you and why not yet bring my box. Everyday you forget. You send reply soon.' —1 am yours most faithfully, Juya Hallu.” . “Keep up a good front.” —Haigh. Always look merry and bright, even if you have a severe cough or cold. What matters? You have always a good, dependable friend to rely upon —Baxter’s- Lung Preserver.

“Baxter’s” has been giving relief io thousands of sufferers for over half a century. Its secret is in its rich, soothing, penetrating qualities that always touch the affected spot, and give gratifying relief, As a tonic, “Baxter’s” is unrivalled. Builds sound constitutions. All chemists and grocers stock “Baxter’s.” Get a ltarge, 2s 6d bottle now!” —Advt,

The initial meeting of the Horowhenua Hvdro-Elec.tric Board will

be held at Levin on Monday next

Captain Hugo, Inspector of Fire Brigades, arrived at Foxton this morning to confer with the local Fire Brigade re the proposed constitution of a Fire Board.

While playing tennis last week, Miss .McCormick, of the local State School staff, sprained her ankle, which will necessitate her absence from school this week.

“He’s like a fly with one wing off; knocking about anti doing nothing.” This is the description an Inglewood County Councillor gave one of the county employees at this week’s meeting of that body.

At the Palmerston Supreme Court yesterday, Hannah Noel Blake Marshall, of Pahiatua, who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing property, was placed on probation for two years.

General dissatisfaction is expressed with the syren as a fire alarm. It is difficult to distinguish it from the howl of a dog, and the sound does not carry far. The fire hell is much more effective for arousing the public, and should he used in preference to the syren. Representatives of the ITorowhemia and Manawatu County Councils and Foxton Borough Council will meet at the Shannon bridge on .Monday next, and discuss what action will be taken in connection with protective work and road. The .Shannon approach to the bridge is threatened by erosion, and the mai - ler requires immediate attention. A woman from (lie outback, old enough to be a granny, who was •taken on an Auckland ferryboat on Saturday, and saw sea water for the first time in her life 1 , said the water was a little different to what she expected (records flic Auckland Star). It was not blue, but green. The grandchildren hastened to leil her that it was dirty near the ferry hi'il.Kngs. lml I but it was blue away out at sea. She thought it would he e’ear so that she could sec the fish swimming in it, like Die clear in nunlain streams she had been accustomed to. She tbought the harbour must ho very deep, hut her grandchildren told her it was not “hall ’ as deep as the sea was. “I never want to sail on the sea,” she said, “if it is deeper than the harbour.”

Tf anybody still harbours a doubt about the wisdom of spending over a million pounds on the Otira Tunnel, he is advised (says “Mereutio” in the New ZealandTlerald) to go to Canterbury and listen to the story of how the tunnel has justified itself. The road over the Otira Gorge was blocked the other day, and a purebred .Jersey calf bad to be taken from Arthur’s Pass to Tnbhbonnie. There was no road, but there was the tunnel, and the calf was railed through. Rome sceptic may doubt whether this is good value for a million pounds, lmt in Canterbury there is no doubt. A Christchurch newspaper records the incident triumphantly, and says: “The usefulness of the tunnel is being demonstrated over and over again, and this instance is a further example of t|e good purposes to be served by ready means of transit east and west.” Perhaps when we have spent another half million on the tunnel we may hear of a second calf going l hrough.

A decision of considerable interest was given in the Palmerston R.M. Court on Tuesday in the case in which the police proceeded againsl Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd., for alleged breaches of sections 39 and 40 of the Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1908. Tn giving judgment, the Magistrate said that the alleged offences were in connection with a “free day” advertised by the firm by which persons purchasing goods at the shop on that day were entitled to a refund in goods to the value of the same amount, lie staled that “free day” was a certain day ascertained by mathematical calculation, and the persons to benefit were not ascertained by a method of chance in the nature of those mentioned by section 39, lml merely by purchasing goods on that day. Tic did not consider that such a scheme contravened the provisions of section 39 of the Act, and therefore the informations were dismissed.