LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2463, 5 August 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the school committee will be held on Monday at 7.30 p.m. Having -at until after midnight on Wednesday, the House disposed of the licensing question for the session by adopting a motion to print the Select Committee’s report. The children’s ball held last night in the Town Hall, under the auspices of All Saints’ Guild, was a most successful affair. A full report will appear in our next issue. The Fire Board lias not yet definitely fixed on a site for the erection of a fire station. Mr West, architect, of Palmerston North, has been engaged to prepare plans and specifications of the lire station, upon receipt of which tenders will lie invited for the erection of the building. The Foxton Fire Board has confirmed the appointment of Mr G. H. McDermid as superintendent of the Foxton Fire Brigade and Mr R. L. Xattrass as deputy superintendent (temporary appointment) on the recommendation of Inspector Hugo. Superintendent McDermid served under the Feilding and Dannevirke Fire Boards prior to taking up his residence in Foxton. For Influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.*

Superintendent Barnard, of the Palmerston North Fire Brigade, visited Foxton yesterday to inspect and value the present fire-fighting appliaees to be taken over by the Fire Board from the Borough Council. The Board and Council decided to accept Superintendent Barnard’s valuation as final and binding.

A ship’s life-boat, to accommodate about 13 persons, was seen riding in the surf on the north beach about three miles from the mouth of the river by Mr Jas. Coley on Thursday. Mr Coley dragged the boat on to the beach above high water mark and subsequently informed the police. There were no oars in the boat, or name to distinguish ltr

A country contemporary haHliseovered this amusing little item in a Home paper: “Eels attain an immense size in the rivers of New Zealand, and have been known to attack bathers. In fact many cases of drowning are on record where eels have dragged the bathers beneath the surface of the water.” Surely a touring New Zealander must have been doing some “legpulling.”

It is stated that in a Central Hawke’s Bay town recently a youth sold two supposed rabbits to a local resident, and they subsequently found their way through the process of cooking to the family table. Later the vendor asked the man how (lie family enjoyed the rabbits. “One was very nice,” came the answer, “but the other was rather tough.” The lad responded wiili all gravity that “the tough one must have been the cat.” Rabbit is now “off” in that family.

In the Wellington Magistrate’s Court ou Thursday, judgment was given against the Wellington Racing Club for £3ll, with costs £9 13-, in the case in which a woman claimed £45 for Iho Ins- of a fur stole whirls wa- deposited with the attendant in the ladies’ cloak room during the recent race meeting. The stole had been wrapped in a bundle of coats, but when the bundle was opened later it was missing. The Magistrate held that a want of care was shown by the attendant and that the club was liable for the loss.

Two eases of neuritis of the hand caused by wearing tight wristlet watches have been treated by Dr. J. S. B. Stopford, professor of anatomy at the University of Manchester. One was a student who for weeks had fell a tingling pain along the inner border of the hand, the side opposite the thumb. The other patient, a woman, of a

similar tingling- and pain in the finger.-. In both ease- Dr. Stopford found I’m! l : g!:t wri-diet v> a trims had compressed a nerve against the lower end of the ulna, tlie bone on the little finger side of the arm. When the wristlets were discarded -ho discomfort disappeared.

A capable Government valuer, g’ving evidence in the Magistrate’* rv ’iirt in Palmerston North, recent ■ iy -ah! that his method of c-leu-lating the depreciation on the aver..ge wooden building was on ten four-.'.ear period.-, beginning at the then apparent age of the house on toe following graduated seale. which system the Magistrate ap-

; !’<>vc<! : —Fust period of four years -1 per cent, second 5 per cent, third b per cent, fourth 7 per cent, fifth s per cent, sixth 10 per cent, seventh, 12 per cent, eighth 14 per cent, ninth 10 per cent, tenth 18 per cent; thus providing for the complete replacement of the average o.b. building in 40 years. This is a most useful calculation.