Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JANUARY 20. 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2532, 20 January 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JANUARY 20. 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Lee, who mel witli ;m aecident last week, has relumed from hospital and is aide to get a lion f. with the aid of a stiek.

“You have a charming seaside resort, but an infernally had road to it,” was the remark of a visitor to our representative this week.

“I’m going to the races and will take up a position near the totulisator,” was the remark of a local man who added, “I have some debts to collect.”

The Moutoa building's are gaily bet lagged with bunting: A particularly striking flag of blue and gold is that flown over Mr Walls’ refreshment rooms.

Building activity in Masterton for 1922, has been very pronounced and permits totalling £93,151 2s, were issued by the Borough Council. They comprised the following: 37 new dwellings £42,8(17 ss, 10 new business premises £28,047, 30 additions and alterations to dwellings £4053 10s fid, 5 additions and alterations to shops, £GBS 10s, new high school £14,273 9s, 27 motor and miscellaneous sheds, £2024 7s Od.

The Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co. manufactured 9.1 tons 4 ewts. of

butter last month and to-day pay out 1/(1 per lb. to suppliers.

During the recent storm a bundle of hats were carried by the wind from outside a local drapery store and deposited in the fast-flowing water channel. In orde to rescue them and to stay their progess a well-meaning individual placed his foot opythem with somewhat disastrous results. ,

On the strength of the recent wool sale in Wanganui, a local drapery firm this week received a cheque for a large amount to settle an account which had been outstanding for two and a-lmlf years.

A verdict of found drowned was returned at the inquest touching the death of .Mrs .Jane Elizabeth Freeman, at Palmerston on Thursday. The body of deceased was found in the Mpnawatu river at Palmerston on Wednesday maminy.

“Twenty-three years ago I chased a bag of wind up the football field

. . . . my highest ambition being to become a footballer and I was actually out to win the junior championship when Cod Almighty touched me.” Adjutant McKenzie, speaking at the welcome at the Salvation Army Citadel at Palmerston North on Thursday.

A new telegraph messenger, entering the head office of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company at Hamilton, asked one of the clerks: “Have you got a bloke named Coodfcllow working here?” The ‘Waikato Times’ which narrates the incident says the clerk collapsed, as well he might on hearing the head of the greatest butter manufacturing concern in the world thus spoken of.

Tn regard to the increased telephone charges the general impression in business circles in Christchurch appears to he that the Government will be compelled to devise some alternative scheme, since the volume of protest that will lie evoked by the Minister’s proposals will be so great as to compel their abandonment, slates a Press Association message from Christchurch.

An accident to two motor-cyclists occurred at Waihi beach. The young men were Erie E. Smith and Albert Phillips, both of Waikino, and they were astride the one machine. They were racing along the hard, smooth sand, at about (it) miles an hour, when the machine struck a soft patch, which caused it to perform a series of hounds and before it crashed on the sand, the riders were pitched in the air, and came down about 30ft. or 40ft abend of the badly-smashed cycle. The men were picked up in a semi-conscious conditon and conveyed to the Waihi Hospital.

Fiji is a regular hol-bed of gambling. It is reminiscent of what is known as “the good old days” to see Suva gambling with a feverish abandon, which quite rivals the stories one hears of (he “wild and woolly West.” The Indians gamble all (j tl v. In nearly every Indian home gambling is openly carried on. Now the Chinese have become so hold in carrying on pak-a-pu that every European hoy and girl in town has a “(hitter.” One boy who gets 10s per week in wages acknowledged he spent 9s a week on pak-a-pu and Is on cirgarettes. As a contrast one week a church function, which advertised a chocolate wheel as an attraction, was notified by the police that such “an infraction of the law” could not be. allowed.

The young tigress brought from London by the steamer Port Elliott for the Wellington Zoo, was born in the London Zoological Gardens. It has been sent to Wellington in exchange for two kiwis. The animal, which is a fine specimen, was under the charge of the chief officer of the Port Elliott and does credit to its temporary keeper. It lias grown considerably during the six weeks’ voyage and looks the picture of health. Sailors are noted for making pets of animals, and the tigress is no exception, as it will allow the chief officer to stroke and pet it to a certain extent through the bars of its cage. It is fed once a da>7 every evening, with an allowance of (ilb. of raw meat from the freez-

An incident which occurred on a recent evening in Oriental Bay, Wellington, should serve to remind at least one young man that chivalry is not dead among the present generation. A large number of people had gathered Ip hear the Ponsonby Boys’ Band play at the rotunda and as is not unusual where there is a crowd, a rough element was represented. At a spot under one of the lamps some young men had planted themselves, and proceeded to make themselves objectionable by passing personal remarks about the girls and young couples who were walking past. An old resident of the Bay remonstrated with the larrakins only to be laughed at for his pains. The climax was not long in coming. Two ladies were subjected to some rather pointed remarks which evidently did not meet with the approval of a man who was walking immediately behind them. He was of medium height, but was broad of shoulder, and when his turn came he moved in close to the offenders and then, with a sudden spring, hit one of them a blow on the jaw. Twice again he struck, and each time he found his mark. Then he moved quietly on. The party of young men waited for no more, but made off as quickly as possible. It was afterwards ascertained that the man who had surprised the party so completely was one who, some years ago, made a reputation as a boxer in Australia.

The local business places will re-open at (1 o’clock this evening and will be closed all dav on Monday.

. At a meeting of ladies of the local Methodist Church on Wednesday afternoon, a deputation of Church officials waited upon the meeting requesting the ladies’ aid in a bazaar on behalf of the church funds. The meeting decided to hold a monster two-days’ festal fail' about the third week in March. An effort to be made to make the fair the most attractive ever held in the town.

A unique colonial record was surely established recently when there was admitted to the well-known IJemsley, the great-grandson of the Sydney law firm of Allen, Allen and man who founded it over a century ago. During the whole of that time the firm has included one or more of the founder’s descendants. The new member, Mr Denis Allen, threw up his studies to enlist in the Royal Naval Air Force, later on joining the Royal Air Force and being awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Air Force Cross.

New Zealand newspaper proprietors are apparently not yel assured of any probably reduction in the cost of newsprint paper, remarks the Otago Daily Times. Mr Howard Smith, president of the Howard Smith Paper Mills, Canada, expressed the opinion when he arrived in Brisbane last, month that, the forecast of another paper shortage in the near future is right. While there is no actual shortage at present, there is certain stringency; and higher prices arc, in Mr Smith s opinion, lkely to rule on account of the increased cost of wood used tor paper pulp purposes.

An animal that may revolutionise the wool industry and give us new material for our clothes, as well as a very rare fur, has just been brought to England for the first time for over 100,000 years, says' an English paper. He is the musk ox, and according to the zoo authorities who now have him in their care, he is the first male of its kind that has been captured alive. Once the musk ox roamed over all Europe, and his skeleton has been found in the gravel at Bromley, Maidenhead, Bath and Gloucester; but now bis home is in Greenland and in the far north of Canada. Standing up to 3ft. fiin. in height when full grown and about Oft. long, lie has a dense covering of fine long brown woo] which U so matted and curlv on tile .shoulders as to look like a hump underneath the fur, which is shed in the summer. The Canadian Government believes there are great possibilities for the far north in the domestication of the musk ox.