LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2656, 8 November 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The five-year-old son of Mr and Airs Searle, of I’urcell Street, died on Tuesday last. The little one had been a sufferer from birth, The interment took place at the foxtail cemetery at 11 a,m. to-day. The service at the graveside was conducted by Mr J. S. jYLoir,

At the pony racing inquiry, m Sydney, Mr Bouser, a trainer, gave evidence as to the prevalence of doping and the existence of a jockey#’ ring. He said that one dope was used to deaden and another to liven horses. He produced statements made by a veterinary surgeon and an analyst showing that one horse died through the' use of dope. He alleged .that doping was general. Regarding the jockeys’ ring, he said that while he was not prepared to pay £IOO to a boy to win, there were others prepared to pay £SO to him to lose.

Locally-grown hot-house tomatoes are selling in Dunedin at. 4/7 per pound.

The headmaster of the Manaia State school is evidently a man of resource. In order to raise funds for the school he initiated a big earnival which netted over £3OO.

A Maori, Wiremu Kie Tern, farmer, Rnngilane, dropped dead in a lea room at Palmerston N. yesterday afternoon. An inquest was held to-day.

The resolution carried at last Friday night’s public meeting, requesting the Council to convene a meeting of ratepayers to discuss loan proposals for the erection of n public library etc., was moved by Cr. McMnrray and seconded by Ur. Rmith.

'Die value of Kauri timber is often spoken of, and a striking testimony of its worth comes from the Southern Reservoir. The woodwork of the tower there has been standing in water since 1877. During the recent excavations it was found that while the cast iron work under the same conditions had rusted so that it had to be built up with reinforeed concrete, the kauri timber seemed as fresh as when it was put in. A farmer at Stoke lost a horse recently in somewhat unusual circumstances. He was leading three horses to work down a road, and in taking them past a poplar tree, which had blown down, he was surprised to see one of the animals drop dead. Investigation disclosed that the tree had, in its fall, broken down the electric light wires, and the horse had apparently touched the broken end of if.

There is a proposal on fool to send two Auckland ladies to the British Empire Exhibition as publicity agents, 'flic ladies suggested have taken an interest in local affairs for some years past and are aeeuslomed to public speaking (says the "Star”). As they are considered suitable for the position of lecturers at the Exhibition, their appointment is being advocated in Auckland bv those interested.

The fact that the terrible Waikino tragedy was the outcome of a man being in possession of an automatic pistol is proof that the Dominion law against the possession of these weapons is not 100 per cent effective; of course very few, if any. laws are. However, the fact that a man at Waikino possessed one of these deadly pistols should he a hint to the police lo keep their eyes open and make the law as effective as possible.

Nearly 000 lambs ns gifts from friends in New Zealand lo friends at Home have been sent through the agency of the Mont Producers’ Board. The lamb works out at nItout 1/-, delivered at the door. The Board makes no profit, and had no intention of making any when the scheme started. The producer receives, indirectly, (he current markel price of the day for the lamb,

and the consumer, that is, the person making the gift, pays the wholesale price. By this arrangement the middleman, including the retail butcher, is cut right out. The Bay of Plenty Times does not view kindly those business firms who get their printing done outside of Tauranga. It pertinently remarks —“We invite the two firms who have just imported some printing from Palmerston North to call at the Times Office, and if we can’t convince them that we turn out printing as efficiently and as cheaply as their foreign made jobs —well, they can have the next lot, for nothing, but apparently they wouldn’t, have it done in Tauranga at any price, although they seem to be making a decent, living out of! folk who dwell here.”

The mysterious death of four children in a Liverpool family is attributed to the flies which infested the house. A scientist caught three Hies. They were not special flies, hut lie happened to be a man with p special purpose. He was a scientist and wanted to know how much truth there jjiig’lit be in the idea that flies carry disease. One fly was caught in a living room. One was caught out of doors. The third one was trapped in the household refuse can, He allowed each of the three flies to walk over a sheet of specially prepared sterilised jelly, which was incubated. At tbe end of the fourth day each germ deposited on the jelly had grown into a little mass or ft “colony” of microbes, visible to the naked eye and could be counted and identified.

“Mai new dress lias braown streps.” That is wliat Mr J. W. Shaw, ALA., heard a young woman say the other day, so he told his audience at tho “\alue of Education” meeting gt Auckland (states the Star). “Did you hear anything more vulgar and ignorant"?” asked the speaker. There were some people in New Zealand who considered themselves as bearing the cast of Vere do Vere when they spoke in this offensive mutilation of the .Oxford bleat. They thought themselves awfully smart yet their mispronunciation of the dipthongal sounds wins much more offensive than the dropping ol' the “h” by the Oockney. This vulgar affection was driving some people to the opposite extreme, since they were afraid that i'V proper pronunciation they might he mistaken as belonging to the affected type. Unfortunately there were academies in New Zealand which existed for the sole purpose of teaching the young to speak in an affected manner. If the two faults mentioned could be eradicatr ed Now Zealanders as.a class, would speak the purest English in the world, since we had b° climatic disabilities eopdu.ciye to a pasal accent or any other peculiarity,

The happiness of any home can lie murdered by any two people in it, each determined daily to have his or her own way. Riches or poverty provision or obscurity, have nothing to do with it. Home happiness is built on unselfishness and sympathy and forbearance —or else not built, at all but scattered into ruin.

A hatter, writing in “Men’s Wear” mentions that it is his invariable experience that men with small heads buy the cheapest hats, and men with big heads the dearest; and in explanation, he suggests that “men with small heads have not the intelligence to enable them to obtain a position which will permit them to pay the jyrice of the best quality hats.” Self help is taught at a very early age at the New Plymouth Central infant’s school, says the News. To assist the school committee to raise funds for the purchase of a lawn mower, the industry, thrift and enterprise of the young children were drawn on, and as a result the sum of £1 12/- was collected. Bottles collected and sold by the children provided the money, which will carry a Government subsidy.

A London paper says: —Messrs Day and Martin, the famouS blacking manufacturers, have been able to profit by their misfortunes, for their failure to advertise and the story of the consequences have brought them such a vast amount of publicity —gratuitous, by the way —that the demand for the company's products has increased by 33 1-3 per cent, in two weeks. The result is that, with the help of some new capital, the company will he able to keep going.