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Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1924 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr and Mrs J. M. Barr returned from an enjoyable holiday trip to the Sounds yesterday.

Several local residents proceeded to Wellington and attended the big sale of motor cars held there 3'csterday.

No fewer than 20 accidents were reported in connection with the Christchurch trams during the month of December.

Nearly 2,000 aliens arc refused admission to Great Britain every year, Dover holding the record among ports for this; work with 703.

Mr John Colder represented the local Catholic parish at the recent celebrations in connection with Archbishop Redwood's jubilee at Wellington.

The Horowhenun Electric Power Board is shortly to embark upon a publicity campaign in connection with the electric lighting and power supply. Mrs J. Dunn, of Koxtmi, underwent a serious operation in the Palmerston North Hospital yesterday. We are pleased to report that she is progressing satisfactorily.

The tallies taken over the proposed main highways by the Manawatn County Council are now complete and will lie published at an early date. On behalf of tho Empire Exhibition, the Prince of Wales is wirelessly broadcasting his speech on March 18, which it is hoped will be picked up by America and the Dominions.

At the local police court this morning, before Mr M. E. Perreau, J.P. George Edward Johnson on a charge of drunkenness was lined 10/and for disturbing an entertainment at the Town Hall last evenin'” was fined 10/- and costs 10/-.

The arrival of the auxiliary scow Kohi at the local wharf last; evening created a certain alumni of local interest, as. she is the only vessel other than the Kennedy which has entered the p »rl for some considerable time.

To be fined for exceeding the speed limit, is what most motorists expect at some time or other, but to be fined for going too slowly is altogether a joke. Yet this was the experience of a lady motorist in an American city recently. The judge commented that in going eight to 10 miles an hour the accused was holding up the traffic. She should have been travelling from 10 to 15 miles an hour. A tine was inflicted.

Do not cross you i- knees when you sit down or you may develop varicose veins. Air H. Dixon, M.R.C.S., in the Lancet, writes; “One of the earliest factors in the causation of varicose veins of the legs is the habit of crossing one knee over the other. 1 can conceive no position better calculated to retard the normal flow of blood. . . No wonder the valves become disorganised in the course of years.”

Recently Mr J. D. Wilson resigned the mayoralty of Pahiatua owing to the Auditor-General putting a “tag” on the balance concerning the payment of the borough council accident premium to the Government Insurance Department, Air Wilson then being the Department's agent. A Press Association message received yesterday, states that Mr Wilson will probably be re-elected unopposed. The whole council lias signed his nomination paper, and also waited on him as a deputation with an assurance of confidence, testifying to his marked ability and the improvement made in the borough finances.

One exhibit at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley next year will be a magnificent example of an Indian carpet. It was originally intended for presentation, to the Prinee of Wales, when lie visited India in 1921 but it was not finished in time. It is entirely of silk, with 400 knots to the square inch. The United Stales War Department records show that 24.9 per cent, of the draft army examined by that Department’s agents were unable to read and understand a news paper or write a letter home. Tt, will come as a surprise t<> many that in tile greatest republic the world has known, one in every four of, its young manhood and womanhood is illiterate. Tn Japan ninety per cent, of the people can read.

There, has been an appreciable increase in the number of the Dominion’s sheep, states a Press Association message from Auckland. The latest returns as mentioned by the Prime Minister yesterday, show an increase of 700,000. This is considered a very satisfactory return. but the total at present, approximately 23,782,000, is still far below that of the record year of 1918, when the Dominion’s sheep flocks numbered 20,538,302. In 19.14 the total was close upon 25,000,000

Two Levin motorists had an unpleasant experience last Sunday, evening when motoring through Fox ton, says the Chronicle. They were driving within the borough when a bullet smashed the windscreen. fortunately passing between the two occupants of the car. The impact scattered glass over the driver’s knees. The hole was such as a pea. rifle bullet would make, the glass around being cracked but not smashed out on the side of eutrv.

A good deal of prominence is being given by (lie examining committee in the King Country to the discover) of a grub, which, if is claimed. is destined to display an important part in the eradication of ragwort. says the New Zealand Times. The grub is a bluish-green in colour about a quarter of an inch in length and is not to be confused with the ordinary caterpillar, which also does good work in destroying the pest. The new grub was brought under the notice of Air M. Jones, president of the Te Kuiti A. and P. Association, bv Air C. Huggin, a Waitete farmer, and a specimen has been forwarded to the Botanical Department in Wellington. The grub has also been in evidence in Piopio district for some time.

A hearty laugh was heard in the Gisborne Court the other morning during the hearing of a ease in which a Maori was charged with being an idle and disorderly person (relates the Poverty Bay Herald.) An offer bad been received from his relatives to (be effect- that they would look after him, but the Afagistrate wanted to make quite .-'lire that ibe man would not be roaming about without a home. Being afraid that the Native did not quite understand the position, Mr Levey told a constable to make tilings clear to the Maori. “You not to bang about the town; must go to your friends. Compris?” As the Native said lie understood, it must be presumed that his knowledge of French was bolter than his English.

Toasted tobacco is the last word in the manufacture of the fragrant weed. Its process is based upon science and just exactly as people prefer their food cooked, they will now prefer their tobacco toasted. Toast is certainly certainly wliolesomer than soggy bread, and the same principle applies to tobacco. Take for instance flic locally manufactured brands. They are all toasted, and consequently more pleasing to the palate, besides there is less nicotine in them and that is a matter of importance, in as much

as any excess of nicotine absorbed by flip system may seriously effect the nerves or cause smoker’s heart and weakening sight. Smokers sho aid, therefore, not fail to give this new tobacco a trial; there is a vast difference between toasted and nonlousted tobacco, and they will find it is all in favour of the toasted. Obtainable in three strengths, Riverhead Gold, very mild and aromatic; Too •'led Navy Cut (Bulldog) medium, and Cut Plug No. 10 is recommended to those who prefer a full hod v. s

The prevalence of goitre in Canterbury gives special interest to statements by Professor E. H. Starling in Ids Harvein Oration entitled “The Wisdom of the Body.” delivered before the Royal College of IMi vr-ioin ns. Loiulim. ;it tin* <*nrl <ii* last year (states the Lyttelton Times). After dealing with tile action of the internal secretion of (he thyroid gland, and I lie morbid results of its deficiency affecting tissues, the changes of food in the body, and mentality he states; “lodine is essential to the formation of (In' specific secretion of the thyroid gland. If iodine is completely absent from the drinking water and the soil, so that it is not contained even in minute quantities in the vegetable food grown in the district the thyroid undergoes hyperplasia, in a vain endeavour to make bricks without straw, to produce its proper hormone without iodine. This seems to be the cause of the great prevalence of simple goitre in certain districts, especially in Switzerland and parts of Ihc United States. Tt has been shown that goitre can (, e practically eliminated from these districts by the occasional administration of small doses of iodine or iodides. The Swiss Goitre Coiuuiissioner'has recommended the adoption of this method of goitre prevention as a public health measure throughout the whole State.

The difficulty of inducing witnesses in Court to speak so . that the Judge and jury can hear distinctly is one of common occurrence. A young farmer was giving evidence in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth and in an effort to get- him to respond to appeals to “Speak up!” his Honour, AH Justice Reed asked him if he was used to working dogs <m his farm. His reply was in the affirmative, and the Judge then asked, “Well, how would you speak to your dog if he was working over by ! hat far door?” A laugh went round iho Court when the witness replied:

“It would depend on whether he was working well or not.” When the laughter had subsided, his Honour suggested the witness should speak as though his dog was not working well.

Die practice of securing guaranteed bud wood for the propagation of fruit trees is now the rule in many advanced fruit-growing countries, thus, as far as humanly possible, preventing mistakes as to names, ;md also securing that the buds shall be cut from Ibe firstfruiting types of the sorts desired, -lates the Otago Daily Times. The Dominion is awakening to the advantages of type and correct nomenclature. and the laid selection committees of the Institute of Horticulture mjp assisting and co-operating with the nurserymen to this end. For the third year in succession the bud selection committee at Roxburgh is supplying the fruit to the nurseries with all the apricot bud wood needed for guaranteed stock. Tt is'expected that this year’s supply of apricot buds alone will run into at least 15.00. Similar bud selection committees are at work at other centres, selecting bud wood.

The question of whether corporal punishment should be allowed in our schools is one upon which there has been a difference of opinion for very many years. Following the i use in the Court here the other day (states the “Post’s" Dunedin correspondent) it was represented that strapping was overdone in many of the local schools, but careful inquiries seem to show that such is not the case in most schools. The information gained shows that teachers generally use the leather in the words of the hoard’s regulation on the subject, “sparingly and with due deliberation.” At the same time there are indications that in one or two instances more weight is used behind the strap than is necessary. II was also represented that the strap was used much more freely in Dunedin Ilian in the North, but at least two teachers who have had experience in the North state that the position is much the same here as in other parts of New Zealand. The headmaster of a city school said that corporal punishment was necessary and was all right as long as if was carried out in the spirit of the board’s regulations. He knew of some eases however, where the strapping was unnecessarily hard, and where the parents had a right to complain. After all, if was a matter of the individual teacher, though the headmaster was nominally in charge. There were some teachers, just like people in other walks of life, who had bad tempers, and who sometimes, unfortunately, lost them when strapping children. This was regrettable and teachers who were supposed to use their brains should be very careful not to let this happen. He agreed that any such offences should not be treated lightly.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2701, 28 February 1924, Page 2

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Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1924 LOCAL AND GENERAL Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2701, 28 February 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1924 LOCAL AND GENERAL Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2701, 28 February 1924, Page 2

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