Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2720, 12 April 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The weather in this district is particularly mild fur this period of the year.

Di\ and Mrs Adams and Mr and Mrs A. H. Boyes, of Wanganui, paid a brief visit to relatives and Foxlon friends this week.

A Napier bankrupt, under cxaiuinatioin, stated that the value of his furniture was about £2OO, and it was insured for £3OO.

We are pleased to report that Mr Stan Barber has recovered from his accident received while competing in the horse jumping competition at the recent local sports.

Mrs J. B. Colev, of Foxton, and late of Levin, is to leave by (he lonic for England on a visit to tier parents in Scotland and will be absent for about six months.

The Government have made a grant of £250 for the purpose of purchasing potatoes, flour, and sugar for the natives who suffered losses in the Napier floods recently.

Mr F. Robinson, n member of (be Horowhenua Rugby Union, lias been successful in obtaining three footballs for the use of local schools, from a grant made lo I lie Union for that purpose.

“Any person who wilfully damages an electric transmission line is, under the Rower Boards Act. liable to a tine upon conviction of up to £500,” said Mr \V. McArthur, when exhibiting to the Waipa Post two insulators that had been shattered by bullets.

Out of a total of 45 applications for the position of town clerk to the Feilding Borough Council Mr Noel Clement Harding, town clerk of Paten, was appointed to the position. When the message giving the views of the Leader of lhe*Opposition adverse to the constitution of the Taxation Commission was submitted to Mr Massey at Invercargill, Mr Massey said: “I take no notice of Mr Wilford’s opinion. T know that the Government is doing the right thing and the public will un derstand that before very long."

An appeal was made bv, the Hamilton Borough Council in the Supreme Court concerning its conviction by Mr H. A.- Young. S.M. for failing to obey a request by the superintendent of the Hamilton Fire Brigade lo station a liremnn at the .Town Hall during public, performances. The council contended that the superintendent had no authority to issue such instructions. The appeal was dismissed by Mr Justice McGregor, who held that the superintendent had the right to make such a requisition, which canie within meaning of “safe-guard and means of escape.”

In the winter season when colds unfold You’ll always be welcomed by young and -old, A greeting of gladness is always sure, Where you bring Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. its flavour and fragrance past .joys recall, And its cheering wrapper is known to all. A thrill of contentment sincere and pure i Welcomes Woods’ Peppermint Cured

Replying to a deputation at Dunelui when en route to Wellington, Mr Massey stated that motorists could put right out of their minds any idea that a petrol tax might he imposed.

- A Detroit woman offered a reward of five dollars for the return of her lost cat. In. less, than half an hour the small boys in the neighbourhood rounded up 149 tabbies, including the missing pussy. It pays to advertise.

An Oamaru resident (says the North Otago Times) has been informed by a firm of solicitors that a considerable sum of money is lying in Chancery to his credit. He is considering whelher it is worth while taking a trip Home and prospecting the claim.

There Aiave been ' fifty bankruptcies in the Auckland district since the opening of the year. This portends a heavy number of failures, for there are two serious hurdles yet to he faced: the winter. when the majority of people seek the. protection of the Court, and the expiration of the moratorium . The total bankruptcies for last vear were 1(!3.

It is not often nowadays that people seem to he affected with any excessive degree of honesty (says the Southland News), but during 1 ho imsl week a young man entered tl»c* police station and banded over to •Sergeant Hewitt a pound note which lit had picked up, with the request that it should lie restored to its owner. This is the first time for a considerable period that the police have had any money left with them and so far nobody has claimed the missing note.

The Dunedin City Council's estimated expenditure for the year is £144,50(5 and if is proposed that the. following rates and charges he levied to meet the current year’s requirements: — (a) A general rale of 2s in the .£ as levied last year; (b) a water rate of 9d in the £ as levied last year; (e) a hospital rate of fid in the £, as levied last year; (d) a sanitary fee of 24s in respect of those premises to which such service is given in lieu of 22s as levied last vear.

An unusually fast run was made recently between Montreal and Boston by a special train engaged by Mr Henry Ford, who was in a hurry. Over the first stage, to Newport, 104 miles were covered in 117 minutes, according to reports published in Canadian newspapers. At breakfast time Mr Ford asked for speed to lie reduced so that, he might enjoy, the meal in comfort. The whole journey of 340 miles occupied 7 hours 50 minutes, compared with 12 hours taken by the regular express.

During the hearing on an application for separation and maintenance, which came before Mr F. K. Hunt in the Magistrate’s Court, Auckland, on Friday, it was stated by counsel for the husband that bis wife had taken all his clothes. When he returned home lie could not even find his trousers. “Well. 1 paid for every stitch of his clothes out of my own money. They are. my properly,” said complainant, from the witness box. The Magistrate: “Yes, but the trousers are no good to yon, you know; I think you had better give them hack, anyway. (Laughter.)

The United States Government is losing many valuable clerks owing to the lure of high wages paid to bricklayers. Bricklayers in Washington receive from £2 8s to £4 per day, while most Government clerks do not obtain more than £l- - Bricklaying has become so attractive that- evening schools have been opened. It is estimated that hundreds of clerks are learning how to lay bricks. “Men of many vocations are taking up bricklaying,” says Mr. A. E. llrumm, principal of the local Young Men’s Christian Association trades school, which has started bricklaying classes. “They include carpenters, contractors, architects, marble setters and Government clerks.”

West Coast sawmillers are mainly engaged in supplying the needs of the Australian market. The slate of the trade is. fairly bright at present (remarks the Orcymoiitli correspondent of the Christchurch ‘Press'.) Large ipiantities will go over the Greymoutli bar during the next few weeks. There is still a tendency to require those shipping at this end to make up orders complying fairly accurately with speciticaiions, but Australian buyers are not nearly so strict in this regard as during a depression. The large new mill which has been erected on the American plan near Nelson Creek was put into running order last week and it is expected that catting will be commenced next, month. This saw mill will give employment to a considerable number of men.

The following paragraph, taken from a Sydney paper, speaks for itself: “What time does the 2.1 t) train leave for Flemiugton?” was the question put to the railway officers at Spencer Street station by a man. “At 2.10, of course,” wits the reply. “Well,”,said the man, “it has gone, and the time is now 2.9. How do the commissioners propose to get me in time to back Heroic in the second race?” The officials were perturbed. They sought iu vain to have a special train made up. Finally they hired a taxi for those whom the train had left behind. The passengers in the taxi wondered, and gave thanks to the Chief Commissioner, Mr Clapp, but they wondered no longer when they discovered that one of those in Che ear was the Minister for Railways, Mr Old, and another a near relative of the Chief Commissioner.

The Woodville County Council is in the unique position of being the first council to commence operations under the Main Highways Board. The work of tar-sealing the main road from the borough boundary to Ngawapurua Bridge was commenced yesterday.

An extensive and difficult .task now in progress is the registration of blind people in New Zealand. Referring to this matter, Mr Clutlm Mackenzie, director of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, said that such a register was essential as the basis of any properly organised work among the blind. It was a difficult task to discover them, and when found it was almost as hard to get them to fill in forms. Nevertheless 250 blind people have been registered, and he hoped to be able shortly to supply some useful and interesting statistics. A valuable extension of the institute’s organisation had been the establishment in Wellingon, Christchurch and Dunedin of advisory committees, which had been most helping in registering the blind of their provinces, and in investigating all matters referred to them.

A preacher once said; “Editors dare not (ell the whole truth. If newspapers would be a failure.” The you did you could not live. Your editor replied; “You are right, and the minister who will at all times tell the truth about the church members alive or dead will not occupy the pulpit more than one Sunday, and lie will find it necessary to leave town in ft hurry. The press and the pulpit go hand in hand with white-wash brash and land words magnifying little virtues into big ones.” And the minister went away looking thoughtful while the editor turned to' his work telling about the unsurpassed beauty of the bride, while, as a matter of fact, she was as ugly as a mud fence.—Exchange.

The Official Year Book of the Church of England for 3924 contains some interesting figures. The number of deacons ordained during the past year was 436, and increase of 75 over the previous twelve months. This is far short, of the needed numbei - , and there is a grievous dearth of clergymen under thirty years of age. In 1922 there were just over half a million baptisms, the falling number being no doubt due to the decreasing birth rate. The number of communicants at Easter was 2,294,190. In 1922 there 1,955,858 Sunday School scholars and 329,785 chor-i.-lers, says a London paper.

The g- : ft of a greenstone mere, of historical interest has been promised to the Auckland War Memorial Museum by a Maori chief (says the Auckland Herald). An intcrestjpig slurv centres around this particular mere. The weapon was handed down through many generations, nut ii it was buried with one of the last great chiefs. About a. fortnight ago one of the dependants of the last owner, a European, visited the native burial ground and pillaged the graves, even openiug the coffin, from which they obtained the mere. They were unable to dispose of the treasure as easily as they had expected and by the time they attempted to sell their ill-gotten goods, stories of the desecration of the graves were afloat, and they found themselves faced .with police proceedings. Herepete Papihana, the chief of the tribe which claims the mere, has now decided to make it a gift to the museum.

In the days of Auld Lang Syne a N.Z. grown tobacco made its appearance on the market but failed to get a bold on the smoking public. The leaf was alright, but there was something out. A much more recoil attempt to solve the problem resulted in the production of the National Tobacco Co.'s brands, now lirmiy established in the favour of the smokers. The secret of this success is said to be due to the new toasting process which the manufacturer- are now applying to their tobacco and which has resulted in a iimsl remarkable improvement in tlit - smoking quality. The difference between the toasted and the nontousted product is as wide as a

cooked potato differs in taste from a raw potato. Any smoker can easily convince himself by trying just a few pipes of any of the following brands; Kiverhead Gold, very mildj Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) of medium strength and Cut Bing No. It) for those who prefer a full bods'. 9.

A letter written by a young married woman who. with her soldier husband, is living far inland, many, many mile.- from a railway station, gives a good insight info the tilings which those outback have to think about, and some of the problems they have to try to solve." “We are expecting ltic Revaluation Board any duv now," she writes, “but we are not expecting that we will reap much henelit. Not that we do not need help, for we are very hard up, bit! 1 am afraid we look too prosperous because we slave from morning till night to keep our place tidy. The untidy people and the people who-don't try are far more likely to get help than we are, My hair has been turning greyer than ever lately (I'm only 26) trying to make garments for my two boys out of their father's old tilings —a great game, which is an education in itself. Why, of why were we not taught sewing at school 1 ? A fat lot of good algebra and geometry, etc., are to me now in these days of trying to keep a house going on very little. Enough or I shall become bitter, but maybe in the dim and distant future a girl will receive an education which will help not to make her a bigger fool than ever when it comes to managing a household.”