Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2739, 29 May 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Marryatt, one of the original liallanee (Pahiatna) settlers was a visitor to Pox ton \csterdny.

Messrs A. Smith ami Starkie. of Wellington, have parehased Mr Preston's interest in the Post Office Hotel. Mr Preston intends to take no his residence In Wellington at an early date.

The* Telegraph repurls tli:il a young hid.v visitor 111 Napier lias received word that she had heen lucky in winning :i huge -nm of money in a cerlniii form oi' lottery noj legal in New Zealand,

AI yesterday's Manawalii County ('uiineil meet in*;’ the ('lmll enlm ill Co. -op. Dairy Co., W. Amoy. ami the Foxlon Distribiiiinjr Co. wrote ie motor Ira Hie on the roads. II was decided to advise the writers that |hi necessary license must lie purchased if the heavy Hattie was to he run.

“These are the days of optimism” remarked the lion. K. F. Bollard, spooking- at the opening of the Raglan Winter Exhibition last Friday. “I like the man who can show genuine optimism —a man who, although he sees failure in his business to-day, feels that with a little extra push his failure will he splendidly reversed next year."

“The next election will be a straight-out light between Labour and Reform,” said Mr li. E. Holland, at Carterton during a recent address. “The Labour P.arty has the men but we lack money.” He expressed the hope that Labour would have candidates in every constituency —Pakelia and Maori —at the next election.

“In England they are now actually experimenting with rubber-sur-faced roads,” said Mr E. N. Thompson, l'ublic Works engineer, at the Napier Chamber of Commerce meeting. “The results show that an excellent surface can thus be obtainable, but the cost is practically £o per square yard, against 10/- per square yard for concrete, which makes such a proposition impossible in New Zealand” (laughter). The Wanganui Education Board has decided to supply the Education Department with a list of teachers who have, since November last, accepted appointments in that district and have subsequently declined to take them up. The department is being urged to take steps to have a clause inserted in the Act to deal with the practice. The mover of the resolution said that in private life no employer would stand what was being done by teachers in this respect.

Bandsmen are reminded that they will meet on the balcony of the Royal Theatre at 7.30 this evening to assist the entertainment in aid of the Fire Brigade. There will be no procession as formally announced.

“Clive me tin* man who is not afraid to work—the man who refuses to allow others to carry him on their hacks; that’s the fellow that helps to make this country buzz to progress." So said the Him. li. F. R-.llard in a speech at Raglan lasi Friday.

A small farmer near Blenheim who has live walnut trees in his garden was looking forward to milking a good cheipie bv them, as they were well laden with nuts (says an exchange). However, on offering them for sale recently he was only aide to get fid per lb. for them, the reason given for Iho low price being that the nuts are very plenlifnl this year and also that there is a hig shipment of Chinese and Roumanian walnuts coining into the Dominion al a cheap rate. A motor lorry left staining on a steep side street in Wellington while the owner delivered coal, ran down hill and collided with a house, breaking through the wall and exposing the interior of the kitchen. Fortunately no one was hurt but the lady of the house was considerably startled. She was seen standing in the kitchen gazing out through the broken wall, and when asked where she was when the accident occurred replied: “Just about where 1 am now. 1 have been too frightened to move.” A Dargaville business man had a letter fi’oin Te Kuiti on Wednesday last which slated that someone had burgled the office of the King Country Chronicle in that town and had thrown eases of type and boxes of blocks into the river. Although some of this has been salvaged a portion of the printing business is paralysed until a new lot can be obtained. The whole filing is recognised as one of tlie worst acts of vandalism ever perpetrated in the district.

Patriotic New Zealanders occasionally are shocked by the ignorance of those with whom they come in contact abroad of the whereabouts of the best little country in the world. The training of business men does not always include geography, says Ihe Otago Daily Times, but a universilv should not fall into the crude error revealed in an envelope received in Dunedin. A member of ilm Hi ago Fniversiiv staff has been m cuniniuiiieation with the University uf Geneva, and was pained to receive from that distinguished seat of learning the oilier day, a jelter addressed: “Fniversiiv of Olago, Dunedin, New Zealand, TPS.A.”

A 1 nulilin" elect tie inn nl Shannon (Males the Levin Chronicle) took il upon himself' to extend tlio wiriu" system (lint Imd boon installed liv tlio contractors and with a hnro i upper wire find staples had taken j lend to :m out-building. When n Rower Board employee installed a meter mi Saturday lie was surprised to see Hint it was registering enr mil nitliou"li apparently all switches were off. Invest Ration re - vealed the work of the amateur. To -how the danger of inlerferenec with installations it may lie mentioned that in this ease the work was done in such an unskilful manner that it might cnsilv have reused a lire. A.s u Haulier of fact, one of the fimeInid hern blown out and roplneod lev j| inni'll stronger one whieh eo 11 id easily have been responsible for fusing at tin 1 power house and leaving the whole of Shannon in darkness. Stewart Island was. on Saturday, the scene-of a eelelimtion whirl) might lie said to lie unique in the history of New Zealand. The even! honoured was Norway s Liberty |)nv and the prim-ipnL were the Norwegian sailors, who had been left on Stewart Island in rhnr.gr of the |i\ e'whale-ehnsers. Mr \\ iig. \ i<eCoiisul for Norway, read a cable received from the headquarters at the Nornmnds Forbnndet (Norwegian Society 1. whieh ha- branches wherever u Norwegian min happen to live in any purl of the world, which, Iranslateil, read as follows:

(ulii t ions on I lie dny. Roi:;irds. Normmxls Korhiuiiler.’' He !iad ilispntelied in reply a massage t i’oiu I lie whalers and liimsell' reading: “Normnml Sli warl Island tnkker for t-le<rrani novge len<r ltfve,’’ ■mV Iranslaled, “Norwegians on Stewart Island thanks for telegram. Ijomu' live Norway." The whalers then elimhed on to the stage and sang a lew verses of their National Anthem.

".New Zealand has corue into possession of something more valuable than the biggest gold mine," remarked the captain of an American liner the other day when sampling i some of our local tobacco. “And I predict," he went on, “that in years to come tobacco growing here will be just as flourishing as in Virginia, my native country." It is gratifying to see that some enterprising people in this Dominion are realising the huge possibilities of the to bacco industry, but even the most sanguine were surprised when the article -made its first appearance. ISucli was the success that the manufacturers could hardly cope with the demand. And no wonder, because this tobacco represents quite a new type with a distinctive flavour of its own, due, it is said, to the I ousting process which has been adopted in its manufacture. But its greatest virtue is its small percentage of nicotine and this is why it does not affect the heart and nerves, or the eyesight. Smokers should not fail to give it a trial. Obtainable in three strengths, Eiverhead Hold, Mild Toasted Navy Out (Bulldog) medium and Out Plug No. 10 f Bullhead) full body. 13

Mr William Piekin, an old Gis borne settler, dropped dead while addressing a meeting of Hie Cook County Council on Tuesday, on behalf of a ilepnjation of Agatnra settlers.