Manawatu Herald TUESDAY. JUNE 17, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2746, 17 June 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY. JUNE 17, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Gazette notice, proclaiming Wanganui as a city,as from July 1, has been issued. S The establishment in New Zealand of the system of payment on delivery for parcels forwarded by parcel post is suggested .by the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce.

At the Supreme Court at Blenheim on Saturday. John James Freeguarcl Cleverly, for stealing £4O from an old man who had helped him from time to time, was sentenced to reformative detention for nine months.

Mr \V. Jewell. President of the X.Z. Country flubs Association, and Mr .1. R. Whyte. President of the Pox ton Racing flub, leave for Wellington to-morrow to attend with the delegation waiting upon the Premier in connect inn with racing taxation.

The Rev. P. McDonald, local Presbyterian minister, who lias been in indifferent health for some time past, has been ordered away for recuperative purposes. During his three weeks’ absence the church services will he conducted by the Rev. and Mrs Peryman, and Messrs Billons and Low.

A Palmerston X. sportsman who recently wandered through Taranaki, says lie has not come across a single cotton-tail, Iml hares are almost as plentiful there as the rabbits are here. The Australian miimli is, in hundreds, but not one magpie was seen. Knglish game, as elsewhere, is scarce and shy though pheasants are increasing., The popularity of a shopping week competition known as “Gim--me that .Cl” was referred to by Mr W. If. Gulliver at a meeting of Napier business men interested in this year’s shopping week, and he expressed his regret that so popular a competition should have to he abandoned because in (lie eyes of the law it was illegal (says the Telegraph). The chairman (Mr 11. Warded- Johnston) : “I may state" that I had a lot to do with last year’s competition, hat the sergeant of police as.good as (old me that if I promoted any more 1 would go up on the hill.” (Laughter). “There is a scientific way of eradicating the blackberry pest, in New -Zealand,”-said Mr Massey to a deputation from the Auckland University College Council, at Auckland “but its adoption would involve the sacrifice of roses.” Such, at any rate, explained the Prime Minister, was the information given to him by a scientific expert at Honolulu, where a fairly similar post had been destroyed. The destructive specific, however, would also destroy roses. Kvcn at that price the result would be worth it, I bough be would like to save the roses in New Zealand.

Messrs Goldsmith and Overton clerk and engineer to the ITorowlienua Electric Povffv Board were on n business visit to Foxton yesterday.

Acute unemployment is being experienced in Christchurch at the present time and the Minister of Public Works is being asked to provide relief works.

Much of the machinery installed in the Wanganui woollen mills at Aramoho has been si*t in motion, and spinning of yarn has beijii commenced. The preliminary work has proved satisfactory, and augurs well for the success of the industry in that district.

A montreal brewery advertised that it would give a bottle of beer and'a free drink to all persons who applied for it. A crowd estimatedat 25,000 stormed the doors and the police had to be called out. The crowd included many women with children in arms, cripples, and people of all walks m life. Mirny lost their hats and had their clothing torn in the rush.

There were 05 insolvencies recorded in the Dominion last month, compared with 01 in April and 07 in March. The figures for May, compared with those of the corresponding month of the preceding three years, show as follows: —May, 1924 05; 1923, 02; 1922, 80; 1921, 33. A feature 'of last month’s list, apart from the bankruptcies of farmers, was tin l insolvencies of storekeepers six of whom went bankrupt. Farmers were again in the ascendant, with 15 lib's, labourers being next with nine.

A young rascal worked a cheeky swindle on a Dunedin shopkeeper the other day. He went into the shop, threw what looked like half a crown on the counter, and asked tor change. The coin was placed head up. The attendant handed the change to the lad, and on placing tlie coin in the till she noticed .a “tail” on the other side. She called out to the proprietor, who chased the lad from the shop, but the young thief jumped on his bicycle and escaped. The coin was really a penny nieelv silvered on the head side, hut not so well disguised on the oilier.

In the Banco Court tit Sydney John White secured a verdict for £540 against the Davis Gelaiine Company of Australasia, Ltd., for the alleged breach of a charter party that defendant's ship. H." Iv. Hall, then at Lyttelton, should proceed to Malden Island fo load a cargo of. guano, which was to be taken to New Zealand and delivered <>n payment of freight . The allegation was that defendant failed !o carry out the agreement. Defendant pleaded that they did not agree, as alleged,' and were prevented from carrying out the agreement by the dangers and perils of the sea. Stay of proceedings was granted.

A dozen mere men learned finite a lot about pastry at the Arbitration Court at Christchurch on Monday (remarks the “Sun”). The dispute under discussion concerned female pastrycooks and the conversation turned on such bags of mystery as marzipans, oswego sponges, and other delicacies from the afternoon tea table. “What is an eclair?” asked an ignorant male person of a female witness. “Do yon know what a cream puff is?” asked the witness. Chorus of assent from the court. “Well,” replied the unfolder of mysteries, “that’s an eclair with a different name” —and the court passed on to less weighty matters.

“We ;itc becoming hysterical aImut juvenile depravity," asserted Mr Poyuton, S.M., before' the Commission inquiring into the subject of mental defectives and sexual offenders at Auckland. “Except South Australia, there are fewer crimes among our children between 15 and 20 than'in any other country in the world. Our boys and girls under 10 are not getting worse.” The proportion of prisoners to a given number of population in 1903 was 34. It was 30 in 1913 and 10 in 1922. Juvenile cases before the Courts showed a decrease. There were 1677 in 1915, and 1391 in 1921. Most of the delinquency was due to parental neglect, and much to the universal spirit of mischief in children. It was wrong to bring children into Court. No record whatever should be kept of a lirst offence unless of a grave nature, as that would require future treatment. In all eases whipping should be permissible. It is regrettable, added Mr Poynton, “that so little is done in schools to warn children about the evils that will assail them in later life.”

Why should a man who is careful to wear and use only Empire products continually cram his pipe full of American tobacco? Keep the money in the country by smoking our very own tobacco, grown in New Zealand. Try it, and you will be delighted with its unequalled mildness and smooth and mellow smoking properties* due to the small percentage of nicotine and to the toasting process to which the tobacco lias been subjected., This makes for health, since excess nicotine has a very bad inlluenee on the heart and nerves. Once the smoker gets accustomed to the pure tobacco flavour of the local product, lie will reject all foreign brands with their adulterations, and he will awaken to the fact; that he can get u better article, grown fact tired in bis own country, for less money. Those who like a lull body should try Out Plug No. 10, Hie Bullhead label, or (lie somewhat milder Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) vastly different from the nou-toast-ed imported brands, while Biveil.cad Gold excels all others in mildness and aroma. 0.

A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Eltlinm <■ t -1.20 on Sunday morning.

Dr. Findlay, of the Health Department, accompanied by Mr Huggins, district health officer, visited Fox ton yesterday, on departmental business.

We understood that Mr. \Y. MeKillop, who was selected to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of Mr. Banks, as headmaster of the local State School, has declined the position. t

Everyone who would like to see the bin- football match free, at Foxton on Saturday, can do so by paying a visit to the C. M. Boss Coy’s men’s department. Admission tickets free with £1 or more spent this week.*

As evidence of the mildness of the season, a local resident brought in a bunch of hlnckberrie yesterday (says the Manawntn Times). Tic picked enough ripe berries' to make a pie for the family’s Sunday dinner this past week-end. The berries are large and well-formed.

Below tin' Mount, Biehmond, and the Camp Farm, and running parallel with the Portage road at Otahuhu, a peat lire has been burning steadily since December. The originating cause was the burning off of some dry thistles near by but no cue could have expected that it would continue for eight months. ‘‘When motorists drive through the Corgi* they must take proper precautions.” stated Mr .1. L-. Stout, S.M., at the ‘Palmerston N. Magistrate's Court yesterday. “The men working in the Gorge are engaged in a national work, and they must be protected.” A very capable judge has been secured .for the forthcoming competition between the Fox ton anil Levin choirs in the person of Air W. R. Don. of Dunedin, says the Chronicle. Mr Don was formerly musical conductor of the Orphans' Club in Dunedin, and also ot the choir at tin* Dunedin Exhibition.