Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JUNE 21. 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2748, 21 June 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JUNE 21. 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Drs Pagel and Findlay, of the Health Department, edited Foxton yesterday on departmental business.

The Wanganui Hospital Board has received a gift of i'lOO from a lady for (he Taihapc hospital. A condition of the gift wa> that her name should not be disclosed.

During a matrimonial case before the S M. in Wellington on .Monday, a woman said: "1 told my husband to go to h —.” "Wyll, he was not hound to go there," observed the magistrate. For the lirst time in many moons pioceedings at yesterday's >S. M. Court dragged out until five o’clock when, owing to‘the fact that the gas pipes were blocked up with age and no lights being available, the S.M. called a halt in the proceedings until next court, day. Yesconstitutes something in the mil lire of a record for late sittings.

'flic case wa- concluded in the Stipe me Court at Napier, in which Florence Louise Sporle claimed £2 ,- 000 from the Acetone Illuminating and Welding Company for the death of her husband through the explosion at Port Ahuriri on November Ist of last year. The jury found there was no on the part of the defendant company and judgment was entered up accordingly for the defendants with costs.

Sir Francis Bell, in opening the Dominion conference at Wellington ou the use of building timbers, said lie hoped the prohibition of the export of timber would lie b.y statute instead of by Order in Council, lie trusted that when the present abnormal demand for timber slackened, people would resist the grant of any demaed for the export. The country’s timber must be conserved for the Dominion. It was this country’s heritage not that of the world.

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 wholesomer than soggy bread, and the same principle applies to tobacco. Take for instance the locally manu fuclured brands. They arc 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 auy excess of nicotine, absorbed by the system, may seriously effect the nerves or cause smoker’s heart and weakening sight. Smokers should, therefore, not fail to give this new tobacco a trial; there is a vast difference between toasted and lion-toasted tobacco, and they will lind, it is all in favour of the toasted. Obtainable in three strengths, Riverhead Gold very mild and aromatic, Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) medium, and Cut Plug No. 10, is recommended to those who prefer a fully body. 8.

“The Palmerston X. railway deviation will come if you only wait long enough,” stated the Prime Minister at Palmerston X’. on Thursday evening, “and I hope it is sarisl':icloi\ alien it does come.’ -

At a meeting of the New Plymouth Harbour Board on Thursday the chairman announced that an agroemont had been arrived, at .with the Railway Department for securinu road aeeess to the wharves and providing ample accommodation for the railway yards on the foreshore. Hitherto tiie Department, has had a monopoly on the wharf other traflic being debarred.

At yesterday’s S.M. Court the Magistrate (Mr J. L. Stout) drew the attention of parents of children of school age to the fact that, although they had a doctor’s certificate for absence, that was not sufficient to prevent action being taken against them for keeping the children awiiy from school. A note should be sent immediately to the headmaster whenever a child was kept away. Ho noticed that several doctor’s yesterday had been procured — after the summonses had been issued.

A returned soldier pleaded guilty at Invercargill this week, to making a false statement to a pensions officer regarding money he possessed when applying, for economic pension. II was explained that a considerable part of the money was due to his mother for board. The pensions oflicer said the defendant’s explanation was quite credited and he did not press for a heavy penalty, 'fhe Magistrate, Mr Cruickshank, said it was only through the utmost vigilance that the department saved the country from a large expenditure owing to false declarations. Defendant was lined £5. Herbert Arthur MacKie appeared before Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., at Blenheim, on Thursday, charged with vagancy. It was stated that MacKie, who is aged 28 years, had matriculated when 14. He was addicted to drugs and was found under the influence of drugs in a whnre at Uiverlamls. Recently the premises of two Blenheim chemists had been entered at night, but the tills were untouched. The police inferred that Mackie had enteied the premises in search of drugs. The police withdrew the charge of vagrancy on .condition that MacKie entered the Nelson mental hospital as a voluntary hoarder.