Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2749, 24 June 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The second session of the present Parliament, will open on Thursday. Mr Llihrs is acting as relieving stationmaster during Mr IT. Hornblow’s absence on leave. Sir Robert Stout on Sunday completed his 25th year as Chief Justice of New Zealand. The monthly meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board will be held on Saturday next. An electrical storm passed over this district at an early hour this morning.

The Education Board has granted Miss Eahe.y leave of absence from May 2Gth to June 26th on account of illness.

H.E.H. the Prince of aWles celebrated his thirtieth birthday yesterday, having been born on June 23rd, 1894.

The London “.Daily Express” says Mr Stapleton Royce, a Socialist M.P., is lively to be the next Governor of Tasmania. He is an agricultural expert. Both the s.s. Kennedy and s.s. Waverley arrived in port on the same tide on Friday with cargoes of general and benzine. Both vessels left again during the weekend.

“The building trade in Palmerston N. is very slack at present and the immediate outlook is not too promising,” said a well-known Palmerston K. builder in conversation with ; ii represeuUiKvc \uterday.

The friends *>f t Mr R. Heath will be pleased to learn that he is making good progress towards recovery from his recent illness and hopes to be able to return to business with in the next week.

■Mr 0. Robinson underwent an operation in a private hospital at Palmerston N. yesterday. His many Foxton friends will be pleased to learn that he is progressing as favourably as possible under the circumstances.

The local delegates to the Horowhenua Rugby Union thoughtfully provided seats for the ladies at Easton Park on Saturday, which was much appreciated by the fair sc-x. The ollicials also wired off the playing area thus preventing spectators overcrowding on the touch lines.

When Parliament assembles on Thursday, Mr Bitehener, the member for Waitaki, will move, ami Mr .Joseph Liiikiater, the Member l'or Manawatu, will second the Address-ia-Keply, to which amendments will probably be moved by both the leader of therOpposition and some member or members of the Labour Party. Forty, says the critic, is not the age it used to be but neither on the oilier hand, is 19. That is no longer the teens, but the nicotines. A young Australian girl in the hitter stage of development, lighted up her cigarette the other day before a visiting West Australian farmer. "Hope you don't object to ladies smoking?” “Not: at all,” was the affable answer, “along our way all the gins smoke.”

A Christchurch telegram says several split bank notes have been circulated there recently, mostly in the evening when it is difficult to delect the fraud. Queen Mary provided a fashion sensation at Ascot by wearing for the first time in many years a large picture hat, which attracted great attention. The Queen has for no long worn toques that, the eaddon change' took the fashion world by surprise. Referring to the Dominion’s Post and Telegraph Service, Mr Coates, Postmaster-General, says that, after allowing £450,000 for wireless and oilier improvements tho year’s surplus of revenue over expenditure would he till* second highest they had had, totalling £5(58,0 00. “Our country needs very badly a larger proportion of.' craftsmen,” said Mr IV- A. Grenfell the other evening at a meeting of persons interested in the Apprentices Act. “We are far too dependent on imported men, who are not always adaplable to New Zealand conditions.”

A camphor wood chest containing a bout £SO worth of clothes and £573 in money was stolen from a Chinese engineer on the Admiralty tanker Nneiila, on the day the vessel arrived at Auckland. It Rethought the box was thrown overboard and that the contents are still aboard the Nm-ida, Put tin* dcteclive- ;i •■'* unable to trace tin* clothes oi money or oltain any elm as In the iiiief.

Mr Justice A.-hmore decided at Edinburgh that under Scottish law, a woman was legally married to a man who died before marriage, and further that a child born was legitimate. The woman swore that she was engaged to be married and the banns were published, but the bridegroom died nine days before the date lixcd for the wedding. The child was born eight months after the father's death.

Owing to tin* wet weather, the gale receipts at the Palmerston N. Winter Show last week show a drop of £2ll as compared with last year, notwithstanding that the Exhibition was open for five days instead of four as previously. Following arc the daily totals with last year’s, figures in parenthesis: Tuesday £45 (£118) ; Wednesday, £339 (£(119); Thursday . £3ll. (£457); Friday £291 (£232): Saturday £224 Totals; 1924 £1212; 1923 £1428. The A Vest shore Hotel in the Napier suburbs was burned to ashes at 3 o’clock yesterday morning. No water supply was available and *olliing was saved, while an adjoining cottage and small hut were also totally destroyed. The licensee was Mr F. Rhodes, and the owner Mr E. Austin (Auckland). JTlie insurance on the building was £3,000 in the Phoenix and on the furniture and stock £420 in the Standard. The hoarders escaped in their night attire, saving nothing.

The famous blue diamond, once one of the Russian crown jewels, was redeemed at Paris on Saturday from the State pawnshop at Nice. The late Czar presented the diamond in 11)12 to Mademoiselle Suzanne Thillier, the authoress who frequented the Russian court. After the revolution her chateau was confiscated and she came to France. She lost heavily at gambling at Monte Carlo, and pawned the diamond, which is forty-three carats, for 200,006 francs. An American millionaire has now offered £200,000 for it, which will enable Mdlle. Thillier to pay her debts. Speaking at the Rotary Club dinner at Palmerston N. yesterday, on tlie subject of “the civil duties of of a citizen,” Mr P. Nathan, Mayor, said the duty of. the citizen was to take a keen and active interest in the town in which he l resided, and also the country in which he lived. The citizen should not be one of the drones who let the other man do all the work, the type of man who paid his annual subscription, yet who, when asked to do something, implied that lie was too busy, and that somebody else could do it ever so much better than he.”

An interesting sidelight on the housing shortage and high rents was

afforded in the course of a bankruptcy inquiry at Auckland. “What rent arc you paying 1 /” asked the Official Assignee. “Two pounds a week for a small place at Milford” was the reply, “and in addition it costs me about 10/- a week for fares tq town.” “Conld you not get a place' somewhere nearer the city for that, rent /” queried Mr Fisher. “Not a hope/'’ was the reply. “We had a place at .Epsom some time ago, and the rent was £3 10/- a week.” “ft is cruel," was the assignee's feeling comment.

In the days of Auld Lang Syne a N.Z. grown tobacco made its appearance on the market but failed to get a. hold ou the smoking public. The leaf was alright, but there was ,something out. A much more recent attempt to solve the problem resulted in the production of the National Tobacco Lo. s brands, non linnly established in the favour of flu; smokers. The secret of Ibis success is said to be due to the new toasting process which the manufacturers are now applying to their tobacco and which lias resulted in a most remarkable improvement in tlie smoking quality. The diiierence between the toasted and the nontoasted product is as wide us a cooked potato differs in taste fiom a raw potato. Any smoker can easily convince himself by trying just a few pipes of any of the following brands; Rivorliead Gold, very mild; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) of medium strength and Cut Plug No. 10 for those who prefer a full body. 9.

“I have travailed about a good deal, arid T have never been in any town where there are so many lo-

cal bodies, boards, associations and institutions which are controlling what are l essentially municipal activities as we have in Christchurch,” said a Christchurch City Councillor at the last meeting.

“What is the use of all this talk about afforestation?” said a wellknown farmer to a Wanganui Chronicle representative. He said it was no good planting trees until they could find some remedy for the blight, that has destroyed not only the blue gum plantations, but many of the forest trees as well.

Tbc financial campaign launched by the Mayor of Dunedin (Mr 11. L. Tapley) to secure funds and additional annual subscriber,s for the Pnrikel Society is now in full swing. An enthusiastic baud of men and women collectors lias been organised, and the women are now collecting in the suburban districts and flic men in the city. Up to Friday (states the “Otago Daily Times”) £2,500 had been collected, and the society hopes that the sum aimed at, £10,001), will he fully realised in the interests of whal is one of the most valuable institutions in the Dominion. ‘

“There is a lot hi the air about a dissolution," remarked Sir John Luke, ALP., when responding to the toast of “Parliament,” at a social evening of the Karori Rifle Club at Wellington on Saturday evening, “hill Cod help this country if we arc going to break Parliament up and get more parlies than we have at the present lime. Ft i.- fine of the saddest tilings to see a community setting town against country.” “There will he no dissolution; you can make your minds unite easy about that,” said Air It. A. Wright. ALP.. at a later stage. “This .Parliament is going to see its wax through. In my judgment il is just as well that an election should not take place till the due time. If an election takes place, there would be very little change.'' For several years there has been talk of linking up the North and South Islands hv telephonic communication, and apparently something definite is now being done. The Postmaster-General. (the Hon. J. G. Coates) announces that a cable to provide three telephone and four telegraph channels is to he laid aeross Cook’s Straits. Mr Coates adds that il has been his and the Department's ambition that persons in any part ol the Dominion may get in touch with their friends or business interests in any other part. The cable to lie laid will be the modern four-core continuously loaded J.ype. The latest type of theymionie valve repeaters will be utilised, which will enable people in North Auckland to hear with great distinctness a conversation by telephone from the Bluff.