Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2752, 1 July 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local rainfall for Juno remastered 3.70 inches. The maximum i:ill was on the 1.8 th., when one inch was recorded.

.Mx Hodge, archied to the Wanganui Education Hoard, visited Foxlon yesterday in connection with certain repair work to the school building ami residence.

A nautical inquiry is being held at Wellington touching damage done to the Shaw- Savill liner t’akeha, when berthing in Bluff Harbour on •June 3.

Mr \Y. 11. Field (Otaki) has given notice to ask the I’rime Minister whether he will introduce more stringent legislation to prevent the pollution of streams and waterway's.

The appointment of Mr F. A. Mason as headmaster of the local •State school has been conlirmed by the Waftgamii Boaid. Mr Mason has been asked to take up his duties on August Ist.

An Australian Rules football match at Paddington, Sydney, on Saturday, developed into a free light among the players, and the spectators, including women, joining in. Fists and umbrellas were freely used before the police restored order.

The Foxton Harbour Board in conjunction with the ManawatuKabldt, Board, have taken over a commodious room in the Racing Club ollice. .Mr !,'. Rangihouea is secretary of both the above bodies.

The Niagara nearly went ashore in Darling Harbour, Sydney, on Saturday, in avoiding a cargo steamer outward-bound. At one point it was within twenty-live yards of tlie shore, but skilful handling by the skipper averted an accident.

A fatal accident occurred yesterday afternoon at Ward Road mill, Kanieri, Lake lid., Hokitika. William McFudyen, a married man, with no children, was struck by a wire hauling, rope and killed instantly. Deceased was about 40 years of age.

Twenty-live thousand Salvationists with fifty hands assembled at the Crystal Palace to welcome General JLiooth home from Australia and .New Zealand, with a fanfare of trumpets and a inarch past, representing every section of the Salvation Army. The local vital statistics for last month with figures Tor corresponding month of last year in parenthesis were as follows: —Births 2 (8), deaths, nil (nil); marriages 2 (1). Similar figures for the quarter ended June doth were: —Births 17 (18), deaths nil (4); marriages 5 (0).

JVIr f'lyger, who contested the Aiauawatu Seat in the Liberal Labour interests at last general election, was a visitor to Boston yesterday. In conversation with our representative, Air Piyger expressed the opinion that the prospects of the Party would be enhanced if Sir Joseph Ward was at the head of affairs.

“A wonderful old man,” was the remark of an adherent of the local Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening, after the service which had been conducted by Air li. Biilens, of Palmerston As 1 . Air Biilens is well ovi er the alloted span and Bather Time has dealt kindly with him, and llis clear and logical reasoning and forceful delivery would put many young men of the cloth in the shade, lie is of the evangelical school and an uncompromising champion of the Bible as the inspired word of God and deals with the higher clitics in unmistakable language.

Bor Children's Hacking Cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.*

Mr H. D. Lowry, ai present stalionmasler at Nelson, has been appointed to the position ~f stationmaster at Christ church. An Auckland Press Association message reports the death of Mr Ilarrv Charles William Wrigg, New Zealand Cross, aged 82 years. The Hastings Borough Council has decided to purchase 83 acres of land at Londlnnd for aft'orosta(if ti uurposos.

The membership of (he various -ports bodies represented a! the recent deputation to the Prime Minister regarding amusement tax was no fewer than 120,000.

Mr F. .bulks i- acting as relieving -talionmasler at Foxton. Mr denies is a sou of our into esteemed residents. Mr and Mrs F. E. Jenks. and i,. located at the Palmerston office.

A Christchurch telegram says that E. R. Curtis, a well-known Lyttellon resident is missing. He went on hoard I lie' Maori on Thursday for a t rip to Wellington, and has not been heard of since. It is feared he fell overboard.

The householders of Poroulawhao elected their first school committee last Friday night, as follows: — Messrs S. L. Jackson, H. J. Kilsby, IT. Nicholson, Hirini Pouawha, and S. Rolslon, junr.

At the Palmerston North S.M. Court yesterday, a young man named Alexander C. Kerr, charged with being drunk while in charge of a motor ear and who pleaded not guilty, was lined £5 and costs. Japan has entered into an experiment to make her people of larger stature, through the consumption of milk and is negotiating for large purchases of milch cows in the United Stales.

Firpo and Mr Tex Rickard's representative, Air Homs, have signed a' contract for the Firpo-Wills fight to lie staged at New York or New Jersey about August 30. Firpo is guaranteed 100,000 dollars with the option of 37A per cent, of the gate receipts. Firpo sails for the l nited States fot later than July 5.

A specially tine example of (lie confectioner's art is contained in a handsome three-decker wedding cake at present on view in the winilow of .John Wall*’ bnkory ostfiblishmont. This cake is noteworthy for the intricate and perfectly executed handwork. It is to grace the festive board at the wedding of a Inca I young couple to-rnorrow. That legislation should he introlured providing Iha I the 44-hour week should he jnade the law of the land was a rcipv-l made to (lie Minister of Labour (TTon. W. Andc‘’son) yesterday by a deputation from tlie Alliance o' La hour. The Minister held out no hope declaring Hint this was a mailer for Ihe Arbitral ion Court to decide.

In a ease at the Auckland S.M. ('•.nil on Saturday, brought by a widow to recover C2O as damages Ihrnugh an error in die erection of a memorial over a grave die S.AI., Mr ,). Y. Boynton. gave judgment for £ll 10/- and costs, holding that it was defendant's duty to see the memorial was creeled in the proper place and the expense of shifting it inns! fall on them.

Baroness Leslands recited part of a poem in a lion's cage at Neuilly Fair, Baris, last week, for the benefit of charity when the lions became res live and the tamer urged her to cut the recitation short. The Baroness hastily hacked out. Madame Klfremova sang while lying on a divan in a tiger’s cage, and others sang and danced in cages before a fashionable audience.

Lord Loughborough, an English peer, lias tiled a petition in ba.nkinptev. His liabilities are set down at £18,120 and the assets are nil. Lord Loughborough gave evidence that his bankruptcy was due to extravagance which he was unable to justify. His father in 1910 paid his debts and in 1921 lie paid a further £9,000. His present income was £1 a day. Ilis wife possessed a separate income of £2,000 and she kept up the household.

As was almost to be expected, questions relating to maternal mortality iigured on the question list in the House of Representatives last week. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr T. M. Wilford) gave notice to ask the Minister of Public Health whether he intends this session to introduce legislation to help the women of Mew Zealand during childbirth and Mr M. J. Savage (Auckland West) asked for returns dealing with deaths from septicaemia in St. Helen's Home, private hospitals and in private homes during the live years ended June, 1924.

Hid you ever smoke toasted tobacco? If so you will know how the toasting process improves the Jlavour. It is delicious! Coffeeberries and tea-leaves are toasted, otherwise no one would care to drink tea or coffee. Well, the same treatment is found to answer equally well with tobaceq. Test this for yourself. ihe locally manufactured tobacco is now prepared in this way. The result is astonishing 1 Select a brand to suit your palate in regard to strength; either ltiverliead Gold, the mildest of all, or Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) of medium strength, or if you prefer a fuliei' body, take Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label. The very first whiff will tell you that you are in for a superior article, quite out of the common. You never get that same pleasant aioma with any of the ordinary tobaccos. And so smooth and mellow. With their small percentage of Nicotine these brands may be smoked with perefel immunity and are recommended by experts and medical authorities. 12

Rev. Oliver ITaddou, .it Cambridge, recently scored nicely in his reference to Maori customs. He declared that tattooing among Maori women was now almost a thing of the past. The Maori wahines would bear favourable comparisons with their European sisters in the art of making themselves look beautiful. The Maoris were now leaving the tattooing to the pakeha ladies, who die it with powder, rose enlouring. ete.

When the question of changing l he secretary's office was under con--ideration at the meeting of the Harbour Board on Saturday afternoon, Mr \V. E. Barber asked that 1 lie members inspect (be proposed new rooms and said: “I would like members to make the inspection with open minds and not go there with the thought that the building was a racing cluli building." Mr Nash. M.P.: "Bless my soul, what difference would that make. Tt doesn’t matter if the building belongs to the racing dull or any other body.” Mr Barber: ‘‘lt does with some people in Fox ton.”