Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2757, 12 July 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ordinary meeting of the Foxlon Borons'll Council will In; held on Monday at 7 p.m. The local Masonic Lodge paid a fraternal visit to (lie Marlon Lodge on Thursday evening. The brethren made the journey by ehar-n-banc.

At the Sydney stud sheep sales, a pen of eleven special stud rams from the ITaddon stud, realised the record price of 8,325 guineas.

Admiral Sir One Haunt’s motor car skidded and overturned at Doncaster. Admiral (Jaunt was pinned underneath hut escaped serious injury though the engine was blazing when he was dragged out.

Mr and Mrs D. \Y. Low were entertained at Palmerston on Thursday night by the householders and presented with tokens of esteem. Mr Low recently resigned the headmastership of the College Street school after 40 years of service. The Rev. F. and Mrs McDonald, who have been away on a health recruiting trip, returned to Foxton on Thursday. Mr McDonald will conduct the services at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow, morning and evening.

A block of business buildings in Pahiatua has just changed hands. Mr G. Oxley, jeweller, having acquired same from the T. C. Wiliams estate. Mr Oxley is a brother of Airs Sherwood, of Foxton.

An examination under the Ilorowhenua Power Board’s by-laws for electrical wiremen’s licenses was held in Levin yesterday, the Board's engineer, Mr T. Overton, being the examining officer. Ten men sat for the examination, .four for the master wiremen’s and six for the ordinarv license.

MV W. A. Yeilcli (Wanganui) intends to ask the Minister for Health whether he will introdnee legislation this session extending the time allowed to dentists' assistants to pass their examinations and also make inquiries to ascertain whether the examinations haw been made too severe? At the Christchurch Magistrate's Court, vesterdav, Elizabeth A:lHeck, a country school teacher, claimed t'-IO from Kdward Lessen, ehitirman oj Kirikiri School Committee as damages for the defamatory statements against her character. The plaintiff was awarded the. full amounl with costs.

“The strap doc- not have the effect in teaching that it is sometimes thought to Imvc." stated Mr I). \V. Low, late headmaster of College Street School. I'aimerston North, on Wednesday night, “lor there are other ways of dealing with children. The methods of teaching have, in that respect changed since 1 entered the profession."

The Kelvin Maternity Hospital, Auckland, has been (dosed permanently. The matron, Nurse .1. A. Cihhons, returned her register book and license to the Medical Ollicer of Health. In a letter to Ur. Hughes, the matron states: “] shall never again take obstetric cases. 1 do this with regret, having given the best years of my life to my well-loved work to the exclusion of all private interests. But 1 feel that 1 should have a iinal breakdown in health should 1 again lake the risk of striking a bad case.”

The devious way of the authorities with regard to (lie railway deviation at Palmerston N. is like dial of 1 lie hare that progresses so far in a certain direction then doubles in its tracks. According to advices received by the “Mauawatu Times” the Department has at this stage returned to its original burrow and has taken up an old scheme for the transformation of the railway yards that was prepared several years ago and dropped when the deviation was first mooted.

Before the Commission of Inquiry into mental defectives and sexual offenders at Christchurch on Thursday, Miss Edwards, manager of the Christchurch ivcceiviug home, instanced two cases of the cost to the Slate of maintaining feeble-min-ded families. In Ibe lirst, in which there were eleven children, the cost was about £IO,ODD, and the father had contributed £O. in the second, the father, mother, six daughters and 21 grandchildren had cost up to the present £0,358 10/- against contributions of £-182 18/-.

“Mv appeal is ever for a purer, a nobler English; The tendency in much of ordinary conversation is to speak iti slovenly fashion, indeed, with a large proportion, it is a mongrel tongue, and public speaking, too is far from being either charming to the ear or elevating to the soul” —The Rev. Thomas Watsoti, when appealing to the Palmerston North Lunch Club members for the preserve, lion of good English. Mr Sullivan (Avon) intends to ;isk the Minister for Health, whether m view of the serious statements made by police officers during recent months as to the widespread character of the evil of nielli via ted spirits drinking in New Zealand and the terrible results of blindness, insanity, and physical de-,-av, that result from the practice, he will state what steps he proposes l„ take to cope with this increasing evil.

Smoker’s heart is a distressing malady caused chiefly through the (I'l'cets of an alkaloid called Nicotine which is extremely poisonous. Strong tobacco with a high percentage of nicotine should therefore be avoided. When selecting a brand, the smoker should not tie guided by the appearance alone, because even an apparently mild cigarette tobacco of a bright lemon colour may contain — and often does contain — an excess of nicotine. It is a peculiar fact that certain N.Z. soils produce a leaf with a. very small percentage of nicotine, compared with the foreign types. Take for instance our local brands Riverhead Gold, Cut Plug No. 10, and Toasted Navy Cut. There you have an absolutely pure article, which can he smoked continuously without the slightest after effects, it burns to the last shred leaving the mouth sweet and clean. So highly is N.Z. tobacco commented upon by doctors and exports that smokers should acquaint themselves with the merits of our There is another brand Riverhead own product by giving the above brands a fair trial. 2.