Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2763, 26 July 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Chinese University Association footballers are unique in that they are all teetotallers and only a few of them smoke.

The annual general meeting of members of the Foxton Racing Club will be held in the Town Hall sup-per-room on Monday at 8 p.m. New Plymouth High School defeated Wanganui College in the annual fotball match played at New Plymouth on Thursday by 17 points to (3.

The second reading of Mr Sidey’s Summer Time Bill was passed in (he House on Thursday night. Most of the country members opposed the Bill.

A good number of local football enthusiasts journeyed to Palmerston N. this morning to witness the All Blacks-M’n an wa I u-Horow henna match.

A local R-ugby enthusiast expresses the opinion that the All Blacks will defeat combined HorowhentiaManawalu to-day by a margin of lb points.

A young man named West, of Fcilding, riding a motor cycle, collided with some trucks at the Cook Street level crossing at Palmerston X. lasi night. Ilis injuries consisted <d slight concussion.

Mr Cco. Uule.v, who recently underwent treatment. in a Pal merston North private hospital, is at present slaying with his daughter at Palmerston N. lie hopes to return to Foxton at an early date.

A Cishorne telegram states that Cynthia. Seymour, the Ihirteeu-ycar-old daughter of Mr and Mrs oter Seymour, was missed from her home on Wednesday morning and found llonling in the Weimala River.

Mr 'l'. Wills! aides. president of the Mannwnlii Football Association Union, informs us that lie lias succeeded in obtaining a guarantee of JJ2f> if the Chatham Cup Contest, Dawbers v. Murist Brothers, is played in Foxton.

Several animals In the Auckland Zoological Park have died from the effects of poisoning during the lust three weeks. Among the animals were two agoutis, two civet cals, two baboons, and a female /.ebrn. Post-mortems revealed the presen ee of either arsenic or a corrosive poison, which must have been deliberately administered by an evilly disposed person,

The lirilisli Aledienl Amineiiil inn conference rcjeeled Ihc Ar«' lil ii ! < l l • •|> of York’s n.j>|m'iil I'or m lull iin|mry inlo spiritual Inn I in/.* piiNeinji a re .solution 11 1 aI i n S'i'ml I ion would Ini likely lo leiul oulside l.lm Armnel at,ion’s roeogniseil nelivilies, Dim doctor ii(lvoe,nifil i lie eonipulani y iiolilieution of euni'ttr i|<ti*|i*»'i ilutl seven thousand lives euiilil lie sit veil nnniuilly )>y inenmsed propaganda, In llie House ol’ l(e|iresii|iliilivi'o on Thursday Air .1, Dinhlufer M l*, ('live iiotine ol' liin intention to link wlictlier in view o|’ I,lie e.veellanl resulls obtained from I In* I eating ol’ cows throughout I lie Dominion, tint! (lie increased |iroiluelion ol’ Dill I rrlat received from I lie dairying liiiklm by I lie nativities of herd I listing ansoeiutions, whellier the (lovernnient will lake immediate sLujih to lower the excessive frcighl elm on sulpliurie acid on the New Zealand railway*.

Considerable local interest is being evinced in the visit of the Chinese University Soccer (cam ro Foxlon on Tuesday next. All arrangements arc well in hand to make their brief .-.lay interesting and enjoyable.

At the Wellington Magistrate’s ('curt vaster,lay, Albert Coorgc I ait a seaman, who was a passenger on the l’liintiron, was lined ,CIOO or three months' iin prion no o t t'or inioorling nine htili’-poiiml tin.- of upii*m in a form suitable for smoking.

Bail was refused In the MagisI icic at Christchurch yc-terday when Cert rude ( trace Bell, a married icmaii, was egaiu remanded on a charge of unlawfully using all in-.■-I ru men I. The police said the patient was dangerously ill.

In the House lasi night members discussed |lic operations of the Boil rd of Trade and I lie opinion was expressed Hint the addition of commercial men to the Board might s| rengl lien it and make it more effective when price iiiqim'ic-- were undgrl aken.

,\ g.-illanl re-cue l'r drowning mis oil', eti'd l>\ Mrs Sotiler, at Tnticnl an. on Wednesday. Midi,' crossing I lie Wlinkatnnr river a gig driven by Mr (ioocli, capsized and he was pinned under the Wider. Mrs Solder, who was nearby, rushed to the rescue and held Couch's bead up till others arrived and extricated the man in an exhausted condition. The horse was drowned.

“The success of the administration of the Hospitals of X'ew Zealand has been largely due to Ihe fact that they have - been entirely free from polities, and have been managed by experienced men and women who have devoted their time to the work with assiduity.”—Sir James Wilson in his annual report, as chairman of Iho Hospital Board. For the past three years (stales the North. Otago Times) the coal mine at Chamberlain, in the Albttry district. South Canterbury, has been burning furiously. In the day time dense volumes of smoke may he seen rising from the ground, and at night llames are to be seen at intervals as tbe lire burns away Iho coal in it- slow career along the underground workings. The earth, formerly supported by the coal, has caved in, huge craters are forming in the paddocks above the mine. The Gazelle issued this week contains regulations intended to prevent the contamination of food (luring manufacture and sale. Ihr principal articles of food dealt with are bread and pastry, meat, fish, milk, ice cream and ices, cordials, svrups, aerated waters and beverages. and eggs and egg-pulp. The new regulations affect persons handling the food articles, and deal with the cleanliness, etc., of the shops and premises in which the foods are sold or stored.

The death occurred at Wellington vestenia v of Mr Lawrence Birks, chief electrical engineer of the Public Works Department. Mr Birks recently started for Europe to attend the important power conference, but doctors in Adelaide advised him to return to New Zealand, lie did so am! reasmed work, but shortly afforwards entered a private hospital ami underwent a serious operation, fie gradually sank and for the past fortnight had ln-en hovering between life and death. Mr Birks succeeded Mr Evan I'errv as chief of (lie (iovcrnmonl's electrical undertakings and was about o<> 'cars of age. His wife, daughter nf (he Hon. (’. M. Luke, died alum! a \i-iir ago, after a long illnes-. Several young children are orphanod.

A small girl, 11 years of age. was fiminl travelling on the south bound Main Trunk lrain\oii Sunday evening without a ticket ami was handed over bv the ticket inspector to the |,<ilicc at Franklim Junction. The child was pourlv dressed ami gave rather a pathetic story. She said she had no father, and I lint her mother had put her on the train on Saturday at Wellington, were her huine is, ami sent her to Aueklinu!, saving-lie would follow on a sule.o i,iii'til train. Not limling her moth er in Auckland the child said die slept in the railnav wailing room and joined the Main Trunk express in the evening. The child who v\n-> taken ill charge by (lie HaillillnU Re reiving Hiiine, lots been identified ns Doreen Myrtle Fowler. n| Mil liamsiiii A veilin', M’t'llingtoii.

Tousled lobneco is the last word in the manufacture of Iho frag rant weed. Its process is based upon science and .just exactly ns people prefer their food cooked, they will now prefer their tobacco toasted. Toast is certainly vvholo..oilier Ilian soggy bread, and the aiue principle applies to tobacco. Take for instance the loenlly maim I’licluri'd brands. Tiny are all loaided, and eeuiaapieutly more pleasltijj to llo’ palate, besides there in Jena nicotine m them and that Is a metier of luiporlunoe, In as much an ittt.v ex neats of nieoliiio, nlisoi'liiul h.v the aynlutu, limy een. oii.-, Is oil col the nonet, or enibu smokor’s heart and weakening eight. Hiaokore slpmld, llmrefore, not fail to giro this now lolutmm U t rial i lhe.ro tt> a vast dtfiereuee holwooii loiitJetl .uai mm tuaaled lolmmai, old limy will tied, it Is alt in lavotn of Urn tMadeai. Dbfatu ablo la throo atroagtljsi, Uivmhuud t i<ilil vary add iiud ateiaatm, Tonal ail Nav.v Util (ilaildeg) taediiiiii, and t'al Plug No, 111, i& rumua mended |o»thone alto proler a fully hotly, H,