Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2774, 21 August 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hr Henry Ford lies completed liis lon million ill car.

The schools throughout this disli'iid will break up for the term holidays to-morrow.

The school committees id Pnlmersfon X. have formed a school committees’ association wifli Mr G. 11. Stiles its elmirman.

Palmerston X. High School defeated Xapier 11 it;'!i School in a dohating contest at Palmerston X. last night.

A motorist informs as that the aiterial roads in the Kairanga t.'oiitity are a credit to that body, despite the heavy trallic.

A number of local Masons were present at the installation ceremony in connection with the Ash hurst Lodge last night.

Miss M. Healey returned to Foxton from Wellington last evening and will conduct the orchestra at the forthcoming concert in connection with the Band Carnival*. The keenness of the demand for horses in Taranaki was instanced at the first day of' the Hawera horse fair, when draught horses realised up to £BO and milk carters to £4O.

It is stated that £I,OOO was discovered sewn up in the clothes of an old Maori who died recently near Wellington. Secreted in the house were also found three pickle bottles' tilled with sovereigns.

Just under 750,000 gallons of whisky were bought by Robert Brown, Ltd,, of Glasgow, the stock of a linn in liquidation.

Whnngerci is waging a war against motor speeding, a number of lines of £l.O each have been imposed on offenders of late. Mr Barron, inspector of the Manawalu Rabbit Board, is making a systematic inspection of the district and conferring with settlers in regard to rabbit extermination.

The annual report of the 'Tourist Department says that on the Vliole the Department had had one of the most successful and busy seasons in its. history, and was steadily growing in popularity.

The teaching staff and school committee ave to entertain Mi' Davidson, acting headmaster, at a social gathering in the Masonic Hall this evening. To-morrow afternoon at 1.45 o’clock the children will take farewell of Mr Davidson and parents are invited to he present at this ceremony.

When the Government Accident Insurance Amendment was lining discussed in the House on Tuesday, My Parry, Labour member for Auck land Central, moved an amendment to the effect that accident insurance lie made a State monopoly, but this was defeated by 35 votes to 28, and the Bill was read a second time.

Mr and Mrs Jackson, an aged couple had a narrow escape from being burned alive in a lire at blast - bourne, Wellington, on Tuesday night. The lire started in an old stove and the house was quickly h‘ llames. Fortunately assistance mi mo. to Mr Jackson who was bedridden, and had to lie rescued through tiie window.

As u resnli of the British Empire F.xhibiiion, £50,000,00(1 worth ol orders wore placed with British manufacturers by foreign and Do minion buyers.

Mr M. E. Barrenii lias engaged the services of Mr MeKwon, of Dunedin, an honour’s man in the pastry-cook trade, who will have charge of this department of the business.

At the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court .on Wednesday, D. F. (Danville, chemist, was lined £2 and costs on each of two charges undoc the Opium and Poisons Act. in respect of a sale of laudanum.

Sir Maui Foma re. Minister of Health, states that a Bill providing superannuation for nurses has been drafted and is at present under consideration. The Bill provides not only for nurses lmt for all permanent hospital employees.

In reply to a quest ion in the House the Minister for Railways regretted that lie could not comply with the request to raise (lie age limit from three to live years at which children mav be carried free on the railways.

The Governor-General and Viscountess Jelli.coe arrived at Hawke’s Bay yesterday and attended a Maori ceremony at Omahu, later coming on to Xapier as the guests of Mr R. D. D. McLean. Their Excellencies loft this morning-by ear for Gisborne.

Xews was received in Palmerston X. yesterday of the death of the Rev. T. X. Grinin, a well-known Methodist minister, at his residence, at Papanui, Christchurch. The late Mr Griffin received his training for the ministry at Didshury College, in England and came to Xew Zealand in 1884. Here he begun his work at Paparoa, and from 1880 to 1889 was in the Sandon and Foilding- circuit. lie concluded his active ministry at Datinevirko, ill 1918, since when he has resided in Christchurch. His wife predeceased him about a. year ago.

A most daring robbery was perpetrated in Short land Street, Auckland, shortly after 2.30 p.m. on Monday, when a man snatelmd a hank slip and hook containing £59 from a young woman, who was taking llic money to the hank. There was £29 in notes and £3O in cheques ii, the hook, which the woman, a Ivpisie employed in the city, earned apparently under her arm. When she fell a tug under her arm. she turned and saw a young man rimning away, and though passers |>e gave chase, the thief escaped.

A new feather lias just been planted in llie cap of Mr Henry Ford, who is shown to he not. only the world’s most famous mass producer, hut also its greatest eliminator of waste. Tlis high distillation plant saves over £4,000,000 a year out of con! smoke by resetting the by-pro-ducts of the carbon. He is now using n Belgian machine which is yielding a still larger percentage of these products, proved by the way, lo contain 205 separate ingredients. He drives his sawmills with sawdust, which has 50 ingredients of its own. Whether opossums are enemies of bird life is a question not finally settled. A statement, based on experience, is made by Mr E. S. Allen, of Wailara, in a letter to the Taranaki Herald: “For many years at Frankleigli Park,” he writes, “1 bred opossums in a properly const meted house and they would very quickly devour any bird that would occasionally get into their quarters, i have seen many a sparrow' caught and eaten in very quick time, also any birds’ eggs were a very great treat and greatly appreciated by these nocturnal animals.”

Mr Charles Ilaekett, the noted tenor, related some amusing anecdotes concerning his career at the Rotary luncheon given in his honour at Dunedin. “When 1 was quite a youngster,” he said, “l was engaged to make my second appear-

aiicc nl Venice with a little .soprano who was the daughter of a famous soprano of that time. Her mother had tilled her with old prima donna ideas, and on this particular occasion f had to make love to her and sing ‘sweet nothings’ into her ear. I nl'ortunately the wilful little lady insisted on facing the audience and when the time came for her to lean her head on my chest she retimed to do so. Mother had told her never t„ turn her hack on the audience. There was only oite thing to do, therefore, and I did it. I turned her round by force and held her in posilion, while she 'blackguarded me lia.st horribly during the time I was making love to her. She did it every nigh I after that too.”

Why is smoking so often attended with results that causes medical men to order their patiens to either discontinue the habit, or greatly modify it. It is simply because the percentage of nicotine in most imported tobaccos is so high and it is the nicotine in excess that renders smoking injurious. Now our New Zealand grown tobaccos contain so small a percentage of nicotine that it is practically a negligible quantity, and besides, they are subjected to a new toasting process. Toasting develops the flavour, removes all deleterious properties and make.s the tobacco climate proof. Toasted tobacco is recommended to those who study their health and appreciate a pure tobacco. If you like a full body, try Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label, or the somewhat milder Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog). Bold, which excels all others in mildness and aroma. They may be smoked with impunity and cosi 25 per cent, less than the foreign lines. **•

The keencss of the demand for Imrscs in Taranaki was instanced a 1 Ihe lirsl day of the ITarwera horse lair when draught horses realised up |o £BO and milk-carters up to £4O. When a letter came before the Wanganui County Council urging support of the Daylight Saving Bill one of the councillors remarked “It is about all you can save those days.” II was mentioned by Rev. A. J. Scanner at Palmerston Xortli recently. that at the present time there were 30.000 Maoris under 25 years of age in the North Island. ft is stated that from three to four years will elapse before grass or other vegetation will grow on the sides of (lie various fillings on the East Coast railway, because of the infusion into the soil of dynamite and gelignite during blasting operaI ions.

Alexander Robert Kennedy, Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages. was charged at the Dunedin Police Court yesterday morning with tlie theft of £72, the property of the Government. The money is alleged to have been taken between April and August. A remand was granted till August. 2(3 for an auditor’s report. Bail was not asked for.

The ill-fated Mount Everest expedition had a stamp issue of its own. One of these has reached Ashburton (states the “Guardian”). Tin- stamp is of a light blue colour, with a clear out view of Mount Everest in its centre, and the names Sikkim, Tibet, and Nepal, 1924, round its border. It is reported that only about 700 stamps have been issued. The stamps were used ))■>• members of the expedition on special greeting cards, which have as a frontispiece a view of the mouttiain from the base camp in the Rongbuk Valley, Tibet. The cards were dispatched by postal runner to Tndin.

There arc live remarkable examples of longevity recorded in recent death notices at Dunedin, three of these being' nonagenarians, one an octogenarian, and another a septuagenarian (says an exchange ). Mr Henry Cameron, of Dunedin, Mr* Jane Irvine, of Roslyn, and Mr Andrew George Scott, of Broad Bay were each aged 92 years and Mr James Gregory of Mai aura, and Mr John Frew, of Dunedin, were aged 87 and 7S years respectively. Their total ages amounted to 441 years, making the average a little over 88

.cars —surely a record that has not la mi i xcceded for some time. Mr And ecu Scott was a very well fi.iiwn identity, having settled in. ad Bav close on 40 years ago. He l -aves a widow and one sou.

t'i a veiling post ha.-te to the bed.Me of liis dying mother, a Nelson ■'an passed through Blenheim on iris wav to a township beyond Dunedin. Leaving Nelson at 1.15 p.m. on Mondav the traveller arrived in Blenheim at 5.J0 p.m. and at 7.15 p.m. set out on the long night drive to Christchurch. Arrangements having been made before hand, there v,as no delay in crossing the Clarence River and 20 hours after leaving Blenheim the car reached Christchurch. Here the southern express was taken for Dunedin, and just 51 hours 15 minutes after leaving Nelson, the traveller reached his destination. 36 miles beyond Dunedin. Such is the speed with which one may to-day travel from i.nc end of the South Island to the other, even without a main trunk rail wav.

‘•On my first tour of inspection I found there was a total of 108 electrical installations in Otago and Southland, half of which were in Gore. To-day there arc considerable over 20,000,” remarked Mr F. R. Shepherd, electrical inspector to the Xew Zealand Fire Underwriters, at a send-olf tendered to him at Dunedin. Continuing, he said that the total number of installations in the whole Dominion did not exceed 2(100 twenty-throe years ago, while now the number was approximately 130,000. In addition to the municipalities which are supplying consumers there were now 30 electric power hoards, covering au area of 50,414 square miles which represented 50 per cent, of the total area „f Xew Zealand. The population served was 001,557, or 50 per cent, of the total population, and the capital involved in the hydro-elect-ric schemes to which the Government was committed was £13,00,000.