Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2781, 6 September 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The retail price of petrol in London has been reduced by threepence half-penny.

Dairy produce shipped through l hi' port of Wanganui for the year ending July 31, constitutes a record. Butler consigned l.dnlled 10ti,351 boxes and cheese 17,D0T crates.

At. the Gisborne ‘Magistrate's Go - iirt on Thursday, a young married man, James Ropers, was fined £5 on each of two charges of molesting young ladies by placing his arm around their necks and grabbing a wrist. The magistrate said drunkenness was no excuse. Air A. Dinnie. who was chief engineer of the Mongolian hydro-elec-tric works contract, has been transferred a.s district engineer to Arapuni, where he will represent the Government^in■ the construction of the hydro-electrio works In Afessrs Armstrong, Whitworth and Co.

Mr Massey staled in the House the other night that n committee would be set up to deal with the Gaining Bill. ; ‘AVe are going to put that Bill through,” added the Prime Alia ister. "1 know the [lowers behind the throne but they are not going to tie allowed to interfere with the New Zealand Parliament."

Mr F. 0. Hay. engineer of the Mamuvatu-Oroua River Board, has been appointed by tile Minister of Public Works as an assessor on his behalf to hear cerium claims prepared against the Public Works Department in connection with work done on the Manga ore stream, should the claims be brought to court.

Afessrs Burns, Philip, and Co. -lute that as a direel result of a proposal made some lime ago that New Zealand should enter into reciprocal trade with Java and the Far East, the Swaync and Hoyle Shipping Company of America, lias decided to inaugurate a monthly service from the Dominion.

Alex Findlay, milk vendor, was lined £lO and costs at Pahiatua for selling adulterated milk. The analyst's report showed that there was twelve tier cent, of added water. The defence pleaded that the supply from which the inspector took his samples was obtained by defendant from another farmer.

“Show the audience how some men keep their jobs in Fusion," said the precocious juvenile entertainer 10 one of bis clever poodles at Thursday night's enlerlainment. The canine immediately grovelled along the stage to the evident delight of the audience.

The long-continued spell of dry weather, which has resulted in a marked shortage of' feed, and is reducing stock to starvation, has brought about many changes in values (says an exchange). For inslanee, a I a clearing sale in South Canterbury this week, two horses were sold at 10/- each, and two rurkevs for 21/- each.

MV Howard Andrew, of Levin,

will conduct the morning service at the Methodist Church to-morrow. In addition to a brief sermon he and Mr Howard Tinnier will sing a duet and the latter a solo entitled “Perfect Prayer.'' Mr Chrystal! will preach at ’Foxlon in the evening and Mr Tinniley at Ornua Downs at 7 p.m.

At Stratford on Thursday, before two Justices of the Peace, R. S. Death was lined CIO and costs in default fourteen days for being drunk while in charge of a horse

end cart. The Beneli made it elear that future offences of this kind would he met hy imprisonment witli<.nt tlu* option of a fine. A request for the non-publication of defendant’s mime was emphatically refus ed.

The London Daily Telegraph lias published a letter from Mr Harry Pollitt. .industrial secretary of the Communist Parly in Great Britain, Mating: “We are working to transform the trade unions from purely pacific organisations into mass organisations for revolutionary activity. We shall gradually be able to weed out (lie reactionary leaders of labour and then be in a position finally to challenge tile forces of capitalism.”

In the Supreme Court at Hamilton this week, Frank Ernest Garrett was found not guilty of assaulting Charles Edwin Riehdale at Te Rore. Riehdale was found seriously hurt

and it is alleged that lie was knocked on the head by Garrett. Later Riehdale committed suicide. Accused admitted having visited Richdale on business, but denied the assault. The defence claimed that Riehdale, who was acting peculiarly. injured himself.

Mr J. Colder, the organising' director of' Thursday night’s concert |,nt in a very strenuous time during the day and evening. When he stepped to (lie footlights to apologise for the absence of' the Mayor of Shannon, he started ofT by saying that the Mayor of Shannon “was unavoidably ill”—at' which there was a roar of laughter and a correction of the phrase made confusion worse confounded. However. Mr (iohler subsequently made his meaning quite clear and appeared to enjoy the amusement thus caused. The encouragement of infant prodigies is not viewed favourably by Mr .(. If. Hopkins, judge of elocution at the Wellington competitions. Commenting recently on the girls' recitation in character, lie said that the winner was too young —a tiny tot, in fact, and ought not to he engaged in competitions, lie was not in favour of children lining entered too young in competitions, they should he given longer, to mature. There was a tendency on the part of some parents to overwork promising children. A North Dunedin' resident possesses a cockatoo which can do something infinitely more useful and less common than sav “Pretty eoekcy!" or “Scratch Polly's head!” Tin's enterprising bird is not exactly in his first flush of youth, and it has taken forty summers for him to discover his remarkable gift. His owner is a man who is well experienced in piecing together eirentnslanlial evidence, and when lie looked into the hird’s cage one fine morning and saw an egg resting serenely on the floor he naturally thought the bird find laid it. Then, on second thoughts, he realised that* this was impossible, for “cooky” was a gentleman bird. Then the milkman called, and father met him at the door. “That’s funny,” said the milkman. “I’ve never known a parrot do Unit before." “Do what?” questioned the bird’s owner. “La\ :;n egg in a cage. Look there’s one on the lloor of the cage.” And sure enough them lay another white egg. The plain truth is that the plirrot is <>f the feminine sex, and it has .actually laid two eggs within the past nine days.

A prophet-, they say, has no honour in his own country, and it has been too much' the policy of New Zealanders in the past to pass over the products of their country in favour of the imported goods, which in many cases, are actually? inferior to the New Zealand article. Take tobacco for example. Most American tobaccos are objectionable on the score of excess nicotine, and defective cobustibility, leading to the clogging of the pipe, with unpleasant and indeed injurious consequences to the smoker. Try Riverbead Gold mild and aromatic, or Toasted Navy Gut (Bulldog) of medium strength, and if you-' prefer a full body, try Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label. Their purity flavour, aroma, and all round excellence will surprise you. Unlike most brands from overseas, this particuar type of tobacco docs not foul the pipe and leaves the mouth sweet and clean. Experts maintain that of all varieties known N.Z. leaf is the least injurious on account of its small percentage of nicotine and that it may be smoked continuously without Ihos lightest after effects. 10.

A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced locally at (1.40 last evening.

Mr Bert. Wyeth, who lias been in Auckland for some time has returned and taken tip his residence in Foxton.

The friends of Mr aud Mrs J. Ait ken, of Moulon, will regret to hear that their daughter, Peggy, recently underwent, a serious operaii.m in the Palmerston N. Hospital i-nd that her condition is eatt--ing anxiety.

Two men were injured as a n suit of a collision between an express train and a motor lorry at a level crossing near Wnipufeu, on Thursday night. Joseph Collins, ingle, of Stratford, sustained minor injuries and shock and George Godfrey Hasted 1, married, of Hawera, ,-i PractnVed leg, minor injuries and -bock. The lorry was caught broadside <>n hy the train which was travelling at thirty miles an hour, thelorry being completely wrecked. The Minister of Railways, replying to Air de la Perrelle, said . it might not he necessary that the Government should wait for the muling of iho Commission that would investigate railway management before considering concessions in railway freights and fares. TTc ugge-ted that the member for Awariia should wail with as much patience ns possible, until the Railway Statement came down. The Commission had been delayed longer in \ustralin than was anticipated, and ihe Minister said he would announce the date whim its operations in New Zealand began. The Yet - . Archdeacon 11. Eiisor, of Christchurch, who is vising Foxton will preach in All Saints’ Church on Sunday. He is visiting Foxton for Ihe purpose of saying good-bye to bis sister, Airs Cook, who leaves for Auckland to-dav to catch the s.s. Ruahine, for England. Airs Walton accompanies Mrs Cook as far as Auckland.

It is announced that negotiations have been completed between the Tiiihape and Feilding farmers’ freezing companies whereby the Taihape works will close. All stock from that company’s shareholders is to lie handled at the Feilding works. This arrangement will continue till the complete recovery of the freezing industry.

There passed away at Palmerston N. yesterday afternoon another of our pioneers and Maori War vetorans in the person of Mr S. T. Hunt, brother of Mr C. Hunt, of Foxton. The late Air Hunt arrived in New Zealand hy the ship Alma, from Plymouth in 1857, with his parents and eight younger children, all the latter being still alive. ITe

conducted a carrying business in Palmerston N. for many years, and with th.e coming into general use o! the mot dr ear. turned to taxi driving ami only. retired from active work i’hreo years ago. Air Hunt had many inter'dig rciMiiii.-oeucc.s nf - the curb, lias’s and was keenly interested la loans branches of sport. He was one of the original stewards and- a life member of the Manawalu Trill ting Club. ITis widow and live children survive him. Reports from all parts of the Waikato district indicate that sheep have done exceptionally well this season. This applies more particularly to grown sheep, which arc slated on all hands, to lie in better . ondition this season than for many wars past. The very mild winter, ;,nd consequent abundance of feed have undoubtedly been the contributing factors to this position, and "bleeding thicks have rarely pulled through so satisfactorily as this vear. Hoggets, on rhe other hand, are scarcely so forward. The dry autumn with succeeding flush of grass when rain came, was respon-

siblc for a widespread attack of eczema in many localities, while the wet moil Ills of early winter also went hard against, young stock, particularly unshorn lines.