Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, SEPTEMB. 18, 1924 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2786, 18 September 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, SEPTEMB. 18, 1924 LOCAL AND GENERAL

The pay-out for Lullr-rf jit supplied (o the Shannon Co.op. Dairy Coy. for 1 lio month of August will lie 1 !) per lh. One thousand barrels of bitumen ore being' procured by Hie Hawke’s Bay County Conneil in preparnlion for a progressive programme of road work during the eoming season. Al a recent meeting' of the local Racing Club Mr A, Vincent was appointed starter, vice Mr Angus Keith, deceased. Mr Cameron was re-appointed judge and Air llenrys hnndieapper,. At the local Police Court yesterday, before Mr M, K. Porrenu, John Edward Sullivan was convicted and fined 10/- in default 24 hours imprisonment on a charge of drunkenness.

A Parliamentary visit to Levin lias now been definitely arranged for Monday, September 29th, tho date previously arranged proving unsuitable.

“New Zealand supplies London ;immally with about enough food to last it for ten days only/’ said Mr D. 0. Williams during the course of a lecture to accountant students in the Accountancy Chambers, Wellington. A Chinaman’s description of his horse (in the 'Wellington Police Court) : “It was a bay mare, yellow like a cow, and looked just like a racehorse. It was 18 years old and worth about £5 5/-. It did not have hairy legs.” A cable message lias been received from Ratana stating that he and his party had been to Berlin, where they had been accorded an enthusiastic welcome. The party were oil their way to Paris and from there they proceed to Marseilles and then to the Holy Land.

The cradle made for tiie re caulking of the dredge Hennessy has been completed by Mr Brown at the riverfront and is now dismantled and on a punt ready to be taken down to the beach as soon as a suitable site for it is selected.. The dredge is at present working at the beach.

The following is a (plaint reply received by the secretary of a local body from a Palmerston N. firm of: Celestial market gardeners, in reference to an enquiry for a quantity of carrots: —“Hear Sir, I have been receipt your letter for want quility carrot. The price of (i Pounds a ton if you want you must be seend letter for me sooner 1 will ready to you.—Yours trutlily, .” At Tuesday’s meeting of the florowhenua Power Board, the treasurer (Mr P. W. Goldsmith) reported that the value of group contracts let by the Board to date, was £14,700. In recent groups made up. more use was being made of the tinnncial assistance given by the Board, 160 applications having been received recently, mostly from farmers.

A report from Belgium shows that out of over 100,000 houses dcsI loved by the war. 0(1,0(10 have been rebuilt. These include 1.150 public buildings, out of 1,1/0 destroyed, and the whole of the 050 schools which were ruined. Over 04,000 acres of de . ast;v. d land lias been restored to normal, hence the work of land restoration may he regarded as iwaelieallv finished.

Sunday observance does not appear to reeoive much attention in seine centres on the West Coast. In- , lmled in the Millertoti notes which appeared in a recent issue ot the Utev River Argus, was the following paragraph: “Last Sunday was verv quiet day there being no lootItalf or hockey mulches <>n the Ref., and the only entertainment the population on the hill could avail themselves of was the Union pictures at night. To these they turned out in force and there was consequently a good ‘house,’ ”

A resident of Masterton had a rather exciting experience with a bullock hist week. A drover was taking some cattle along the road when a Hereford bullock became excited, rushed through a vacant section, and jumped a fence. The animal made straight for a residence and entered the back door. The surprise of the lady of the house can be easily imagined when she went to the kitchen to prepare a cup of tea, and found the room occupied by a long-horned bullock, frothing at the mouth with excitement. The lady immediately summoned her husband, who handled the bullock carefully and got it to leave quietly. The drover and the occupants of the house consider themselves lucky that no damage was done.

The Queenstown hydro-electric scheme, which has been in course of construction for the last eight months, is now nearing completion, and the machinery will he in operation mi Thursday (to-day), says an exchange. The whole of the (own has been reticulated and ample lighting is provided in the streets. House and business connections arc not so well forward, hut are now being pushed on with all speed, and it is anticipated that about a third of ihe possible consumers will have been linked up when Ihe power is turned on . The scheme is the most modern I hat has been installed in the Dominion, and the various contractors have combined in putting their best skill and workmanship into the undertaking. Automatic devices enter very largely into the plant-, so that attendance of an engineer is not necessary, except in extraordinary circumstances.

The following rnotiin was carried unanimously at the Wanganui East Baptist Church on Sunday, says lhe Chronicle: “That we, as a congregation worshipping in the Wanganui East Baptist Church, strongly protest against the attempt being made to induce the Government to sanction the introduction of license for the sale of intoxicating liquor in Ihe King Country, and this for iwo reasons: firstly, that it would he injurious to the physical and inorai welfare of the native race; secondly, that it would he a dishonourable act on the part ot the Government to break the solemn covenant enterel into which the Maori race, who gave gratuitously all the land required for roads and railways on condition that the Government would permit no liquor to lie soil in tliar area. This contract, it' treated by the Government as a scrap of paper, would brand us with infamy among all civilised people.”

A case of brains against strength or more of “mind over matter” was told the Whnngamomona correspondent of the Taranaki Herald, who writes; One of the settlers, Mr Gordon Wilson, had been troubled with a lamb-killing pig, which was too eunning to operate except, at night. Dismissing the matter with his neighbour, they bit on the plan .>!' making the pig “kill himself. Their idea was simple yet clever. Mr Pig had one track he always took to the paddock and this track was narrow just at the fence line. Here they placed a loaded gun on the side of the track and lashed it in such a manner that the muzzle pointed on to the track and the gun was secure. By means of a block, a strip of raw hide, and a springy manuka, set right on Mr Pig’s right-of-way, they completed their idea. According to them, the pig must rub or knock the springy manuka which was only lightly held down, and which in turn pulled the trigger. The whole thing worked out according to their plan and in the morn,ng the pig they were after was dead, lying by the gun, shot through [lie fore part of the shoulder.

Smokers who are niggardly of i lieir ’baccy are rare. As a l'ule their pouch is at the service of almost anybody. Of course there are exceptions. Do you remember the story of the smoker who kept two pouches f One he called “the world,” and the other “providence.” The first wits always empty; the second always well' filled. If asked for a fill he would regret that he “hadn’t a bit in the world.” If questioned as to what he was going to do for himself he would say “Oh I must trust in Providence.” Well, there are all kinds of smokers just as there arc all kinds of tobacco. By the way, have vou tried our own N.Z. grown tobaccos ? In some respects they are unique. For one thing they are toasted. lienee their peculiarly delightful flavour; secondly they contain so little nicotine that they may 1,,, smoked ‘till the cows come home’ without proving injurious. That’s why the doctors approve of them. Try Hiverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium; or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull’s Head) full. 20

The Prime Minister announced in the House of Representatives liisj evening that Dominion Day would not be observed in future os a holiday in the Public Service.

The Prime Minister announced in the House of Representatives lust night that the Bank of New Zealand had offered to advance the Government £ 1,125,000 for a period of ten years at 54 per cent. The bunk will issue fresh capital for i hat amount.

It was staled at tin l South Canloi'bnrv Acclimatisation Society’s meeting licit a pukaki had recently been seen taking a six or seven inch trout out of tln* Opihi river. Unfortunately the bird was frightened awav before the observer could see whether it. intended making a meal of the fish. Members stated that ibis was most unusual. One member said tlint he knew of a weasel Inking a native trout from a stream, hut had not known of the pukaki possessing the poaching instinct.

If is one tiling for an ordinary mortal to have a cold in the head, but it is quite a different affair when that common complaint afflicts a star like Dame Nellie Melba. Speak•ng of the enforced postponement of her appearance as Desdemoua dur■ng the Melbourne grand opera season, because of a cold in the head, Melba told a pressman that she once neglected a cold and went on the platform when her vocal chords were “pink.” As a consequence she was unable to sing for nearly six months. “That cold,” she said, “cost me about £20,000.” This works out ut something like a pound a microbe. A magistrate who happened to be in a hurry went to examine a woman before she was committed to a mental hospital the other morning, reports the Dunedin Star. “What are these tricks you have been up to? What, is your reason for acting mi foolishly?” etc., he asked, and was doubtless quite satisfied, from from the confused and speechless attitude of the woman, that she was a fit and proper case for treatment. However, the police matron arrived and introduced the “patient” as the assistant matron, at which announcement, it is rumoured, there was a tense moment, happily relieved !>v some laughter and explanations.

Asked at the Jersey Demonstration at Levin on Tuesday, whether it was desirable to underfeed the Jersey cow during ils early life, the demonstrator (Mr H. E. B. Watson) stated that in bis opinion any beast that was worth keeping was worth feeding and feeding well, (says flic Chronicle). The opinion bad been held by some people that the calf’ should he under-fed so n< tn get the fineness of bone and oth- . qualities which were considered ,|,n\v points. Tlis opinion was that ihe heller young cattle were fed Ihe nii.ee profit the breeder was going i,, ro;ip. Il was when the animal ~ as lining that the body and the enlist iiatin'it which would have to stand to it through its period of production, were built up. It was almost impossible to overdo a young heifer. Any fat which she put on would go through into the bucket when she started milking and the big point was that a strong and hen.lihv animal would have been bred. Breeders were crying out for more body and greater food capacity and if thev were lo starve their cows in their youth, they would find ii iniihle to get these. With a young imil. however, some care must he exercised or he would get too fat.