Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2794, 7 October 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Three golden rules of life of a centenarian who reeently died in England, aged 107. were: “Never to enter a ball-room! Never 'to talk scandal; and never to enter a bar.” Hamilton lias the highest birth rate (25.78 per 1,000) and the lowest death rale (5.90 per 1,000) in New Zealand, according lo figures published In- the Statistician.

The Southland Woollen Mills company Limited has been registered with its ofliee at (lore. The authorised capital is £200,000 in 200,000 £1 shares.

A life-size figure of Iho Prime Minister of Now Zealand. the Right lion. W. I*\ Massey, tins been placed in (lie hall of celebrities in Madame Tnssnnd's 1 Waxworks, London. The season just closed has not been so good for opossums as lasi season. So far this year 3,424 skins have been registered locally, states the Wanganui Chronicle, as against f»,f>()B for last year. The bullock team is not yet extinct, says the Elthnm Argus. The other morning a team-passed along the Mountain Road. Two years have gone since the last one travelled through Elthnm.

Potatoes continue their dy.wnward movement in the South, a further drop of 10 . a ton being recorded since last week. Some sales have taken place at. £t> f.0.b., s.i. Whites are quoted on trunks a! £4 17/f! a lon and Darkofas at JL‘4 10/-.

The Hastings Operatic Soeietv is in a peculiar legal position, having assets of £2OO and legally no mouthers. Til 1922 only two men and three ladies paid their subscriptions, whilst during 192.1 and 1924 no subscriptions were paid. Much interest was non I red in a poll taken last Wednesday by the Matamala County Council for a proposed loan of £201,000, of which £IOO,OOO was for main county roads and the balance for repayment of special loans. The poll was carried bv 552 lo 230. •

Ihe London “Sunday Express” declares Wembley Exhibit inn has certainly been a great failure financially, though not educationally. The deficit is likely to amount to between live and six milions sterling, consequently the guarantors will be heavily affected. Japan is seeking to place extensive orders on the Sydney wheatmarket and is prepared to take many thousand tons. The “Daily Telegraph’’ says that the Japanese orders received last week, were of a size which did not allow of them being completely entertained. It adds that the wheat trade is wondering what is at the back of this exceptional demand from the East. The idea is prevalent that the cause might be found in Japan's threat lo intervene in the Chinese trouble.

The Horowhenua Maori team was defeated in Wellington on Saturday by the Wellington Maoris bv 15 lo 5.

There seems to be an enidemic of frogs in Feilding. At night the roads are infested with them, and on reads where the traffic is heavy the toll on their lives is great.

A conference of Hospital Boards was opened at Wellington to-day. Sir James Wilson (chairman) and Messrs J. K. Ifornblow and Phillips (secretary) are representing the Palmerston X. Board.

A special meeting of (lie Borough Council will be held at 7 o’clock this; evening lo confer with the executive of the local Chamber of Commerce in connection with Levin-Mart on deviation matters.

Mr TT. J. (“Bert”) Osboldsfone, an erstwhile Eoxion resident, who is a! present paying a. visit to this (own. intends opening in business in Levin as a baker and confectioner. Mr Osbold.-tone is well-known here, having followed his trade in ibis town for some years.

At a meeting of the committee of the Mnnawafu TTunt Chib, on Saturday evening, a letter was reeeivo'! from Mr C. A. J. Levelt, of Feilding, who is now on a visit tovEngland, that he is arranging to purchase a hound for the Hunt with a view to improving the “pack." The hound will he sent out very shortly.

The ran iter of road-racing has been strongly condemned by the executive of the Xew Zealand Automobile Union (stares the annual report) and ihe Minister for Internal Affairs lias been asked to introduce legislation to prevent future atlerupts of record-breaking on the roads, in ihe interests of public sa fetv.

A new kind of invisible door is being used to prevent (lies from entering public buildings in the tropics. Xu kind of screen so far invented, is proof against Hies and mosquitoes, so an oi>cn door lias l»oen devised with slits in the framework on each side, through which powerful currents of air arc pumped by electric fans. People can readily pass to and fro through this air barrier, but insects cannot, and the door is a success in tropical lands.

Last week an elderly woman died in Napier hospital and a few days Inter her husband, aged 81 years, was admitted in a fairly serious condition. Having been informed by sens of the old couple that they had reason to believe money was hidden in the house where the old couple had lived, the police made a search olid .found over £SOO in gold and notes in a carpet bag. The amount has been handed to the Public Trust eo.

Sir Undo Ferguson, 0.M.G., Doan of the medical faculty of the University of New Zealand, has been appointed to represent the university at the opening of the Pathological Institute at McGill University, Montreal, on October (>, Sir Lindo Ferguson left, by the Niagara to attend the medical congress at New York, which is to he held about the middle of the month. He was advised of his appointment as delegate to the McGill University function bv wireless.

The House of Representatives devoted last evening’s sittinp- to discussion of the report of the Railway inquiry Board. Mr W. A. Veitch of Wanganui, formerly a railway worker, opened the debate. He asked the. Minister not to he hard on ilie railwaymen, who had been misled by their leaders. He was followed by Mr H. E. Holland, who prolesied against the sueurestion made by Mr Veitch, but criticised the ■ aiment of the men. Other speakers followed and Ihe debate continued at length.

While speaking at the dedication ceremony of a monument to those v.lio died at the Great War, at Washington, last week, President Ooolidge said peaee had now been established and must lie nourished i:i this country’s international relations, I'n recalling' his wish for American membership to the World Court, and further disarmament, the President issued a warning: “We do not propose In entrust to any other Power, or combination of Puwers, authority to make up our minds for us.” The United States wanted to see. the Allies protected ami Germany restored to a condition of productivity and progress, lie favoured the Covenant's conforming to the American policy of independence to prevent aggressive war and promole permanent pence, but these would have little value unless the sentiment of pence was cherished in the hearts of the people.

it is the roasting of coffee berries that results in the development of the exquisite flavour so much appreciated by coffee drinkers. That is well known. Put it is not so well known that our New Zealand grown tobaccos are now subjected to the same roasting or toasting process, and with the same result. The tlav Mir is brought fully out, while at the same time the deleterious properties of the tobacco are destroyed. All tobaccos, no matter where grown, have this in common —that they contain Nicotine, some more, some less. And it is this poison that is chiefly responsible for the suffering of those who indulge too freely in the use of the fragrant weed. Heart and nerves are generally affected and often the eyesight. Scientists now tell us that toasting neutralises part of the Nicotine and that toasted tobaccos may, therefore, be smoked with impunity. They recommend R.ivcrhead Gold, mild and aromatic; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) medium strength; and the full bodied Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullhoad label). All are toasted. 16

While !i Zeppelin was flying' over the city, the judge l , jury and police al the Potsdam assizes, rushed to the windows to watch the airship. Meanwhile a prisoner under trial for perjury, escaped from the Court unnoticed, and has still not been captured.

We are informed that some lightlingered individuals were operating i/i the vestibules of places of worship on Sunday evening. From the Methodist Church two men’s overcoats were taken and a hat removed from the Gospel Hall in Park St., besides an electric torch from the pocket of an overcoat in the latter building. While lecturing at Wellington College, Mr Branshy Williams, the famous Dickens impersonator, asked three hoys from the audience to have a guess at lhe number of characters contained in the works of the great author. One ventured 50fl, another 1,000 and the third 3,000. Mr Williams said that he had asked this til every school he had been to, but had never received such large figures before. In fact the usual answer was between sft and loft. Even one of the masters at a certain school had fixed his estimate at 75. The correct number was 1550.

A well-attended meeting of poultry farmers was held in Foxton on Friday evening in connection with the export scheme. Mr A. G. Mumbv, chairman of the Wellington District Pouli rv-keepers Association, addressed the meeting, pointing out the benefit of the scheme, and that the commitments for space required the provision of 1,300 crates of eggs din ing the next month. On account of the agents withdrawing from the scheme on the opening of the pulping season, the W.D.P.A. was faced with the possibility of having to drop exportation, unless the poultrymen outside the Association would come in. It was unanimously decided bv I lie meeting to support (lie W.D.P.A. to the extent of one hundred crates per week, which amounl was considered sullicienl to make up requirements.

A Levin resident who was in Palmerston on Saturday, found that in several quarters there was a certain amount of uneasiness amongst the businessmen lie came in contact with as to the ultimate effect of the railway deviation upon the trade of the town. This aspect of tile matter had not been very fully considered by traders in the Square, but some of them seemed now to be it little doubtful as to the outcome of tire scheme, though they admitted that from a town planning point of view a better opportune v would be offered of beautification. “But," remarked one well-known Palmersfonian. “we will lose a great deal of the value of that because hundreds of thousands of railway passengers, who now admire our Square gardens, will, when the deviation is completed, he taken through our hack yard instead of past our main show window!” Chronicle.