LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2799, 18 October 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Manawalu County Council’s 'mid-grader is at present working in Union Street. The street is badly n need of grading.

Air J. K. llornblow left for ClirislImreli yesterday to attend certain ilasonic functions to be held in that ;tv to-dav and on Monday.

The. many friends of the Rev. Frank McDonald will regret to learn 1 1 l at lie is at present confined to his beil through indisposition. It will probably be some ten days before Mr McDonald will be about again.

For obtaining £23 from a Palmersto.: North linn by means of a valueless cheque, a young man named .fames Wjlliamson, was sentenced at Auckland, to six months* imprisonment.

Miss Batchelor, representing the British and Foreign Bible Society, will speak to-morrow morning at ibe .Methodist ('lmrch, and at the Presbyterian Church in the evening. At the latlcr service a retiring collection will he taken in aid of the .Society's funds.

Because of a tag attached to the balance-sheet of ihe Canterbury Education Board, Mr 1L Wild, a member of the Board, has resigned. A firm with which he has some connection has had Iransaeiions with the Board and this was objected to hv the Audit Office.

The pav-oui of the Shannon Dairy Co. for but ter-fat supplied during the month of September will be 1/7A per lb. payouts are as follows: Kairangn 1/71. 1/7, Palmerston X. Dairy Co. 1/7, New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union 1/fi.

Only six Germans, of whom five were females, arrived in New Zealand during the first eight months of this year. The principal foreigners who entered the Dominion duiing the period named were from Jugoslavia. These comprised 17fi males and 41 females.

"[ was very much surprised to learn that the Board's expenditure on tubercular trouble is £3,000 a year,” stated the chairman, Sir J. Ct. Wilson, at Thursday’s meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board. “This sum is incurred by the Board at its own hospital, at Otaki, and Pukeroa. Although a large sum of money, I suppose the Board must lake its share in expenditure.

A very painful accident bofel Mr Roland Hart on Thursday afternoon. While alending a horse, the animal lushed out. striking him on the iirm with its hoofs and indicting injuries between the wrist and elbow, and also on the muscles of the upper arm. Dr. AVyllio attended the sufferer, and advised his removal to Palmerston N. for examination under the X-rays.

“Tell the (ruth when it is convenient,” appeared to be the family motto of a country witness who gave evidence in the Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin. “The plaintiff’s witnesses 101 l me a different story,” said Mr AV. A. Moore when cross-examining. “What do you say to that?” They’re tilling lies,” was Ihe reply. “Is that what your family will do?” “No, my family will (ell ,the frut h —to a cerium extent.”

A country subscriber stales thal a farmer recently discovered that om* of his men was stealing wheat from ihe barn, and being uncertain wliai to do, lie consulted the vicar on Ihe matter. The parson hade the farmer, in whatever steps he took for the punishment of the offender, 10 or,<> lived to ihe Scriptural injunction: “If a man lake away thy coal, lcj him have thy cloak also.” -All right, sir," said the fanner, “that decides it. lie's collared my wheat, so I'll give him Ihe sack.” “Inquiries made in Dunedin in regard lo drinking among young women indl'-ale that the position, while 11 iii.-iv not be so serious as that of ihr North, is not altogether satisfactory." .(says a correspondent). "Many young men openly boast of having at I ended dances ‘packing something on their hips,' as the saying- goes—a flask of whisky now and again, a hot tie of cocktail preparation, or some other liquor. Incidents are related of midnight motor drives with cargo ihe ear. It is known that recently parties-of girls and men made a practice of having drinking parties.in empty carriages in the railway yards."

“Tlml's a pretty selfish and strange idea of comfort, isn't it?” asked the magistrate, Air Wyvcrn Wilson, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court (states the Christchurch Sun). The witness concerned, when asked why he had married, replied that it was to have comfort. The magistrate scorned that idea when he pointedout that Ihe man was out of work, had no money to pay for furniture, and was practically living on the eliaiily of his people. “You knew about that." said the magistrate, “when you married. It's a nice idea of comfort you have. What about the comfort: of your wife ? Your idea of comfort apparently is merely physical selfish comfort. Your conduct cannot he too severely criti eised.” The man was being proceeded against regarding the maintenance of an illegitimate child.

You have tried toasted bread, toasted bacon, toasted cheese, and possibly toasted kidneys, and know how good they all are. But have you ever smoked toasted tobaccos? The toasting process, as you know, develops flavour in the case of all the above mentioned edibles —and it has precisely the same effect in the ease of tobacco. You can easily satisfy yourself as to the truth of this assertion because our New Zealand grown tobaccos are all toasted. That is one reason why they appeal so strongly to smokers. Another reason is that they contain (comparatively) but little nicotine and may consequently lies mokecl all day long without producing those unpleasant effects that frequently follow the prolonged smoking of imported tobaccos, all of them (more or less) loaded with nicotine. For a cool, sweet and fragrant smoke, try Kiverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog label) medium, or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull’s Head) full strength. There is no mischief in any of these brands, and the rapidly increasing demand for them is the most convincing proof of their popularity. 21

I >.• 11 *i I’uvgvi, “iToodman Blind" to be rci-ncd ai the Town TTall Io- night. Sec it. 5

Sixty ]n'T com. Of the guests of Iho Clifton Hotel at Niagara- Falls arc honeymoonors. The general manager says they don't eat much of anything, and those who do eaf don't care what they eat. They are tin easiest people to please. All they want is to he let alone.

The Mahgahno Celebration Coinmil iee on Thursday evening-receiv-ed a donation of £2 2/'- from the Shannon Co-op. Dairy Co. It was also reported that although the Fox ton Borough Council had refused to eon tribute, a number of citizens of Foxton intended subscribing; the sum of Co towards the eelehra I ions.—Chronicle.

A “Times" representative was ofllciallv informed yesterday that as legislation was being- provided under which broadcast ing- stations would broadcast under an agreement with the Government. which will deal with the question of patent rig’ll Is, ii is hoped that broadcastingoperations will he renewed thriVugh-i-ut New Zealand, by the end of the month.

An elaborate mot or racing- track is being made on an Auckland Harbour Board properly known as. the Pukaki Lagoon out on the Mrtnukau Harbour, away out Ihumatao way (states the “Star”). The lagoon is surrounded by rising- ground and with very little trouble the tidal floor can be reclaimed and the sloping ground will make an admirable grandstand. A telegram from Washington states that celluloid films, so thin that 254,000 of them could he packed into a space of an inch thick, • have been produced by the Bureau of Standards of the Department of Commerce. They were made by dis solving- the celluloid in amyl acetate and dropping the solution on a clean water surface, allowing the acetate to evaporate. These films are intended for use in connection with Xray studies the bureau is undertaking.

At a meeting of the Mang-ahno Celebration Committee on Thursday evening, it was decided to accept the tender of the Levin Band to supply music on the opening day. It was also decided that the only complimentary tickets to lie issued for the banquet will tie those to the Ministers and members of Parliament, engineers of the Public Works Department, the Press, and (lie executive. and t<> the subscribing- local bodies to the extent of one ticket lor every -Cl contributed. A number of tickets will be available for admission at 10/fi a ticket. —Chronicle.