Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2807, 6 November 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A fair number of local people visited the Royal Show at Palmerston X. vesterdav.

file loeal Slttle school observed a holiday yesterday in order to allow children to accompany their parents to the Royal Show at Palmers lon X.

It was stated at Monday's meeting of the Manawatu Drainage Board that there were 4,000 acres of good land under water during the llood on Sundttv.

The directors <>r the Shannon Dairy t'o. are taking steps to ferry supplies of' cream from Monton suppliers across the Mnnawatn river by means of a wire cape.

“There is no country on God’s enrth equal to New Zealand to-day, and our duty is to do our best to make it even belter for those who arc coming after us," said Mr Massey tit the official opening of the power house at Manga ore 0,1 Monday.

Owing io preservalivc.s being mixed with (he bill ter in tile Canadmn pavilion nl Wembley representing lhe Prince of Wales mounting a horse, the bulicr cannot be sold for consumption, 'Kill will be used for wagon grease. “When he goes off on a holiday, a clergyman should not he encouraged lo leave home without his wife, and family,’’ said a clerical member of ilie Anglican Diocesan Synod quite seriously at Christchurch, lie was quite surprised at llie outburst of laughter which followed his remark.

Local youngsters celebrated Guy Paw he’s Day iu time honoured custom yesterday. Marly in the morning residents were aroused by weird noises and the appearance of extraordinary looking effigies in front of their doors. Last night lireworks were let off throughout the borough.

“I will be one of the few to carry gold - away from Mangnhao," said the Prime Minister when speaking nl llie opening of the hydro-electric power station on Monday. Mr Massey was making jocular reference to tile gold key with which he was presented ns a memento of the occasion. The road between Pox ton and Palmerston N. is now free of Hood water. A large area of land at Ifangitane and Karcre is still inundated. The All Blacks arc apparently t«> return via Canada as the Supplementary estimates contain a vote of ,CI, (MMI towards the expense of returning the team via Canada. It is to he imped that the Horowhenua County Council will lose no lime in faking the necessary steps to have the Shannon bridge repaired in order that road communication between Poxton and Shannon be again established as the break in the communication between these two towns means serious loss and inconvenience to the public of both centres. Mr Salvatore Cimino, newly appointed musical director of the new Manawatu Paramount Theatre, died suddenly in Palmerston A l , on Saturday evening. He had attended a performance in the evening, apparently iu as good health as usual, hut on I)is return to his hotel, Mr Cimino hud a seizure, collapsed and expired almost at once. He belonged to a well-known Wellington musical family.

Mr and Mrs Thorp, of Fox lon, intend to lake a trip to England in a few months' time.

The police received word of a fntnliiv at Pnlntahi on Monday. A middle-aged man named Sandar Steinberg being tbrown from a horse. Deceased was a native of Sweden and an ex-member of the Expedition.-! rv Force.

“T shall become a commercial traveller when 1 get Home, so far as advertising Xew Zealand is concerned," said the Governor-!leneral Lord Jcllicoe, at the Auckland Commercial Travellers' Chib on Saturday. Advertisement should not be needed, but he knew it was the soul of success. Tie would spread abroad in England flic beauties of the Dominion, the opportunities for those v,ho were willing to work, and what i i,iild he found here in the way of good- fellowship and a kindly reception.

Tlie Levin School Committee refused to grant a school holiday for the Palmerston X. Show hui nolilied parents by advertisement in the Chronicle that pupils absenting themselves would be liable to prosecution. Yet the A. and P. Association boosted the Royal Show in Levin, and Fox (on, which was cutout from the publicity campaign observed a school holiday! Anyhow the Magistrate refused to convict at Foxlon, parents whose children attended the show without the headmaster's sanction, holding that such attendance was of educational value (o the children.

The immeasurable loss which the Empire had sustained in the death of so many of its sons during the Great War was referred to in eloquent terms by Canon Pereival Janies at St. Mary’s memorial unveiling service at Auckland on Sunday. “We cannot measure the loss of such men to the Dominion, to the Empire, and to the world," he said. “The Empire is only just beginning to feel the loss of those who should -.now be ripening for leadership in world affairs, and T believe that that loss will he felt increasingly for the next 10, 20, or 30 years to come. They were the best of the world's manhood, and theiy places cannot he filled."

A hitherto unknown white race, suggested by some to lie of Welsh origin is reported by explorers just back from the Darien district of Central America, thus adding to the. number of mystery'races discovered iu recent years. The Japanese census of a few months ago revealed the unsuspected existence in that country of « tribe whose members wear no elo.ibing, hunt with the howamt arrow, and speak no known dialect. Inhabiting a remote valley in Xortli Japan, these strange people are almost savages; while what is more interesting to the ethnologist, or student of races, is-that they are white-skinned. Xot long ago a nearly white tribe was located in the heart of Brazil, where tradition stales that while Indians have long lived.

h.nds of the North Aui'kland disIricl have proved unsuitable for genciiil agricultural purposes. Cropping is no) ;i paving proposition in those parts. There is one exi-eplion, howe\ er —tobacco thrives well in these latitudes ami splendid types of leaf luive been prod need on soils that not long ago were covered with li-iree and fern. A small portion of tiiese waste lands if planted in tobacco would he sufficient, to transform this poverty-stricken district, into regions of affluence and wealth; £s(l net is the average yield of a tohaeeo crop per acre and often more, few people realise Ihe immense possibilities of the tohaeeo industry, but anyone wanting information on the subject is referred to the ready manufactured article. “Riverhoad Gold” mildest of all; “Toasted Navy Cut" (Bulldog) of medium strength; and “Cut. Plug No. 10” (Bullhead) full strength. Do not forget 1 hat all three brands are “toasted” and therefore more wholesome than the average class of goods from overseas, often so harmful on (he score of excess nicotine. -7