Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1924 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2811, 15 November 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1924 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The school inspectors will be visiting tlic local school on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next for the purpose of general inspection and examination. Tile examination for Proficiency certificates will he held at the same time. A total of 50 entries were received for the rose Idoom show at the ('. M. Ross Co. to-day. Some good blooms are shown but on* the whole the exhibit is not up to usual standard, the day being either on the late or early side for a number of regular exhibitors. The result, will he announced to-night at 7.45. “You go out and liud work; there is nothing like work for rheumatism” remarked Mr d. L. Stout, S..M. to a defendant in a maintenance ease at the Palmerston X. Magistrate’s Court, who pleaded as an excuse for being £2O in arrears on the order that he hail been too ill to work owing to rheumatism. The Magistrate added that defendant did not look very had. The ease was adjourned for one month.

The number of the ancestors of each individual is enormous —two parents mean lour grand-parents, writes Prof. It. .1. Kleure. By geometrical progression, the number at flic beginning of the fourteenth century could be calculated to be as much as the whale population of England of centuries ago. and it also means that our ancestors must often have been related to one another, so that among* the millions of theoretical ancestors of each one of us in Norman times, certain individuals would figure several, not to say many times, could we but make out our family tree in full. A man named Leonard Bull bad hi- thumb blown off by the discharge of a double-barrelled gun at Morrinsville on Thursday. He was out shooting with two others and was leaning over his gun with his left thumb over both barrels, when the weapon went off. The thumb was blown completely off and the shot went through the brim of his hat. The victim reeled hack and fainted, his companions thinking lie was fatally injured.

AIY. and Mrs .]. K. IToniblow left this afternoon for Auckland and Whangarei. Mr. llornhlow will be present at tin* Masonic function at Auckland on |he 2(ith inst. (lirl students of Cardiff College arranged a smoke night, the attendance being limited to girls of (id inches in height. Male attire was compulsory. Most chose ordinary lounge suits, lull some appeared in breeches and others in “plus lours.” The evening closed with a. attack production of a film ‘‘Why Boys Leave Home.'' The Kighl lion. W. E. Massey has been selected as Brand Master of the Masonic Brand Lodge of New Zealand for the next two years, in succession to Viscount Jellieoe. No other candidates were proposed and the installation lakes place nl Auckland on November 2<i.

Mr Ken Freeman, who is retiring front actual hotel management ■with which he has been associated for the past 12 years in Wyle’s Hotel, Eoxton, and the Alhcrl Hotel, at. Auckland, lias settled in Palmer.-Mon X and intends commencing business as hotel broker and hotel staff employment bureau.

The wholesale price of all grades of raw and refined sugar has been reduced by £1 a ton by the Colonial Sugar Relining Company. The dei ision is a,ttrijmted to the large world’s supply. This is the fourth reduction made in recent months, the aggregate reduction since May being £(5 10/-. The statistical report, presented to the Presbyterian Assembly at Palmerston N. showed a general increase in church attendance and persons under pastoral care. The number of members received on profession of faith was a record. The average net increase of members for the last three years was 1.341.

The All Saints’ Church is to he the first Church in Eoxton to have Hie electric light installed. The Guild of SI. Monica have decided to pay for the installation in the church in memory of two of their members who have died, Miss Laura Ilenskio and Miss Stella. Barry. A brass plate is to be inscribed and placed in the church.

A large area, of now unproductive lamf, stretching from the Wanganui river to Kawhia, is to be the subject of a comprehensive investigation bv a committee set. up by the Minister of Lands. The committee l as a wide order of reference, which embraces the cause of deterioration, sizes of holdings, means of restoring productivity and the measure of help needed by the State to the sett id's.

A Carterton resident who was some years ago oil a visit to Bister, Northern Ireland, relates an incident, witnessed at a. football mutch to show the intense interest taken in Hie game there. A grey-haired old man. carrying a loaf of bread under bis arm was noticed on the outside fringe of spectators, craning his m*ck lo see the play. Suddenly I |,e side he supported got; a brilliant try and the old fellow with an exultant yell, drop-kicked his precious loaf right into the field of play, amidst a mighty roar of laughter.

Mrs Kji le Evans, M.A., of Wellington, was the first woman in the British Empire to have a University degree conferred upon her and all her life has been intensely interested in education] matters. For .many years she has. been one of the X.Z. University examiners. On Tuesday evening- next, under the auspices of the W.C.T.U. she jvill speak on “The League of Nations.” The meeting will be held in the Presbyterian schoolroom and iu addition to Mrs Evans' address musical items and supper will be provided. There will be no charge for admission but a silver coin collection will be taken up during the evenng. Both men and women are cordially invited to at tend.

Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective of tict-ion, smoked strong black shag tobacco and derived inspiral ion from it when puzzled over some problem of more than ordinary complexity. Shag is too full-flavour-ed for many smokers. It contains a lot of Nicotine, and excess of nicotine is ;i bail thing'. The habitual use of such tobacco is bound sooner or later to affect the consumer injuriously. Unfortunately practically all mported tobaccos are heavily charged with nicotine. And in that respect they differ essentially from our New Zealand grown tobaccos, the comparatively small amount of nicotine which constitutes one of their chief recommendations. Also —and ths is important —they are all toasted, and toasting brings out the flavour of the leaf in a most remarkable way. .Lhere are several brands of this popular tobacco, ftiverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog- label), medium and Out Plug No. 10 (Bull’s Head) full strength. Each of them has its merits. That seasoned smoker, Sherlock Holmes, would doubtless prefer the last named. 18.