Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1924 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2814, 22 November 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1924 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is reported that a local young man was successful in winning a Lord ear in a Wanganui art union. A rink consisting of Head, Jno. Itoss, Boore and Nye made the trip ti, Woodville this morning to contest with that Club for the Dixon Cup.

To-morrow morning a church parade of the Tilt Artillery Battery, at present encamped on the Foxton racecourse, will he held in the Anglican Ohttreh. The Foxton Silver Band will head the parade from Victoria Bark.

Among 1 those who passed in the recent Trinity College of London’s music examinations, held at Palmerston X., were Mi's W. McDonald (late of Foxton) and "Miss M. TTpton (late of Mouloa), both of whom passed in the licentiate grade (singing).

The Eight Cylinder Concert Company presented an entertainment, in the Royal Theatre last evening on behalf of the Fire Brigade Queen candidate. The attendance was only moderate, but the programme presented was good. It was announced that the company would return on Thursday next and appear in the Municipal Theatre.

Ring out the old, Ring in the new. See W. D. Bauekham’s advertisement. f

On Thursday afternoon (lie W.C. T.IJ. held its annual meeting when the election of officers conducted by Mrs Evans, resulted as follows: — President : Mrs Peryman; vice-pre-sident: Mrs McDonald; secretary: Mrs Rimnrer; treasurer: Mrs Downes; White Ribbon Afent Mrs Thomber; superintendent for Cradle roll: Mrs Tongs; for Band of Hope: Mrs John Ross. Cut out the credit. Call in the cash. Sec W. D. Bauckham’s advertisement.)

The unique experience of being conducted by a murderer over a large American prison befell Mr Mainland Foster, of Gisborne, during a recent visit to California. “On a visit to the San Quentin prison,” said Mr Foster, “I was met by a polished and cultured young man and conducted over the linger print department, in which there hundreds of volumes of records of criminals’ linger prints, from the greatest {to the smallest. Every phase of this branch of prison work was explained to me by this young man, after visiting tile other portion of the prison, and, as 1 was leaving, the young man explained that he was a murderer who was sentenced to death but was reprieved and sentenced to life imprisonment. He said be would never get outside the prison walls and would rather have died.”

Cut out the credit; Call in the cash. See W. D. Bauekham’s advert isement.j

Smokers' heart is a distressing malady, caused chiefly through the effects of an alkaloid called nicotine, which is extremely poisonous. Strong tobacco with a high percentage of nicotine should therefore be avoided. When selecting a brand, the smoker should not lie guided by appearance alone, because even—an apparently mild cigarette tobacco nl a bright lemon colour may contain—and often does contain an excess of tiieotine. If is a peculiar fact that certain X.Z. soils produce a leaf with a very small percentage of nicotine, compared with the foreign type. Take for instance our local brands: River-head fluid, Cut Plug Xo. 10 and Toasted Navy Cut. There you have an absolutely pure article, which can be smoked continuously without the slightest after effects. It burns to the last shred, leaving - the month sweet and clean. So highly is New Zealand,tobacco commented upon by Doctors and experts that smokers should ac(jimjnl themselves with the merits of our own product, by giving the above brands a fair trial. 2 Ring out the old, Ring in the new. See \V. D. Bauckham’s advertisement, t At a. special meeting of the Shannon Borough Council, held on Tuesday evening, a report was received from Mr R. Edwards, engineer, dealing with a sewerage system for Shannon. The engineer submitted a lengthy report, on a scheme which would include in the meantime that portion of the town where the buildings are close together and such portion as are actually necessary to keep the town in a healthy state. He pointed out that to attempt to put a sewer in every street, would not be practical owing to the scattered nature of the siles of the resiliences, the cost of which to the ratepayers would be too great a burden for them to hear, it being in (lie vicinity of .CiKljtHMt. The scheme as submitted he estimated to cost approximately .07,000. It was pointed out that it would he necessary to strike a. rate of Id in the £1 if the scheme as submitted was gone on with, while a rate of approximately 4d in the £1 would have to he struck to carry out a sewerage scheme to cover the whole of the borough. The Council recognised the urgent necessity of something being done in respif t to sewerage in the closely populated nt|a and on the motion of the Mayor it was decided to call ,-t meeting of the ratepayers interested in sewerage for tile congested area to discuss the matter.