Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2815, 25 November 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Foxton Choral Society intend. holding their first concert in the Town. Hall on December 12tli.

Matriculation examinations are scheduled to commence from Tuesday, December 2. It is reported from Marion, Ohio, that Mrs Harding, widow of the late President Harding, is dead. Mr. Win. Hart, manager of Messrs Goldingliam and Beckett's, is at present on holiday in the South Island. Mr Hart went down to' Lyttelton on the s.s. Kennedy on Saturday evening. Captain Pollard, adjutant of the training camp, at present established at the Foxton racecourse, issues a. warning notice in this issue that live shell practice Will be carried out on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week. Guns will lire from the rifle range in a westerlydirection towards the beach.

A large number of local and district people patr.onised the seaside on Sunday and many took advantage of the fine day to have a “dip.’’ Porpoises have again made their appearance along this coast, and on Sunday a shoal was to be seen playing about quite close in to the shore.

“I can just remember the late Mr Costley,” said Mr Knight at the llo.spil.nl! Board meeting in Auckland. “lie had a habit of sitting down at I he roadside, and 1 can recall how lie hud pieces of wire tied around his boots to keep them on his feel. What was in his mind we did not know, hut the £10,0(H) he left was a great bequest to the people of I his city.” ' A sacred concert was held in the' Town Hall on Sunday evening under the auspices of the Sports Queen eoiiiiiiil lee, The at tendance was good and the programme submitted was fully appreciated. The committee wisii to thank those artists who contributed towards the programme, and also tiie general public who gave their support.

Mr Reg. Riddle, son of Mr W. E. Riddle, an ex-Foxtnn hov, who for some time past has been in the Publie Works Department, Wellington, has received promotion and been transferred to Auckland.

The jubilee of the borough of Napier is being celebrated this week, commencing yesterday. Five days’ programme has been arranged, a reunion of old Hawke’s Bay identities being one of the principal features.

An Auckland businessman, who is a well-known motorist, admitted i>> an interview that motor-cars were allowed to make speed-ways of the business streets of Auckland to an extent that would be permitted in no other part of the world.

The Orepuki Dairy Factory, Invercargill, was destroyed by fire on Saturday, the damage being estimated at £3,000, portion of which it is understood, is covered by insurance. The present intake is 2,000 gallons daily. •

The Empire buildings, in Princess Street, Dunedin, have been sold to the Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Society for £25,000. This is one of the most important sales of freehold in the city for a considerable period.

“If motorists will drive carefully and drink less beer there will he no accidents,” commented a member at Monday’s meeting of the Waipa County Council when a request for the widening.of the road at the dip on the way from Hamilton to the Te Rapa racecourse was under consideration.

Many cherry growers throughout Hawke’s Bay have experienced the disappointment of seeing the prospect of a record season vanish. As far as the yield of fruit is concerned, something of a record has been established, but the heavy rain experienced a couple of weeks ago upset many orchards, a fairly heavy percentage of the cherries having been cracked by the rain and rendered practically useless for market.

A Christchurch telegram states that Mr Charles Boxhall, probably the best wicket-keeper New Zealand ever had, died at Sydney on Friday. He came to Christchurch from Mel-, bourne in 1998 and from that year till the 1914-15 season, he played for Canterbury, ancl for the greater part of (hat time kept wickets for New Zealand teams. He made his last appearance for a Dominion side in December 1914, when lie went with the New Zealanders to Australia. *

A swarm of bees passing directly in front of two motor, ears on the Opunake-Eltham road, primarily resulted in a collision with considerable damage, between the cars one of which (reports’ the Taranaki News) was a mail ear. Just as the cars reached the Main South Road, a big swam of bees ffew aeross the intersection, apparently taking the attention of the drivers from the road. The cars crashed inlo each other and both, vehicles were damaged, but no one was injured.

Fox ton is considered as an ideal district for poultry raising. The great drawback to development in this industry has been the summer price of eggs. Owing to no outlet the supply has been greater than tiie local market can consume. On Thursday night JVIr J. B. Merrett, of Christchurch, will give a lecture in the Town Hall supper-room. He recently established an export trade for eggs in England. He Is a forceful and interesting speaker and all interested in the progress o£> the town, are invited to attend.

Why is smoking so often attended. with results that cause medical men to order their patients to either discontinue the habit, or greatly modify it? It is simply because*.the percentage of nicotine in most imported tobaccos is so high and it is the nicotine in excess that renders smoking injurious. How, our New Zealand grown tobaccos contain so small a percentage of nicotine that it is practically a negligible quantity, and besides, they are subjected to a new toasting process. Toasting develops the ilavour, removes all deleterious properties and makes the tobacco climate proof. Toasted tobacco is recommended to those who study their health and appreciate a pure tobacco. If you like a body try Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label, or the somewhat milder Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog). There is another brand, Hiverkead Gold, which excels all .others in mildness and aroma. They may be smoked with impunity and cost 25 per cent less than Ihe foreign lines.

D. Cameron, dairy farmer, of Horckiwi road, Wairarapa, was at the Magi strate’s Court, Petone, fined £5 and costs 7/-, by Mr C. R. Orr-Wal-ker, S.M., on each of two charges of neglecting to clean his dairy and the vessels used in connection with the business of dairy farming. The dairy inspector (W. Wilson) reported visiting the dairy and finding two old singlets lying about and smelling very badly; also two dirty old cans, which bad evidently been in use for a considerable tune, hot cleaned out. The separtor was in a disgraceful state, and when the top cover was taken off and the strainer lifted, it was seen that iff had not been cleaned for some time. A very offensive smell was given off. The dairy, the inspector stated, had been visited before in September a(ud found them to be unclean. Cameron was interviewed at the time, and said that he was very busy making a new road, but bad given instructions 1 to the boy whom he had placed in charge, to keep the dairy as clean as possible.—Times,

We acknowledge with thanks a handsome wall calendar for 1925 from the New Zealand Shipping Co., per the local branch. The cleverness of our presentday office hoys was exhibited at a country post offiiee not far from Wanganui one day last week. The hoy was told to fill a jar with “glov” which was to be found in an adjacent room. Shortly afterwards he made his appearance and remarked: “I don’t think this paste is good. It’s black, and won’t stick.” Upon investigation it was discovered the boy had-tilled the jar with axle oil.

Leap year, 1920, established a then record for marriages in the Dominion, the total-number registered for that particular' twelvemonth being 12,175. Again leap year is with us. and, though there are still six weeks to go, there is every indication that 1924 will see another record entered up. Only figures touching Auckland couples are available, huff even these show that to dale over 1,700 couples have been joined in matrimony and by Decem - ber 31, the total should reach 2000.

A gradual erosion of the sea coast south of Timaru has been going on for many years, and in places the sea has eaten away so much of the land that the main south railroad had to be shifted hack (states the Timaru “Post”). Recently the sea appears to have attacked Jack’s Point, where there is at present evidence of the work of the waves. At times, of high tide the water washes up to the foot of the clay cliff’s, and it has been washed into the pit below the targets on the rifle range.

By the passing away in her nine-* ty-ninth year, of Mrs Mary Ann Price, widow of the lute Mr William Weston Price (who pre-de-ceased her by forty years), Wellington loses an old resident of 50 years standing, and one of the few local nonagenarians, who made fair promise of reaching their century. Mrs Price leaves one son —Mr Edwin Davey, of Berlinmporc, and five daughters, Mrs G. Mercer, of Bcrhainpore; Mrs AV. Manning, Mrs r. D. Murphy, Mrs # W- T. Johnston, op Wellington South, and Mrs E. 11. Barber, of Te Horo. Mrs Price was thrice married, had thirteen children in all, and at the time of her death \vas grandmother to fifteen children and great-grandmother of twentv(hree.

A successful demonstration by i lie Christchurch Fire Brigade with the new electric eightv-feet ladder in. Victoria Square, was watched by a large crowd of people. Thc v ladder with several fire engines, was brought up from the station by a' torchlight procession of the brigade. A position was taken up on I lie eastern bank of the river. The bidder was then run up to sixty ,I'oet, and a fireman from that height, sent water down into the river. Electric current is used for running c.ut and lowering the lengths of ladder. The current is generated on Hie appliance by a petrol engine hi tlu* carriage, used for locomotion. The hose and nozzle are fix lures on the ladder. The whole appliance is very compact and, on the face of if. is simple, and is worked with surprising ease, the ladder being quickly raised (o any height up to eighty feet, placed at any angle, and turned in any direction. Tlu* cost was £2850.