Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2828, 30 December 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Before another issue of the '•Herald” reaches our readers, the New Year will have dawned and we take this opportunity of wishing all good health, peace, happiness and prosperity in the New Year. Local business people observe a half-holiday to-day and will remain open until 6 p.m. to-morrow (New Year’s Eve). Among the students at the Palmerston N. Technical School who were granted senior free places was George Downes, of Fox ton. The Borough Council has removed the old gas lamp posts throughout the borough, which have been replaced with .electric lights. Coming events cast their shadows before. In the shoi> windows of Messrs Perreau’s and Walls’ bakery premises are two handsomely decorated wedding cakes.

Mr and Mrs E. Cowles, of Hamilton, and Mr and Mrs E. Smith, of Hastings, are visitors to Eoxton, and are the guests of Mr and Mrs W. E. Barber.

The Good Templar Hall at the rear of the local Presbyterian Church is being removed. Mr A. Stevenson has purchased the property fPom the. trustees of the Good Templar organisation.

A large crowd of visitors are crpected at the local seaside on Thursday (New Year’s Day) when a Sports meeting is lo be held there under the auspices of (he Bench Improvement Commit lee.

Floods are reported in the Ashburton district and a considerable area, of country has been inundated. Reports from Timaru stale that much damage lias been done to roads, bridges and cereal crops. All Saints’ troop of Bov Scouts, Falmerston N., goes into camp at Eoxton Beach on .lamiarv G, in charge of the Rev. G. W- Dent, who returns from Ashburton on Monday next.

The wedding took place tltiK morning of Miss E. Brewer, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Brewer, of Avenue Road, and Mr Chester Reynolds, of Wellington. Miss Brewer has been on the clerical staff of Messrs Ross, Rough and Co. for many years. The couple will cany away with them to their new home in Wellington, the best wishes of a "large circle of’ Fox ton friends.

There, will be no issue of the “Herald’’ on Thursday next.

Miss Briggs, of Whangarei, is a visitor to Eoxton.

More rain fell throughout this district last night.

A local restaurant disposed of over two hundred weight of eooked fish on Saturday night.

The recent rains have “flattened out” oat crops in the Rangitikei district.

The third party of boys, numbering 29, for Eloek House, is due to arrive from England by the Corin-. thic on 4th January. Already 29 boys who have received their training at Flock House, have been sent to farmers in various districts to continue (heir career.

An elderly man named James Sheerin, a resident of Palmerston N.. fell off the train near the Khandallah tunnel on Saturday. He was removed to the Wellington Hospital where he died. He leaves a widow and a large grown-up family. Four sons were on act ice service and two of them made the great sacrifice.

The main thoroughfare on Saturday presented a very deserted appearance. At one period in the morning two solitary figures were to be seen —one a Maori who accosting a resident remarked “Py korry tis to horiday alright, everybody get te moo (sleep) or lookin’ for te dividend at the races, isn’t it?”

Widow Etc, known throughout Lorraine as the woman who stopped the German bombardment at Nancy by pluckily discovering the whereabouts of the long range gun “Long Max,” has been mysteriously murdered in a lonely, cabaret at Chateau Salins. She remarried in 1921. She is stated to have had a premonition of the murder.

At the Palliatua railway station yesterday afternoon, a railway clerk named William W. Styles, when taking the tablet from the Wellington. express train slipped. He was swept off his feet and dragged a considerable distance with his body down between the train and platform. The engine-driver applied the brakes immediately and the unfortunate man was picked up lying by the rails. Constable Burrell was a passenger by the train, which was crowded, and with commendable promptitude arranged for the sufferer’s transit to hospital. Styles is suffering dislocation of the knee, severe bruises on the back and abrasions (o the arms. It is feared he has also a fracture of the back of the skull.

A fire at .Ifuntly at midnight on Saturday destroyed the Huntley Presbyterian Church and three dwellings owned by the Taupiri Coal Co. with their contents. It started in a house and confectionery shop occupied by E. Webb, who with his wife and family were staying at Hamilton, and it enveloped tworoomed dwellings occupied by H. Smith and W. Hayes and quickly destroyed them. The furniture was removed from the Church before it caught fire.

An alteration in the system of ticket collection was recommended by the Railway Commission in its report. They suggested that, at the larger stations the platforms be enclosed and tickets collected at the doors. This might meaff some increase of staff at the stations, but it should be more satisfactory from a public point of view as well as to the Department. A label indicating sleeping berth passengers’ destinations would also be a convenience, and obviate the waking up of passengers unnecessarily.

The Cus tied iff Surf and Lifesaving Club has, from time <o time, thoroughly justified its existence, but never more so than on Friday —particularly in the afternoon — when its members bad occasion to effect, no less than twelve rescues from drowning, states the “Wanganui Chronicle.” In the early part, of the afternoon, when the tides were changing, the surf and undercurrents were exceedingly treacherous in places, and even swimmers of ability, who had been inclined to become too venturesome in the swirling breakers, experienced difficulty, and had to he -assisted ashore by more experienced Surf Club members and (lie life-line. When the sea \as most dangerous, the sun and

wiiter were most attractive, and, naturally, hundreds were enticed into the briny. Shortly after 2 o'clock 'lie life-lines and teams were kept exceptionally busy and no sooner would one bather be assisted to safely than Mu* call for help wotild lie immediately raised again. Tn a lew cases, resuscitation measures had to be resorted to, but, with only one exception, recoveries were speedy. It is the roast i no- of entire berries that results in the development of I he exquisite flavour so milch appreciated by coffee drinkers. Thai, is well-known. Itut it is not so well known that our New Zealand crown tobaccos arc now subjected to the same rousting or (ousting process, and with the same result. Tin* flavour is bronchi fully out, while at I he same lime life deleterious properties of the lohaeeojire destroyed. All tobaccos, no' matter where crown, have this in common —that they contain nicotine, some more, is ohielly responsible for the sufferings of those who indulge too free Iv in the use of the fragrant weed. Heart and nerves are generally affected and often the eyesight. Scientists now tell us (hat toasting neutralises part of the nicotine and that toasted tobaccos may, therefore, be smoked with impunity. They recommend Riverlicad Gold, mild and aromatic: Toasted. Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium strength: and the full bodied Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullhead label). All are toasted. 16

Mr R. L. Heath was the only lo-r-al prize-winner in the Dunedin Mammoth Art Union. He received a prize of £5. Bandsmen are reminded of a full rehearsal at the practice room tonight, during which samples and quotations of uniforms will be submitted for consideration.

We desire to acknowledge with thanks, calendars from the C. M. Ross Co., Shaw, Saville and Albion Co. Ltd., (Messrs Levin and Co., local agents), N.Z. Shipping Co. and I. M. Thomson.

Power from Mangahao was turned on at Petone and Lower Hutt on Christmas Eve. At Petone the street lamps were lighted and electricity for domestic use is expected to be available next week.

Gordon Martin, aged 20, while bathing in the Oreti River at Dipton on Sunday, was drowned. He dived into a hole fourteen feet <Jeep and failed to come to the surface. When the body was recovered life was extinct, the cause being heart failure.

Daphue May Jurahovitch, aged I mi, who was unable to swim, slipped into deep water in a hole in the creek bed near Marsden Point, Whangarei, on Saturday afternoon. An attempted rescue by a girl companion failed. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.

There was a large attendance at the Royal Theatre last night to witness the screening of the picturisation of Victor Hugo’s famous book, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” The picture is interesting both historically and from the realistic depicton of the creature who figures throughout. The final showing will take place this evening. After referring to the Department’s warning apparatus for level crossings and the'scheme to spend £20(},000 to further protect crossings, the Railway Commission in its report expressed the opinion that short of erecting gates and building gate houses, they could not see that more could lie done to give warnings at crossings.

Ministers of the Crown occasionally receive peculiar requests, but on his recent visit to Ohura, the Hon J. G. Coates (Minister of Public Works) received a stranger one than usual when he was approached bv a deputation asking that better facilities be provided for the carriage of beer over portion of the line under the control of the Public Works Deufmeni,

A piece of unusual good fortune has just befallen two’very old residents of Timaru —bootmakers by trade, says the “Timaru Post.” Mr .lames Whitley, of Church Street, and his brother, Mr William Whitley of Otipua Road, have received word that a. very wealthy relative of theirs who died in America, has bequeathed to them more than a million pounds.