Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1925 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2835, 17 January 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1925 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Health authorities restrictions re prohibiting children under ID years of age from, all ending local picture theatres is being strictly observed. Local Sunday schools will be closed in (lie meantime.

Mr J. S. ITornblovv has been appointed lion, denial surgeon to the I'alniersloii North Hospital on the reconimxmdal ion of I lie Medical Ad- \ isorv Committee.

There are three infantile paralysis cases in the Palmerston Hospital, the latest a baby from Kongotea. The, hospital authorities have provided an isolation ward for the treatment of palienls.

The service at the Methodist Church to-morrow evening, will be conducted by Rev. M. A. KugbyPratl, Chairman of the Hawke’s Bny-Mnnawnlii District. The choir will render the anthem “I'lxull Mini all Ye People.”

Rnfann, (lie Maori failli-lu*nli*r, slides til a I (lie Maori and .Japanese p< oples a.re closely related. We should say tliiit, physically, (he Maoris have gone through a later evolutionary singe than the Japanese—from the Darwinian ancestral theory. The Levin Municipal Baths have been exceptionally well patronised tliis season, both by children and adults. The other afternoon quite a hundred persons were present atone time whilst some enthusiasts even went so far as to go down for a swim after coming out from the pictures.—Chronicle. * There were 110 patients in the Palmerston N. hospital on December 1, 150 were admitted, 108 were discharged and nine died, leaving 80 at the end of the month. The daily average number was 01.003. Eleven infectious cases were admitted, namely, diphtheria 0, phthisis 1, pneumonia 1. There were 03 operations during December.

The secretary of the local Fire Board has received 1 h<■ following Idler from (lie N’.Z. Shipping 1 Co.— “We enclose herewith the sum of two guineas as an appreciation of the services by your brigade on the 12lh ultimo., when an outbreak of (ire occurred in stables adjoining this company’s property. Wie will be glad if you will kindly hand this amount over to the brigade.”

The Palmerston N. Hospital Board has appointed a deputation consisting of Dr: Forrest and Messrs J. A. Nash, ALP., and Hornblow, to wait on the Minister of Railways to endeavour to safeguard the hospital patients from the noise of shunting when arranging the location of the new station voids, which will be situated about lialf-a-mile from tlie institution.

When it was moved at a meeting of tlie Morrinsviile Borough Council, that a letter of congratulation be sent to Sir Christopher Parr, who had done a great deal for education in the district, Cr. B. Chapman said he would object a- he did not. favour political honours. He appreciated what Mr Parr had done for the district, and for New Zealand, but was against the motion on principle. Some of the Australian States had refused to permit political honours. The Mayor (Mr ft. Howie): They’re Bolsheviks. The motion was carried with Cr. Chapman dissenting. “We opened the Gorge Road at Christmas to oblige travellers, and this is what we get for it,” said the chairman at yesterday’s meeting of the Manawalu Gorge Board of Control when the. theft, of three hurricane lamps during the monHi was reported. “I do rol think any moto-

ear drivers would take them,” remarked one member. All spoke strongly on this mean pilfering and the placing in danger of the lives of Ha public Hi -.t resniled. “I? this kind of thing centimes, we sliail have |o consider Hie matter of e'e-:-ing the Gorge again at night," remarked the chairman.

A circular from the Minister of Public Works lias been received in Christchurch pointing out that several accidents have occurred through persons coming in contact with outdoor electric wires, and asking that the possibility of the danger of making contact with electric wires should lie brought under the notice of members of all unions connected with Ulie building trades. The circular states that there is an impression that a wire is quite safe to handle because it is covered, and that, although the covering on outdoor electric wires has its uses, it should lie recognised that tlie wires may be dangerous due to the effect of weather on the covering or to faulty material or workmanship.

Wliat is the biggest meal ever taken by one pei-son? In the transactions of the Royal Society, mention is made of a ten-year-old boy who ate 3731 b. of food in six days; while another, suffering from acute hunger, consumed 3841 b. of food in the same period, and then started to gnaw his own flesh. A doctor records seeing a Norfolk farm labourer eat a whole leg of mutton at one sitting. A woman patient in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital ate three quarten loaves, 31h of meat, and several pounds of potatoes every day for three weeks. The ease is recorded of a child of three who drank two pails of water daily and seemed none the worse. Glass-blow-ers have been known to drink forty pints of water a day. A French physician had a patient who habitually drank fifty pints of red wine a day.

A method of cheeking potato blight which has been tried at the Boys’ Training Farm, AYeraroa, for several years, with considerable miccess, is worthy of a trial hv poI a f'o-growers, says the Levin Chronicle. Speaking to a Chronicle representative the oilier day, the farm manager (Air Spencer) stated that l or many years he had given up Ihe use of spraying and instead, dusted the potato lops willi lime, scattering il by hand over the growing 'lallcs. He did not claim that Ibis prevented the stalk from being attacked by the blight, although it ci ilaiiilv checked it, hut what it. did do was fo prevent the blight from allecting (he Inliers. Mr Spencer staled that he usually dusted the potatoes a couple of times during their growth and since adopting (lie scheme had never had an unsound potato in his crop. The lime appeared to have Ihe el’feel of blistering I lie skin of Ihe I liber on the upper side, hnl Ihe damage did liol go more. I hail skin-deep.

W’liiil kind o|‘ I nhiicco <lo von proIVi —mild, m'edinm, or lull? If you have been Ion”’ :i, worshipper :iI. Mio shrine of My Lady Nicotine you have (louhlless sampled all sorts of brands ill one time or smother, ami have your preferences? But have you ever fried toasted tobacco? It is quite a new idea. The leaf is carefully toasted and this pro-' cess develops the flavour and aroma in quite a surprising way. It’s like eating salt with nuts or mustard with beef or cheese. You can test this for yourself because the New Zealand tobaccos now so much in evidence, are all toasted. Hence their delightful fragrance and flavour, and, unlike most of the imported brands they contain such a small percentage of nicotine that they may be smoked pipe after pipe “till the cows come home” without unpleasant or harmful consequences. They won’t bite the tongue, and appeal to all tastes. “Riverliead Gold” is aromatic. “Toasted Navy Gut" (Bulldog) a pleasing medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bull’s Head) a fine full flavoured tobacco. 23

Constable McGregor, of Shannon, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant, and has been notified of his transfer to Christchurch.

Bobbed hair is not new. The truth is that through one-third, and perhaps one-half of the world’s recorded history, women have worn their hair bobbed without dreadful consequences. Bobbing was almost universal in Babylon, in Egypt, and in the Middle Ages throughout Europe.

The revenue for the port of AA ranganui for the past year was £4,154 in excess of the previous year, which was a record. During tlie year six large oversea steamers berthed at Castleeliff wharf. As the result of recent harbour improvements vessels up to 10,000 tons can now safely berth at the wharf.

Another old land mark, in the form of a two-storeyed building, opposite the State school, has just been demolished. Of late years it l as been used as a Chinese laundry. Much of tlie limber is in splendid 1 order. The framework indicates that ihe method of building in the early days was more elaborate than what obtains to-dav.

The Mayor of Sir . mm, (Mr Mm 1 - doeh) states there i- an impression among Shannon residents that h f is opposed to the Council contributing towards the cost of Hr. 1 temporary spans to Ihe Shannon-Fox-lon bridge. He slates that is not so. His nbejetion is to the Council contributing towards the cost ol the punt, which, he says, was eons! metre 1 without ihe Council ever being consulted in tlie mailer. At tlie Palmerston N. police Conil yesterday a young man, charged with using indecent language in a public place, was sentenced to 31 days’ imprisonment. Senior-Serge-ant O’Grady said that accused was in the company of two others, and was using l the. most-filthy language. If was heard through the window of an hoi el by a limn, whose wife and family were also within hearing and upon complaint being made Ban- abused a constable in vehement terms.

In a recent issue \vc published the names of several pioneers who are over SO years of age and were born in New Zealand. It may not lie generally known that MV Thomas Rodgers, of Rangitikei Line, Palmerston X., according to a Xew Zealand Gazette notice published in 18-10 (leap year) was born at Petone beach on February 20 of that year, says the Standard. Mr Rodgers, who is in his 85th year, is still hale and hearty, and he has a family of two sons and three daughters: Messrs T. .1. Rodgers and Alphmisus Rodgers. both of Palmerston X. and Mcsdames Cornford (Pahiatua). Adams (Lower Hutt) and Miss Rodgers, who lives with her father at

bis residence at Rangitikei Line. Air Rodgers came to Palmerston N. in (lie early days and has had (lie pleasure and satisfaction of seeing that (own grow from n village to a small eifv.