Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2838, 27 January 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Something over a million tomato plants are required every season to meet the demand of Auckland gardeners. A suburban grower picked out this season 183,000 plants, and sold over .150,000.

A special committee will wind up the watch in connection with the guessin/? competition of the Band Carnival at the Town Hall pictures to-morrow night. The winning guess will be declared in the Town Hall on Saturday night.

Last Tuesday was a red letter day at Waikokopu (Wairoa) the ocdasion being the loading of the first shipment of frozen mleat there on to a Home liner. The authorities anticipate that within the next two months 100,000 live sheep will be shipped from the new port.

There promises to be an interesting contest for the mayoral chair of Timaru in April next (states the Timaru Herald). Labour has decided to put forward a candidate and arrangements are hying made to conduct a vigorous campaign to secure his return.

The Chinese soldier of to-day is splendidly drilled in the European way; but if it begins to rain he stops fighting to open his paper umbrella, which, with a fan, forms part of his equipment. There is rarely any fighting in China when the weather is bad.

The London “Daily Mail” political correspondent says that while the Government is anxious to reestablish free gold and silver in London it is unlikely to restore sovereign circulation for .some years, because the amount of gold in a sovereign is now worth considerably more than 20/4, causing a loss to the Exchequer if gold replaced notes. ~-

The “Waitara Mail” says: A commencement has been made with the work of burning the vegetation on the beach as a means of eradicating the cattle tick recently discovered there. It is understood that no further trace of the pest has recently been found on the north side of the river, but that one tick has been discovered on the south side. Officers of the department are carefully watching developments.

The Health Department's regulations of 1916 dealing with infantile paralysis contains the following recommendations: “All shopkeepers should be required to cease dry sweeping and use instead sawdust moistened with antiseptic. Stables must be carefully supervised, cleaned daily and all manure placed in closed receptacles, and such manure moved at regular intervals. Manure pits and stables generally should be sprayed with kerosene, crude petroleum or other fly preventative.

The danger of leaving an electric iron standing op a table with the current switched on was demonstrated in Palmerston N. yesterday. The housewife went to town leaving one of her daughters ironing. The girl later also left the house and when her mother returned earlier than anticipated, owing to the heat, she found that the iron, with the current still swiched on, had burned through the tablecloth and was in the process of burning through the table which was badly charred. —Standard.

A Hamilton resident, who has just returned from a trip to Australia has in his possession a price list of a certain Australian timber merchant, which appeared in the “Sydney Morning Herald” (says the “Waikato Times”). Here New ‘Zealand tongued and grooved dressed riinu lining is quoted at 9/- per 100 ft., whilst the larger size, namely Gin. by -Jin. is shown at 15/6 per 100 ft. As' the local cuotation for both these lines of timber is between 30/- and 36/-, it certainly gives one food for thought when it. is considered that our own timber can be shipped fo Australia and sold at. a price over 100 per cent cheaper.

A young - Napier business man arrived at his office feeling depressed, out-of-sorls and sick, says an exchange. His head was spinning, and his joints ached. In brief, his symptoms were parallel to tlie early indications of infantile paralysis. So his superiors ordered him to lied, had the rest of their staff gargle their throats industriously, and subjected their offices to a severe process of disinfection. Then they sent a doctor to the home of their ailing subordinate, whereupon the pressing inquiries of the medical man speedily disclosed that, the cause of the trouble was suffering only from the after-effects of a, very hectic* night before.

Gold was quite recently found in I lie bed of the Water of Leith whilst digging deep for the foundations of the Union Street Bridge, states the Dunedin Star. There was not much of it, perhaps about a couple of pennyweights, but it was a nice, sample of coarse gold, and it can ho well understood by men who have felt the fascination and the excitement of prospecting for the precious meta'l that the finder looked about for more. But the one little pocket was the beginning and the end of it. The explanation guessed at is not that the Leith is likely to be a second Kaiwarau, but that in some unaccountable way the “tiling” from teeth extracted at the Dental School had been unwittingly cast into the stream. If so, it must have been long ago, for the gold was waterworn.

“I’m satisfied that Honolulu is an over-boosted jflaee and three weeks without a party of congenial companions is. quite enough to spend there.” This was among the remarks made by Mr C. S. Thomas, a Christchurch solicitor, on his return from a holiday trip to Honolulu. “The bathing, of course, is wonderful,” he said. “The water is delightfully warm, and one may stay in for three or four hours without getting a chill or feeling any evil effects at all.” He went on to say, however, that the Waikiki beach itself was not worth calling a beach. It consisted of a hard coral sand, and there was not more than a. few feet of it. One stepped off a bank into the sea. In the water the great danger was the sharp coral ledges. The water was very shallow, and one could go out for over a quarter of a mile without getting wet above the hips. So it was very easy to strike a ledge with a foot, and if a foot was cut it was generally poisoned.

It Is curious how smokers will “fancy” some of their pipes and fail to “take” to others. It is not * question of cost, either. J. M. Barrie, an inveterate smoker, has quite a collection of pipes and some of them are valuable. And yet one of his greatest favourites is a little wooden “nose-warmer” for which he gave fourpence! Tastes in tobacco vary in the same way. Some smokers use only the most expensive brand's while others find ordinary plug or even common shag more to their liking. The flavour appeals to them. But, talking—or rather, writing—about flavour, have you tried the Hew Zealand grown tobaccos? The leaf contrary to the usual practice, is toasted and this imparts a peculiarly delicious flavour. These tobaccos moreover, contain very little nicotine and are consequently comparatively harmless. They are manufactured in various strengths to suit all tastes: “Riverhead Gold.” is mild aromatic; “toasted Navy Cut” (Bulldog Label) medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bull’s Head) full flavoured. They are meeting with a big stile, 26