LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2841, 3 February 1925, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Mayor of Palmerston N., Air F. J. Nathan, has consented to offer his services for another term.

Cook and Heency will meet, in a boxing coniest in London on February 12. Cook lias signed on for three lights in America.

A reminder is given of the monster garden fete to he held at the residence of Air F. Robinson, Lady's Alile, to-morrow afternoon. Competitions, afternoon tea, shooting gallery and numerous enjoyable games.

Foxfon's total rainfall for last month was .1.-ID inches. Rain fell on live days, the maximum fall, 1.40 inches, was on the 27th. The vital statistics for Fuxton for last month with the figures for the corresponding month of last year in parenthesis, were as follows: — Births, five (eight), deaths three (three); marriages one (three).

A Gladstone farmer last week received 43/- per head for a line of 170 lambs, a price that is considered a ree.oid for the district. The lambs wire trucked at Carterton for Wanganui and wore a picture to look at.

At a meeting of the Canterbury Labour Representation Committee on Saturday, candidates were selected for the coming City Council elections. Three Communists who were nominated were defeated, all being at the bottom of the poll.

One of the local telegraph messengers had a narrow escape from a serious accident in the Lady’s Aide yesterday. When turning into a. residence he accidentally collided with a motor ear and was knocked lo the ground. Tie receive! several bruises and abrasions to the head and was temporarily stunned. Mis injuries however, were of a minor nature.

The National Museum of Wales has pure based Frank Millet t.'s Rugby painting of “The try that beat New Zealand,” for Cardiff's permanent collection. The painting no doubt refers to the famous match in 1905, when Wales defeated New Zealand by three points to nil, the -'■•ore being an unconverted try aLf <ll ( which there has since been much controversy.

Tlic body of a man named Edmund Hollands, a returned soldier, was found in Port Chalmers tunnel yesterday. The guard heard a hump while the train was passing through the tunnel. Investigation later revealed the body lying clear ot the rails. The deceased was a married man living with his wife end family at Smith St., Dunedin. He had suffered from shell-shock and was out of work for 15 months

•Many miles inland from Waverley there lives a man and his wife, says the Wanganui Chronicle. Though a track runs past their house it is frequently many months before anyone other than a member of the family passes along it. But one day a stranger did come, and as he approached the house, he was observed Iron) the verandah by a little e-lmp between two and three years old. He was tremendously excited at his discovery and rushed lo hi.-, mother exclaiming “Mummy! Mummy! •Something like daddy is coming al(>ng the road.” Ili.s father was the only man he could remember.

Bobbed hair was originally a badge of servitude, said Professor 11. •J. Harper Roberts, lecturing on “Bobbing and Shingling,” at the London College of Physiology. Round features were the best for the style. Long, thin features never looked well with it. A shingled head was attractive, because the outline of the head was visible. He did" not see why women should not have their hair bobbed or shingled, instead of pulled out at the sides with a big knob at the back. Tile disadvantages of bobbed hair was that ifc exposed a sensitive part of the back of the neck, which often broke into a rash for about a month afterwards. Care should be taken while there was a rash not to wear a fur artificially dyed. For mankind to try and prevent women from bobbing their hair, was, in his opinion, gross impertinence.

It the average man were vast awuy on a desert island and compelled to lead a liobinson Crusoe existence, his first thought (after the food and water problem was solved) would be: “How can 1 get something to smoke?” The craving for tobacco is insistent in the case of 10 men out of every 12, and to satisfy the universal demand hundreds of brands of the “weed” are on the market. They come from many lands, one of the latest countries to produce them (in a perfected form) being- New Zealand. Strange to say the barren gum lands of ihe North which won’t grow ordinary crops, grow splendid*tobacco, a matter of the greatest importance to men on the land up there, because the average yield of leaf is worth £SO per acre, and the industry promises to become a source of national wealth. The local article is much appreciated by those who had to give up smoking foreign tobaccos because of the excess of nicotine which affected their health. Try “Kiverhead Gold” (mild). Navy Cut (Bulldog) medium; or Cut Plug No. 10 (JBullshead) full. 28

"Ur :iml Alt s .1. Firth, of' Hamilton, .-.it* -pending ;i few days holiday in i'nxlnn.

A very successful simp tiny was licit] liy Ihe Mellitnlisl Ladies flniltl on Sill mala v.

Bandsmen are reminded or their .-pecini meeting in the practice room at 7.31) to-ni**hl.

Multir vehicles registered al Pal - merslun X. up to Saturday totalled 2.150 and nearly AM,500 has been collected in lees, ft is estimated that m arly 3,000 vehicles are yet unregistered.

The 1! ev. Clarence Fat mi ami Air AY. Fellow, representatives of the Wellington Methodist Fducational Trust, visited Fox ton to-day in connection with local trust properly.

The total motor registrations effected at the Christchurch post cilice up (o closing time on Saturday, was 5,822. It is estimated that there are still about 2,000 ears unregistered in Christchurch city and sulnirhnn areas.

AAV desire to acknowledge imitation to he present at the “at. home’’ to lie given by the officers, X.C.O.’s and men of the 19th Medium Battery, N.Z.A., at the camp grounds on Friday next af. 2 p.m. The Governor-General Sir Charles Ferguson, with Lady Ferguson, and Miss Ferguson, intend visiting Palmerston N. on March 9. With members of the staff, the party will arrive by the 3.20 p.m. train from Wanganui, departing two days later- for Napier.

A universal superannuation scheme for everybody in the Dominion will be introduced by Hon. G. J. Anderson, Minister of Pensions, during the coming session of Parliament. The Minister, speaking at Thames, said be would be occupied during the next six months preparing a scheme which would he in the nature of compulsory old-age superannuation. He wanted to relieve the mind of everyone from the fear of want in their declining years. It was not a party matter. AVoodville and Dannevirke will have power from Mangahao shortly. Fither (his or next week the transmission line from Mangahao to the Bnnnylhorpe sub-station will be tried out on the 11,090 voltage preparatory to switching the current at iliat rate on to Dannevirke wheiy it u ill he broken down for supply hack to Woodville. Botli Dannevirke and AVoodville arc stated to be well advanced in reticulation —Dannevirke, at least, is now awaiting supply from Mangahao. The main transmission line, which will conned Alangahao with the more northerly section of Hawke’s Bav is now erected well past Dannevirke. Referring to the u-e of iodine as a civic for goitre, a well-known medical man in the Hull Valley remarked to a ‘-Pom" reporter vc- < Hilly (hat harm might result from the use of this remedy unless it. was used under medical advice. He pointed out that goitre which is accompanied by more or less swelling of the thyroid gland, might l.e caused either by over-action or under action of that gland. In cases caused by over-nciion the iodine treatment would cause further stimulation, which would he absolutely harmful. The. recently much-adver-tised use of iodine had caused many -uifferers to adopt this treatment, and cases had come under his notice where much harm had resulted. It was, lie said, allot tier instance of

, little knowledge proving a dangernits thing. Asked if children could tie safely given tlm iodine (ablets, be said tlial, while it' was true that goitre in i-liililreii was in Ihe great majority of eases caused by underaction of the gland, yet even ehildi eii should only be given the treatment under medical advice.