Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2842, 5 February 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

One hundred and sixty motor vehicles were registered in Shannon up to Saturday last. The number of motor vehicles registered in Levin under the Motor Vehicles Act so far totals 430. Mr F. E. Jenks, transport officer at. Palmerston N. railway, station, has been transferred to Westport, and was made the recipient of two presentations by his follow-workers prior to his departure. The borough ranger informs that damage dune to street tree guards is due, not to persons hitchings their horses to them, but to the wanderings of mini tended tradesmen’s carts colliding with them.

On pie advice of tin* Minister and the health authorities Ihe Govern-or-General has decided to abandon his official visit to Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill and Tiinarn during the next three weeks. The decision was made in order to avoid the risk of children entailed by large public gatherings during the prevalence of the infantile paralysis. For the same reason Their Excellencies have postponed similar visits to Wanganui, New Plymouth, Palmerston N., Napier, and Hastings. For the present they will remain in residence at Wellington.

Time was when the Sambm tram conveyed a full load of visitors from the Sandon district to the local annual race meetings. Of recent years, however, settlers have made the trip in their own cars and the tram conveyance has not been a profitable proposition to the Manawn.tu County Council, who asked for a guarantee from the Racing Club of .014 to run the ‘■express’’ for last month’s meeting. ’The total fares collected from jmssengers to the two days meeting amounted to Ob !), !l and the Racing Club will be called upon to make up the difference. It is probable that the Club will dispense with any guarantee to the county for future meetings as the majority of settlers possess their own cars.

The winding up of the Dunedin mammoth art union discloses that the total value of the tickets sold was £28,022. Prize money of £4,000 was distributed as under: Otago, £1,815, Auckland £9OO, Canterbury and West Coast, £315, Palmerston North. Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa £315, Wellington and Nelson £255, Wanganui district £245, Southland £95.

At the Juvenile Court at Palmerston N. on Monday, before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., a Shannon lad was charged with the theft at Shan , non in September last of postal packets and their contents, of a total value of £7 5/-, the property of the N.Z. Government. He was ordered to come before the Court in two years’ time and in the interval he will he placed under the supervision of the Probation Officer.

An inquest was held at Port Chalmers on Tuesday concerning the death of James Edmund Hollands, whose mutilated body was found in the Port Chalmers railway tunnel. Evidence showed that deceased was in ill-health and suffered from shell shock, as a result of the war and he had several limes threatened suieise. Mr J. R. Bartholomew, Coroner, returned a. verdict that deceased met his death by throwing himself under a train while in a state of mental depression.

What with one drawback and another, (lie lot of many a man on the land in N.Z. for some time past has hardly been happier than that of the Gilberlian policeman, and if. is deplorable that in some instances the fanner has been forced to give his farm rest and retire from a struggle beyond his endurance. Especially trying has been the position of the agriculturist on the gum lands of the. North. This soil won’t grow anything the farmer is accustomed to grow. But i| will produce remarkably title* tobacco leaf, and as the average yield of a tobacco crop on the Northern gum lands represents a cash value of £SO nell, there can lie no question as to prolil. Large quantities of tobacco are already being grown and the culture of llie "weed" in eeriain parts of N.Z. promises to develop into a national industry. Several varieties of this tobacco are on the market., including “Kiverhcad Gold’’ aromatic. "Navy Cut,” (Bulldog) medium and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bnllsliead) full. These are all in brisk demand, 29