LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2843, 7 February 1925, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A poll of ratepayers in Waipawa County yesterday authorised the raising of a loan of £-15,000 for reads, bridges, and plant; ' .Mrs Withers sear., of Union Street, is very seriously ill, and her condition is causing her friends grave anxiety.

In lining a motorist charged with driving in a. manner dangerous to the public, Mr C. K. Orr Walker, S.M.. remarked at Lower Hull, that ihe penalty under Die new Act, which came into force on Ist .January, was £100,.0r three months’ imprisonment, ami the Court lout also the power to cancel the license held by the motorist.

Sheep from the Chatham Islands were among the Romney rams sold at the Feilding fair on Thursday. Local fishermen report flounders to he very plentiful in the Manawalu river at present and some good hauls have been recorded.

Owing to the heavy traffic the Foxton-Pa'linerston N. road is getting badly corrugated and rutty, despite the almost continual use of the grader.

At the Dunedin police court this week, Susan Wilson, aged 55, pleaded guilty to two charges of using an instrument on a girl aged 18, with intent to procure miscarriage and was committed for sentence.

Mr J. Joseph, of Foxton, has reoived notice that he was successful in the recent examinations held in Palmerston North, in obtaining his river certificate for an oil driven vessel.

The borough road staff is making good progress with the tar-sealing of the Johnston and Russell Streets road, the former having been completed and the latter tar-sealed as far as Norhilon Road junction.

Two bicycles which were taken from Main Street were traced by the police to Huniervilie, where they had been taken by two absconders from the Slate Training Farm at Weraroa. One of the machines, the police said, had been sold. The youths were arrested.

The intention of the Railway Department |o speed tip the express service between Christchurch and Invercargill was indieadtd by the Ifon. J. <!. Coales at Christchurch icsierday. Tn regard to the duplication of the Lyttelton tunnel, he said I lid committee of engineers had the mailer of the surveys in hand.

News has just been received that Dr G. J. .Adams, of Wanganui, and late, of Foxton, has qualified a Fellow of the Royal College of Phy siciaiis of Edinburgh. Dr. Adams has been further honoured recently by being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine of London. lie is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a Doctor of Medicine.

The Minister for Internal Affairs (ilie lion. R. E. Bollard) has just, completed a tour of New Zealand, inspecting racecourses and ascertaining local conditions before dealing with the nll'ocalion of folalisator permits. Next week he will present his recommendations to Cabinet, and it is reasonable to assume that an announcement will follow the tanking of the recommendations with verv little delay.

Mr All' Lin ley, louring manager of the “Dixie” Jubilee Singers, was itt Foxton on Thursday and in conversation with our representative remarked upon the progress of the town since In 1 visited it some years ago. Mr Linley said “I would like you to make it clear to your readers that the ‘Dixie’ Jubilee Singers are in no way connected with a company of Jubilee Singers which visited your town some time ago.”

On and after Monday next, Mr F. Rout notifies, his mail car will leave Foxton for Levin daily at 7 ami., instead of 7.15 a.m. This will enable passengers to link lip with Field’s down express which leaves Levin for Wellington at 8.2 in tile morning and will enable people to spend a longer time in Wellington before returning the same day. The evening service from Levin will not be altered.

The local band under, the conductorship of Mr J. Golder, will turn out to-morrow in their new uniforms, and will head the church parade from Park St. at 10.30 a.m. We are asked to notify bandsmen that though the order for the conductor’s uniform has .been delayed, through his unfortunate illness, lie desires bandsmen to parade in full uniform. Acting on medical advice, the conductor is unable to participate in the playing. Mr iVtcMurray will act as drum-major for the parade. Bandsmen will assemble at the practice room at 10 o’clock. “I got a terrible shock when passing the racecourse in my “Elizabeth’’ on Thursday morning,” said a local resident to our representative, “There was a ferritic explosion and the ear wobbled and trembled. 1 thought all the tyres had blown out and that, some infernal inaeliine had exploded beneath me and momentarily awaited a lift skyward. On looking towards the plantation 1 noticed that a charge had been tired from one of the titljtoiiinlei'S a few chains from the retail. I don't know which received the greater sltoch. ‘old Liz.’ or my nerves. Anyhow, we lost no time in working up to flic 251 It gear to get i.way front the scene of action.”

There is as much difference between raw tobacco and toasted tobacco as there is bet ween a. raw potato and savoury chips. It is not so much the material you use as tlie way you adopt in preparing it. Take for instance our locally manufactured tobaccos, they are all toasted and, as a result their latent properties have been brought fully out. Science applied, wlmt else is it but common sense. You need not be an expert to understand the wonderful effect, of this I ousting, process; flavour and aroma, will tell you; so smooth and mellow but wha.l is equ-

,••11 v important, consider their merits from a health point, of view. The object of toasting is to eject any deleterious properties that may be contained in the leaf and to neutralise portion of the poisonous nicotine; lienee tobaccos may be smoked with impunity; they will not affect the heart and nerves or the eyesight. Obtainable in three grades —“Kiverhead Gold” mild and arouiiitie; ‘lN'avy Out” (Bulldog) medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) full strength. 3b

® ( The Methodist Church Trustees ! have decided to install nine points o| electric light in the church. Eight points have been generously donated by present and former members, a ltd the congregation is to he asked to contribute the cost of' the remaining light by means of a retiring collection on the 15th instant. A distressing fatality occurred at Khandallah on Tuesday morning last when a baby hov, aged seven and a-half months, named Edmund Ernest McLaughlin, was found in his cot with a dislocated neck. At the inquest the evidence went to show that the child had been left playing in his cot and returning to him his mother found his head caught between the bottom bar and the wooden side of the cot. A doctor was summoned hut on arrival could only pronounce life extinct. The coroner returned a verdict accordingly. “This, of course, is a very serious offence and renders you liable to a line of £50,” remarked Mr E. Page, S.M., af (lie Wellington Magistrate’s Com t yesterday, when Dora King, a married woman, appeared on summons for failing to remain in isol illation when ordered jo do so tty the 'health authorities. The circumstances of the case showed that defendant was hoarding at a house when a young child was a I lacked by infantile paralysis. The Health Department immediately quarantined the household for I I days. The magistrate said he would not impose a heavy line as defendant may have been under some misapprehension, while (lie publicity would no doubt Lave a deterrent effect, on other possible offenders. A fine of £2 and costs was imposed.