Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2850, 24 February 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Fire Brigade desire to acknowledge a donation of £lO 10/from Mr F. S. Easton. The Band and firemen will Inarch in procession from the Band room to the Royal Theatre this evening. During the Firemen’s shop day on Saturday afternoon, the local hand played a number of selections in front of the shop. During the offertory at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening, Mr Barron sang the solo “My Task.” very acceptably. Mr 11. .T. Downes, manager of the Municipal gas works, returned from Auckland yesterday, where he had attended the conference of gas engineers in that city.

Two hoys who pleaded guilty in the Napier Juvenile Court yesterday of the theft of three fishing nets and a pair of oars, were ordered by the Magistrate to receive 12 strokes each of the birch, and to come ip) for sentence if called upon within two years.

At the Royal Theatre to-night the competition in connection with the recent hand carnival watch guessing will he announced. The watches will he unsealed and the times at which they stopped announced. If two or more persons guess the correct time a drawing will lake* place to decide the winners.

During last month US consumers had been connected in flic ITowhenua Power Board’s district. The largest consumers connected were Messrs Ross, Rough and Co., Foxton, 70 h.p., Dalzell’s mill, 25 h.p.. Seifert’s mill, 20 h.p.; additional 20 ranges have been tested and delivered to various users.

A farmer brought some produce to the city and sold it. Thought he: “1 will surprise the wife.” Ffe bought a suit of clothes, a hat and a pair of shoes, and put them under the back seat. On the way home he stopped at the river, .took off all his old clothes and threw them in. Then he looked under the seat for his new outfit. It. was he got in the buggy and said: “Giddap, Maude—we’ll surprise her. anyhow.”

The “ropeway” for installation over the nine mjles between Arapuni., and the Mako Creek (Poverty Bay) quarry has now been manufactured, and is being shipped from England It is an endless steel cable 18 miles in length, and will lie operated by giant wheel pulleys at each end, worked by the electricity from Horohoro. It will be an aerial cable supported over the nine miles by big trestles comprised of hardwood poles, which arc now arriving at Putaruru and being taken out along the site. On the ropeway will he clipped the steel containers which are to carry the broken metal from the quarry to Arapuni.

Copies of Mark Nicholas article explaining the All Blacks’ strategy have been distributed gratis to clubs and schools throughout Great Britain, in order that lessons of the tour may not he lost. Applications are still pouring in.

Gibbons and Wills, the two outstanding contenders for the world’s heavy-weight championship, have agreed to meet at New York next summer. The bout will he of fifteen rounds, the winner to he matched against Dempsey providing the champion agrees to light before his retirement.

It is estimated (says Hip Grevtown Standard) that between 10,(100 and 12,000 cases of apples and 1,000 eases of pears were blown off in the Grey town commercial orchards hv the gale on Wednesday. In one orchard alone, the loss was approximately 7,000 cases. The unfortunate fact; is that most of the orchardists had only commenced this week picking the mature fruit for export and a Government grader was in the district to supervise the grading and packing. The windfalls will naturally he bruised and unfit for export. Being thrown on the local market at once, ihc windfalls will create a glut and a consequent heavy loss to growers.

Although Eeilding possesses a well-equipped High School a number of parents prefer to send their children to Palmerston N. The. “Star” commenting on the fact suggests “that, (lie Board of Managers should investigate every individual case, as a matter of business, and find out if there is a common grievance which is capable of being remedied. The people of this district did not. anticipate the present unfortunate position when they spent housands of pounds in having the High School established litre. Responsible citizens are anxious to assist the school in every way and we join with them in this desire.”

“Education lias a very real value,” said Sir James Parr, when speaking at Levin on Saturday. “Democracy is the ruling factor in politics at the present time. The people are our masters and it is a good tiling to educate your masters. Had the Russian people known the full facts of history—that it is impossible to have a revolution without hurting the people themselves —the nightmare of the past few years in that unhappy country would not have occurred. Education must he as popular as possible; it was the only way of making a good citizen, it enabled a man to earn his living better, and more, it taught him how to make the best of his time in those hours when his daily work was over.”

Boisterous without and within may he attributed to the conditions prevailing last night at a meeting of the local Silver Band. The meeting was not open to the Press and a sleuth was on duty in a car outside the hand room to give warning of the approach of eavesdroppers. One of the bandsmen was wanted by a citizen and lie approached the room, |hc windows of which are hoarded up. On approaching the front entrance an alarm was sounded from the horn of a motor car .-'landing near by. A babel of voices was heard from within from the rumbling bass to the crescendo of a tenor, hut the chorus was anything hut harmonious. The citizen made his way to the hack entrance and knocked. The interruption caused a dead silence while the business of ,tho caller was transacted.

While a father and his children from the Waikato were visiting the It.M.S. Danae in Auckland, on the occasion of the visit of the fleet, another baby girl was horn. The newcomer was named Danae, and tlie parents hit upon the idea of forwarding 1 lie birth certificate to the commander of the warship for endorsement. Instead of that request being complied with (says the X.Z. Herald) the parents have received a reply stating that the certificate has been filed with tlic ship’s papers.-which, when the ship is placed out of commission, will he pigeon holed in the Admiralty. A beautifully hound edition of “The Legend of Danae,” embossed with the coal of arms of the warship, and a pretty gold brooch of the same de--ign, were forwarded to the baby, !og( I her with a letter from the commander and officers.

Some smokers once they sample a brand that, pleases them never change it. Seem to think it can’t, he bettered. There are others who recognise that the world is continually advancing and that; new brands of tobacco are introduced from time to time which are a distinct improvement on the old ones. Take our New Zealand grown tobaccos, for example. These brands now attracting the attention of smokers everywhere, possess some characteristics which distinguish them from the imported goods in a very marked degree. Firstly, the leaf is toasted, and this brings out the flavour and fragrance very perceptibly — just as the flavour and aroma of coffee is improved by roasting the berries. Secondly, unlike the imported brands, they contain so little nicotine that they do not injuriously affect the heart, nerves, or eyesight. They give a sweet, cool, and satisfying smoke, too. Popular brands are: Riverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), full. Already the growing and manufacture of these tobaccos constitutes a flourishing industry and one destined to prove of national ‘importance. 37

Hugh Leonard Mercer, 22, fell from a cycle while competing in the championship sports on Saturday and was sent r.o the hospital with injuries to the head.

O.ving to stress of weather the s.s. Kennedy,- which was due to sail for Lyttelton last Friday, is still in port. It is doubtful whether she will sail before to-morrow night. Yesterday was considered one ot‘ the roughest days yet experienced at the Manawntu Heads by bear residents. The tide, backed by a strong westerly wind, brought the water almost up to the doors of the houses along the river foreshore.

‘‘We are not going to establish district high schools in every little ci litre,” said the Minster of Educatoii to a Levin deputation when informed that at least four applcarions were mooted on this coast, saws the Chronicle.

A man named Birtles. 40, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital in a serious condition on Sunday. It is alleged that he tied a clothes line round his neck and jumped 25 feet from a window at the Southern Hotel.

A fire destroyed the greater portion of the Mount Koval Boarding house at Manak.au Road, Auckland, early on Sunday morning. Eighteen male hoarders escaped with little lime te spare. Most, of them lost clothing and personal effects.

A largely attendee, public meeting at tlobart. on Saturday declared all l.ecr and spirits “black,” and decided, to refrain from drinking them until tne price of beer supplied by a certain brewery is reduced. A citizens’ committee, has been appointed to control the strike. Mr Philip Snowden, a member of the last British Labour Cabinet, in a speech said that one of the lessons of the recent election was that tire electors would have no truck with Bolshevism, red ruin, and resolution. If the Labour movement became associated with that in any shape of form, its doom was as certain as the rise of to-morrow’s sun.