Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MAY 21. 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2886, 21 May 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MAY 21. 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Affcnlion is drawn in the Tarllml (lif* dale ol‘ ilic nnminl mootin' <d' tho Fox toll Chamber of Com mcree lists boon ndvnnood one dav viz., lo Thursday, 2Slli in-4, a 8 p.m. Tho annual meeting of iho Foxton Dorcas Society will ho held ii All Saints' schoolroom ,-il 2.5) o'clock next Monday afternoon Donations of left off clothing Jof at Mr Smith's shop will he givall; afifireciated.

For one week that well know firm. The ('. M. Ross Coy., are <»-i\ing a special casli discount o 2s in the ,C on I lie whole of lhei well bought, stylish millinery. 'l'll prices at the store for value nr always the host. A discount of 2 in iho £ means a hi”- windfall f'o the ladies.

The Italian Tourist Bureau lias published statistics of tourist traffic in Italy during 192-1. British tourists lead the list with 11:3,1)00. then come (lie French, Americans, and German- with the Russians and Boles at the bottom of the list. Two and a half milliard- of lire (present value £20.000,000) were spent in tin' country by tourists.

At. the annual meeting of the Iforowhenna Bower Board held on Tuesday, Mr G. A. Monk was unanimously re chcictl chairman. Tlie Horowliemia Bower Board at its meeting on Tuesday 'adopted a resolution that salaries of the office staff should he reviewed annually. For the present year salaries were fixed as follows: —Secretary £-175, accountant £4lO, assistant £250.

Iti congratulating the Borong! representatives on tin* Horowhenu; Electric Bower Board (Messr Gunning, Ros-. Matheson, and Nils by) on their re-election, the chair man (Air G. A. Monk) slated thn their return was very grntifvim from the fact that it indicated ilia th(' services of the Board wen generally satisfactory to the people of the ilorowhonua. lie though hi' could say con lidentlv that the work was proceeding satisfactorily and the people of the district wen getting as good service as any h New Zealand.

I ho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency company limited, Wellington; have received instructions from the executors of (he os late of the late .John Smith, Monton, ne,-i i- Shannon, to offer at public auction on Wednesday, May -ith. 1925 at I pan. in the Maori - land Theatre, Shannon, "Linlev" 1 a nil subdivided info four sections, splendidly situated and served by excellent roads. The sections are all Hat, and are of particularly rich alluvial soil, in quality and carrving capacity equal to anything not only in the district hut the whole of the West Coast. Two fine town sections in the Borough of Foxton will he offered also at this sale. Full details apepar in our advertising columns.

What, with one drawback and another, the lot of many a man on the land in New Zealand, for some time past, lias hardly been happier than that ol the Gilbert-inn policeman. and it is deplorable that in some instances the farmer has been torced 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 will produce remarkably line fobtu-co leaf, and as the average yield ol a tobacco crop on the Northern gum lands represents a cash value of £SO nett, there cun he no question as to profit. Large quantifies fit tobacco are aJrcady being grown, and the culteure of the “weed" in certain parts of New Zealand promises to develop into

■ national industry. Several vaci‘ties of this tobacco are on the narket, including “Riverliead Gold’’ iromatie, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) nediiim and “Gut Plug No. 10" Bullsiiead) full. They are all in risk demand. 21)

A motion of sympathy was passed to Mr. Westwood, it prominent member of the Foxton Chib in his recent illness at a meeting of I lie Shannon Football Club on Tuesday evening.

A movement is on foot in the northern portion of the Iforowhenna County (says the Chronicle) to form a new County to extend from Kopuiaroa to the northern houndm v of the present County, it being the opinion that the present County is too cumbersome.

Writing at sea somewhere off Colombo, under date April 21st, on the Orient Liner Oronsay, ‘Mr Henry Baldwin, formerly Mayor of Lower Hull, says: “Every morning for the past ten days I have heard one or other of tin 1 fifty or sixty New Zealand passengers on hoard this ship say: WVlial has become of New Zealand?’ This remark has invariably been made during ilie exciting half hour when the passengers gather round the wireless hoard to read the news of the day. For all there is to he heard about New Zealand and her affairs, it may have been blown up in a volcanic eruption, for we simply get no news of imv kind.”

In to-day’s issue the Railway Department advertise alterations to the Palmerston North-Foxton train service from .Monday next. Faster trains an* provided. The morning train (daily) from Foxton connects at Palmerston North with express trains for Wellington, New Plymouth and Napier and the afternoon train (daily) with express trains for Wellington and Auckland, and train for Wanganui. Train from Auckland arrives at Palmerston North in time for passengers to connect with life morning trinn for Foxton and a train from Packakariki also connects with this train at Longlmrn. Passengers from New Plymouth, Wellington and Napier express trains are enabled to connect at Palmerston North with the afternoon train (daily) for Foxton. The improved services should he greatly appreciated by users of the Foxton. train.

Miss TTuia Bloomfield, the represenaliveof Mr Beaumont Smith, the well-known moving picture producer is at present in Foxton in connection with a series of movie tests to he carried out at the Royal Theatre on Wednesday next. Miss Bloomfield is in search of local artists willing to take part in the production of Air Smith's next big picture, "The Birth of Australasia." Already Mr Smith lias engaged 50 New Zealand artists, five of whom are taking leading parts in a big production being produced in Sydney. .Miss Bloomfield informed our representative this morning that to date fifteen local entries have been received for test purposes. Aspirants to fame on the silver sheet will he given an opportunity i<> make good at the Royal Theatre next, week, and are advised to get in early with (heir applications.