Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2894, 9 June 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Hart In ml, Assistant District Traffic Manager was in town tin's morning on ollicial business.

At last night's Council meeting, noeomits iimonniing to £ISBB 15s Id wore passed for payment..

The touring Australian hockey team will play the lirst match of its tour in Palmerston against Manawatu on .Julv 15.

A meeting of Committee of the Eoxtoti Bowling Cluh will he held in the usual place at 7.30 p.in. on Thursdn v.

The Oamarn police have com rneneed (o take action against mo iorists who have not changed thei old number plates.

There are 10 entries from Ireland for the world’s butter championship at the Auckland Winter Exhibition, also one from Minnesota, U.S.A.

For one week the ('. M. Ross Coy. offer Show Week specials in all classes of ready-to-wear garments, for men, women and children. An early visit to the great value house will pay you handsomely.

In a race from New York to Albany, over a course of 138 miles, the motor boat, driven by wood, beat the express by 33 minutes The time was 2 hours -10 minutes. The boat maintained an average speed of 51.7 miles tin hour.

The friends of Mr A. Stevenson will be pleased to learn that he is making good progress towards recovery after his recent operation in the Palmerston North Hospital, and will probably be about again next week.

‘‘This is an advertising age,' 1 said Mr. A. T. Bruinsby, an Auckland organiser. “We have to face the fact (hat the advertising spirit has created in the minds of the people the idea that if an artiele is not advertised, it is not any good and judgment tends to go by default.”

A peculiar experience recently held an OLaki settler, a Mr lliii, son of Mr. Hill, coachpainter, oi Stratford and Pa tea, (says an exchange.) He and his family were watching a waterspout at sea, when, to their horror, they saw that it was approaching them, and before long it had reached their house, scooping up everything in its pillh. As it neared the house a large pool of water was slicked up, and next the whole roof of the house was lifted off ami carried several hundred feel into llie air, finally being deposited in some bush about half a miJe away. To make matters worse, it began to rain heavily after the whirlwind had passed, the plight of the family, sheltering in a rootless house, being anything but an enviable one.

Did you know tlint Lord .Jcllieoe was a devotee of the "weed?” He chiefly smokes cigarettes, hut 'contines himself to one packet of ten per diem. Quite moderate! Yes, some people smoke thrice that quantity between breakfast and bed. But despite the popularity of the “eig," .millions of smokers prefer the pipe. As to the injuriousness of smoking it largely depends upon the tobacco. The imported brands, as a rule, are simply loaded with nicotine, so that their habitual use cannot be good. In that respect they differ materially from our New Zealand grown tobaccos. These are toasted —hence their delightful flavour and fragrance. Also they are comparatively free from nicotine and do not burn the tongue, wreck tiie nerves or affect, the heart. There is unquestionably a great future before these tobaccos, and already the growing, curing and manufacture of the leaf is becoming an important New Zealand industry, and farmers are finding a tobacco crop a profitable one to cultivate. Brands ehieily in demand are Kiverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium; and Cut Plug No. 10 full 30

Those present at last night’s Borough Council meeting were: His Worship the Mayor (M. E. Perreau Esq.) and Os. McMurray, Thompson. Woods. Cowley, Winstanley, Rand, Parkin, Adams. An apology tor absence was received from Cr. Walker.

A final reminder is given of the Fire Brigade Ball, to be held in the Town Hall this evening. As a re>nlt of much bard work on the part of an energetic committee, the hall already presents a very pleasing appearance. A real good time is promised those who attend to-night. The lloor is in excellent condition and the supper will leave nothing to be desired.

The igniting of a spool of film during a matinee at the Royal Theatre on Saturday afternoon was the course of an alarm of the lire being' sounded. Patrons at. the entertainment which consisted for the most part of children, were quickly marshalled out of the ball, which in a short time was filed with t in. dense black smoke of the burning ii]m. Quick work on the part of Messrs Hamer and Son prevented a serious outbreak and the Haines wore confined to the operating box and quickly extinguished. The services of the tire brigade which arrived at the hall shortly after the sounding of the alarm, were not required.