Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2914, 25 July 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Dunedin City Comieil has decided to guarantee .Cl. Out) for the entertainment of the American Fleet.

Gisborne Borough Council lias decided to give a bitumen coat to all borough streets which il re-metals henceforth.

The Waimalc School Commit tee passed a resolution requesting a - ray examinations of school children to discover tuberculosis in its early stages, with a view to informing parents regarding I ran 1 meat.

Inglewood County eompleied about three miles of bitumen road during the past season. Owing to tile local stone being inferior, a total of 5,2f>0 eubic yards of stone had to be obtained from Katigilikei ami Levin.

Well-informed political circles in Wellington give credence to a persistent rumour that the Oeneral Flection will lake place in October next and not in November. At the moment the rumour is not withoui some significance.

The annual rcpori of the British Board of Education points out that New Zealand, which is taking up the scheme, is the only Dominion assenting to the new interchange of teachers recommended by Ihe Imperial Education Conference in 1925

Tin* Wanganui Kiver Trust is at present engaged in planting between 4,001) mill 5,000 trees at Pukcliiiniu (says (.lie Herald). These are for the most part timber trees, to he useful for piles and fences in the future, with ornamental trees on the prominent spurs faring Pipiriki.

A. special correspondent ol: the American Fleet says tiial the sailors tire great letter writers. The mails going- to the States from l.’ago Pago

was approximately 00,000 letters, it. will he the same at other ports, with on eh mail. The letters will describe the cities and their people, thus forming tons of the best kind of publicity tor broadcasting over tlie States.

Unheralded by the Prime Minister while in Palmerston X. on .Monday, but forecasted in a recent article in IheseY-olumns (says the .M.i). Times) work on Palmerston North's new railway undertakings was commeneed by a survey party on the day predicted, .Monday last. (Quietly the Department's surveyors got to workin the morning in the neighbourhood of Boundary Koad. and the number of pegs now studding the landscape is an eloquent testimony of the start of the “great adventure.’’

In to-day's issue will be found the ltailway Depai Lmcnl's advertisement providing holiday excursion fares to Wellington in connection with the Wellington Winter Show, also the visit of the American Fleet to Wellington. The reduced fares cover the period of special events and are obtainable front within a wide area.

The "Herald" .staff acknowledge with than!;.-, wedding favours from Mr and Mr- ■). W. Madden.

A l'i w days ago nine swaggers •.ere counted along the road beweea Wanganui and Mariou.

Rev, W. S. Xeal, of Sanson, will conduct both the morning and evening services at the .Methodist Clnm-li to-morrow.

More definite information than has hitherto reached the public as |o the progress of the survey of the Town Flat tunnel and deviation work and the probable dale of commencement was requested by Mr W. IT. Fcild (Otaki) in a question put to the Minister of Public Works on Wednesday. Mr Field was informed thill the survey would be completed shortly and that projjosals for construction were under consideration.

George Wheeler, secretary of the Sydney Help For Consumptives Art Union was .sentenced to three months imprisonment on a charge of stealing fourteen thousand tickets the property of the committee. The police gave evidence , 1 hat accused admitted he put the butts of these lickeis in a barrel and when they were drawn, securing the prizes to he the value of several hundred pounds. The police found twenty-one thousand of the tickets which had been sold to the public- in large numbers, the butts of which had been burned. These therefore, had not a chain-e in the draw. The AttorneyGeneral is considering the re-draw-ing of I lie Art l nion.

"The Audit Department has sprung a surprise on us by announcing that at the end of each linani in I year not only must the county funds be in credit, lint also the funds in each riding of the county." slated Mr T. Mason Chambers, the chairman of the Hawke's Bay County Council, if siu-li a decision proved correct, he said, it was going to lie \-orv serious for some of the ridings. It would im an that as soon as 'heir money was expended they would have 10 close down on all work and discharge their men. Mr A. IT. Ferguson. County Clerk, thought the Audit Department's decision wrong, but stated (bat the Comities' Association would probably take the matter up.

P. T. Barnaul the famous American showman, was once asked what invent ion or di-eovery had, in his opinion contributed most to the source of human happiness and enjoyment. Without hesitation lie teplied: "The invention or discovery of smoking." He wasn't far wrong. Tobacco is like a good wile —il liaises our sorrows and doubles our joys. But it must be the right kind of tobacco, if full of nicotine, as mi many of the imported brands are, habitual indulgence in if. must be attended, sooner or later, with evil consequences. Heart or nerves may become affecicd. By the way, our New Zealand-grown tobaccos are so pure and contain relatively so little nicotine Ihm they may be freely indulged in with impunity. They don't bile ilit* tongue. The toasting of tin- leaf (quite a new idea) develops the flavour, which is peculiarly plea-ant, and they possess a delightful fragrance of their own. No wonder they are capturing the market. Ask for "Riverhead Gold," mild; "Navy Cut" (.Bulldog)’ medium: or "(.'til Plug No. 1.(1" (Bullslieadi, lull strength, -12