Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY SEPT, 5th, 1925. LOCAL AD GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2932, 5 September 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY SEPT, sth, 1925. LOCAL AD GENERAL.

’The Thames Harbour loan of i'4o, 000, which was offered to the public l veils fully subscribed.

A most enjoyable lime was spent by members and friends of the Presbyterian “Ladies’ Social Guild” on Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs Perrean, Main street. It was decided to hold a cake and apron sale on the first Priday in October.

“The purchasing' power of a family in New Zealand is considered to be three times that of a- family in Manchester,” said Roturian P. J. 11. White during the course of an address on (lie development of the New Zealand overseas trade to the New Plymouth Rotary Club.

Some of the new Katana church ministers do not appear to be fully in lunch with the work. Recently one of the paslniy *>ot stuck in the middle of a burial service, and he set off for home to get his hook. Thinking that the sendee was over the mourners dispersed, but the pastor rounded them up again and finished off the service.

The “hello” girls, or the young

ladies engaged in tiie telephone exchange in Wellington will soon he no more —that is, in their present capacity. There are now about 1)0 of them so employed and also a few youths, but with the completion of the new automatic installation, which will probably be in October, their services for local exchange will not be required.

II has not. boon decided yet .what it to he clone with the hones which were important exhibits in Hie trial of Frederick Peter Mount. Christchurch now has no “black’’ museum, but there was a fairly large collection of grisly rcilics of longforgotten trials a I Ihe Supreme Court until a month or two ago. There is a possibility (hat the hones in the Moua-t case, or some of them, will go to Wellington. Others will no doubt go to Otago University, if not tor permanent keeping, then for use in making easts.

A Gisborne footballer was requested to lend a man hall'-a-erown. “Oh,” he said, “hall'-a-crown won’t lie enough. I’ll give you 10/-.” For a joke he lore a sheet from a receipt hook which he had with him, and changing the. words “received from” into “pay to” he made out an order for 10/-, never dreaming that he was being taken seriously. Apparently his name was good, for shortly all rewards the order was cashed by a shop and returned to him for payment. Friends looking for stray halfcrowns do not apply to him now. The twenty-■liftli aniversary <>t: the marriage of Mr. and Mrs W. D. Roekell, of Levin, fell yesterday (says the Chronicle) and they received many felicitations from their friends and relatives on the occasion of their silver wedding . The marriage was celebrated in Palmerston North mi September -I, 1000 by the Rev. Rather Tyomas, and since then they have resided in Waitkauri, Olaki, Paxton and Levin, where they have been respected residents for the past six years. The celebration of the anniversary takes place to-day, when a good many relatives and old friends will visit Levin from other parts of the Dominion for the purpose of tending their congratulations. It is to be"" 1 regretted that Mrs Roekell has but recently returned from the hospital at Palmerston North, but the pleasure she will undoubtedly derive from the function will do much towards effecting a quick recovery.

The Napier Chamber of Commerce is advocating a full night train service of sleeping ears between Napier and Wellington.

It is estimated that by the end of (tie current year there will be about 120 Plunket Nurses working in New Zealand, an increase of over 20 last year.

Members of the Choral Society are notified by advertisement that the annual general meeting, to have been held on Monday, evening, has been postponed until Thursday evening next.

The anniversary concert in connection with the local Methodist Church was held in the schoolroom last night and was highly successful. A full report of the entertainment will appear in our next issue.

The United States dirigible the Shenandoah has been completely wrecked in a. cyclone. The airship was on her way from New .Jersey to St. Louis when the storm struck her, breaking her into three parts, and throwing out several of her crew who were unable fo cling to the wreckage. Of the vessel’s crew of four<y-Iwo, fourteen are reported (o have been killed and two injured, while twenty-three have reported themselves uninjured, so that three are still unaccounted for.

\\lhoa the annual report on the Forestry Department was being debated in the House of Representatives on Thursday, Mr. J. Linklater said lie understood that seven and a ball: million acres of Crown lands were to be set aside for forestry purposes, and he expressed the opinion that this policy would prove a profitable one. He remarkmi on the success of the sand dune reclamation work (hat was going on at the month of the Kangilikei liver, and staled that the trees that had been planted there were doing exceptionally well. This work, he thought, might well be extended, and lie commended the suggestion to the Forestry Department.

A probot, they say, lias no honour in bis own country, and it lias been too iiiui-h Hie policy of New Zealanders in Hie past over the product of their country in favour of the imported goods, which, in many cases are actually inferior to tiie New Zealand article. Take tobacco for example. Most American tobaccos are objectionable on the score of excess niotino, and defective combustibility, leading to (be logging of the pipe, with unpleasant, and indeed injurious, consequences to the smoker. Try Riverlicad Gold mild and aromatic, or Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) of medium strength, and if you prefer a fall body, try Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label. Their purity, flavour, aroma and all round excellence will surprise you. Unlike most brands from oversea this particular t.vpc of tobacco does not foul the pipe and leaves (lie mouth sweet and (-lean. Experts maintain that of all varieties known New Zealand leaf is Ibe least Injurious on account of its small percentage of nicotine and that it may lie smoked continuously without the slightest after effects. 91