LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2949, 15 October 1925, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The seamen’s strike has been (-ailed off and a cablegram has been dispatched to all the ports affected advising the men to return to the ships. News from Tasmania that his banking account had benefited to tiie extent of £IOOO, lias been received by a Hawera resident, it is reported. At Monday night’s Borough Council meeting it was decided that the road staff he provided with one pair of hoots it year for tarring purposes.

The search for the bodies of the three victims of the Lake Coleridge tunnel disaster is being continued by the men’s comrades. A new drive has been started, but none of the bodies had yet been recovered.

The Chinese Masons of Wellington have erected a Masonic Hall with subscriptions from all over New Zealand at a cost of £3OOO and this was opened with it banquet at which it number of Europeans were present including the Mayor, Sir A. Robin, and Hon. G. W. Russell and Archdeacon Johnston.

Sigmund Breithai't, reputed the world’s strongest man, declining an anaesthetic, died following the amputation of a leg (says a Berlin message). He contracted blood poisoning during a circus turn from a rusty nail when prone beneath a spiked board over which passed a heavily laden lorry.

The question of obtaining “silent policemen” for Whyte and Clyde street corners came before the Borough Council at Monday night’s meeting. The inspector’s atention was also drawn to the fact that cars were in the habit of speeding within the borough as well as cutting corners. The death is announced from Wanganui, of Mr. Andrew MeFarlane, aged 84, formerly a wellknown builder and contractor. With his partner he constructed the cast portion of tlu- Wellington-Manawa • tu railway. He was an elder of the of the Presbyterian Church and was well-known in bowling circles. He resided for fifi years in 'Wanganui. An Ashburton motorist had an unpleasant shock while on a country road recently. A road roller appeared in front of him, going in the same direction, and lu- accordingly slowed down to pass it, blowing his horn vigorously. A man who was walking ahead of the roller throwing the big stones out of the way, however, failed to notice the approach of the car, and as it drew level, calmly tossed a big lump of metal through its windscreen.' The fact that the smashed glass cut his wrists did not tend to sweeten the driver's temper, and some hot words were exchanged before the knight of- the road proceeded on his way.

With the approach of summer has come the inauguration of an nnti-lly campaign in New Plymouth. One gentleman has donated a guinea as a start towards a fund for the purpose and the headmasters of the New Plymouth schools on the recommendation of: the borough inspector (Mr. R. Day), have arranged to forward the object in the schools by means of a drawing competition. Each drawing is to illustrate in some forcible manner some phase of the danger of (lies, and all drawings will he exhibited at a later date in some public place. Awards will he made to the pupils submitting the best drawings, the prizes to he given to the library of the school securing most points. A system of points lias been devised, which i( is hoped will enable the smaller schools to compete successfully with the larger ones.

In spite of the many attempts by the struggling farmer, the gum lands of the North Auckland district have proved unsuitable Lor general agricultural purposes. Cropping is not a paying proposition in those parts. I (tore is one exception, however —tobacco tlui\t . s wC ll in these latitudes and splendid types of leaf have been produced on soils that not long ago wore covered with ti-tree and fern. A small portion of these waste lands if planted in tobacco would he sufficient to transform this povertyslricken district into regions of affluence and wealth; £SO net is fbe average yield of a tobacco crop poi acre and often more. Few people realise the immense possibilities of the tobacco industry, but anyone wanting information on tlm subject is referred to the ready manufactured article, “Riverhead Gold” mildest of all; “Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), of medium strength; and “Cut Plus No. 10” (Bullhead), full strength.” Do not forget that all three brands are “toasted” and, 'herefore more wholesome than the average class of goods from overseas, often so harmful on the score of excess nicotine.— Advt.