Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2963, 17 November 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Methodist Ladies’ Guild was held at the residence of Mrs G. J. Honore’s last Wednesday afternoon when it was decided to hold another social on Thursday evening of this week.

With the institution of the “Daylight Limited,” three expresses will be running daily between Auckland and Wellington. Their running times compare as - follow: —Night Limited, 14 hours 20 mins.,; Daylight Limited, 15 hours 8 mins:; Ordinary Express, 1(5 hrs. 53 mins.

The Wanganui Harbour Board has decided to place an order with an English firm for a twin-screw steam salvage tug at the price of £30,4000. The vessel will be simillar in profile to the Terawhiti and of most moderate equipment. The building of the vessel will commence immediately. The Restoration law provides that a licensing committee must be elected in Ohinemuri, with power to grant not more than one license for every 500 voters, nor less than one license that from seven to fifteen hotels may be granted in Ohinemuri, which includes the towns of W'aihi ad Paeroa. Preference must be given to those owners of premises which were licensed when no license was carried in 1908

The King is to receive an 801 b cheese specially made for presentation to him at the Tiratu factory, Hawke’s Bay, on behalf of the soldier settlers on the Tiratu Block, of about 4000 acres, “as a token of our appreciation of the close attention your Majesty has always given to the many problems associated with the settlement of discharged soldiers; secondly, as a tangible expression of our continued loyalty.”

A piece of cloth about two yards square, whose loss will mean thousands of pounds to the owners, but whose value is only a few shillings, has been stolen from a large mill in Bramley, Leeds. The cloth was in a roll-top desk, which was burst open. The piece had woven in it about a dozen of next year’s patterns, and was to be shown to the London merchants. Nine months work had gone into the designing and weaving of the cloth. A poll for the proposal to raise a loan of £7OO for making alterations and additions to the present Council Chambers at Shannon was taken on Friday and resulted in the proposal being defeated by a majority of nine. The figures were: For 66, Against 75. Total votes recorded 141. That particular interest was taken in this poll is evidenced from the fact that including the absentees no less than 75 per cent, of electors ventured out to record their votes.

It is not generally known that a man over the age of sixty years is under no obligation to serve on a jury. When the jury was being empanelled in a case at the Palmerston North Supreme Court, there came forward at the interrogation of the Registrar a jnan whose najne counsel for the plaintiff could not find on his list. •• The man said that he was over sixty years of age, whereupon the other counsel remarked: “That’s why.” On account- of his age the juror was excused from further attendance on the Court.

Although a hailstorm which passed over Timaru during . the last week-end did not visit the town with the same severity as did its predecessor of a month or so back it was apparent that in this instance the town w r as not directly in the path of the storm, and that its full .force was being expended south of Timaru. A resident of Fair view showed a Timaru Herald representative a glass jar containing hailstones, which, although they were picked up about midday, and had melted to some extent wrnre about the size of a golf ball. He stated that the storm was unusually severe, the stones in some eases bounding up off the ground to a height of three or four feet. A number picked up showed an average weight of three-quarters of an ounce each, while some were as much as sin. in circumference.

According ti- the chairman of the Thames Valley Power Board, Mr. Claxton, who made the statement at Te Arnha, there are 3500 electrically supplied farms in New Zealand

The well-known author, Zane Grey, is a passenger on the Makura from San Francisco to New Zealand, where he intends to spend a few weeks among the sword-fish in North Auckland waters.

A New York touch has been given to one of the streets near the Napier Hospital by the erection of a board designating the thoroughfare 65th Street. To the uninitiated observer this would appear to indicate that Napier has aspersions towards following the example of American cities. The truth is, however, that 65th St., was named after the 65th Regiment, which was quartered in the barracks.

Voting in the back-blocks "districts has more romance and adventure in it than voting in the city. A correspondent, relating the experiences of settlers in the Pukekaroro district on election day, states that a family set out from their farm at eight o’clock to walk one and a half miles to join three other neighbours on a large bullock- , drawn sledge. The sledge was specially built for the occasion to cover the five-miles stretch of muddy road to the nearest booth. In some places the mud was four feet deep. The bullocks won the day and three hours after setting out the sledge arrived at its destination. After the voting, stores were taken on board and the party set out to cover the muddy road once again. Good progress is being made by the Public Works Department with the construction of the section of the East Coast Main Trunk railway from Tauranga to the Wktiroa River (says the “New Zealand Herald”). The platelaying is now well advanced toward the river on the Tauranga side, and is being rapidly pushed ahead. Just beyond the Wairon River, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Company’s contract commences. The railway crosses the Wairoa River practically at its mouth and a bridge 840 ft long is necessary. The bridge consists of 13 spans of 60ft., and two spans of 30ft. In the sixteen piers there are altogether 185 piles, each of which consists ofMOft. of concrete, spliced on to 25ft. of softwood. The girders are of the ordinary standard 60ft., steel-plated type, each weighing 23 tons.

In days gone by it seemed more (ban doubtful whether New Zealand would ever produce tobacco really worth smoking. But now, owing to improved methods of culture and manufacture, the dominion is growing tobacco of really fine quality, and farmers in districts where it flourishes are finding it more than worth their while to cultivate it as a side-line. That there is money in it for the grower is demonstrated bv the fact that the average yield of a tobacco crop per acre is worth £SO, sometimes more. As for the manufacturers they are to be heartily congratulated on successfully establishing an industry which not only already finds employment for many workers but promises to become of immense assistance to agriculturists and a source ol our national wealth. The leading brands of these tobaccos are: Riverhead Gold, a pure aromatic of' very agreeable flavour. Navy Cut (Bulldog) a medium-flavoured * tobacco very popular with smokers and Cut plug No. 10 (Bullshead), a fine full flavoured variety that lias innumerable friends.*