Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2994, 4 February 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL

There is quite a fresh in (he river owing to the recent heavy rains, A boy was fined £5 at the Police Court at Auckland on Saturday for giving a false alarm of tire.

Mr. and Mrs \V. Trueman left f'oi Dunedin this morning, where Mr. Trueman will attend the Municipal Conference.

According to a Wellington paper one young man at the atlieletie sports there last Saturday had his locks done up in a hair net so that they would not he disturbed during the race. ) The officers, N.C.O.’s and men of the 19tli Medium Battery N.Z.A., extend a hearty invitation to the citizens of Foxton to attend an “at home” .to be held at the camp on. Friday afternon at 2.30 o’clock.

At Wanganui on Tuesday Albert Thomas Busch, aged two years and ten months, fell into a tub of scalding water while his mother was washing. He was fearfully scalded and died shortly after admission to hospital. Over 30 aplications were received by the Manuwatu County Council for the position of road foreman. The number was finally narrowed down to three, and it was decided to invite these applicants to appear before the council’s local committee at a meeting to be arranged. Owing to the unsuitable weather conditions, the Jlokowhilu School had to forgo all the arrangements that bad been made for the annual picnic which was to be held here yesterday. The outing will now be held at Foxton on February 17.

Anothy Bolger, a single man, aged 50, employed as acting deck hand on the Lyttelton Harbour Board’s dredge Te Whaka, was crushed between the vessel and tho wharf on Tuesday. He was removed to hospital, where he died.

A native lorry driver of Otorolianga, Te Waitapu Paelnui, was found guilty of driving a motor lorry along the Hamilton-Oliaupo road at night when intoxicated. He was fined £2O and liis license cancelled. Defendant, on the correct side of the road, ran into a horse ridden by a man who was leading a blood mare and foal.

At the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, the inspector of awards claimed £SO from Murray Bros., proprietors of the Koval Willows refreshments roins, for a breach of the Northern Taranaki Restaurant Employees’ award, by employing waitresses after 10.30 p.m., instead of waiters or casuals, as provided by the award. A penalty of £2O was imposed. It is questionable whether sand or clay is the worse evil in the cutting leading out on to the Beach. Cars experienced considerable difficulty iu negotiating the clay roadway through the cutting during the heavy downpour on Tuesday afternoon ami one car, which managed to negotiate the first half of the road, skidded sideways on the slippery surface for about a chain and finally ended up on the Beach with the engine pointing in the direction from whence it came.

Mr. F. G. Yeo, who has acquired the business of \Y. D. Robertson and Co., is not only a well-known Wellington business man, but is equally well-known in military circles. He was in camp at Rangiotu as • a Lieutenant in “Lord Liverpool’s Own,” and subsequently served four years in the Great War. He now holds a commission of Captain in the Wellington Battalion. Mr. Yeo, who has taken up his residence in Fox ton is a married man with two children. The Governor-General, accompanied by her Excellency, proposes to pay an official visit to the Cook Islands, Niue and Samoa in May of Ibis year. Their Excellencies will leave by the Government steamer Tutanekai visiting first the Islands of the Cook group, then proceeding to Niue and Samoa. They expect to return to Wellington towards the end of the first week in June. The last visit by a Govern-or-General to New Zealand’s dependencies and the mandated territory of Samoa was made in 191!).

A proposal was put forward at Tuesday’s meeting of the Mauawatu County Council that the Kairanga, Pohangina, Kiwitca, Ilorowhenua and Mauawatu Counties combine in ihe purchase of a weighing device for determing the weight of vehicles using the highways in their respective districts, each county to have the use of the machine for periods in turn. The suggestion was favourably received, and the clerk was instructed to communicate with the other bodies mentioned above with a view to ascertaining their views on the matter.

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Manawatu County Council the opinion was expressed by one member that, as the result of repeated grading, the surfaces of the roads were becoming too convex, and other devices would have to he employed to alter the present marked fall of (lie sin faces, “During the past week 1 have travelled over 450 miles of roads,” stated Cr. Barber, “and nowhere did 1 encounter roads in such a corrugated state as ours.” “There is no road on the West Const," interjected Sir James Wilson, “which carries so much traffic as the main load through this conntv.”

' Smokers who are niggardly of their ’bnc-ey are rare. As a rule their pouch is at the service of almost anybody. Of course there are exceptions. Do you remember the story of the smoker who kept two pouchy? One lie called “the woild," the other “providence.’’ The lirsl was always empty; the second always well Idled. If asked for a till he would regret that he “hadn’t a hit in the world.” l'f questioned as to what he was going to do for himself lie would sav “oh. I must trust in providence.” Well* there are all kinds of smokers, .just as there are all kinds of tobacco. ID the way, have you tried our own New Zealand tobaccos? In some respects they are unique. For one thing they are all toasted. Hence their peculiarly delightful flavour, secondly they contain so little nicotine that they may be smoked “till H u . cows come home” without proving injurious. That's why the doctors anprove of them. Try Hiverhead Gold, mild, Navy Cut (Bulldog) medium, or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead) full.*