Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 2nd, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.
MV. A. E. Wright, for nearly ten years past a member of the advertising staff of the ‘‘Manawatu Evening Standard,” has resigned to tako up a position with the Palmerston North braneh offiee of the Domini-
The initial work in eonneetion with the erection of a new steward’s stand on the local racecourse has already been commenced. The site has been pegged out and a large pine tree, which it was thought might endanger the new building when completed, has been cut down. A start will be made on the building in a few days.
Blackberries are very plentiful around Foxton at present. On Sunday afternoon two enterprising pickers who had evidently spent the morning busily gathering the berries at the rear of Cameron's plantation, on the Himatangi road, had several tins of fruit displayed on the roadside with a view to doing business with the travelling public.
Quite the latest with the Wanganui flapper is a safety blade in a silver holder attached to a nice ribbon and hung on the front of the bodice (says the Herald). In addition to being used for sharpening pencils or pealing apples, it is also handy for applying to the back of the neck to remove superfluous hairs.
A young Christchurch inventor, Mr. F. D. Meredith, claims to have devised a machine, in the form of a radio set, by which electricity can be obtained from the atmosphere in sufficient quantity to provide light and power for general use, including the lighting of houses and the charging of batteries. He lias applied for patent rights for his invention.
The secretary of the General Post Office advises that 172 bags of newspapers from Australian offices, 48 -bags of parcels from Australia, and 70 bags of parcels from Great Britain, for Wellington and Southern offices, received at Auckland on February 23, ex “Ulimaroa,” wero destroyed by tire in a railway wagon at Waiouru on the night of February 25. The cause oh the fire has not yet been determined.
Under the Motor. Vehicles Act the registration number plates for all motor vehicles are to be changed every year. The Department expects motorists to have the new number plates affixed by March 31 next, but as yet the new issue of discs has not arrived in the city for distribution. It is understood that the colour of the new discs will he black with white lettering, and the superfluous letters “N.Z.” which appear on (lie present plates, will be eliminated.
A tell-tale impression mi a sheet of blotting-paper was a link in the chain of evidence in a divorce case in the Auckland Supreme ('mul last week. The respondent in the case had apparently engaged in a somewhat erotic correspondence with the woman, a liaison with whom was tin 1 ground of his wife’s divorce petition,""and he had incautionusly left on the blotting paper in his house some compromising sentences. The paper was-impound by his wife, and when the sheet was held up to the light in Court the words were easily deciphered from the opposite side of the page.
A new method of capturing pigeons, and one !hut appears to be questionable, has been evolved by a Napier man. On Saturday last a Daily Telegraph reporter, allraeted by the actions of an individual who was scattering handful!,s of grain on the Marine Parade beach, stopped to further investigate. Circling the man was a High) ol' 10 to .12 pigeons, whether stray or otherwise was not ascertained. From time to time the birds fluttered down to feast oil' the scattered grain, and on each occasion their subsequent uptake flight became more laboured and erratic, until eventually all the birds dropped to the ground and (luttered about in a most helpless fashion. “Poison?”” queried the newspaper man, somewhat indignantly. “Whiskey,’’ came the laconic reply, as the grain scatterer moved about picking up his prey.
The annual conference of the United Fire Brigades’ Association was opened at Dunedin yesterday. Altogether 500 firemen were present.
Constable Ryan returned to Foxton last Friday evening after spending four weeks on relieving duty at Woodville.
During 1925, 573 domestic servants wore sent to New Zealand by the migration Department, bringing the number up to about 3000 for (he last five years.
The following have been re-elec-ted unopposed for the Otaki licensing committee: Messrs Brandon, Bowden, Freeman, Wiiulley and O’Rourke.
After a magnificent race Rose (N.Z.) beat Hahn (U.S.A.) in a mile race at the English Stadium, Christchurch last evening. The time was 4 minutes 19 1-5 seconds.
The friends of Mr. Reg. Shaw, of Carnarvon, will be pleased to learn that he has returned to his home after being an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital for four months.
Raymond Lewins, the young surveyor, who has been missing from Takapuna since January 28, was found dead in a clump of grass and rushes at Takapuna yesterday. Indications are that he had been dead only eight or ten days, and what happened to him in the meantime remains a mvsterv.
Customs revenue collected at the port of Wellington during the month of February showed an increase of £22,560 over the figures for the corresponding month last year. The figures (those for 1925 being given in parenthesis) are: —'Customs revenue, £184,815 (£162,255); beer duty, £4309 (£4463).
H is very difficult at times to assess the value of stamps in which there is some peculiarity unnoticed by the ordinary purchaser. A Wellington resident recently purchased three sheets of 5d 'stamps at the Post Office, and afterwards discovered that (here was no perforation between the individual stamps. He knew something about stamp collecting and sold some of them at £1 a pair, the rest being bought by another collector who makes a speciality of selling to stamp collectors, and he is selling them at £2 and over a pair!
A little scene that would have graced a comedy film was enacted by a motorist when he called at the Hawera. Borough officers last week to be examined for a driver’s license. Under the eagle eye of the inspector he cranked his car, which, being in gear, responded in a manner totally unexpected. The • ear started off across the street, pushing the would-be driver in front of it, mounted the kerb and brought up against a building. The motorist was still in front, but was saved by the protruding front springs, between which he was pinned to the wall.
The local Druids held their usual fortnightly euchre tournament .in the Town Hall Supper-room last Friday evening when over sixty persons sat down to the game. Mrs J. Parker, of Purcell street won the ladies’ prize and Mr. W. Williams, Main street securing the gents’ prize. Mesdames F, Smith, Vertongen, Calder, Rand, Martin, and Misses Griflin and Hoffman, tied for the ladies’ cosolalion prize, Miss Gridin winning the cut. The gents’ consolation was also drawn for by Master Rex Ball and Messrs. C. Rand, Neville and Mounsey, Master Ball winning. After the prizes had been presented, a very tasty supper was handed round by the'ladies.
A river mystery of three or four years ago cropped up incidentally in a divorce case in the Auckland Supreme Court. The petitioner said her husband's motor-cycle, and somd of his clothes, were found on the bank of the Waikato River. The river was dragged, but nothing was found, and she mourned her husband as dead. Since then she had learned he was alive, but as he had not returned to her she asked for a divorce on the ground of desertion, which the Court granted. The word “Lysol,” originally registered in the name of Schulkc and Mayne, of Hamburg, but now registered by virtue of an assignment dated September 7, 1920, in the name of “Lysol Ltd.," of London, was ordered to be expunged from the Register of Trade Marks by the reserved judgment of His Honour, Mr. Justice .Vipers, at Wellington, entered last Friday. Through the simple process of toasting his tobacco the modern manufacturer has been able to effect an enormous improvement in the smoking quality. It is a welknown fact that cooked food is wholesomer and more digestible than raw food, and the same principle applies to tobacco. We donot eat raw meat or tish or drink raw coffee, why should we smoke raw tobacco;' It is wonderful how the flavour of tobacco can be developed by toasting. Try any of the local brands and you will notice a marked improvement, and what is also important, as a result of the toasting process the Lobacco loses all deleterious properties. Smokers who study their health should therefore give this matter their attentioh, and avoid strong foreign tobaccos heavily charged with nicotine, they are sure to undermine even the most robust constitution. Not only is the local article purer and more wholsome than most of the imported brands, but it is cheaper too. Riverhead Gold is mild, and aromatic; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) of medium strength, but if you prefer a full body try Cut Plug No. 10.*
The Ladies’ Pipe Band left Auckland for Wellington on Friday night, en route to Lyttelton, to catch the Ruahine, which left for England, via Panama, yesterday. The s.s. Kennedy is expected in port to-day with a cargo of cement from Terakohe. This is the first shipment of cement to he shipped through Foxton from Terakohe for a number of years. The limited Auckland express arrived at Wellington at 4.10 p.m. yesterday, instead of 9.30 a.m., and the ordinary Auckland express at 5.30 p.m., instead of 12.30 p.m. The cause of the delay was that seven trucks on the train leaving Taihape for Marton at 2.40 a.m. were derailed at the station, two miles north of Hunterville, damaging the permanent way and blocking the railway line. It took over six hours to clear the line, while the limited was held.
A man named Boyd was attacked by a bull at his home in Warwick Road, Stratford, on Friday night. He had jirSt returned from New Plymouth and found the bull in his garden. He proceeded to drive it out, when the animal turned on him and knocked him down. Neighbours saw Mr. Boyd’s plight, and drove the bull off. Mr. Boyd was bruised, but escaped serious injury. But for the timely intervention of neighbours, however, be would probably have been killed.
Some time ago the Damievirke Power Board received a “tag” to its balance-sheet, that Messrs. J. W. Ellingiiam and R. S. Chadwick were ineligible to hold seats on the Board, and since then they have not attended meetings. Yesterday the board received advice from the Audit Office that the Solicitor-Gen-eral had come to . the final conclusion that the position of Messrs. Effingham and Chadwick as trustee shareholders is too remote to render them interested or concerned within the meaning of the disqualifying provisions of the Act. The matter is now, therefore, closed, and the exception on the balance-sheet is with-drawn.
The funeral of Constable Andrew Begg, who was killed in Parnell tunnel last Tuesday while searching for an escaped prisoner, took place at Auckland on Sunday afternoon. The cortege left the City Police Station at three o’clock, Scottish pipers playing a Lament and preceding the hearse. The eofiin was draped with the Union Jack, and there were many wreaths. About two hundred and fifty members of the Police Force followed on foot, Superintendent Wohlman and ex-Super-intendent Hendry bringing up the rear. Thousands of people lined the city streets through which the procession passed on its way to Hillsborough cemetery. It was one of the most impressive funerals ever seen in Auckland.
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