LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3007, 6 March 1926, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Sanson sports are being held to-da3 T under ideal weather conditions and there is a good attendance of the district public.

Members of the local Masonic Lodge were present at the Installation ceremony of Lodge Huin at Palmerston North on Thursday night.

The Auckland City Council by 13 to ti rejected a motion that tramscease runnig from 11 to noon on Sundays in consideration of people attending church. Weather conditions during the past few days have been all that

cue could desire and in marked contrast to the boisterous and changeable weather of last month. It is probable that the GovernorGeneral. who is Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand, will attend a Masonic gathering in Palmerston North at an early date.

A local resident writes complaining of the nocturnal howling of a dog in his locality which disturbs the neighbourhood. A frendlv note to the owner may obviate the trouble. It is common for some dogs for some unaccountable reason to howl when the moon is full. Caleb Charles Caste!, 4(5, a former secretary of the hydro-electric engineering Co. pleaded guilty at Gisborne S.M. Court yesterday to twelve charges of theft of money from the company aggregating £199 and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

The population of New Zealand including Maoris, at December 31, 1925, is estimated at 1,401,028 whereof 710,279 are males and 084,749 are females. The corresponding Cook, Nieu and other islands figures are 13,883, 7,009, and 0,814; mandated territory of western Samoa 38,829, 20,307 and 18,522. The aggregate estimated for the Dominion, islands and mandated territory 1,453,740, comprising 743,055 males and 710,085 females. Mr. .1. 11. Shepherd, manager of the Central Development Karin at Weraroa, told a “Chronicle ' reporter that feed is very short throughout the Mamnvalii district, and rain is very badly needed. So far as the country between Palmerston North and Levin is concerned, the showing is not so bad, but between Chau and Paekakariki there is scarcely, if any feed to be seen, and it will mean a very serious thing for t lie tanners in this district if rain is not soon forthcoming. Haiti is necessary for the ordiiury farmer to produce sufficient feed that will carry him right through the win - .-ary for the ordinary farmer to assistance from nature, his outlook will be very poor indeed.

We are asked to state that the Plunket nurse will visit Foxton on Monday next, instead of Thursday. The reason for the alteration in the day is that the nurse will visit Mangahao on Thursday when an effort will be made to start a branch of the society.

A Maori man entered the Thames post office* and‘asked for the address of the Minister of' Internal Affairs. The puzzled attendant asked: “Why, what do you want him for?” “Ah, miss,” lie replied, tenderly placing his hand on the small of his back, “te kidneys worry pad. The Minister of Internal Affairs he put dem all right.”

In common with other large centres Palmerston North is to have bulk oil depots. The British Imperial Oil Company has purchased at Terrace End, and the Borough engineer has approved the plans for the erection of the necessary tanks and buildings. The Railway Department is laying down a special siding. The Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, Dr. Dean, unhesitatingly declares that modern girls’ dress is more sensible than that of any girls for 1000 years past. They do their hair in a manner which might even convert St. Paul. They also exhibit more fearlessness which is necessary to meet the frequent attacks of modernity. Their motives are based on national pride. While the price of motor car repairs was being discussed at length at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court recently (says the Chronicle), the Magistrate remarked that a motor firm could not afford to sell its labour at cost. “Quite so,” remarked Mr. O’Dea, “they generally charge 100 per cent, whereas a solicitor, might charge 1000 per cent.” (Laughter). A spray painting machine has been installed at the Hillside railway workshops (reports the Dunedin Star). They say that it can do the work of six ordinary painters and that it uses Jess material than is used with the -brush, also that it leaves the job perfectly clean without any runs. The paint is forced from a ten-gallon container under air pressure and delivered through rubber hose to an atomising gun, which looks like a pistol and is controlled by a trigger, the paint being thus east out in a very line fan-tail-ed spray.

In the opinion of many experts and others who have studied the question, flax-growing in the Auckland province may be expected in time to rival even dairying as a source of wealth (says the Herald). Almost unknown to the general public, hemp-production in New Zealand has undergone a revolution within the past few years. The old haphazard methods are fast disappearing from use, and under the new era of scientific development, flax cultivation promises to give profitable employment to thousands of New Zealanders.

The Chronicle reports a breezy interlude between the Town Clerk and GT. McAllister at Monday night’s Levin Borough Council meeting. Advertising posters displayed in the vacant shop windows of the recently-erected Municipal Buildings was the cause of complaint by Cr. McAllister who moved that the Town Clerk be instructed to take down the bills if he could not get the theatre proprietors to do so. The Town Clerk very pointedly made it clear that he was not going to officiate as window cleaner to the Council and there was no seconder to a motion by Cr. McAllister that the posters he removed.

It is generally supposed that women in Europe did not begin to smoke until recent years, but, as a matter of fact, English women smoked pipes centuries before the cigarette was introduced from Turkey after the Crimean War (states a writer in an exchange). In the seventeenth .century the clay pipe was in common use among all ranks of Englishwomen. Tobacco was regarded as a disinfectant against the plague, which repeatedly broke out in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and culminated in the great outbreak of 1065, which claimed 68,000 victims out of London’s population of 400,000. A French visitor to England in 1672 found the pipe in constant use by men and women. The account books of Mistress Sara Fell, stepdaughter of George Fox, the Quaker, recorded the purchase of pipes and tobacco for “Mother,” for “Sister Sussannah,” and for “Sister Lower.” The daughters of Louis XIV. were confirmed smokers, although their father hated tobacco.

Most smokers like a change now and then. They may smoke one brand for months, or for years, hut sooner or later comes a hankering for a change. Jf tired of the foreign manufactured brands you arc accustomed to use, try the New Zealand grown tobacco. Here you have an entirely different tobacco and a thorough change. Its purity will please von. Comparatively free from nicotine it appeals to the man whose pipe is constantly in his mouth. lie can smoke "till further orders" without experiencing the disagreeable effects following (he constant use of some of the imported brands heavily charged with nicotine, the very free use of which will certainly affect the nerves in the long run, and possibly the action of the heart. New Zealand tobacco is peculiarly,, soothing, and a taste for it is quickly acquired. Obtainable in three strengths. Riverhead Gold, very mild and aromatic, Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) is of medium strength and Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label,, is recommended to those who like a full body.*

The Native Land Court will sit at Otaki on the 15th inst. The Presbyterian Sabbath School picnic is being 1 held at the local seaside to-day under ideal weather conditions.

A vicious and pugnacious dog in an attempt to rush and fasten its fangs in another canine in Main Street this morning, knocked down a child and gave it a severe fright.

A verdict of “deliberate suicide” was returned at the inquest at Palmerston North on an old man named Anders Christian Jensen who was found dead with a table cloth over his head and a gas tube nearby.

A Maori at the Wanganui Court remarked: “I put on te returned soldier badge to let te boss up there see that I to good fellow, do te good work in te war and also with to blackberrv.” —Herald.

The indications are for northerly winds moderate to strong freshening. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather and will probably become warmer, but increasing haze and cloudiness for change. Barometer falling. Seas moderate, tides poor.

The latest appointee to the position of inspector of secondary schools is Miss Jessie I. Hetherington, M.A. For eight years she held a lectureship at the Teachers’ Trailing College, Wellington, during six years of which she also held the Assistant. Lectureship in Education at the Victoria University College.

At All Saints’ church on Sunday the special preacher will be the Rev. C. Rawson, who is stationed on a lonely island called Aoba in the New Hebrides. Mr. Rawson is a fellow townsman of the vicar and he is spending his furlough in New Zealand. He leaves New Zealand by the Melanesian steamer “Southern Cross,” on April sth.

In the theory of music examinations conducted in December last under the Trinity College of Music, London, Miss Winifred Smith and Miss Ruby Algor, both students of the Fox ton Convent, were successful in securing passes in the Art of Teaching, the former gaining 77 marks and the latter 75. Miss Smith will receive the congratulal ions of her friends and acquaintances, as she is now a fully quali-fied-A.T.C.L.

A tribute to the work of Mr. J. A. Nash, as member for Palmerston, was paid at Palmerston North yesterday by I lie Minister of Education (Sir James Parr), when speaking at the opening of the Girls’ High School Hostel. ‘Mr. Nash,” lie said, “lias always been a most assiduous barracker for Palmerston and ils requirements. He is everlastingly at me with some fresh request, and I would like to compliment him upon his assiduity. I sometimes wonder why men will suffer harassing conditions and give up their time, night and day, in the cause of their district for £450 a year. It reflects great credit upon those who spare not themselves for the sake of others.” 9