LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3011, 16 March 1926, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

His Bxvei'leney the Governor(leneral, Sir Charles Fergusson and Lady Fergusson, will officially visit Fcilding on Friday, 2(>th inst.

At the Palmerston S..M. Court yesterday, for selling iee eream on Sunday, Mary Jane Lawson was lined 10s, with easts Os, the Magistrate (Mr. J. L. Stout), remarking that the prosecution was the lirst of its kind in Palmerston North.

A lad employed by a local business man was “sacked" recently by his employer. He went home and shortly after returned to his "boss" with the remark: “Don't you give me the sack again as mother gave me a— — of a time."

“if a man gets a salary he gets a holiday, and if he gets a wage he does not get a holiday,” said Councillor Firth at the meeting of the Oaniaru Borough Council the other evening, during a discussion on the length of annual leave of members of the Council staff.

It lias been recommended to the local post master that the public call office telephone he connected with the lire station after the closing of the exchange. In case of an outbreak of lire this would enable (lie public to give the alarm without loss of time.

Something in the nature of a record was put up yesterday by those engaged in transforming the bandroom into a temporary picture house. The back wall of the building was taken out and re-erected at the end of the structure and the floor joists laid. At the present rate of progress the building will be ready for show purposes in about a week’s time.

Mr. E. Healey arrived back in Foxton last Saturday after a visit to the Dunedin Exhibition.

“I went to the Zoo,” related Elsie who recently visited the Auckland Zoo, “and I gave the elephant a bun. And —ooh! You should have seen him pick it up with his vacuum cleaner!”

The Rev. Walter Harris, one of (he pioneers of Methodism in New Zealand, has just died at Christchurch, aged 77 years. He retired from' active ministry a few years ago, and resided at Spreydon. His last charge was Addington. “Why do you punch that hole in my ticket?” jokingly asked a Seddon farmer of the railway official. “So that you can pass through,” was the prompt reply. The farmer subsided amid the laughter of the other passengers. At the local police court yesterday morning, before Mr. Hornblow, J.P., Peter Petersen charged with drunkenness was convicted and fined 10/-. Constable Owen stated that the accused was found in a helpless state of intoxication on Sunday.

Two motor ears came into collision with damaging results in Featherston Street, Palmerston North, early on Sunday morning. Mr. Skipworth received severe facial lacerations and was removed to the hospital. The driver of,the other car, Mr. W. S. Fox, was unhurt.

The death occurred at Palmerston North on Sunday of Mr. Alfred Hillyer, a well-known commercial traveller, at the age of 57 years. The deceased leaves a widow and three children to mourn their loss, the children being Mrs 11. Court, of Auckland, Miss Eileen Hillyer and Mr. Gordon Hillyer, both of Palmerston North.

“This man has suffered a remarkable series of accidents,” said Mr. P. J. O’Regan in the Arbitration Court in Wellington, referring to a petitioner. “He is 54 years of age and few soldiers in the Great War have had so many injuries. Forty years ago he was kicked by a horse and his face was disfigured. He lias twice had his arm broken, and through the latest accident he has lost his eye.”

The New Zealand Year Book shows that 50 per cent, of the people of New Zealand are rated on the unimproved value basis, and 35 per cent, of the total of local authorities. The figures for counties show that 46 are unimproved, and for boroughs 71, and town districts 32, Polls taken between 1914 and 1924 have resulted as follow: — Counties, for 15, rejected nil. None have asked for an opportunity to vote for rescision of rating on unimproved values.

When a South African journal recently organised a competition on the question of beards for men, the vast majority of entrants were ugaist the habit, and men the principal critics. Excuses were made for wearers of beards, on the grounds of the inconvenience and waste of time associated with shaving. A woman, however, dismissed that plea, and said that any sensible man would not grudge the barber his fee in such circumstances. There is something, however, to be said for one point of view, remarks a humorous writer, that as “a man’s face is his own” he should lie allowed to grow anything he likes on it.

Speaking- of the vacant Presbyterian Church pulpits in and around Auckland, the Rev. George Budd, formerly of Bedding, now superintendent of Home Missions, said that the problem of getting suitable ministers to Jill their pulpits was getting more acute each month. There were 50 important charges to be filled, with very few ministers offering for the work. In Auckland itself some very important churches would soon need to call ministers and it was not going to be an easy thing to do. It was remarkable how many of their northern ministers received calls to some of the more important charges in the south. A prophet, they say, has no honour in his own country, and it has been too much the policy of New Zealanders in the past to pass over tin* product of their country in favour of imported goods, which, in many cases are actually inferior to the New Zealand article. Take tobacco for example. Most American tobaccos are objectionable on the score of excess nicotine, and defective combustibility, leading to the clogging of the pipe, with unpleasant, and indeed injurious, conse(|iiences to the smoker. Try Riverhead Gold mild and aromatic, or Toasted Navy Cut (Biflldog) of medium strength, and il you prefer a full body, try Chit Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label. Their purity, flavour aroma and all round excellence will surprise, you. Unlike most brands from oversea this particular type of tobacco does not ioul the pipe and leaves the mouth sweet and clean. Experts maintain that of all varieties known N'.Z. leaf is the least injurious on account of its small percentage oi. nicotine and that it may he smoked continuously without the slightest after effects.