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

“Warwick is hoarse with Coughing.”—Wfid. There is nothing more annoying than a persistent summer cough or cold. Banish these ailments at once with Baxter's Lung Preserver. A dose in time nips incipient throat or bronchial troubles in the bud. A short course of “Baxter’s” speedily drives out the most chronic cough. Pleasant to take—rich, warming, penetrative.' Also invaluable as a building-up tonic. All chemists and stores stock “Baxter’s.” Gener-ous-sized bottle 2/ti t 7

' Mr. Ilodgc, Wanganui Education Hoard’s architect, visited the school yesterday and conferred with the headmaster in reference to needed alterations to the headmaster’s residence.

Several burglaries, it is remoured, took place in a leading Palmerston North hotel on Wednesday evening. Some weeks ago a number of hotel burglaries were carried out at Levin, Foxton and Feilding. The following is a list of the prize winners in connection with the Druids’ shop day held last Saturday:—Fruit cake and box of chocolates: Mrs Maclean, No. 26; sheep: Mr. F. Woods, 64 \ lbs; box of chocolates: Mr Mohekey, No. 124; cherry cake: Mrs Fuller, No. 29; sucking pig: Miss C. Dawson, No. 35; dinner: Mr. W. Barrett, No. 25; lamb: Mr. A. Burr, No. 80. One of Canterbury’s foremost business men said this week: “When at the end of my first year I saw on my balance-sheet: Sales £6OOO, cost of advertising £4900, I considered advertising an unproductive expense. When, however, at the end of the second year advertising expense still stood at £4900, and sales went to over £IO,OOO, I changed my tune. I’m still advertising. It pays.” At the Gisborne Police Court yesterday, John Roderick Skipper was charged with obtaining a motor-car by false pretences and was remanded for a week. The police alleged that the accused had obtained the ear from a man at Whakatane by.' giving a valueless cheque for £IOO, and had gone on a tour. He was arrested at Wairoa and escorted back to Gisborne.

It is not generally known that there is a hill in Wanganui County bearing a biblical name, viz., Mount Zion, situated at the top of Long Acre) The county also has ills Jerusalem and possibly some day in the distant future, when No. 1 Line is brought up to majiu highway standard, some biblical student on the County Council will suggest a suitable name for it (says the Herald.) Passengers desiring to travel from Foxton to Wellington in the Wanganui-Wellington service cars cannot always guarantee that they will be picked up, even though they have bespoken a seat ahead. This occurred yesterday when a local passenger waiting to board the car which, by way, did not stop, was told that the car was full up. “I’ll patronise the railway in future,” said the disappointed one. The Railway Department , is calling for tenders for motor-’buses for use in various parts of New Zealand. It is officially explained that the ’buses are needed to replace mixed trains on branch lines, so that the Department will be able to confine the train services to goods, and therefore will not have

to maintain the tracks to such high standard. Also operating costs will be reduced. The motor-’buses will not use the rails, but will be road running vehicles. While excavating a section in Stafford street, Feilding, adjacent to the Courthouse, in connection with road formation, the Borough employees came upn evidences of a buried saw mill, about 6 feet under the ground. Traces of the old saw bench, with portions of the limber and sections of belting were found. These, no doubt, belong to the original mill, established when Feilding was first settled over 50 years ago. Some of the timber was in a good state of preservation. A fishing party’s operations on Sunday on the Hokio beach might have been attended by fatal consequences (says the Chronicle). Messrs George and Tuiti MacDonald, the latters wife and Moses Renata, of Foxton, were on the seaward side of the net they were hauling into the water, when suddenly they fell into a deep hole. Had they and the other fishermen not retained their presence of mind, it is not unlikely that a tragedy might have been recorded, but the former held on to the net while the others dragged them into safety. Happily, exhaustion was the only outcome of the incident. A most interesting sight is witnessed in Stuart Street (Dunedin) shortly after eight o’clock each morning (says the Otago Daily Times). Mr. Ambrose Hudson has a number of pigeons which seem to appreciate the kindness of their owner. As AH'. Hudson leaves Royal Terrace about 12 pigeons accompany him, flying around, resting now and again on his head and shoulders, waiting to receive the supply of grain which Mr. Hudson carries in his pocket. Several of lhe birds return to their loft at the junction of Smith and Stuart Streets. About three,of the number follow him to his office in Castle Street, and, later receiving their morning meal return home.

Resolutions were passed at the meeting of the North Island Motor Union Conference at Wellington urging that in view of the lack of uniformity in local by-laws dealing with the provision of rear reflectors on cycles, the Government introduce legislation making the use of such reflectors compulsory throughout the country;.and that steps be taken to obtain prosecution of drivers who deliberately steer for a car coming in the opposite direction owing to such car not having dimmed its headlights. The various affiliated associations throughout the Dominion are to be requested to bring before the notice of their members the following:—Where downhill drivers dim their lights or give right-of-way to uphill drivers, uphill drivers be urged as a matter of etiquette to acknowledge the compliment when passing.’

-The latest additions to the local telephone exchange are:—43 L. Fletcher, Moutoa Estate; 112 C. K. Woodroofe, auctioneer:; 140 A. E. Admore Avenue Road; 147 J. A. Hofmann Main Street. Dr. Valintine, Director-General of Health, paid a high tribute to- the nurses of New Zealand, in the course of his address at the opening of the nurses’ home at Hamilton on Thursday. Dr. Valintine said he had been associated with the hospital at Trentham (Wellington), when there had been a serious outbreak of typhus. He had pointed out to the nurses that there was a possibility that at least 25 per cent, of them might die if they tended the cases, yet not a single one of them retired from the work.