Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3019, 6 April 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is estimated that the new Shannon bridge will cost £30,000.

The postmaster notilies us that the motor car registration plates are now available.

Mr. J. Desmond intends paying a visit to thp Dunedin Exhibition and the South next week. The weather during the holidays was line, but a cold wind blew from the north-west.

A successful shop day was held on Thursday in aid of the funds of St. Mary’s Convent School.

The late Dr. Bennett, whose death we chronicled last week, was in practice in Fox ton about 22 years ago.

The Rev. W l . H. and Mrs Walton, j\liss Ritchie and Mrs Christie nre on a motoring tour in the Auckland province.

There ivere good congregations at all the local churches on Easter Sunday. The services ivere appropriate to the season.

Owing to the cold winds prevailing the number of visitors to the local seaside during the holidays showed a. marked falling,oft’. The attendance at the Dunedin Exhibition yesterday broke all records. The total now stands at 2,501,275.

A meeting of the local District High School Committee was held on Thursday night when business of a routine character was transacted.

The service cars travelling between Wanganui and Wellington during the holidays had to be augmented to cope with the increased number of passengers.

“I have presided over dozens of motor collision cases,” said Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., in the Paten Court, '•and in every case the collision was caused by not more than four small shandies, which appears to lie the fatal dose.”

Mrs G. K. Aitken, of Kaiapoi and her daughter, Miss Aitken of Featherston, were visitors to Foxton during the holidays, and were the guests of Miss Duncan. Miss Aitken is the Plunket nurse in the lower Wairarapa.

A Wanganui business firm which wrote to a Maori up the river the other day in regard to an overdue account, has received the following reply: “I receive your most welcome letter yes sorry for that never mind will send you £1 send the wrest next time thanking you you are kind goodbye from your friend kia Ora.”

The local District High School Committee decided at Thursday night’s meeting to protest against the proposed appointment of a second female assistant to the secondary department. It was pointed out that a male assistant was essential and the committee recommended that the services of the present male assistant be retained.

A unrehearsed moving picture stunt was witnessed by an amused audience in the main street of Carterton on Saturday morning. A Chinese fruiterer owns a retriever dog and a kitten, who are inseperable chums. The kitten strayed this particular morning on to a busy thoroughfare. The dog, scenting danger from motor traflic, bailed the kitten iip, grabbed it by the neck, and proudly carried it to the back of the premises out of harm’s way.

At Auckland ' nearly 300 members from Orange Lodges all over New Zealand took part in a procession on Sunday afternoon in ■connection with the Grand Lodge session. Only routine business has been done so far. Brp. Mactarlune, of Dunedin, was elected Grand Master, and Bro. J. McLean, of Timaru Deputy-Grand Master. There was considerable opposition to a proposal to appoint an organiser for the Order, and it was rejected.

A Turakina Maori, when speaking of the migration of the tuna heke, said that it had already set in in the Turakina river, and thousands of eels had been captured during the past week. These eels were known as - the silver belly variety. Once Ibe run commenced they could not be caught on a line, as they apparently consumed no food until such times as they reached the sea. The Maori added that ten or more distinct types of tunas migrated in turn in the local rivers at this season of the year.

For years past- there has been a controversy between the Maoris and the Government concerning the fishing rights of Lake Taupo. The dispute involves certain interpretations of the Treaty of Waitangi, but an attempt is now to be made to reach finality on the matter. The prime Minister and Minister of Native Affairs (Ilie High! lion. J. G. Coates) is to visit the Lake Taupo district on 21st April to discuss the position

with tin* Natives. Whatever is decided in regard to Lake Taupo will probably determine the fishing rights of Natives in other parts of the Dominion.

An outbreak of a mild form of diphtheria is reported in the mining township of Kaitangata, originating among school children. So far it has claimed 23 cases. These are being accommodated in tents. Mr W. C. Wright, who purchased the wreck of the Karu and the cargo for £2O at auction, has returned from an inspection of the vessel, which was a slow process, says an Auckland message. Owing to the breaking up of the deck cargo, timber had been washed away and the sea was breaking over the bull. No fewer than seven lads, whose ages range from nineteen to twentyone, all horn in New Zealand, were sentenced at Christchurch yesterday to various terms of reformative detention by Mi'. Justice Adams, who commented strongly on the arrary of young New Zealand criminals, saying it was very deplorable.

A world’s record fast of fortyfour days was established by the German champion faster, named Jolly, while locked in a glass cage. It is estimated three hundred thousand visited him from "which he earned £5009. He was accorded a great ovation as he left the cage. He was taken to a clinic, where scientists diagnosed the reaction of fasting on the stomach. Returning officers have now received instructions to institute proecedings against persons who failed to enrol under the Legislative Amendment Act, of 1924. Prior to the last general election, as far as could be ascertained; practically every person in the electorates entitled to enrol did so, and there now only remain those who have since come of age and those who have resided 12 months in New Zealand and three months in any one electoral district.

An unique exhibit which will shortly appear among the curios of the Wanganui Museum is an enormous eel, which was recently captured up the Wanganui River by a Maori. The tuna is sft. Sin. in length. When taken from the water the fish weighed just on 221 b. To capture it the Maoris enticed the monster with a piece of meat and drove a crowbar home when near the hank. Although eels of greater length have been captured in New Zealand, this latest local product is outstanding on account of its unusual type and measurements.

A pleasng little ceremony took place at the C. M. Ross Cov.’s business premises on Thursday night, when the local staff presented Miss Mclntosh with a bedroom clock as a token of esteem, upon her retiring from the firm. The presentation was made by Mr. D. Christie, local manager, who referred to the leeipieiit’s faithful services as head of the show-room and the high esteem in which she was held by the linn and public. On behalf of the (inn he wished Miss Mclntosh success anl happiness in her new appointment at Palmerston North. Miss Mclntosh suitably acknowledged the gift and kindly sentiments expressed on her behalf.

“It is a ridiculous thing to waste £12,000 a year” said Mr. E. Walker, M.P., when commenting upon the anual charge of motor registration plates at a meeting of the Taranaki Local Bodies’ Association on Friday. “Some method ought to be devised to save this money,” he added. Mr. J. S. Connett said that they should be careful before they interfere with a system that had proved to be most reliable and most effective in raking in defaulters. Other members, however, were of the opinion that it was wasteful to expend £12,000 a year to replace plates that were perfectly good when they had to be discarded, and a resolution was carried recommending that a less expensive method of annual registration be adopted.

The youths of New Zealand, it seems, know nothing of jazz. A Seattle paper of December 12th publishes this astonishing piece of information: —“New Zealand is a land where the llaming youth and the collegiate hip-flasks gre un-' known, and Thackeray, Scott, and Dickens have not been surplanted by Scott Fitzgerald, Dr. P. A. Can der Las, Seattle pastor just returned from a six months’ tour of New Zealand and Australia, discovered. The so-called jazz-age of America has not yet hit the laud of the Maoris, he declared. One reason the young New Zealanders were so well-behaved, lie found, was because school keeps in till G p.m., which is the closing hour of the saloons.”

The amount of tobacco consumed by different smokers varies considerably. Some will use a couple of ounces a day, while others are satisfied with less. The moderate smoker averages perhaps three ounces a week. Indulged in with discretion, tobacco is admittedly rather beneficial than otherwise. It is chiefly a question of nicotine. The habitual use of tobacco heavily charged with nicotine may result in nerve and heart trouble or weakening of the eyesight. As a matier of fact, practically all imported tobaccos contain an excess of nicotine. In that connection it may interest the reader to learn that the purest tobaccos produced are grown in New Zealand. They contain comparatively such a small percentage of nicotine that they may bo indulged in ad. lib., with safety. A peculiarity of their manufacture, by the way, is that they are all toasted. Hence their fine flavour. They are adapted to all tastes. Riverhead Gold is mild. Navy Cut (Bulldog) medium, and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull’s Head) full. You can biiv them at anv tobacconists.*

Some days ago the workmen engaged on the Merton railway bridge were surprised to see a shark of the ordinary grey sort swimming about in the stream. It stopped for some time, and as it was passing under the bridge ne of the men dropped a heavy claw bar on top of it. This struck the shark in the centre of the back and caused a severe wound. The shark thrashed about in the water for some time, and, coming in contact with a pile of the bridge, managed to dislodge the bar. It then made for the open sea, but it had got its death wound, and last Thursday when the carcase was washed up on the Waikouaiti beach it was found to measure Bft in length.