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Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs 11. Signal, of Te Horo, is visiting local relatives. The half-yearly meeting of the Flaxmill Employees Union is being held in Shannon to-day. Mr. R. A. Drew of the local Post Ofiice Staff, has been transferred to Wellington. His position will be Idled by Cadet Martin. Inspector Hugo will visit Eoxton on Tuesday evening for the purpose of inspecting the local Fire Brigade. Charged with shooting a billern, a protected bird, P. Randell was fined £2 and ,J. Elleray £5 each with costs £3/1/- at the Levin S.M. Court on Thursday.

A resident of Union St. last year converted a piece of ground which bad been used as a fowl run into an onion bed with the result that the ground produced a prolific crop. “Everything is ready and we will be starting soon,” stated the Prime Minister (the Hon. J. G. Coates) when questioned at Palmerston on Tuesday in regard to the Palmerston North railway deviation.

As a result of being thrown from a horse he was riding and being dragged, a local lad named W. Vickers sustained slight concussion on Tuesday afternoon and had to be removed to the Palmerston North Hospital. He is making satisfactory progress.

Services in spirit with Anzac Day will be held in the Methodist church to-morrow. The morning service will be conducted by Mr. J. H. Roberts, who saw four years fighting in the Great A\ ar. The evening service will be taken by Rev. S. Pervman. Appropriate music will be rendered on both occasions. In days gone by the monthly sitting of the S.M. Court always attracted a “full house” if that term can be used to describe that portion of the venerable and wormeaten structure set aside for the idle and curious. Now-a-days practically those who are interested, direetiy or indirectly only put in an appearance.

The Education Department has notified the Wanganui Board that the Patea District High School is to be disestablished, in view of the fact that the minimum attendance of twenty pupils had not been maintained. It was pointed out that children residing close to Patea were travelling on free passes to Hawera for- instruction, when they could get the same instruction at Patea. Pupils were going from Patea to Hawera. Mr. Hemingway (Pa-tea’s representative on the Board) considered this use of railwav passes to the detriment of the Patea School was extremely unfair.

Two or three weeks ago a press telegram was sent out from Christchurch stating that anxiety was felt for the whereabouts of Mr. A. Davidson. A letter received by a, local resident, and personal friend of the family states that Mr. Davidson resigned from the school in Christchurch with the object of recuperating his health on a farm. Dir. Davidson’s many local friends will, therefore, be pleased to learn that he is enjoying an open-air, life on a farm at Opotiki which it is hoped will, in a few months, restore him to his wonted health. Evidence of a new trend in the Ratana movement is apparent in the difficulty that is getting the followers of Ratana to accept census schedules. Some have refused point blank to accept schedules, but wiser counsels may yet prevail. A number of llatana supporters have declared that they will not attend a meeting called under The Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1924, to go into the question of the Lake Taupo fishing rights, but it is not anticipated that the proceedings will be hampered by their absence. Ratana has a considerable following in the Taupo country. It is difficult to obtain any information from Ratana’s disciples, but apparently they are being influenced in the direction of adopting the non-co-operation tactics followed recently in India by the followers of Gliandi.

Lor Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,

“Fools become angels, at railway crossings,” is one of the slogans to be used by the Victorian Railway Commissioners in a “safety first ’ campaign they are about to embark upon. It is proposed to spend £50,000, partly on publicity and partly on the removal of obstructions to sight at railway crossings.

At the suggestion of the chairman the following motion was carried at last meeting of the Wanganui Education Board: —“That this Board places on record its appreciation of the very excellent manner in which Mr. F. G. A. Stuckey has filled the position of Senior Inspector of schools in this cation District, expresses its regret and while congratulating him oil his promotion to the position of Senior Inspector in the Otago Education District, expresses it regret at his departure from the. Wanganui district, where he has gained the respect and esteem of all those engaged in the education of the young people. The Board tenders its best wishes to Mr. Stuckey and his family for a happy and .prosperous future.” Few people arc probably aware that tobacco was at one time extensively cultivated in England. Winchconibc, in Gloucestershire, claims the honour of being the first place in the Old Country to grow the weed." The dried and cured leaf was comparatively expensive at first, but by the time of James 11. the “best Virginia” was sold at 2s per lb., and was in great demand. It would be interesting to compare, if that were possible, the tobacco of that day with that of our own day. Modern methods of manufacture have of course worked wonders. Some of the purest tobaccos now on the market are grown in New Zealand, and they owe their fine flavour largely to the fact that they are all toasted—a new departure. Owing to their containing such a trifling amount of nicotine these brands may be smoked all day without unpleasant or injurious consequences; “Riverhead Gold” is a fine aromatic tobacco “Toasted Navy Cut” (Bulldog label) medium, and “Cut 1 lug No" 10” (Bull’s Head) full-flavour-ed. They are meeting with a big sale.' 4

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3027, 24 April 1926, Page 2

Word count
Tapeke kupu
989

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3027, 24 April 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3027, 24 April 1926, Page 2

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