Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3030, 1 May 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Manawatu section of the New Zealand P. and T. Employees Association intend holding their annual re-union in the Foresters Hall, Palmerston North on Saturday evening, May 15.

The recent census returns discloses that Shannon has a total European population of 1108, of whom 5(32 are males and 5-Ki females, whilst there are also 21 natives (12 females and 9 males) not included in the foregoing total. In Shannon there are 252 dwellings, two buildings in course of erection, and seven dwellings which were not occupied on the night of the census, the owners being absent. The population at the census of 1921 was returned as 1013.

If the average man were cast away on a Desert Island and compelled to lead a Robnison Crusoe exstence, his first thought (after the food and water problem was solved) would be: “How can I get something to smoke?” The craving for tobacco is insistent in the case of 10 men out of every 12, and to satisfy the universal demand hundreds of brands of the “weed” are on the market. They come from, many lands, one of the latest countries to produce them (in a perfected form) being New Zealand. Strange to say the baiicn gum lands of the North which won’t grow ordinary crops grow splendid tobacco, a matter of the greatest importance to men on the Fund up there, because the average yield of leaf is worth £SO per acre, and the industry promises to become a source of National wealth. The local article is much appreciated by those who had to give up smoking foreign tobaccos because of the excess of nicotine, which affected their health. Try “Riverhead Gold” (mild), Navy Cut (Bulldog) medium, or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullhead) full.*