LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3041, 27 May 1926, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Gazette Extraordinary calls Parliament to meet on June Kith.

Nurmi put up a world’s record for three thousand metres in Berlin last Monday, covering the,distance in Smin. 251 secs.

In the Welington Supreme Court, on Tuesday, a youth named Arthur Henry Chambers, Lor breaking', entering- and theft at Levin, was ordered to undergo two year.s’ reformative detention. Alexander Spratley Jolly, another youth, for opening a postal packet at Palmerston North, was given three years in the Borstal Institute.

When Labour acquires political power it is generous to itself, its friends and supporters, evidently believing in the motto “spoils to the victors.” A recent cable from Sydney says:—The State Government’s recently passed Industrial Arbitration and Wlorkmen’s Compensation Acts have provided a number of new well-paid billets to which appointments have been made. The chairman will receive £IOOO and members of the committee £750 per annum. There were 20 industrial disturbances in New Zealand for the first three months of the current year, ended March 31st. In all 32 firms were involved, the number of workers affected was 2937, the duration of the troubles totalled 62 days, and the approximate loss in wages amounted to £5831. In the meat freezing industry 322 men were out on pp average of 8 days each, losing about £2901 in wages, while in the coal mining, industry 2309 men were idle on an average of 11 days, the loss in wages being £2659.

A conference of seventeen local bodies in and around Auckland passed the following resolution: “That the time has come when the money required to meet the annual loss on hospital management and maintenance should be borne by the Consolidated Fund, and not by the individual ratepayer.”

At the inquest on Donald Keith Mclndoe, aged 15A, who died in the Auckland General Hospital on Thursday after an operation at a dental hospital for the extraction of twenty-seven teeth, the Coroner found that the boy was asphyxiated through a swab being carelessly left in his month or throat after the teeth had been extracted.

A wedding of great sporting interest was solemnised last week when Mr. George Nepia, the wellknown popular All Black footballer, was married to Miss ITuinga Kohcre, of Kangilukin,, Waiapu River, East Coast. The Rev. P. Kohcre uncle.oft he, bride, officiated and the Rev. Canon A. F. Williams gave an address.

Mr. Robert Well wood, the first Mayor of Hastings, has attained his 00tli birthday, and he was the recipient of congratulatory messages from all parts of the Dominion. Despite his years, Mr. Wellwood is still in sound health, and lie continues to take an active interest in municipal and national affairs. Tie is also a prominent member of the Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society.

By a singular oversight on the part of someone, a new butchering linn established in Gisborne was allotted a telephone number which had actually been in use for some time by a well-known clergyman. The consequence was that, followin''- the opening announcement of the new butchery, the reverend gentleman was fairly inundated with “orders” of an unusual nature.

The presence of so many “roll downs" (games of chance for prizes) in the city was discussed at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce this week. It was slated that the retail trade was quite concerned about the opening of these parlours in entire opposition to legitimate trading. A deputation had waited on the Commissioner of Police, from whom it had received a most sympathetic hearing. A deputation had also waited on the Mayor, who had promised to go into the whole matter of how the licenses had been issued. No further licenses would 1)0 granted.

“We, as secondary teachers, are fortunate in that in this country, as in the public schools of Britain we have been preceded by men and women who have been swayed neither by love of money nor by love of power, but who regarded service as the supreme object of their existence,” stated Mr. J. A. Colqulioun, in the course of his presidential address at the conference of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Assistants’ Association on Tuesdav. “To-dav we have men

::i!< 1 women who, on iho playing Hold and in (he classroom, are giv-self-sacri (icing service, and it behoves ns to weigh the evidence for every suggested innovation carefully and well, so that we may do nothing to injure one of this country’s greatest assets —the spirit of its secondary schools.” A well-known general related the following story in England ill the course of a lecture concerning the Great War. The general, who was stationed in a small village in Persia and was strolling one day down the street dressed only in shorts and a shirt, having discarded all superfluous clothing owing to the great heat. lie turned into a coffee shop for a cup of coffee and sat down near a group of pilgrims, the village being on the main pilgrim route to Mecca. The men were discussing the war, and one of the older men said: “If Turkey loses the war, courage will be lost to the world. If Germany loses tlio war science will lie lost to the world. But if England loses the war, mercy and justice will be lost to the world." Then a venerable looking old man spoke, “Oh, my brother, have no fear. The Almighty will never permit mercy and justice to be lost to the world. Therefore England will win the war.”

Did you know that Lord Jelliooe was a devotee of the “weed?” He chiefly smokes cigarettes, but contines himself to one packet of feu per diem, Quite moderate! Yes. Some people smoke thrice that f|uanlity Let ween breakfast and bed. But despite the popularity of the “cig,” millions of smokers prefer the pipe. As to the injuriousness of smoking largely depends upon the tobacco. The important brands, as a rule, are simply loaded with nicotine, so that their habitual use cannot be good. In that respect they differ materially from our New Zealand grown tobaccos. These are toasted —lienee their delightful flavour and fragrance. Also, they are comparatively free from nicotine and do not burn the tongue, wreck the nerves or affect the heart. There is unquestionably a great future before these tobaccos, and already the growing, curing and manufacture

of the leaf is becoming an important New Zealand industry, and farmers are finding a tobacco crop a profitable one to cultivate. Brands chiefly in demand arc Riverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium; and Cut Plug No. 10, full*

The local District High School will re-open on Monday next.

Rabbits have been and still are a great curse to New Zealand, but skins to the value of £843,410 were exported last year. Nor was this a very exceptional figure, for in the previous year the value exported was £740,975. These values represent roughly 20 million skins. Ideas of' sportsmanship seem to vary to a great extent (says the 01 ago “Daily Times”). For instance, a member of the Acclimatisation Society made indignant reference to the “sportsman” who fed ducks in ponds on his own property and then liberated them to get some easy shooting. “That,” said iho indignant member, “is the. limit. It is these men who get the big bags.”

That the Management Committee of the lloi'owhonua District Rugby Union does not intend clubs to lightly consider any rules laid down, was exemplified at Tuesday night’s meeting of the committee, when if was resolved that, even though it might mean a temporary loss of gate-money two clubs should be suspended if their insurance fees are not paid within the next, few days. “Clubs must bo disciplined," said the secretary (Mr Casey), a remark which was strangle supported by the committee. —Chronicle.

A slip of the tongue at a banquet in Taranaki last week placed a new member of Parliament, who was replving to the toast of the Legislature, in a position of moment arv discomfort. In the course of his speech he observed that he was also down on the list to reply to the toast of “The Ladies,” and he remarked that he really knew little about either Parliament or the ladies, as he had only touched the outskirts of things. The merriment which the innocent slip created was intensified by the knowledge that the speaker was himself a bachelor.