Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3509, 10 July 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing’ |o (ho prevalence of Iho influenza epidemic the Palmerston hospital has heen dosed to visitors.

A dance will be held in the Masonic Hall (his evening under (he auspices of (lie Sports Queen Carnival committee.

' During this week there was a-de-crease in the attendance at the local school. About 75 pupils were absent on account of colds.

Out of 25 schools in the Christchurch City and suburban area only seven arc now open owing (< influenza.

Rose, New Zealand’s champion runner, has not yet struck form on the cinder tracks of England. The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association has cabled him to “carry on. w

Twenty-nine sacks of schnapper and gurnet as well as two sacks of skate were caught oil Hokio recently by fishermen from Paraparaumn. The lines were put down from south of the Hokio stream to northward of the Hyderabad, there, being about 1500 hooks on the one line. — Chronicle. An alarming sight met (he eye of motorists returning from the Ilawera Show on Wednesday night, a Morris-Oxford car having overturned into a creek near Kakaramen. The occupants, a lady and a man, came oUt without injury, though how they esaped drowning was a mystery to all who saw the car, which was half submerged. This, however, did not hamper the operations of the road “pirates" who systematically looted the damaged automobile. A highly infectious ailment known as trench month, or Vincent’s angina, common among soldiers during the war, is prevalent in Wanganui at present (says an exchange). This is a painful disease of the gums and causes soreness and sometimes looseness and loss of teeth, and is possibly aggravated in this instance by the prevalence of influenza. The strictest precautions are necessary, and upon infection a medical authority should be at once consulted.

An observer supplied the following statistics regarding the refereeing in the l\ugl>y match between Christchurch and Albion on the Lancaster Park Oval at Christchurch on Saturday afternoon: — Line-outs 82, scrums 52, Christchurch got ball 3(i, Albion got ball 16, Christchurch free kicks 5, Albion free kicks 19, Christchurch marks 7, Albion marks 8, Christchurch force down 2, Albion force down 4, Christchurch touch in goal 0, Albion touch in goal 1. Altogether the whistle was blown 131 times.

Replying to Mr. 11. Atmore (Nelson) in the House of Representatives, the Prime Minister stated that it was not considered necessary to introduce a Right-to-Work-Bill during the present session. The Minister of Labour informed Mr. P. Fraser (Wellington Central):that serious unemployment in New Zealand was not considered to be an annual occurrence, and it was anticipated that what was being done by the Government and the various local bodies should suffice to meet most of the present difficulties.

Tn a letter from England by last mail, a brother of Mr. W. Riddle, writes: —‘‘Yon will have had news by cable of the terrible experience we have had for some weeks by llie threat of and actual operation of a .general strike. The Government aeted with great promptitude and energy and the people rallied to their eali for help in a remarkable way. Many of Hie nobility drove trains, worked in the engine sheds at electric power stations, drove lorries, etc. The streets, injdaces. were a remarkable sight. Anything, on wheels was commandeered to convey people to and from business. Any one with room in their conveyance would give you a lift if going your way. It was quite a common sight to see corpenlers, briek-lay-.ers, etc., coining from their workin a nobleman's Rolls-Royce motor ear. Class distinction fostered by the communistic teaching was completely broken down.

Owing to nurses from the Palmerston North Hospital not being available, Hospital Day was not held in Foxton to-day.

During the past week the local railway yards have been taxed almost to their limit with trucks laden with metal and material for the Town Hall construction.

At the Timaru Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Victor Harris, aged 28 pleaded auilty to a charge of perjury, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was refused.

The Postmaster-General (Hon. W. Nosworthy) announces that new two shilling and three shilling postage stamps depicting His Majesty King George V., in Naval uniform, will be placed on sale on Monday next.

Mrs McDonald entertained members and friends of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild at the usual monthly afternoon on Wednesday at the manse, Lady’s Mile. There was an excellent attendance and a most enjoyable time was spent by all.

In the Lucky Last art union conducted by the New Zealand Labour Party, the first prize of £.300 was won by Mrs M. E. Shaw, of Awanui. Mrs K. Vincent of Wanganui, won the second prize of £IOO, and the third prize of £SO was won by Air. M. P. Potter, of New Plymouth. Members of the Borough Coun-cil-will meet in the Council Chambers at 7 p.m. on Monday to receive a deputation from the Mana-watu-Oroun River Board who will outline the Boards proposed “cuts’ iu connection with the Manawatu River prior to the usual monthly meeting.

For the Iliel't of two batteries fiom motor ears standing in (lie street, James Morton McGill, who had been, previously admitted to probation for theft and breaking and entering, was sentenced at the Wellington S.Af. Court yesterday to three months’ imprisonment. The latest form of advertising lias been discovered in Hamilton. An enterprising agent for a certain brand of benzine lias compelled bis dog to wear a cover on which the name of bis particular line of benzine is painted in bold letters. Ihe domestic dog lias many uses but should be a decided acquisition ns an advertising medium. “I recognise the value of the services of school committees, but I cannot hold out any hope ol an increase in capitation grants during the current year, when the financial position is likely to be more difficult than usual,” stated the Minister of Education (the Hon. R. A. Wright)., in the House of Representatives when replying to Air. R. APKeon.

A London cable says: ATiss Betty Parr, daughter of the New Zealand High Commissioner, is convalescing satisfactorily after an operation for appendicitis at Brighton, where she was at a boarding school and was stricken down on the morning of Sir James Allen’s reception to her parents in London. The news that (lie operation was successful was received in time to permit the function to be carried out. Lady Parr did not permit the fact to be revealed to the guests.

A peculiar accident is reported Jroin Dargaville. On an afternoon recently Mr. and Mrs Llewellyn and their daughter had lunch at a tea room. When the father was carrying (lie girl, who is partly an invalid, out on to the footpath, he stepped into a hole in the path, stumbled, and, in saving the girl from falling out of his arms, gripped her so tightly that he broke one of her hip bones. The invalid was immediately taken into a chemist’s shop, where she was attended by a doctor. Since birth the girl has been in and out of lfotorua hospital owing to there being something wrong with tier hip, and she is to he sent back to that institution.

Most children are eager to fondle any strange dog which they moot in the street, and although most dogs are friendly there is always thedanger of a bile from a strange 0n,..'” Dogs that wag their tails are usually safe io handle, but those that do not should he regarded with suspicion. Since a dog takes his like or dislike to a person in great measure through the sense of smell the hand should always he held out lies), for him to sniff at. A growl immediately following this action is sufficient warning, whereat approval will be indicated by a well-wag-ged tails The dog’s head can bo patted in safety, but not before.

( Even non-smokers must (or should) admit that tobacco is a splendid disinfectant. It was found to lie so in the great plague year in England (IGfio) and in our own day medical men often consider it invaluable in helping to ward off infection. Bur it is in times of mental si mss tluit so many value it. Evensmoker knows how comforting it is in time of trouble. Inferior brands, however, are best avoided, and it should of course, he as free from nicotine as possible. The American tobaccos by the way, are all more or less loaded with the latter. But our New Zealand varieties, on the other hand, contain very little. Hence their appeal to the smoker who can go on puffi;ng them all day long if lie likes without fear of consequences. And, owing l» the fart that the leaf is toasted quite a novel notion —-they are as remarkable for llavour as for fragrance. Your tobacconist has them. Ask for “Riverhead Gold,'’ mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bulkhead) full strength.*

We are pleased to report an improvement in the condition of Mr. Wjm. Ross, who lias been confined to his bed with a severe cold.

The steel girders for the Town Hall will be erected next week. Today electric current was connected with a powerful motor to be used in connection with a hoist. The work of construction is progressing rapidly. During the ten days of the general strike the lifeboat stations around the coast of Britain were rut off from their London storeyard, but despite this they carried on, and 38 lives were saved from shipwrecks. As the result of an explosion of a detonator at a swamp drainage contract at. Ilorotiu, Hamilton, a Jugo Slav, Tony Perdia, had his right hand blown off and his face severely injured. Perdia was carrying the detonators in his hand when they exploded. His condition is serious.

A cablegram was received by a local resident from Sydney yesterday stating that Mr Alex McDonald, brother of the late Mr. W. McDonald, late stalionmaster at Foxton, passed away after an operation for apepndicitis. The late Mr. McDonald, who leaves a widow was connected with the South British In surance Co.

Loose metal was the chief factor in a ear accident to a local resident on Thursday morning who was travelling to Levin in order to catch Field’s train. While negotiating the corner near the entrance to the Golf Links in Iho Avenue, the car skidded through a patch of loose metal and charged a 7-wire fence horde)ing the property of Mr. F. Davies. The car suffered but little damage, though the wires had to be cut for it to be extricated. —Chronicle.

“Are our vicars to be beggars? The less the clergy have to do with asking for money the bolter for the church as a whole,” said Canon |>'anc .urt at yesterday's session of to Anglican Syimd in Wellington. It had been suggested that the vicars of each parish should make a special appeal lor funds for church schools, Ini! it was pointed out that a hotter method would he to appoint an organising secretary to stir up the parishes to a sense of their responsibilities. A correspondent in an American contemporary has some hard things to say with regard to American specialisation in sport. He says: “If Americans would put sport in its propei plaee, which is recreation, not avocation; if they would realise, as Britons do, that ‘tis the game that counts, not the result’; if they would cultivate the habit of modesty in winning and generous gracefulness in defeat, there might not he so many American ‘world champions,' Iml such champions as America, might produce would he more eheerfiftly acclaimed by a" world long since tired of Eaglescreaming.”