Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3519, 3 August 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local Soccer Club plays St. Andrew’s on Easton Park on Saturday. Rain fell locally on ten clays last month, the maximum fall being 4.1 inches on the 25th. The total rainfall for the month was 6.68 inches. Twenty-five cars and two motor lorries were railed north during last week from Shannon. Motorists arriving at Shannon finding the highway flooded were compelled to rail their cars over the flooded area. The vital statistics for the month of July are as follows, those for the corresponding period last year being given in parenthesis:—Births, 8 (6); deaths, 1 (nil); marriages, nil (2). Maori: —Births nil (one); deaths nil (nil). In the second Rugby match against Victoria, played at Melbourne yesterday, the Maori touring team won by 57 points to nil. Moses, the Foxtn representatives, played his first game of the tour.

The miners of New Zealand, through Mr. H. E. Evans, Stockton, last week forwarded £IOOO to the British Miners’ Relief Fund, making approximately £2OOO sent by them to this fund during the present industrial crisis.

The Shannon Masonic fraternity have comemneed the erection of their temple, in Stout street. The Most Worshipful Grand Master, -Sir Charles Fergiisson, Governor-Gen-eral, will visit Shannon on August 21 to’lav the foundation stone.

So far in July there have been filed with the deputy official assignee at Palmerston North five petitions in bankruptcy. These filings are by a-carpenter, a driver, sharemilker, farmhand* and farmer respectively. During the corresponding month of 1925 there were no petitions filed, while last month there were four.

Owners of property in Wanganui who are inclined to complain of the rates will be interested to learn of one account from the New Brighton Borough Council received by a Wanganui resident for his house property (says the Herald). The aggregate amount of £G 9s Id. The capital value of the property is £OOO and the unimproved valuft £llO. A notable record of sixty years’ service with the “New Zealand Herald” has been completed by Mr. A. D. Bruce, the sporting writer “Phaeton.” The combined staffs of the ‘Herald’ and ‘Weekly News,’ at a social gathering, presented Mr. Bruce with a silver horseshoe on an oak plate, also an armchair. Mi\ R. M. liaeket, editor of the “New Zealand Herald,” made the presentation, and paid a tribute to Mr. Bruce’s fine qualities. That the removal expenses of teachers should be paid by the Government was the contention made by Mr. H. T. Armstrong (Christchurch East) when the Education Vote was before the House of Representatives last week. He said that other Government servants had their removal expenses paid, but teachers, who were compelled to move from place to place to obtain promotion were put to .considerable expense. He moved that the total vote should be reduced by £9 as an indication that teachers’ removal expenses should be paid. The amendment was defeated by 38 votes to 18.

The heaviest bunch of bananas ever seen in London bore 360 ban1381b.

The parents of children attending the local District High School from Moutuiti and ITimatangi have requested the local committee to make provision for conveying their children to school.

An amendment moved by Mr. F. N. Bertram (Grey Lynn) in the House of Representatives- last week to indicate that the election of school committees should be based on the Parliamentary franchise was defeated by 42 votes to 13. Quite recently the Tangimoana river lias changed its course and is now flowing across the front of the township and threatens destruction of some thousands of pounds worth of property. It is only 15 chains from the sea where it turned off, owing to the old course being blocked up with snags, shingle and sand.

Gisborne has been much vexed by the Turanganui River, which drops silt at the entrance of the harbour. Therefore the ratepayers have served the river with a notice to cease from troubling. Works are now in progress to divert the stream to a locality where its pldy with silt will not be a nuisance It is stated that this diversion of a river to clear the way for a harbour is the first of its kind ever attempted in New Zealand or Australia.

A sad double funeral took place at'Cambridge on Sunday, when Mr. and Mrs IT. T. Buckler, husband and wife were laid to rest side by side. They leave four little children. Mrs Buckler was a victim of the pneumonic influenza. Two further deaths are reported at Cambridge as the result of influenza, viz,. Miss Mary Ellen Ewcn, aged 70, and Frank A. Marcroft, aged 32. Both were well-known old residents. The influenza is now steadily decreasing, but there are still many cases and the school a tendance is suffering severely.

Death has removed two very old residents of the Nelson district — Mr. Thomas S. Merrick, aged 84, and Mr. Thomas G. Freeman, in his 94th year. The late Mr. Merrick was a Maori War veteran, and also participated in the West Coast gold rush. As a boy the late Mr. Freeman looked after Captain Emery’s horses, and it is recorded that.he rode a winner at the first race meeting held in Nelson. For nearly 73 years he was a member of Loyal Howard Lodge of Oddfellows, his long association being, it is under - stod. a record for the Dominion.

Melbourne papers report the death of Miss Ella Carrington at the age of 73. Miss Carrington first appeared on the Australian stage at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, more than 50 years ago, upon her arrival from England as leading lady to Mr. George Coppin. Afterwards she formed a company under the name of the Taylor-Carrington Dramatic Company, and toured the country districts of Australia where she achieved remarkable popularity. Miss Carrington made several professional visits to India and Japan, as well as to New Zealand. Mie was one of the original members of fullers’ Dramatic Company, which played many seasons at the Palace Theatre, Melbourne.

Though brick is the oldest known product of its kind, though it is still —as throughout the ages — made of clay it remains (says a trade paper) “the supreme and unique building material.” “We know how cement Appears to dominate tlie industries to-dav, and yet there is considerably more capital invested in the manufacture of brick.” It is added that the modern mechanical equipment of brickmaking is most efficient. In 1925 approximately 10,000,000,000 bricks were produced in the United States, and in their making 30,000,000 cubic yards of clay and shale were required. The coal, or its equivalent:, needed in their burning amounted to about 3,000,000 tons.

A simple and effective method, whereby passengers may in the event of emergency stop trains has been introduced by the chief mechanical engineer of the Railway Department (Mr. G. S. Lynde). It permits an emergency application of lhe W'estinghouse brake. In accordance with Mr. Lynde’s proposals an emergency brake cock enclosed in a box, with thin glass front, is now being fitted in each passenger ear compartment. In an emergency the glass may be easily broken by a passenger and the turning of the cock will apply the brake just as effectively as would result from an application by the enginedriver.

Toasted tobacco is the last word in the manufacture of the fragrant weed. Its process is based upon science, and just exactly as people prefer their food cooked, they will now prefer their tobacco toasted. Toast is certainly wholesomer than soggy bread, and the same principle applies to tobacco. Take for instance the locally-manufactured brands. They are all toasted and consequently more pleasing to the palate, besides there is less nicontine in them, and that is a matter of importance, inasmuch as any excess of nicotine absorbed by the system may seriously affect the nerves or cause smokers heart and weakening sight. Smokers should, therefore, not fail to give this new tobacco a trial; there is a vast difference between toasted and liontoasted tobacco, and they will find it is all in favour of the toasted. Obtainable in three strengths, Riverhead Gold, very mild and aromatic; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium, and Cut Plug No. 10 is recommended to those who prefer a full body.*