Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3534, 7 September 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. B. G. Gower, of Fox (on, vice-president of the Wellington Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union, was the recipient of condolences from that body at its meeting on Saturday, in the loss of his wife.

Mr. P. C. Wren, author of those popular novels, “Beau Geste” and “Beau Sabruer,” is an Oxford scholar and lias been sailor, professor of psychology, navvy, Vtramp, schoolmaster, journalist, explorer, boxer, costermonger, and has seen service in three armies, including the French Foreign Legion!

A large party of American tourists are due in New Zealand early in the coming year. The party is so large that it has been found absolutely necessary to split the party up, some visiting one resort and some another. Final arrangements have been made to take a party of TSO down the Wanganui river.

On Saturday evening Thomas Joseph Ford, a single man, aged 28, of 60 Bishop Street, St. Albans, Christchurch, was driving a car from Sumner to the city, when the back tire burst and the car capsized, after swerving to right and left. Ford was thrown out and received injuries to his head from which he died later at the hospital.

A clause in llie Lyttelton Harbour Board’s financial statement, that fifty-seven £IOO debentures in the Makerua Drainage Board’s loan at 6 per cent., had been purchased for the sinking fund commissioners’ account, brought Dr. H. T. J. Thacker to his feet at the meeting on Wednesday. “Wjhere is Makerua?” he asked. Near Palmerston North, he was informed. “Then I think that this money should not have gone out of Canterbury,” replied the doctor. Arthur Moody, single, aged 20, of Plunket Street, Spreydon, and W. Stanley Clay, of 295 Eastern Terrace, Beckenham, were on a motorcycle in' Manhester Street, Christchurch, on Saturday evening, travelling at a high speed. They hit a motor-car which was turning in the road, and the driver of the motorcycle, Moody, died a few minutes later. Clay received head injuries, and was taken to hospital, where he is progressing satisfactorily.

Even though it might appear rather a forlorn hope to advertise for a lost £5 note on the eve of a race meeting, a New Plymouth lady has every reason to feel satislied with her confidence in advertising and perhaps also with another man’s confidence in the capabilities of certain horses. Her money was returned on Saturday night, but the finder would not hear of accepting any reward. “I made plenty with it at the races,” was his smiling explanation.as he withdrew.—Herald.

In these enlightened days few people manage to preserve their anatomies immune from the surgeon’s knife. A practical example was furnished in a service car travelling to Wanganui the other day, when the seven passengers, in the course of conversation, made the interesting discovery that only oue of them was still in possession of his appendix.

“At New Plymouth,” said His Excellency, the Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson), at the annual smoke concert of the S.A.W. V.A., Wellington, “I was solemnly presented in the course of an evening with an original tin of the bully beef used during the Boer War, which has remained unopened all that time. It is still unopened. (Laughter). Nevertheless, in 1925, after a quarter of a century, it was solemnly presented to me. I have not yet had the courage to open it. Next year, if I am spared, after mustering up courage to sample it, I will let you know the result.”

The primary schools throughout the district re-opened this morning. Heavy rain commenced to fall throughout this district yesterday and continued throughout the night. The weather is much colder.

A shot was tired through the window of a billiard saloon at Waihi on Saturday evening, while games were in full swing. The missile missed the head of the owner of the saloon, Mr. F. Wl Stamp, by inches. The police are investigating.

A motor bus, fully laden with passengers, collided with _a large butcher’s van at a corner in Kyber Pass, Auckland, yesterday morning. The driver of the van swerved his• machine, which mounted the footpath and fell some feet into debris on a vacant section. Some of the passengers were seriously injured. Mr. L. J. Arcus, editor of Accounting, Commerce and Insurance, is evidently not seeking feminine popularity. In an address at Hawera on “Defalcations,” he is reported to have said: “The most troublesome case of 'defalcation I ever handled was that of a women. Speaking generally, men will own up when concerned, or confronted by a detective, lmt women will lie to the last.” :

A fire in the Palmerston Buildings, at the foot of Queen Street, Auckland, early on Saturday morning, did damage estimated between £IO,OOO and £15,000. The brigade made a. great save, rescuing the caretaker and his family, before attacking the flames. The damage to the building was slight. Kretschmar and Farmer, fancy goods warehousemen, lost stock worth £7OOO, which was partly insured; Harris, Langton, Ltd., lost about £ISOO more by smoke and water than by fire. Other tenants suffered in less degree.

Saturday’s football fixture at the local racecourse was not a fancy dress fixture, but some of the players donned jerseys which, like Jacobs coat,' were of many colours. But one young Maori eclipsed the rest in this respe'et. Beneath a swimming costume, a female garment —someone remarked that it was a camisole —of heliotrope hue peeped forth from the shoulders, the nether garments were tight fitting “strides” and ilesh-eoloured stockings and no boots. When in action,lie was cheered on by cries of “go it Rosie!” and other terms of endearment by spectators.

An examination in history was proceeding at a certain Hamilton school recently, and the headmaster was endeavouring to get. from the scholars the relative meaning of B.tO. and A.D. “What,” he asked one child, “does B.C. stand for?” “Before Christ,” answered the scholar with alacrity. “Right! Now you,” he said, pointing* ot another child, “tell me what A.D. stands for.” The reply, which came swiftly, caused the headmaster to remove his pine nez and gaze at the child in astonishment —“After the Devil,” the youngster said with his most innocent smile.

Two ('locks that are adjusted for the next 50 years to register the time, day of the month and year, when tire alarms arc reported, arc part of the equipment of the Wanganui and Cast! eel iff lire stations. An endless tape passes beneath stamping dies on the clocks, and when an alarm comes over the system, the time and date are automatically recorded, along with a code of perforations which indicates the locality of the outbreak. And the delicate mechanism of the clocks function' year after year, even making allowance for the occurrence of leap years.

A man was noticed in Brown street, Ponsonby, very carefully examining some palings on the fence of a section, and, relates the Auckland Star, he remarked: “Same old saw marks, that is how I know them. My father took up sections here 52 years ago, and I was put on to saw .some palings out of a piece of kauri timber six inches bv one and a-quartcr. It was heart, of course. I know that, for I had to do the sawing, and my father had something to say about the rough job I made of some of the palings. Still, they have lasted well after 52 years, and they arc good for some time yet. I received a couple of raps on the knuckles for making that rough cut there, but the stuff has lasted all right, It shows what kauri is good for if'.it is real •heart of an old tree.”

Many a good story is told about smoking and smokers. The latest comes from Auckland. A bricklayer was called sharply to account by his foreman for smoking “on the job.” “I’m not smoking,” he replied. “But your pipe is in your mouth,” declared the angry foreman. “That’s right,” said the bricklayer. “And my boots are on my feet, but I’m not walking.” The foreman passed on. By the way, if you are looking for something special in the shape of. ’baccy, ti\ our New. Zealand varieties. They arc excellent, and their fine fla)our and delightful fragrance are largely due to the tact that the leaf is toasted. This is -quite a novel idea. Also (unlike the imported) they contain only a trifling percentage of nicotine. That’s why doctors favour them. Thanks to their wonderful purity they may be smoked all day long without fear of consequences. They come in several strengths. “Rivci head Gold” is mild: “Navy Cut’ ’is medium; and “Cut Plug No. 10” is a splendid full-flavoured tobacco. The latest addition is “Cavendish Mixture.”*

Alfred Charles Hook, aged 49, headmaster of Mercer School, pleaded guilty in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court on Saturday to the theft of a pair of socks worth 4s (id., the property of Rendells Ltd., Auckland. Hook was detected in the act. Chief-Detective Cummings said the accused had been in the service of the Education Board for twenty-five years, and was worth £4OOO. When arrested he had £37 11s fid. in his pockets. Counsel for the accused said Hook not only had an honourable record in the board’s service, but served over two years with the mounted troops in Palestine. He contracted malaria while on war service, and had suffered from this since his return. His career was now wrecked. The Magistrate said he could not suppress the name. The man had lost his position and there was the disgrace to be faced. He would be convicted and discharged.