Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3587, 15 January 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

After a few days of very hot weather at Ashburton, there was a sudden change yesterday, about an inch of rain falling with heavy snow on the back ranges.

“It’s an all wind that blows no one any good.” A farmer" on the Mam ak u Bush road earned ; £B4 in one day during the holidays pulling out bogged cars. Some months ago the Grey town Borough Council, with some trepidation, decided to go in for municipal pictures. After nearly six months’ showing, the enterprise has returned a substantial profit.

A man named Harry Patterson had his foot taken off by a png lnaiohine at the brick works at Miramar on Thursday. ITis condition is reported to he very serious.

Jack Lillcy, nine-year-old son of Mr. A. T. Lillcy, Met liven, was run over by a grass-mower yesterday afternoon, and bis right leg was caught in the knives. On adifiission to the Ashburton Hospital one foot was amputated at the ankle. Mr. W. K\ Glasson, President of the Australian Longwool Sheepbreeders' Association, has purchased from Mr. It. \V. Matthews (Lower Valley), a four-tooth rani of the Wiairongomai strain for 500 guineas, which is a Dominion record for prices for a single sheep of any breed.

As evidence of the prolific growth of pasture throughout this district, owing to the warm rains, a, local farmer informed our representative that it was impossible for the haymowing machine to be kept moving for more than a few yards at a time. The clogging of heavy grass kept an extra man busy (clearing the machine.

The police detachment in connection with the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to the Dominion will consist of approximately 80 men, who have been selected by Mr. M’llveney, Commissioner. The shortest constable is 6ft. in height, and the heights range up to 6ft. 5Dn., so that the detachment should make a very imposing display.

The body of a married woman named Myrtle Blackburn, a resident of St. Ilelier’s Bay, Auckland, who disappeared from the bank of the AA’aipa river at Ngaruawahia on Monday evening, .leaving two children on the bank, was found on Thursday morning close to the opposite side of the river from which the woman entered.

A motor speeding hog set out from Auckland at 5 o’clock last Tuesday morning in an attempt to lower all records, and reach Wellington in less than ten hours. Farmers saw him pass through AVestmere said that he eclipsed 70 miles an hour, and was soon a mere speck in the distance, (says the AA’janganui Herald). .Nothing was seen of the motorist locally.

“Will those who have found it desirable to remove seats from the main paths, to the back of the shrubs, please return them to their original places, when they have finished with them!” This was a request which was broadcasted by wireless by the operator at Caroline Bay, Timaru, the other night. AVhile it caused considerable amusement it did not meet with a very ready response. An instance of one of the quaint customs of the South African native was given at the Rotary Club at Masferton by Notarial) 11. E. Hart, who stated that while the “white” hunter prized the ivory tusk of the elephant, the natives in the party cherished the tail, the reason being that if the native could make from the hair of the elephant’s tail a bracelet for one of the village belles, he could subsequently buy her hand in marriage.

It is announced that the “New Zealand Times” will cease publication after January 22. It is understood that the goodwill has been disposed of to the “Dominion,” the shareholder of the “Times” -receiving consideration in shares in the “Dominion,” so that in sbme sort it is an amalgamation of the two papers. The “Times” retains it's premises and plant' whieji are no! included in the transaction. •

’l'lie Feilding branch oltice of the Mnnawatu-Oroua, Power Board reports that it lias been making a canvass of the business people of Feilding with a view .of securing support for community lighting, and is meeting with success. The Power Board offers to instill lights to Switch on at sundown and off at 10.30 p.m. every night in the year, and to maintain lights of 100-can-dle-power each without any responsibility to the shopkeepers, except a small payment. At Thursday's meeting of the Palmerston N. Hospital Board, Mr J. K. Hornblow moved that the Board forward congratulatory letters A o those on the nursing staff who had passed the recent examinations and that each be presented with a suitable token. The chairman (Sir James AVilson) concurred and .said that the presentations should be made in conjunction with the presentation of their diplomas and that the event be of a social ■character. This, he said, had been suggested by the late Dr. Martin, when lie was medical superintendent of the institution. The Board agreed to the suggestions and the details were left in the hands of the chairman. A fatal motor accident occurred on the main highway six miles south of Eketahuna on Thursday, whereby Mr. Charles Edwards Cutts, proprietor of Morrison’s Bush Hotel (Greytown), was killed. A party of four South AVairarapa publicans, Messrs Cutts, G. A. Vincent '(Featherston)-, C. A. Gray (Carterton), and R. Irvine (Taratalii), were proceeding by car to Mangatainoka. When on a narrow part of the road they slowed down to pass a stationary service Car. The hub of the front wheel of Mr. Vincent’s car fouled the back wheel hub of the service car, resulting in the former vehicle toppling occrthc hank. Mr. Cutts was pinned under the car and suffered severe injuries to the head. He died on the way to the Masterton Hospital. The other three occupants of the car received minor injuries.

Tin* capture of tlie elusive bookmaker when pursuing his illegal occupation is an achievement occasionally attended by some diverting episode. A recent Dunedin occurrence was a ease in point. On receipt of 'certain information the police proceeded to the alleged “bookie's” residence to get their man. Friends, however, had advised him by 'phone of the intended visit, and, having no time to escape, he, like “Brer Rabbit,” lay low inside the house. The arrival of the police almost coincided with the visit of a client of the “bookie,” who was refused through the keyhole, the chance of putting “ten bob" on his fancy for the Cup, and warned to “get out of it." As the client hurriedly sought to obey the admonition, he spied the-guardians of the law just entering the gate, and, with that “presence of mind which is superior to absence of body,” lie seized a garden hoe that happened to he handy, and began an energetic onslaught on the garden. Tn reply to police inquiries, lie’ stated that the garden was his job and that the whereabouts of tin* owner were immaterial to him as be had been hired for the day. The bookie tells the sequel with great glee. “The blooming Johns sat down to wait for me and stayed three hours and poor old bad to hoe'the garden for dear life all that time. Tie made a dashed good job of it, too, and didn’t even get a chance to get a run for his money. He reckons, however, he’s due for a ‘rake-off’ some time.”

Inquiries are being made for a site suitable for a factory, with a view to starting a small industry in Shannon (says the News).

A man was found on the outskirts of Palmerston N. on Thursday night, suffering from loss of memory. He is now in the. hospital. A medal in his possession is inscribed “A. Grant.” His description is: Dark, aged between 30 and 35, height, five feet six, respectably dressed, blue suit, grey cap, dark overcoat.

The world census of car registrations for last year showed that 24,452,207 cars were in use by all nations. Allowing for replacement of scrapped cars the 1927 production will increase this total to roughly 27,300,000, representing a value of nearly £8,200,000,000. The figures are exclusive of those for trucks and motor cycles. Last year 3,575,701 trucks and 1,458,668 motor cycles were in use in the world.

A. woman, whose husband is blind and resident in the South Island, has been making a house to house appeal locally for funds to establish herself and husband in business. She also distributes a pamphlet Containing her husband’s appeal to Parliament for the institution of invalidity pensions. It may be pointed out that our laws already provide for the maintenance of the afflicted and indigent in each district, and it is somewhat extraordinary to meet such a bald and general appeal for help. An expected arrival at Auckland early next month is the Karpfanger, which will he the first steamer under the German flag to visit that port for the past 13 years. The Karpfanger, which is owned by Messrs. G. J. 11. Sieiners and Co., Hamburg, is a vessel of 4974 tons gross, having a length oi 407 ft. On this voyage she is carrying a full •cargo of ease oil from Port Arthur. Texas; and, on the completion of the discharge of the local portion, is announced to proceed to Napier. Wellington, New Plymouth, t Melbourne, and Fremantle for further discharge of her cargo.

A prominent member of the Ratana movement, when asked in AVanganui what effect the recent prosecution of the leader would have upon the followers of , the '‘n/ovoment, replied that .they would not take the slightest notice of it. The Maori had a 'different way of viewing incidents of this sort to that of the pakeha mind and was not- so prone to scandalise his neighbour. As far as Katana was concerned his followers looked upon him in the same light that a loyal pakeha would look itpon his King. “The .King can do no wrong, neither can Ratana,” said the Maori. “He will still be held in warm affection by those in the movement.” The funeral of the late Pikihuia Tamati Ivawana, who met her death bv accidental drowning near Pike’s road, Rangiotu, took . place on Thursday, the body being laid to rest in the Pukutotara native cemetery at Rangiotu. The deceased lady, who was well-liked both by Europeans and natives, was predeceased by her husband a few years ago and leaves two small children, several grandchildren and a brother to mourn their loss. The deceased was a nidee of the late Major Keepa Kemp, of Wanganui, a grandniece of Horomona Te Rongoparoc, who took a prominent part in the early settlement of the Hawke’s Bay district, while her father was AViremu AA 7 ataitana, a prominent member of the Rangitane tribe, being a son of the great chief Triveta.

It is we.ll known that the grain in a piece of figured rimu at times has peculiar and spectacular formations, but a freak piece of board, flics property of .Mr. H. Harrison,.,of Fendalton Road, is decidedly unusual. The general run of the figuring suggest? a picture of sea and sky, and in the foreground there is a fish, rising, apparently, like a porpoise out of tile water. The fish is' remarkably accurate in detail (states the Lyttelton Times). The eyes are set exactly right, one can see a fin-and the scales of't he beast, and the swirling wake where it has left the water. It is not unusual for the grain of this wood to portray ocean and mountain scenes; on the Wrest Coast there is a specimen that represents perfectly one of the local peaks. Mr.,Harrison is having the “fish” stained and polished, and suitably framed, and it will he hung in the Builders’ Chambers above a collection of New Zealand woods. '

An English tourist while “doing” the Waikato recently was surprised and disgusted to notice so' many Maori women enjoying their pipes. On bis return to Auckland lie mentioned the matter to an old colonist, remarking that it was a sure sign of the degeneracy of (lie Maori race when their woman / smoked pipes. Said the New Zealander: “Well, if that is so, the Irish women of the working class must have been degenerating for a. good while, because I remember seeing them smoking clays in Dublin when 1 was a hoy.” The tourist said no more. There is nothing wrong with pipe smoking for man or women so long (is the right tobacco is used. Choose a brand as free from nicotine as you can. That’s all. Our Xe\v Zealand grown tobaccos contain only a trifling percentage of nicotine, and you can’t beat them for flavour and aroma. You can smoke them for hours and they won’t do you any harm. Ask for “Riverhead Gold,” mild; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium; or “Cut Plug No. 10,” (Bullhead), full strength. Caversham Mixture is the latest addition. 41.