Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3592, 29 January 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Herald Stuff desire to acknowledge wedding favours fron Air. and Mrs. F. Mason and to wish them health and happiness.

The body of William Thomas Boyd, who had been missing at Pallia tun for a fortnight, was recovered in the Mnngnhno river, a few miles froth the scene where his motor ear was found. Deceased leaves a widow and eight children. Patrick Cassin, aged 11 years, a son of C. P. Cassin, a telegraph linesman, was drowned in the Hamilton Lake on Thursday. The boy'could not swim and got out of bis depth. The Coroner warned parents that unless taught to swim children look great risks in frequenting such places.

During the next month several schools will hold their annual picnics at the local seaside. The first one will he that of the llokowliitu School, Palmerston North, on. February -Ith. In connection with this picnic Air. J. Joseph’s launch lias been chartered to convoy the children from the wharf.' to the beach. Woddville school also intends patronising the ' local seaside this year.

NomcWiiiig in tin* nature of a freak eel was caught in the Kaupokomii River ahoul a month ago and is now exhibited in a shop window in Unworn. Except for a black spot at- the end of its tail and another on the tij) of its nose the eel is canary yellow in colour. The eel was caught by Mr. Charles Davis. Two months ago. Mr. Davis first saw the cel and made several .attempts to capture it, at last managing to secure it on a small hook. Although it is beyond doubt an eel it lias one or - two peculiarities. The hook with which the freak was ('aught' is still inside it, but nevertheless the fish still appears to be quite lively.

A claim] for compensation by Mabel Adelaide Oakes, domestic servant, against . Alfred Holliday, proprietor of the Warkworth Hotel, for compensation or poisoning of her thumb, attributed to the use of home-made soap, has been dismissed by the Arbitration Court at Auckland. The court, in a reserved judgment, said that even if it were found that- the soap caused the cracking of the skin, it was unable to find that, the cracking was an accident in the proper sense of the word. It required proof that the bacilli that entered plaintiff’s thumb were a particular species associated with her work, and that the infection arose from and in the course of her employment. Medical men had been unable to express an opinion and the court could not hazard a guess.

The local District High School will re-open on Tuesday next. The electoral roll for the Borough of Foxton will (dose on January 31st, and qualified persons eligible for enrolement are advised to interview the Town Clerk beforo that date.

Arrangements will he made to convey local schoAl children to Palmerston North, on the occasion of the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York fo Iha I centre. <

Last year 2(1,500 passengers, of whom 1(1,000 used British machines, arrived at and departed from the Croydon Aerodrome, a 10 to 20 per cent, improvement on 1925. There was nol a single injury in British.or Dutch machines. Several large haystacks have been burned in various parts? of To Awamutu 'district, with the result that winter feed may be. at a premium in a few months if the season is cold and rough. The cause of the fires is not known.

An usu.sual type of theft occurred at Blockhouse Bay one evening last week (relates the N.Z. Herald). A motor ear was left outside the owner’s gate when lie returned from work. Next morning he found that all four tyres, valued at £3O, had been stolen, and the car had been pushed into a hedge.

Two years ago a radium tube containing 8.97 milligrams, and valued'at £147, was lost in ashes thrown out from the Dunedin Hospital. Five sacks of rubbish were sent to iin Antwerp company, which now announces that it has recovered (i.li milligrams worth, which is valued at about £9O.

Daddy was confined to the house with ’flu, and mother was busy sterilising the dishes that had come from the sick room. “Why do you do that 1 ?”- asked four-vear-old Donald. “Because, dear, poor daddy has germs, and the germs gel on the dishes. I boil the dishes, and that kills the germs.” Donald turned this over in his mind for several minutes, then inquired: ‘(Mother, why don’t you boil daddy ”

The Dargavillc Borough Councillors had a bomb dropped among them at the meeting on Monday night, when a letter was read from the audit department, tagging the balance-sheet, (says the. Times). It appears that the Council paid their share of the cost pf the tablet on the Wairoa bridge out of the general funds and also unauthorised expenditure had been overdrawn. The department demanded that each councillor pay 13/4 out of his pocket. v

“I desire to draw public attention Mi tin 1 practice of children frequenting the rubbish tips,” wrote the chief inspector (Mr. R. Day) in a report to the New Plymouth Borough Council recently. “I cannot understand what the parents are thinking of in allowing them to run such obvious risks. On any tine evening, upwards of 20 children may be seen picking over all sorts of rubbish, and it is feared that even odd lots of tinned food stuffs have been taken home. I am loth to prosecute children, but if the practice is not slopped I shall have no allernalive.’.’

Considerable preparations are to he made for the fishing camp of the Duke and Duchess of York on the Tongariro River, a short distance from Tokaaim. Hew tracks are being cut through the bush to open up 1 new fishing grounds at the water’s edge, and a wide clearing will he made for the site of the camp. Electric light will he laid on to each lent, and plentiful supplies of hot and c-old water will bo available. It is intended to build an ideal fishing camp, and the sile will he available for the use of other anglers after the’visit of the Royal parly. The Duke and Duchess are to spend two nights at the camp. . Hedgehogs again—The experience of a Wanganui football enthusiast. who was sent home from a smoke concert with n hedgehog in .the <-up won'by liis club were recorded some months ago (says the Herald). Recently the same gentleman visited the Foxton races. His attachment to hedgehogs is how, apparently, well-known, for when he returned lo his car after the day’s racing lie found that a hedgehog had been placed in his overcoat pocket, Unfortunately the ani - mal had expired, and the characteristic pungent odour left by the corpse necessitated the purchase of a new overcoat.

He forgot the tobacco! A backblocks settler in the Far North, where there are no trains or coaches, makes monthly trips by dray to the nearest township for stores. Last time he discovered on getting home that lie had forgotten the month’s supply of tobacco. There was consternation in the camp! The men had rather lie had forgotten anything than that. Nothing daunted the boss harnessed up again next day and started for the distant township once more for the tobacco. The weed is almost as necessary as food to the men of the outback. So it is to lots of other men. The great thing is to pick a brand as free from.nicotine as possible. Most of the imported brands are full of it. That’s where they differ from our New Zealand grown tobaccos, which contain so little nicotine that they may be smoked all day, even to excess, without the slightest effects. They are toasted and do not affect the heart or throat. Ask for “Riverhead Gold,” mild; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium; or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullslicad), full strength. Caversham Mixture is the latest addition. 44.