LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3617, 24 March 1927, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A man named Joseph Brasiin, with several aliases and a long list, of convictions, was sentenced in the Tnihapc Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, to three months’ hard labour, without the option, for using obscene language on the mail train and travelling first class with a second class ticket. A witness described the language as the most lurid he had ever heard.

An hour after a baby girl bad been born, at Vancouver, surgeons successfully operated on her for a ruptured abdominal wall with acute appendicitis in which gangrene had developed. Only a local anaesthetic, was used, and the baby had a good chance of living. While the operation was being performed the mother bore a second twin which was in perfect condition. R, \Y. Lamb, the champion Vic'torian cyclist, in an interview, said: “If I had my money to spare, J would establish a sports stadium in Wellington for amateur athletics and cycling. Cycling has a tremendous hold there. The Wellington people are as line a crowd of sports as I have ever had to do with, and I think that if there were a banked track there there would be a bigger boom in amateur cycling, which is already popular, than at present the people dream of."

According to a letter received from Suva, one of the most amusing, and at the same time charming incidents of the brief visit of their Royal Highnesses to Suva occurred at the official ball. After some 500 guests had been presented, each person going up one side of the hall, shaking hands, and retiring by the other side, a little dog trotted up the (proper side, straight to the Duchess, and held up its paw. The Duchess, evidently very much intrigued, smilingly shook hands aryl patted the dog on the head. There was laughter and applause when the dog sedately trotted out of the hall.

A conference of East Coast county Councils held at Napier yesterday agreed to fix the maximum speed for motorists on all East Coast county roads at 30 miles an hour.

“I was talking rot to a rotten man,” stated Mr. J. J. Langbridge, at a meeting of the Napier Harbour Board. The member to whom the remark applied asked for a withdrawal. “Very well, I’ll withdraw it,” said Mr. Langbridge, “but upon my word you fellows get on my ner-ves. You’re just like a lot of children.”

Upon the presentation of a petition signed by one hundred residents of Eketahuna, requesting that a poll should be taken on the weekly half-holiday, the Eketahuna Borough Council passed a resolution to give effect to the request. The Mayor remarked, “God help us; Pahiatua will get all the trade now.” Both Pahiatua and Eketahuna now observe 'Wednesday as their weekly half-holiday.

A four-year-old- son of Air. W. Fowler, of Fcilding. can claim to have had a remarkable erperienee. On Thursday afternoon the child came home and informed his parents that he.had been attacked by a bull, evidence of which was forthcoming in the bad cuts and bruises which marked the child’s body. It appears that the boy wandered into a paddock where a pedigree Jersey bull was grzaing, but how he escaped so lightly is hard to understand. The boy is reported to be progressing favourable.

A To Awamutu fanner, when discussing the noxious weeds menace a few days ago, put forward the suggestion that good results could be obtained by applying a few drops of benzine to the blackberry vines. He declared that he had tried it as an experiment, and he was more than pleased with the result. It" beszine is an effective remedy for the blackberry pest, the tinder should go very close to securing the Government’s bonus for a cheep and effective remedy. Meantime, however, farmers and other landholders might well give the specific a trial.

“I hope that the trades unions will absorb some of the. old guild spirit,” said Mr. Justice Frazer at a sitting of the Arbitration Court at Christchurch. He said that in some quarters the unions were regarded as bodies that were established merely to get higher wages for the workers. Unions, like the old guilds, should endeavour to do something along the lines of helping their members to become more efficient workers and tradesmen. This could be done through the medium of trade journals and in other ways. He believed that in some unions something of this sort was being done. He thought that progress in the future would be made along these lines.

“Tin 1 public seems to be satisfied with the arrangements made for speeding up the railway services,” said the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. ,J. G. Coates, at Christchurch on Sunday, in reply to a question bv a representative of “The Press,” “It is the policy of the 'Department to meet the pubjic demand and give service, and that policy is being carried out as far as possible.” Mr. Coates said that he would deal again with the question in his next statement. Referring to new types of cars suggested for use. on the New Zealand railways, Mr. Coates said that he had had an opportunity of inspecting many dicerent types, steam and otherwise, and certain .suggestions were now before the Railway Board.

A little incident that occurred at Westland at the close of the reception to the Duke of York seemed to emphasise a very important part that the Duchess had taken in the tour and the loss of her presence, states an exchange. At the conclusion of th(‘ welcoming function a little girl very shyly handed the Duke a bouquet of sweet peas from t he Bill lor Caledonian Societ y. He smiled, and thanked her and then looked round uncertainly, as if saying to himself: “Now, what on earth shall I do with it?” But there were no ladies-in-waiting to relieve* him, his staff all seemed to he looking the other way, and lie went bravely through the introductions of local dignitaries and their wives holding the bouquet- in his left: hand and greeting them with the other. Then he suddenly caught the eye of his private secretary Mr. Hodgson, and smilingly and eagerly thrust the bouquet into his hands. Keep your pipe going if you would escape the flu! Tobacco is a groat safeguard in times like this. Tt is a known preventative of disease because it wards off infection, as any doctor will tell you. But it is essential that it should be of the best quality, and as free from nicotine as possible, because you cannot go on smoking tobacco heavily charged with nicotine pipeful after •pipeful. Our New Zealand grown tobaccos are the purest, because they contain very little nicotine, consequently you can smoke them for hours at a time with pleasure, and need not fear harmful results. Also —note this! —New Zealand tobaccos are toasted in the process of manufacture. That’s why their flavour is so delicious, and their bouquet so delightful. Made in various strengths, they appeal irresistibly to all smokers. Ask your tobacconist for “Riverhead Gold” if you like a really choice aromatic*; if you prefer a medium flavour get some “Navy Cut” or “Cavendish;” and if your preference is for a tobacco of full strength, try Cut Plug No. 10.” Caversliam Mixture is the latest addition. 58.

The Palmerston High School Cadets go into camp at the racecourse this week.

The recent storm did a certain amount of damage to the military tents at the racecourse.

At the Wellington Supreme Court on Tuesday, before the Chief Justice, Albert, Laurence and Joseph Windsor, three brothers, on charges of breaking, entering and theft, the last two received five years’ hard labour and Albert four years.

The headmaster of the local District High School desires to acknowledge, with thanks, the gift by Mr 11. B. Crcsswell of ten volumes of the New Century Encyclopaedia. These books have been placed in the High School library, where they will be most valuable as works of reference.

A sentence of a year’s hard laour was imposed on a man named Lawrence Rov.Trebes, alias Treves, by Justice of the Peace at Inglewood yesterday, on a charge of indecent exposure. A similar charge had been laid against accused in December last.

The whole of the 1,168 consumers within the Central Hawke’s Bay Power District have paid their accounts for the two months forming part of the last reading of meters, which is claimed by the Waipukurau Press as a great tribute to the financial stability of Central Hawke’s Bay.

While making a landing at the WSgrain aerodrome, one of the pilots undergoing a refresher course struck an airpooket, with the result that the undercarriage of his machine tipped a small tree. The result was disastrous, for the ’plane swung round in a semi-circle, and, striking a fence, was wrecked. The pilot fortunately, escaped unhurt, but the machine, a de Ilaviland, will have to be “written off,” as it was damaged beyond repair. At the last meeting of the Bulls Town Board, a resolution was carried, asking for Bulls to be transferred to the Palmerston North Hospital District, the chairman stressing the points (1) that Palmerston North Hospital was much closer than Wanganui, (2) that Palmerston North was more convenient for patients going to and from the hospital, and (3) that relatives and friends visiting their sick were better suited by service cars between Bulls and Palmerston North.

* “It is contended,” said the Hon. Mark Cohen, M.L.C., in an address on educational legislation delivered in Wanganui last week, “that married lady teachers should resign from, the service. Ido not hold with that view at all. I think that any married female teacher should be retained where she is doing good service. There are exceptions, of course.” The speaker quoted instances of husband and wife earning the two highest salaries ip. one school. He said he knew of 25 such cases in the Auckland district.

“At the present moment New Zealand is living on its capital : there is hardly a farmer in the country who is not existing on his capital. It will he many years before they will find their feet, and there is going to be great unrest during the winter months.” This pessimistic; view was expressed by Mr. F. B. Logan at the Napier Hospital Board meeting last week. The same gentleman at a later stage, when financial matters were being considered, stated: “Going round the country you can see it is gradually going back into manuka; there are no cereals to s£>w, as all the farmers’ money has gone into the towns in buildings and motor-cars.”

A reduction in t-lie retail price of several “cuts” of beef is announced by the Auckland Master Butchers' Association. Rump steak, which is much in demand by housewives, has been reduced from Is to lid per lb., while fillet steak will be sold for Is Id as compared with the previous charge of Is 2d. The family joint will also be affected as both sirloin and prime ribs have been reduced Id per lh. Prices for mutton, veal and pork will remain unchanged. “Tm very much impressed with the farmers of New Zealand —they can turn their hand to anything,” said Mr R. B. Wood, of England. “At Home we have ploughmen, hedgers and other classes of farm workers. If you asked a hedger to lake hold of a horse he would make no hand of it at all, and if you asked the man who followed the team to milk a cow, 1 think he would fall dead on the spot.”

“Hundreds of tourists are lost, to New Zealand every year,” said Mr. •I. A. Bond, the New Zealand artist, to a Wanganui Chronicle reporter, during a conversation on the tourist attractions of the Dominion. “That,seems rather a sweeping statement, but I can substantiate it,” he said. “1 have friends in Australia who have contemplated coming to New Zealand, but after a visit to the shipping office the proposed trips have'been postponed and my friends have gone to Tasmania or Victoria on the Commonwealth line steamers. Shipping fares to New Zealand they say, arc too dear for the average men on holiday bent. Recently I sailed from Brisbane to Melbourne and, including four day’s stay on the ship in Sydney, the trip only cost £5. The Commonwealth line steamers, with one class, are very comfortable, and there is plenty of deck room. It would be a good thing to see a Government line in New Zealand and the country would certainly benefit,” concluded the visitor.