Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3622, 5 April 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local Scouts, Girl Guides and Brownies, attended a church parade on Sunday morning at the Presbyterian Church. Mr. W. 11. Nicholas delivered an inspiring address on “Service.”

The position of secretary to any club or institution is generally pretty hard to fill, and there was no excejhion to the rule at the annual meeting of the Pahiatua Football Club recently. Any excuse would be offered by the nominees but one in particular brought roars of laughter: “I’ll have to decline, Mr. Chairman, being a married man with two children. My hand has got too shaky rocking the cradle.” (Laughter).

A curious position arose in the Carterton Magistrate’s Court in a ease where a motor ear driver s license was cancelled for three months. When the Magistrate announced his decision counsel for defendant rose and asked if the order could be dated as from the day following, as he had come up from Greytown in defendant’s car, and still had to get home. The Magistrate smiled broadly as he amended the order to suit counsel’s requirements. —News.

The fame of the Wanganui Technical College has spread far and wide, and in the South Sea isles it is one of the best known of the Now Zealand secondary schools, says the Herald. In Fiji, the Wanganui Technical College has been widely advertised from time to time by the return of young natives who have been educated here. Recently two young Hindus arrived in Wanganui from Fiji for a term of education at the Technical College. They will board at the hostel, where there are also four native Fijian boys, who are making names for themselves in the realms of study and sport.

Being invited to give an opinion as to the cause of tightness of money and the dullness of trade in New Zealand generally (says an exchange), a Dunedin merchant replied : “I don’t know the cause, perhaps there is no one cause, but a commingling of causes. The facts are, however, obvious. Our people are economising in their expenditure on food and drink. That can he understood. What is not so to explain is the related fact that the people are not stinting themselves as to pleasures, and side by side with that I notice what is really alarming, an increased tendency to discuss sport in working hours, to the neglect of duty. It is all verywell to play on Saturday, but if the games on that day are to be the subject of inquests all the rest of the week, carelessness will have to be paid for by the general community in further slackening of business. In the present condition of trade every person able to work ought to work willingly. Perhaps a pinch of real adversity, which we have not yet reached, would be a sharp and remembered lesspn to slackers of all classes,”

Mr. A. M. Adams, of Wellington, was found dead under a car near Fernihurst, Conway Hills, near Kaikoura, on Saturday. Mr. “Monty” Adams was one of the best-known men in the stock and share business of Wellington, and had a host of friends on both sides of Cook Strait. The headmaster of the local District High School desires to acknowledge with thanks a donation of 10/- from the Misses Ross of Levin Road, Foxton, towards the girl’s basketball club. The donation was inspired by the excellent performance put up by the girls in the running events at Sansan on Saturday last. Thousands upon thousands of tons of tobacco are needed every year to keep the world’s pipe alight. America is a larger producer, but other countries contribute —including New Zealand where the tobacco industry promises to become of national importance. Already it finds employment for a rapidly increasing body of workers, while it is of material assistance to men on the land who have discovered that tobacco culture is well worth while. The New Zealand grown tobacco now on the market is of splendid quality —sweet, pure and fragrant. When smoking proves injurious this is due to the presence in the leaf of an excess of nicotine. The imported brands are full of this poison. The New Zealand brands are comparatively free from it, so that, they can he smoked with perfect impunity. That’s why the doctors approve of, them. Once you acquire a taste for these tobaccos no others will satisfy you. They ate of various strengths. ' “Riverhead Gold” mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, and “Cut Plug No. 19 (Rullshead) is flavoured. Any tobacconist will supply you.*