Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3625, 12 April 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At last night’s Borough Council meeting accounts amounting i• In £1,850 11/4 were passed for payment.

R. A. Rose broke the Australasian record for two miles, established in 1911 by G. N. Hill (Wellington), by six seconds, doing the distance at Wellington on Saturdaynight in 9.24 1.5.

At last night’s Borough Coum il meeting the poundkeeper reported that during the month five head of stock had been impounded and driving fees to the amount of 2/- collected.

Those present at last night's Borough Council meeting wore: His Worship the Mayor (Mr. M. E. Perreau) and Crs. McMui'ray, Thompson, Woods, Cowley, Ljicinsky, Rand, Parkin, and Walker.-Mr. R. Edwards, architect for the swimming baths, was also in attendant e.

While on his way home as a passenger in the late Ponsonby tramcar at an early hour on Sunday morning, Alfred Author, a tram collector, fell from the car and suffered head injuries. Author was removed to the Auckland Hospital and died later.

In the Palmerston N. Magistrate’s Court on Monday, Frank Dean, charged with keeping a common gaming house, was convicted and fined £IOO with costs 15/-. Joseph Daniel Carty, on a similar charge, was fined £SO, with costs 15/-.

At Levin on Saturday, the Foxton school team tied with Levin for the Hobson Shield in the schools championship. Each school team scored G3£ points. Foxton will hold the Shield for six months and Levin for six months. Detailed report crowded out of this issue.

At the Sydney Stadium on Saturday, Stoker Coekerill, of the warship H.M.S. ltenown, former bantam champion of the British Navy beat’ Jimmy Kelly, ex-bantam champion of Australia, in the twelfth round on a foul, a heavy right to the groin. The C. M. Ross Coy., wish to draw attention to the fact that this is Easter week. They hold stocks in all departments equal to the best city houses, and, taking quality ino consideration, the* prices charged are easily the lowest in the trade, not excluding the large centres. Do your Easter shopping where you can get the selection and the lowest prices.*

A Maori llax beater and a carved stretcher for weaving were unearthed twenty feet below the level of the street when workmen were recently engaged in excavations in New Plymouth, states the Taranaki “Daily News.” Both were well preserved, though they have probably been buried well over a century. The new building is on the site of the Pukc-ariki pa, which was vacated by the Maoris about 1830.

While working on the new road in Pandora at Spirits Bay, a Maori labourer, Mr. Henry Horn, found a very old native greenstone chisel. The cutting end is in excellent condition, but the other has been broken a little (says the “New Zeoland Herald’’). It is a curious fact that while pakeha visitors to Pandora this summer have spent hours with spades and forks searching for curios no one has been successfcl, and yet local natives are constantly finding odd articles. One indefatigable authority on New Zealand jade dug and delved for two days, and then gave up rather disgusted. One hour after he left the place a Maori woman, Whena, walked over his disturbed ground and picked up a line greenstone ear-drop.

At the inquest on George Welsby, veterinary surgeon, married, with two children, held at Kamo (Wjhangarei) on Saturday, the coroner, Mr. F. IT. Levin, S.M., found that deceased had died of a bullet would self-inflicted, while in a state of mental depression. Deceased, who was 49 years of age, had come from England four years ago, and was formally well-to-do. During the war he served in the Veterinary Corps of the French army and held the rank of Captain.

“You farmers may be poor as a resul of the system under which your farms are financed and your produce is marketed, but the trouble is, chaps, you are not d —d well poor enough!” declared Mr. 0. C. Wilkinson, Dominion lecturer, when delivering an address in Nelson recently on the Farmers’ Union movement’, reports the “Nelson Mail.” “If you got poorer you would think more!” he added, vehemently stressing the need for farmers to awaken and organise the rural industry.

A threc-seater sedan was seen travelling from Foxton towards Levin at a high rate of speed along the straight stretch of road about half a mile past the dangerous bend on Sunday morning last. Running on to some loose metal it skidded and, after vain attempts had been made to right, it, the car turned turtle and came to rest upside down in the middle of the road. A passing car travelling in the opposite direction was fortunately brought to a standstill a few feet away and a bad smash thus narrowly averted. The occupants of the overturned car were able, with some difficulty, to extricate themselves and were found to be absolutely unscathed. Sullicien! help arriving, the ear was slid on its hood to the edge of the road and was then assisted to topple over (lie batik so that it fell upright upon its wheels. One of those assisting volunteered to drive the car up the hank on to the road again. This was safely accomplished and the ear proceeded on its way under its "own power. The glass and hood were badly damaged. “Everybody smokes now —man, woman and child.” Thus said Mr. Barry Fain, the well-known London writer, in the last number of the “Windsor.” Yes, we all smoke — bar eranks. Why not”? The habit contributes more to the sum total of human happiness than any other. It soothes our sorrows and enhances our joys. Never mind what its enemies may say. The worst they can say is that the nicotine contained in tobacco may prove highly injurious. But that depends upon the tobacco. Imported brands it’s true, are often so. full of this poison that their free use may cause nerve and heart trouble. But what about our New' Zealand tobaccos? They differ in as far as their content of nicotine is quite negligible in comparison. And —note this —New Zealand tobaccos are toasted. They’re the only tobacco that are. Hence their delightful flavour and fragrance. And they’re so pure you may smoke them with absolute impunity. They don’t require rubbing and they don’t bite. the tongue. Even doctors recommend them. “Riverhead Gold” is mild, “Navy Cut" (Bulldog) medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) is full strength. Try them.* 05.