Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3631, 28 April 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

James Reginald Purdie, aged 24, was sentenced at Auckland to three months’ imprisonment for converting another person’s car to his own use.

Charles Howard Chamberlain, the fourth of the alleged bookmakers arrested at Auckland on Saturday, pleaded guilty and was fined £75, the alternative being three months in gaol. The fine was paid.

A concert and dance is to be held in the Moutoa Hall to-morrow night. The concert programme is to be provided by Foxton’performers. A good attendance is anticipated.

The bodies of two of the Dobson mine explosion victims, believed to be Ernest Brammer and Edward Partington, were found on Tuesday by a rescue party, in/a coal dip in the low level, where the water has now been lowered.

Counsel iri a claim case heard in the Magistrate’s Court'at'Tc RSiiti recently stated that there were two women land agents in Te Ivuiti. He did hot know of any other town in New Zealand which had two women members in that particular profession.

Coincidence surely in the strangest form was present in the figures supplied the directors of the Taranaki Poducers’ Freezing . Works. Exactly the same number of crates of cheese was received at Moturoa works between March , 12th and April 9th, 1920, and . Mafeh 12th and April 9th, 1927. The-figure w as 20,322. fl'/f-

A young woman named Olwyn Davies was found on Saturday night beneath a balcony at the Carlton hotel, Dunedin, severely injured. She was admitted to the hospital, where she was found to be suffering from a compound fracture ol a leg and injuries to the back. She was a guest at the hotel. It is believed that she has relatives in Nelson.

Speaking at Marton on .Tuesday the Hon. Mr. Nosworthy announced that the Post and Telegraph Department had just concluded the best year since its inception. The total receipts of the Department were £3,220,066, and the payments were £2,346,270, the surplus being £874,396. During the past two years the revenue has increased by £320,000 and the expenditure lm-s decreased by £70,000.

Tennis balls are looked upon as “fair game” at most tournaments, but by employing two smalll-boys on a systematic round-up of the balls sent into momentarily inaccessible places, St. John’s Club at Its Easter tournament reduced its loss from eight dozen balls last year to one dozen and five this year. Probably a tournament held ‘in the Hawke’s Bay province last year holds pride of place, with a loss of 26 dozen. ■

On her last trip from Wellington to Sydney, the Makura ran into the third whale to come into collision with a mail boat during recent months, the Maungnnui already having hit two. The whale, ot the hump-back variety, appeared alongside the vessel a few minutes before 9 o’clock in the morning of the second day out and, as the vessel was running at full speed at the time, was practically cut in two by the starboard propeller.

The sudden death occurred on Monday of John William V. Olaridge, aged 55, an old resident of Richmond (Nelson), in unusual circumstances. Deceased was in his motor-launch oft Saxon’s • Island when he must have had a seizure. The launch was seen from the shore steering an erratic course and eventually ran aground on a mudbank with the engine still running. Thosfe attracted by the launch’s movement found' Claridge dead. A verdict was returned at the inqtiest of death from heart failure.

An s.o.s. service car, carrying eight passengers, which passed through Foxton on Tuesday morning en route for Wellington, skidded while endeavouring to avoid a collision with a lorry and another car, on a bad .bend between Tawa Flat and Johnsonville and toppled over a 40 foot bank, turning over several times on the way. Apart from the driver, who suffered shock, only two other persons were injured. Miss Eileen Wilkie (aged 21), of Wanganui, who is now in tile Wellington Hospital suffering from a fractured arm and Mr. E. A. Rodgers, of Wellington, whose back was extensively bruised, was taken to Wellington and is expected to be confined to his bed for a week.

Some farmers in the Tauranga district do not “put all their eggs in the one basket,” and one settler appears to have got truly remarkable returns. Of a 00-acre farm he uses about 20 acres for intensive agriculture. That the enterprise returns him good money is evidenced by the fact that last year he secured £3OO for his maize crop, £l5O for kumeras, and £3OO for water' melons. Added to this was £llO for eggs from his white leghorn fowls, while many other side lines such as a heavy crop of tree toma - toes, lamons, apples, etc., must have brought his returns to something like £IOOO.

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At the motor-cycle races at Christchurch on Saturday, H. Mangham, riding a 7-9 Harley - Davidson, broke the previous bench record of 98 miles per hour by doing just over 110 miles per hour in a flying mile. A raid on the electric bulbs which illuminate the shop fronts of Oxford Street, Levin, was carried out one night last week and with such success that the only lamps remaining the following morning were those which were contained within large opal shades or were provided with screw-in plugs. The whole of the left side of the street in the business area was successfully combed for bulbs on Sunday night, and the other side was similarly dealt with on Monday night. It appears that the raid could have been carried out by one man standing on another’s shoulders,, but what benefit they could derive from it is not so apparent, and the affair looks like ii futile ■ and rather laborious jest. Police investigations are being made into the matter. A similar thing occurred in Otaki some weeks ago.

Pipe —cigar—cigarette. Which is the least injurious form of smoking? Doctors mostly recommend the pipe. Fact is it all depends on the tobacco. The imported brands, are generally so loaded with nicotine that their habitual use is sure to cause trouble, sooner or later. The sight may suffer, you may get heart-palpitation, or you may become “a bundle of nerves.” If you have any (or all) of these symptoms, change your ’baccy. Try our New Zealand brands. They are delightful smoking; pure, sweet, fragrant and cool. Also they contain so little nicotine that they can’t hurt you, even if you over-indulgc. Their excellence is partly attributable to the fact that the leaf is .toasted. Quite a modern notion. Toasting develops the flavour, just as toasting (or roasting) develops the flavour and aroma of coffee or cocoa-beans. The constantly-in-creasing demand for these brands (which command an enormous sale) is their best advertisement, li y “Riverhead Gold” mild aromatic. “Toasted- Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) full flavoured.*