Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3639, 17 May 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A party of seven guns, during 32 lays’ stalking at the head of Lake Ohau, shot over 200 deer.

The owners of- a number of dogs which died from some epidemic al Mreytown have applied to the Town Clerk for a refund of the registra- • ion fees.

The Gre.vtown Borough Council refused to accept an offer for the 'ease of its municipal picture enterprise from the owner of a private opposition picture venture. The Te Kuiti Amateur Operatic Society has 240 honorary and 50 active members. Out of last year’s earnings it was able to vote £SO to the Te Kuiti Hospital. At the local Police Court yesterday morning, Charles Andersen, ( barged with drunkenness', second offence, was convicted and fined 3 0s by Mr. J. K. Hornblow, J.P. The annual meeting of members of the Fox toil Horticultural Society will be held in Ross’s Thursday evening next at 7.30 o'clock. A full attendance of members is requested. There was a good attendance at the dance held in the Masonic Hall ->n Saturday night, under the auspices of the Oddfellows’ social committee, and a most enjoyable time was spent.

At a birthday party held at Papatoetoe there were three ladies whose ages aggregated 269 years. The eldest was 91, another was 90, and the junior member of-the party was 88. One of the ladies has been at Papatoetoe for 83 years. . The Mayor of a Wairarapa town informed a deputation which waited upon the Council that the Council would agree to its request. When the matter was subsequently discussed by the Council the Mayor was politely reprimanded forhis unauthorised impulsiveness. The death took place at Maugalainoka on Sunday of Mr. Albert Rose, fourth son of Mr J. B. Rose, of Mangatainoka, and brother of Mrs. W. D. Bauekham, of Foxton. Deceased was married about six months ago and much sympathy is felt for the widow and relatives.

A car-load of local Masons journeyed to Shannon last evening to participate in the installation ceremony of Lodge Mangahao. They had an unenviable experience in crossing the Manawatu River in the punt. A howling southerly was blowing tit the time, which caused the punt to rock violently and sent the spray right over the top of the ear.

The biggest lire that has occurred at Lyttelton since the New Zealand Shipping Coy’s, wool store was destroyed; 14 years ago, broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning, when a block of boat sheds on the waterfront, adjoining the docks and owned by Messrs J. Miller, Ltd., and A. C. Whitford, both shipwrights, was completely destroyed, with a large boat slip owned by the Harbour Board. The Minister of Education (the Hon. R. A. Wright) has no intention of making swimming a compulsory school subject. Speaking to teachers, he said that where swimming facilities were lacking there was no use in making the subject compulsory; where facilities existed there was no need for compulsion. Twenty-four per cent, of the children attending primary schools were able to swim.

While sowing grass seed on D’Urville island recently, the sons of Mr. F. Wells observed a cave on a rocky ridge, writes a Nelson correspondent. On entering it they were amazed to discover an almost complete skeleton of a moa. They carefully collected the bones and carried them home. The neck bones when joined up measured seven feet and it is estimated that the total height of the moa was about 11 feet. The cave is situated almost directly opposite the French Pass, and less than a mile from the beach.

The body of Alfred Noakes was recovered from the Dobson mine yesterday morning.. It is expected that the body of Marshall, the remaining victim, will also be recovered.

There was an exceptionally heavyhailstorm at Woodville yesterday. Hailstones as large as marbles lay on the ground, which was white for a few .moments. A slight earthquake was experienced about 3.30 a.m.

A successful and experienced dairy farmer near New Plymouth, with a herd of 40 tested cows, estimates that he. will be £2OO short in his returns this year as a result of the alteration in the system of marketing Labour’s new land policy came in' for some criticism at the hands of the Prime Minister in his speech at Dargaville last night. Mr Coates described it as the work of “amateur craftsmen,” and held that the new policy smelt of opportunism and vote-collecting. A remarkable escape from death was experienced by John Charles Drafttn, foreman of works for the Auckland City Council at Nihohipu Dam. Draffin fell 45 feet over the dam on to the concrete below. As far as is known lie escaped with broken ribs.

The police search of the Arcos building, the headquarters in London of the Russian Trade Delegation, is being continued, and although the missing State documents have not been traced, the authorities consider the raid amply justified by the discovery of secret strong rooms and abundant evidence proving the existence of a vast Soviet organisation of a violent anti-British character.

After spending three months in Napier Hospital as the result of injuries received when a car he had appropriated capsized, Robert John May was arrested and charged with the offence in the Magistrate's Court at Napier yesterday. The Magistrate said that he would take into consideration the fact that accused had been in hospital so long, and inflicted a sentence of one month’s hard labour. Another man who was with the accused at the time has so far avoided arrest.

“She’s too handy with her pen when she gets near a cheque-book,” observed Mr. Hunt, S.M., in the Auckland Police Court, when told that Ivy Hazel Kite, who stood in dock awaiting sentence on eight charges of theft and false pretences had had 14 previous convictions. It was stated accused, who is 35, had stolen a cheque-book and some forms, and gone around the various small tradesmen in Onehunga and obtained groceries and money totalling £22 2s 6d. “Two months’ imprisonment,” said the Magistrate.

“We won’t put up with that sort of thing in this country,” said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court- when sentencing Edward John McKay, a steward on the steamer Arawa, to six months’ imprisonment for theft. McKay, besides stealing two overcoats from immigrant passengers, gave the police a lot of trouble at the time of his arrest, breaking away from the wharf police station when a sudden chance presented itself, and later when Detective McHugh sighted him in the street, putting up a violent struggle before being overpowered.

A bride on her way to her wedding at St. Paul’s Church, Papauui, received an unpleasant shock when the taxi in which she was travelling with her mother and a bridesmaid was involved in a collision with a motor cycle. The cyclist was thrown on to the road, but fortunately he did not suffer serious injury. The bride was greatly distressed by the mishap, and was forced to return to her mother’s home. It was nearly half an hour before she again took the road for the church.

“I have been approached many times lately by people who say that their rents are being put up to such an extravagant extent that they cannot pay them,” said the Mayor of Chistchurch, the Rev. J. K. Archer, no Tuesday (reports the Lyttel ton Times). The Mayor added that there seemed'to be an impression that the Rent Restriction Act was no longer in force, but it was still in force. He had advised those people who complained that their rents had been raised to an unnecessary extent to refuse to 'pay the increases, and to let their landlords take them to Court. The Magistrate still had the power to make an order under the Act.

London doctors arc once more debating the question, “Is smoking injurious ” The well-worn controversy is being fought out afresh in a great London Daily, and opinions differ—as usual. Meantime the man in the street of course continues to puff his cares away and pursue the even tenor of his way. l'aet is, it’s all a question of nicotine. Given ’baccy comparatively free from the poison and instead of its pro\iug harmful it will be found beneficial. “Where is such tobacco to be obtained?” You may ask. Why, right here in N.Z.! Our Dominiingrown “weed ’ is as free from nicotine as tobacco can possibly be. That’s where it differs from the imported, which contains a big percentage of nicotine. And that s why N.Z. tobacco can be indulged in ad. lib. without fear of consequences. These N.Z. brands aie of alluring flavour, and delightful fragrance. Moderately priced, too. Ask for “Biverhead Gold” mild aromatic, “Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) full flavour.—67.

Four Chinese were fined at the Wanganui Magistate’s Court yesterday for gardening on Anzac Day. The following resolution was carried, amidst a scene of great enthusiasm at the conclusion of the Prime Minister’s address at Dargaville, last night:—“That this meeting thanks the Prime Minister for his able and statesmanlike address, and expresses confidence in the Government of which he is the distinguished leader, and renewed confidence in him as member for Kaipara.” A deputation waited upon the Palmerston Borough Council last evening objecting to the erection of racing staple at West End, and presenting a petition signed by 45 ratepayers, asking that the permit (o erect these buildings be refused. It was suggested that the erection of the stables would reduce the value of adjacent properties, create a fly nuisance, and be detrimental to health and morals. After hearing the deputation and discussing the position, it was decided to refuse the permit as requested.

The Djominion has faced periods of depression in the past, and the energy and industry of her people have always enabled her to win through, said the Prime Minister at Dargaville last night. The present difficult times will prove ho exception to the rule' Already the silver lining to the cloud is making itself slowly", but surely", visible. At such times when people are feeling the pinch there is, I know, a tendency to blame the Government which happened to be in office. I would, however, ask them to have patience and employ their industry and effort as I have already pointed out, to the really useful purpose of greater production. A little quiet stocktaking on the part of all our people will do no harm. Indeed, it will be all to the good, for by the exercise of greater thrift and economy we shall reach the goal of prosperity the sooner.