Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3642, 24 May 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The ambulance removed two cases of scarlet fever to the Palmerston North Hospital yesterday.

The Milton Borough Council (South Island) has a chemist and doctor on its cemetery committee. Flock House at Bulls now shelters 75 trainees, the number being augmented by the arrival of 31 lads during last week.

The Canadian Soccer team arrived in Auckland yesterday from Vancouver. They left for New Plymouth last night.

At the. local Police Court < this morning, before Mr ,J. Iv. Hornblow. J.P., two (irst-olt'ending inebriates, arrested last night, were convicted and discharged.

“It costs more to bring timbei from Ohakune on the North Islam; Main Trunk to Wellington than i: docs to bring it from Sweden o; America to Wellington,” said Mill. E. Holland, at New Plymouth recently.

New Zealand flre-brigadesmei; were equal to any of the Old World said Inspector Hugo, when speak ing at a smoke concert at Petonc and the brigades were better equip ped than brigades in similar town nnvwhcre in the world.

Some level crossings in New Zea land cost as much as £16,000 li eliminate, and the average cost oi elimination is £SOOO. There an 3000 public level crossings in NevZealand, of which 300 are on main highways.

“Many people in the country arc running motor ears at the present time who cannot afford to do so," said a member at the last meeting of No. 16 District Highway Council, and he added that he knew' of one case of a young man wli > had to draw his wages six months in advance to pay the second instalment on his car.

At the Eltliam Magistrate's Court this week before Mr. R. V;. Tate, S.M., John Douglas Borrie, charged James Nairn, headmaster of the Manaia State School, with assault consisting of excessively chastising his son, Malcolm Borne, with a strap, on the 4th May, 1927. After hearing evidence the information was dismissed with costs to the defendant, £4 4s, and court fees to he determined. The dread of the number thirteen is a very old one. . It goes hack long before the days of the Last Supper, though its accidental connection with that event gave it a renewed lease of life. Probably it had its origin in primitive man's arithmetical limitations. Twelve was the limit of his counting. Thirteen was a vague number. It belonged to tho unknown, consequently was always feared. The mathematical uncertainty has gone, hut the old dread persists. and causes much needless fear and pain. A claim for the value of a pair of woman’s shoes, which it was stated had been ruined by tar laid on a footpath, was received by the Mount Albert Borough Council, Auckland, recently. “Just to test the feeling of the meeting, I’ll move that half the value of the shoes be paid," said Mr. It. Allingliam. “1 think that’s absurd,” protested Mr. Russell. “It is asking us to pay for an act of God. We laid the tar, hut God sent the rain which washed the sand oil’ it.” The motion was lost by a large majority. In the opinion of a district farmer the motor ear has been a mixed blessing to the mail on the land, and in bis opinion lessened production. Our informant says that when the “cookie” had to depend upon liis horse for visits to stock sales, etc., he went strictly on business. “Now,” he said, “he visits sales for miles around as a kind of social outing and whiles away his time with his thumbs stuck in his waistcoat, talking of the ominous clouds ahead, when his time could be better employed in helping on the farm.”

Captain Charles Lindbergh reached Paris on Saturday after a non-stop solo flight from New York. He is the first. airman to attempt crossing the North Atlantic alone by air. He accomplished the daring feat on a monoplane, which left New York at t. 45 on Friday morning and arrived at Paris at 10.22 last night. “Gee! boys I’m here,” was Lindbergh’s greeting when lie thrust his head out of the cockpit. The exclamation followed a momentary doubt —“Say, is this Paris? I’m Lindbergh.” When he was assured that he had reached his destination lie simply replied, “Good.” Then he was lifted by a couple of stalwart French airmen into a sea of outstretched arms and clutching hands, and borne to the hangar.

I’ll sing you no song of deep desolation, Or tell you the way to blow up a nation; If you’re happy you’re healthy, If you’re healthy, you’re wealthy, Don’t suffer a chill or a cold, I abjure, But take instantly, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —19.

High School B hockey team have forfeited to Foxton, owing to not being able to travel to-morrow. The rosella, a grav-plumaged parrot and native of Australia, has spread amazingly on the Waitakere ranges, Auckland, and is now often seen by visitors flitting from one high tree to another.

It was originally estimated that the estate of the late David M'Nair Dingwall of Auckland, would 'he worth £IOO,OOO, hut tho will lias been lodged for probate at £245,000. After providing for a life interest for an aged sister, practically the whole of the estate goes to found the Dingwall Presbyterian Orphanage.

“Some of our retailers are even forgetting to advertise, and are grumbling and growling that their business is falling off. These men should realise that they are up against it,” said a Christchurch business man, “and should use a little push. In our line we find that our figures are heating last year’s, and we-advertise.”

A contract has been let by the Government Publicity Office to Mr. A. A. P. Mackenzie, of Wellington, for the execution of its cinematograph work. Ovfcr an acre of land lias been acquired at Miramar, where a brick and concrete laboratory building, comprising some 21 rooms, and a large studio, arc to he built. It is hoped that: the building will he ready for occupation towards the end of this year. It will be right up to date in equipment.

On his return from a holiday trip to Sydney, Mr. F. W. Burley, of Hamilton, found two letters awaiting him. One was from tjie British Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, expressing appreciation of Mr. Burley’s gift of *£soo to the Mansion House Relief Fund for the relief of persons bereaved in the two recent British mine disasters. The other letter was from the Commissioner of Taxes, enclosing a draft for £lO3, representing overpaid income tax. The never-ending struggle of the farmer to eradicate the blackberry has prompted three progressive Morere residents to experiment with Angora goats, and about 112 have been brought into the district. Sotar each of the settlers gives a good account of the way the goats are tackling the blackberry (says tho Poverty Bay Herald), and the experiment is being watched with keen interest.

New Zealand has never been so much in the limelight as during this Royal tour (writes a London correspondent). The reporting has been done very well, and we have had some very interesting little stories, such as that curious one about the woman who removed from the Hamilton war memorial the bouquet of flowers placed there by the Duchess. That read very strangely here, where the loveliest (lowers are heaped around the Cenotaph.

There is quite a good demand for dairy farms in Taranaki this year, for prospective purchasers will not entertain anything that will not show a gool margin with but-ter-fat at 1/3 a pound. Owners of land seem to think the boom is still in existence judging by the prices asked for farm properties, says the Taranaki News. It is difficult, said an agent, to sell dairy farms now unless at or below prices ruling before the war. This is a fact that was being proved every day. The following is vouched for by a resident of Rangitikei (says an exchange) : On a recent Friday morning a cat was given to a lorry driver who conveyed it in a_ closed hencoop from Onehupi to Feilding. The cat was kept in the hencoop and fed on Tuesday morning at 4 o’clock. At a quarter to six the same morning the cat was back at its old home.. The distance by road is about 50 miles, with a river to cross, and as the eat- was dry when it arrived home, it evidently crossed the bridge.

.Joseph S. Lucas, aged 7(5, was found dead in bed by his daughter at Hatailai, Wellington, on Sunday, with his wife, Alice A. Lucas, aged 60, in a state of collapse, suffering from the effects of gas poisoning. It is understood that when the elderly couple, who were deeply attached to each other, returned home on Saturday night, the tap of a gas stove in the kitchen was accidentally left turned on, and they were overpowered by the fumes early on Sunday morning. There is no suggestion of suicide.

Pipe —cigar—cigarette. What is the least injurious form of smoking? Doctors mostly recommend the pipe. Fact is it ail 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 you 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-indulge. 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. Try “Riverhead Gold” mild aromatic. “Toasted Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10" (Bullshead) full flavoured." 70 -

A queen carnival, held in Pahiatun in aid of the Catholic presbytery fund realised over £l,lOO. The carnival lasted four weeks. At the Palmerston S.M. Court \ esterday two youths, charged with shooting grey duck without a license, were each fined £5 and costs.