Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3643, 26 May 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pheasants in the Taranaki dis trict are now almost a rarity.

Papatoetoe, with a town area <-t‘ two square miles and a populatio i of 1,600, hos already six public re - serves, comprising 2Gi acres.

Wanganui County Council con templates adopting a by-law com polling dogs to be kept under con trol.

At the Dunedin Supreme Court on Tuesday, Miss Lilian Maud Wil - liams, of Kaitangata, was awarded £IOO damages from Jack Stanaway, a shepherd, of Oainaru, for breach of promise of marriage.

A special meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board will be held to-day for the purpose of appointing a medical superintendent. Applications for the position have been received from medical men in New Zealand and Australia.

When tests have been completed it will be^possible for Christchurch and Wanganui folk to communicate with each other by telephone. The new station at Seddon has been completed, and the testing of the service will be carried out probably this week.-

“Watching growth of gorse and blackberry, fungus and other bac-

terial growths, also benefits derived from rabbits, floods, hailstorms, droughts and other blessings,” was the illuminating reply of one farmer to the question, “What is your occupation?” in the last census paper.

I wonder (writes “The Watcher" to “The Post”) how many persons in Australia or New Zealand, know just where the magic letters “Anztus” were first used to indicate a band of soldiers bearing British arms? Millions will say at Gallipoli, but they are wrong, for fifteen years before then the letters were used in South Africa. The writer was the man that branded the first kit bag, about twenty miles from the town Mafeking, when Major Anderson took charge of the Australian and New Zealanl Army Contingents, near Ottoskoop, in the Transva_al. The words were abbreviated as follows: “Anzac” on our kit bags. We were under Lord Methuen at the time. Our next colonel was Colonel Von Donnop, and strange to say, with such a name, he was a Scotchman.. He is now a major-general.”

For a wager, two men at Brighton, England, recently matched themselves, one against the other, to see which could smoke the most tobacco in a given time . The contest lasted for hours. The tobacco was American of medium strength. The winner smoked two and a quarter ounces. He looked as if he had had more than enough when he put his pipe down. The loser was giing strong when he collopsed. Heart. Fact is most of these American tobaccos are full of “juice” (Nicotine) and nicotine in excess plays the dickens with heart and nerves. No tobacco is absolutely free from it, but our New Zealand grown brands contain so little that they are practically harmless. They can be smoked freely without causing any trouble. Even the doctors recommend them. Cool, sweet, and fragrant they appeal to all smokers. Try them. If you like a soothing mild aromatic ask for “Riverhcad Gold” or if you prefer something stronger, get some “Navy Cut’-’ medium or “Cut Plug No. 10” full flavoured.* 71.

The first post office in New Zealand was founded near Russell in 1840, when the rates were anything the postmaster cared to charge.

The Canadian soccer team opened its Dominion tour by defeating Taranaki in a brilliant- exhibition of the code by ten goals to one at New Plymouth yesterday. The game was played in fine weather before a crowd of about 4000.

Counsel for defendant in an Auckland case asked the Magistrate to suppress accused’s name in view of his previous good character. The Magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt: “See if y-ou can square the Press. I am not suppressing the name.” Mr Inder: “I know the Press are beyond squaring, sir.”

“Do you own a motor car?” asked Mr. J. B. Callan of a witness who was giving evidence before the Transport Appeal Board. Witness (proudly): “Yes, I do. I own five of them. No, beg your Honour’s pardon, I have only four now, as I gave one of them away for nothing last week.”

At the annual meeting of the Tonsin, Garlick Company, {furnilture manufacturers, of Auckland, the price of which its property in Queen street was sold to John Fuller and Sons, who intend erecting a theatre on the site was announced as £75,000, which works out at about £ll2B per foot frontage.

It was mentioned at the meeting of the Horowhenua Rugby District Council management committee this week by Mr. J. J. O’Connor (president), that Auckland had been granted a "privilege which was the only one of its kind sanctioned in the world by the English Rugby Union —namely, the right to play games in four spells of 20 minutes each.

Speaking at Dannevirke yesterday, the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Public. Health, said it was fortunate that the call for economy came at a time when New Zealand could point to the fact that it had more hospitals in relation to its population than any other country. There was therefore no hardship in a halt being called as regards further capital works throughout the Dominion. New Zealand had got all the hospitals now required and had as big a burden as it could be expected to carry.

As the result of a collision on the Hutt road on Tuesday between a stolen Essex car and a service car, the driver of the service car, Mr. Kenny, was killed and several of the occupants injured. Ernest George Reid and Harry Stacey, the occupants of the Essex car, were injured and sent to the Wellington Hospital and were yesterday charged at Wellington with unlawfully converting the car to their use. They could not appear and a remand was granted for a week.

An amusing story is told of a discovery made by a canvasser for the Poverty Bay Power Board. The people of a house at which he was calling were unaware that he was a representative of the board, and on seeing a cord running from the light socket in one room through a hole in the wall to the adjoining room, he asked what it was for. “Oh, that's a little scheme to beat the Power Board,” was the reply. The canvasser then informed the househilder that he was representingrille boord, and asked to see “the little scheme.” On going into the next room he found there a heating unit attached by the cord to the light socket in the next room. Thus the householder was paying 7d a unit for heating, whereas if he had had a plug installed it would have cost him only 3d. This kind of “beating” would no doubt be welcomed by the board.