Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3644, 28 May 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Prizes will be awarded for the best fancy dress and most original dress worn by boy and girl at All Saints’ Children’s Ball. A novel outing was held at Auckland last week when 11 blind boys' camped for seven days on Waiheke Island.

“Stop sending servants out to my place,” said a Kemuera resident to the Auckland Star, over the telephone. As a result of advertising for a domestic servant 28 app'icants visited his house on one day, and over 100 rang hiiTi up on t lie telephone. The applicants included a number of typists and shopgirls, this being an indication that

work in certain avenues was scarce, or else that homely house duties were becoming more popular.

A recommendation that the insurance in operation which covers children when they meet with an accident owing to some defect in school buildings should 1m extended to include accidents arising from sports was made to the meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board by the Napier South school committee. Before making a decision (states the Telegraph) the board decided to approach the Education Department on the matter.

An alert Aucklander lias solved the unemployment problem in a novel manner (says the “Sun”). Unable to obtain work he decided to walk through New Zealand and write a book on bis travels at the end of the journey. lie refuses all motor rides, and earns money for food and lodging by the proceeds of dances which he organises and varies by vaudeville acts playing his own dance music and giving prizes for the best dancers.

A roar of laughter momentarily suspended the dignity of proceedings in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth recently, and even the presiding Judge could not refi’ain from, joining in. A witness was asked if he could produce the newspaper clipping of a certain trial to which he had been referring, says an exchange, and pulling a cutting from his pocket he handed it to Mr. Wteston, the Crown Prosecutor, who was cross-examining, saying that lie could not see without his spectacles. Taking the piece of paper and glancing at it, Mr. Weston smilingly said: “I’m sorry, but these are the Hawera acceptances,” and the Court broke into unrestrained laughter. Resolutions of condolence, particularly when they are passed at meetings of local bodies, are usually very stereotyped in form, although doubtlessly sincere. By way of contrast, says an exchange, the text of a resolution of condolence, passed by a gathering of Wanganui Maoris in connection with the death of a prominent Wanganui citizen during the last week, is given: “The door has opened for thee. Pass on, friend. Pass on to be with those noble ones of all races, the eternal brotherhood, who rest from their labours away in the Great Beyond, that mystery which we who remain may not yet penetrate. > We mourn thy passing. Wo will not forget thee, friend. Pass on! Pass cn! Farewell!”

Heavy rain fell throughout this district during the past two days. The local District High School has entered a team in the primary schools seven-a-side Rugby tournament for the Boon Cup, to be played at Palmerston on June 3rd.

Speaking to a “Wanganui Chronicle” reporter recently on the fireresisting properties of various woods, a farmer said that ordinary macrocarpa in the live state was exceedingly hard to destroy. He instanced the famous Raetihi bush tire of recent years, and stated that macrocarpa trees were still nourishing.

In view of the increasing danger to the public resulting from the sale of electric appliances by persons not responsible for their safety, it was decided by the Electrical Engineers’ Authority Supply Association at Wellington this week to urge the immediate provisions of an approval board for such appliances, believing that this course would he in the best interests of both supply authorities and the public.

“A man that will cut a corner would kill his own mother,” stated Mr. E. K. Hunt in dealing with a hv-law case in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland recently.* “That’s a terrible crime, you know,” the Magistrate told counsel who was appearing for a motorist who was charged. Defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs, his counsel having stated that it had cost him £lO to repair a damaged cvcle as the result of a collision.

Quite a new and anything hut humane method of driving stock was revealed by the inspector to the Tiinaru branch of the S.P.C.A. at the monthly meeting (states the “Herald”), recently; when he told members that lie had investigated the ease of a hull, which the owner had tied, through the ring on its nose, to the rear of a motor car, and pulled it along. The animal, said the inspector, was bleeding at the nose, and had been subjected to very cruel treatment. The owner had been interviewed, and he was sure a warning would suffice. Nicotine is very poisonous. Even in small quantities pure nicotine causes vomiting, purging and collapse, and when you consider that many imported tobaccos contain from 4 per cent, to 5 per cent, of nicotine it shows how careful you must lie in your choice. Smokers will be interested to learn that some of our New Zealand grown types hardly coiitain as much as 2 per cent, of' nicotine. Small wonder that the local article is so much milder and less harmful, but besides, as a result of the toasting process to which the tobacco is now subjected, the aroma has been greatly improved. The flavour is brought fully out, while at the same time, any deleterious elements which are contained in the leaf are destroyed. Smokers are unanimously in favour of the new departure and proclaim taosted tobacco superior to any other. Ob tainable in three strengths. “Riverhead Gold” very mild and aromatic. “Toasted Navy Cut” medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10,” the Bullhead label is recommended to those who prefer a full body.*