Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3648, 7 June 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

HALS. Dunedin is due ;•) leave Slieerncss un June 10th, for New Zealand, and will arrive at Auekland on July 31st.

The first post otiice in New Zealand was founded near Russell in 1810, wlien the rates were anything the postmaster eared to charge.

Lieut. Chamberlain has succeeded in Hying from New York to Germany. He was accompanied by Levine it mechanic.

According to the latest return of the Government Statistician, it now takes 32/41 on the average to purchase whqt could be purchased for 20/- in July, 1014.

At a contract price of £.1.0,808, 1 lie tender of Trevor Bros., has been accepted by the Public- Works Department for the erection of a now Arbitration Court building in Wellington. A uni(|iie cercmoiiv look place in the chapel room at Papavua Prison (Christchurch) on a recent evening, when four men undergoing sentences for various offences were confirmed by Bishop West-Watson. Nancy Hastings Carr, who stole £2OOO, while acting as. secretary to Drayton, James Ltd.!, drapers, was sentenced at the. Christchurch Supreme Court yesterday to a term of not less than two years reformative treatment.

A. member of -the Australian Workers’ Union recently purchased a combination penknife and bottle opener on which was a portrait of the Duke and Duchess of York and the following inscription: .“In commemoration of the opening of the Federal Parliament House, Canberra, by the Duke of York, 1927.” Upon opening the penknife he discovered the words. “Made in Germany.”

A meeting at Auckland last night, presided over by the Mayor, Mr Baildon, appointed a committee to go fully into the proposal to arrange for a flight across the Tasman Sea, for which it is intended to ask the Government’s support and make a public appeal for contributions. It was practically decided who the navigator would be, hutother proposals, such as the type of machine, were left for decision later.

Mr F. C. Hay, of Foxton. met with an accident while motoring on the Levin-Foxton road on Saturday evening. The car skidded on some loose metal, and capsized into a wash-out on the side of the road. Fortunately, Mr Hay was not injured,' but the car was more or less knocked about. The road at this spot is particularly dangerous, a wash-out having eaten into the roadway, the only indication of the danger to motorists being a few willow stakes.

Apparently there is one small boy in Thnaru who, if he does not make a success at his trade, can always take to the steeplejack’s occupation. The boy was seen oue morning- recently, to the utter amazement of some passers-by, to walk up to a large two-storey building, lay his bicycle in the gutter, and with as little cconern as stepping- on the footpath, commence to scale the building, using the water pipe as a medium. In a few moments he was at the top storey window gazing down upon the amazed passersby. Eleven years ago last Sunday, Field Marshal Earl Kitchener met his death through the mining off Scapa Flow of' li.M.S. Hampshire, in which, as Secretary of State for War, lie was proceeding to Russia. Wjit-h him, his staff, and nearly the whole ship’s company, were lost. Last July the people of Orkney dedicated a memorial tower erected on Marwick Head, “that corner of his country, which he served so faithfully, nearest to the place where he died on duty.” A fortnight earlier a national memorial on the Horseguards’ Parade was unveiled by the Prince of Wales.

The latest report of the cricket match New Zealand v. Oxford shows the scores to be: —New Zealand, Ist innings, 203; Oxford, 2nd innings, 2 wickets for 113.

For turning bis spotlight on to another motor driver, Walter Murray was fined 20/- and rosts in the Christchurch S.M. Court yesterday. He said he had done so because the other man did not dim his lights. The Magistrate, Mr. Mosley, said that personally he thought that dimming was dangerous. If defendant suffered from the strong lights he should have stopped.

A' tragedy was enacted on the Auckland Harbour on Sunday before the eyes of passengers on two ferry steamers, when a dinghy, containing three men, was caught by a sudden squall and overturned, and one of the men, William James Harradine, aged 21 years, who was unable to swim, was drowned. The other occupants of the craft, who were saved were Charles Cleary and .James McDonald. All wore from the Homeland.

A recent. Gazette notice declared all land within a radius of five miles of the Palmerston North Post Office a tire-blight area under the Act. That means that all hawthorn (which is recognised as.a host for the disease) growing in that area,'has to be completely eradicated in order to protect orchards from the ravages of the blight. During the past few days departmental inspectors have been locating the hawthorn and owners on whose property it is growing have been given until June 3(1 to get rid of the trees.

A remarkable story was told in the Police Court at Waihi when Henry Wiles, known as the “Owhn!on Hermit,” was charged with being an incorrigible rogue and a vagabond. Senior-Sergeant McLean .-.aid that Wiles had lived on raw turnips and pumpkins stolen from un adjacent garden. He was the filthiest man who had ever appeared in the Waihi Police Court, and badly needed a complete “cleanup.” His extraordinary conduct of late bad developed to such an extent that children were afraid to go to school. Wiles was sent to Mount Eden for six months.

The Aquitania, pride of the Canard fleet, sailed last month on her first voyage after her annual overhaul. For nine weeks 3000 men have been engaged in making “The Ship Beautiful,” as she is known to the seafaring world, even more attractive. Some-of the state rooms and suites are decorated with beautifully polished and painted mahogany dadoes, the walls being covered with silk fabric in varying shades, from sombre grey to a gay crimson. Three miles of carpet, 2000 yards of silk damask for wall coverings, and 2000 gallons ol paint and enamel were used.

An indication of the terrible power of electricity was given at Cairnbrae recently (says the Ashburton Guardian), when, at the height of the wind a tree fell near Rond’s sawmill, bringing down a high tension wire to within two feet of the ground. A group of men from the mill approached the wire to investigate the damage. With them went a dog, which, in an attempt to leap over the hanging wive, came in contact with it. Instantly it was reduced to a withered shapeless mass as big as a man’s fist. This incident shows how careful people should be not to come in contact with wires that might lie brought to the ground.

A prophet, they say, has no honour in his own country, and it has been too much the policy of New Zealanders in the past to pass over the product of their country in favour of the imported goods, which, in many cases tire actually inferior to the New Zealand article. Take tobacco for example. Most American tobaccos are objectionable on the score of excess nicotine, and defective combustibility, leading to the clogging of the pipe, with unpleasant, and indeed injurious, consequences to the smoker, fry “Riverhead Gold” mild and aromatic, or “Toasted Nay Cut” (Bulldog) of medium strength, and if you prefer a full body, try “Cut Plug No. 10,” the (BuHshenti) label. Their purity, flavour, aroma and all round excellence will surprise you. Unlike most brands from oversea this particular type of tobacco does not foul the pipe and leaves the mouth sweet and clean. Experts maintain that of all varieties known N.Z. Ipaf is the least injurious on account of its small percentage of nicotine and that it may be smoked continuously without the slightest after effects.