Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3655, 21 June 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thi’ receipts from n benefit performance staged by Whaugarei

amateur entertainers exceeded £IOO, which will be devoted to the alleviation of unemployed distress.

In all, the Governmon 1 received a sum of £530,040 from the. Bank of New Zealand during the year ended March 31, 1927.

A human skull found on Ohawc beach near Hnwera is believed to be that of Thomas Pennington who was drowned at Greeinneadows beach, near Opunake, in .January.

The ancient order of Froth Blowers has extended its ramifications to Dargaville and the Druids were fortunate in having a member who ranks ns a Past Grand Tornado at their social function the other evening (says the Advocate). While playing on the old tennis courts on Sunday, the eleven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Martin, of Clyde Street, collided with a playmate and fell against a seat, sustaining an injury to! his jaw, which necessitated his removal to the hospital for examination and treatment.

A blue Chevrolet coach, belonging to Mr. E. C. Brown was removed from its parking place in George Street, Palmerston North on Saturday evening. The missing ear was found near Bang-iota on Sunday night. It was undamaged, but had been divested of its spare wheel tools and other moveable appliances.

“ 1 think quite a lot of us would be better off without motor ears,” said the Prime Minister at Kuawai. “Some people seem to think that a motor ear is an essential to a farmer, but 1 ean suggest many things which are more urgent, especially while there are other people ready to provide transportation.” The latest aspirant for transAtlantic Hying honours is Mrs. Luba Phillips, an American of Russian birth, who during July will possibly fly alone from Newfoundland to London, or may be accompanied by a navigator, in which event she will endeavour to make a record nonstop flight from New York to Rome or beyond. She flew Anthony Fokker's first 'plane, and in 1912 established a women’s altitude record. She carried lied Cross supplies by aeroplane to the Russian army during the war.

It was extraordinary indeed that a young man suffering from a physical disability, requiring the use of crutches, should walk from Sponge Bay to Tuamotu Island, losing his crutches on the way (states the Poverty Bay Herald). The island is accessible at low tide, and it appears that the jmung man crossed the sands. Advice was received by the police one night recently from a Maori resident that something unusual had happened, and two constables set out in search. When they reached the island they found a young man sitting on a flaxbush, soaked to the skin. He was carried to the mainland and returned to his home about 3 a.m.

The “Florida Publisher” sizes up the necessary attributes and qualifications of the publisher of a newspaper as follows: —“To run a newspaper all a fellow has: to do is to be able to write poems, discuss tariff and money questions, umpire a baseball game, report a wedding, saw wood, describe a fire so that readers will shed their wraps, make £1 do the work of £lO, shine at a dance, measure calico, abuse the liquor habit, test whisky, subscribe to charity, go without meals, attack free silver, wear diamonds, invent advertisements, sneer at snobbery, overlook scandal, appraise babies, delight potato-raisers, minister to the afflicted, heal the disgruntled, fight to a finish, set type, mould public opinion, sweep out the office, speak at a prayer meeting, and stand in with everybody and everything.”

H.M.S. Dunedin, now on the high seas returning to New Zealand, carries seven new officers and 160 ratings. Her ports of call are: Bermuda, June 20; .Jamaica, June 26; Colon, July 2; Marquesas, July 16; Tahiti, July 20; and Auckland, August 1. It is somewhat unusual for three young men from the same town to be occupying beds side by side in the same hospital all suffering from leg injuries. Yet this is the ease of Ernie Graham, Gordon Perreau and Inn Ross, who are at present inmates of the Palmerston Hospital. The first two met with serious injuries owing to a motor cycle they were riding colliding with a motor ear about a fortnight ago. Mr. lan Ross was admitted to the institution on Saturday. The young men are cheerful and while away their time in telling how*football matches should be won and reminiscences of school life, otc. For the weary brain-worker there are worse ways of spending a welcome “night off” than by the fireside, with pipe and book for company. But the tobacco for such occasions should be a brand that can be smoked with enjoyment for three or four hours at a stretch without burning the tongue or other unpleasant consequences; where is such tobacco to be found? Why right here in New Zealand. And it owes its excellence, to two things, principally. Firstly, it contains only a minimum amount of nicotine, and secondly it is toasted in the process of manufacture. That’s why the flavour is so good. In these two important respects it differs altogether from the imported brands which often contain as much as five or six per cent, of nicotine, and are not toasted. For purity, delicacy, flavour, aroma, and v. holesomenoss. New Zealand tobaccos ore unrivalled. If you like a mild aromatic smoke try “Riverhead Gold," if you prefer a medium strength there is “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), and it you are accustomed to a full-flavoured brand ask for “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead).