Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3660, 2 July 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The gate takings at the recent Bebbington Shield football match, played' at Levin on Wednesday; totalled about .€SO.

Several local Masons paid a visit to a Wellington Masonic Lodge this week and took part iii the Lodge ceremonies.

The sort of a husband the modern woman wants is a big, husky, strong intellectual, inflexible man whom she can wrap around her linger.

The monthly meeting of the local Plunket Society, to have been held on Mondoy afternoon, has been postponed until the third Monday of this month. j

Mr W. H. Field (Otaki) has given notice to ask the Minister) of Health whether the time had pot arrived for an investigation to; : be made of the increasing hospital costs in the Dominion. f

It is only nine years ago thatjhc total revenue of Palmerston Nqjrfli borough was £93,021 Is 7d., hut so great has been the development since then that for the ensuing year the estimated public revenue is Am less than £200,696. v

A Wanganui business "man who recently underwent an operation made a very quick recovery from the effects of the anaesthetic. Two and a-half hours after his operation for appendicitis he was smoking a cigarette, enjoying a 'cup rot! tea and reading the “Chronicle.”. “A large number of New Zealand fanners are like the British Army," said Mr F. W. Johnston, at a meeting of creditors at Christchurch. “They find themselves in a hole, but fight on and win through. It is a good thing for the country that the farmers do not know' when they are insolvent.’’

“I hope that this council will take the bull by the horns,” exclaimed the Mayor of Christchurch (Rev. J. K. Archer) one. evening last week in urging upon the City Council the necessity of a municipal nfilk supply. A roar of laughter greeted this effort, which followed the Mayor's assertion that he had spent his boyhood days on a farm. ; Answering a deputation which presented a petition signed by 207(0 women electors, the Minister of Health, the Hon. J. A. Young, at Hamilton, declared his opposition to the State Control issue remaining on the licensing poll ballot paper. He also did not favour preferential voting and said he was pledged tfl oppose any extension of the time between the polls. , I

“People pay extra for a front seat in a theatre but they would pay double for a back seat in a church,” said Rev. W. J. Oxbrow (chairman of the Taranaki-Wanga-nui Methodist District) in . the course of an address at. Aramoho the other day. “A stranger comes in and is thrust into the 'front seat because the back seats are occupied by the saints and the result is be never comes near the church again.” The' early morning service car, drivers from Wellington are very, observant men and meet with varied experiences during their runs in the wee sma’ hours. Coming through Otaki about 4 o’clock on a recent morning a driver saw a man carrying some household effects. Suspicions of burglary flashed through his mind and hejoulled up the ear and queried the early bird. The hefty individual concerned poked his head in at the driver’s door and said “I can do all the shifting I require!” and the car passed on. During the month of June, the Palmerston Deputy Official Assignee lias had to deal with six bankruptcies, not including one transferred from the Wanganui district, the corresponding figures for the month of June last year being four. During the six months from January to June inclusive thirty bankruptcies, if the one transferred from Wanganui is included, have been dealt, with, as compared with 27 during the corresponding period in 1926.

There has been a heavy fall of snow on the Tarnrua ranges with heavy rain on the lower levels. The easterly winds from the snow region of late have made the weather very cold. “Brick will never come back into use for high buildings owing to concrete not requiring such a large ground space,” said Mr. Justice

Frazer in the Arbitration Court recently. “As far as I can see, there is a tendency for brick to become more popular for the building of private houses.

Fines aggregating £27 were imposed by Mr. S. P. Free, S.M., at Pahiatua this week, on Francis C. Dempsey, on charges of driving a car in a negligent manner, failing to notify an accident, and driving without a license. Medical evidence was given to the effect that Dempsey had been in bad health for some time.

The Melbourne Aero Club’s plans for the Australian-New Zealand .flight have been set back temporarily owing to the decision of the British Air Ministry not to release from the secret list a De Haviland machine of a new type now being constructed for the Air Force. Major De Havilaifd had offered to jilace one of these machines at the disposal of the Aero Club for the flight but the Air Ministry’s decision prevents his doing so.

Apparently there is no limit to the joy rider’s operations in Auckland. On Wednesday night the police.“ Black Maria” was taken to the Mount Eden Railway Station to await the arrival of a mental patient. When the police returned with their charge they found that the conveyance had vanished. A strenuous search was made through 1 he night for the missing van, which was found next mornin<r adjacent to the Mount Eden gaol, close to the police station.

Optimism is a welcome feature anywhere, and it was evidently a farmer who appreciated this characteristic who entered a Wanganui drapery emporium recently. Here, however, the draper struck the pessimistic note in his observations and deplored the present position of farming in New Zealand. His pessimism was to lose him custom, for the man of the soil, who originally intended making extensive purchases, bought a minor article and proceeded to another store in the hope of meeting an optimistic tradesman (says the Chronicle).

At Thursday’s- meeting of the Manawatu Herd Testing Association, Mr. 11. W. Scott waited oil the executive in connection with a proposed improved branding method. He stated that the brand he advocated was in the shape of a concave horse-shoe and would not prove injurious to the animal’s hide. The cost would he very little in excess of that of five-branding. It was decided that a specimen of the proposed branding iron be obtained, -and that it be submitted to Mr. Scott and Mr. Ferguson (secretary) for their approval, following which a report on the matter will he brought down at the next meeting.

The annual conference of the Protestant Political Association at Wellington on Thursday elected the following officers: —President, Mr. K. Bridger; vice-presidents, Messrs J. Gerrie and 11. C. Hughes; honorary vice-presidents, Mr. G, J. Harford; Dominion secretary and national lecturer, Rev. Howard Elliott; treasurer, Mr. H. Bilby; executive, Messrs L. E. Rhodes, J. Cocker and F. W. Ashman. After i considerable discussion it was resolved that it be a recommendation to the Government that the time is opportune to change the basis of Arbitration awards from the basis of the cost of living to that of production. Messrs A. Harris (Waitemata) and V. H. Potter (Roskill) failed to attend the Reform caucus meeting of the Party. “I have no intention of attending any caucuses of the Reform Party,” declared Mr. Harris. “I want freedom of action, and I cannot have that if I attend meetings of the party.” Mr. Potter was equally definite that he had deliberately stayed away from Wednesday’s caucus, but he was not prepared lo bind himself to the future “I was invited to be present,” he said, “and I told the party leaders that I would not attend. There at present exists some difference between the Prime Minister niwkmyself, and until that is removed I intend to stay awav from the party caucuses.” ■ If the average man were cast away on a Desert Island and compelled to lead a Robinson Crusoe existence, his first thought (after the food and water problem was solved) would he: “How can 1 get something to smoke?” The craving for tobacco is insistent in the case of 10 men out of every 12, and to satisfy the universal demand hundreds of brands oi the “weed are on the market. They come from many lands, one of the latest countries to produce them (in a perfected form) being- New Zealand. Strange to say the barren gum lands of the North which won’t grow ordinary crops grow splendid tobacco, a matter of the great est importance to men on the land up there, because the average yield of leaf is worth £SO per acre, and the industry promises to become a source of National wealth. The local article is much appreciated by those who had to give up smoking foreign tobaccos because of the excess of nicotine, which affected their health. Try “Riverhead Gold” mild, “Navf Cut" (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) full. > 28.

A. slip lias come down in the Manawatu gorge which will block vehicular traffic for a few days. The proceeds of the recital given by Paderewski at Wellington on Saturday towards the immediate relief of necessitous cases of New Zealand soldiers who served in the Great War totalled £538 9s Id.

Rev. P. J. Hairs is visiting Foxton, and will conduct the evening service at the Methodist Church tomorrow, and his many friends will be glad of this opportunity of hearing him. The Communion will be observed at the close of the service. Rev. S. Peryman will preach in the morning. In a central Hawke’s Bay town recently a meeting was held for the purpose of furthering the work of a certain mission (states the Napier Telegraph). All those who attended were asked to bring an article which would be useful to the natives concerned. One well known sympathiser took a bottle of castor oil. The Premier promised a deputation representing . the Hospital Boards’ Association that he would consider a request for legislation empowering Boards to collect fees from single men without dependats in accident cases. He would also consider a request for means of collecting fees from Maori patients, but he denied the truth of the general assertion that Maoris don’t pay rates.

Henry Mitchell Fisher, late manager of Messrs. Collinson and Gifford’s drapery establishment, was charged before the Magistrate at Taihape, yesterday, with presenting a revolver at two directors and auditor of the firm at a meeting for the investigation of affairs. Fisher pleaded guilty and was fined five pounds. On two other minor charges under the Arms Act, he was ordered to pay ten shillings costs on each charge. Mr. Mason (Napier) has introduced a juries Amendment Bill proposing that a majority of five-six-ths may be accepted in criminal cases except capital. The Bill also proposes that if a jury is reduced in number by the death or illness of any member during trial except for a capital offence the presiding Judge shall have power to allow the trial to continue provided five-sixths of the number of jurors originally empanneled are present.