Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 9. 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3663, 9 July 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 9. 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. J. Holmes Eunnicles, who is conducting singing lessons at ilu> local .school, informs us that the children of the primary department are keenly interested in the work and good progress is being made by them.

Pleading guilty to four charges of theft comprising pieces of .jewellery and other articles of a total of £34, Thaddus Edward Doody, labourer, -11 years of age, was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention in the Palmerston Magistrat's Court on Tuesday bv Mr. G. H. Salmon, S.M.

Mr 11. Tail, late superintendent of the AVellington Fire Brigade, was a visitor to Foxton to-day, and visited the local fire station. Mr Tait is still connected with firefighting affairs, and takes a keen interest, (in brigade work on bis visits throughout the Dominion. He has promised to address the brigade on his next visit to Foxton.-

“Who gets the benefit of price cutting?” asked Mr. W. G. Reid, when speaking at the master builders’ dinner at New Plymouth recently. “Nobody does. The man who sells soon finds himself in difficulties, and the man who buys soon finds lie is*getting an inferior article. Price cutting is no good to anybody.”

“During the last year well over 2(3,000,000 separate rail journeys were made. These journeys were for all distances, and not a single fatality occurred amongst all these millions of passengers. This is a 100 per cent, efficiency record in one field of which any transport concern might well be proud/” said Mr. Jas. Mason, of the New Zealand Railways Board.

A lady was walking along Victoria Avenue, Wanganui, on Saturday morinng when a sudden gust of wind disarranged her hat, and in her endeavour to save the headpiece her handbag snapped open and sixteen £1 notes were blown away. Only six of the notes have been recovered. When the incident was reported a scene of remarkable activity followed, several pedestrians joining frantically in the search.

That the McLean Gian is well represented is Waipukaurau was amply demonstrated at the 'St. Andrew’s Church, Waipukurau, social gathering on Thursday evening (states the Napier Telegraph). Mr. R. McLean, Mayor, addressed t lie gathering, his remarks being trans-

lated into-Gaelic by Miss A. McLean. The Rev. Alister McLean related humorous stories,. Dr. G. McLean was content to do his share with a vocal number. Various other McLeans, in addition, were present at the function. None of the clan are related.

It is understood (states the Taranaki Herald) that a movement is on foot whereby Ihe railway workers of Taranaki will join together and agree not to support tradesmen who do not support the railways. This would not have a very marked effect on 'tradesmen in the smaller towns, but in New Plymouth, where there are about 200 workers, it might be much more serious. This contemplated action is an outcome of the competition between the Railway Department and the motor services.

At Wellington, yesterday, Mr. Page, S.M., gave reserved judgment in favour of Marion Aldersley for £0 15s against Gerald Lyon and others in connection with a crossword competition. Plaintiff was notified that her solution, though not correct, was the most nearly so. She was awarded ss, whereas the first prize advertised was £lO. Mr. Page said that the committee, though its decision was to be final, having decided the order of merit, was bound to award the first prize to the competitor they placed first.

Mr M. E. Pereau hus disposed of his general store at the Bead) to Mr. Steer, of Palmerston North. The local High School Committee is carrying out improvements to the playground, which will make the school environment more attractive.

The Postal Department is calling tenders for motor vehicle number plates for next year., The nxet. colours will he white numbers on a brown background. The number will he 180,000, including 141,000 for cars and trucks, 30,000 for cycles and 3,000 dealers’ plates. The damage to street trees, caused by power board lines, was stated by several delegates to the Association of Gardens, Parks, and Reserves Superintendents at Wellington yesterday to be a burning question in their districts. Trees of thirty and forty years’ growth, it was reported, had been so mutilated that they were no longer a thing of beauty. A better system of carrying the wires, it was stated, was adopted in America, where the Street Tree Commission had secured heavy damage from the companies for damaging street trees. The following prisoners were sentenced at the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday by Hon. Mr. Justice Ostler: William Guthrie Smith, burglary and theft of rings from a jeweller’s shop at Damievirke, reformative detention for not more than three years; Hugh Goodlet, burglary at Gisborne, reformative detention for not more than five years; .John Bernard McDonald, burglary at Pic-ton, reformative treatment for not more than two years; Henry Mitchell Fisher, defalcations at Tnihnpe, nine months’ hard labour.

“TP anything happens to me I cannot help it,” wrote Frederick Charles Laurenson, to his relatives prior to his admittance to the Christchurch Hospital on Wednesday, suffering from acid poisoning from which he died on Thursday. “I know it is either this or the asylum. The agony I have been suffering is unbearable.” This note was produced at an inquest conducted before Mr. Mosley, S.M., yesterday. The evidence showed that Lnurenson had suffered from a minor complaint, which caused him great pain at times. At the hospital poison antidotes were administered, and for twelve hours his condition improved, but afterwards he grew worse. The. inquest was adjourned pending a post mortem examination.

Anli-tobaceoites are wont to say hard things about smoking, but quite often they are untrue. Tobacco may have its faults, hut its virtues should not be overlooked. Smoking assists'digestion; it is also a great preservative of the teeth and a destroyer of the harmful germs which infest all people’s mouths, while its soothing and trnnquilising effects in times of mental stress, worry or exertion are well known to all smokers. But the quality should he good. Brands full of nicotine (like many of the imported varieties) are best avoided. Our own New Zealand grown tobaccos contain comparatively little nico'tline and may consequently lie smoked freely without injurious results, while owing to the leaf being toasted in the process of manufacture (quite a novel idea) they are remarkable for flavour and fragrance. The popular- brands are “Riverhead Gold,” aromatic; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium; and “Cut Plug No. 1.0” (Bullshcad), full strength. The demand for these goods is growing so rapidly that the New Zealand tobacco industry is assuredly destined to become of the first importance. 35.