Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3684, 30 August 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The position of Censor of Kinematograph Films, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. W. Jolliffe, was filled on Saturday by the appointment of Mr. W. A. Tanner, who for the past four years had acted as assistant-censor. The selection was made out of 500 applications, and the salary is £550 per annum.

When the Taranaki Rugby team was leaving Christchurch for the north on Saturday it was found that A. Petty, the full-back, was injured. He was taken to hte Christchurch Hospital where it was ascertained that he was suffering from slight concussion and also injuries to a leg.

The mail train to Napier yesterday afternoon collided with a petrol tank, lorry at the Square crossing, Palmerston North. The lorry was overturned, but the drivor fortunately escaped injury... The petrol escaped from the lorry tank, and it was necessary for the police to take strict precautions to prevent a fire and explosion.

While eating dinner yesterday afternoon, Alexander George Wheeler, of New North Road, Auckland, was choked to death by a piece of meat. Wheeler was a widower. He was having dinner with his' family about 1.15 when a piece of meat stuck in his throat and before it could be taken out he choked. Nothing could be done when a doctor was called.

In his address at the opening of the Wangaehu River Bridge at Kauangaroa Mr. W. S. Glenn, M.P., on Saturday made ironical reference to the Summer Time Bill. “I spoke eleven times in the House on Thursday night trying to get you farmers a little more daylight,” he said. “You are getting so fat aiid lazy that it would do you good to work an hour dr so more —and, anyway, the bowlerS; and the hockey players want it.”

George Anderson, with three aliases, , pleaded guilty at the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court on Saturday to three charges of false pretences. SeniorDetective Quirke stated that the accused had come out of gaol during the month, with £l2i in his pocket, and had immediately started his career of defrauding businessmen. A sentence of 3 months on each charge, was imposed, the sentences to be cumulative.

A fine tower, over 100 ft. high, will rise above the new Opera House at present being built for John Fuller and Sons, Limited, in Auckland (says the Herald). The tower wili be a hasdsome structure in renaissance style, and will be built over the main entrance to the theatre from Queen Street. It should present a most imposing facade when the theatre is completed by Easter of next year. The new theatre will seat 2000 people, and will cost £70,000.

The Stuant Wilson Cup, open for competition in mangel-growing to members of boys and girls’ school clubs throughout New Zealand, has for the second year in succession come to this district. The winner is Noel Prebble, of Glen Oroua, whose plot yield worked out at the fine result of 133 tons, 5 cwt. to the acre. Last year’s winner was Harold Dorn, of Kelvin Grove, whose return was 139 tons to the acre. The judges were Mr. Large, the Education Department’s agricultural instructor, and Mr. J. G. Gibbs, of the instructional staff of the Agricultural Department.

For Childrep’s Hacking Cough Woods’ Great Pepperrint Cure

The Methodist Home Mission Festivals at Levin on Friday last, and at Shannon on Saturday last, were largely attended. Mr Howard Andrew says that the programme provided by the Maori Party was wonderful. They will be at Oroua Downs on Thursday evening, and a.t Foxton on Friday evening. A week’s trip which must surely create_a record for seeing the maximum amount in the minimum time has recently been completed by Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Barham, of Kereone (says the Morrinsville Star). The first stage of the trip, which was made by car, was to Levin. Mr. and Mrs. Barham, in company with Mrs. Young and another passenger, left at 4 a.m. and reached the southern town, a distance of 350 miles, at 9.30 pan. on the same d'ay. From Levin trips were made to Feilding and other adjacent towns, after which the journey was continued to Wellington. After a short stay at the capital city the party returned by car to Morrinsville, after covering approximately 1000 miles in under seven days. The trip was accomplished without a single puncture and without engine trouble. Good roads were encountered on most of the journey, the worst stretches being at the Waikato end and through the King Country. Choosing a birthday present for a man is not as simple.as shelling jbcas. You may so easily give him something he has no use for. Tons of money are wasted on presents that are received with perfunctory smiles and thanks but are not valued. Tastes differ widely, but there is one taste common to 95 men out of every hundred —the taste for to - bacco. If you want to give a present that will appeal to nearly every man, give him something to smoke, preferably a bit of good “cup up,” and the best cut-up tobacco is our own New Zealand grown. This ’baccy is the purest of any because (unlike the imported) it contains only a minimum quantity of nicotine. Consequently it can be smoked all day long “and then some” with enjoyment 'and without injury to health. 'So a really acceptable (and inexpensive) birthday gift is, a pound (or a couple of pounds) of N.Z. tobacco. It is made in various strengths. “Riverhead Gold” is mild; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) is medium; and “Cut Plug No. 10’(Bu'llshead), is full-flavoured. 03.