LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3691, 15 September 1927, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Wanganui Education Board call tenders in this issue for the levelling of the new school site.

Five local celestials left Foxton on Tuesday morning for Wellington, en route to China.

The staging of exhibits at the • local Horticultural Society’s Bulb '.Show in the Town Hall is most effective, due to the special tables, which are in use for the first time.

N. P. McGregor, the Canterbury and All Black live-eighth and captain of the victorious Ranfurly Shield team, sustained a broken nose in the match with South Canterbury at Lancaster Park, '.Christchurch, yesterday afternoon.' An advance payment of 1/6 per lb. for butterfat supplied to the Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co., during the month of August is being made. (Compared with the corresponding month last year the production of butter showed an increase.

The nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Munn, of Russell Street, met with a painful injury on Tuesday afternoon. He was playing with an axe when he almost, severed one of the fingers of his left hand. Upon medical examination it was found necessary to amputate the digit. “The primary education system in New Zealand is sensitive to-the movement in England and America to shorten the primary and extend the secondary school course,” states the annual report of the Minister of Education. “The proposed reorganisation which has for its object the establishing of what is known as the junior high school system has been received with a certain amount of caution. . . . The

Department has established eight experimental schools to try out the new system. . . The general opinion throughout the Dominion is that it would be unwise to abandon the present undoubtedly efficient primary school system before beingassured of the suitability and worth of its rival.”

A case presenting somewhat-un-usual features was mentioned in the Waihi Magistrate’s Court, when C. E. Tasscll, of Hamilton, sought to recover £l2 10s Gd from -Selwyn M. Hovell, of Waihi, the sitm including an amount paid for skulls to be delivered by the defendant who is a well-known collector of native and other curios. In applying for an adjournment, the defendant said he had since forwarded a parcel. Counsel: “What parcel?” Defendant: “A parcel of skulls.” Hovell, proceeding said that plaintiff had required skulls for his son who was a student at the Otago University. He (defendant) thought one skull would be enough, but apparently the plaintiff wanted to establish a cemetery at the university as he had sent a dozen. An adjournment was granted.

As a result of the recent raids on whitebait fishers in the drain at the beach, one of the cells at the local police station resembles a fishing emporium, being half full of nets and tins of all descriptions. Whilst playing in the seven-a-side hockey competition at Waipukurau on Saturday, Miss E. Breslin, of the Waipawa ladies’ team, received injuries which necessitated her removal to the District Hospital. ?

Constable Owen paid another visit to the drain on the Beach Road at midday yesterday, as a result of which two more fishermen will appear before the Magistrate next Court day to answer charges of alleged illegal fishing for whitebait.

While riding a bicycle into the timber yards of C. E. Daniell, Ltd., in Masterton, Ronald Felliugham, was run into by a motor loyry. The vehicle passed over the bicycle and pinned the body underneath. Upon being extricated, he appeai-ed to be suffering from bodily injuries, but alter medical examination was taken to his home, little worse for bis experience. The bicycle was badly bent.

It is reported that the Bank of, New Zealand proposes to open the Waingawa freezing works this season. The Wairarapa Frozen Meat Coy., which recently decided potto renew the lease of the works from the Bank but to operate in conjunction with the Wellington Meat Export Co., at Ngaurahanga, vacates the works at the end of September and it is understood that the bank proposes to operate them under its own management.

Speaking- at the Levin flowershow on Tuesday, Mr. J. Linklater, member of Parliament for the district, referred briefly to the Tariff Reform Bill, and said he hoped that a. higher tariff would be placed on American jnotor-cars, which seemed to be taking the fancy of the whole public of New Zealand. There should be an increased tariff on cars coming from a country that placed an almost insurmountable tariff on the Dominion’s produce, such as mutton, cheese, butter and wool.

“We have passed through rather a difficult period,” said Mr. J. Linklater, M.P., in his speech at the opening of the Levin Spring Flower Show. “Opponents of dairy produce control spy that it was due to the operations of the Control Board, causing a drop in the preies of butter and cheese. I am not one of those who say that; I consider ,that the Board’s operations had nothing to do with the great fall in in-ices of produce. There is no doubt in my mind that the cause was the industrial strife in Britain. We are very pleased now to know that the prospects for butter and cheese are good, and likely to be better.”

The Minister of Education in his annual report to Parliament, notes with interest that while the output from the post-primary schools is of increasingly better quality academically, there is a marked tendency for those who have charge of secondary education to favour wider and more differentiated courses. “The traditional ecclesiastical type of education founded so many centuries ago,” lie states, “is at last losing its hold on the 'schools and the demand is arising for courses of education that bear some relation to the future occupations of the pupils. This change is due as far as the general public is concerned to an increased general interest in education and to a more independent and commonsense view of its aims.”

An old lady of 95 living in a quiet square in crowded Southwark, has run an orphanage there for over sixty years without once advertising for subscriptions or getting into debt. “Money has been given to me simply in answer to prayer,” she says. The orphanage, which cost £25,000 to build, began almost by accident. Miss Sharman kept a little school in the house of her parents in this Southwark Square, and undertook the liar go of two small girls who would otherwise have had to go to the workhouse. Neighbours persuaded her to take others. Now there are 200 and the orphanage has several branches. Most of the children become- domestic servants, and several have kept the same places for thirty years. Miss Sharman has been kept to her bed recently, but the girls visit her, and when they are to go out to work she gives them a farewell talk of loving sympathy and advice.

They were swapping “mean man” stories in a smoker of the Welling-ton-Auckland express. The man in the corner took the bun. iSaid he knew a chap who never bought tobacco if lie could “borrow it.” This party carried two pipes. One held a thimble-full, the other about a quarter of an ounce. When he asked for a fill he showed you the little |pipe. But -directly he got hold of your pouch lie pulled out the big pipe and crammed it with your “weed.” When fellows tumbled to him they cut him. He’s particularly partial, it appears, to New Zealand tobacco. It’s certainly good, with a fragrance and aroma of its own. Most of the imported brands reek with nicotine. That’s why thenconstant use is bad. The N.Z. tobaccos are so pure and so comparatively free from nicotine that you can puff them all day without fear of consequences. You can’t beat them for flavour. Try “Riverhead Gold,” a line aromatic, “Toasted Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), full strength. 69.