Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3701, 8 October 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New potatoes from Auckland are selling in Timaru at 51bs. for Is 3d. Fairey’s ice creams are unsurpassed for purity flavouring and quality. Try them. Only one bankruptcy was. recorded in the Oamaru district during September, .making a total of four for the year.

Captain Stewart pf the s.s. Kennedy is at present on his annual leave. During his absence Mr. P. Olsen, first mate, is in charge.

The services at the local Presbyterian Church to-morrow will -be conducted by Mr. Scott, who is attending the summer school at Palmerston North.

Mr. J. Desmond met with a painful accident on Thursday evening. He was helping to unload a lorry, when a heavy box fell on his right hand, badly crushing the little fin-

Michael Bourke, aged 28, licensee of the City Hotel, pleaded guilty in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Thursday to a charge of having used the premises as a common gaming house. He • was fined £2O and costs.

Greyhound racing is evidently to be introduced into Auckland (says an exchange), for a company known as the Mechancial Hares, Ltd., was registered in the northern city on September 19, with a capital of £12,000 in £1 shares. Roy Allen, a one-legged.man, who was sentenced yesterday at Blenheim to three months’ imprisonment on live charges of false pretences and vagrancy, was described as a drug addict. The Bench recommended medical treatment whilst in gaol. 'Searching the house of an eccentric widow, Namea Rosenberg, the police at Warsaw found that she held prisoner in a cellar a nude, emaciated insane, eighteen-year-old girl who had disappeared thirteen years ago., The police say they have proof she has been fed since on raw potatoes. Rosenberg violently resisted arrest.

Whitebait has been exceptionally plentiful in the Wanganui district during the last few days (says the Chronicle), and has been sold very cheaply. One young farmer near the city spent his lunch hour on the banks of the river and in a short time nearly filled a kerosene tin. City folk have been venturing forth in the evenings and early mornings and few of these expeditions have returned without a good catch.

Rules to debar cyclists from displaying on their cycles any advertising matter other than customary trade marks during the-progress of races held under the jurisdiction of the New Zealand Amateur Association were passed at a special meeting yesterday afternoon. Costumes are to be club, centre or New Zealand representatives costumes, and there must be no advertising. The referee is given powei* to disqualify from the race anyone infringing these rules,

'During last year the Railways Department’s Suggestions and Inventions Committee dealt with 1245 suggestions. Of these, 108 were recommended for adoption either wholly or partially; 176 were deferred for subsequent consideration, had been previously considered, or were already in operation; 628 were rejected; and 233 were under trial or investigation or had still to be dealt with at March 31. Monetary, awards totalling £317 were made in respect of 38 suggestions, and commendations were noted on the official records of 76 of those who made the suggestions.

The Postmaster-General (ihe Hon. Mr. Nosworthy) announced in the House that he had authorised a departure from the existing policy in the Post and Telegraph Department whereby all construction work in the country districts was done by officers of the Department, The Minister stated that, whenever opportunity offered for the construction of new telegraph or telephone lines, he would have tenders called for the work, and later have a comparison made with similar classes of work already done by the Department.

The public swimming baths were filled for the first time this afternoon.

George Lovatt, of Dudley, who weighs 3 ; Gst., claims to be the heaviest man in England. He wears a 22in. collar. He is so fat that he cannot travel in an omnibus, a tramcar, or a taxi-cab, and rides about in a specially-built float. When lie stepped into a hansom cab some time age the bottom fell out.

Mr. W. A. Veitch (Wanganui) has given notice to ask the Minister of Education if the committee of the Reform Party which sat for the purpose of reporting on the question of the proposed abolition of Education Boards had yet finished its report, and if so, would the report, with the evidence taken be circulated among members of the House irrespective of Party.

The inspection of a site near Rotorua for the creation of a permanent artillery camp for the northern command, was made by Major-Gen-eral R. Young (Commandant of the Forces), Lieut.-Colonel H. R. Potter, of the northern command, and the director of artillery, Colonel F. Symon. The area inspected is four miles from Rotorua. The Native owners are agreeable in the matter, and it is probable that the camp will be held there next year.

The popular idea that the toheroa shell-fish, from which the wellJaiown soup is made, is obtainable only in the extreme north of the Dominion, was referred to by the Hon. G. M. Thomson in the Legislative Council on Thursday. He said that toheroa was found all round Me New Zealand sea coast. It was .quite possible that the toheroa industry might be extended to many other parts of the country in addition to those which are already developing it. [Along this coast may be found a shell fish called the “tohemanga,” almost as large as a mussel, which buries itself in the sand when the tide recedes. The only outward indication of its presence is a small circular indentation on the surface of the sand. It is used as bait by fishermen. Possibly this shell fish is the toheroa. — Ed.ll.]

A correspondent has sent in the following “Health Commandments” which are posted in some American cities: — (Thou shalit- honour thy neighbourhood, and keep it clean. Remember thy cleaning day, and keep it wholly. Thou shalt take care of thy rubbish heap, else thy neighbour will bear witness against thee. Thou shalt keep in order thy alley, thy backyard, thy hall, and thy stairway. Thou shalt not let the wicked fly breed. Thou shalt not kill thy neighbour by ignoring fire menace or by poisoning the air with rubbish. Thou shalt not keep the window's closed day and night. Thou shalt not covet all the air and sunlight thou canst obtain. Because of the love thou bearest thy children thou shalit provide clean homes for them. Thou shalt not steal thy children’s right to health and happiness.

“Most of the harm from pipes is due to their foulness.” Thus w'rote Sir Robert Armstrong Jones, a distinguished authority, recently in the British Medical Journal. Sir Robert might have added that the main cause of pipes becoming foul is the use of tobacco heavily charged with nicotine. Such tobaccos may (and often do) cause nerve trouble, eyesight troubles, heart trouble, and chronic indigestion. Happily here in New r Zealand ailments occasioned Ivy excess of nicotine in tobaccos are becoming rarer. This is owing to the growing popularity of our New' Zealand tobaccos which thanks to their comparative freedom from nicotine may be indulged in freely without any fear of consequences. That’s why doctors recommend them. Another point in their favour is that the leaf is toasted (something new!). Hence their delightful fragrance, and delicious flavour. You can get them of any strength. There are several varieties. Leading lines are: —“Riverhead Gold” mild and aromatic, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), a choice medium,' and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), a fine flavoured sort. Any tobaconist will supply you.