Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3710, 29 October 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The executive of the Wanganui Employers' Association has unanimously opposed the proposed alteration to the constitution' of the Court of Arbitration.

There will be an exchange of pulpits in the Presbyterian and Methodist churches to-morrow evening, when Mrs. Peryman will preach in the Presbyterian and Mr. Nicholas in the Methodist churches.

“Suicide while of unsound mind” was the verdict at the inquest at Auckland yesterday concerning the death of .John Alexander on Wednesday afternoon as the result of cutting arteries in his arm with a knife.

During the past ten days there have been five cases of interference with young children by men, states a Dunedin message. On Thursday morning two young men were before (the Magistrate on separate charges of indecently assaulting children, while another case was against a married man. All three were remanded.

The 1928 conference of the New Zealand Eire Brigades’ Association will be held at New Plymouth about February. Captain T. J. Watts, secretary and advisory superintendent, has just completed a ballot among the Dominion’s 140 brigades, to which the names of New Plymouth, Hawera, and Nelson were submitted.

The loss by fire throughout. New Zealand for the year 1920 is estimated by the Inspector of Fife Brigades, Mr. T. Hugo, at £1,204,70(5 or 17/7 per head of population. This amount, holvever, is most probably an underestimate. In his annua! ireport Mr. Hugo said the number of fire calls received throughout the lire district for the year was 2740, against 1785 for 1925-26.

Walter William Vickery pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Barton at Hawera yesterday and was committed to trial on a charge of negligently driving a motor car .on the main road near Manaia on June 18, thereby causing the death of a motor cyclist, Otto Amlehn,i who died in hospital on July 4. The prosecution alleged that deceased was knocked down by accused’s car, the injuries sustained resulting in death.

The Christmas number of the “Otago Witness’ is to hand, and a better production it would be very dffieult to secure. Besides many interesting particulars of our scenic resorts there are line photographs of children, birds, • etc., views of lake, river, and mountain scenery, photos of farm lands, pages of seasonable phantasy, etc. For the Homeland the weekly is decidedly interesting, while for folks in New Zealand it should appeal to all.

The annual salaries and wages bill for all industries in the Dominion covered by the returns of factory production showed a fairly substantial increase in 1925-26 over the ligures of the previous year, states a report just issued by the Statistics OHice. From £15,690,202 in 1924-25 this figure increased by £1,186,679, or 7i per cent., to £16,876,881 in 1925-26. A large contributor to this .increase was the electric supply industry, which showed an increase of £154,195, or over 50 per cent. Other industries showing increases of over £IOO.OOO were motor and cycle engineering (£171,820), printing and publishing (£131,135), furniture manufacturing (£118,887), and general engineering (£100,045).

A visitor to Foxton informed our representative that he was surprised to find that the town did not possess a public reading room and library. “In travelling through the Dominion I make a point of visiting the public reading rooms and of all the towns, Foxton is the exception,” he added. We explained that Foxton up to a few years ago did possess a public reading-room, situated in the Council Chamber, but when that building was destroyed by fire the reading-room and library ,cwre not included in the new edifice Our visitor was also informed that the public library was temporarily situated ill rented premises.

Giant briar pipes exhibited in a Bond Street (London) tobacconist’s window recently attracted a good deal of attention. These pipes take an ounce of tobacco at a time for a smoke lasting from four to six hours. They are priced at from £4 $ piece. But it is not all tobaccos than can be smoked for six or even for four hours continuously. If you tried to smoke some of the American imported brands for such a length of time, you’d get nicotine poisoning. You’d have a better chance with our own New Zealand tobaccos, which owing to their exceptional purity and comparative freedom from nicotine can really be smoked for hours on end without risk to heart or nerves. They are delightfully cool, mellow, sweet and fragrant, with a most delicious flavour of their own. With such qualities to recommend them (and the good word of the doctors), it is not surprising to find these brands in rapidly .increasing demand. Try “Riverhcad Gold” aromatic, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullsliead), full strength. All tobacconists.

At the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday, George William Afford charged with indecent assault on a young girl was ordered reformative detention for a period not exceeding 12 months.. Kenneth Kelland, aged 4J years, who was riding on a lorry at Lairdvale, Tnumarunui, yesterday, fell off and struck the pumice bank of the road. He was afterwards admitted to Ihe hospital and an examination revealed that the little follow had sustained a broken rib and received internal injuries. Apparently many of the young men who have made enquiries at the Defence Office in response to the advertisement for cadet airmen, have been under the impression that the positions were of a permanent nature (says the Wanganui Chronicle). In this they have been mistaken, as the course only extends over a period of a few months.