Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3717, 15 November 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are about 500 wreless sets licensed in Hamilton. During the last three months 85 licenses were issued.

On Sunday a howling gale was 'experienced throughout this and the Hawke’s Bay districts. Considerable damage to fruit crops is reported from the latter district. A first-offending inebriate arrested tor drunkenness on Saturday, was convicted at the local police court yesterday, before Mr. J. K. Hoi'iiblow, J.P., and fined 5/-.

, In the Dail Eirean Mi- De Valera’s bill to repeal the Public Safety Act was defeated by 77 votes to 71, but Mr, Cosgrave agreed that the bill lapse next March. Yesterday the Borough road staff removed the old water trough from the north end of the Triangle. The new concrete one at the corner of Wharf and Harbour Streets is now completed. The burial of Rangi' Matatoro, the chief of the Ngatiawa tribe, at Matarikioki, near Wait ar a, on Saturday afternoon, was most impressive. The ceremony was largely attended by both Maoris and pakehas.

Daylight saving has not made much difference to people in Halcombe (says the local correspondent of the Advocate). They put on the clock, but instead of getting up at 5 or (i o’clock as under the old system they now turn out at G and 7. They can’t forget that the clock is an hour fast.

,-Mr R. L. Heath picked up a broadcast of a football match in New York on his wireless set, at S a.m. on Sunday. The match was played at 2.30 p.m., New York time, and the reception was particularly good. The applause of the spectators frequently accorded to one player named Wilson, war plainly audible. Messrs Madge Bros, have now placed a new ar.d up-to-date twen-ty-seater Studebaker Char-a-banc on the Taikorea run under the. charge oL‘ Mr. V. McDowell. The new bus is the very latest in char-a-bancs and the comfort of the passengers lias been carefully studied. This bus will specialise in private work as well as being on the regular run to Palmerston N.

A week-end party of local residents who motored through to Napier, state that the roads throughout are in first-class order. They state that between Foxton and Rangiotu the surface of the road was somewhat nitty and portion of the highway in the W*aipa\va County has been metalled. Marked improvements under the highways scheme are noticed throughout the various counties.

At last night’s Borough Council meeting the poundkeeper reported that during the month of October seven head of stock had been impounded and driving fees to the amount of 4/- collected. It was reported at Saturday’s meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board that arrangements had been made for the removal of the logs which had been proving to be obstructions in the Manawatu River at Robinson’s Bend.

It is surprising to notice how the people of this district have fallen in with the daylight saving. We have not heard one complaint against the advancing of the clock, but much praise in favour of the innovation.

A negro named Robert Harris, 50 years of age, attempted suicide at Onehunga last night by inhaling gas. The constables applied artificial respiration with success. Harris was conveyed to the police station, and will be charged with attempting to commit suicide. In travelling through Hawke’s Bay, one is struck with the number of ornate and striking memorials erected to the memory of fallen soldiers. In every settlement, situate in prominent sites, these memorials stand out as silent tributes to the glorious dead.

Those present at last night’s Borough Council meeting were the Mayor (Mr M. E. Perreau), and Cfs. J. Ross, Thompson, Rangiheuea, C. Rand, E. Parkin and M. IT. Walker. Apologies for absence were received from Crs. Cowley and Lucinsky.

For some little time past the 'Foxton Harbour Board has had its dredge under offer for disposal, but the anticipated sale did not eventuate. It was accordingly decided at Saturday’s meeting of the) Board to take other steps to dispose of the dredge. “One of the great lessons of this tour is that parents should encourage their boys to play cricket,” said Mr. Ileathcote Williams at the civic welcome to the members of the New Zealand cricket team at AVellington on Tuesday. They should be taught to play from the time they were youngsters. Parents would find that it would pay, for cricket taught a young fellow many things that would stand him in good stead throughout his life.

The discovery of a new kauri gum field from which the yield per aih'e will, according to experts, be as great as that from any gold mine, is reported from Alripara Hill, in the Kaitia district. It is stated that the land will yield gum to the value of £I,OOO per half-acre. The Kaitaia Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution that the Minister of Lands be asked to make arrangements with the Public Works Department to have a road constructed to the field, and also to arrange" for a supply of water.

t The death has occurred of Mr. Frank Edwin Wilson, who has been Mayor of New Plymouth since 1921. Though in indifferent health, the deceased gentleman attended to his Mayoral duties and. his profession up to Saturday morning. He was very ill on Saturday night and a doctor was called in. Becoming unconscious Mr. Wilson was removed to the hospital at 4 a.m. on Sunday and remained unconscious until tlm end came at 11 a.m. yesterday. It is understood that cerebral meningitis was the cause of death, j

Among the hundreds of people who howl past Marybank Hill on their way in and out of Wanganui, few, if any, realise that in the sandhills behind Putilu therc : is a treasure house of ancient Maori relics. A visitor to the house of a farmer who lives nearby, Mr. H. W. Ingram, was shown last week a coined ion of moa hones and interesting relics of Maori arts, crafts and warfare that Mr. Ingram had found in the hills after sand-drifts. The sand hills were bush-covered until not many years back, so the implements must be of considerable antiquity. Among the curios- are pierced stone and hone needles, a greenstone pipi-opener, fatooing instruments, adzes, chisels, and the remains of an ancient whalebone mere disintegrated by the action of the sand. Some four years ago, Mr. Ingram and his brother found that the sand had been displaced to reveal the complete skeleton of a full-grown moa, but when they attempted to take the bones the skeleton crumbled away.

Burglars have been unusually busy in many parts of New Zealand this winter, and surprise has been expressed that the “swag” secured has so often taken the form of tobacco. But tobacco, it must be remembered, is not nearly so easy to identify as most other things; also, it is saleable almost anywhere and readily convertible into hard cash- —one more proof of the hold that smoking has got on the world. The habit is soundly abused by non-smokers. Yet it contributes to the comfort and happiness of millions every day. If tobacco proves injurious it is because it contains an excess of nicotine. The imported brands are full of it. The purest tobacco of all are our New Zealand ones. Containing only a trifling percentage of nicotine, they may be smoked without fear of consequences. They possess a peculiarly delicious flavour an d a most delightful aroma. Ask for “Riverhead Gold” ,(anild&, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) full strength. You can get these brands from anv tobacconist.