LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3725, 3 December 1927, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. Seventeen huge pine trees were uprooted at Mr. G. Coley’s property, during Monday’s severe gale, A heavy frost was experienced in Waipukurau on Wednesday' morning (says the Press) and vegetable gardens suffered considerably from the unexpected visitation'. .

Last month was the most boisterous experienced in this district for many years. The gales continued on and off during the whole month culminating last Monday in a period of unusual violence.

On Wednesday afternoon a “working bee’’ completed the laying down of a concrete cricket, pitch on E rntoii Park. The club will open the season during the next few days,

The Mayor (Mr M. E. Perreau), has been notified that the Balclutha Boys’ Brass Band, which is to tour the North Island during the school holidays, will visit Foxton on the 2 3rd inst.

The prize winners for last night’s Labour Social Club’s euchre tournament are as follows: —Bags of sugar: Mrs. Broad and Mr. j. McLean; 51b. boxes of tea: Mrs. Cheriflier and Mr. Hobbs; 251 b. bags 'Hour: Mrs. Small and Mr. Bills. The session of the Foxton Presbyterian Church have decided to alter the time of the evening service from 7 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., for the summer months. This alteration .dates from Sunday, December 4th (-to-morrow). Mice have been stated to roost in the trees at Gonville. The other evening a Gonville resident removed a bird’s nest which was about ten feet up a tree (says the Wanganui Herald). To his surprise, instead of finding young birds or eggs, lie found four young juice. The matriculation, accountants’ preliminary and university scholarship examinations were commenced in Palmerston North on Thursday, about 150 candidates sitting. The examinations will last ten days. There are several pupils of the local District High School sitting the matriculation examination.

The body of Alfred Thornton, (23), employed by road contractors at the Massey Agricultural College, who was missing on Wednesday, was found on Thursday morning hanging over the bank ,of the Manawatu River with a strap round his neck and tied to a fence. Apparently it is a case of suicide. “I don’t wish to take part in this case because I object to taking part in the possible killing of any man,” said a man who was called for jury service in the Supreme Court, Christchurch. With two tradesmen who had nobody to replace them, and a man who was granted exemption from serving on the jury, be was excused. \

Australian treasury notes are not such a satisfactory means of currency in New Zealand as may be supposed (says an exchange). A ten shilling note issued by the Commonwealth was accepted by a, Hamilton businessman on Saturday at par. On depositing it in the Post Office Savings Bank he was charged 8d exchange. British treasury notes are accepted free of exchange by the post office.

A Stratford resident was the victim of an unusual accident (reports the Post). His little boy pulled a bottle down from a shelf above Hipbath, and the bottle was shivered to pieces. Great care was taken to remove the fragments, but some which escaped notice at the time made their presence unpleasantly felt when the head of the house started to wash his hands. It appears that some small pieces of glass had become embedded in the soap, and these inflicted two very nasty cuts when the soap was used. Drawn from England by a desire to climb Mount Cook (12,349 ft) the highest peak of the New Zealand Southern Alps, Mr. H. J. Macartney, a ..member of the Alpine Club, arrived in Melbourne by the Comorin. Mr. Macartney said that, although Mt. Cook was widely known, it had been climbed on comparatively few occasions, as the great distance’to New Zealanl narrowed the possibility of visits by climbers from other countries. During his 20 years’ experience of alpine climbing Mr. Macartney ha's reached the top of the Matterhorn (14,860 ft.), as well as other fa,mous Swiss peaks. A private box-holder at the Nelson Post Office noticed when collecting his mail that the room at the back of the boxes was full of smoke. He immediately gave an alarm of fire, and the brigade quickly arrived on the spot. The firemen forced their way into the building, -but there was nothing more than smoke for them to deal witlr. It was eventually discovered that the smoke had come from an electric motor used to drive the electric mail-stamping machine. It is thought that the switch must have been accidentally bumped on when the letters were being sorted and while the current was turned on at the power-house. The stamping machine had been thrown out of action for the week-end, and when the current switched on again it heated up the motor and eventually burned the insulation. “Most of the harm from pipes is due to their foulness.” Thus wrote Sir Robert Armstrong Jones, a distinguished authority, recently in the Britism Medical Journal. 'Sir Robiert might have added that the man cause of pipes becoming foul is the use of tobacco heavily charged with nicotine. Such tobacco may (and often do) cause nerve trouble, eyesight trouble, heart trouble,, and chronic indigestion. Happily here in New Zealand ailments occasioned by excess of nicotine in tobacco 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 full flavoured .sort. Any tobacconist will supply von.

Damage being done to the reserve at Kemp’s Pole, Raorikia, brought under discussion at last meeting of the Wanganui River Trust is generally regarded as an important historic land mark, It is generally thought that this carved post was erected by Major Kemp to show how far Europeans could go up the river, but this, it is stated, i ; incorrect. Mr. Gregor McGregor stated that in the year 1880, the late Major Kemp saw the lands of his: people were fast disappearing and conceived the idea of forming the whole of the Wanganui native land into one big trust, to be managed by a council elected or selected by the people. A large numi er of natives signed a document, but as means of communication were at that time bad, and a very !rge number of signatures was required, the people got dissatisfied and out of hand, and unfortunately for the Wanganui natives the scheme fell through. The lands included in the trust were defined by erecting a carved post at each of the four corners, and Kemp’s pole, as it is known, was one of these land marks. The River Trust decided to ring-fence the reserve, and it was suggested that if the natives persisted in letting stock wander thereon, the Trust should obtain permission to have the pole removed to the museum.