Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3755, 16 February 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

(David Him lor, a handyman employed at Wesley .College, Pukekohe, was'found dead on Tuesday with a bul'let wound in his.head and a pearifie beside his body. <

While making sausages on Tuesday, Mr. A. Lydiard, of Te Poi, had the top of one of his fingers severed by the machine. Te Poi sausages were not in demand that day, says the Waikato Independent.

If you want better value in Bedding, Kapoc, Ticking, or Blinds, than we are offering, you will have to leave the Dominion. —TOMPKINS’, Co-op. Draper. —Advt.

It is not generally known that a very fine kauri tree is growing on •the Mission grounds at Otaki. The tree, which is about 20 feet high, is considered to be some 35 years Old. Another fine kauri may be seen at Wiaikanae.

Blackberry is a bigger curse than lupin, and to my mind more attention should be given, to its eradication said Cr. Reid at Tuesday's County Council meeting. He said if the farmers will not clear it, then strong action should be taken to compel them. At the conference of South Island school committees held at Christchurch, the speakers condemned script writing on the ground that it was of no value and led to an easy method of forgery.

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Manawatu County Council a letter was received from the Palmerston North Automobile Association directing attention to the state of the Bain-esse-Foxton road. The County Clerk (Mr. A. K. Drew) reported that the Council had the matter under consideration.

At Thursday’s meeting of the Manawatu County Council the tramway manager reported that the chief items of traffic for the month were: Grain 44 tons, minerals and manure 115 tons, general, merchandise 38:1 tons, stock 88 trucks, metal .94 trucks, wool 225 bales, eggs 1 56 crates, timber 7200 sup. feet. Fares amounted to £1 7s 3d. The accounts show a debit balance of £ll9 Is 2d for the month’s work-

Wlien Spurgeon died his friends put a notice at the Tabernacle door as follows“Monday—Our dear friend Spurgeon departed at 5.30 this morning.” A wag came along and wrote beneath: —“Heaven, Wednesday, —Spurgeon not arrived yet; getting anxious,” We too are feeling a little anxious about folk who have not yet visited our shop, and hope they have not strayed.— TOMPKINS’, Co-op. Draper.— Advt.

Latterly there has sprung up at Lyttelton a new industry in the exportation of empty benzine cases. Hitherto they were . considered of so little commercial value that there was no difficulty in picking up a few for firewood, and very often launch owners dumped them into the .sea. A few years ago a Lyttelton man procured as a gift 160 cases, or sufficient to provide him with kindling wood for two years. When the supply became, exhausted he sought again his liberal friend, but was told that empty cases could not then be obtained for less than 9d each. A Union Company steamer arrived at Lyttelton recently to load several thousand cases consigned to jam manufacturers ati Nelson, who will probably use them as receptacles for fruit. A large quantity was also taken by another steamer which left for Nelson via Wellington a few days ago. On her previous trip to Sydney the Karetu carried between 5000 and 6000 cases. As an indication for their present value the shipping freight on empty eases from Dunedin to Nelson is 1/- a ease.

Heavy rain fell throughout Taranaki, Wanganui and .Wellington yesterday. Light showers fell throughout this district.

The Treasury Department has advised the Manawatu County Council that the proposed loan of £5,500 for the Foxton-Shannon Bridge has been approved. Palmerston N. ratepayers yesterday turned down a loan proposal for improvements to the waterworks but sanctioned the proposal for sewerage scheme. At a meeting of the Christchurch Fire Board it was decided that as the Mayor, the Rev. J. K. Archer, had been absent from two consecu-' tive meetings without leave, he had lost his seat. Steps will now be taken to fill the vacancy, the Government. having power to do so. Light showers of rain fell in Levin throughout yesterday and these became heavier throughout the afternoon, so that there seemed to ha very appearance of an appreciable fall being recorded —the first since the beginning of the year.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research decided at its last meeting that a comprehensive programme of flax research lie drawn up and forwarded to the various flax millers with a suggestion that the latter make contributions towards the research, either direct, or, preferably, by approving of a small export-duty per hale.

An area of sandy waste country in an adjoining district was planted with lupin. Tlte lupins were allowed to ’flourish for a time. A tractor was employed to crush the lupins and cocksfoot seed scattered. The area to-day is covered with heavy cocksfoot and there is no sign of lupins which the cocksfoot has stifled. The Manawatu County Council has declared lupin a noxious weed.

At last night’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, a welcome was extended to Mr H. Oram, the new member representing Palmerston N. The following resignations were received: —Miss M. Boland, assistant, Halcombe; Miss M. Ferens, assistant, Wanganui East; Mr C. 11. Davey, assistant, Manchester St. The following have been appointed assistants: Flora A. Lloyd, Castlecliff; Florence M. Dommett, Marton Junction;, Basil A. Rodgers, Palmerston N.; Central; Donald M. Scott, Rongo‘tea; Earle F. C. Hex-tall, Tawhero; Veronica M. Shale, Gonville.

Another centenarian smoker; and Ibis time a woman. A Home paper records the death at Messing, near Tiptree, Essex, of Mrs, Naomi Harrington at the age of one hundred years. The good old lady smoked a clay pipe every day and attributed her long life, at any rate in part, to that practice. What the antitobaccoites will say to this must he left to conjecture, but a more convincing proof of the hartnlessness of tobacco could hardly he found. The plain fact of the matter is that smoking won’t hurt anyone so long as the tobacco is pure and as free from nicotine as possible. The imported brands, by the way, are mostly full of nicotine. That’s where they differ so essentially from our own New. Zealand tobaccos—the purest in the world and the freest from nicotine. They are quite safe and owe their fine aroma and delici-* ous fragrance to the toasting of the leaf (quite a novelty). Ask your tobacconist for “Riverhead Gold” mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium; or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), full strength.