Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3757, 21 February 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The new Rent Restriction Act comes into force on May 1. A young man recently arrested for helpless drunkenness at (Christchurch subsequently died in the Paparua prison.

We stock Stephens Blue-Black and Swan fountain pen inks. Try ps, our prices are hard to beat. The M inawatu Herald Co. Ltd.

In Saturday’s report of the entertainment held in the Town Hall on Thursday, the name of Mr. 3:1, H. Horn blow' was omitted. Mr. Hornblow, as “Tim Bolus,” in the dramatic farce, created much amusement by his droll mannerisms.

A painful accident befel Fergus C. Shaw, a married man, aged 43, at Bartholomew’s Timber Co.’s mill says a Hamilton telegram. While feeding a circular saw his left hand slipped and was partially amputated above the knuckles.

The hundred yards ladies Australasian swimming championship was won at Melbourne on Saturday by Miss E. Stoekley, of New Zealand, in lmin. 4-ssec. Miss Iv. Miller, of New Zealand was second and Miss E. Robertson (N.S.W.) third.

Economy is everything these days and you should remember this when purchasing your stationery requirements. We can supply you with good cream laid envelopes at 9/per thousand; five hundred, 5/-. The Manawatu Herald Co. Ltd. The Mayor of Wellington (Mr G. A. Troup) stated yesterday, in answer to an inquiry, that the amount realised for the Hood-Moncrieff fund now stood atvibout £1,500, and his urgent desire was to raise it to £2,000 before closing down.

A totally blind man named McGregor was robbed of £9O at Auckland on Saturday afternoon. James Symmonds appeared in court yesterday, charged with the crime. A sum of £BO was found in his possession. Accused was remanded.

There! is living at Bollington, Cheshire (England), a man aged 02, known as “Old Rabbit,” who has drunk six quarts of malt liquor a day for the past 42 years (independent of spirits reckoned at It pints a week). He therefore has drunk in his life 22,995 gallons of malt liquor, which is 365 hogsheads of 63 gallons, each of which at 6d a quart amounts to £2299 10s, arid the spirits at Is 4d a pint come to £255 10s, a total of £2555. It was mentioned at last night’s committee meeting of the Foxton Swimming Club that certain flaxmills had been asked to close down as there was a shortage of power. Members expressed the opinion that it was rather unfair that industries should be compelled to close down when picture theatres and places of amusement were permitted to use the “juice.” While Mr. C. E. Laidley, of Ruakura, was walking over his farm one day recently he noticed a hawk struggling with something on the ground (says the Ohakune Times). Impelled by curiosity, he hastened to the spot and found-that the hawk had almost killed a nearly full grown weasel. Both eyes of the weasel had been pierced by the claws of the hawk, and the ferocious little creature was almost dead.

There is- every prospect that at an early date a new moth will be liberated in the Dominion to attack the noxious weed ragwort. This insect, which is named tyria paeobaeae, has been subjected to rigid tests at the Cawthron Institute, but according to a recent decision of the Noxious Weeds Committee of the Scientific and Industrial Research Council, there will be further tests before liberation is agreed to.

Fish are reported to be dying in shallow hot pools in southern districts, owing to the drought, and the ranger of the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society informed the authorities recently that, in some cases, steps would have to be taken to remove the fish to deeper water. He had shifted 200 fish, but drays, a motor lorry and 20 men, he stated, would not be able to cover the whole work. He was empoweredto engage labour and save as many fish as possible.

Shannon Co-operative Dairy Company’s pay-out for the month of January is l/3£ per lb. At last night’s meeting of managers of the local Presbyterian Church, reference was made to the approaching departure from Foxton of the Rev. S. and Mrs. Peryinan, of the Methodist Church. Appreciative mention was made of the services rendered to the church by Mr. and Mrs. Peryman during their residence in Foxton, and to place on record the same. Mr. C. C. Franks had a narrow escape for his car, when their garage at Hunterville was burnt down recently (states the Shannon correspondent to the Standard). At a risk to himself Mr. Franks drove the car out with the hood on fire. Luckily this was soon put out, and the car escaped with burnt paint and hood.

The Royal Exchange buildings, one of the biggest and most modern of the buildings fronting Cathedral Square, Christchurch, iirthe centre of the city, have'been acquired by the Fuller-Haywood firm, with Messrs E. ,J. Righton, H. Waters and D. Spence for a picture theatre, with offices in the front.. The price is understood to have been over £IOO,OOO. °

E. G. Martin forwards a further letter of protest against the Borough Council’s action in taking a lease of the Royal Theatre. In the main the letter recapitulates and elaborates his former protest. He states that “at a later date I shall enlighten the ratepayers on the whole subject,” and “until I am shown the legal opinion to the contrary, I say it is illegal.”

All stationery lines stocked at the Manawatu Herald Co. Ltd. Good quality blotting paper, cut to handy size, only 6d per packet.' One night last week a Waihi lady living not far from the business part of the town, had occasion to go to the back door, and on looking out was surprised to see a kiwi walking about in the garden, evidently search for food (says the Waihi “Telegraph”). The bird, which was about the size of a Black Orpington fowl, moved away when an electric torch was turned on it, but on crumbs being thrown out it returned.

W|ord has been received by the New Zealand Rugby Union that A. E. Cook, the well-known Rugby representative player, is not now available for the trip to South Africa. The matter has been referred to the chairman of the selection committee and an announcement regarding Cooke’s successor will be made at the next meeting of the Management Committee. «

To. profess ignorance of terms in colloquial use is, according to long tradition, the prerogative of Judges (states the “New Zealand^Herald”). Perhaps Mr Justice Reed had this practice in mind when he expressed curiosity in the Auckland Supreme Court on Thursday as to what constituted “kerosene” language, a term used by a drover in evidence. The witness explained the term was used by drovers to denote swearing.

“tfo see the orderliness and tidiness of the people in New Zealand has been the greatest pleasure to me,” said Dr. A. W. Hill, director of Kew Gardens, speaking a-t the Auckland University Hall. “Here in the City of Auckland I find gardens planted right to the edge of the footpath, with no fear of people taking anything. It will be very nice to hold yon up as an object lesson to the people at Home. Our public is not as well behaved as the New Zealand public,” he said, referring to the fact that parts of Kew Gardens were open only to -those engaged in research.

At a meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board on Friday, Sir James Wilson took the opportunity of making a small presentation to the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, who was present to confer with the Board on hospital matters. In making the presentation, Sir James apologised for the omission at the laying of the foundation stone to the Maternity Hospital a few weeks ago. He expressed the .great pleasure of all at seeing the Minister with them again, and asked him to accept a suitably engraved silver trowel as a pleasant memento of that occasion. In his reply Mr. Young thanked the members for their gift expressing his pleasure at seeing the good progress made at the Maternity Hospital since the occasion of his last visit to Palmerston North.

The great increase in the number of smokers in London —particularly amongst women —according to a recent cable, has led the managers of the underground railways to transpose their smoking-carriage rules. There are now no smoking-cai-riages on these lines, but 30 per Pent, of the cars are labelled “NonStnokers.” It will come to that in New Zealand by-and-bye. Antitobaceoites may rail against the huge increase in the consumption of the weed. But smoking does more good than harm, provided the tobacco is of first-rate quality and as free from nicotine as possible. That’s where our New Zealand tobaccos come in. The leaf is tonsted —quite a novel idea —and this develops flavour and fragrance astonishingly. And as they contain only a negligible amount of nicotine they may be smoked for hours on end without causing unpleasant or injurious consequences. That’s why medical meif approve them. You can get them, of any strength. “Riverhea'd Gold,” is a delightful aromatic; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), a delicious medium; and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), a fine fullflavoured variety.

The Palmerston North Borough Council, at last night’s meeting, passed a resolution to prosecute persons for wasting water, owing to the severe shortage.

TW capsize of a canvas canoe off Stanley Bay, Auckland, on' Sunday afternoon resulted in the drowning of John Chaplin, aged 16, the eldest son of W. R. Chaplin.

In a professional featherweight contest at Auckland last- night, for a purse of £IOO, Matt Hatton knocked out Frank Taylor in the eighth round of a fifteen round bout. Both are Aucklanders.

Imports into New Zealand during January 1928 amounted to £3,770,020 compared with .£4,011,060 in January 1927 and £4,660,810 in January 1926.- Exports amounted to £7,606/385 compared with £5,205,140 and £5,037,981 in January 1927 and 1926 respectively. The minesweeper Whakakura, which left Auckland on February 11 with 11.M.5. Laburnum and 11.M.5. Veronica to search for a submerged rock which the Federal liner Northumberland struck in January last year, returned to Auckland on Friday afternoon, having swept an area of six miles off the northern extremely of Poverty Bay, where the accident occurred. An official report has been forwarded to the Marine Department. It is understood that an exhaustive search failed to reveal the presence of any submerged object in the area, swept. The ships operated at a depth of 12 fathoms, approximately twice the depth of water that the Northumberland would ordinarily draw. The sloops proceeded south in continuance of their southern cruise upon completion of •the work.