LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3758, 23 February 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evidence that there is plenty of labour available in Gisborne was amply demonstrated when a firm which advertised for a porter by noon had received 60 applications.

After considering nearly 150 applications the Auckland Automobile Association selected two patrolmen for motor cycle duty on the highways.

According to a German doctor, women should not be allowed to drive automobiles, because “their nervous systems cannot react quickly and rationally in crises.”

Over seven hundredweight of schnapper were landed by one Ashing Arm at the Manawatu Bar on Thursday morning. The Ash are usually plentiful at this month of the year.

“It cannot be denied, that newspaper advertising is vital. Other advertising pays, but newspaper advertising pays better.” These remarks were made by a, bank manager in Morrinsville during a discussion on advertising methods. A drowning accident occurred on Monday evening at Opotiki. A little orphan boy named Peter Carter, aged six years, went swimming, leaving his clothes on the bank. The body was found six hours later under a launch nearby.

Owing to counter attractions, the usual monthly meeting of the Foxton Chamber of Commerce, which should have been held this evening, has had to be postponed and will be held on Monday evening at 7.30 o’clock.

All commercial air speed records for the flight between London and Paris were broken on Monday when a Handley-Page Jupiter air liner on the Imperial Airways “Silver Wing” service covered 230 miles from London to the French capital in 80 minutes.

At a recent meeting of the Eltliam Borough Council a protest was entered against a circus which had charged full price to children instead of half-price as advertised. It was stated by a Councillor that halfiprice tickets were refused until 8.10 p.m., yet the ticket office was open at 7.15 p.m. We believe the same practice was adopted at Foxton. In future the Borough Council should insist that a condition for the use of the ground is that there should be no delay in supplying children with the advertised concession.

St. Mary’s Church intend holding their annual ball in about three weeks’ time.

A special meeting of the Foxton D.H. School Committee was held last evening to fix the salary and schedule of duties for the janitor.

' Two residents of Palmerston North and one Lawn Tennis Club are to be prosecuted for wasting the borough water.

Several violet patches in Otaki are looking well, and it is predicted that violets will be picked in the course of a couple of weeks (says the Levin Chronicle). Many thousands of, plants are under cultivation this season.

The postmaster and telegraph linesman visited telephone subscribers this morning who had an extra ear piece connected with their ’phones and gave them the option of retaining the extra at 2/6 per annum or its disconnection forthwith.

A labour agent recently advertised for a ploughman in the Mataura Ensign. There was no response. He later advertised for a man to drive a motor ear. So far 34 replies have been received from applicants whose ages range from 16 years to grey hairs. The wage in this case is 30s per week.

An echo of the Bolton v. Bolton and Hewitt divorce proceedings was heard in the Supreme Court in Palmerston North, when his Hon. Mr. Justice Ostler mentioned that he had inquired into the question of whether he could make co-respon-dent pay all the costs. He could find no authority for such a procedure. All he could do was to make Hewitt pay his own costs.

While a number of children were unsaddling their horses at Tutaenui School this week, a little girl, Winnie Stafford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. iC. Stafford, of the Greystoke Soldier Settlement, received a kick in the face from a pony, receiving the full force of the blow. Dr. Harpur, who was summoned, ordered tfte child to the hospital, where her injuries were found to be particularly serious. The Presbyterian Church at Prebbleton, a country township near' Christchurch, recently installed a wireless receiving set, gift of a member of the church, for the purpose of listening-in to services broadcasted from Christchurch station when no preacher was availabl,e for Prebbleton. To the dismay of members, the Post and Telegraph Department lias demanded a fee of £5 for a license the same fee as is charged halls, hotels and places of business.

Found drowned was the verdict of the Coroner at an inquest on Charles James Mahan, who was found dead in the Lyttelton Harbour, with severe injuries to his head at 1 a.m. on February 4. Dr. Crooke gave the opinion that death was due to drowning, and that the wounds on the head were probably caused by fish, Detective-Sergeant Young said the police searched the whole waterfront, but there was no trace of blood or any clue as to how Mahan got into the water. A mild sensation was caused in Dunedin last week when it became known that the curate' of one of the leading city churches whose household goods had been disposed of by auction a few days previously, had disappeared, leaving his wife behind and that his departure apparently coincided with that of a young married woman who was a member of the church choir. The curate is said to have been a frequent visitor of the house of the young woman who, with her husband, a city business man, lived with her invalid mother.

“This man has been in Palmerston for about 12 months now. During that time he has done no work, and he has been sleeping out frequently. Last night he was arrested for this,” stated Senior-'Ser-geant O’Grady in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when referring .■ to Patrick Bray, an elderly man, who was charged with being an idle and disorderly person, in that he had no visible means of support.” “He just wanders 'about,” added tliQ Se-nior-Sergeant, “an] he has three previous convictions for the same offence.” A sentence of one month’s imprisonment was inflicted by the Magistrate, Mr. J. L. Stout.

The late Mr Jollife, film censor, was fond of his pipe and declared he could from his own personal experience, explode the theory that smoking was bad for the eyesight. Of course. The enemies of the weed are always inventing stories to its .detriment, There’s nothing wrong with tobacco, provided it is the right kind. Brands containing an excess of nicotine are certainly injurious, and most, if not all, the imported tobaccos are open to this objection. The purest varieties are produced here in New Zealand. Containing only a minimum percentage of nicotine these tobaccos may be freely indulged in with ' safety. Another point' is that the leaf is toasted in the process of manufacture. This develops flavour and aroma in a very marked way. Even the doctors have nothing but praise for these tobaccos, which are manufactured in several strengths so as to .suit all tastes. Ask any tobacconist for “Riverhead Gold,” a mild aromatic; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), a deiliglitful mfedium; or “Cut Plug No. 10” (’Bullshead), a fine full-flavour-ed sort.

All stationery lines stocked at the Manawatu Herald Co. Ltd. Good quality blotting paper, cut to handy size, only fid .per packet.

Yesterday was the time predicted for the eruption of Mount Egm f ont. Most people had forgotten all about the prophecy, with perhaps a few exceptions. The spirit had told the enquirer quite definitely that Egmont had gone up in smokc-f-or words to that effect —but for <)nce the “spook” was somewhat at vault in his calculations.

From time to time various persons have claimed to have the sword which Major von Temsky carded into action with him on the day he met his death at the hands of the Hau Haus (says the Wanganui Chronicle). So far, however, none of those submitted seems to be genuine. A letter in the possession of a prominent Wanganui citizen states that the gallant Major did not take his scabbard into action with him. The sheath is of a peculiar shape and none of the swords submitted will fit it. At Auckland yesterday, Samuel Evans, a fireman on the Port Bowen, was fined £7, in default seven days, for giving the captain a black eye on the bridge before the steamer sailed for Opua on Tuesday evening. He joined at Adelaide and wished to sign off ,at Auckland. The skipper stated that the shipping office was the only place Evans could sign off, whereupon the fireman struck him. • When halfway down the ladder to the deck Evans produced a razor and said, “Look here, I’m going to get you when you’re asleep.” At Christchurch on Saturday the University Council considered a letter from a headmistress who urged that a pass might be allowed in matriculation to a pupil who had failed by a narrow margin. She gave an instance of one-fifth per cent, to gain the 45 per cent, required for a pass. In the course of a discussion the general opinion was that the rules, flexible as they now were, should he adhered to strictly, and a motion to refer the letter to the Statutes Committee for consideration was defeated. Fired with the desire to emulate harbour swimmers, a schoolboy set out on an attempt to swim from Northcote to Bayswater, across the bay. He started with an over-arm stroke, and was making good time, with a promise of completing the journey without distress, when the made a fatal glance to the rear. A shark was cruising along leisurely in the calm blue-green water, evidently following the same course as himself. The first inspiration was to abandon the swim, the second to get out of the water at the earliest opportunity. With a turn of speed that would have done him credit in a college championship, he made by the shortest line for the dinghy that was following.