LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3762, 3 March 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There were four wet days locally during the month of February, the maximum fall, .44 of an inch, being on the 27th. The warmest day was the 4th, when 73 degrees was registered. The coldest days were the.27th and 29th, when the temperature was 50 degrees.

“The New Zealand workers are the best'in the world,” declared Mr. J. Lee, Labour M.P. for Auckland East, speaking at a public meetingin Napier, says the Napier “Telegraph.” “If you want my proof I tell you that the wealth of New Zealand per capita is the greatest in the world, and that' was produced, not descending upon the country like cooling drops of rain, but by the brawn and. bram of the farmer and the worker ” At about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon a grass fire started at the rear of Mr. E. Booth’s residence, in Johnston Street, and rapidly spread to the back of Francis and Reeve Streets, assuming large proportions. The Brigade was summoned when Mr. Howe’s residence in Reeve Street became endangered, and this they managed to save after it had caught alight by their prompt action. The fflaze took over an hour’s strenuous fighting to extinguish.

An amusing instance of how a certain thoroughfare received the name of Twilight Road, was revealed at a recent meeting of the Manuknu County Council. The question of the derivation of the name was raised by one of the councillors, who aflijnned that lie knew no other road of that name in New Zealand. The word, he said, was essentially English, indicating the three odd hours or so between sunset and nightfall, according to the season of the year. In explaining, another councillor said Mr. Day and Mr. Knight, two of the, earliest settlers in the district, each lived bn opposite sides of the same road which, of course, being called Day and Knight was happily called twilight.

“The jyaori was an agriculturist, a fisherman, a bird snarer, but he was never a pastoralist,” said the Hon. (). J. Hawkcn, Minister of Agriculture, addressing the section of Maori pupils at Wesley College, near Pukekohe, on Monday, reports the “New Zealand Herald.” Therefore although the Maori already possessed the sense of agriculture he had yet to be .taught general farming, to be allowed to handle animals, and acquire the pastoral sense, said the Minister. Not alone should he be persuaded to exploit his hereditary gardening faculty, but also to adopt European methods in'other farming fields. Those Maori and Island boys being so ably trained at Wesley College would have a great influence for progress among their own people. As foresters they were ahead of the Europeans.

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With this issue we circulate an inset on behalf of Mr. Howard M. Phillips, piano and tuning expert. A number of local residents attended the Manawatu Trades Union picnic and sports held on the Ashhurst Domain to-day.

Deputy-Superintendent F. Loockwood represented the Foxton Fire Brigade at the annual Fire Brigades Conference held in New Plymouth this week.

Last evening the Foxton Football Club held a successful dance in the Masonic Hall. There was a good attendance and an enjoyable time was spent by those present. The vital statistics for the month of February are as follows, the figures for the corresponding period last year being given in parenthesis: —Births 4 (5), deaths 1 (2), marriages 4 (1). •A[do.t aqj su.tt ( /:|.ioav2u.i pojpid pun oiuoq |T! pa.\u|s aay .‘.its '}[a;)a\ sur ‘p.iuog uoipmnpa [>[uuu.n?x ot[f jo uuiuuiuqa ‘ijjuug -0 -g m]\t Aq ua.ippip A'.tjuuoo oayj jo paqsn uogsonb u sbay (j;A'np .mqjo mg opioid [ooqos nig oj off noA‘ piQ„ A charge of forging and uttering a cheque by altering the amount front £2 to £2O and cashing same, was preferred against a young man named John Wm. Arthur Johnson, labourer, of Marton. A remand until March 8 was granted the police. The Ulimaroa is held up in Sydney owing to the steamer’s cooking staff asked Hud dart Parker’s to add a cook and sculleryman to the ship’s complement in addition to filling the position of second cook, who left yesterday. The Company declined to accede to the demand. As the result or me burning of his house at Te Ore Ore on Wednesday night, Mr. Henry Scott, aged 55, lost his life. Mr. Scott was,sleeping in the house alone, and when the fire was noticed by neighbours it was too late to effect a rescue. The remains of deceased were later found in the debris.

e The official opening of Massey Agricultural College at Palmerston North has been set down for March 20th, when it is expected that the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. 0. J. Ilawken) will be among those taking part in the ceremony. The enrolment of students at the College commenced yesterday. A Christchurch telegram states that the new Gloster-Grebe single seater aeroplane, a gift to Wigram Aerodrome by Sir Henry Wigram, was tried out yesterday. The machine attained a speed of 160 miles an hour, the fastest speed yet made by an aeroplane in New Zealand.

At Pahiatua yesterday, Arnold Spencer Wilson, 19, a stranger to the district, pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court, Wellington, on charges of breaking, entering and theft at Hamua, and also committing an indecent assault on a male. Accused had been employed by h Hamua farmer.

A native, Enolca Toherere Paku, jun., at Tokomaru Bay, was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court at Gisborne yesterday, having pleaded guilty to unlawfully wounding a cow. A case of gross cruelty was disclosed, the cow having been found with several cuts on its back inflicted with an axe. Accused admitted having been awakened at night by a cow in his garden and that lie attacked it with the axe. »

Mr. T. M. Hickson, who conducted a healing mission in New Zealand and Australia a few years ago, is at present a visitor to Christchurch. He is spending six months’ holiday in New Zealand, having just completed a world tour, holding missions in every town of size in England, America and the Continent. Mr. Hickson states that he will not conduct any more mass meetings, hut at the end of this holiday he will hold private missions.

The Glen Oroua school held their swimming sports in their school baths yesterday afternoon in the presence of a large gathering of parents and settlers. Mr. S. Parlane (headmaster), Miss Wiseman (assistant) and members of tho School Committee assisted in getting off a varied programme of events in which the scholars showed marked proficiency. At the conclusion afternoon tea was dispensed by the ladies. The baths are situated in the school grounds, and were constructed some years ago by public subscription. The water is supplied from an artesian bore.

“How many tobacco pipes do you keep in use?" The writer knows a man who has 31 and smokes them all, turn about! Rather a lot? But if certainly is a good plan to have a few pipes going instead of smoking- the. same one continuously. More important still is the tobacco. Let it be good, and avoid brands heavily charged with nicotine. Any doctor will toll you their habitual use is injurious, and it cannot be gain-said that the imported brands all contain more nicotine than can be safely absorbed into the system. Tfie purest tobaccos of all are the New Zealand ones. There's . surprisingly little nicotine in them, which means they can be indulged in with the utmost impunity. Their line aroma and exquisite flavour are largely due to the tact that the leaf is toasted in the process of manufacture. These qualities it is that differentiates them from all other tobaccos. You can get them in any strength. Ask your tobacconist for “Riverhead Gold” mild; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium; or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) lull flavoured.