Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3763, 6 March 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Rain foil throughout this district last night and this morning accompanied by easterly winds.

The local band is now practising' regularly, both -senior and junior jneni'bers, and are making' good progress. They hope, shortly to make their appearance publicly. Several violent eruption's /from Mount Ngauruhoe were reported on Sunday at fairly regular intervals, the first activity for 4 several months. f

At the Shannon sports bn Saturday, H. Reid, of Foxton, won the 880 yards (30 yards'), and came third in the mile add 440 yards. i.

A good deal of sickness was experienced by the Palmerston North Battery in camp last week. The trouble was put down chiefly to the water. No serious case, however, was reported.

Prize-winners at the last Labour Social Club’s euchre, tournament were as follows: —Mesdames Andreseh, Williams, /Ross,; find Allerhy, and Messrs Hiririi, Hamer, Pritchard and Holley.

At .last..night’s,-meeting• of the Palmerston North Borough Council, Cr. Milverton called the engineer (Mr.,J. R. Hughes) a “twister.” Cr. Milverton refused to withdraw the words and left, the meeting.

The flag on the Post Office was flying half-mast yesterday out of respect to the memory of the late Hon. Mark'Cohen, the, well-known journalist, whose death occurred at Auckland on Saturday night. A very enjoyable time was spent at the Salvation Army Hall last night, when the gifts of fruit and produce for the harvest festival were auctioned and a programme of vocal and musical items were contributed by the Levin corps. Although the great summer sale closed at the C.' M. Ross Coy.’s on Saturday, that firm are this week offering some wonderful after-sale bargains. Read the list in to-day’s issue—the prices are a revelation in price-cutting. On a recent Saturday was seen the unusual spectacle of a cat voluntarily swimming (says an exchange). The animal was 911 the bank of the Wajpaoa river, ; opposite To Karaka, and seeing some children bathing, took a header into the water and swam strongly to the other side.

At a baby show at Otaki recently, the prize winner was a grandchild of Mr. W. H. Field, M.P., and the Mayor (Mr. Brandon) stated that Mr. W. H. Field had been successful in a beauty competition when young. Time certainly does work changes! • An accident occurred at the- right angle bend opposite the roadinan’s hut on the Levin Road on the Levin side of the bridge on Saturday evening. A motor car swung out too wide and capsized into the drain on the roadside. The driver was badly shaken up, but a lady companion escaped unhurt. The car was considerably damaged. For every bullock killed seven cows were slaughtered at the Palmerston North abattoir during February. The killed list was: Cows, 289; heifers, 108; bullocks, 44; calves, 02; sheep, 1008; lambs, 430; pigs, 2708. Stock condemned: Cows, 14; heifers, 3; sheep, 7; lambs, 1; pigs, 34. Fees received, £348 19/10.

At last night’s meeting of the FoxtonD. H. School committee, the question of forming the footpath along Duncan Street which runs parallel with the High School property was discussed. A bank of sand now obstructs the footway, and the Mayor said he would recommend the Council to have this removed. The levelling of the school ground in the same locality will, it is hoped, be undertaken by the Education Board before the school is opened at the end of this month.

It is reported that owing to the scarcity of bacon pigs just now there is every likelihood of a rise in the buying price.

For the first time for some years there were two boats discharging their cargo at the local wharf yesterday. Both the scow Poi’tland, and s.s. Kennedy were in port and both left on the evening tide for Wlellington and Lyttelton respectively. Last week we received an order for envelopes from Masterton! (Letter may be seen at this office), surely proof that our envelope prices are unbeatable: 9/- per 1000, 5/- per box of 500. Manawatu Herald Co., Ltd.

Trials of smokeless fuel for banking and lighting fires at the railway engine sheds at Linwood (says the Christchurch Press) have been markedly successful from the point of view of eliminating the smoke nuisance, and the residents have experienced a considerable improvement.

An Auckland telegram reports that Frederick S. H. Marton was charged with having received £266 overpaid to him by the Pensions Department. He had since 1924 received amounts varying from 30s to 40s a week, and recently received a larger sum. He was fined £5 and ordered to make restitution of as much of the £266 as possible.

The skeleton washed up on the Waikanae beach has not been identified as that of the seaman Rolf from the Elsie Mary, who was drowned two months ago, says a Gisborne telegram. A doctor was of opinion that the skeleton had been in the water for over six months and was a man considerably taller than Roff. Opinion was freely expressed at a meeting of the Rangitikei County Council on Saturday that the names of motorists convicted of being drunk while in charge of cars should on no account be suppressed. The menace of drunken motorists was stressed, and the clerk was instructed to direct attention of the Minister of Justice.to the matter.

As the result of a collision between two motor cars on the Main South Road, jhst outside Blenheim,. Albert Edward Barry, aged 21 years, was charged yesterday with •being drunk while in charge of a motor car. He pleaded guilty, and had his license to drive suspended for four months. Suppression of accused’s name was refused.

A local lad, named H. Newson, had a narrow escape, from serious injury on Sunday morning. He was riding a bicycle in Union Street, when he collided with a motor car driven by Mr. F. Walton, Levin Road. Newson was thrown clear but was severely shaken. His bicycle was badly damaged, while the car received considerable damage to the radiator.

One reason why the Otago Harbour Board’s tug Dunedin went so promptly to aid the damaged whaleship C. A. Larsen is that the board has a definite arrangement with the whaling company for the use of the tug for any or all services that may be required of her—a comprehensive contract that includes towage to a repairing port if the floating is accomplished and the company so desires. In all ways possible the Harbour Board is helping in the salvage.

For several weeks a motor-cycle with a side-chair has lain on the side of the road about a mile from Otokin, Otago. Whether it is a stolen machine or whether it was discarded no one seems to know; but the number should enable the question to be settled. If the owner does not turn up soon, however, there will not be much left for him, says a. Dunedin paper. The week before last the front wheel was taken and last.week the back wheel went.

The combined trades unions picnic held on the Ashhurst Domain on Saturday was a great success. The weather was ideal and the attendance was upwards of 1500. The organizations participating were the hotelworkers, furniture workers, general labourers, A.S.R.S., carpenters, flaxworkers, painters and drivers’ unions. A merry time was spent by all and especially the children who were provided with toys, sweets, ice-creams, and other refreshments in abundance. The energetic organizers deserve credit for the manner in which the picnic was arranged and carried through.

Tobacco consumption varies very much with the smoker. Some men are content with an ounce a week, while others will consume an ounce a day. Literary men, painters, musicians, chess players, scientists, mathematicians and brain workers generally are mostly heavy smokers. Well, even heavy smoking is alright so long as the tobacco is of the best and not ' full of nicotine. That’s the worst of the imported brands, they contain so much nicotine that they are bound to cause trouble sooner or later. They are liable to affect the heart, nerves or digestion. The purest tobaccos in the world and the freest from nicotine are our own New Zealand grown varieties which you can smoke for hours at a time without fear of consequences. Cool, sweet and fragrant, these delicious tobaccos are largely indebted fon their line smoking qualities to the fact that the leaf is toasted in the process of manufacure —quite a new idea. Any tobacconist will supply them. Ask for “Riverhead Gold,’’ mild; “Navy Cut’’ (Bulldog), medium; or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), full strength.

What is said to be an Australasian motor speed record was established on the Oreti beach (Invercargill) on Sunday, . when C. W. Hamilton (Fail-lie) drove a Sunbeam car ove# 1 a straight mile in 33 seconds, registering a speed of 109 miles an hour.

A Dargaville resident who telephoned a relative in South Canterbury over the week-end, was surprised at the splendid service given. Conversation was as easy as if speaking to someone on the Dargaville exchange.

Finding the lot of a lone sailor too difficult • in the rough sea, Mr. Frank Wade, who set out from Sydney for Auckland in a seventon yacht a few days ago has returned to Sydney. He may make another attempt to reach New Zealand if he can find a suitable companion.

At the Gisborne Magistrate’s Court yesterday, a youth convicted of riding his motor cycle without mufflers, was fined £2. The Magistrate commented that fie wouldn’t issue more warnings. In future Where it has been shown that a rider made a noise deliberately or Has shown gross carelessness, he would inflict the maximum fine of £2O without hesitation.

During the month of February the estates of the following deceased persons in the Palmerston North district were accepted for administration by the Public Trustee: Augustus Spencer Easton, Tobias Miller, Sarah Murdock, Elizabeth Ruff, Patrick Sheadon, Walter Spencer Tremain, William Joseph White. ,

“I suppose he thanked God and thought his debts were paid,” said the Chief Justice in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, when he was informed that a man on whom a bankruptcy notice had been served, thought he was thereby made bankrupt, and promptly left the district to attend a wedding, and thought he had nothing more to do in the matter.

The formal opening took place on Sunday of a large hut erected on Mount Waiopehu (3,588 feet) by the Levin-Waiopehu Club. The building provides accommodation for 16 people, and is reached by a seven-mile walk through magnificent virgin bush. The view from the summit embraces country from Ruapehu and Egmont to the Ivaikouras in the South Island and a full expanse of the Tararua Ranges in the east. Mr. W. H. Field, M.P., in the presence of over 100 people, declared the hut open. The superstition in connection with the number 13 was strongly in evidence at a euchre tournament in Levin recently, when a Maori player resolutely refused to start at table 13. There were also others who avoided it at the opening and for a while it was difficult to get four players willing to start from “the devil’s table.” However, when the prize winners were announced it was found that both the first prize, winners were players who had started at No. 13. —Chronicle.

According to an admission made at the dinner given to the delegates to the New Zealand Builders’ Federation Conference, the achievements of Mr. E. J. Howard, M.P., apparently, have not been gained in the political arena. He has reached the topmost rung of the ladder in another field! (remarks the Christchurch Sun). “Years ago,” he said, “when I was an honest working man, I was intimately connected with the building trade, and I can say, without any egotism, that I reached the highest position that can be reached in the trade —I carried bricks to the top of the highest building in Christchurch.”

The list of names of persons appointed to the Commission of the Peace which was gazetted last week contained the name of a Dunedin resident who was appointed a justice of the peace many years ago, when he lived in a country district in Otago, and had never resigned or forfeited the appointment. Upon his removal from the district in which he had lived the Department of Justice seems to have lost sight of him. Finally, it determined to make inquiries, which apparently were misdirected, for he was reported dead and his name was re-moved-from the roll of justices. He has now been asked to attend at such and such a place to he sworn in. Having been sworn in once already, and not having forfeited his appointment, the justice is at a loss to know why he should be sworn in a second time.