Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3767, 15 March 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.Some boxthorn being burnt on Easton Park this morning got out of control and the wind, quickly spread the flames in the long grass of the park. The brigade was summoned, and the outbreak extinguished before any damage was done. The 19th Battery (Wellington', hohl a successful concert and dance in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening- in aid of .Jack Short!.

“Plans for the renewal of the Awapuni bridge are now nearing completion,” reported the engineer of the Ivairanga County Council at Tuesday’s meeting of that body in Palmerston North. The proposed new structure, he proceeded, won hi lie sixty feet long, with twenty-six feet of roadway,. It was expect'd that everything would be in order to call tenders in time for its construction next summer, providedthat the Highways Board made provision for its share of the cost. Consternation reigned amongstthe smokers assembled on the platform at Wellington the other day when the outward-bound Hutt train drew up without any first-class smoke cars attached. However there were two cars labelled “A” and “B,” respectively, and a smoker, pipe in mouth, exclaiming “B” is for baeey!” jumped into the “B” car, and all the other smokers followed suit. Presently someone asked: “If ‘B’ is for baccy—what is ‘A’ for?” “For abstainers, of course,” came the reply. Everybody laughed. Precious few “abstainers” from the weed these days! —possibly one in 50. Well there’s no harm in tobacco,-so long as it’s good and doesn’t contain too much nicotine, as those imported brands do. Our New Zealand tobaccos contain so little it doesn’t matter. That’s why'they are so safe. They are unbeaten for fragrance and flavour, too. Delicious. Those chiefly in demand are:—“Riverhead Gold” mild; “Navy Cct” (Bulldog) medium; and “Cut Piny No. 10’ (Bnllshead), full strength. They are on sale everywhere. Any tobacconist will supply you.