Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3777, 10 April 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

That the post of official head of an Auckland borough isino sinecure is shown by a statement made by Mr J. W. Williamson, Mayor of Tokapuna,. at a ratepayers’ meeting. He said that entries in his diary since the beginning of his official year showed that he had had 391 appointments on municipal business, some of them for fixtures of brief duration, but others running into hours.

, Fatal injuries were sustained b\ Maude Ivy Timpley, aged 15, win. fell from a horse while riding on the Muriwai Beach) Auckland, on Saturday afternoon. The girl wa; the daughter of Mr and Mrs Tim pley, of Kings]and, and was on a visit to her aunt, Mrs J. P. Hand.* Wilien thrown to the ground Mis:: Timpley suffered a compound fracture of the skull, and was rendered unconscious. The patient did not regain' consciousness, and died on Sunday afternoon. ,

A contretemps which had its amusing as well as its embarrassing side took place at the conclusion of a match between the Ashburton and Methven Croquet Clubs at Ashburton last week. When it was announced that Methven had won by one point, the Ashburton members congratulated the /winners, who left for the' .train, taking the trophy with them. The scores were then checked, and an error of eight points was found, which made Ashburton winners by ' seven points. The officials set out to catch the Methven players before they returned home, to inform them of the error and recover the trophy.

At a recent cheap sale of wireless head-phones, one purchaser was an elderly woman, who, living alone, felt the need of some form of entertainment. A few days later she returned the headphones to the shop with the complaint that no sound could be heard from them, but on testing the phones an assistant found them in perfect order. Naturally suspecting that the fault must lie' in the receiving set, lie inquired what type of set the woman possessed, his only reply being a puzzled look, and an inquiry as to what he meant. The woman had spent several evenings fruitlessly listening-in without the very necessary aid of a receivingset.

At the local Police Court yesterday, before Messrs Alf Fraser and M. E. Perreau, J’s.P., Edward Charles Boyle, who was arrested on Saturday night, pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting a Maori named Hemara Hoterini. Constable Owen stated that on Saturday night the two men, who were both intoxicated, had an argument in Whyte Street, when Boyle struck the other fan a h,eavy blow on the face, which caused him to fall on the footpath, rendering him insensible. Boyle then dragged him away into a dark place, where both men were subsequently found. As drink was the cause of the trouble, the issue of a prohibition order was suggested and as accused agreed to this, the Bench decided to convict and discharge him.

‘•Most of the harm from pipes is flue to their foulness.” Thus wrote Sir Robert Armstrong Jones, a distinguished authority, recently in the British Medical Journal. Sir Robert might have added that the main cause of pipes becoming foul is the use of tobacco heavily chargs ed with nicotine. Such tobaccos may (and often do) cause nerve trouble, eyesight trouble, heart trouble, and chronic indigestion. Happily here in New Zealand ailments occasioned by excess of nicotine in tobaccos is becoming rarer. This is owing to the growing popularity of our New Zealand tobaccos, which, thanks to their comparative freedom from nicotine, may be indulged in freely without any fear of consequences. That’s why doctors recommend them. Another point in their favour is that the leaf is toasted (something new!). Hence thendelightful fragrance, and delicious flavour. You can get them of any strength. There are several varieties. Leading lines are: —“Riverhead Gold,” mild and aromatic 5 “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), a choice medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), a line full flavoured sort. Any tobacconist will supply you.

Commercial vehicles and ehasses imported into the Dominion in Januarv numbered 142.

The Feilding Motor Sports take place on the Feilding racecourse tomorrow. The course is in good order after the recent rain and some excellent racing is anticipated. A death from infantile paralysis occurred at Ashburton on Sunday, the patient being a fourteen-year-old girl, who becaine ill on Thursday. This is the first case in Ashburton for a very long period. The entire population of some towns could be accommodated in the Equitable Building, New York. This fact will give some idea of the size of the skyscrapers in the city of Manhattan. The Equitable building of 38 storeys, accommodates 12,000 people every 24 hours, and no fewer than 127,000 people enter and .leave the building every day. There has never been a casualty since the building was rebuilt ip 1915, following the terrible tire of 1913. Sixty-three lifts carry 92,000 people up and down to the various offijces daily, and these lifts travel 275,000 miles in a year. The building contains more than 20,000,000 cubic feet of space; 63,000 letters and parcels are received by the tenants each day, and 88,000 are sent out. There are 5,000 windows an dlo,ooo doors.