NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3778, 12 April 1928, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The first coat of tar-sealing on the No. 1 Line, Wanganui, was finished from the top of the Wlangaehu hill to the top of the Marangai Hill some weeks ago, says the Chronicle. The double coating has now been laid for about two miles from the top of the Wangaehu Hill. North Otago farmers are preparing to sow a fair area with wheat this autumn, and it is deemed probable that in other Otago districts as well as Oamaru there will be in the coining winter an extensive ploughing for the putting in of potatoes in expectation of a much bigger crop than that of this year. Easily a record price for a Canterbury bred ram sold in the province was obtained at the annual ram and ewe fair at the show grounds last week. A two-shear Corriedale stud ram bred and owned by Mr H. T. Little (Hui Hui, Woodgrove) was sold at auction at 255 guineas. The ram was purchased on behalf of an Argentine buyer. A unique piece of engineering work is in construction for the Browns Lime Co. (reports the Winton Record). It is the longest conveyor belt from a hill of limestone to the works. It is the longest conveyor belt in New Zealand, being 18 chains in length and goes over botli the railway and road, the height of the piers being sixteen feet clear of the road and the extreme height eight feet higher. Over 28 men are employed. The spectacle of a man in his pyjamas chasing his wife along Gundry St., Newton, Auckland, was witnessed by a constable on Friday evening last. There was a sequel to

the incident in the Police Court on Monday, when Richard James Martin, aged 45, a salesman, was charged with assaulting his wife. After the hearing of evidence accused was remanded for a week for medical observation.

A peculiar accident occurred to a service car travelling to Marton on Thursday. The bus was passing a private car when a stone flew up from one of the tyres of the private conveyance, passing through the windscreen of the bus. The stone must have been travelling at a bullet pace to go through the glass without smashing the whole panel. One of the passengers in the back seat was slightly cut by a flying particle of glass. A Wanganui traveller, when told of the incident, said that he had seen a stone thrown from a passing car overtake a service bus and pass the driver at a great pace to penetrate the window. —(Chronicle.

At a meeting of the Hamilton Retailers’ Association last week, it was mentioned that an itinerant trader had taken a room in a house in the town in which he was employing a number of girls making artificial flowers. He was paying the girls at the rate of Gel a dozen for the flowers, and one girl, after working seven hours daily, drew at the end of the week 7/6 as the total proceeds of her labour. The flowers, the. speaker understood, were being retailed at 6d each, and the dealer had asserted that he expected to leave the town with £2OO. The association decided to ask the local office of the Labour Department to inquire into the conditions under which the girls work. (Scene: Smoker of city tram-car. Stern-faced anti-tobaceoite, addressing stranger opposite, puffing a huge pipe with evident enjoyment. “Do you know, my friend, there’s enough poison in that pipe of yours to kill a field-mouse or 37 bluebottle flies?” The smoker: “That so! 'Well if ever I see a fieldrinouse smoking a pipe I’ll tell the cat.” Joking apart, there’s a lot of nonsense talked and written t about smoking. So long as the tobacco is pure and as free from nicotine as possible it can’t do much harm. But there’s the rub. Those imported tobaccos just reeik with nicotine. That’s why their habitual use is so injurious. Our own New Zealand tobaccos in the other hand, are almost free from nicotine, so that you can indulge in them to your heart’s content with perfect safety. lAso owing to' the toasting of the leaf, their flavour is simply delicious and their fragrance delightful. Purer or choicer brands money cannot buy. Ask for “Riverhead Gold,” mild; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium, or “Cut Plug” No. 10, Bullshead, full flavour. 79

Having forgotten to lock his premises on a recent evening, a Tirnaru business man left home in company with a friend to attend to the oversight. Entering the shop from the rear, the proprietor was astounded to see the figure of a fairly tall man, with his hat on, standing near a counter. The proprietor told his companion to call the police, and approaching steathily, he came within hitting range of the figure and dealt him a terrific punch on the jaw. The figure fell over as if poleaxed and lay inanimate. Thu force of the blow evidently satisfied the proprietor that further investigation would not contain any ele-ment-of risk —and he was right. The supposed intruder turned out to be a lifeless model, which some assistant had left in a position that caught the light from the door as soon’ as it was opened. Much to the relief of the proprietor, the police had not been summoned by the time lie found his companion.