Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3779, 14 April 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“It is a pretty expensive cow, sir,” remarked Mr W. J. Treadwell in a ease which again engaged the attention of the Wanganui Police Court. “Yes,” replied the Magistrate, “in fact, if is a cow of a ease.”

Prizewinners at the last Labour Social Club's weekly euchre tournament were as follows: —Mesdames E. Bills, E. Fuller and H. Prow, and Messrs F. Shaw, J. Coley, and J. Allerby.

The Foxton Volunteer Fire Brigade desire to publicly "acknowledge an appreciative letter and’ cheque for two guineas front Mr J. Desmond, whose business premises were recently destroyed by fire.

“Thousands of pounds are being sent out of the country for lemons that could be produced here,” said Mr G. A. Green, Dominion secretary of the New Zealand Horticultural Trades Association, at a meeting of the Auckland City Council. The All Black Rugby team left Wellington yesterday afternoon by *the Marama to connect at Sydney with the Euripedes for South, Africa: The team were entertained at a banquet and civic farewell and crowds witnessed their departure.

George Nepia, the well known footballer, now living at Tiki Tiki may not play till late in the season, foi; he is now convalescing from an illness which occasioned his relatives and friends some anxiety, his condition at one stage being regarded as critical.

The number of admissions to the scarlet fever ward (32) has greatly increased, reported 'Dr. Frank Ward (Medical Superintendent) to the Palmerston N. Hospital Board on Thursday. The cases were from scattered districts and were mostly mild in type. The ward accommodation, however, was being taxed to its utmost.

A party of 25 lads will arrive in Auckland by the Hororata from Liverpool on May 3, under the auspices of the Church of England Immigration Committee. So far 144 lads have been brought out under this scheme and the Committee has (be satisfaction of knowing that 85 per cent, of them have remained in their original situations in farm work.

A' fine Sambur head has been taken at Tokomaru in the Manawatu district, by Mr .J. E. Warrington. The antlers are said to be exceptionally heavy. Some ten years ago a pair of Sambur antlers was found apparently shed, in a swamp in the Manawatu district, which shares with the Horowhenua, Oroua and Rangitikei districts the honour of possessing the only Sambur in New Zealand.

A few miles from Nelson, on the road to Motueka, one passes a settlement called Brightwater. A 'local resident who recently passed through that district, had his attion directed to a treeless, vacant section on the roadside. In a corner of the section was a heap of bricks, the remains of a chimney, and a well pump. “This is the site of the birthplace and home of Sir Ernest Rutherfurd,” said the car driver. “The little country school in the distance is where he received his primary education.” The visitor was impressed with the scene of the great scientist’s boyhood days and expressed disappointment that the humble birthplace of the great scientist had been demolished.

The untmployed of New Plymouth will benefit to the extent of £3l 13s 9d, the profit of special screenings at the two New Plymouth theatres on Good Friday.

Nominations for school committeemen close with the Chairman on Monday evening next at 8 o’clock. The annual meeting of householders will be held the following Monday, when the committee will be elected. At. the Palmerston police court yesterday, Wallace Athol Warrington Gay Smith, a young man, pleaded guilty to the tliert of jewellery to the value of £35 and was committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for sentence.

As one passes along Tasman Bay in the Nelson district, large quantities of apples may be seen on the water’s edge. These have been cast away as not fit for export. Large quantities of apples are also to be seen on the ground beneath the trees in the apple orchards, a gift to any one desiring to cart them away. 'Shortly after 12 o’clock yesterday Palmerston was enveloped in a pall of smoke, which at times became so thick that part of - the Fifzherbert hills were invisible from, the town. It was ascertained that fires in the neighbourhood of Turakina were responsible for the smoke, which cleared in the late afternoon.

Early on Thursday morning, says a Press message, from Christchurch, Hannah Packer, 60, unmarried, left her home in Cranmer Square under circumstances which caused her relatives to be uneasy about her safety. The police were notified and inquiries were made. Yesterday morning her body was found on the beach at South Brighton.

While in the Motneka district recently our representative was informed that the cultivation of the tobacco plant brought in £IOO per acre, while the cost of cultivation, etc., did not average more than £2O. All the crops had been bought up by the National Tobacco Co. and Wills’. The flavour of the tobacco, we were informed, was the nearest to that of the Virginian leaf. Double the area of this year will be under cultivation next year.

Mr W. F. Hornig, manager of the ill Black team, in responding to a toast at the farewell dinner, said he was sure the present team would live up to the prestige of the 1905 and 1924 teams. They were up against probably the hardest proposition a New Zealand team had ever struck, but provided the team kept fit and well they hoped to win the majority of the Test matches, and leave a good name behind them in South Africa.

The disappearance of a milk jug and the daily paper from a Dunedin residence was the other day reported to the police as a theft, states a correspondent, colour being given to that belief by the fact that the' missing jug had been put out containing a bank note with which to pay the milkman. The officer to whom the complaint was made set /a. watch and found the thief —the house-owner’s pup. Luckily it had not spent the money. The jug and the paper, and other articles were hidden under the house.

A Canterbury farmer, having stated that Southland farms Were held in too large blocks —50 to 80 acres should be sufficient— the “Southland Daily News” replies that “the average holding in Southland is 56 acres less than_ that in Canterbury and only half of that of Otago; but Auckland and Taranaki have set an example which we might follow with advantage, the average in those districts being 270 acres to Southland’s 550. There are in this district just on 6,000. farmers, holding something over 3,000,000 acres, and it is possible to introduce another 15,000 or 20,000 farmers without unduly restricting operations and with profit to everyone ”

After 45 years at sea, Captain Jackson, of the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner lonic, will relinquish his command when the ship’s next voyage to England is completed. Captain Jackson is one of the bestknown personalities in the Eng-land-New Zealand service, and his departure will be regretted not only by many people in all stations of life with whom his position as skipper of a great trans-ocean vessel has brought him into contact. Wjhen he retires he will have completed 30 years as an officer of the White Star line. His commands have been the Zealandie, the Bovic, the Cufic, the Arabic, and lastly the lonic, which he has commanded on many voyages.

“What a blessing tins smoKing is! Perhaps the greatest we owe to the discovery of America.” So , wrote the late Sir Arthur Helps, and millions of smokers the world over have doubtless endorsed his words. But great as is our indebtedness to America for giving us the priceless boon of tobacco, the fact remains .that practically all the American brands in use to-day contain an excess of nicotine. And that is bad, as any doctor will tell you. It is no less true that the purest tobaccos of all, 1.e., those comparatively free, from nicotine are our own New Zealand varieties. They are so pure in fact, that they may be indulged in with the utmost impunity. The leaf is toasted in the process of manufacture. Hence their delightful flavour and delightful fragrance. They come in several strengths, and are thus adapted to all tastes. You can get them at any tobacconists. Ask for “Riverhead Gold,” mild, “Navy Cut,” (Bulldog), medium; or “Cut Plug No. 10,” (Bullshead) full strength. 80