Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3782, 21 April 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

A violent westerly gale was experienced in this district yesterday.

The annual meeting of householders will be held in the D.H.' School on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Owing to the nominations for committee received not exceeding the vacancies to be filled, there will not be an election.

It is Mr. Perreau’s intention ro erect a building at the seaside to replace the one recently destroyed by fire. The new structure will lie in the nature of a combined tea kiosk and store and will also contain living rooms.

A young man named Arthur Phipps, in the employ of Dr. Wall, of Moutoa, met with a painful accident on Thursday. While engaged in* digging, the spade slipped, cutting through his boot and almost severing the big toe. The toe was subsequently amputated. Anzac Day will be fittingly celebrated in Foxton on Wednesday liext. The returned .soldiers will parade and a public memorial service will be held in the Town Hall at 2.30 p.m. The address will be delivered by Chaplin-Captain J. M. Stewart, of Palmerston North.

The recent fire which destroyed the shops occupied by Messrs Fletcher and Desmond in Main Street, has created a gap in the business portion of the town. The site has been cleared of the debris and it is probable that a new block will be erected by Mr. Speirs at an eaily date.

Robert Cyril Southwood, aged 28, and Arthur James Tullett, aged 21, immigrants employed at the Marton railway refreshment rooms, were convicted of the theft of various articles from motor cars to the value ot' £8 during a recent dance a few miles from Marton. The former was sentenced to six months’ hard labour, while his companion was fined £5.

The New Zealand Rugby Union, •has received the following cablegram from the English Rugby Union : —“Rujgby Football Union gladly accept your union’s invitation to send a team to New Zealand and New South Wales in 1930.” The chairman (Mr. S. S. Dean) remarked that this was very satisfactory. It was decided >to at once communicate with the New (lou'th Wales Union on the subject.

Triplets, two girls and a boy, •were born at the Te Puke Maternity Hospital on Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. A. 11. Fenton, of Te Puke. The children are reported to be all doing well. It is understood that Parliament will be asked to grant the customary bounty (states the “New Zealand Herald.”) The event is believed to be the first ol the kind recorded in the district. Mr. G. F. Smith’s humorous items were greatly appreciated at the returned soldiers’ reunion on Thursday evening. His parody on the “Great Parade” wherein ho described a dream of boom times 'in Foxton, llaxmills flourishing, the port tilled with vessels, flax workers wages £2 per day, and local residents surrounded with luxury, caused much merriment. Mr. Link]a ter, MJP., subsequently re- . marked that he hoped the dream would be realised in the future. The scholars of the • secondary department of the local D.H. School entertained their parents, committee and teaching staff at an enjoyable social in the school last evening. Games, dancing and amusing competitions whiled away a pleasant time. Occasion was taken to farewell one of the scholars in the person of Marjorie McMurray. The headmaster (Mr. F. A. Mason) and Mr. J. K. Hornblow delivered brief and helpful addresses to the children. Mrs. Goodman presided at the piano.

v At Hamilton yesterday Huntley Harvey Samuels, a tailor, was fined £25 for bookmaking. Reginald Brown, a barman, aged 30, pleaded guilty in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday to a charge of having used the private bar of the Wellington Hotel as a common gaming house. He

was referred to as a silver bettor and was fined £ls.

The anual meeting of parishioners of All Saints’ Church was held last night. All the office-bearers were re-elected. The Vicar’s report and the 1 balance-slie’et, in printed form, and circulated at .the meeting, were read and adopted.

The Palmerston Hospital Board’s offer to provide five beds for maternity eases and six beds for casualty cases, three for men and three for women, at the Otaki Cottage Hospital, was agreed upon in conference with the Director of Health (Dr. Valentine), at a meeting of the Board in Palmerston yesterday. This decision was ommunicatcd to a deputation of Otaki district residents who waited upon the Board. Mr. J. Linklater, M.P., in speaking at the returned soldiers’ reunion on Thursday night made re r ference to the local port. Ho said it would be suicidal for the Harbour Board to undertake any work for improving the port until it was ascertained whether the Manawa-tu-Oroua River Board’s scheme would be adopted. In his opinion the Government should subsidise the scheme otherwise it would impose too great a burden upon the ratepayers within the area.

An irate correspondent forwards us a strongly worded letter calling attention “to the disgraceful state of the Foxton-Rangiotu road” and “the latest injustice to motorists by dumping unbroken river-bed boulders on a section of the corrugated highway.” The correspondent .wants to know when petrol tax payers are to get some value from the County Council in return for the main share of the money they provide for road maintenance? It would be better for our correspondent to forward his complaint direct to the Manawatu County Council.

As a chap grows older many tilings that formerly gave him pleasure lose their appeal. But there’s one thing he rarely tires of —his pipe. In fact the older a man grows, the more necessary his pipe seems to become to him. Of course the enemies of the weed will laugh. But what does the man who does not (or cannot) smoke know of the joys of smoking? Tobacco is often roundly abused. Yet it’s harmless enough so long as it’s not heavily charged with nicotine as most of the imported brands are. Is there any really pure tobacco on the market? Yes; our own New Zealand tobaccos are remarkable for their purity. And they contain so little nicotine that they may be smoked freely without fear of consequences. Another strong point in their favour is .that the leaf 'is toasted. -Hence their fascinatingflavour and delightful bouquet. Where are they to be had? Why, al any tobacconist’s. Ask for “Riverhead Gold” mild; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium; or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshcad) full strength.