Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3787, 3 May 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Local sportsmen report ducks to .have been fairly scarce for the opening of the season on Tuesday, due probably to the strong easterly wind. Several bags of about thirty ducks are reported.

A despicable act was perpetrated at Bryant’s slaughter yards on Monday evening. Pour large shoulders of beef which were left at the abbators over night were badly hackeel by some person, and a considerable quantity of meat removed.

, A poll taken by the “Timaru Herald" over 'South Canterbury, including the town of Timaru, and five country townships, on the question as to whether “Sidey Time” should be continued, resulted in an overwhelming vote against continuation. The figures were, for continuance 2590, against 5118. On Tuesday evening 100 horses arrived in Foxton by train for the Mounted Camp on the racecourse. Dujrin(g unloading operations lone of the men received a kick on the side of the head from one of the animals, necessitating medical attention. He was not seriously injured, however. .Reporter: “The gentleman you sent me to interview hit me in the eye, then he threw me down the stairs, and kicked me into the street.” Editor: “Is that so? We’ll get even with the brute. You go ahead and write your story, and we’ll run it in the paper with his name spelt wrong.” The divorce petition of William George Bright against Maria Catherine Bright on the ground of mutual separation (details of which were telegraphed last week) was dismissed by Justice Blair in the Auckland Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Judge said the fact was established that the separation had been brought about by the wrongful conduct of petitioner himselfand that being so, it seemed to him the petition should be dismissed.

“The cow with the iron tail!” was referred to by Councillor Clyde Carr in his address -to Clarkyille (Canterbury) dairy farmers on Tuesday night. He said that there had been a good deal of adulteration of milk in Christchurcljj, as one could note from Court prosecutions. “I am quite sure,” said Mr. Carr, “that some of the farmers at this meeting would be guilty of milking the cow with the iron tail; though possibly,” he added, “you might leave the cover off the can on a rainy day.”

There are many tradesmen wlio can earn £6 a week, yet they are up against if and have not a penny 'to bless themselvos with (says a Southern writer). There is not the slightest reason why the average young man should not have at least £BOO by the time he is 30 years of age. That is putting his savings at a very low figure. He should have plenty of money for all other pleasures besides. A man does not have to spend nearly the money on himself that a woman has. If he gets a good hat and three well-tailored suits he can say “good-bye” to buying anything else for years, but a woman’s hats and frocks are soon shabby, anl she must keep moderately well dressed unless she is to look a frump.

At about 1 p.m. yesterday there was a phenomenal downpour of ruin and the main thoroughfare was covered with a sheet of water.

At the local police court this morning, before Mr. J. K. Hornb(ow, J.P., a first-offending inebriate was convicted and fined 5/-

A Departmental inquiry is to be held respecting the alleged illtreatment of an escaped Borstal inmate by warders when re-captured at Isveroargill recently. The Registrar of Electors for Manawatu (Mr. J. Newton), informs us that there have been 138 un-notified changes of residence by electors within the Foxton borough since last general election. He points out that it is compulsory for electors to notify the Registrar when changing their address in order that the alteration can be made on the electoral roll.

At the Auckland Magistrate’s Court yesterday exemption from military training bn religious grounds was refused G.' M. McDougall, a youth studying for the Presbyterian ministry. “I will not drill or parade,” said McDougall. The Magistrate (smiling): “Well, you just tell that to the SergeantMajor on the parale ground, and if he is the sort of Sergeant-Major I think he will be, he will endeavour to teach you differently. All you have to do is j)hysical jerks. It is good for you.”

General Synod on Tuesday expressed disappointment at the fata of the Religious Exercises in Schools Bill, which was before Parliament last session, and a resolution was passed urging the Prime Minister to introduce the Bill again next session. Disappointment was also expressed that so many had been won over to the Nelson system, which Dr. Sadlier, Bishop of Nelson, said was not “Bible in State Schools,” but “Bible out of schools.” It was a heroic attempt to atone for the absence of Bible in schools.

“A fact which came under the notice of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children in Christchurch during the year just closed which seemed to call for modification was the Marriage Act,” stated the report which was submitted at the annual meeting, It was pointed out that the general public were not generally acquainted with the fact that while the age of consent was sixteen years —and there was a desire that it should be raised —the age 'at which a boy or a girl could be legally married was fourteen and twelve respectively. The attention of the Government had been drawn to the matter, and it was expected that some suitable legislation would be brought down at an early date. Speaking at Wellington on Monday night, the Minister of Education (the Hon. R. A. Wright) said open-air schools would be the schools of the future, and he was strongly in favour of. them. Although there were none as yet in Wellington, there were some in Christchurch. They consisted of v number of bungalows, each class in a small separate building, and could be opened right out in front to -the sunlight and air, or, in the event of bad weather, closed in. They were healthy, ,and provided an ideal system. The old idea of big classes with more than one teacher in one room was strongly condemned by Mr. Wright; it was a far better system to have small classes with one teacher in each room.

Amongst tlie many strange folk in the city at present (writes a Sydney correspondent) is one Sidney Das, a merry-faced young man, who showed a number of newspaper men' the other day how he could eat tumblers. Without cutting his lips or tongue he chews them into piece's, keeps on chewing until the glass is /me powder, and .then washes the delicacy down with water. Sidney is a remarkable man with a remarkable digestion, and it is said that he will eat anything from the crankhandle of a motor car to the buttons of a policeman’s tunic. There’s not the slightest deception about what ho does. If, at a restaurant, he finds the steak too tough, he eats the plate and sends the steak back. That’s honest. He found out what a clever fellow he was when he was a lad and swallowed three blue agates, and came through it smiling-

“How many tobacco pipes do you keep in use?” The writer knows a man who has 31 and smokes them all, turn about! Rather a lot? But it certainly is a good plan to have a few pipes going instead of smoking the same one continuously. More important still js the tobacco. Let it- be good, and avoid brands heavily charged with nicotine. Any doctor will tell you their habitual use is injurious, and it eonnot be gain-said that the imported brands all contain more nicotine, than can be safely absorbed into the system. The purest tobaccos of all are the New Zealand ones. There’s surprisingly little nicotine in them, which means they can be indulged in with the utmost impunity. Their fine aroma and exquisite flavour are largely due to the fact that the leaf is toasted in the process of manufacture. These qualities it is that differentiates them from all other tobaccos. You can get them in any strength. Ask your tobacconist .for “River'hcad Gold” mild; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium; or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), full flavoured.

Constable Bell resumed duty on Tuesday after a month’s annual leave.

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that contrary to a statement telegraphed, Mr. Sidey has not yet decided whether lie will be a candidate at the next election.

Advice from Auckland states that Alfred Conway Gray, aged 27, single, a sou of William Gray, of Mar.tinborough, employed on a farm at Papakura, was found shot in his hut early this morning with an old muzzle loading rifle alongside.

At the inquest concerning the death of John Michalick, who was killed on Monday at Ongarue as a result of a tree blown down by the wind falling on him and fracturing his skull, the Coroner, Mr. A. S. Laird, returned a verdict of accidental death.

An order for 100,000 gold-nib-bed self-filling fountain pens, of the value of £IO,OOO, was taken at the London section of the British Industries Fair at the White city. Another exhibitor reports orders for big toys to the value of £IOOO a day. Bert Hinkler has set up a new record. During the week he made a 1,000 miles non-stop flight and covered in all 2,000 miles in 20 hours, an average of 100 miles an hour in three hops. This brilliant achievement in a light aeroplane is outstanding testimony of the quality of British owned “Castrol” as a lubricant and of the ability of this exceptionally /clever pilot. At the Greymouth Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, 330 miners were proceeded against by thq Inspector of Awards for a breach of the Labour Disjpujtes Investigation Act. by an illegal strike, and they were fined, in the aggregate, £ls9' 10s, plus costs. All the Coast mines were idle yesterday as a “protest” against the 'prosecution of Millerton miners. The mines were als'o idle on Tuesday in celebration of May Day.

Wireless receiving sets will be installed on a train for the first time in New Zealand next Saturday, when the Lyttelton-West Coast excursion will be held. Loud-speak-ers will be provided for each carriage. The Christchurch station, 3FC. which has supplied the installation, will be “on the air” from eight o’clock in the morning. During the day it is hoped that the sets .will be able to pick up the broadcast from Forbury Park and in the evening from the' Australian station.