NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3796, 24 May 1928, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

The Eketahuna “Express” announces that the Eketahuna Borough Council has a bank overdraft limit this year of £3886. More than 2000 applications for letters patent are received by the New Zealand Patent Office every year.

There are 66,592 children on the rolls of the various public schools iii the Auckland education district, and the average attendance is 60,947.

Details of some remarkable large eels are reaching the Wellington Acclimatisdtion Society as the result of the eel-catching competition it has inaugurated. The latest monster is one caught by the Messrs Cecil and Charles Morton, in the Waiohine river at Greytown, .weighing 301 b., and measuring-4ft. 9in. long. Inside it was another c-el 2ft. long.

Although the Bulls traffic bridge was only opened in 1905, it is in a very bad way and large quantities of the timber are rotten. The repair gang on the bridge is having a lively time with motorists (says the Wanganui Herald). Workmen .state that althoughthere are warding signals at each approach, 'many motorists dash on to the structure as if the way was perfectly clear. Some of the workmen have already had narrow escapes.

This week a petition to the Go vernor-General in Council, praying for the reprieve of Allan George Norgrove, who is under sentence of death for the murder of his sis-ter-in-law, Ernistina Mary Norgrove, will be circulated in the city, says the “Sun.” The petition is being prepared by Mr. A. Moody, who was Norgrove’s counsel. It is expected that the petition will be supported by the Howard Penal Reform League, which recently condemned the system of capital punishment. Choosing a birthday present for a man is not quite so simple a matter as it seems—until you tackle the job. You may so easily give him something lie has no use for. There is, however, one thing that few men will despise a bit of really good tobacco —a brand as free from nicotine as possible, because nicotine is bad, and unfortunately the imported ’baccies are full of it. If you want a really pure tobacco, almost free from nicotine, and which, therefore, can be smoked for hours at a time if desired without any harmful effects, choose our own New Zea-land-grown article. A pound of it makes a splendid gift. It is betten than the best imported, sweet, cool and fragrant. This tobacco largely owes its outstanding excellence to the fact that the leaf is toasted —quite a new idea. There are several varieties, so all smokers can be suited. Ask for “Riverhead Gold” (mild), “Navy Cut (Bulldog), (medium), of “Cut Plug r °- 10” (Bullsliead), full strength.