Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3797, 26 May 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Wellington fisherman was convicted and fined £1 at the IVellingtcm Magistrate’s Court yesterday for selling undersized llounders. 'Die three ‘F’s,” which signified “Flax, Fires and Floods” in connection with Foxton’s repul ation in times gone by has given place to three “R’s”—“Barbers, Butchers and Bank's.” The Palmerston North District Hospital Board extend an invitation to the public to be present at the opening of the district maternity home at the hospital on Monday next at 2 pan.

A euchre party and dance, organised by Messrs Hartley Bros*in aid of All Sainls’ Children’s Home, was held in the Beach Jla.ll last night, as a result the Matron desires to acknowledge the sum of 10/-. The Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young), will open the Maternity Home at the Palmerston Hospital at 2 pan. on Monday. The Minister will also receive a deputation from the Board re refund to .subsidies and will present the badges to nurses who have qualified during the past two years. In the Christchurch Supreme Court yesterday Francis Marion Bates Fisher,, a former member of the New Zealand Cabinet, petitioned for a divorce from bis wife, Esther Alice Fisher, on the grounds of mutual agreement to separate. A decree nisi, to be made absolute after three months, was granted.

Miss Madge MeColl, a local pupll at the Palmerston Niftli (-{iris' High School, has made a name for herself in hockey circles in Palmerston North. Madge plays “bully” for Hie school A team this year and has received a good deal of praise for her play in Press reports of matches in which Ihe school team has taken part. “I do not think there is very much new in the syllabus,” said Mr F. J. Stuckey, senior inspector of schools, in an address to the members of the Otago branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute “It does not matter one farthing how good the new syllabus is for that matter. The results have to come from you teachers, and it is only a guide to you.”

Mark Twain once said: “Woman is a conundrum—hut I will never give her up!” This was in allusion to the changeable views of the adorable sex. The sex is certainly apt to alter its point of view. Time was when ladies “couldn’t bear tobacco smoke” —said it made them “ill.” In those days father and the hoys had to seek the seclusion of the coal-house or the backyard when they wanted a whiff. Nowadays the girls—young, old and middle-aged—will tell you when tobacco-smoke is (mentioned that they “love it!” Well, there are worse habits than smoking, and so long as the “baccy” is good and not overcharged with nicotine it won’t hurt anyone. Apropos of that, its a pity the imported tobaccos are so full of nicotine. How is it? Our N.Z. brands are almost free from it. You can smoke them “till further orders” and take -no harm. Sweet, cool and fragrant they appeal irresistibly to all smokers. All tobacconists stock them. Ask for “Hiverbead Gold” (mild), “Navy Cut ” (Bulldog) (medium), or “Cul Plug No. 10” (Bullshoad) full-strength.