Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 5th, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3801, 5 June 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE sth, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

This morning’s frost was the severest experienced so far this winter.

The total quantify of apples exported from Poverty Bay this season lias now reached 24,381 cases. Except in the case of citrus fruits, picking in the Poverty Bay orchards is now practically finished.

Some tobacco grown and treated in Westport was shown a reporter. It was of excellent quality and smoked very well. The s.s. Kennedy arrived in port during the week end with a full cargo from the south and left again yesterday. The weather for yesterday’s holiday was gloriously line. The only local attraction was a football match on the racecourse. A

number of local residents attended the races at Otaki and others witnessed the Rugby seven-' a-side tournament in Palmerston. Recently the Canterbury College advertised a vacancy for a .caretaker for the Girls’ High School. Avon side, and close on 200 applications have been received.

To what age does a rabbit live? From Matamata comes evidence that some rabbits enjoy quite a long life, as a black bunny caught there in 1918, and made a pet, died last week.

The charred remains of a stolen motor car valued at £330 and owned by Mr. As. S. Wakelin, of Christchurch, were found at Mount Pleasant, Sumner, yesterday. The car was stolen on Wednesday.

In conversation with our representative at the football match yesterday, a Wellington visitor remarked that Mr. Neville’s refereeing would do him credit in A ellington matches.

A new bullet will make easier the task of capturing big game alive. The bullet indicts only a flesh wound, but carries a chemical preparation which brings about tempura ry unconsciousness.

There were several motor accidents on Paekakarild hill on Saturday night, fortunately without mishap to the occupants, who were, however, compelled to wait several hours until repairs were effected or relief ears were sent.

Two envs collided head-on on the dangerous bend on the hill on the Levin side of the Whirokino Bridge on Saturday afternoon. Fortunately no one was injured, but one car was damaged to such an extent that it had to be towed into Foxton for repair. Justices of the Peace at Pending heard a case in which a man whose record was otherwise untarnished was charged with st-ua-ii'njg a newspaper, declared that thefts of this kind were to be regarded seriously, not because of the value of the paper but because of the annoyance to the owner; they regarded the theft as being as serious as the stealing of a valuable article —and agreed to dismiss the charge as trivial, and trusted that the dismissal would serve as a warning. What splendid logic!