Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3804, 12 June 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

At last night's Borough Council meeting accounts amounting to C 1931 Os 9rl were passed for payment.

At last night’s Borough Council meeting the poundkeeper reported that during the month 12 head of stock was impounded and fS/driving fees collected.

An interesting' coin was picked up by Mr. MciSporran, of George road, on the. beach at Fortrose, Otago, ft was a farthing dated 1799 —129 years since minted. The relic was in a good state of preservation. Evelyn Henderson, aged 20, a single man, lies in Christchurch Hospital in a serious condition, as the result of being knocked off a bicycle by a motor-car. It is believed that the base of his skull is fractured.

Another example of the hazy geopraphy of American advertising appears in a recent trade publication from the United States, which classifies under “Australian Records” a speed dash from Christchurch to the Bluff.

The local ’Postmaster (Mr. J. Newton) has introduced a “penny saving” scheme 1 into the local State school which is meeting with a large measure of success, the demand for bank books completely depleting the stock on hand last week.

Those present at last night’s Borough Conneil meeting were the Mayor (Mr. M. E. Perreau), and Crs. J. Ross, G. A. Spring, F. Lucinsky, E. Parkin, C. Rand, M. H. Walker and S. E. Cowley. Apologies for absence were received from Crs. Thompson and Rangiheuea.

A. resolution passed by the Council of Education at its conference just concluded advises the Minister of Education to introduce legislation to prevent the exploitation for profit of children, and thus give that protection to child • life essential in both city and country life,.

The Council of Education, which has just concluded its conference; in Wellington, passed a resolution to the effect that school committee elections should be held every two years instead of annually as at present. A proposal that the number of members on school committees should be reduced by two was, however, rejected. Nothing is too heavy or too hot for thieves of the type that now infest Dunedin, declares a local paper. The other day a carter took to its owner’s place a large expensive gramophone, and, as the occupant had run out for a little while, he left the instrument on the verandah, with the result that it is now listed with the missing*

Damages amounting in all to £3849 were yesterday awarded in the Wlellington Supreme Court by the Acting Chief Justice (Sir William Sim) to Percy John Aldridge and Norman Parata, formerly Public Works employees, who sued Albert Goodman, a horse trainer, of Upper Ifuttj for £ISOO damages each for alleged negligence in respect to a collission between his motor-car and a motor-cycle they were riding on the main road near Upper Ilutt in September last. Each of the plaintiffs lost a leg due to the injuries received. One of the publicans at the Bluff is beginning to wonder how his place pays as well as it does considering the capacity of at least ',one of his boarders for the tasty things with which he is wont to laden his tables (says the Southland Times). One of the boarder’s consumption for breakfast on a recent occasion was bacon and eggs, curried oysters, chops, sausages, and curried oysters again. He topped off this comforting snack by making short work of all the toast on the table and cast a regretful lingering glance round the other tables before he corn! tear himself away to his daily toil.

Mrs. I. Corn is at present on a holiday visit to Napier. The meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of J. P. Allerhy to have been held in the Courthouse this morning, lapsed for tho want of a quorum. Mrs. VC. IT. Reach, aged 52, of Winton, who was severely burned through her clothes catching lire, died in hospital withodt regaining consciousness.

At Newcastle on Saturday',. Robert Miller, aged 24, the Irish lightweight, collapsed at the .Stadium during a twenty-round contest with Art Green, a local boxer. Miller died later from cerebral' hemorrhage. Mr. P. T. Robinson, secretary of the Manawatu Flax mill Employees’ Union, was in Foxton yesterday, making arrangements in connection with a deputation to wait on the Minister for Lands in connection with the proposal to acquire the Moutoa Swamp for liax growing purposes.

Tho (news that Finlayson wais ordered off in the game against Transvaal came as a thunderclap to the people of the north ' where his good temper and sportsmanship are universally recognised. It is generally- agreed that only extreme provocation would have caused the big Northlander to retaliate.

A sixteen-year-old Maori boy who forged a cheque for £5 10s and uttered it to a storekeeper was dealt with in the Child Welfare Court at Gisborne yesterday, being ordered to receive training in agriculture on the State farm. The forgery- was described by the police as a particularly clever one.

Receiving disturbing news from his home, Arthur Cecil Dailey, accountant, who is serving a 12 months’ reformative sentence, escaped from the prison camp near Trentham on Sunday afternoon, leaving a note to the effect that he would report back in the morning. Dailey was captured on arriving at his house in the evening, where a watch had been set. It was stated in Court yesterday that escapes had a bad effect on discipline. Dailey will now have to serve another month.

Four charges of theft of money of a firm by which lie was employed were admitted by Henry Hall Webb, aged 23, at the Gisborne Police Court yesterday morning. Accused was remanded for sentence. The amount involved was £142. Detective McLeod stated that accused was representative in Gisborne of a gramophone company in 1924. Webb was a student at Otago University- and he and another student forged an examination paper for which Webb was convicted and lined £lO.

The Manawatu County roadmen are engaged metalling’, grading and rolling the Foxton-Tlimatangi road. “J hope I shall never be guilty of using the pulpit to attack any member of my congregation,”, said the Rev. W. H. Nicholas in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday night. “If I have anything to settle with any member of the church I will do it in private.” Mr. Nicholas spoke on the subject of “Giving as an act of Worship” and prefaced his remarks as above.

“I think we shall all be happier if we smoke.” Tims Mr. Justice Fraser when presiding at a prolonged sitting of the Transport Appeal Board at Auckland recently. His Honour then lit up and his example was speedily followed by counsel, clerks, reporters and onlookers. The judge evidently believes in the power of tobacco to make people happy. So it does. But it must be the right sort of tobacco. Most of the imported brands reek with nicotine. -Such tobacco never made anyone happy —for long. The purest brands of all are those produced here in New Zealand. They possess not only an exfpiisite flavour but a peculiarly delightful fragrance, and owing to their containing only a comparatively small amount of nicotine you can smoke them all day long if you want to without suffering any unpleasant or injurious after-effects. Any tobacconist will supply you. Ask for “Riverhead Gold” if you arc accustomed to a mild aromatic, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), if you prefer something stronger; but if you like a full-flavoured sort try “Cut Plug No.. 10” (Bullshead).