Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3818, 14 July 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

In the House of Representatives yesterday the Address-in-Reply was brought to a close. The Labour Party’s no-confidence motion was defeated by 48 votes to 14.

Squadron - Leader Kingsford Smith expects to begin his flight to New Zealand between the Ist and 4tli of August, hopping off at midnight, Sydney time, thus taking advantage of the full moon. The Auckland Presbytery, by 23 votes to 13, affirmed the proposal to admit women to the eldesrhip. “Christ did not choose women among his apostles, because he had higher work for them to do,’’ said the Rev. J. A. Thomson. A fire at Otaki yesterday morning destroyed a five-roomed residence owned by Mr. J. P. Brandon, and occupied by Mr. 11. Witch ell. Practically all the contents were destroyed, including trophies and valuable books. The insurances are not available.

Master G. H. Downs, late of Foxton, and a student at the Palmerston Technical school, was successful in passing the writt en exa - mination recently hold under ttic Electrical Wircmen’s Registration Board.

During the month of June ine number of occupied beds in the Pal - merston Hospital totalled 207.8 In patients’ fees over £3,000 been collected for the past quarter which is an increase of over £3OO for the corresponding quarter of last year.

Mr. Page, S.M., delivered reserved judgment at Wellington to tin effect that people who call at an hotel when out for a motor run on a Sunday and ask for drinks short ly after entering, are not bona .fide travellers. Fines were imposed an security for appeal was fixed at £lO 10/-. ‘

' Ng Soong, a young Chinese, was sentenced in the Supreme Court a Wellington on Thursday to fire years imprisonment for assault on a female. His Honour agreed with prisoner’s counsel that it was quite exceptional to see one of the prisoner's race committing a crime on a child of tender years. The case was a bad one and would have to ho marked by a severe penalty.

It is authoritatively stated that the Government has no intention oL revising the system under which hospital and charitable aid contributions from local bodies are levied. The Hospital Commission which sat some years ago had inquired exhaustively into the matter, and nothing would be gained by go-

ing' into the question afresh and changing the system. The identity of a skeleton found on the hank of the Manawatu River at Awapuni in April is still shrouded in mystery. At the inquest, at Palmerston North on Thursday iho police gave evidence to the eiTeci that all inquiries had failed to produce anything likely to establish who the deceased was. All person* reported missing from the district during recent years had been accounted for. The verdict was of death from unknown causes.

Ralph Russell Lump aged 21, who appeared at the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence on a charge of theft at Palmerston North, was told by His Honour, Mr Justice Reed, that he had committed a mean and callous act by stealing £OS from his father. Lunn was ordered to be detained in a Borstal Institute for a period of three years.

A commission has been appointed to inquire into the question of whether it is practicable or desirable in any way to vary the incidence of rating in the borough of Feilding, or of lands that have been excluded therefrom. The commissioners are: Messrs R. M. Watson, S.M., of Feilding, W. T. Strand, Lower Tintt, and W. Nash, Wellington.

At the annual council of the Protestant Political Association held at Wellington on Thursday the council affirmed that the Protestant Political Association had no political party allegiance and urged all members in the forthcoming general election to support only those candidates for Parliament who might be relied on to place the great moral, social and patriotic interest of the Dominion and Empire above party consideration.

Remarking that he was not confident that State control would be as successful as local Government, Cr. Higgins stated at a meeting of the Napier City Council that the system of hospital control in New Zealand was the best in the world.

The Mayor of Palmerston N. has received advice from Sir Maui Pomare, acting Minister of Internal Affairs, that the Japanese training ships Yakumo and Idzumo, under Vice-Admiral Kobayashi, will arrive at Wellington on July 25th, and that it is proposed that 50 of the ship’s officers should visit Palmerston North oil July 26th, arriving at 8.20 a.m., and departing at 3.14 o’clock.

The name of the nearest township to the site for the new hydroelectric dam across the Waitaki is luirow, locally pronounced “Koo ro.” This is said to be a gross per - version on the Maori name due to either phonetic “colour-blindness” on the part of the early settlers, perhaps emphasised by a Celtic perspective, or pure laziness, because the real name of the township should be “Kabarau,” or “place of many mists,” which is the Maori name of'one of the many mountains round about.

Speaking of the Tasman flight in a general way, Mr. Martin, N.Z. manager for the Atlantic Union Oil Company, said that it was going to do a great deal to bring New Zealand before the people of the United States, for the American people were tremendously interested in the “Southern Cross.” “Any number of people in the States speak and think of Australia and New Zealand as Australasia,’ and any number have the idea that New Zealand is a town in Australia. The fact that Kingsford Smith took so many hours to fly from Australia to New Zealand will give the right idea.”

Curious replies are sometimes received by business men to requests for payment of overdue accounts, [n the following, which is from a Native, although the wording is quaint and ambiguous, the meaning is plain enough: —“Dear Sir Mr. with the good feelings towards.me and you are well and happy. How are you? lam a man of trust to people in business. When I have got the money I pay, and when I haven’t I won’t. I have got the job of playing for the dances fortnightly a week, and the rent money. I have got money coming all of the time, but 1 haven’t got it yet to pay, aml with the dance's playing fortnightly a month will soon pay you. Willi the good feelings to you.” — Chronicle.

“If we go on relieving unemployment at the present rate, which is a charge upon the charitable aid side of the Hospital Board, we will probably exceed our estimate by £5,000,” said Mr W. Wallace, chairman of the New Zealand Hospitals Association, after interviewing the Hon. J. G. Coates and the Hon. W. Downie Stewart on the question ol‘ unemployment. “The Government was told in very clear terms,” said Mr Wallace, “that the greater proportion of unemployed is due to national causes, and in view of the tendency of the unemployed to drift to the large centres it was urged (hat the burden of relief of distress should lie borne out of the Consolidated Fund. A non-committal reply was received from the Ministers although they seemed favourable to this viewpoint.”

As a sequel to the recent disturbance at Pongaroa, in which the principals had to answer police charges, Mr. Free, S.M., delivered his reserved judgment at Pahiatna yesterday. Mr. M. F. Dillon, for resisting the police, was fined £3. Harvey Dillon for assaulting Constable Mclntosh, was fined £2. W. A. Reed and J. Wright were each fined £1 for obstructing the police. The defendants were also to pay costs in each instance. The charge against M. F. Dillon of having been intoxicated while in charge of a motor car was dismissed. The Magistrate was satisfied that the constable honestly believed that the defendant was intoxicated, and had reasonable grounds for so doing. It was admitted that M. F. Dillon had had some drink late in the afternoon.

What a famous Physician thinks about smoking: “Tobacco,” says 'the eminent medical authority, Sir Bruce Porter, “is an extraordinary comfort to a great many. I would particularly wish to reassure old folks so that they may not be terrified from enjoying one o'f the few pleasures that remain to people of advanced years. Tobacco in moderation is not going to do you any harm.” Of course it isn’t! When smoking proves harmful it is because the tobacco contains too much nicotine. The American brands are more or loss full of the poison. The purest tobaccos on the market are produced here in New Zealand. You cannot eliminate nicotine entirely from tobacco, but our New Zealand brands contain very little. That’s why you can smoke them all day long and take no harm. Their fine flavour and delightful fragrance are largely due to the fact that the leaf is toasted—quite a' new idea! Ask for “Riverhead Gold" mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), full strength.