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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The supplementary roll of the Manawatu electoral district now contains 784 names.

We regret to record the death of *the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Walker, which took place on Thursday, aged 2 years and 10 months.

The insurance on Mr. G. P. Walker's house (owned by Mr G. Mansion!, of Palmerston North), and destroyed by fire last Thursday morning was £SOO in the Guardian Office.

The total rainfall in Foxton for August was 2.76 inches. The maximum fall, .9 of an inch, was on the 14th. There were nine wet days all together. The coldest day was the Bth, when the thermometer registered 36 degrees, and the warmest the 27th with 54 degrees.

As further evidence of the increase of hares in the Manawatu district, the Inspector of the Manawatu Rabbit Board (Mr. D. R. Barron), mentioned that while inspecting a Glen Oroua property on a recent day he had seen nine hares. They were located chiefly in rushcovered country, and in such a locality proved to he more than a match for a dog. ■Cardinal Ceretti delivered a message at Sydney from the Pope to the people of Australia, in which His Holiness states: “Tell my far distant hut well-beloved children in Australia that I shall follow the progress of the congress day by day, and shall rejoice with them for the glory which will rebound to the sacred host' and for the graces which have been showered down with abundance on this beloved land and on its sons and daughters.”

The Inspector (Mr. D. R, Barron) mentioned at Thursday’s Mana-t watu Rabbit Board meeting that it was a peculiar thing that as rabbits were getting scarcer they were coming more into civilisation arid gardens were suffering as a result. It appeared as if the animals thought there was more security in a household garden. He had recently received an application for poison to eradicate two white rabbits which were causing a nuisance in a vegetable garden in the middle of Fox-

ton borough. The rabbits had evidently been two pets which had escaped. Speaking at the Manawatu Rabbit Board meeting held on Thursday, Mr. Gloyn, in referring to the effectiveness of cyanide poisoning for rabbit destruction, said that lie poisoned a burrow on his property one' day recently and to see what effect the cyanide had on the rabbits, he dug the burrow out. It proved to be a very short one and within a quarter of an hour he came to the end where three rabbits were crouched. Two were dead and one was gasping and died within a few minutes. The walls of the burrow had the appearance of having been whitewashed as a result of the injection of the poison into the warren.

Trustee McKelvie mentioned at Thursday’s meeting of the Manawatu Rabbit Board that the country in the Carnarvon district bad never previously been so dry as it was at present. At the annual meeting of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Feilding, last evening, it was unanimously and enthusiastically decided to extend a call to Rev. G. \\. Lachore, of Whangarei. The vital statistics for Foxton for August are as follows, the figures for the corresponding period last year being given in parenthesis:—Births 7 (6), deaths 2 (2), marriages 4 (1). Pale and drawn, Sir Austen Chamberlain recently left Euston to embark at Liverpool on a convalescing tour of Bermuda, Panama and Montreal. He managed the long walk along the platform with some difficulty, leaning on his son’s arm, and had almost to be lifted into the carriage. It is noticed his left arm was in a sling. ‘He rose and waved farewell as the train steamed out.

The Inspector mentioned at Thursday’s Manawatu Rabbit Board meeting that since pollard poisoning had been adopted in certain parts of the Board's area for rabbit destruction, the mortality among pheasants had been fairly high. The birds were very partial to pollard, with disastrous results. i\lr. Barron mentioned that these birds were quite plentiful in the Poplar mill swamp. To Motorists: Fill up at Fairey’s Refreshment Rooms. The spirit with which we serve you will please you. Hot pies, mashed potatoes and peas, 9d; for the ladies dainty morning and afternoon tea, 9d. Rest room for Ladies. Mothers with babies special attention. Plunket Rooms on premises. Open on Thursdays, at Fairey’s, Foxton.* In summing up at the Hamilton Supreme Court on Thursday, in a case arising out of a fatal accident mused through negligent driving, Mr. Justice Blair said the vehicle, the evidence showed, was ill-equip-ped. In law there was no difference between a man driving a wellequipped vehicle badly and driving a badly equipped vehicle with care. A driver was negligent who knowingly took on the public road a vehicle in a defective state. Prisoner knew the brakes were ineffective and that the wheels “shimmied.” The opinion was expressed at Thursday’s meeting of the Manawatu Rabbit Board that, rabbits were becoming very cunning as extermination methods were reaching perfection. Mr. McKelvie said that on his farm one of his men had watched a doe for some days and carefully searched for its burrow but without success. The only method of killing the animal appeared to be with a gun as the nest was evidently carefully hidden in the swamp cover. A few days ago six rabbits had been secured which was considered a good haul. This property adjoined one where a short while prior to the constitution of the Board trappers had taken 6000 rabbits.

Magpies are generally thought to be harmless birds but nevertheless they often have a mischievous turn of mind. They came in for discussion at Thursday’s meeting of the Manawatu Rabbit Board. Trustees McKelvie said that apart from doing considerable damage to gardens they were the earliest birds on the wing in the mornings and their ehatterings could be heard at 5 a.m., while they were the latest of the feathered flock to retire at night. It was considered bad luck to shoot a magpie. Trustee Boswell said he had felt very much like shooting a magpie on his property. It consistently pulled up or ate all his peas and even when some sweetpeas had been grown on the verandah of his bouse for protection it had ventured right on to the verandah and destroyed the lot. They were originally imported into New Zealand, he said, to kill hawks. The electric light went out in Levin at. 10 o’clock last Wednesday night, and in parts of the town served from the Foxton line it remained out for a long time (says the Chronicle). In the central part of the town the service was restored in about half an hour. Some trouble had occurred with the line between Heatherlea and Foxton, causing the automatic switch at the Shannon sub-station to cut off the supply. Members of the Power Board’s staff patrolled the line during the night, but the cause of the stoppage was not located. A bird coming in contact with the wires may have been responsible for the interruption, and it is possible that it fell where it could not readily be seen. Recently a stoppage occurred in the southern end of the district, and on investigation an opossum was found hanging by the tail from the line near Paraparaumu. The animal had climbed up the pole, pushed its nose against the wire and been electrocuted, and when discovered it was held by its tail, which was around (lie cross-arm.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3839, 1 September 1928, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3839, 1 September 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3839, 1 September 1928, Page 2

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