LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3848, 22 September 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For the first five months of its year, from March to August, the Auckland Hospital Board spent £18,385 oi? outdoor relief, averaging £3677 a month.

A ease of tetanus was treated in the Napier hospital last month, this being the first of its kind for some time. The infection proved fatal.

The next annual, conference of the New Zealand Motor Traders will be. held in Palmerston North. No infectious cases have been reported in the Waipukurau borough for 14 weeks.

It is understood that preliminary work in connection with flaxmilling operations is to be put in hand before the end of the yell” at Grove’s swamp, situated between Lake Mahinapua and the Hokitika river.

It is estimated that £6OO worth of aerated drinks is used every year at the Napier Hospital. So great has the bill for the supply become that the board has decided, to procure its own aerating machine.

At the local police court yesterday morning, before Mr. J. Iv. Hornblow, J.P., a statutory first offender, arrested the previous evening and subsequently released on bail, was convicted and fined 5/-. Consternation reigned amongst .the smokers assembled on the platform at Wellington the other day when the outward-bound Hutt train drew up without any first-class smoke car attached. However there were two ears labelled “A” and “B,” respectively, and a smoker, pipe in mouth, exclaiming “B” is for ’baccy!” jumped into the “B” car, and all the other smokers followed suit. Presently someone asked: “If ‘B’ is for ’baecv —Avhat is ‘A’ for?” “For abstainers, of course,” came the reply. Everybody laughed. Precious few “abstainers”-from the weed these days!—possibly one in 50. Well there’s no harm in tobacco, so long as it’s good and doesn’t contain too much nicotine, as those imported brands do. Our New Zealand tobaccos contain so little it doesn’t matter. That’s why they are so safe. They are unbeaten for fragrance and flavour, too. Delicious. Those chiefly in demand are: — “Riverhead Gold” mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) full Strength. They are on sale everyv here. Any tobacconist will supply