Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3861, 23 October 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Waipukurau Angora Rabbit Club is landing its first consignment of Angora rabbits from- ‘England next month.

It is understood that New Zealand Airways Ltd., although not yet gazetted, has been duly registered in Dunedin.

It was 67 years ago last week that the Bank of New Zealand was founded in Auckland. It now has a total of 154 branches, besides 84 agencies.

Since the new sewers have been opened in Christchurch no fewer than 3715 houses have been connected.

The amount of destruction done ,to trout by eels was the subject of discussion at the monthly meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society. It was decided to wage war on the eels.

Having almost finished its main road construction programme, the Inglewood County Council now intends to turn its attention to. improve its by-roads by laying'them down in permanent materials.

“If I were a betting - man, I’d .stake the whole of my overdraft in the Belfast Bank that Al. Smith .will not be returned to the Presidential chair,” was a remark made by iCatch-my-pal Patterson, at Invercargill. “Boys who do not attend drill deserve all they get in the way of fines,” said Mr. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court at Auckland when a number of youths came before him charged with breaches of the Defence Act.

Hona Karolenrue, a beautiful Russian actress, is asking £5 per kiss at cabarets in Austria, the money so obtained going to the relief of distress among Russian nobility and ex-officers. “There is a great deal of difference between a politician and a statesman you know,” said Mr. E. R. Allen, United candidate for Auckland Suburbs, in an address at New Lynn on a recent evening. “A politician is a man working for the next election, but a statesman is a man working for the next generation.”

Little things do count, even a penny stamp where fairly substantial sums are concerned. The Mayor of Wellington, Mr.. G. A. Troup, mentioned at a meeting of the National Art Gallary and Dominion Museum Fund Committee that he had tried a little experiment in circularising citizens. A thou- ! sand letters requesting donations ! had been sent out, said Mr. Troup, .500 with a stamped envelope for reply enclosed and 500 without. In response to the appeal £l7O had been received, of which £l4O had come in the enclosed stamped envelopes and £3O from people who had not received envelopes ready to post back with cheques or notes in them. In future stamped envelopes, he said, will go ont with all such appeals. The average height of human beings is sft. sin. The tallest group are the Australians, 6ft. lin., and the shortest the African Negrillos, 4ft. 3in. and the Eskimos. According to Dr. R. Bennett-Bean, a professor of anatomy, who has analysed the measurements of 1,022 groups of people of five continents, nutrition fixes the stature of races. People living near the sea get too much iodine and tend to short stature; inland people get lime, which makes for long bones. The lack of nourishment in the equatorial and Arctic zones keeps those people short. People who live in. the fertile temperate zones have more and better food and therefore grow taller.

Sixty members of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce proposed to leave the city by special train next week on a tour of the province in search of knowledge.

One of the most remarkable features of the meat export trade of the Dominion for 12 months ended September 30, is the expansion of the beef export trade. It has more than doubled on that of 1927-28, and the export trade in pork is half as large again as it was the previous 12 months.

> The first niako shark of the season was captured by a party on board the launch Naomi off the Tauranga Headjs recently, states the Bay of Plenty Times. The shark, which put up a strenuous fight, measured Bft. Sin. and weighed 2901 b. It had a fine set of teeth.

“Hydro-electricity has stopped a Jot of the drift to the towns, and on that account the Power Boards 'Act is one of he finest pieces of legislation ever put on the Statute Book,” said Mr. T. R. Overton in bis address to the Whangarei .County Council. “There is too much hypocrisy among churchpeople of to-day,” remarked the Rev. R. J. Patterson (says the “Gisborne . “Times”). “How many of you men, for instance, would go up and shake by the hand a real ‘down and outer’ who came up to your church door? And you women, too, how many of you would extend a hand to a fallen sister? No, you would whisk your skills away to prevent contamination. At least, that’s what you used to do, but you can’t do it now, for you haven’t any skirts to do it with.” (Laughter). When two men were charged in the Dunedin Police Court recently with being found on licensed premises after hours the magistrate, Mr. H. W. Bundle, threw some, light on the right of hotel guests. In convicting defendants and ordering them to pay Court costs he remarked that there seemed to be misapprehension among some peo•ple to the effect that it was permissable for guests at a hotel to ask their friends in after hours to have a drink. This was quite wjong. They were entitled to take them in for refreshment, but not for drink only. A fatal accident of an extraordinary nature occurred on the Ox-ford-Farington road, England, early last month. A tractor was engaged in hauling timber on to a wagon on the side of the road, the vehicles being on either side of the road, with a hawser stretched across the road between the two. . The driver of a, touring car did not see the wire, which smashed through the windscreen and broke Ihe neck of the chauffeur, also fatally injuring the two ladies. One of the men engaged in the hauling operalions endeavoured to warn the the chauffeur, but without avail. A negro convict named George W. Davis, who was sentenced in 1914 to serve 15 years in the Maryland State penitentiary for a holdup and shooting a policeman, and who has just been released on parole by Governor Ritchie a year before the expiration of his term, has achieved a remarkable record during his imprisonment. Entering 'the prison (says . the London Times) with a limited education, Davis studied assiduously and completed a correspondence course in law. He patented a petrol motor invention, accumulated savings of about, 1800 dol. (£360), and repaid the man he robbed. He also rendered valuable service to the warden when another prisoner tried to escape. Davis intends immediately after his release to sit for the Federal Bar examination at Washington, and if he passes will be entitled to ’practise in any Federal Court.

Pipe tobacco alone contributed £130,384 to the New Zealand revenue during the first quarter of the present year, in the shape of Custom’s duties. Wonderful is the popularity of what Charles Kingsley called “the divinest weed under heaven.” Opponents of tobacco may say what they will but the fact remains—smoking does more good than harm—provided always that the ’baccy is pure and of first class quality. It’s undoubtedly true, however, that brands heavily charged with nicotine are best avoided, and it is no less true that the imported tobaccos are practically all open to that objection. Our own New Zealand varieties are the best. Sweet, cool, and fragrant they are comparatively tree from nicotine, and the fact that the leaf is toasted is the secret of their delighful fla--vour and fine aroma. They don’t bite the tongue; they don’t affect -the heart, or nerves. They may be indulged in freely without fear of consequences. There are several varieties. Ask your tobacconist for “Riverhead Gold” mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) full strength. DON’T BE “SNAPPY” Take Marshall’s Fospherine. Whenever you begin to “snap” at people, and become irritable and jumpy, it’s time you took Marshall’s Fospherine. You have been •-neglecting your nerves. “Marshall’s” supplies them with phosphorus, which modern foods do not Contain. Highly concentrated, powerful, and quick-acting. Not a drug, but a genuine nerve and body food. All chemists and stores sell the sixsided carton—loo doses 2/6. Smaller sizes 1/6 and 1/-. If unable to procure easily, write proprietors, A. & W. Baxter, of Baxter’s Lung Preserver, Christchurch. —7.

Victoria Park, which is set aside as a camping ground for motorists by the Borough Council, was availed of during the week-end by a number of motorists and cyclists.

The weather for the week-end was all that holiday-makers could desire. Sunday was a perfect summer’s day. Bain fell during Sunday night and early yesterday morning, but the day broke fine.

Selling your goods by auction is evidently the way to get, a good price. A well-known business man spent two minutes at an auction sale the lOther day and saw an article sold at 17/6. The identical article can be purchased locally (paper and string supplied), and delivered for 13/4 —why waste money, more especially as it is going out of town.

‘T should like to state publicly,” said Archbishop Averill at Auckland on a recent evening, “that the Immigration Department in New Zealand is so pleased with the way in which our scheme for bringing public school boys from England for farm work is being operated that they have offered to do all in their power to assist us in the work. They do assist by providing free railway transit from the ports of landing to the places of destination, and also by arranging with the shipping companies for the boys to remain on board the vessels if necessary for their first night in the Dominion. The Archbishop assured Synod that a large percentage of the boys were making good, and that the scheme was producing excellent results. Synod commended the work to the interest of laity and clergy.

Gorse, the very mention of which to the New Zealand agriculturist is enough to make him use unparliamentary language, is not without its admirers. The delegates to the Empire Forestry Conference, who have just completed a tour of the South Island, were much struck with the beauties of the gorse seen on the train journey from Christchurch to Dunedin and elsewhere. “Its flowers are very much more profuse and richer in colour than they are in England,” one delegate remarked upon his return to Wellington. The phenomenal groAvth of the blackberry on the Wkst Coast was also remarked upon. The same delegate said that from what they had heard they expected to see more rabbits than they actually did. “It was the same, in Australia,” he added; “we did not see half as many rabbits as we had expected. If your rabbits thrive as well as the gorse and blackberry heaven help the farmer!” A condemnation of Socialism, which he described as a snare and a delusion, was made by Archbishop Kelly in responding to a welcome at the annual meeting of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society in Sydney last week. “A man’s wages are his own,” said Dr. Kelly, “and what a man purchases with his earnings is his own property. If one works more successfully, and can live in a more thrifty manner than his fellows, he is entitled to the advantage he derives. People may say that this is Capitalism, but it is reasonable Capitalism, and is not vicious Capitalism. The .workers are being deluded when they are told that if all the goods and property were shared it would be a better system. That is not right, and such a system would result in ruin. If men do not take a personal interest in their work and the fruits of their work, there would be no property at all and no work.” Archbishop Kelly added that Capitalism imposed upon the man who held more wealth than was required for his daily support and for the support of his family, (lie duty of dealing sympathetically with those who possesses less. Socialism carried to extremes was not to be encouraged, and many people were misled by the leaders of that materialistic school.