Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3878, 1 December 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The annual conference of the New Zealand Maori War Veterans’ Association will he held in Hastings on December 5.

£ The Rev. J. K. Archer may retire from the Mayoral field in favour of Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., who is at present deputy-Mayor. Sir Heaton Rhodes may be his opponent. For the 90 vacancies that are to be filled in the teaching staffs the Canterbury Education Board has received 150 applications. Over 8000 offenders against the penal code have been dealt with since 1920 by probation officers in New Zealand, and only 8 per cent, of that number have been recorded as failures.

There were two cases of alleged dual voting in the Palmerston electorate at the recent poll and prosecutions will follow, as the returning officer has no option in the matter (says the Standard).

The Methodist Sunday. School are making good progress with tre practices for their anniversary to be held on the third Sunday in December, conducted by Mr. R. T. Betty.

The local police are on the lookout for two youths who have escaped from the summer camp of the Wieraroa Training Farm at Ilokio and who are reported to have made their way up the coast and through F'oxton.

In view of the approaching Christmas season the public asked to assist the post office staffs by posting their correspondence early. It would also be of assistance if, on receipt of a notice that a parcel awaits delivery, they would call for it promptly.

A young man named Arthur S. Richards employed by John Court Limited, Auckland, as a window dresser was killed through falling down the lift well from the sixth floor on Thursday evening. He was working overtime on interior decorations. Apparently he thought the life was at the sixth floor but it was at the bottom.

According to an announcement made on Thursday by the Minister of Education (Hon. R. A. Wright), the new primary school syllabus will be issued to teachers at the end of the present year. The Minister also stated that arrangements have been made whereby there will be a reduction in -the prices charged for the new primary schools text books, which will have to be issued.

News from Samoa states that the palolo —that mysterious coral worm which rises to the surface for a period of one hour in a whole year —made its appearance on the morning of Sunday, November 4. Several big catches were made at. different points along the coast, but the Samoans themselves did not participate in the fishing to any great extent, owing to the fact that the day was a holy one. Sunday observance is very strictly adhered to by the natives. The rise of the'palolo is described by those who have been fortunate enough to witness it as a most wonderful spectacle. The surface of the ocean is covered by a mass of wriggling worms. They are highly esteemed by the natives as a great delicacy.

Choosing a birthday present for a man is not quite so simple a matter as it seems—until you tackle the job. You may so easily give, him something he has no use for. There is, however, one thing that few men will despise —a bit of really good tobacco —a brand as free from nicotine as possible, because nicotine is bad, and unfortunately the imported ’baecies are full of it. If you want a really pure tobacco, almost free from nicotine, and which, therefore, can be smoked for hours at a time if desired without any harmful effects, choose our own New Zealand-grown article. .A pound of it makes a splendid gift. It. is better than the best imported, sweet, cool and fragrant. This tobacco largely owes its outstanding excellence to the fact that the leaf is toasted —quite a new idea. There are several varieties, so all smokers can be suited. Ask for “Riverhead Gold” (mild), “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium, or “(Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), full strength. On Tuesday evening the Foxton Fire Brigade will hold a dance in the Masonic Hall,

Los Angeles physicians report more than four thousand eases of influenza which is spreading at an alarming rate with about the average number of deaths of previous epidemics.

A considerable quantity of flax bands have been spread over the sandy stretch between the old river bed and the ocean beach at Manawatu Heads during the week and access to and from the beach proper should be good during the week end. It is understood that a scheme is to be placed before the next meeting of the Harbour Board .to overcome the sand drift nuisance in this locality. A visitor to Manawatu Heads recently had the misfortune to lose a valuable gold watch and platinium chain, valued at somewhere in the vicinity of sixty guineas. Little hope of recovering the timepiece was entertained but a few days ago the watch and chain were returned to the owner through the local police by a Moutoa resident who had picked the missing article up on the beach little worse for its disappearance.

A novel claim was made to the Auckland City Council in a letter the other day from a man who asserted that, with the council’s assistance, lie could eradicate all noxious weeds within a radius of 12 miles of the city within three years, lie offered to appear in person to explain his plan further. The man will be invited to attend the next meeting of the parks committee. “I think that next week we will will find ourselves in the position of the Official Opposition,” said the Reform member for Palmerston, Mr. J. A. Nash, at the Ashlmrst Flower Show yesterday (says the Standard), “but is the defeat of the Government due to defective legislation or the glamour of the £70,000,000 dangled before the eyes of the people? So far as oitr party is concerned, they accept the position gracefully, and as long as the new party behave themselves, then I think we may allow them to continue, though in a year or two a cleaning up process may be required on similar lines to that made when our party came into power.”