LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3887, 22 December 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There have been 36 adjudications in the Palmerston bankruptcy district to date this year.

Haring Noyembefl ? l2 cases of scarlet fever were reported in Napier. ,

We have to acknowledge receipt of a calendar for 1929 from the N.Z. Shipping Co., Ltd. A New Plymouth borough loan proposal to raise £76,500 for hydroelectric and water supply was carried at a ratepayers poll this week.

The New Year promises to be an active one for the building trade in Hamilton. Plans are out for new buildings to the value of over £IOO,000.

The steamer Hobson’s Bay brought to Sydney last week a large number of prize pigeons valued at. £SOO. They will be used “for exhibition and breeding purposes.

The company which Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm intend to form to establish air routes between Melbourne and Brisbane will have a capital of £85,000. British machines will be used throughout. 'The race is to the swift! Boys named Fox and Hare ran a dead heat in a race at the Levin District High School sports on Tuesday (says the Chronicle). Curiously enough the third place was filled by Bird.

Damage to one wing was suffered by Mr. Douglas Mills’ Moth aeroplane when it landed at Bell Block (New Plymouth) aerodrome on Thursday afternoon. It is understood the machine will be held up here till a new wing arrives from Melbourne. Mr. Mill taxied too far across the ground and struck a gorse hedge -with one wing, while the other swung round and struck a fence post. Neither Mr. Mill nor his mechanic, Mr. Smith, was injured. ilj-dilifiliS

This afternoon the local Returned Soldier's’ Committee are entertaining the children of Returned men in the Town Hall. Father •Christmas will be in attendance and a most enjoyable time should he spent by all present. Afternoon tea will be provided. Thirteen ago on Thursday the evacuation of Gallipoli was completed by the British and Anzac forces. The evacuation is regarded in military annals as a masterpiece of organisation, and was carried out with practically no loss, the Turks being unaware of the move.

Sir Joseph Ward announces that the Hon. W. B. Taverner has been appointed Commissioner of State Forests, and also, in addition to the portfolios of Railways /and Customs, he takes charge of the publicity and advertising departments. No appointment has yet been mado to the charge of the tourist and health resorts.

The other day .a Blenheim confectioner imported from Wellington are electric ice cream refrigerator of an elaborate make. It is necessary, in using the machine, says “The Marlborough Express,” to fill certain tubes and reservoirs with brine of a particular specific gravity, and to ensure that the Blenheimjte made no mistake in this regard the Wellington agents prepared the brine, soldered it up in .benzine tins, packed the tins in their original benzine cases, and shipped them to Blenheim. When the machine was erected the brine was brought from the wharf and one of the eases opened, when it was found that someone, in Wellington of in Blenheim, evidently concluding that the tins contained motor spirit, had punched a couple 'of holes in one tin, drained off the contents, and then replaced the empty tin in the case. Inquiries are now being made for a motorist suffering from chronic carburettor trouble.

Wlhat makes a school a good school? Speaking to 'Scots iCiollege boys, His Excellency the Go-vernor-General Sir Charles Fergusson told them it was not the amount of scholastic success a school enjoyed but the spirit of the boys at the school. Everybody in a school, he said, from the principal down, should have the pride and honour of his school at heart. Everyone should he determined that this school was going to be the best school that ever was, and never hear a word said against it. If a boy remembered that, he would not do anything that was not quite straight and bring discredit on his school. If he did something that was really worth doing he would he proud of it, because it would be giving a good name to his school.

Schoolday memories’ of patient waiting through long speeches were revived by Mr. P. H. Upton, chairman of the King’s College Board of Governors, at the prize-giving ceremony at Auckland on Thursday. Mr. Upton said he realised fully that the boys disliked long addresses on the one day of the year when speeches were delivered to them. He was warmly applaused on resuming his seat a few moments later. *“I think you will appreciate my speech much more if I keep it to myself,” remarked Archbishop Averill, amid loud laughter. After reading a short, pointed extract concerning school ideals His Grace remarked that the afternoon was sultry and sat down, also amid applause. Messrs G. and R. Westwood, of Purcell Street, Fox-ton, had a narrow escape from serious injury when returning from work on Thursday evening. The two young men, who -are brothers, are employed by Messrs Ross, Rough and Co., in the Poroutawhao swamp and were returning to Foxton after work -on a motor cycle. Mr. G. Westwood was astride the bike and his brother was on the carrier. A puncture was experienced just before the Ivoputaroa road was reached and in endeavouring to pull the cycle up on the side of the road, the machine reared up and capsized, pinning the unfortunate brothers underneath. Fortunately Mr. G. King and fellow employees were not far behind the Westwood brothers when the accident occurred and were quickly on the scene and lifted the bike -off them. They were not seriously injured but considerably bruised and cut about. The cycle- was not damaged.

-Scene: Smoker of city tram-car. Stern-faced, an-ti-tobaecoite, addressing stranger opposite, puffing a huge pipe with -evident enjoyment. “Do you know, my friend, there’s enough poison in that pipe of yours to kill a (field-mouse or 37 bluebottle Hies?” The smoker: “That so? Well if ever I see a fieldmouse smoking -a pipe I’ll tell the eat.” Joking apart, there’s a lot of nonsense talked and written alioiit smoking. So long as the tobacco is pure and as free from nicotine as possible it can’t do much harm. But there’s the rub. Those imported tobaccos just reek with nicotine. That’s why their habitual use is so injurious. Our own New Zealand tobaccos, on the other 'hand, are almost free from nicotine, so that you can indulge in them to your heart’s content with perfect safety. (Also owing to (the toasting of the leaf, their flavour is 'simply delicious and their fragrance delightful. Purer or choicer brands money cannot buy. Ask for “Riverhead Gold” mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) full.

The work of laying down the bitumen on the new Shannon bridge was expected to be completed by to-day, and the bridge should be ready to receive traffic in the course of a few days. A man named William Minefield, a tailor with a grown-up family, was found dead in the kitchen of his residence at Dunedin, yesterday morning, with a gas tube in his mouth. At the inquest a verdict was returned of suicide while in a state of extreme mental depression, caused by illness.