Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3890, 3 January 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Maori hui was held at Alatakarapa during Ithe Christinas season and visiting natives were present from other parts.

During the screening of the. pictures at the Town Hall on New Year’s Eve the Mayor (Air. Al. E. Perreau) took occasion to wish those present a happy New Year. Smoking a pipe or cigarette is the novel preventive of seasickness suggested by a recent writer in the British Medical Journal. It has been known to stave off an attack even after the feeling of sickness has commenced. Mr. J. Aitchison has taken over the well-known local business of' A. E. Tongs. Mr. Aitchison is well-known to 'business people throughout this district as the representative of a wholesale house. Prior to going on the road he had, experience in the retail trade. His many friends will wish him success in his new venture and if enterprise and courtesy counts for anything he can rely upon public support. His life was disastrous from early childhood (says a writer in an exchange). He was knocked down flights of stairs; he swallowed, a pin; he was burned; by mistake he drank vitriol mixed with water; he was burned again and was thrown some distance by an explosion of gunpowder; he was poisoned; asphyxiation, and drowning, too, nearly took his life. But Adolphe Sax survived these “slings and arrows 'of outrageous fortune” to invest the musical instrument which bears his name —the saxophone.

The first fruits of the consolidation of Crown interest in East Coast native lands will he realised this month, when two sections of improved sheep country, of approximately 1200 and 1400 acres respectively, 'will he submitted for -.ballot by intending settlers, says the Poverty Bay Herald. The location .of the sections is near Ruatoria, and the land is well broken in, having been under sheep for %nny years. They represent the accumulation of Crown interests in two of the larger blocks handled in the early stages of the consolidation programme.

While motoring along the beach between Mana'watu Heads and Rangitikei River on New Year’s Day, Mr. R. Cochrane discovered a seal on the sand near Koputara Creek. With the assistance of Mr. R. Hartley, lie managed to get .the mammjal into his ear and brought it hack 'to the Heads where it created a great deal of interest amongst the many picnickers at the seaside. The seal Was alive when captured hut appeared to be somewhat injured. It was the intention of the captors to allow it to make its way out to sea again. Seals are not very often found on the Leal beach but (they have been seen from time to time on the Wellington beaches.

A notable visitor to the forthcoming conference of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association will he Dr. Sampson Handley, an eminent London surgeon, who is one of the leading authorities .on the subject of cancer. He is professor of surgery and pathology of the Royal College of Surgeons at Home, and is chief surgeon of the Middlesex Hospital. Air. Victor Bonney’s recent visit to New Zealand has been of value in linking the medical profession in the Dominion with that in England. It is probable, states the New Zealand Aledical Journal, that Sir Berkeley Moynihan, another of the leading surgeons of Great Britain, will pay a visit to New 1 Zealand before long.

A variety of noises, miVsical and otherwise, ushered in 1929. Local business people were kept busy during the earlier part of the evening.

A't Auckland yesterday John Henry Weaver was fined £SO and Henry Emanuel £IOO for hookmaking. At Christchurch on New Year’s Eve, the police .made successful raids on two Christchurch gambling houses. The .owners were arrested and allowed out on bail.

On New Year’s Eve a company of Alaori songsters visited the homes of citizens and' rendered some wellknown songs interspersed with ADaori melodies.

lan Morris Desmond Grey, aged six years, was killed at Alount Rex, near Helensville, on Afonday. His companion, Douglas Graham, aged 13, fired a shotgun at a rabbit. lan Grey was in the line of fire and was killed instantly.

Thirty-eight persons were adjudicated bankrupt in Palmerston North during the year, compared with 52 in 1927. These figures thus show a decrease of fourteen. Eighteen cases came from the town itself, .others "being from, outside districts.

A Hokitika telegram: states that, a Kokatahi settler’is wife was reported to have been sandbagged in bed on New Year’s Eve, hut the intruder was not discovered by the other occupant <of the house who went to investigate the unusual noise.

Charles James Pearce, a married man with three children, and one of the leaders of the Christchurch Cooperative Party, which recently secured a slaughtering contract at the city abattoir, dropped dead at work yesterday morning. Air. Pearce had been suffering from heart trouble.

.The weather on New Year’s Day in this district marred the pleasure and success of 'outdoor sports. Rain fell at intervals during the morning and afternoon. 'The Slian!non sports were abandoned and ithe motor .cycle sports at Levin were held under very unfavourable weather conditions.

Mr. Shepherd, curator of Wanganui Museum, in conversation with a reporter of the local “.Herald” in leg'arcl (to mako sharks caught at the Bay of Islands, mentioned that when he went to Russell to take 'charge of a mako shark given to the museum the tackle was still inside the fls'h and the owner asked that this ishould be returned to him after the fish had been skinned* When Air. (Shepherd opened the mako he found that the Kahawai attached to the tackle had passed through the mass of teeth in the mako’s jaws without a scratch. There are three classes of shark, including the mako, haying similar teeth, and these can be laid down flat in the jaw at will, either a section .or the whole of them, and this accounts for the small fish not being scratched when the mako took the bait. Should the teeth happen to he in a fiat position at the time of death it is impossible afterwards to lift them upright. Another centenarian smoker: and this time a woman. A Home paper records the death iat Alessing, near Tiptree, Essex, of Mrs. Naomi Harrington at the age of one hundred years. The good old lady smoked a elav pipe every day and attributed her long life, at any rate in part, to that practice. What the anti-tohaceoites will say to this must be left to conjecture, hut a more convincing proof of the harmlessness of tobacco' could hardly be found. The plain fact of the matter is that smoking won’t hurt anyone so long as the it'obaceo is pure and as free from nicotine as possible. The imported brands, by the way, are mostly full of nicotine. That’s where they differ s'o essentially from our own New Zealand tobaccos —the purest in the world and ithe freest from nicotine. They are quite safe and owe their fine aroma and delicious fragrance to the toasting of the leaf (quite a novelty). Ask your tobacconist for “Riverhead Gold” mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium, or “Cut, Plug No. 10” (Biillshead) full strength.