Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3895, 15 January 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The “Herald” will be published early on Thursday morning. At last night's Borough Council meeting accounts amounting to £949 2s lid were passed for payment.

For assaulting a constable, who sustained a scalp wound and received hospital treatment, Albert Harris, was yesterday sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at Dunedin. The constable was arresting another man when he was kicked.

Those present at last night’s Borough Council meeting were the Mayor (Mr. M. E. Perreau). Also present were Crs. R. J. Thompson, John Ross, C. Spring, S. E. Cowley, R. Rangiheuea, €. Rand, E. Parkin, M. IT. Walker, and the Town Clerk (Mr. Wan. Trueman). An apology was received from Cr. Lucinsky. The Mayor mentioned at the Borough Council meeting last evening that the Plunket Society, which at the November meeting of the Council made appflieaton for a site on Easton Park for the erection of a Plunket room, had now decided to hold the matter, over until they had sufficient funds in hand to erect the building. At last night’s Borough Council meeting, Cr. C. Spring, who at the last meeting was made the recipient of a pipe to celebrate his birthday, thanked the Mayor and Councillors for their gift. He regretted hi#s ah sence from the previous meeting and took the opportunity of thanking them for their useful present. He very much appreciated the kind-, ly thought which had prompted the gift and appreciated the good wishes of Ris fellow Councillors.

It is not generally known perhaps, that steps existed at the end of Harbour Street leading down to the lower level of the street at its junction with Wharf Street. At last night’s Borough Council meeting, when the question of laying down a footpath in Harbour Street was under consideration, a Councillor remarked that in time the Council would have to lay steps leading from the top of the hill to the lower level at the south end. Cr. Rand, however, informed the Councillors that steps were in existence in this locality some years ago, but had been covered up by the •Railway Department with spoil. Taunasese, the Samoan chief and leader of the Mau movement, who was recently brought from Samoa to serve a sentence of six months’ imprisonment in Mount Eden Gaol, Auckland, for refusal to pay certain taxes, has instructed his counsel, Mr. Hall Skelton, to file an application in the Supreme Court at Auckland for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus. ‘Tama sese, who was arrested for declining to pay his poll and medical taxes, is about 24 years of age, and a grandson of King Tamasese, a former native ruler.

T-lie Yearbook for 1929, just to hand, gives the estimated population of Levin at April Ist last at 2580, an increase of’thirty over the 1928 figures. (Other totals gven are Otaki 1380, Fox-ton 1770, Shannon 1150. The following boroughs ' approximate to Fox,ton’s size: Northcote 2465, Pukekohe 2440, Cambridge 2030, Te Kuiti 2460, Tawmaroipui 2450, Te Aroha 2390, Tauranga 2660, Wairoa 2410, Elthain 2040, Taih'ape 2475, Mar-ton 2775, Hokitika 2450, Rangiora 2125, Port Chalmers 2575. The following alterations to the county rate roll were authorised at Friday’s Manawatu County Council meeting:—B. E. Durrant to Y. G. and M. A. Neill, pt. lot 25 pt. sec. 85 Sandon; C. P. and R. E. Good and M. (C. Verran to Manawatu County Counleil, lots 271/4 Sanson township; M. S. Harris to Mrs. G. H. Harris, sec. 181 Carnarvon; R. Chisholm to IT. A. Seifert, lots 1,2 and 3, secs 320 and 384 Carnarvon; S. J. Tong to K. \Y. T. Trenkner, pt. sec. 158 Town of Campbell; A. N. McNae to H. A. Seifert and B. E. Keillor, pt. see. 109 and 114. Sandon.

Professor Osborne, in an address in Vancouver, said that the most arresting impression of his tour was the New Zealander’s pride in being British and his manner of treating the Maoris. The newspapers, reporting his address, gave prominent notice to the fact that the constitution and practice o'f New Zealand was to afford absolute equality before the law to the Maoris. Their high standard of intelligence, the culture of their educated classes, the legislative-capac-ity of their leaders, and the desire of the race generally to “break even” with the pakeha in matters of civic and national aspiration, were factors that made him marvel at the results New Zealand has ■produced in the Maoris.

“We have the finest hospital system in the w'orld,” remarked the Minister of Health (Hon. A. J. Stallworthy), when replying to a welcome accorded him yesterday by the Palmerston North Hospital board, “I .have had the opportunity,” he said, “of investigating hospital conditions and administration overseas and have had conversation with hospital experts from different parts of the world and many older countries than ours would like our assured system of finance. It would be very foolish to have our system spoilt by disagreement and as far as I am concerned, party politics in the Health department shall he absolutely barred. My decisions will be in the interests of' the people as a whole.”

There is at present on view in tho CL M. Ross Go’s, window the liand-

some 100 guinea cup to be donated by the Foxion Racing Club to the winner of the Clip race to-morrow. At last night’s Borough Council meeting the poundkeeper reported that three head of stock was impounded during the month and 3/- . driving fees collected. Several summ'onses Were issued to people allowing stock to wander on the borough roads. A circular .outlining and explaining the new regulations under the Dangerous Drugs Act was recently published. In a supplementary circular it is stated: “The disposal of drugs included under the Act requires tracing from the place of origin. The Customs Department will supply returns of importations. These will be assembled and carried by the inspector .to the respective places of business of importers, and the importers’ register examined to ascertain whether all acquisitions have been entered. The next step is to ascertain whether the outward entries are in order and the balances correctly stated. There will he no necessity to extract entries from the wholesalers’ books Tor the purpose of comparing with retailers’ entries, as the necessary information is provided by the return asked for in Regulation 6 (6), and can bo checked .up at the time of inspection.” Detailed instructions arc given as to the recording of entries of dangerous drugs in the books kept by chemists. “Bow many tobacco pipes do you keep in use?” 'The writer knows a man who has 31 and smokes them all, turn about! Rather a lot? But it certainly is a good plan to have a few pipes going instead :of smoking the same one continuously. More important still is the tobacco. Let it be good, and avoid brands heavily charged with nicotine. Any doctor will tell you their habitual use is injurious, and itt*cannot be gain-said that the imported brands all contain more nicotine than can l)c safely absorbed into the system. The purest tobaccos of all are the New Zealand ones. There’s surprisingly little nicotine in them, which ■means they can he indulged in with the utmost impunity. Their fine aroma and exquisite flavour are largely due to the fact that the leaf is toasted in the process of manufacture. These qualities it is that differentiates them from all other tobaccos. You can get them in any strenpth. Ask your tobacconist for “Riverhea’d Gold” mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullsbead) lull flavoured.