Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3901, 31 January 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

* The schools will re-open on Monday next.

There are 13 justices of the peace in Ashburton.

A novel scheme for the holding of a reg'atta at Wfaikaremoana, is in course of formulation.

In certain parts of America, along dangerous highways white crosses mark the points where people have been killed in motor accidents. These grosses are placed as warnings to careless drivers. In order to improve the appearance of the grounds of the local District High School, the committee has made a separate appointment for such work which it is hoped will add to the attractiveness of the school.

The bodies of the two Napier High School boys, Hugh Douglas, aged 15, and Gordon MacFarlanc, aged 16, who were drowned on Thursday evening last when thenboat capsized in the inner hai-bour, were recovered on Tuesday. The bodies were sighted by an aeroplane.

At the inquest at Gisborne on G. Davidson, who was drowned at Matakao point on Sunday the jury placed on record their appreciation of the magnificent efforts made by William Gill and Charles Puha, who at the risk of their own lives and under considerable personal difficulties, did everything humanly possible to rescue the deceased.

A sentence of 21 clays was imposed on .Frederick Smith, alias Archibald Smith, aged 42, at Wellington for stealing a bottle of milk valued at 1/2 from an alleyway alongside a shop. v Accused was described as having 12 previous convictions and being of , the vagrant class. There was a good deal of this class of pilfering going on according to the police. The secret of the haggis was revealed at the Cookery and Food Exhibition, Olympia, recently. The following, it was said, are the ingredients: One niedium-sized sheep’s paunch; one sheep’s pluck, including livers, lights, and heart; llib oatmeal, Alb. barley, (ioz. onions, Alb. beef suet, 4oz. currants, one small nutmeg (grated)—and “a liberal quantity of pepper and salt for the creating of a thirst.” It was reported at Friday’s meeting of the Wiellington Education Board that an address derogatory to education boards and advocating centralisation in the Department had been delivered to Rotarians at Palmerston North by the Director of Education (Mr. T. B. Strong). Members expressed resentment and decided to ask Mir. .Strong to send a report of his remarks to the board. The Wanganui Board lias, also asked Mr. Strong to allow his address to be published in order that his views may be discussed publicly. When delivering bis address, it is alleged that the Director asked the press representatives not to publish his statements.

For sheer laziness the actions of a party of Natives in Main Street yesterday took some heating. The party, some six strong, drove up in a, very delapidated Ford car, painted a vivid .green colour. The driver, with a very bored expression on his face, waited patiently until the womenfolk made their necessary purchases and once all were packed aboard again a signal was given to two other Natives, who had been gyrating around Main St. in n old motor truck. The two young men drove up, backed the truck to the front of the car. One of them then sprang out, hitched a rope to the Ford, the signal was given and the “self starter” commenced to operate. After the Ford had been towed a few yards the .engine started, up and above the roar of the engine the call was given to east off and both vehicles laboured their way up Main St. and disappeared in the direction of the beach.

The quarterly session of the Supreme Court will open at Palmerston North on Tuesday next. The criminal ealander is very light, consisting of a sentence for theft and the trial of an accused person for alleged breaking and entering.

The resolution. finally adopted by the New Zealand University Council in the Matriculation discussion was: “That the Entrance Board he requested to devise some scheme which will enable the university to conduct a University Entrance examination solely as an entrance examination.

Ronald Kempthorne, aged 17, died in Christchurch hospital on Tuesday from injuries received a tew hours earlier at the Hornby gelatine drying works. Kempthorne was caught in the machinery and badly injured. He was at once taken to the hospital (where an operation was performed.

It is reported that a roadman working some ten miles from Wanganui came upon a kiwi sitting on two eggs, but his dog killed the bird before he recognised it. A young kiwi about to be hatched (was found in one egg which was broken and the man took the other home placing it under a sitting hen in the hope of hatching it but without success.

•Frederick Major, a married man, aged 69, was killed at the Thorndon railway yards on Tuesday while oiling some points. An engine shunted backwards on to him. Death was instantaneous. The express train was pulling out at the time, and it is thought that deceased did not hear the approach of the shunting engine. He was a casual labourer.

Lantern slides shown at a Science Congress lecture at Auckland last week by Professor W. B. Benham, showed the striking resemblance, in the first stages of development, between the human being and a rabbit. To discern the difference, even under microscope examination, was practically impossible. . Professor Benham said the wonder was not so much that the one developed info a man and the other into a rabbit, as that the characteristics of the parents were reproduced in such detail. “If a child shows some special ability, the father generally claims it is inherited from him,” he remarked amid laughter.

A lady recently complained that she lost on a tram e'ar in Christchurch, -a suitcase containing clothing valued at £46. She asked the Tramway Board to compensate her to that amount." Inquiries by the Board showed that she had come to Christchurch by the south express and had taken a Papanui tram from the railway station. She stated that she gave the suitcase to the conductor, and that it could not be found when she got off at Rugby Street. The Board’s officers, making further enquiries, discovered the suitcase in the lost luggage office at fhe railway station. It had been left by the lady in a railway carriage.

The championship of .New Zealand for the 'best loaf of bread li'as been won at the Christchurch exhibition by Mr. J. Somerton, of New Plymouth, who won the Master Bakers’ Federation’s solid silver challenge shield, a special gold medal and diploma, and £25 in cash for distribution amongst the foreman and operatives in the bakery. The trophy is to be held until the next exhibition. Mr. Somer'ton was also successful in class 11, loaf, from a no-time dough, open to all compressed yeast users, tflor the 'best loaf of bread made from a short process fermentation, securing first prize and a gold medal to the master baker and £lO in cash for distribution amongst the foreman and operatives.

A'wakened by suspicious sounds livobi the garden of a house in Ora'kei road in Remuera at a late hour a young man lwent to the window and saw two youths of about 18 years of age cutting the ropds and wrapping up a tent fly which had been erected on the lawn as a protection from the sun. Donning his clothes with great despatch, he left the house by the back door, mounted liis bicycle and set off in pursuit of the thieves, who by this time were over 20 yards down the road. Overtaking them, he administered what he 'thought was sufficient chastisement, recovered the tent and ropes, and returned home. The youths who were about his own age and size, departed probably as sore in spirit as in body.

Tom Heeney is said to have developed a taste for cigars since he became somebody. Well done, Tom! A pipe used to, do him. To be sure the cigar is supposed to he more “toney” than a pipe. Nevertheless and notwithstanding most confirmed pipe-smokers wouldn’t exchange the old briar for. the best cigar going. As for the cigar 'being less injurious than the pipe—tell it to the Marines. Of course if you will insist in smoking these imported tobaccos —full of nicotine as much as they can stick —you’ll deserve what’s coining to you. It’s looking for trouble to smoke stuff like that. Why not fill up with good honest New Zealand tobacco. It’s the purest on the market, so 'comparatively free from nicotine that you can smoke all you want, day iu, day out, and take no harm. Are there more brands than one? Bather! ’There are several. 'Special favourites are: “Riverhead Gold,” a ! beautiful aromatic, mild and delicious; “Navy Cut No. 3” and “Cavendish,” both medium; and “Cut Plug No. 10,” a rich, dark 'full-flavoured sort. All tobacconists sell them. ir

It is anticipated that 200 delegates will attend the annual conference of the Medical Association in Wellington. It was a kindly spirit which prompted a minister in one of the Hastings churches on Sunday morning, says the “Ilawkes’ Bay Tribune,” 'to announce that in view of the heat he did not think it would he deemed irreverent if the men of the congregation removed their coa'ts, if they cared to do so. One or two gratefully availed themselves of 'the! offer, ibut to the majority the idea was tcto surprising to he accepted, so the sensible few sat in the easy coolness of white shirt sleeves, while the majority wished they had the courage to do so. A painful misliap befel Mr. Norman Vickers, of Levin, at the Levin A. and P. Association Show, in the s'teer-riding contest, which was otherwise carried out without accident. Like many other competitors, Vickers was unseated, and it [was in recovering his feet that lie met with the injury. The bullock, which had been dehorned in common with the rest of the 24 animals provided for the competition, lifted its head up suddenly, and the stump of one horn caught the erstwhile rider on the side of the face, breaking the cheek-bone. A motorist proceeding north from Foxton the other day thought ■he would endeavour to take a short cut around the highway work at present being carried on along this section of road by mounting the railway line embankment and proceeding along the sleepers past the workmen. The plan succeeded all right until, he was almost clear when the rear wheels of the vehicle .skidded on the rails and the car m'ade a dive off the track and endeavoured to ascend a steep sand hill on the side of the road. Fortunately no damage .was done and the car was soon righted and proceeded on its way.

When Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M., fined a first offender for drunkenness 10/- in the Magistrate’s Court at Blenheim last week, counsel for the accused remarked th'at it was the practice of justices of the peace to convict and 'discharge first offending inebriates. “Do you suggest the justices should call the tune for me?” asked the magistrate. “No,” replied counsel. “I suggest they should follow you.” The magistrate said that the distinction in the present ease was that the defendant had not been locked up, therefore the line was the punishment. If a man were locked up he had been punished without the line. According to counsel’s contention a lirs’t offender should be discharged without being fined, even though he had not been locked up, and in that event the man who was locked up was surely entitled to a reward.