Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1929! LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3909, 19 February 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1929! LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In the Masterton Court on Saturday Owen L. Udy was committed for trial at the Supreme Court, Masterton, on a charge of stabbing his father, Albert John Udy, with a knife at Carterton.

A contemptible theft was perpetrated at the plantation on the Foxton-Himatangi road over the week-end when someone stole (lie tools of the two contractors engaged in fencing the old plantations.

In the Magistrate’s Court at Westport a motor driver was prosecuted for allowing three persons to stand on the running board of his car, and was ordered to pay 1.0/- costs. Hearing a nearby boarder coughing, Andreas Jorgenson, staying at ■the Wentworth Hotel, at Palmerston North, got up on Saturday morning and found John Bernard Fitzpatrick badly ill. Dr. Wilson was summoned but Fitzpatrick died before the doctor arrived. Deceased was a foreman at the railway deviation works and 47 years of ago.

There is ojnly one place in New Zealand which can produce better metal than that turned out by the Rangitikei River, said Mr. H. V. Bond, engineer to the Manawatu County Council to our representative during yesterday’s tour of inspection of the county. The Rangitikei metal is particularly hard, he said, and is an excellent roading metal. ■ , Constable R. Owen will resunie duty on Thursday after his annual vacation. During his holidays Mr. Owen, accompanied by Mr. W. Symons, paid a visit to Palliser Bay on the East Coast and on returning to Foxton Mr. and Mrs. Owen left on a motor tour which took them as far as the Coromandel Peninsula and Arapuni, a visit being made to Masterton prior to returning (o Foxton on Monday evening.

A grass lire which commenced in the cutting past Mr. Perreau’s store at Manawatu Heads on Sunday afternoon threatened to assume serious proportions but for the activities of Constable Bell and Mr. R. Hart and a party of willing workers. Fortunately the (ire was put, out before it reached the lupins otherwise the houses in the vicinity would have been in great danger of being destroyed. It is reported from Paris that the Pope is about to publish an encyclical, condemning the doctrines of prohibitionists as being contrary to the Gospel. It is stated the Papal Nuncio and Roman Catholic bishops in Australia have already been instructed to start a crusade. 'The news, however, appears suspect, since there is no Papal Nuncio in Australia, quite apart from the fact that it is unlikely the Pope will seek: to make trouble by a pronouncement on such a controversial subject.

A recent speaker to the Auckland Advertising Club said:—“The true ideals of democracy were impossible of attainment unless every individual realised and fulfilled bis responsibilities. Every 'citizen owed bis position to society. The community was like a bank, people put into it and took out. Society would become bankrupt when the majority of people took out more than they put in. There were many people who were willing to take everything they could and give nothing in return. It should he the aim of every citizen to co-operate with every other citizen to make the place they live in a finer place. Progress could come only when men of broad vision were willing to serve the public good,” A resident of Oamaru received a surprise Inst week in the shape of a letter containing £l, which had been posted on the steamer Niagara, when in American waters, 'by some unknown person. The remittance was aceofmpanied by an unsigned letter, which stated that the writer had been given a shilling by the recipient 40 years ago, when she was quite a small girl, and had lost a shilling with which she had been sent to make a purchase. The act of kindness was not forgotten, and the shilling was refunded, with interest. This is a case in which the bread, after being cast upon the waters, has returned in substantial form after many days.

Yesterday was “chewing gum” day in Foxton when Wrigley’s forwarded samples of their gum to every householder in the borough by postal delivery. The scow Kotiti, which arrived outside the Heads on Sunday afternoon, stuck just inside the bar after crossing where she remained until towed off on the following tide by Mr. J. Ross’s river boat. A Boston imessage . states that Tom Heeney and Jimmy Moloney, of Boston, heavy-weight, have signed a contract for a ten-round bout there on March 1. Heeney scored a knock-out over Moloney in 1927.

No curve on our roads will be less than five chains in radius, remarked Mr. H. Y. Bond, engineer to the Manawatu County Council during the course of a conversation 1 on the Council’s highway scheme yesterday. That is, of course, he continued, unless a difficult hill is encountered. Every care is being exercised to make all corners and bends as safe as possible and to keep the road straight.

A witness was 'being examined in the Magistrate’s Court in Wellington recently as to his reason for employing a housekeeper instead of taking something less costly in the way of lodgings. He replied that lie had had to leave several hoard-ing-houses on account of his drinking habits, and had therefore employed a housekeeper to look after him. Counsel asked him if lie still drank. A reply in the negative caused counsel to ask if the witness had inquired for any more lodgings since he had given up drinking. “No,” came the startling reply, “I have been in gaol ever since.”

A correspondent in the Ohakune Times endeavours to stir up municipal activity in that locality. He says: “Our councillors are excellent citizens, being honest, upright and steady. Tranquility is their aim and to do nothing is their motto. Our sanitary system was considered disgraceful 2000 years ago. A sewerage system is urgently required—The Council sleeps. Our camping ground for motorists and tourists is a joke. The Council sleeps. Our roads and footpaths were better a decade ago—The Council sleeps on. Half a dozen wofnien on the council would do more for the advancement of Ohakune in six months than the present council would do in a generation. If any woman offers herself for the council, give her your vote.” The issuing of an unofficial racebook by ail enterprising Wanganui firm of printers, on account of the Jockey (Clulb deciding to have its official racebooks printed in Palmerston North, fell like a bombshell on officials of the Jockey Club on Friday evening, when the unofficial racebook was placed on sale in the streets. The price was a modest sixpence, as against a shilling for the official book, which was not on sale until that morning, and punters could hardly believe their eyes at the generous reduction, and some of them even bought two of the unofficial books, being then in apposition to imake a present of one to a friend. There was a frantic rush to try and head off the sale, but of no avail, and so great was the demand that there was-hardly an unofficial book left when the racing commenced. —Herald.