Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL AN IDEAL LANDING GROUND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3909, 21 February 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL AN IDEAL LANDING GROUND.

ONE of the essential thing's in fostering- private or commercial aviation is suitable landing- and talcing off grounds without which aviation will be retarded in this Dominion. Whether municipalities Avill provide such grounds is a question for their consideration. Fairly large areas are required for the purpose and this will be a difficult problem near the centres of population. So fains this district is concerned one of the most suitable sites is to be found at the local seaside, where there is a natural level run-way extending for about two miles providing a solid and smooth surface. This area was the bed of the Manawatu river years ago, and very little expense would be required to make it adaptable for the largest ’planes. We understand that the locality has already been charted as an emergency landing ground by the flying branch of the Defence Department and has been used by Captain Buckley and Mi". Mill. The 'area in question is part of the old Marine reserve and now vested in the Foxton Harbour Board. The situation would ibe ideal either for trans-Tasman or inter-island flying, and its suitability should be brought under the notice of the interested authorities.

There were no' (bankruptcies recorded in the Wairarapa during January.

It is estimated that work for 300 men for four years will he provided by the Auckland 'City Tramway extension scheme.

The learn to swim campaign commenced, at Hastings on Monday evening when about three hundred pupils both children and adults enrolled.

A motor cyclist was fined £4 10/in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for riding along Hutt road at 05 miles an hour. The patrol constable had to do 74 miles an hour to catch him.

Owing to two persons having been buried in wrong plots at the Greytown cemetery, the Borough Council has decided to ask the relatives, with the consent of the Health Minister, that the coffins be disinterred and placed in their right plots.

There was a boom in Taranaki, oil shares a few weeks back when the Blenheim bore spouted oil for one minute. 'Speculators were subsequently disappointed that the spouting of the precious liquid didn’t continue and shares slumped. Another flow of 700 gallons from the bore occurred on Tuesday and the flow then stopped of its own accord.

Those who have passed over the Bulls bridge of recent Imonths will possibly have noticed two piles driven into the river 'bed several hundred yards downstream from the bridge. These are test piles which have been driven to absolute resistance and are part of the preliminary work in 'connection with the erection of the new bridge which ufill be constructed approximately in line Avith these piles.

“The more people you have in the cities the better,” said Mr. George Valder, formerly Undersecretary for Agriculture and principal of Hawkesbury College, New South Wales, when addressing Rotarians at Hamilton. “Cities with large populations are, I think, a sign of higher civilisation and prove that those on the land are producing so largely that they can keep the city dwellers besides them-seh-es.”

Hamilton ratepayers carried a water loan proposal of £40,070 yesterday by 707 votes to 572. A meeting of the committee of the Fox ton Swimming Club will be held at 7 o’clock this evening. The ordinary meeting of the Foxton Chamber of Commerce will be held jn Ross’s rooms (up stairs) at 7.30 o’clock this evening. All 'members are specially requested to be in attendance.

When Mr. K. Easton was turning into Hall Street from Whyte Street this morning in a Ford truck the back axle broke and allowed the inside rear wheel to came off . As tho driver was proceeding at a slow pace the vehicle did not capsize and very little damage was done. While lecturing on physical beauty at the London Society of Arts, Sir Thomas Legge, M.D., stated that the most handsojme men the world has ever seen 'were found in the first 100,000 Australians who came over during the Great War. All seemed to conform to the highest class of beauty, having narrow faces, straight foreheads and noses, high cheek bones, short upper lips, strong chins, thick hair, and magnificent figures.

In the course of a eulogy on the late Sir Charles Skerrett, Sir Robert Stout said that the Bench has lost a most able Judge, one whom lawyers and o&Jicrs who had come in /contact with him admired and loved. “I think that his life ought to be an example to our young men,showing what hard study, work, and 'high character will do in New Zealand for her youths,” said Sir Robert.

Reporting to the Horowhenua Power Board on Tuesday the 1 Electrical Engineer (Mr. J. A. Smith) said that since last meeting 12 applications from new consumers and 21 applications for extensions to existing installations have been received comprising (i ranges, 4 waterheaters, 3 shearing iraotors nad 3 pumping motors. Eleven new consumers and 19 extensions have been connected, including 5 ranges, 7 waterheaters, and 3 small industrial motors, a total increase of 53.141 k.w. Motorists on the Foxton-Sa-ndon highway of late could not fail to have noticed pieces of red rag lying at even intervals along this roadway. E'eali piece of rag is attached to a railway spike driven into the road by the surveyor and his gang to designate the centre of the new highway. The rag is not meant to last long, just sufficient time to allow the surveyor to peg out a mile or so of road and then return and lake lids levels, which are plotted in. a field book for the use of the engineer.

A complaint that his wife'would have nothing- to do with him when he returned from England was made at Auckland on Monday by Robert Yuille Baillie, a naval schoolmaster, who asked for restitution of conjugal rights from Ethel Evelyn Carson Baillie. Petitioner parted from his wife on their wedding day in January, 1927, when lie left for England by H.M.S. Dunedin. On his return to Auckland she refused to have anything to do with Mm. Mi-. Justice Kennedy made an order for the wife’s return within forty days. There was a unique ceremony at the Wanganui Supreme Court on Tuesday, when Judge 'Smith was presented with a pair of white gloves, there being no criminal cases. As far as can 'be ascertained during all the years the Supreme Court has functioned in Wanganui there has never been a similar occasion. The Judge said the occasion was surely one for congratulation considering the size of the city and district. It was a tribute to the various civil, educational, philanthropic, and religious organisations and police and administration of justice.

Amongst the treasured possessions of a well-known 'Christchurch doctor is a collection of tobacco pipes. Nearly every pipe has a history. A fine Meerschaum is said 'to have belonged to Sir George Grey, and a long clay is supposed to have been used by Tennyson, Avho always smoked clays and never smoked the same one twice. The collection is Avorbh money, but the owner wouldn’t part Avith it. Ho says by the Avay (and quite truly) that the tobacco counts far more than the pipe it is smoked in, and he never fails to warn his parents to avoid brands containing much nicotine. His personal preference is for NeAv Zealand tobacco, because he considers it the purest on the market and the freest from nicotine, while the foreign brands are all imore or less full of the latter. The New Zealand, owing to its splendid quality is a universal favourite. You run no risk with it. It can be smoked freely without fear of consequences. Popular brands: “Raverhead Gold” (aromatic); “Cavendish” and “Navy Cut” (medium); “'Out Plug No. 10” (full).