Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3914, 5 March 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The .vital statistics for Foxton for the month o'f February were as follows, the .figures for the corresponding period last year being given .in parenthesis:—Births 4 (4); deaths .3 (1); m'arriage nil (2). The Chicago' Health Department has announced that there were 498 murders in the city in 1828. Homicides far outrank some of .the coimrnon diseases and even surpass death's fro|tn influenza. 'The killing rate is 16.1 per cent, per 100,000, or every 79 persons, one was killed by violence. Mr. D. Bail met with a painful accident on Sunday afternoon. He was about to jump over a picket fence in Whittaker Street opposite his residence when his foot slipped and he fell, his chin striking (lie top of one of the pickets, and inflicting a nasty gash which necessitated the insertion of three stitches. During the month of February rain fell locally on three days, the (maximum fall, .68 of an inch being on the 3rd. The total rainfall for the month was .74 of an inch. The coldest day w'as the 18th when the thermometer registered 57 degrees and the warmest day was the Ist with 67 degrees. Last Saturday the local Natives held a shop day in Main Street to assist in raising funds to defray the expenses of the visit of the Maori Bishop to Foxton at Easter. ■The effort was quite successful and the-funds will benefit as a result. Competitions were iwon as follows: —Dinner: D. Cook; potato bag: Pakaru Mete. “Have you a car ” an applicant for his discharge in bankruptcy was asked in the Supreme Court at Wanganui last week. “Yes, I have a ear, and it is valued at £5,” was the reply. Later, the witness remarked that he had driven the car into town that morning, and that it wanted a new hood. “It appears to want more than a neAV hood,” said counsel.

At Invercargill on Saturday afternoon, a search party, consisting of Constables Dunlop and Fraser and others, found the body of Stanley Millburn, a youth aged 18 and employed in an Invercargill mercantile office, who has been missing since Thursday. The body was found by Mr. Georgeson in a clump of bushes hear Newcastle Street, with a bullet wound in the head and a discharged rifle lying alongside. Mr. D. Hebenfon, who has been associated with the Reform Party in the capacity of chief organiser since August, 1923, left by the Marama on Sunday for Sydney en route for England. During his stay in England it is his intention to make a study of electioneering methods by the several parties at the forthcojming general election. He expects to return to the Dominion in about nine months time. Mr. E. A. James still remains in charge of the organisation as Dojminion secretary at the national headquarters. Speaking at a meeting to consider publicity matters in Napier the other night, business men urged the value of newspaper advertisement (reports the Napier Daily Telegraph). Air. J. Harris said the newspaper advertisements caught the reader in a receptive frame of mind, after he had had his tea and finished his day’s work, and was more impressive to its readers than poster propaganda. Mr. A. Hobson agreed. Newspaper advertising had a psychological effect upon its readers not given by any other form of publicity. An interesting roading experiment is being made by the Public Works Department beyond Mourea, in the direction of Okere, Rotorua (says the Auckland Herald). lit consists of forming the roads and then spraying theta, with crude oil and spreading ,a light coat of pumice over the oil. This is allowed to be used by the traffic and the grader used frequently for a time. The top sets and forms a staooth running surface. If the experiment proves a success it will solve a big problem of roading for the Oounty of Rotorua. A portion of the Ro-torua-Taupe Road was treated in this way about five weeks ago, and so far promises well. A stretch of road towards Napier has been done also for a longer period. The effect of the oil is to keep out the moisture and by combining with the line pumice making a waterproof jacket on the running surface.