Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3915, 7 March 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Borough Engineer at Palmerston has reported to the Council •that'the cost of laying hot mix pavements 'as laid in the Square, including the tabling up of existing surface avas 3/6 a square yard. The cost of slab concrete would be 9/5a square yard.

At the Devonport swimming club’s carnival on Tuesday, Miss Ena I’Sto'eldey won the ladies’ s cratch race over 50 yards in 28 2-5 seconds, which is 3-5 of a second better than the Australian record, there being no official New Zealand record.

For six years the Palmerston Borough 'Council has accepted half the risk of the accident insurance of its employees and during that time a fund of £2OOO has been accumulated. A proposal has now been made that the Council take the whole risk.

Issue of a new pictorial set of postage stamps for New Zealand has been suggested, and the Post-master-General (the Hon. J. B. Donald) is looking into the matter (states the “Lyttelton Times”). He stated on 'Sunday that nothing had been decided upon yet.

The dead body of Peter Hunt, a returned soldier, was found in a house at New Brighton on Tuesday evening, Hunt, who lived alone in the house, had not been seen for several days. The owner forced the door and found Hunt’s body lying on the floor. An inquest will be opened to-morrow.

When attempting to alight from a moving train at Overton station on Tuesday night a young woman named BarloW, residing- at Raetihi, fell between the carriages. One foot was crushed and it had later to be amputated. The other leg was fractured in two places. Suffering gravely from shock, the victim was removed to a Marton private hospital. It appears that she intended getting off at the Porewa station. The train was gathering speed after leaving Overton, when the victim thought she had passed Porewa and attempted to get off, with the result stated.

One of the: witnesses for the prosecution in a case in which two men were charged in the Wellington Magistrate's Court yesterday with having forged and uttered a cheque was a doctor, who had accepted the cheque frofm one of the accused in payment for a consultation. The doctor, after being sworn, proceeded to give his evidence under the guidance of Chief-Detective Ward. “You are a medical practitioner, practising at Wfellington?” asked the Chief-Detective. “Yes, (and practised upon,” replied the doctor with a smile.

Application for the use of the Levin Park Domain for the 1929 football season was received by the Levin Borough Council on Monday evening from the Horowhenua Rugby District Council, and was granted on the same 'terms as last year —(viz., £2O for matches under the control of the (District Council, and 15 per 'cent, of the gate takings for matches under the Manawhenua Union. The Mayor (Mi’. T. Hobson) remarked 'that the annual report of the Rugby iC'ouucil stated that that body lost £2OO last year in 'comparison with the previous season. His Worship added that the Borough Council received in 1928 a total of £29, comprising £2O froim the Horowhenua Rugby Council and £9 from the Manawhenua Union, and this total he considered to be a very fair contribution.

Whales have the largest brains of all mammals, the largest on record weighing 7000 grams. In human beings the brain seldom exceeds an average weight of 1280 grains to 1460 grams in men, and 1140 to 1,340 in wo/tnen.

After granting certain legacies, the late Sir Charles Skerrett, as a first provision of his ■will, directed his trustees to set aside one-tenth of' the net balance of his estate for the purpose of paying the income froim such sum to educational charities in New Zealand to be from tjme to time determined by his trustees under certain directions expressed in the will. The will also bequeaths the sum of £SOO to the authorities ©f St. Patrick’s College to be used by them to keep up the educational annuities granted by Sir Charles Skerrett in that institution. The estate has for temporary purposes been sworn under £BO,OOO.

Complaints are being made by farmers jn the Waikato that the attractive wages (offered for relief work are drawing men away from occupations connected with the land, states the “New Zealand Herald.” 1 Intone instance a flaximiiler had arranged for a gang of men to cut an area of flax, but when the new rates of pay for relief work became available the men left. The flax may have to be destroyed. One farmer took a man off relief work when the old rates were being paid. The man was given £3 a week and received a free house 'and milk. Since the increase of relief wages he has returned to his former employment.

■ A serious collision occurred sliort- ,, ly after 9 .o’clock on Tuesday morning on the Longburn road, threequarters of a mile from Longburn, between a heavily-laden lorry and a ilve-seater ear containing four occupants. The car Was completely wrecked and 'the lorry extensively damaged. The occupants of the car werel all injured about the head and face, and all .were'taken to hospital. The lorry-driver was not injured. Audrey Brooke-Taylor, aged 17, sustained a broken jaw, a broken clavicle, cuts on the face, and probably internal injuries. Lois Brooke-Taylor, -aged 15, was severely cut on the lip, and suffered minor injuries. Kahua Pauanga, aged .12, suffered (severe abrasions on the body, numerous cuts, and lost several teeth. Charles Hqrper, aged 57 sustained scalp wounds and injuries to a leg. All are pro'gres- . sing satisfactorily. The Misses Brooke-Taylor are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. A. Brooke-Taylor, well-known Bainesse residents.

Complaint 'sometimes is made about the absence of any buildings of great antiquity in .the Dominion and consequent lack of historical perspective amongst the nativeborn. If an inscription on the Papanui Post Office is to be credited that building is old enough to satisfy all but the most exacting antiquarians. The inscription reads: “A.D. 921.” Trials with a portable weed-bur-ning apparatus are being made by the Auckland City Council on the footpaths at Avondale. A container for kerosene and compressed air is similar to the knapsack sprayers used by orebardists. The gas is fed to a blowlamp by means of a flexible tube and the roar of the lamp can be heard for a considerable distance. After the operation a 'series of unsightly burnt patches remain, but it is expected that with a shower of rain these will disappear. The .limit cost .of the apparatus is heavy, but if it effectually and permanently removes weeds it will obviato the continual chipping of footpaths.

Most brands of tobacco possess some distinguishing peculiarity. The peculiarity of our New Zealand brands is that once you acquire a taste for them —and it doesn’t take long! they “spoil” you for all other kindis. The peculiarity of the imported tobaccos is that they are all more or less loaded with nicotine, so that their constant use is certain sooner or later, to affect heart or nerves, on develop “smoker’s throat.” Thanks to the trifling percentage of nicotine in the NeW Zealand they are absolutely safe and may be indulged in without fear of •consequences. These fine tobaccos owe their wonderful purity largely to the fact that the leaf is toasted, a process which not only helps lo eliminate the nicotine 'but develops flavour and aroma to a marked degree. There are a number of brands, those mostly asked for being “Riverhead Gold” (mild and aromatic) ; “Cavendish” (a delightful smoke, medium strength); “Navy Cut No. 3” (a blend of choice leaf) and “Cut Plug No. 10” (a rich dark, full-flavoured tobacco).

“Hojw you young fellows make up your minds to sit on a piece of clattering machinery they call a motor-cycle is beyond me,” remarkcci'Mr. JVlowlem, S.M., when dealing with an offending motor-cyclist in Napier. “I have seen motor-cycles, and I have heard) some. Some I have heard with dif- . Acuity, as they run quietly. I suppose people will be writing to the papers and complaining that the magistrate is unfair to mo-tor-cyclists, but I say that the average motor-cyclist’s desire is to lack up as much noise as he can possibly do. They do not think of people lying in bed at night, or in bed sick. Why, in Masterton a lady had a hospital on the main road, but she had to get out of it. Her patients demanded sleep, but they could not get it. What did the motorcyclists care? Nothing. They still just streaked through the street. Let me say that in liny opinion the noisy motor-cyclist is the most selfish individual I have met yet, and that is candid.”