Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3931, 16 April 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The fol towing was included in the annual report of the Greytown Golf dull): “For a first 'time since the 'inception of Oluib play on Mr Bunny’s property, a player, Mr 11. S'tunnell, played a hole in one, and thus joined the select few who have accomplished such a feat.” A lady who called at the Woodvillo “Examiner” office last week, stated proudly that, although she had lived for over 40 years in Wioodville, she ‘had not purchased a pound’s worth of goods outside the town. She looked none the worse for her loyalty. There was a hold-up of heavy traffijc on the Himatangi highway opposite the Chinaman’s Garden last evening, where a deep depression is being filled. One large lorry was well down and Madge’s char-a-banc and three other lorries were unable to proceed. Motor cars, however, were able to pass alongside the embedded lorry. Messrs Madge Bros, sent a relief car from Palmerston N. which conveyed Foxton passengers to Paliinerston N. This morning the road was made passable.

During the course of Hon. E. A. Ransom’s inspection of the Mana-watu-Oroua River Board’s district on Saturday morning, Mr J. Linklater, M.P., took the opportunity, while the party was. at the Ihakara Hill, Shannon, to point out to the Minister the dangerous nature of the incline, mentioning the accidents Which had occurred there of late and suggested that road improvements at this point would provide suitable, work for unemployed during the nvintey. Mr Ransom promised to give the matter full consideration.

The Auckland Headmasters’ Association passed the following resolution: “That whatever form tho reorganisation of the present educational system may take, it is in the interests of the children that they should continue from the age of 11 to 15 in charge of experienced teachers now carrying on primary school work; that the suggested division of children from the ago of 1.1 into four groups for the purpose of commencing specialised wofik in commercial, industrial, agricultural ,and academic ciurses is not desirable in pro-adolescent-.stages; that the most pressing need at present in our schools is a reduction in the size.of many classes.”

A very pleasant social afternoon was spent -at llic residence of Mrs J. G. Honore on Friday afternoon, when a number of friends assembled to bid farewell to Mrs J. M. Barr, who is leaving Fox bon shortdy for Napier, where Mr Barr has commenced business. A novel and interesting competition was held, in which the competitors had 'to guess words commencing with the syllable “bar.” Mrs Barr won the competition, and Mrs G. A. Tyer won an interesting outdoor competition. A dainty afternoon tea was served, and a very pleasant time spent. “Let this he an example to every boy and girl present,” said the Hon. A. J. Stalhvoi’tihy (Minister of Health) in opening the debt-free Plunket Rooms and Women’s Rest at Taikapau last week, “that if you want, anything and can’t pay for it —go without it. Go without ’luxuries (ill you prove yourself, in the face of all men, able to afford thdm.” The Minister recompensed the children for his moralising by shouting them an ice-cream all round (says the Hawhe’s Bay Herald). Scores of children not present at the time hurried to the scene when they heard the news.

“I don’t say you are smoking too much,” said a well-known Wellington nerve specialist to a patient, “but you are smoking too much of the' wrong kind of tobacco. The brand you have just shown me, and which you say you usually smoke, is an imported one, and like so many of the imported tobaccos, contains far* too much nicotine to render its habitual use advisable. Because the absorption, day after day, into, the system of a large quantity of nicotine is bound to develop nerve trouble—or some other trouble —sooner or later Why smoko these injurious foreign tobaccos when we have here tobaccos grown and manufactured in Now Zealand which are probably the purest in the world owing to the very small amount of nicotine they contain? The toasting process to which they are subjected makes them immune. 1 smoke New Zealand tobacco myself, and recommend my patients to try any of the following brands: Rive ahead Gold, Cavendish Navy Cut No. ‘5, 'Cut Plug No. 10, all are toasted and therefore quite safe. *