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LOCAL AND GENERAL

No nominations were received for a Levin representative on the Foxton Harbour Board and the Levin Borough Council will now have to appoint a representative. “I am not gong to make an order against an old age pensioner for the payment of calls on forfeited shares,” said Mr Stout, in dismissing a civil ease in the local S.M. Court on Thursday. “Nrt order.” That Foxiton soil is ideal for the growing of kumaras has been exemplified by Mr iM. E. Perreau, wbo brought us for inspection soime splendid specimens of these tubers grown in his garden. Mr Perreau obtained the plants from Auckland and they have cropped remarkably well. The famous mosque of St. Sophia, in Constantinople, is always fragrant with the odour of musk. It has been so since it was built in the ninth century. Nothing is done to keep it perfumed. The solution of the seeming mystery lies in the fact that when it was built the stones and bricks were fixed fry mortar mixed with musk.

The following appointments were confirmed at Wednesday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board: Kaitieke: K. L. Bradley, sole teacher; Whenuakura, J. A. Wither, head teacher; Palmerston N. Central: E. H. Taylor, assistant; Cheltenham: D. N. Brown, assistant; Pokako, H. Burr, sole tearher; Palmerston N. Central, C. Etmmett, assistant; Valley Road, M. Harrison, sole teauher; Oroua Downs, 0. E. Price, assistant.

A youth of sixteen, employed in the Post Office at Taihape, confessed to having appropriated money and letters in outward correspondence.- Since February complaints have been made, which led to action by the police. The accused will appear in the Juvenile Court next Friday.

A visitor to Foxton on Thursday .was Mr J. Westlake, of Pahiatua, who in conversation with the Mayor, paid a tribute to the fine appearance of the town and its attractive seaside. “There is only one place missing,” said the visitor, “and that is a public reading-room.” The Mayor said that want would he supplied in the future.

Mano Nikora, a member of the Maori Concert Party,, is a great grandson of Te Rauiparaha, a Maori warrior whose name was once feared from one end of New Zealand to the 'other in days gone by (says the Nelson Mail). After mentioning this martial ancestry the Rev. Mr Seamer aroused laughter by announcing: “Nikora will now sing ‘Hush-a-bye, Baby.’ ”

A proposal by a Wellington firm that it establish a children’s magazine and seek support from school children in the Wanganui district for contributions of short stories and articles, and to sell copies at twopence each, did not meet with favour at the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board on Wednesday. “It sounds too much like commercialism,” a member remarked.

At Gtaki on Thursday, Agnes Thompson Mickell was charged with causing the death of her daughter, Katherine Mickell, at Te Horo, on April 11th. Evidence was given on the same lines as that at the inquest. Defendant, who has been admitted to a mental hospital, pleaded not guilty and was eom|mitted to the Supreme Court at Palmerston N. on May 7th for trial.

It was decided at Wednesday's meeting of the Wanganui Education Board to forward letters of appreciation to the following teachers, who have resigned from the Board’s service:—Mrs M. Stewart (Lytton Street). Mrs C. B. Weekes (Palmerston N. Central), Messrs W. H. McLean (Feilding) and C. H. McLean (Queen’s Park). Another esteemed teacher whose resignation by the Board was received at a previous meeting was that of Miss Williams, infant mistress of the local D.H. School.

Concluding a long leading article entitled “Another Work Stopped,” the Auckland Herald isays: “The Government may think that at Palmerston N. it has merely stopped something. Actually it has started solmething and no negligible thing at that. On the main arguments used there has been established the absolute need of reviewing in a most careful maimer every railway project in contemplation, lest one or all of them will fail ‘to produce any additional revenue to the railways whatever.’ That is what has been started as the Palmerston N. deviation has been stopped.”

The Education Department is fully alive to the risks children run through coining in contact with live detonators and an evidenlcc of what was being done to protect human limb from this danger, was contained in a detonator card for use in schools which was placed before the Wanganui Education Boai‘d at its ■meeting on Wednesday. Various types of detonators were wired on to this, and above appeared a notice warning l pupils of the risk they ran in handling them. The Board expressed itself in full accord with the Department's activities to cope with a difficult problem. Trials of the first Garratt locomotive to be put on the rail have been personally carried out in the Ohakune district by the chief mechanical engineer (Mr G. S. Lynde), says the “Railway Magazine.” The latest report shows that a load of 464 tons was carried by goods train from Tamnaranui to Taihape. The Owhanga bank was negotiated in 22 minutes (six .miles of one in fifty grade). The ltaurimu spiral was ascended in 27 minutes (7 miles of one in fifty). The weather conditions were the worst possible, a light drizzling rain falling throughout the journey. Despite the greasy rail, no slipping occurred and the times put up easily eclipse ordinary goods traffijc times. It is interesting to note that the “X” locomotive (the largest goods engine) has a schedule load of 300 tons over the steepest part of this section.

Pipe smoking is becoming increasingly popular amongst, men although there is a lessened demand, tobacconists nvill tell you, for very strong tobaccos, which, of course, owe their strength to the excess of nicotine they contain. And excess of nicotine is bad. That is why the habitual use of imported tobaccos — mostly full of uieotine and consequently so liable to cause heart and nerve trouble —should be avoided. The safest tobaccos on the market are those produced in New Zealand. They contain so little nicotine that they can be smoked from daylight to dark without fear, of consequences. And for flavour and aroma they are ,simply unrivalled. That is attributable largely to the fact that the leaf is toasted —quite a- new departure in the manufacture of tobacco, These goods are now in general request, They are in several strengths, so that they are adapted to all tastes. Leading lines are:— “Riverhead Gold,” (mild), “Navy Cut” and ‘.‘Cavendish” (medium), “Cut Plug No. JO,” Bullshead, (fullstrength).* Foi Children's Hacking Couch. Woods’ Great Peppermint Carp

A novelty iin broadcasting was given from the Belfast station of 'the British Broadcasting Company, when a bird concert by roller canaries was given under the direction of the president of the Ulster Roller 'Canary Club. A dozen canaries ‘took part.

At the meeting of the Wanganui Automobile Association this week, members complained of the action of local bodies in creating deviations from main roads when tarsealing was in progress. The consensus of opinion was that onehalf of the road should be sealed at a time, thereby allowing motorists to use the unsealed half, and obviating the necessity of leaving the main road. Much time was lost in having to make use of deviations.

“Turn him out; you are not obliged to keep him,” said Mr J. H. Salmon at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court the other day, when a man, who was being examined as to his means of supproting liis wife, stated that a married son had quartered himself on him. The Magistrate said that he could not make an ier against the respondent, who asked what he was going to do a.ut his son. “I a|m not here to give legal advice,” said his Worship, “but your conmionsense will tell you that you are not obliged to keep your son.” In recent sheep-stealing cases, the police had difficulty owing to the failure of farmers to register their brands. In order to impress upon them the importance of obeying the law requiring registration, the police at Hamilton on Thursday, prosecuted Edwin Charles Shepherd, a farmer, of the Huntly district, on two charges relating to failure to register brands. Detective White said that there was no reflection on the integrity of the defendant. The Magistrate (Mr Wilson) imposed a fne of £1 on each charge.

A humorous recollection of his war experiences was given by tiie Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, in speaking at a/ reunion of returned soldiers at Auckland this week. Sir Charles said he made his headquarters at a farmhouse near Mods in the early days of hostilities and iby a strange coincidence, after traversing the whole front, he found himself back at the same farmhouse in 1918. He decided to make his headquarters there again. On knocking at the door the same old wolman answered, wearing, apparently, the same old clothes and suffering from the same cold. Sir Charles asked if she remembered him. “Of course I do,” she replied. “You are the British general who ran away four years ago.”

Generosity is tiie very essence of the being of Squadron-Leader Kingsiford Smith, Flight-Licut. Ulni and their two companions (says the Sydney Sun). Just before they completed arrangdments for their projected flight to England, they possibly excelled themselves. They had defended an action by Mr Keith Anderson in which lie sought to establish his right to a share oif their earnings as trans-Paeifie fliers. On practically every count Anderson voluntarily withdrew his claim, and Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieut. ULm emerged from the courts triumphant. But, having done this, they turned to their old colleague and asked him to accept a gift of £I,OOO as evidence of the kindly feelings which they entertained for him, and as witiiess they were not forgetful of the ill luck which prevented his being one of the crew to bridge the Pacific.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3933, 20 April 1929, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
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LOCAL AND GENERAL Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3933, 20 April 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3933, 20 April 1929, Page 2

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