Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3940, 9 May 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The suggestion that an air mail might be run from Napier to Gisborne some time in the future was made by the Minister of Defence, Hon. T. M. Wilford, to a number of aero enthusiasts of the former town. The Minister pointed out that an air mail would take only an hour to reach Gisborne. Mrs. Sophia B. Leash, 53, wife of William Leash, farmer of Eureka, in the Hamilton district, was found drowned in a wntcirhole on the farm on Monday. Deceased apparently went to tend the ducks and geese and fell .into the water. At an inquest a verdict of misadventure was returned. Deceased leaves a husband and seven children. Magistrate Hunt in fining a motor driver £lO and cancelling his license for 12 months at the Auckland Court on Monday remarked that liquor at country dances should be stopped. The accused was conveying a party from ,n. dance where liquor had been consumed and while intoxicated lie drove the car into a telegraph post.

A Wellington motorist en route to Palmerston North last evening took Sorensen’s ‘Corner too wide and crashed into the verandah of the store, tearing down the wind break at the end and the verandah posts. The occupants of the car escaped injury and little damage was done to the vehicle. The cause of the mishap was due to the fact that the night was very dark and the motorist who did not know the road very well failed to notice the corner until he was almost past it.

“It is a pity you did not think of the disgrace which you were bringing on your respectable relatives before you did this. Luckily for you'the police record of your character is good and I am going to give you a chance, but people don’t get two chances so don’t offend again,” said Judge Ostler at Tuesday’s silting of the Palmerston Supreme Court, to Claude Coward, aged 22, when admitting him to probation on a. charge of breaking and entering by night with intent to commit a crime at Daimevirke.

The head office of the Government Savings Bank recently received a letter from a. Christchurch resident, stating that when a boy he had received a. windfall of £lO from a relative, and lie had deposited it in the Savings (Bnnlk there. Some years afterwards he lost, his bank book, and, boy-like, lie imagined that his deposit had gone for ever. He now asked what had become of the money. He discovered not only that the money was still in the bank account, lint that in the 50 years that had elapsed it had multiplied into £-GO. The handwriting of depositor, it was noticed by bank officials, had not changed in a single character during the half-century that had elapsed.

It has been estimated tliat the consumption of milk per head per year in New Zealand is only 20 gallons, compared with 00 gallons in U.S.A. An article on New Zealand dietaries in the “Journal of Home Economics” refers to this, and adds: “It seems probable that the low calcium and phosphorus content of the diets, together with their high sugar content, may have a direct bearing on the poor teeth and high incidence of dental caries in New Zealand. If the amount of milk were increased to the point where 9 per cent, or more of the total calorics came from this source, the calcium and phosphorus would be sufficient to insure a supply adequate in accordance with our present standards.”

A self-appointed examiner was among members of the Gisborne School ICommittee, who visited the school. When they entered Standard I. room, the gentleman referred to help up a sovereign, a rarity in these days, and he discovered that only one of the small pupils had seen such a coin before (states an exchange). In Standard If. classroom he inquired how many of the children knew their height. Only one bright boy said lie did, but he spoiled himself, when he was a sliced what his, heigh t was, by saying, “Nine feet.” In one of the upper classes lie found a child who told him, quite .correctly but ambiguously, that' the North Island of New Zealand was in the' Southern Hdiiiisphere.

By Jove! £1,200,000 w-orth of tobacco imported into New Zealand annually! Fancy that. However every year that passes from now on is bound to witness smaller and smaller importations of tobacco into this country from overseas for the simple reason that ISTew Zealand is now producing such splendid tobacco of her own that. she must ere very long become independent altogether of outside sources of supply. It may be added that in the opinion of experts our New Zealand tobacco is the purest in the world, because, unlike the foreign goods, it is practically free from nicotine, and unay lie indulged in to any extent with perfect safety. Its comparative innocuousness is partly due to the soil in which the plant is grown and partly to the fact that the leaf is toasted in the process of manufacture. There are several brands, ranging from “Riverhead Gold” (a undid aromatic) to “Cut Plug No. 10” a rich, full'bodied sort. Betwixt and between come “Cavendish,” a popular medium and “Navy Cut No. 3” a blend of choice tobaccos, also of medium strength.—Advt.

Replying to a deputation from Ellhnni, Sir Joseph Ward said that there was no doubt that the position was being reached when the hospital boards would have to be more moderate in regard to expenditure for buildings, as very high rates were being struck. The. local rating for hospitals was becoming too heavy. He was bound to bring the matter up in the coining year’s estimates. The total amount hospital hoards were asking was beyond the fair and legitimate requirements of the country altogether.