Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3944, 18 May 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The membership of tho Canterbury Aero Club is increasing- dnily as a result of the club having em\baitkcd on its scheme of instruction. Ten young men are undergoing a ■course. r

The question is often asked to v,-liat extent is the Maori making use of his own land for industrial purposes. Information from a business man who is .in close touch 'with the natives in the King Country is to the effect that there are between 300 and 400 Maoris in the districts between Otorohanga and Taumarunui who are engaged in dairy farming, many of them polking GO or 70 cows. In one exceptional instance, a chief of the Alnniapotos has a herd of about 210 milking cattle.

The deer-stalking season, which will end on May 31, is said to be well up to the average, if not rather better, in the Wiellington district. One guide to the number of heads taken is the number placed in the hands of taxidermists. So far the number so placed for mounting is just over eighty. But with those not already placed in the hands of the taxidermists, and the heads yet to be secured before the season closes it would not be surprising if the total reached 150 for the season, which would lie about equal to the average return.

The Prince of Wales’s presence of mind during the North-East Coast Exhibition, saved Mr. Guiness, the foreman of the exhibition, from an ugly and possibly fatal accident. Air. Guiness was sitting on a ladder above a mass of tin-can making machinery, rotating at high speed, pointing out (he features to the Prince. Guiness snatched at a tin accidentally caught in the machinery, slipped off the ladder, and hung on his feet within a. few inches of the open machinery. The Prince grabbed his overalls, but they slipped from his lingers. Guiness was again threatened with the loss of (his legs, until the Prince gripped him a second time, and dragged him to safety.

The British Film 'Censor’s report for 1928 strongly criticises crime films. Mr. T. R O’Connor again sent a, letter lo the producers emphasising that he would refuse to pass lillms in which crime was dominant, and illustrating the methods of elrimo, even if the subject is comically treated or the criminals brought to retribution. Eliminations had also been made in scores of films showing British uniformed officers in a disgraceful light. Incidents, derogatory to the British police, equivocal situations between whites and other races, suggestive dancing, and white slave traffic orgies, deliberate preparations for suicide, torture scenes, martyrdoms, exploiting victims, drunken women and inflammatory sub-titles.

“Your counsel lias described you as more of a fool than a knave. All criminals are fools,” Air. Justice Herdman told Ronald Alfred Alonlen when sentencing him for theft in the 'Supreme Court at .Auckland this week. His Honour said the theft was a particularly .mean one and almost amounted to robbing a dtrunken man. The facts were that a country shepherd came to the city and in a moment of foolishness put money in Mon ten’s charge. The latter abused that trust and almost succeeded in absconding from New Zealand. In addition to that the prisoner took his stand in the witness box and perjured himself in an impudent fashion. Alonteii would be sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment with hard labour.

The proprietor of a store in Oriental Bay, Wiellington, had an amusing experience a day or <wo ago. Two ladies, visitors from the Old Country, ' had been strolling round the bay and felt that they would like some refreshment, when they saw in the window of the store a notice, “Milk Tokens Sold Here.” Stepping inside they asked the proprietor for “Two milk tokens, please," under the impression that this was a new milk drinlk which They were prepared to try. “Pints or quarts?” asked the proprietor, much, to their astonishment. “Oh, pints will do; we couldn’t possibly drink quarts.” Their surprise was greater still when they received what appeared to them to be a couple of coins. They were highly amused when matters were explained to them.

Take the perfume of the rose, And the honey from the bee, As the shades of twilight close; Where the one you love shall be. Take the nectar of her lips, But for colds and chills assure, There is ease in soothing sips, Of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —3.

To-morrow being Whit Sunday, the birthday of the Christian Church, special services will be held throughout, the world, particularly in the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches. Whit Sunday is one of (he five great festivals of the Chutreh, ranking in importance with Christmas and Easter. In England the festival is marked by crowded churches.

They say competition is the soul of trade (says the Thames Star). There should be plenty of soul in the local taxi trade. One firm advertised their fares to the Franklin races at 15/- return. Another firm then advertised 12/0. Then the first, fiilni reduced it to 10/-, and their friends in the business reduced their fare to 7/6. Finally the opposition brought the fare down to 0/1. The Hooding of our universities with students was referred to as a possible danger by Dr. Lawson, of Otago University, speaking at the graduation ceremony at the Cantei’bury College, last week. We were in somewhat the same position, lie said, as was Germany, where there was a tendency to “sehoolify” the whole of life. It had been said that one half of the nation was occupied in teaching the other half. This was a bad state of affairs. At. Auckland on Thursday Edvard Aklliur Peters, aged 35, was sentenced to six months’ hard labour plus two years’ reformative treatment on fourteen charges of obtaining goods and money totalling £.104 by means of valueless cheques and false pretences and several charges of theft. Eon - over two years Peters toured the North Island obtaining money and goods from various people by telling unusual stories and working upon their sympathy.

A statement that the fitting of rear reflectors on bicycles was not taken seriously was made at the meeting of the Council of the Auckland Automobile Association last week. 'Several members expressed concern at the number of unlighted cycles encountered on the roads shortly after sunset. It was pointed out that, in many cases reflectors were fitted on. the mudguards at an angle which rendered t'henn useless. Alany cyclists did not appreciate that they were absolutely without protection unless the reflectors were vertical. The Levin Golf Club has decided to acquire a ’ horse sulky-mower from the Palmerston North Golf Club, at a cost of £25, which will be met by a small levy on the members. Delivery will be had almost iminiediately, and the mower will be put on to take off the excessive growth of grass that has been brought about through the mildness of the autumn. In 'consequence it is hoped that the additional nine holes, which have been out of commission so far this season, will be available again within a fortnight.

A grim discovery was made by (he caretaker of New Farm Park, just outside Brisbane on Thursday, the dead bodies of a young couple in a sitting posture in a motor-car. Dora Campbell, aged 32, a pharmaceutical student, was in the front, seat, with a bullet wound in her forehead, and Daniel Netterfield, a

commercial traveller, in the back seat with a revolver at his side. The police express the opinion that it was either a ease of a death pact, murder, or suicide, the outcome of jealousy, which hast been established since inquiries were begun.

The following appointments were con'fllrnied at Wednesday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board: —Taihape: N. B. Finlayson, assistant; College Street: A. P. Williamson, assistant; Ruanui: E. A. Fuller, sole .teacher; Bunnythorpe: F. Patience, head teacher; Mangariinu: S. J. Barry, .sole teacher; Palmerston North Cenrial: F. S. Grant, assistant ; Tawhero: C. I. Smith, assistant; Victoria Avenue: A. C. Barnes, assistant; Greatford: M. E. Burgess, assistant; Upper Retarnlke: C. iM. Hartford, sole teacher; Ashhu'rst: 11. Fenwick, head teacher.

A scheme for increasing the average weekly attendance at the Grey Alain School lias had good results (writes a correspondent of the Nelson Mail). On a blackboard, in the main corridor in the school, is kept each class’s percentage of attendance for the week. The top class has the honour of holding Hie attendance cup until the following week. Competition for the trophy is keen, and has resulted in a marked improvement in the school’s averages. At the end of the first week the top attendance was 08 per cent, of the total roll on the winning class. At the end of last week the top class had reached an average of over 90 per, cent, while the lowest was 08 per cent.

“The establishment of a separate training college for secondary or technical school teachers is not to bo thought of at the present time,” said the Director of Education (Mr. T. B. Strong) at Thursday’s conference of the (Secondary Schools' Association. There can, I think, bo little, doubt as to the importance of having trained teachers in the secondary school service. Our goal in the primary service has been to have none but trained teachers, and (he goal is in sight. It is time the same aim Was realised in the secondary schools. “To be a real teacher more is needed than proficiency in sport and a knowledge of the subject of instruction. There is something l in the science and art of teaching that cannot be acquired intuitively. It is much too under - tain a thing for the schools to depend on securing what is called the ‘born teacher.’ ”

11l his address to the jury in the perjury ease in the Supreme Court in Wellington, .counsel for the defence, Mr. W. E. Leicester, declared that perjury was rampant in the Courts, particularly in the Divorce Court, which had been termed “the playground of perjury.” This contention was refuted by the Chief Justice, the lion. M. Myers, when summing up. “I for one am not prepared to accept the statement as ■correct,” said His Honor. “I have no hesitation in saying, after very many years of practice, that- the common notion that perjury is rnfmpnnt in onir Courts is not correct. That there is a certain amount of perjury cannot he gainsaid, hut all false m* untruthful evidence is not perjury. A great deal of it arises from perfectly honest mistakes and from defects of recollection.” At an inquest down South the oilier day it appeared that deceased (whose death was attributed to heart trouble) was a heavy smoker and long accustomed to consume an ounce of tobacco a day. Ilis medical adviser considered this excessive, but thought the quality of the tobaden, in this case, was to blame as well. “You can’t,” he said “go on smoking those imported tobaccos, almost all of them loaded with nicotine, without paying the penalty sooner or later.” The coroner said he couldn’t understand why people would insist in so many eases, in smoking poisonous foreign tobaccos when we had here in .New Zealand perhaps the purest brands of' tobacco produced, and so comparatively Tree from nicotine as to render them perfectly safe. Safe they certainly are arid the absence to a very considerable extent of nicotine in them is undoubtedly due to the toasting of the leaf. This not only renders them practically innocuous lint develops their flavour and aroma as well. Popular brands arc: “Riverhead Gold” (mild), “Navy Cut No. 3” (Bulldog), •medium, “Cavendish” (medium), and “£ut Plug N<k NT*(Bulkhead) Cull. — Advt.