LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3970, 13 July 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A frostfish sft. 3in. long was found on the Otaki beach by Mr W. Reynolds on Sunday morning.

Included in the Pohangina County ranger’s “bag” for June was a horse belonging to a councillor and the ranger’s own mount. The view that the license fees paid by sportsmen for the privilege of fishing and shooting are not high enough was expressed at this week’s meeting of the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. It is an offence for cyclists to r-ido bicycles without, a .rear reflector. A motorist informed us that he narrowly escaped colliding with two cyclists on the liimatangi highway the other evening, neither of whom had rear reflectors on their machines.

The Postmaster-General, the Hon. ,T. B. Donald, has made the announcement that it would be im - possible to make a reduction in taxation this year, with a deficit 0f£577,000, and that there could he no change in the incidence of taxation.

Some time ago, a new and important find of*asbestos was made near Upper Tabaka, Nelson. Its potential value was set down at a very high figure. It is now reported that a South African mineral magnate has been interested in the find, and that he has remitted a sum of £SOOO to those concerned to investigate the discovery. Sjpeaiking at the jubilee celebrations of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Blenheim’, the Right Rev. W. Hewitson, Moderator of the General Assembly, remarked that few people realised how laborious was a minister’s life'. iWhen he was at Knox Church, Dunedin, and living in the manse next door, a workman, passing in a tramcair, was overheard to observe to Ins mate: “A nice little billet in there, spinning two yarns a week!” (Laughter). “That man did not realise that I worked more hours than 'he did; that I worked as hard, and went to bed just as tired as he did when I had the great congregation on my shoulders,” declared the speaiker. There were more kinds of labour than physical labour; and we were only just learning what the expenditure of nervous energy meant.

Owing to the inclement weather the school Rugby games were , abandoned to-day. . i

Mr. Stanlev Mclntosh, a recent graduate in mining from Otago University, has accepted a post on the staff of the Hidden Creek mine at Onyox in British Columbia. This mine, with a daily output averaging 4500 tons of ore, is the second largest copper mine in the British Empire. Of the officers of the Emden, the German cruiser now in New Zealand waters, fifteen are wearing the iron cross. The chaplain of the Emden, who wears the iron cross, gained his on the Wjestern front. He also served on the Russian front. Smilingly, he said, “I was also at Seapa Flow.”

The action of an aviation company in the Waikato in conducting passenger pleasure flights on Sundays has been the subject of a protest from the Hawera Ministers’ Association. The support of the Hamilton Ministers’ Association to the protest has been sought. The matter will be considered at a meeting next week. "Three large blue cod, caught round about Port Pegasus in Stewart Island were brought to Bluff by the launch Pegasus. They each weighed in'the vicinity of 281 b., and had they been weighed before being cleaned would have .reached 301 b. If is not uncommon for fishermen to secure extremely large fish in the vicinity of the South Cape, but the present sample is of exceptional quality also, which makes the catch worthy of note.

Writes a.. correspondent to a Dunedin paper: Every theatre fitted with an Almcrican talkie system of installation means we are making a present to America of £SOOO and if the four theatres in New Zealand already fitted with American apparatus had been fitted with British installation and the £SOOO given to our. own countrymen, we should not have the unemployment -problem we have; £20,000 already given to America. We are indeed a liberal people! Following its advocacy of recognition by,the Highways Board of the claim for subsidy on permanent highways work within boroughs, the Feriding Borough Council has icccivcd acknowledgment of its representations from the Prime Minister, the Minister of Public Works, and the Minister of Marine, and intimations of support from the following Borough Councils: Levin, Hawera, Marton, Taumarunui, Eastbourne, Birkenhead, Novlhcote, Rotorua, Stratford,' Te Aroha, Morrinsville and Otahuhu. All these .local bodies stated that it VE3 their intention to make representations on lines similar to those made by Feilding, as they' were in entire sympathy with the objects.

There is a very strong suspicion among serious thinkers in New Zealand that the time is not very far distant (says the Woodville Examiner) when something in the nature of a beef famine will be experienced in' the Dominion. The sending of cull cows to the freezing works, the export of boneless veal, and the cutting up of large estates, will all be contributing factors to a shortage which is already manifest, hut which will be accentuated with the progress of time and the increase of . population. Even now, the greatest difficulty is being experienced in procuring ox beef in many parts of the Dominion. The problem of (maintaining an adequate supply of beef is one that might reasonably lie discussed by politicians, as well as by farmers’ organisations throughout New Zealand. s

Under the will of Dr. Patrick Mackin who died at Wellington on July 7lb, the following local public be.pies is were provided for: Wellington Art Gallery and Museum, £500; Home of Compassion, Island Bay, £1000; Catholic Orphanage, Upper Huti, £1000; Seatoun Convent, £IOOO ; Order o f Ala vist Fathers, Wellington, £500; Order of Redemptorist Fathers, Wellington, £500; Roman Catholic Archbishop, £SOO. The following further bequests are postponed to a certain contingency:— Seatoun lOonvent, Wellington; the sum of £SOOO towards the erection and maintenance of a new convent to the Home of Compassion, Island Bay; £IOOO to the Catholic orphanage, Upper Hutt; £IOOO to the Lewisham hospital, Wellington; £IOOO to the Roman Catholic Archbishop, Wellington; the sum of £IOOO for educational purposes and the sum of £IO.OO for the erection or maintenance of a Cathedral. The Public Trustee is executor of the will.

A famous London (Harley St.) speckilist’s tribute to the value of tobacco: “The ground on which tobacco holds so firm a footing is that of nearly every luxury it is (lie least injurious. It does infinitely less harm than opium. It is in no sense worse than tea. Also, a thorough smoker is never a glutton. Tl brings quiet to the over-worn body and restless mind. The overwrought man finds in it a quietus for his exhaustion.” But the doctor insists that tobacco must be “pure.” Well, if. purity is to be the criterion, how many of the foreign tobacieos will fill the bill? Brands reeking with nicotine assuredly cannot be considered “pure!” If you want a. really pure article, go for the tobaccos grown and manufactured in New Zealand by the National Tobacco Company (pioneers of the New Zealand tobacco industry). Hardly any nicotine in 'them because they are toasted. They are peculiarly soothing, cool, fragrant, and delicious. Ask for “Riverhead Gold” (mild), •'Navy Cut/’ or “Cavendish” (medium) or “Cut Plug No. 10” (full strength). —Advt. 10.

The rabbit breeders in the Hastings district have decided to form an Industrial babbit Breeders’ Association. A railway bus, driven by a man named Partington, ran into a mob of valuable Southdown sheep on the Petone Pipe Bridge about 7.15 o’clock yesterday, and eight of the animals were killed. The loss to the owner, Mr. C. Cottle, is a severe one, as he had just purchased the sheep from the breeder, Mr. H. E. Leighton, and their value was estimated to run into a few hundreds of pounds.

A woman named Rose Lowe, aged 30 year’s, disappeared from her home at S'outhbrook last week (says the Christchurch Press), and was seen to hoard the mid-day train for 'Christchurch on that day. Since then no trace has been seen of her, and her relatives are anxious that anyone seeing a woman answering to her description should communicate with the police immediately. She is deaf, dumb, blind in one eye, and is about sft. Tin. in height. Her hair is lo»ig and dark.

Mr. G. A. Hanson, an orangegrower from California, who arrived in Auckland after visiting the Pacific Islands, was interested to learn that steps are being taken towards the greater development of the citrus fruitgrowing industry. It was a business that entalied a fair outlay of capital, hut the profits warranted the expenditure. The annual cost of upkeep of a Californian orange grove was about £SO an acre, but once a grove was in full production its value was about £BOO per acre. Mr. Hanson expressed the opinion that the Island planters would do well to study the scientific methods of cultivation that were now in operation in California. The story is told of a IDargavillc shop-keeper who was wont to be rather proud of the prowess of the shop’s cat in the role of rat exterminator. Therefore it was not with any misgivings that the cat was loaned to another shopkeeper who had caught some rats and wanted them killed. The feline wonder was placed in a box with the two rats and left to do his work. Later investigation disclosed one of the rats curled up beneath the eat keeping warm and the other one calmly preening himself umletr the gaze of the destructor. Thus is illustrated the far-reaching influence of the Kellogg Pact. —North Auckland Times.

Secretaries of Chambers of Commerce frequently receive letters from other chambers and individuals asking for information, which they endeavour to supply whenever possible, but ,M!r. Hague Smith, secretary of the Wanganui Chamber, has now before him the most quaint application he has ever received during his long association with the chamber. The letter comes from a Maori in the King Country, who wants to buy a pair of boots for his wahine, size four. The writer encloses a leaf of an Aitneriean magazine of 1927, which contains illustrations of ladies’ legs shod in a particular class of tan hoot. He states that while on holiday in Wanganui some few Aveeks baclk the noticed some of these boots in a shop windoAV in the A\’emie. Having had a win at the races, he intends to buy a pair for the wahine, and if the price is right lie would even extend his purchases further for some of- the children. First of all he wants the secretary to visit the bootmaker and find out the price and then advise him. The cash will be fonvaji'ded per return post, “and don’t forget send back the magazine,” concluded the Maori; Being of an obliging- turn of mind, and anxious to secure any business for Wanganui, the secretary instructed one of his lady clerks to interview a bootmaker and send along the desired information to Hori. —Herald.

The break in the stop-hank of the Man a vatu river near the old Shannon bridge site at Moutoa has forced the settlers in. the Manawatu County, on the Fox-ton side of the river, to talke steps to effect urgent temporary repairs. This was reported to Tuesday’s meeting of the Manawatu County Council by the chairman (iOr. W. E. Barber), who wished the Council to understand that the existing position was really very serious. A five-foot rise in the river at Fitzherbert, he said, would result in the river flowing through the gap and doing incalculable harm. Seven or eight chains of the stop-bank had gone and it was this which required replacing and the settlers had joined forces lo effect immediate repairs. He had arranged to co-operate with the other settlers interested -and the work was slowly progressing, difficulty being experienced from the extremely soft nature of the ground. This flooding was responsible for the Whirokino road being put out of action. He thought that the Council should vote £25 or £3O to assist the settlers and to protect the country. It was suggested by Oi’. D. W. Reid that the Main Highway Board should be applied to for assistance. In his opinion, the time was not far off when the AVhiroldno route would have to be abandoned; the river would ultimately go across country from the old 'Shannon bridge site. The Council agreed to a special grant of £3O fco h-elj) the settlers, and the Chairman undertook to mention the subject to the Main Highways Board. Or. Boyce thought that the time had arrived when the Council should consider utilising the Shannon route as the Main Highway. He could not see that the Whiro - kino route would ever be made absolutely satisfactory. The chairman said that this view had been considered many years ago, but was opposed by the late chairman.

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Flood Abaters still co\ r er the Whirokino section of the main highway between the bridge and Speirs’ farm, a distance of about a mile. The Avater in places is about 2ft. deep and there are several scouirs on the road to a greater depth. Those who know the road are using the highway and drive through at a slow pace. To those who do not knoAV the conditions the passage is a littlel risky. A large polecat Avas killed the other morning on the property of Mr. E. 11. Hardy, on the Awaikino road, Te Kniti. The animal, which measured over 14 inches long, had been seen at one of the tower wjndoAVS a few nights ago, having probably been chased there by a cat. It was seen again by Mr. Hardy, avlio threw a stick at it and killed it. Luclkily, polecats are not nulmelrous in this part of the country, as their depredations among foAvls and e\ r en young lambs are very extensive.

After a terrifying trip, Mrs. E. Seott-ShaAV and her daughter, Miss C. Seott-ShaAV, avlio left Auckland on May 20, returned by the Tofua from the Islands on Sunday (says the Staa,’). Mrs. Seott-SliaAv and her daughter were the guests of Captain Ernest Gilling on his new. schooner the Valkyrie, in which they intended to make a 6000-mile cruise of the Pacific, but when they reached Suva after travelling nearly twice as far as they expected, and spending fi\’e Aveeks tossing in mountainous seas instead of eight days on a calm ocean, they decided to forget 4000 miles of the cruise, and leaving the Avaiulering yacht, caught the first steamer of substantial size back to New Zealand. All the thrills of sea travelling which can be encountered in Joseph .Conrad’s stories came the Avav of the Valkyrie. Loss of sleep and a wireless aerial, depletion of petrol and fresh food supplies, scarcity of water —it dropped so loav in the tank that a cupful was the most each guest could have for awshing each day—'mirages Avhich melted from solid-looking land into clouds that dcmaterialised on approach — all were among the. haa’voAAnng concomitants of the trip.