Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3974, 23 July 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

No fewer than 47 applications have been received for the position of town clerk of the borough of Glreytown. ■ A Maori in a Packard ear drove to the relief works in the Eketahuna district quite recently, and applied for work. He did not get it. ’ ; ' l

Harry IGboper Douglas, aged 57, •it vaihvay’ cmployee, was yesterday committed foil* trial at Auckland, Mi a charge of attempting to extract money toy blackmail. A foulr years old child, Larry Andrews, who was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital early last week suffering from head injuries received in a fall flt'oim a ladder at his parents’ residence in Main Street, succumbed to his injuries last night.

It may serve to reassure ner. vous people to note that the records of the 1855 shake in Wellington show that after the iirst '•big; shock the earth trembled with very little intermission for over six weeks. Since then, during the 74 years, there has been nothing to alarm anyone.

An Auckland business man owns cne share in a IWaihi mining concern, which has lately declared a dividend of one penny a share. Recently the 'fortunate shareholder received his cheque for one penny on ithe Bank of New Zealand. With stamp duty on the cheque, and the stamp on the envelope, payment of the dividend cost threepence in all. The Greytown Borough Council has appointed Mr. John Kierman, of Wellington, Town Clerk and manager of the Municipal Pictures, in succession to Alji’. iS. Bish, who has resigned to take up a similar position with the Upper Butt Borough Council. Mr. Kierman was .Town Clerk at Te Kuiti, accountant and assistant Town Clerk, to the Devonport Boti’oug'h Council, and secretary-manager of the Waitonio Power Board.

Hiis Worship the Mayor (Mr. M. E. Porreou) will make the presen-tation-of proficiency badges, etc. in the Royal (Theatre at the spectaen--1 air-• demonstration to'he given by the Salvation Army Girl Guards, assisted toy Messrs' Corn, Couch, Hakaraia and Williams- etc., on Thursday night at 8 o'clock. An unique programme 'consisting of Japanese lantern drill, word' making, word taking, proficiency recital, vocal and instrumental solos, duets, Maori qua.ret.te, physical drill display, etc., will be given. Proceeds are in aid of ithe Salivation Airmy Girl Guards.

■ “I’m off to ’Frisco to-night,” said a., habitual sailor man at Auckland recently. “One thing (that cheers me up is that I won’t see Westport 1 for four and a.-half months. We’ve coasted for the last month or .two, and it’s been the rottenest time I’ve ever spent at sea. I don’t wonder that Grey-mouth itself is shaky; the coal working’s run right under the town. Miners working in the pits can hear us sailor people drop our anchors.”

An unknown disease has been taking heavy 101 lof cattle and sheep dogs in the North Auckland district recently and the loss of many valuable animals has-been reported. A local authority on sheep and cattle dogs, when approached for verification of the report, said that unfortunately it wa.si true. The malady seemed to attack the dogs in the head first and send them dizzy. They fell and were then unable to rise. Two Chinese, Young Won, a market gardener, of Otaki, and L. Wai, U market gardener, of Himatangi, were charged before Mr. E. Page,' S.M., in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court last week with improperly packing sacks of ■cauliflowers if exposed to (view in a normal manner would not fairly represent their size, maturity, and condition. The fruit inspectolr pressed for a heavy penalty in both eases. Each of the defendants was fined £lO and costs.

A well-preserved stone axe of Maori origin was dug up in a garden at New Plymouth last week. In the days when New Plymouth was .first settled there was a hill similar in size to Mlarsland Hill on the land now occupied by the railway station, part of four present streets and adjacent property. This was a famous old pa? of the. Maoris and was known as “Puke Arilki.” Later it was known as Mount Elliot, and in the days of the surf boats a flagstaff was erected on the hill to direct shipping operations. The stone axie was found on a property .situated on the slopes of the old pa. ft is an ordinary grey local river stone, 6sin. long by about 2iin. ■.wide. The edge is not chipped, and ; the implement is in perfect condition. To the natives it was known as a “pakethi” or “toki,” and used for chipping out canoes and other wood work of the ancient days.

The headmaster of the local District High School wishes to acknowledge with thanks the gift from nn anonymous donor of a fine framed picture for the secondary department of the school. Henpy Basket, married, aged 70, of Pollen Street, Ponsonby, was knocked down toy a (motor-car in the New North road on Sunday evening and sustained fatal injuries. He was admitted to hospital suffering from severe injuries to the Read and died several hours later.

At Maketawa. two miles beyond Inglewood, on Saturday afternoon, two young men, Messrs Bremuhl and Sheeliy, while going from New Plymouth to Strafford on a motorcycle, collided with a lorry carting metal. Mir. Breniuhl died shortly afterwards from head injuries. Mr. Sheeliy iis in hospital suffering from concussion.

A well-known Maori, Rangi Brown, a mairried man, 40 years of age, was killed while working in the Public Works quarry, at Upontamla. on the Wairoa-Gistoorne railway construction works, on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was firing shots high up on the slope when a large piece of rock, fell from above. It hit Brown on the head, and he fell to the bottom of the quarry. • The shot then occurred, bringing down a. fall, and the unfortunate man was buried. He was dead when removed.

Suvs the Martinborough Star: A complaint from a parent that several small pupils of the local school were in the habit of sm’oking cigarettes when going home .was inquired into recently, and proof in support of the complaint secured. One of the offenders, on toeing asked where he. procured the cigarette, naively replied: “It was one of muni’s that she left on the mantlepiece.” It was further elicited that there is considerable cigarette slnioking at the picture intervals by clidldrep attending school. Referring to the agitation manifested through the columns of the Westport papers for a clean up of the rats of Westport, an old resident of the Coast relates particulars •of the rat hunt held in the town about thirty years ago during a plague scare. At that time the Borough Council offered 6d a head for rats, and they were to lie delivered at the gas-works for destruction. Hundreds 'of rats were brought along in sugar bags, tipped out. and counted. 'The gem of the drive, however, was a man who took, along a tiny parcel, and timidly asked if two mice equalled one rat ini the pay-out. There are many stories about faithful horses and dogs, but a resident of Orepuki now tells one about a motor car (says the Southland Times). The ear driver was about to drive away from his home with every expectation of being absent for a week. The ear engine was miming, tout when the •dutch was-let in the ear would not move forward. The driver descended from his seat to investigate and moticed he had left the car shed open. He closed and locked the doors and, having failed to find any cause for the car’s refusal to travel, he again tried the clutch. The ca.r moved off without any further trouble. The method of electrocution is to be applied to whale hunting during the eomnig season in the Antarctic. The usual way of killing whales is to shoot a harpoon into the animal and either let it tire itself to death by tugging the whaleboat, or to fix explosives to the harpoon. Both these (methods are e/ruel and to some degree uneconomic, because of the whale’s great loss of blood before death. The new method provides for a metal line attached to the rope which connects the harpoon with the whaleshiip. When the harpoon has landed in the whale a strong electric current is sent along the line, causing immediate death. It remains to be seen whether the electric current affects the quality of the oil, which is the main object of whale hunting. It iis reported that Commander Frank Wild, of Antarctic fame, has lost his fortune in (South Africa, in a,.cotton-growing enterprise, and is now earning a precarious living of £1 a week in a village hotel in Zululand. iComlmiandctr Wild was se-cond-in-command of the Quest, the ship in which Sir Ernest 'Shackleton comlmlen'ced his trip to the South Pole in 1921, and in which the great explorer died. Commander Wild has had a romantic career at sea, and has taken part in the majority of. the British expeditions to the Antarctic that have been organised during the century. He accompanied Scott in 1901-4; ,Shackleton, 1907-9; Mawson, 1911-13; and the Imperial transAiitupctie Expedition, 1914. His age is now 55 years. Among a railmiber of people, consternation was caused for a few minutes at 'Miramar, Wiellington, tli'e other evening by a girl running into her house sc redlining that she had seen a snake in the backyard, which contained almost an acre of land. The girl was at first laughed at, tout shk*: istuck to her story, ■and described the wriggling, long black thing so graphically that her father, brother and the next-door neigh bour, a nined with sticks and torches, rushed out on th!e hunt. The gi)r] had been hanging out some clothes, when she saw the snake in the long grass, and dropping her candle, she rushed serealrumg hysterically into the house. After a search for the (reptile, the candle was (eventually found lying on (the ground where the girl had dropped it. Near it was a long piece of a branch of a tree, which, blowing about slightly on the top of the grass, looked for the moment very like a snake.

iC'olds are very prevalent in this ;listrict at iptresent.

Levin’s donations to the earthquake fund now total £312 6/6. “We are gradually/ getting the line back to normal,” said Mr. J. McNair, District Railway Engineer, referring to the repairs to the Westport section necessitated by earthquake damage. A four-year old child named Larry Andrew's, who was admitted to the Palmlerston North Public Hospital last Tuesday suffering firoan head injuries, died in the institution on Sunday evening. The hoy fell from a steipladder at the residence of his parents in Main [Street and was immediately taken to hospital, where he lingered on for a week in a. critical condition. Mr. F. Roydhouse, physical instructor under the Education Department, visited the local District High School yesterday. Mr. Roydhouse) complimented the headmaster and staff on the manner an which the physical side of the pupils was attended to. He subsequently addressed the teaching staff'on physical exercises and their value and gave a sbotr-t demonstration of spinal corrective exercises. An 18-year-old girl was charged before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s C outi-'t yesterday morning, with the theft of a number of 'miscellaneous articles. The police stated that when arrested, she had only 7id in her possession. She had come originally froini T'aupo, where-further inquiries • were being made about her. A remand was granted until July 29. (

Owing to the derailment of a truck at Koputaroa on Saturday the New Plymouth south-hound express and the Palmerston NorthWellington 3.43 p.m. mail brain, were held up at Shannon station for some time. The Auckland express, due in Palmerston North at 5 p.m., was held up at Levin and eventually passed through 'Shannon at 7.5*5- p.m. The south-hound New Plymouth express left at 7.55 p.m., four hours late and the Palmerston North-Wellington mail at 8.10 p.m. Passengers for the South Island were compelled to stop over the week-end in Wellington. Mr. Wl H. Nelson, the champion rifle shot, gave some interesting information to bowlers at the annual meeting.of the Wjoqdyille Bowling Club. He stated that many bowlers blamed the green for trouble which was usually caused by the wind. He pointed out. that a bullet, when traversing 600yds., was often deflected as much as 3ft. by the variations of the wind. If this were so, was it not reasonable to suppose that a Fowl, which was a much larger object than a bullet, and (jraveiled slowly, would be affected bv the slightest variation in the wind ? —Exnlminer. The amount of food consumed at the Maori tangi at Morninsyille gives a fair indication of the lairge number that attended at the Morrinsville pa. to-, "pay their last respects to the late chief Taingaka.wa Tamaliana te Waharoa. To feed the concourse (states the Wfaikato Times), eight bullocks were slaughtered, as well as a number of pigs; SOO loaves of bread were ordered, while the standing order was 100 loaves a. day. Other items were six tons of potatoes, half a -ton of sugar, a chest of .tea, two crates of cheese, two cwt. of rice. The cooking was done in the open in four large open .cooking fires.

Initial reports of the earthquake damage intimated that the wellknown landmark on the. West Coast route, the mountain known as the ‘‘Old Man of the Buffer,” had been shaken down. This very humanlooking profile has always been pointed out to travellers, and regret was expressed that it would no longer be seen. But, according to Mr. F. W. Furkert, Government en-gineer-in-chief, the landmark has not been destroyed. All that has happened is that a slip has taken place just below that portion of the mountain which forms 'the old man’s nose.

The other day a Wellington man fell asleep on his verandah while reading the paper. Unfortunately his (pipe was in his month at the time and he got badly burned. Moral: “Don’t go to sleep while smoking.” And there’s another “Don’t” for smokers: “Don’t smoke tobacco heavily charged with nicotine” (as most of the imported tobaccos are) “unless you ate looking for trouble.” Come to think of it, why should you smoke poisonous stuff like that when you can buy, at any tobacconists, the beautiful tobacco grown and manufactured in the Dominion by the National Tobacco Co., Ltd., (pioneers of the tobacco industry in New Zealand). This tobacco is toasted —no other is—and is' therefore practically free from nicotine. You can simoke it from sun-rise to. sunset, and it won’t hurt you. You can’t say that of any other tobacco on the market. Ask any tobacconist for “Itiverliead Gold” (mild), “Cavendish” or “Navy Cut” (medium), or “Cut Plug’ No. 10” (full-flavoured). There's a brand for every smoker. —Advt. 14.