Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3975, 25 July 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Two attempts to arouse interest it. flic proposed ploughing’.mat eh have been of no avail, at Mart on and lit lhas been decided to f * abandon for this season.

A “No More' War" movement has been formed tin Raetibi. Mr. E. Neary avas elected (president and Mr. L. Mlinifte (late of Pox ton) was ele’cted vice-president.

At Gisborne on Saturday, a “donny 'brook" took place a t.a football match. Blows were struck and the scrnims were rough and tumbles. The emergency (referee failed to control the game.

At; the local Police Court this morning before Mr. G. V. Praser, •1.P., David Miller was convict rd and Wise barged on a charge of; drunkenness. Accused was arrested in Duncan Street yesterday afternoon and spent the night in the lock-up.

Thr King Country Chronicle gives publicity to a rumour that the Main Highways Board is seriously considering a proposition to take the nia.it arterial route between Auckland and New Plymouth through Troopers’ road, thus side-tracking Te Kuiti.

How the letters “C.T.” caused a domestic dispute was explained by counsel in a Maintenance Court recently. The wife, who had seen the letters on heir husband’s hotel bill, took them to mean “cocktail." Counsel (to witness): You objected to/ your husband drinking cocktails? —Yes. Counsel (to the Magistrate) : The wife saw the letters on the husband’s hotel bill. However, they did not stand for “cocktail," but for “commercial traveller.” Her husband received a special hotel tariff rate.

Arriving at New York at three o'clock on July 22, the German steamejr Bremen crossed the Atlantic faster than any other commercial vessel. The new German “Queen of the Seas," wrested the record which Britain has held for 22 yca|rs in the Mauretania’s wonderful performance. The Bremen’s time was four days, 18 hours and 15 minutes, beating the Mauretania's record by eight hows and 17 minutes.

A long trek ended when Daniel le Roux died at Worcester, Cape Colony, recently. Le Roux was the long, thin Afrikander who set out in 1922 with threepence and an indomitable little wife to walk from Johannesburg round the world, pushing a wheelbarrow before him. The pair trundl|ed their illchosen vehicle through New Zealand in 1928, and had almost arrived at their starting point when the male partner succumbed to exhaustion and strain.

After swerving twice, to avoid first a hoy on a bicycle and then a startled pedestrian, a. young lady successfully steered a light touring car through the swing doors of the Metropolitan Hotel, in Queen Street, Auckland, on Tuesday, and brought, the ear to a halt in the bar, to the astonishment of the barman and a number of thirsty Aucklanders, whose thoughts were far from motoring at the time. Many willing hands were lent to .push the car out into the street again, and it was soon on its way down the road. No one was hurt. It was a remarkable incident, for the eatr struck the swing- doors in Durham street almost at right angles, thrust them open, and cleared Iho sides with iittlev to .spare.

It is often complained that New Zealand-made, goods] are less popular with New Zealandtfrs than the imported, though they may be better quality—and cheaper, too. Perhaps this prejudice does exist to some extent. If so, it certainly does' not extend to toasted tobacco grown (and im'anufaetured by the National Tobacco Co., Ltd., (pioneers of the tobacco industry in N.Z.) and as showing the widespread nse«of this tohacieo there is the experience of a Public Hospital patient at Gisborne. Not until confined to the surgical ward did he realise the extent, to which the use of the above Company’s g'oods had grown. Prom 20 to 30 patients were tin the ward at the time, and most, of them rolled their own cigarettes. Only two brands were in evidence. “Rijverhead Gold" was one, and it was smoked iby all with one exception. W|hen our patient was leaving he noticed that the one exception had a newly-pur-chased tin of “Riverhead Gold" by Lis bed-side. Other popular 'brands are “Cavendish" and “Navy Cut” (medium), and “Cut Plug No. 10” (full-strength). All are toasted. — Advt. 15.

A Taranaki Daily News reporter learns that the first piece of land leased in New Zealand was situated in New Plymouth, situated between King and Dawson Streets, and was named Devonport. The locality still bears that name on old maps and title deeds. At the Hokitika Magistrate’s Court the police charged Thomas Roberts, 17, with shooting a white heron at Okarito, and with pursuing o pukeko with intent to kill. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 imlonths and ordered to pay costs.

“The New Zealand Parliament is of a high standard, although some of us are dull,” said the Minister of Education, the Hon. H. Atimore, in an address at the Auckland Commercial Travellers’ Club on Saturday evening, reports the “New Zealand Herald.” “If at is to be a thoroughly representative institution Parliament must contain some dull men. We accept. the criticism levelled at us; a. good deal of it probably is deserved.” Oblivious to all 'the fuss being made over her, a wee lady, weighing only a few pounds and but two months old, was the youngest, of five generations present, at St. Mark’s Clnireih, ißemuera, when the Rev. G. C. Oruik.shank bestowed upon her the name Maureen Mavis Carter. Gathered at the ceremony were her mother, grandmother, great-gra n dmo t h er, and greatg:r ea t. - gran dmoith er. It must be uni-

que for five generations to be present at any ceremjony, and iin the present instance it is more so because all belong to the fair sex and reside in Auckland. A well-dressed young man, 20 years of age, appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, charged with obtaining goods valued at £6 tfis 4d from Messrs Goldfinch and Cousins Ltd., by means of a false pretence. Accused obtained the goods by representing himself as a nephew of Mr. D. S. Wylie, of Palmerston North and was arrested when leaving the shop. Accused was convicted and admitted to a term of probation for two years and his name suppressed.

Rangi owned a hundred acres of worthless land in the Ear North. Not. having very substantial fences lie found at difficult to keep his cattle off his neighbour’s property. At last he gave up trying. “Py chove, ta’at kiapai,” he said. “More grass in Mr. Purdy’s paddock!” One day Mr. Purdy called on Rangi and complained about the cattle. “Look here, Rangi,” lie said, “if you don’t keep your cattle off my place I’ll shoot every one of them.” Rangi eyed Mr. Purdy (who kept ■an apiary). “Oiirite,” he said, “I keep my cows oft your place, w’en you keep your bees out of my paddock.”

One of the most persistent superstitions about lhe weather, Government scientists have found, is the false belief that the moon has some effect ,on crops and also that better or less favourable results will be obtained if planting and other operations are performed at certain times when the moon is in a particular phase. According to legends, if the horns of the new orescent moon tip downward, it is a “wet" moon, indicating rain. The weather bureau points out that, on any given date, the position of the crescent moon is always the same in places having the same latitude.

Shags live on fish, which they swallow whole; and, of course, there is a. 'ldinjit to the size of a “mouthful,” says the Acclimatisation iSociefy’s annual report. A resident of Tawa Flat found evidence that that limit is large enough to bring other risks than choking. Seeing a shag .in the Pahautanui stream unable to tty, lie) chased and captured it, and found it overburdened with freight. It contained a trout Mins, long and 3Jins. deep and weighing 111 b. ffoz. The front was still alive and showed no marks of injury by the bird's beak, but digestion had already commenced on the tissues of the head. The Acclimatisation Society’s office was consulted, and it was found that the biggest trout swallowed •by a shag, within the Society’s ofA letter, posted in Treves, Germany, in August, 1928' —11 in oaths ago—arrived at its destination in Dunedin last week by 1 somewhat, indirect; means. The letter, which was written by M. Rene Bellugue, then serving with the .French army of occupation in Germany, carried Hie coirrect address, except that the Street number was wrong, and it apparently travelled to the city, where the owner could not be found, went back to the source of its travels, where it was found that the writer bad returned to New Zealand, and finally came here to him through the post . He was thus able to hand it over to the addressee personally. The envelope, adorned with the stamps of 15 post offices, and bearing evidences of handling by many officials, was, in itself, an object of interest, which is not surprising in view of the fact, that it miade the journey between Europe and the (Dominion three times. Facile prineeps, quite easily first, To ease the distress of “the ’flu” accurst; Facile prineeps for coughs and for colds, Or When bronchitis its anguish unfolds. Facile prineeps for croup or catarrh, Checking the symptoms before they go far; Facile prineeps, prompt, soothing and sure, Unrivalled Woods’ Great Peppermint Dure.—l3.

■Several large and dangerous holes 'have made their appearance between the decking and bank on the local wharf, evidently due to erosion by the river. Totm Heeney and Vittorio Campolo, the Argentine heavyweight, have signed articles to fight at Ebbetsfield, Brooklyn, on 14th August. The contest, will be of ten rounds. Readers are 'reminded of the Spofotaculab Demonstration to-night at the Royal Theatre per advertisement. Ilojne-lmade sweets will be on sale. Proceeds in aid of Salvation Army Girl Guai’ds. The latest idea in blackboards is being tried in a new school that the Education Board has erected on St. John’s Hill, Wanganui. It is a fixture; instead of then old-style (board mounted on) an easel it’, is set in the wall at a slight angle towards the pupils. Despite unfavourable weather conditions, the Manawatu County Council’s main highway construction work continues to progress rapidly on the IRmatangi-Rangiotn section. If the work continues at the same rate of progress the construction work should be completed by the end of Septelmber.

Sir Alliott Rioe, believes that, within 50 year's it will be possible to fly from England to Australia in 24 hours. “We are only at, the beginning of aviation achievement,’) lie said. ‘'Within 50 years flight from England to Australia in under 24 hours will be a commonplace. Machines will travel at tremendous speeds in the upper atmosphere, all flying at an altitude aeroplanes today only realch with difficulty. Aeroplanes will traVel like rockets four hundred armies an hour. We are already designing machines whiiicih reach their maximum power at 25,000 feet. In future passengers will travel in hermetically sealed cabins, thus maintaining the normal air pressure. Air travel will supersede other forms because it will be 'the most comfortable and the safest using multiple-engined amphibians.”