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Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

1 The membership of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union now stands at 24,000.

From December 10th to 29t0 July the Government authorised loans to 2006 settlers and 2749 workers totalling £3,319,300.

A gazette issued yesterday announced the appointment of Mr. A\ . D. Hunt, as comlmercial representative on the New Zealand Dairy Control Board.

A wood-splitter named Eves was fined in all £75 at Eltham last week for shooting wild pigeon and duck! in the Egrnont National Pack. For shooting a. wild pigeon, William Duggan was fined £2O. The 'Secretary of the Treasury acknowledges the receipt of the following amounts forwarded by persons unknown to the New Zealand Government as conscience money; 5/- sent through the High Commissioner, London; £5 sent to the General Post Office; £4 and 2/- sent to the Railways Department.

An increasing number of farmers of the Cambridge district have gone in for sheep this year, and so far the season has been a good one, the lambing returns being excellent. The lambs are coming in earlier than usual, and on several farms a large percentage of ewes have already lambed. The mortality also is low. On four leading sheep farms in the district there are already 'SOOO lambs.

Not for many years has the ground in the Waipukurau district been so waterlogged as is the case at present' (reports the Napier Telegraph). For the past four months there has been no extended spell of dry weatheir, with the result that saturation point has long been reached. In the meantime it is impossible to work the ground, and kitchen (gardens will be very backward this year as a 'result. A block of 5800 acres of land in the Arthur’s Pass survey district, lying between reserve 1095, Deception River, the Canterlbury-West-land boundary and the summit of the mountain range at the head of! the eastern watershed of Deception River, has been gazetted a national park. The same declaration applies to 150 -acres bounded by the Rolleston River in the (Canterbury land distinct.

Awakened one morning last week by the sweet singing of a pair of tuis, the members of a family living in York Terrace, New Plymouth, discovered this was only the prelude to a delightful concert by native birds. Next came the pure notes of the moko-moko, or hellbird, followed by the delicate, twittering of the riro-riro (wren) and, later still, by the melody of a pair of fantails.

The peculiar name “Black Maria’’ given to the -old horse-drawn prison van emanated from America. According to tradition, the travelling house of detention was called after Marie Lee, a negress, who kept a sailors’ boardinghouse in Boston. iS'he was of isueh great strength that the unruly stood in dread 1 of her. W|hen constables required! help it was ‘a. common thing for them to enlist the services of “Black Maria.”

People often run the risfc of accident unnecessarily, sometimes in a spirit of 'bravado or with the thought of letting other folk “see how cool I aim.” A heavy lorry was turning into Mercer Street from Willis Street, Wellington, On Saturday morning as a smartly-dres-sed young woman stepped three or four feet into the roadway. Hearing the horn she stood still, allowing the front portion of the lorry to pass within inches of her. The driver, however, had occasion to turn a little more sharply, with the result that the back wheels came in very much closer, and the near tyre just- grazed the toe of one of her patent shoes. The look of unconcern on her face disappeared quickly.

A farmer in the A\ T oodville "district has proved that the pig is, indeed, the “gentleman who pays the rent.” From; one BerkshireTamwoirth sow, lie last year secured two litters, with eleven in each. These he sold as porkers and baconers, realising the sum of £52. — Examiner.

The “Brownies,” connected with the Girl Guides, are given interesting little talks on nature study by their leaders. One little girl was gazing intently at an object on a post. “A\that are you looking at?'” queried the leader. “Please, miss, I’mi looking at a ‘baboon,’” was the reply. The object of attention was a cocoon.

Discussing fire prevention with Captain Vause, of the Cambridge Fire Brigade, he requested the Independent to draw attention to the fact that a subtle source of fire hazard exists in many of the hot water systems, where the hot pipes are used for drying clothing. This is regarded as 'a dangerous practice as the wet clothing rapidly .chars where in actual contact with the hot water system, requiring only a change in air to cause combustion.

Eight street postal boxes, in various parts of New Plymouth, were broken 'open, probably late on Sunday night, and all the letters posted in |them during the week-end were removed. From their knowledge of the average posting in the boxes concerned the Post Office officials estimate that the thief or thieves obtained possessions of between 300 and. 400 letters. 'The value of the contents'' is, of course, known only to the individual senders, and, no doubt, to those who misappropriated them. In each case the doors of the 'boxes were forced.

The Director-General of Health (Dr. T. 11. A. Valentine) accompanied by Dr. Shore and the Hospital Board chairman (Mr. J. K. Hornblow), Medical Superintendent (Dr. Ward), secretary (Mir. Phillipps) and Mr. Monk (chairman of the Otaki committee) visited the Otaki hospital and sanatorium yesterday. The Director-General sanctioned certain requests and expressed his pleasure and satisfaction with the administration of the hospital. The party were entertained at luncheon by the matron and medical superintendent of the sanatorium. Johnnie was only between four and five- years of age, but was making brave progress at a Wellington Kindergarten School. He took a particular delight in the singing, and was always lusty in his vocal homage when it came to the singing of the National Anthem at the end of the short day! On several occasions the 'teacher thought she detected some slight variation from the original text as Johnnie piped his patriotism, and being curious to know exactly what he sang she kept nealr him), more by design than accident, and heard him singing: “Long train’s -run over us; God Save the-Ting!”

The use of the 24 hours’ system of recording times on invitations to functions on the French cruis-er Tourville has so puzzled many of the recipients that the 'Consul for France, M. Paul Serre, has been besieged with inquiries as to the hour at which the guests are -expected to board the vessel (states the New Zealand HeraldJ. The “24 hours clock” is a Continental innovation desijgnedi to avoid, Confusion between a.m. and pan. the hours after noon being added to 12. Thus 3 o’clock in the afternoon is designated at 15.09 hours. Five minutes past three would be shown as 15.05 hours, and a quarter past three as 15.15 hours, the figures after the point indicating minutes. The 24 hours clo'clk was used by the British Army during the Great War, and is now the official means of designating time in the service.

The news of the eruption of Niuafoou, ojr Tin Can Island, is of more than passing interest to New Zealand astronomers. For to that speck in the ocean it has been planned to send an expedition in October next yeair to observe a total eclipse of the sun. The island is simply a. volcano, with a lake wherei the -old cratejr lay. The volcano was .considered to be extinct, but it is obviously not so, and the question now arises whether the island will be a fit plalee next year for an astronomical expedition. There is time, fortunately, before the expedition sets out for either the eruption, to subside- or for the island to be obliterated. Incidentally, the name Tin Can Island is derived from the method used by the thousand or so natives to collect their scanty mail from passing ships.

Our New Zealand industries now cover most of the necessaries and some of the luxuries of life. Especially is Maoriland becoming' noted for the splendid tobacco grown and manufactured in the Dominion by the National ‘Tobacco Company Ltd., (the pioneers of the tobacco industry in New Zealand). Connoisseurs think so highly of the Company's goods that the latter are now regarded as the purest in the world. How lias this come about? It is largely owing to the toasting of the tobacco, which not only eliminates the nicotine but vastly improves the flavour and aroma. It. is worthy of note, by the way, that these are the only toasted tobaccos on the market. Smoke them' as freely as yon please, and they’ll do you no harm. There is not other tobacco of which that can be said,. Ask any tobacconist for one hr other of the following (according to taste): “Riverhead Gold” (mild), “Navy Out” or “Cavendish” (medium), or “Cut Plug No. 10” (full strength). These brands are in universal demand. — Adv't. 21.

Promotion could not have come much more rapidly than it did to a member of the Foxton Horticultural Society at the annual meeting held last evening. Proposed as a new 'member and elevated to the position of President within the space of five minutes was the honour bestowed on Mr. W. S. Heyes. Mr. Heyes was a member of the Horticultural 'Society when first formed many years ago hut left Foxton almost immediately afterwards and had not attended another meeting until last night. Referring in New Plymouth to the big Arms of English blenders, Mr. W. A. lorns, chairman of the Dairy Control Board, said that they had their own chemists, who could doctor up deteriorated butter and m alkie it taste, like superfine for about three days. They might take some best New Zealand butter, mix it with worst Argentine and deteriorating New Zealand, and then they generally sold the mixture under their own trade mark, the people who purchased it believing that they were buying best English butter.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3982, 10 August 1929, Page 2

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Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3982, 10 August 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3982, 10 August 1929, Page 2

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