Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3985, 17 August 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Colds are still prevalent in this district and a number of residents .are confined to their homes. There has been a succession of cold, sunless days of late, which possibly is the cause of the sickness.

A reminder is given of the dance to be held in the Masonic Hall this evening by Albert’s Dance Band, of Wellington. Novelties and prizes. The prices of admission are very moderate. Larrikinism has been in evidence at. Wellington at Sunday evening .concerts and yesterday an example was made of a young man picked out in the gallery “gods” who had been guilty of what is known as “administring the raspberry.” He was convicted and fined £3. Writing, to a Millington commercial man a well-known Grevmouth business man remarks: “Business, I am pleased to say, is recovering after the effects of the earthquake, and, although, as far as Greymouth is concerned, we .have all been put to extra expense in effecting repairs to chimneys and roofs’and loss of business, the town looks no different. There is an air of prosperity; in fact, there have been quite recently several fairly large purchases of property in the heart of the town.” ■ For some time the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board has been considering the elimination of blackberry on its properties by using goats for eating it down, says an exchange. At a meeting of the board last week the overseer (Mir. P. Scullin) reported that he had inspected a portion of the Tutaefimri River bed where goats had been running, and they had been very successful in killing and checking blackberry and young growth of willows. The board, being of the opinion that some steps should be taken to remove the blackberry from its lands, set up a sub-committee to go into the whole matter.

The men employed at the sulphur works on White Island live alongside the cratdr of a volcano. This island is only four miles in circumference and from the ‘blowholes surrounding the cratep' dense clouds of steam, smoke and sulphur rise continuously. Two pages of remarkable photographs in this week’s issue of the “New Zealand Free Lance” are devoted to life amid these weird surroundings. Rugby enthusiasts will be attracted by the pictures of the Ranfurly Shield match played at iCarterton last Saturday between Auckland and Wairaraipa. Another interesting feature in the pictorial section comprises the debutantes who are presented to Their Excellencies (Sir Charles and Lady Alice Fergusson) at this week's vice-regal ball. The double page depicts interesting exhibitions of scoutcraft at the monster jamboree held at Wellington recently to celebrate the coming of age of the Boy Scout movement. There are also photographs of a 1,000 ton boulder which was displaced at Murchison by the recent earthquake, the big oil at Christchurch, Auckland’s now railway station, and the Wairarapa basketball tournament.

Wellington’s contribution to earthquake relief now totals approximately £2,3,040. The central funds totals £109,821.

Sweets are to be issued to tlie women inmates of an institution under the Wlandsworth Board of Guardians, to correspond with the weeklv tobacco issue to the men.

A . complaint) of alleged cruelty or neglect in the transhipping of “bobby” calves at the local railway station is contradicted by the local stationmaster (Mr. Martin). Every care is taken and as little delay as possible used in having the calves transferred to their destination.

The stamp-selling machine at the Invercargill post office was disabled the other day because somebody had pushed a small mirror, about the size of a penny, into the slot. On top of this a bent penny had peen inserted. It was hardly strange that the machine stopped working. The first radio set made in Dunedin, the property of Mr. J. L. Passmore, in 1902, has been presented to the Otago Early Settlers’ Association and has found permanent location in the gallery. It is a cmide production compared with the sets of to-day. Alongside of it are the two telephones used in the seventies between Woodlands and the Bluff. These were among the earliest in use in the Dominion.

Scotland Yard’s “Black Museum” is a sinister place. Here are preserved many tilings associated with great crimes and notorious criminals. Amongst them is a battered old briar pipe, once the property of 'Charles Peace, of infamous memory. He smoked this pipe the night before his execution. Mighty is the power of the weed! It can bring something of comfort and of solace to even the desperate criminal during his last hours upon earth —or so they will tell you. Injurious? Not if the quality is right. The tobaccos manufactured bv the National Tobacco Co., Ltd., are the purest of all. Unlike other brands they contain hardly any nicotine, and are therefore quite harmless —a point of importance to constant smokers. They owe their comparative freedom from nicotine to the toasting of the leaf. This is an elaborate process, the secret of the National Tobacco Co., (the pioneers of the tobacco industry in New Zealand). Ask for “Riverhead Gold” (mild), “Cavendish” (medium), “Navy Cut” (mediumor “Cut Plug No. 10” (full-strength-. —Advt. 23.