Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3987, 22 August 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pupils attending the primary schools will commence the second term holidays to-morrow.

The annual meeting of the Foxton Croquet Club was held on Wednesday when Mrs. M. E. Perreau was elected President and Mrs. R. Owi'en secretary. It was decided that the committee comprise all members.

Farmers in the Woodville district have received notice through a legal firm that unless they pay up the Hawkke’s Bay Rabbit Board’s levy forthwith, they will be prosecuted. It is understood that a test case is to be made, as some of the farmers, besides having no rabbits on their properties, are in two Rabbit Board districts.

A reminder is given of the Tennis Club dance to be held in the Masonic Hall this evening. The committee has tastefully decorated the hall and the catering arrangements are well in hand. The floor is in excellent condition and arrangements have been made fqr first class music. There should be a good attendance at the dance.

An English syndicate is prospecting the huge coal deposits at Charleston, Westland, which have hitherto been unworked owing to the difficulty of transport to rail and shipping. The prospecting results are satisfactory. The intention is to erect a benzine distillation plant involving a cost of £50,000.

The weather in this district during the past fortnight has been very unfavourable to the farming community. Almost continuous rain has fallen with very little sunshine. As a result pastures have reached a maximum soalkage and surface water is detrimentally affecting both the lambing and dairying Unless a spell of dry weather sets in farmers . will experience a serious set back for t the season. Motorists between Foxton and Wanganui yesterday were afforded a glimpse of the water-logged condition of the countryside from the highway. Hundreds of acres were covered with surface water and it was pitiful to see young lambs in sodden pastures. Water tables and culverts were spilling over and in one place, about a mile this side of Sanson, cars had to negotiate storm water on the highway. There is a considerable fresh in the Manawatu River at present. Reports from up country state that the Manawatu was four feet above normal at Woodville yesterday afternoon, when it was then raining. The only report received at the time of going to press was that the river was nine feet above normal at Fitzherbeirt at 9 a.m, to-day. The flood waters were within a •foot of the lowest bank at Moutoa this morning, and a gang of workers are engaged in raising the bank at the locality.

In an article in the “New Zealand Surveyor,” describing a tour through the Urewera Country, the writer, Harold J. Jenks, mentions that after a brief stay in the region round Pohutu, he and another surveyor pitched their camp in the valley leading down to Rotomahana. There were there numberless hot streams and boiling springs. In this valley they were surprised to find “the normally cold-blooded frog in streams that were almost too hot for the hand to bear.”

Mr. S. E. ICowley had a narrow escape firorn serious injury while engaged in papering a room of a local house on Tuesday. He was working on a scaffold in the room . and in stepping down from the platform he misplaced his foot which slipped between the steps supporting the platform and he fell being suspended by his leg which was caught between the ankle and knee by two steps. How he escaped breaking the limb in his fall is miraculous. Mr. Cowley was unable to extricate himself from his precarious position but fortunately his assistant was in the room and went to his aid. Another person had to be got in and the .steps collapsed before the limb ,could be extricated. Apart from severe bruising Mr. Cowley escaped , without any serious injury to his 'leg.

Hints for smokers: Don’t keep to one pipe and smoke it until it is soaked with “juice.” 'Briars are cheap enough. Keep three or four, or 'better still half-a-dozen by you, and smoke them turn about. And whatever you do avoid tobaccos containing a lot of nicotine. They are terribly destructive to the nerves, and ofipi cause heart trouble. Unfortunately most imported tobaccos are full of nicotine, in which respect they differ entirely from the brands manufactured by the National Tobacco Co., Ltd., (the pioneers of the tobacco industry in New Zealand), which are almost free from it, so that you can smoke them day in and day out with absolute impunity. They can’t hurt you. This is because they are all toasted, and these are the only tobaccos so treated, remember. There are no sweeter, cooler, more fragrant or more innocuous tobaccos than the National Tobacco Company’s. Popular varieties: “Biverhead Gold” (mild), “Cavendish” (medium), “Navy Cut” (a choice blend), and “Cut Plug No. 10” (a fine, rich, dark, full-flavoured ’baccy). These goods are on sale everywhere.—Advt. 25,

Advertiser wants a broody hen,

A speedy run through from Christchurch to Invercargill was made on Friday by two Invercargill ■motorists who claim that, without racing, they kept up a good pace all the way. Leaving Christchurch at 9.15 a.m., they arrived at In-vercar-gill at 8.55 p.m., their travelling time, including stops was 11 hours 40 minutes, an average of 34 miles pea- hour. One man was at the wheel the whole time, and the entire distance was travelled in top gear. The roads were splendid, they report, except in South Otago, and Southland roads compare very favourably with those of the Canterbury Plains. The reported bad patch at Stony Creek is quite passable. The public has now learned how to spell Mr. Ramsay McDonald’s name, but till he became Leader of the Opposition in 1922, both Who’s Who and Hansard spelt him without the internal capital (states the “London Observer”). MacDonald is really one of the names which should always be so spelt. The Gaelic rule is that where the prefix is followed by a personal name (as, in this case, Donald), the capital D should be retained; where it is followed by any other than a proper name (as in Macintyre—“son of the carpenter”) the capital should not be used. But it is a rule with which individual taste and ! fancy have played a good deal of havoc.

“No doubt Sydney is having a wonderful boom in buildings,” remarked a New Zealand business man who has just returned from Australia. “The papers have had a number of articles saying that this expenditure is too lavish, and warning the people that a depression is likely to follow this rushed expansion. To my mind, too, the labour question is being handled weakly by the State, which does not encourage the honest worker to go ahead. The cost of production generally is 50 per cent, higher than it is in New Zealand, as the outcome of the shorter hours worked. The most efficient hands are brought down in pay to the level of the indifferent worked’. This appears to me to be the ci’ux of the labour trouble in Australia.”