LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3989, 24 August 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Railway Department lias decided to allow seats to be reserved for children under three years of age travelling with their parents or guardians. The usual registration fee of one shilling will be charged.

During the year ended March 31 hist 391 licenses for raffles were issued in New Zealand, the articles comprising pictures, paintings, drawings, sculpture, or other works of art or literature, or mechanical models.

“With a view to minimising the menace to trout and making a commercial use of eels I am prepared to catch 50 oir 100 tons of cels, and deliver them at the Waingawa Freezing Works for 2-Ad per lb. live weight,in quantities of not less than one ton per day,” said a letter from Mr. J. B. McKenzie, of Mastevton, which roused a lively discussion at the meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. The matter was referred to the Fish Committee for investigation. During the course of conversation prior to the commencement of business at Thursday’s meeting of the Manawatu Rabbit Board, members from the northern end of the district said that they had never previously seen the district so wet for such a long time. Trustees Gloyn and Boswell said that the lower portions of the farm lands around Glen Oroua had never been so flooded as it was at present, due to surface water accumulating in the swampy parts of the ground. Trustee McKclvie said he had never seen the Pukipuki carrying so much water in the Carnarvon district. When he had occasion to shift some stock a day or so ago (he horses were up to the saddle flaps when crossing the drain.

Each of the principal speakers at the opening of the new social hall built in connection with the Otahuhu railway workshops had a story to tell. Mr. H. T. Clements,

Mayor of Otahuhu, who was the final speaker, drew laughter and applause by drawing a personal analogy. “I am like the man in an unemployment procession,” he began. “A sympathetic individual offered him' a few days’ work, and he made reply: ‘See all these men here, mister. Well, they’re seven T teen hundred or more. Why the — pick on me?” Mr. Clements then remarked that there weijb many high Departmental officials and others qualified to perform the official opening ceremony and asked amid a general outburst, ‘Why pick on met’”

The question was asked by Mr, T. G. Vincent, at the meeting of the Horowhenua Power Board on Tuesday, whether the officers of the Board had any powers relating to extension lamps, such as are used in garages for conveying light to jobs which the ordinary means of illumination do not react He remarked that, in the’/South Island recently, a boy was electrocuted while holding an- extension lamp. The Engineer (Mr. J. A. Smith) stated that these devices were covered by the Government regulations. The inspector made periodical visits to the garages throughout the district, to see to these things. Every time that an accident of the kind referred to happened in New Zealand, a circular was sent out from the. Board’s office,'pointing out the danger of using apparatus that was not up to standard. In certain eases, in this Board’s district, temporary apparatus had been cut off until it was put in order. The Board’s officers made periodical examination of all garages and factories, to guard against the possibility of accidents. Of late they had not found anything of which to complain at all.

Tom Ileeney is said to have developed a taste for cigars since he became somebody. Well done, Tom! a pipe used to do him. To be sure the cigar is supposed to be more “toney” than the pipe. Nevertheless and notwithstanding most continued pipe-smokers wouldn’t exchange the old briar for the best cigar going! As for the cigar being less injurious than the pipe—tell it to the Marines! Of course, if you will insist in smoking those imported tobaccos —full of nicotine as they can stick —you’ll deserve what’s coming to you. It’s looking for trouble to smoke stuff like that. Why not (ill up with the good honest tobacco grown and manufactured by the National Tobacco Co., (pioneers of the New Zealand tobacco industry)? It’s twice toasted and therefore comparatively free from nicotine. You can smoke it day in and day out and take no harm. There are several brands. Special favourites: “Riverhead Gold,” a beautiful mild aromatic; “Navy Cut No. 3’’ and “Cavendish,” both medium; and “Cut (Plug No. 10” a rich, dark, full-flavoured soul. All arc toasted. —Advt. 26.

The Grand National Racing Carnival at Christ church occupies pride of place in the pictorial section of this week’s issue of the “New Zealand Free Lance.” Piclures of the principal events at Rieearton and Addington make an outstanding double-page feature, and racing enthusiasts will be particularly interested in the photographs showing the horses negotiating the fences in the Grand National Steeplechase and the Grand National Hurdles. The new chateau at Tongaviro National Park is another subject to which prominence is given in the current issue, and a full-page is devoted to life among the coal miners at Dobson on the West Coast of the South Island. Lady readers are catered for with further photographs of debutantes at the recent vice-regal hall. Other subjects covered by the “Free Lance” cameraman include: Opening of the new Lewishan hospital at Wellington, seaplane from the French cruiser T'ourville in flight, spring lambs in the Waikato, and the Wairarapa-Manawhenua rugby match for the Ranfurly Shield.

It was dusk as she stopped at the roadside garage. “I want a quart of red oil," she said. The man gasped and hesitated. “Give me a quart of red oil,” she (repeated. ‘*Mv tail light has gone out.”

A fleet of aeroplanes, twice as lairge as those already in use and capable of /acrying 40 passengers each, has been ordered for use on the India air mail route.

Aririal hospitals, suspended thousands of feet above the earth from enormous balloons, are suggested as a means of giving sufferers pure air and sunlight. Among those gathered on the wharf to witness the arrival of the m.v. Fox ton yesterday were Mr. T. F. Mill ward (the Company’s Wanganui agent) and Captain Munro (the Company’s Marine Supervisor, of Christchurch). “W|as I discourteous this afternoon?” a little girl asked her mother. "I hope not, my dear,” said her mother. “Well, our teacher was examining us on the poem ‘Casibianea,’ and she asked me why the boy stood on. the burning deck, and I said it was because it was too hot for him to sit down; and she made me stand in the corner.”

Speaking at Thursday's meeting of the Mannwatu Rabbit Board, Trustee Gloyn paid a tribute to the work of Mr. D. R. Barron, the Board’s inspector. M|r. Gloyn said he had recently been in conversation with a district farmer who had been strongly opposed to the Board. He had now, however, changed his opinion and considered the Board was doing good work, “and,” he had added, “the inspector is a good man. lie’s the right man for the job.”

One sensational result of the recent entente between Premier Mussolini and the Vatican, which constitutes the latter an independent sovereign State and heals an ancient quarrel between Italy and the Pontiff, is that his Holiness will shortly pay visits to several great Catholic families. One of these will entail the Pope going to England, where he will be the guest of the Duke of Norfolk at Arundel Castle. It will be a historic event, because no Pope has yet, in all the long annals of the Roman Vatican, set foot in England. Before he reached the chair, the present Holy Father knew England fairly well. He resided for some time near the Brompton Oratory, London, and frequently travelled on a ’bus, usually as an outside passenger, to the British Museum reading room.

On Saturday week a motor-car owned by a Wellington firm was stolen from a taxi stand and driven to Wanganui, where it was abandoned in St. Hill Street, outside the Council offices. After remaining there overnight it was taken into the Council yard, and a book found in the car gave the identity of the o wood's, and Inspector Fear communicated with them. The car was dry of benzine, oil, and water in the radiator, but otherwise was in good order. The thief, after abandoning the ear, hopped into another standing in the vicinity, and owned by a well-known representative of the Wanganui Harbour Board. This car was driven to W'henuakura, where it also ran /diort of benzine and was abandoned.

“We are already in trouble about our dogs, without introducing rabbits into the bc/rough,” said the Mayor of Devonport, Mr. E. Eldridge, at a meeting of the Borough Council, when the borough sanitary inspector stated that he had received a request from the Department of Agriculture to obtain an opinion from the Council on the keeping of Chinchilla and Angora rabbits in Devonport (states the New Zealand Herald). The subject provoked considerable discussion, mostly in humorous vein, and on the Mayor remarking that the keeping of rabbits on a commercial sc-ale would not lie in the interests of the borough, Mr. W. Campbell interjected, “You will not let ns keep canaries soon.” The inspector was authorised to obtain all information regarding the keeping of commer-

cial breeds of rabbits in the borough and inform the Department of Agriculture.