LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3991, 31 August 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sixty undefended divorce actions were dealt with at the Auckland Supreme Court last week. The Director-General of Health (Dr. Valentine) accompanied by Dr. Shore, paid a brief visit to Foxton on Thursday evening while on route to New Plymouth.

A meeting of the -executive of the N.Z. Hospital Board’s Association will be held at Wellington on Tuesday to receive applications and appoint a secretary to fill the vacancy' caused by the retirement of; Mr. Y. Keisenberg. ' In the (Dominion there are 742 local governing bodies, comprising 127 county councils, 119 borough councils, 68 town boards, 65 drainage boards, 50 fire boards, 45 harbour boards, 43 electric power boards, 47 hospital boards, 42 river boards, 48 rabbit boards, 19 road boards, 71 trammay boards, and 18 district councils of the Main Highways Board. The s.s. Himatangl arrived in port this morning with a general cargo from Wellington. Prior to calling into Foxton the vessel left 200 tons of cargo at Wanganui. The Himatangi is to sail this afternoon with hemp for Wellington and on heir next trip will possibly take a further consignment of cattle to Lyttelton.

The statement going the rounds that Mr. (W. S. Glenn has no desire to offer his services again to Rangitikei electors is given an emphatic denal by the Mart on executive of the Reform Political League. Mr. Glenn has l made no such statement and no efforts are being made to find a new candidate for the next, general election.

“If a red band were painted round each centre pole where a fatal accident happened, it would bring to the notice of the authorities what dangerous things they are,” declared the Coroner, Mr. :F. K. Hunt, S.M., at an inquest held into the death of a motorist who collapsed and died after striking a centre pole.

A recent consignor of fat stock from Foxton to Lyttelton per the s.s. Himatangi speaks in high terms of the suitability of that vessel for stock carrying. He said that he had shipped cattle from various ports over a number of year’s but the cattle he shipped from Foxton on the Himatangi recently arrived in a far better condition than taiiy previously. The beasts entered the pens at Addington as fresh as if they had just been taken out of his paddocks.

“I have every confidence that science through radium will conquer cancolr,” said Dr. P. Clennel Femvick, radiologist at the Christchurch Hospital, commenting on Dr. W. A. Osborne’s address to the Surgical Conference at Honolulu. Cases of cancer for which ten years ago, nothing could he done, were now being completely cured. Strong radium treatment over the whole body was impossible, but, when it could be applied locally, results were very encouraging. In his report to the Hospital Board for*several years past Dr. Fenwick has predicted the conquest of cancer through radium, and he is now more confident than ever.

On a fifty-mile road in India a motorist is given a timed strip and is forbidden to complete the journey in less than four hours.

According to Mr. Black, M.P., it will take £350,000 to .restore the roads trained by the recent earthquake. The Westport to Ivaramea road will require £120,000, and the Buller Gorge £IOO,OOO. A smile is but a fleeting thing, and this is why it is so hard for artists to convey a proper lasting impression of it to canvas, said Professor Shelley at the Jellicoe Hall, Christchurch, when explaining the psychology of laughter. There was supposed to be only one minting, he said, where a smile had been perfectly put on canvas, and tliis was in the picture, “The Topers,” by the Spaniard Velasquez.

A woman who in the Auckland Supreme Court for the restitution of conjugal rights did not mince matters in referring to her mother-in-law. “My husband’s altitude is due to my mother-in-law’s snobbishness," said Ethel Moore, who petitioned against Leonard Wlallis Moore: “His mother did not think the marriage was good enough. She thought he should have married money and she thinks I have not got enough.” An order was granted.

The ritual contest under the auspices of the • Royal Arch Chapter of the Druids’ Order ;was held in Levin on Thursday evening. Four teams took part, being from Paraparaurnu, Otaki, Foxton and Levin. The competition; was won by last year’s holders, Paraparaurnu, by one and a-half points over Levin. The work was even, well thought out, and excellently rendered. After the business, a very enjoyable dance was held and suppeir dispensed.

In the course of a short address at the Wellington Rotary ’Club’s luncheon on “Printing —The Art Preservative of All Arts,” Mr. L. T. Watkins said that the pioneer printer of New Zealand was the Rev. Mr. Colenso, whose press and type arrived at the P'ai'hia mission station in December, 1834. Remnants of the iplant were still to be seen in the Colonial Museum. In the .speaker’s opinion, New Zealand’s most distinguished printer was Mr. R. C'ouplaml-Harding, of Wellington. The imagination of the average commercial man, said Mjr. Watkins, could hardly grasp the magnitude of the newspaper press, or its immense power.

The annual general meeting of the Manawatu Croquet Association was held at Palmerston North last Monday. Foxton was not represented. The report stated that the Association had twenty-seven clubs affiliated with a membership of 646. The following officers were elected: —President, the Rev. C. H. Issaeson; vice-presidents, Mesdarnes Mayes and Gambrill, and Archdeacon Meredith; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. C. A. E. Ferguson; auditor, Mr. A. D. Campbell; delegate to New Zealand Croquet Council, Mr. W. J. Robinson; official liandicnpper, Mjrs. Gambrill. Il was decided to hold the Manawatu tournament on February 10th, 1930.

It’s funny, but it doesn’t matter a button how many pipes a chap lias —he can always do with another! And it often happens that the expensive pipe doesn’t smoke as sweetly as a common briar that costs, perhaps, the humble “bob.” But after all it’s the tobacco that counts for more than the pipe. Some brands if smoked habitually play Billy O with the nerves or heart. They’re overloaded with nicotine —that’s what’s the matter. Most of the imported ’baceies are like that. If you want really pure “weed” go for the National Tobacco Company’s goods every time. They are toasted, and this helps materially to eliminate the nicotine. It also develops flavour and bouquet. You can smoke these brands till all’s blue —and no harm done. The Company are the pioneers of the N.Z. tobacco industry. Popular lines: “Riverhead Gold” (a delicious aromatic), “Cavendish” and “Navy Cut No. 3” (two delightful mediums), and “Cut Plug No. 10” (a fine, full-flavoured kind). It is the toasting that makes them so unique.—Advt 29.