Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1929 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3994, 7 September 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1929 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Otaki Mail says an effort is being made to retain the present railway bridge—which is to be replaced by a new structure —for use as a traffic bridge. Two Woodville Justices of the Peace yesterday fined Stanley Gordon Robertson, commercial traveller, of Christchurch, £3O for being intoxicated while in charge of' a motor-calr. The license of the driver was not cancelled. The Manawhenua forwards were up against one of the heaviest packs in New /Zealand at Napier last Saturday. Following are the weights of the Hawke’s Bay forwards McKay 13.8. Strachan 12.3, Gemmell 13.7, Steere 15.5, Brownlie 14.11, 'Campbell 16.1, Heffernan 15.10, Wilson 15.

“There would be no Court of Justice if everyone in the witness box was to tell the truth,” declared an Irish witness in the Napier Magistrate’s Court. “My word, you’re right,” remarked Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M. “That is one of the truest statements I’ve heard for some time,” he added.

An unusual accident ease, was the hospitalling at Dunedin on Thursday, with a compound fracture of the nose, of Harold Crawford, aged 23, employed at a service station (states a Press wire). He was removing a tyre from a car-wheel, when the tube burst, blowing the rim avainst his face.

Two Mt. Albert residents state that on Thursday night, from the top of Duncan Avenue, they saw a meteorite fall into Mission Swamp (big stretch of waste land in the vicinity), says a Press message from Auekland.lt was so near that they thought it was going to strike the houses between Mt. Albert Road blowing the rim against his face.

Bushfellefrs 12 miles from Wairoa recently discovered in a patch of about. 100 acres a number of kiwis. 'The country around Waioma lias been cleared for many years, and apparently the kiwi colony has been in existence for the whole of that time in a reserve on the property, though the birds were never sighted.until recently, when the axe was put into this small area of bush.

A married woman named Mrs. Charlotte Emma Thurston, 45 years of age, who resided at Northeast Valley, Dunedin, died suddenly in an office in the city yesterday morning while conversing with the manager. An inquest was held in the afternoon at which the medical evidence showed that death was due to cerebral embolism, a clot oj blood blocking one of the large passages 'to the brain. The Coroner returned a verdict accordingly.

A large lorry, known as Hamell’s, and containing a load of benzine, was the means of blocking the traffic at Kuku on Tuesday for nearly two hours, during which some forty cars, travelling north and south, were held up. In negotiating the temporary bridge, the old one having been dismantled, the lorry failed to make the crossing. Another lorry, after a deal of pulling managed to get the stlranded vehicle

just baelc 'far enough to allow a crossing. As the hour was late (11.30 p.in.) and many had long journeys ahead the language of some of the other drivers was unparliamentary.

Dr. Lankester, formerly a wellknown London coroner, once wrote about tobacco: “1 dare not, as a physiologist, tell you there exists any proof of its injurious influence when used in moderation. But the i. first symptoms of giddiness, sickness, palpitation, weakness or uneasiness while smoking should induce you to lay it aside. Neglect these warnings and you may be sorry.” The unpleasant symptoms referred to by the doctor often follow the use of foreign tobaccos, but never the use of the tobaccos grown and manufactured by the National Tobacco 'Co., Ltd., (pioneers of the N.Z. tobacco industry). It’s simply a question of nicotine. Most foreign brands are full of it. The tobaccos referred to contain hardly any. Also they are toasted. This process develops flavour and aroma, and prevents “bite.” There are various brands (all excellent) special favourites being: “Rdverhca'd Gold” (mild and delicious), “Cavendish” (medium —the sportsman’s smoke), “Navy Cut No. 3” (Bulldog —medium), and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead —full strength). Safe smoking because they are toasted. —Advt. 32. j

“The workers of New Zealand wore misled by the promise of £70,000,000. They found they had been looking at a sun of burnished gold. They were dazzled and blinded by its glare, but now that their eyesight has been recovered they find that the gold was nothing but a mirage. It was a pyrotechnic display of brilliancy, ending in sparks and ashes.” The above remarks were made by Mr. A. M. Samuel, Reform member for Thames, in the course of his Budget speech in the House of Representative on Wednesday.

■Frank Cowley, son of Mr., and Mrs. S. E. Cowiey, of Main St.,'and a companion had a narrow escape from' serious injury about midday yesterday. Frank had double-ban-ked his companion down to the beach on a push-bike and was re-p turning home fo|r lunch when just in front of Mr. M. E. Perreau’s residence in Lady’s Mile the lad on the handle bars got his foot caught in the spokes of the front wheel. The heel was torn off the boot by the forks and both boys were thrown to the ground, Frank going Tight over the handle bars and landing heavily on the roadway. He was knocked insensible but the younger boy escaped with abrasions to the ankle. Mr. Perreau heard the crash and hastened to the boys’ assistance. Frank was conveyed to Mr. Perreau’s residence and later to bis' home where a medical examination disclosed the fact that no bones had been broken but nevertheless he received severe facial abrasions which completely closed one eye. It will be a day or so before he w’ill be able to get about again.