Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3998, 17 September 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fishermen report that a large quantity of whitebait grossed the bar during the week end, hut so far have plroved very hard to net in the river.

The long arm of coincidence reaches the highways and byways ■of the world. One Police Chief Robert Williams, who kept law and order in the little village, of Wink, Texas, thought lie had his family cupboard securely locked.,, But one day he-wrested a stranger.. The pi isoner recalled that they had been in prison together and that Williams had escaped in 1915. The police chief ife again, a prisoner. ■ During a Visit to Nelson ' last week a local Resident was surprised io note the extensive damage done to. business and other premises in the centre of the town by the recent disastrous earthquake. Repairs, now in progress, will run into thousands of pounds. Prior to leaving Nelson on Friday evening the visitor experienced a, sharp quake, which, however, did not seem to give serious concern to the Nelson people, who are apparently now accustomed to such uncanny happenings.

Mr. A. (Couglitrey had a narrow escape from losing his car by fire on Sunday. The car had been un-dergoing-cleaning operations during the •morning when Mr. Couglitrey. had occasion to go to Moutoa. Unknown to him a sack had been placed underneath the bonnet of the call' to prevent the,water from get - ting on to the pings during hosing down operations. The removal of the sack had been overlooked and when in .the vicinity of Poplar Roa d. Mr. Couglitrey smelt smoke and pulled up. He had only recently had his brakes relined and thought they required adjustment, but on getting out of the car he noticed

smoke issuing from the bonnet. He quickly opened up the engine and discovered the sack alight. Fortunately he was able to extinguish the outbreak before any s.erious damage had been done but even so the distributor and wiring had been damaged and the ear had to he towed back .to Foxton for repair. His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, Sir Charles Fergusson, and Lady Alice Fergusson, paid an ofli.eial visit to Otaki on Friday. The Vice-Regal party, included in which were the Countess Thelma Metaxa, Mrs. Baird, Miss Williams and Captain Orr Ewing, arrived by ear from Wellington at 2 o’clock; and jiroceeded to the (State School, where, there, was a, representative gathering, including school children.

from as far' as Manakau. Their Excellencies were received by the Mayor of Qtald (Mr. C. F. Atrnore) and Mrs. Atmore, and after they had inspected a guard of hon - our formed by Girl Guides, Brownies, Bov Scouts and Cubs, pro-, ceeded to the platform on which were the councillors, clergy and members of the school committee and their wives. Subsequently they visited the Maori Church, Te Rawparaha’s monument, and the OtaTd' Horticultural Society’s Bulb Show, which His Excellency officially opened. That the Rev. J. J. Pendray, of Manunui, had been buried in 1913 in the wrong cemetery plot was disclosed in a letter received bv the Taumairunui Borough Council at its last meeting from Mr. J. S. Pendray, on behalf of the relatives. Application had been made for two plots iti the Methodist portion, and the burial took place. Recently, when the remains of Mrs. Pendray arrived at Taumarumu for burial, it was discovered that her husband had been interred by mistake in the Roman ICatholic part of the ground. Mrs. Pendray was placed in the new cemetery, and the body of her husband will be exhumed and placed beside heirs. Mr. Pendray asked the Council to bear cost of the removal. On; the ground that the Council was' responsible for the. mistake.; The Mayor, however, pointed out that in 1913 the cemetery was administered by a cemetery board quite'distinct from the Council, which could not.be held responsible for the mistake. Amongst the treasured possessions of a South Island doctor is a collection of tobacco pipes. Nearly every pipe has a history. A fine meerschaum is said to have belonged, to Sir George Grey ; a long clay is said to have been smoked by Tennyson. The collection would fetch money but the owner won’t sell. He says, by the way, (and quite truly) that the tobacco counts for more than the pipe, and never jails to caution patients against brands containing much nicotine. His preference is for New Zealand tobacco (grown and manufactured by the National Tobacco Co., Ltd., pioneers of the New Zealand (tobacco industry) which lie considers the purest of all and freest from nicotine, while the foreign brands are full of the poison. It is the toasting of the leaf that gives this tobacco its splendid quality and renders it comparatively innocuous, because it helps to eliminate the nicotine. You can smoke any of the following well-known brands witli impunity: “Riverhead Gold” (mild), “Cavendish” and -“Navy Cut” (medium), and “Cut Plug No. 10” (full strength).—Advt 35. .