LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 4009, 12 October 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The pay-out by the Shannop Cooperative Dairy Co., Ltd., for but!erfat supplied during the month of 'September is to be 1/(1 per lb.

At the moment of going to press it was reported that W. Ilussey, Foxton’s representative in the 102 mile bike race, had finished first.

In a fifteen round welter-weight professional boxing’ contest at Wellington on Thursday night, E. Mor - gan (knocked out P. J. Stone in the tenth round.

The lfiOth anniversary of -the landing of Captain Cook at Poveriv Bay was celebrated, .-by the usual annual ceremony at the Cook Memorial on Kaiti Beach, Gisborne, yesterday. / In the House the other night, Air. Samuel said that 60 years ago the blackberry was brought to New Zealand, and was sold at. half a crown a plant, and had with it a written guarantee that it would grow.

During the past fortnight, six cases of typhoid, two of them fatal, have been reported at Christchurch. In one ease, which ended fatally, the patient ate tainted oysters. Exhaustive inquiries are being made.

Afr. L. Afartin sustained a painful injury while working on the wharf this movnihg. He was employed in unloading the m.v. Foxton ami when releasing a sling bis little linger and the next digit 'of the right hand became caught between the sling and the hook and the flesh was badly lacerated. During the last three years Fdxton has contributed competitors to the cycling marathon between Palmerston North and Wellington. This year Foxton is represented by W. Hussey of the local Post -Office staff and mueli local interest was evinced in life local 'lad when he passed through Foxton this morning.

It Is rarely now- a-days that one is privileged to hear the nrasie of an aeoordeon, yet in days gone by this instrument and the concertina provided the music at country dances and possibly were more acceptable than the jangling noises of so-called jazz bands which now obtain. t At a sociaj last evening Mr. Prentice rendered two items on an aecordeon which were keenly-ap-preciated by those present.

A man named Peter (O’Brien, aged 44, married, witli a. family of three, in business as a mercer at Tauranga, committed suicide at Kmneroa. on Tuesday by cutting his throat with a razor. He had been ill and was on a health-recruiting visit to his wife's relatives at Kumoroar" He left the house in the morning and as he did ?)ot return a search was made. He was found in tiie aftolrnoon id h paddock at some distance from the house quite dead, with a razor by his side.

Some electric power hoards display skull and cross-hones signs on power poles to impress passersby and would-be meddlers that death lurks in the current above. From what Mr. Purnell told the Wanganui-iliaiigitikei Board recently, says an exchange, it would seem that these signs; not. only serve their immediate purpose, but are money-savcsrs as well. “It will be recollected what an engineer told us,” Mr. Parnell remarked, “Ey.ery man with a gun blazed away at the skull and cross-bones and left the insulators alone.”

An admission that he would have Jlouted the law for the sake of keeping alive the spirit of chivalry was made the other day by Mr, A, M. Mowlem, S.M., rvhen presiding over the Hastings Magistrate’s Court. A youth had pleaded guilty to a charge of carrying more than two persons on his motor cycle, and Senior-Sergeant Dempsey had spared the boy’s blushes (by explaining that the two passengers were girls from a party. To have complied with the law would have meant that i ne of the girls would have had to walk home alone and in the dark. What was to be done? The senior sergeant seemed to hint that there was only one answer. Evidently his Worship thought so too,.for he said to the defendant: “I must confess that T would li/j.ve done the same thing myself. You are copyioted and discharged.”

To date twenty-five ridefs have nominated for the United Sports Association Motor Cycle sports meeting to he held on the racecourse on Labour Day. When digging a post bole on his property the other day'a resident of Petone", near Napier, got a distinct. shock when lie unearthed a Alaori skull in a fair -state of preservation. He quickly filled in the hole he had made and altered the contour -of his -fence to avoid the spot. .

The Taranaki Presbytery at its meeting at Stratford bad before it a l-fmit from Ilawera, affirming that persons having pacifist views should not be accepted as students for the Presbyterian ministry. The discussion was .unfavourable to the remit, but- it was decided to forward it to the General Assembly. A witness at an inquest at Auckland was asked her" age by the coroner, Air. F. K. Hunt, S.M. S'ho replied: “I really don’t know, but I

think I am about 50.” Aflr. Hunt

said: “You do not look that age. If ever you want the old age pension, you will have trouble if you cannot prove how old you are.” The witness said: “I sincerely trust I never will require that pension.”

There are a few Maoris' nowadays who write in their native language, but a document which was

leceived-'by the Kaikoura County Council had councillors puzzled. Apart from the address, the whole of it was in -Alaori and the council could not deal with it for the very good reason that no one could interpret the letter, which came from Waikawa. pa, Picton. “Vice-presidents are a lot of lot,” stated the secretary during the election of officers at a meeting held hear New Plymouth recently. “I understand,” said tln» chairman, mildly, that- vice-presidents give a guinea each to our funds.” The secretary referred to -his balancesheet. “Donations —nil,” he announced. Agreeing that six vicepresidents were unnecessary, the meeting elected only one for the coming season. He had given 10/6 two years ago.

“Is this Napier?” asked a woman as she descended from: a .sendee car in Wanganui the other day. “No, it is Wanganui,” replied the driver. The woman was journeying to the Hawke’s Bay town, but, by some chance, instead of joining the car at Palmerston for that destination, she got into v the Wanganui ear and made the trip blissfully unconscious of her mistake. She was not a whit disconcerted when she discovered where she was, but decided to stay a day or two in Wanganui, being* one of those fortunate persons -to whom time and money is a matter of little, concern.

“In the schools to-day,” declared ALvA, E. Lawrence in an adi dress' to the! school [Committeemen at Timaru the other evening, “there is an entirely new type of child. The world war has changed the mental attitude of the rising generation.” There was, he added, noticeable and disconcerting unrest among the rising generation which had confounded the teachers. It was utterly futile to imagine that an education system that sufficed before the war was sufficient for the needs of ito-day. The conclusion would be forced upon the authorities that the only way to tighten up the relation between education and success for the majority of the potential -citizens in the schools to-day was to provide a system of education for known needs and reasonable accessible positions.”

A local motorist proceeding' towards Foxton at a late hour last nig-ht was somewhat startled when in the vieiiiity of Motuiti to see a man lying stretched out in the middle of the road just north of the station. On getting out of the car to investigate a motor-hike . was discovered standing up on the side of -the road fieaiby. Efforts to arouse the man proved unavailing and the driver of the ear proceeded to a nearby house and there procured some brandy, On returning to the man and administering the stimulant he commenced to take an interest in tiling's and explained that lie was travelling from Halcomhe to Wellington, having left the former place at 8 a.m. that day. It was then somewhere in the vicinity of 12.30 p.m., but the stranger explained that lie had already fallen off his bike twice previously that day. The car ownffithen proceeded on his way and on turning in to his garage in town caught a glimpse of the stranger travelling down Johnston street on his -bike.

Toasted tobacco. What’s the great idea? You may ask. Well, if you have not yet tried what toasting will do for_ tobacco you’ve a pleasure in store. All our finest Yew Zealand-grown tobaccos are toasted in the making. This develops flavour and aroma, just us the toasting (or roasting) of coffee or cocoa beans brings out the flavour and fragrance. And' thanks to the toasting process these same tobaccos contain hardly any nicotine, while the imported goods are all more or less loaded with it. Now do you understand why the doctors recommend toasted tobacco? Those who try the N.Z. brands very soon get to prefer them to. all others. Hence their immense and constantly increasing sale. They are the only toasted tobaccos on the market and pro exclusively manufactured by the National Tobacco Co., Ltd., (pioneers of the N.Z. tobacco industry). You can get them of any strength.' Ask for: .“Riverhead Gold” (mild and mellow); “Navy Out” (a choice blend); “Cavendish” (the famous sporting mixture) ; or “Cut Plug No. 10” (a fine rich full-flavoured variety). — Advt 49.

“I am firmly convinced that this town owes its popularity to the Wednesday half-holiday and the retention of Saturday as a shopping day,” commented MV. M. PI. Oram, the chairman of the Palmerston Chamber of Commerce.

“The Main Highways Board has £1,200,000 hoarded up and we’re begging for half a mile of road. Tt's a pity-that some of those people who shook up the Government can’t shake up the Highways Board.” — Cr. Courtney at the meeting of the Thames County 'Council. The latest abstract of statistics shows that among the .principal causes of death in the month of August heart diseases were responsible for 173. Cancer caused the deaths of 82 people; pneumonia, broncho-pneumonia, 58; Bright’s disease, 36; apoplexy, 27; tuberculosis,. 25; bronchitis, 25. Other causes were senility, 29; accident, 26. The total deaths for the month were 712 compared with 702 for August 1928. Captain T. 11. Oakes accompanied by Mrs. Oakes and family, who has arrived at Auckland from England is a brother of Lady Orford, of Manurewa. Captain Oakes was re--cently invalided from 'the Indian Army, and lie has come to Hew Zealand with the intention of settling here. “I have met many Hew Zealanders* in England, and also a number of people whp have been here for holidays,” he said on his arrival. “Not one of them had a bad word to say against this country, and I decided to see it for my>elf. If the entrance to the Waitemnta Harbour and my first glimpse of Auckland is ally criterion, I am going to become a bona-fide New Zealander and enjov it immensely.” Herald. The Director of Education has become perturbed nt- the incidence of defective eyesight in applicants for appointment to the teaching profession, and' from investigations made by his officers, has formed the conclusion tha t this failing .could he attributed in some .degree to the amount of home-woiik given students during the secondary school period. The director lias accordingly circularised the principals of the secondary schools, expressing the opinion that the secondary curriculum “proved too great a tax ipoit the pupils and too muc.li time was given to home-work.” As a result of this conclusion, the Department lias directed that two houlrs’ home-work, should he the maximum required from secondary school pupils.