LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40017, 31 October 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There is practically no unemployment in Foxton at present. A local fiaxniillor had to apply outside the district for flaxentters.

Tho Rongotea Horticultural (Society’s Summer show will he hek oil November 20th. A number ol local growers intend to exhibit ai Rongotea this year.

A local resident who recently took a motor tour through the Taranaki district, complains of tho selfish recklessness of Taranaki motorists, as compared with the courtesies of tho road experienced in this district. There is a deficiency of £125 13/- in the bankrupt estate of Paid Alidone, labourer, of Foxton, the principal unsecured creditors being Dr. Wyllie, Foxton (£49 10/-); IT. E. Garbett, Foxton (£25 4/7), ajid the Palmerston North Hospital Board (£l9 10/-). Local business people anticipate increased turnovers for the Christmas trade. The unemployed are now at work and although-the book debts accumulator! during the period of depression are still heavy, these are now being reduced and in,creased purchases are noticeable.

A motor-driver' named Ernest 'Edward Storr had his license cancelled for life at. the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, and fined £lO. He was charged with being found drunk in charge of a vehicle. This was his second offence within a fortnight.

The attention of local and district residents is drawn to the alteration in Mir. F. Rout’s Royal Mail and passenger service which now affords them greater facility for travel. The afternoon service has been altered, the service car leaving Foxton Post Office at 3.15 pan. instead of 3.30, connecting .with the New Plymouth train at Levin for Wellington and thus enabling' passengers to arrive in the city at 0 pan. The service also connects with Auckland north expresses.

At tlie Palmerston North Supreme Court on Tuesday, after 40 minutes’ retirement, the jury acquitted Albert Thompson, of Feilding, of a charge of using indecent language in the Palmerston North Square on May 11. The ease was one which the judge (Mr. Justice Blair) described as somewhat trivial and came before the jury as a .result of the accused availing himself of his right of Supreme Court trial, instead of "having the charge heard by a Magistrate, as is usual in cases of this description.

Maurice, otherwise “Bud,” Bourke, aged 24, a New Zealander, was 'killed at ,Scone, New South Wales, on Monday, while breaking in a. young horse, whirli fell on him, lm using concussion. The deceased, who was well-known as a roughrider and horse-breaker, is understood to have been champion horseman of New Zealand, the winner of live medals, and also the 1929 championship of Australia. He was on a holiday with a New Zealand companion “Buck” Harrison. Boiu'ke’s body was interred at Aberdeen to-dav.

The licensee of the Manakau Hotel was convicted and lined £lO and costs at the Levin S.M. iCSourt this week, for selling liquor on Sundiiv. William Hi-slop, Alfred Wilson, Luke Perawiti and Carl Lundquist charged with having been found without lawful excuse on the premises were each fined £2 and costs.

A party of Feildiug fishermen who visited Kapiti for the holiday report having seen a swordfish playing off the island. 'Some two years ago a mako shank; was seen in these waters and others have reported the presence of swordfish. Kapiti is a popular fishing ground and may develop into a deep sea .fishing area, says the Otaki Mail.

A car containing and

Mrs. (’ai ran and their two sons, overturned in some loose metal on the ()tal:i-.Manakau road on Tuesday. The occupants were all more or less shaken and bruised. Mrs. Curran had one arm. badly bruised and cut, and stitches had to lie inserted, while Billy, the elder son, was cut about the head* also requiring medical attention. Constable Carran escaped with a slight cut oil the face and bruises. The car, a new one, was considerably damaged.

The party of twenty-eight Tasmanian farmers at present touring the Dominion arc anxious to learn as much as possible concerning methods of farming in New Zealand. Incidents connected with their visit to the Otago province are covered by an interesting series of photo-, graphs in the current issue of the “New Zealand Free Lance.” The double-page feature deals with two unusual phases of school life, and includes pictures of a tiny tots’ orchestra and the recent boxing tournament at one of Wellington’s leading colleges. Prominence is also given to the farewells tendered last week to Sir Charles and Lady Alice Fergusson at Wanganui and New 'Plymouth. Other subjects included in the pictorial section of this issue are a series of views of the new railway workshops at Otaliuhu, where twelve hundred men are now employed; an excellent photograph of the largest cherry tree in the world; jubilee celebrations at Waimatc, and some aerial photographs of Auckland. Unless all signs fail New Zealand tobacco is destined to become famous the world over for its splendid smoking qualities. Like wildfire lias the N.Z. article spread all over the Dominion capturing the trade wherever, introduced. It is therefore obvious that this tobacco must possess merits rendering it superior to the imported, and one of them is its small percentage of nicotine. Even smoked incessantly 'finis tobacco does not affect injuriously heart or nerves and it leaves the minilli sweet and clean. It is the toasting process to which it owes not only its freedom from nicotine but its peculiarly delicious flavour and aroma. A.iid it is the only toasted tobacco on the market. Exclusively manufactured , by the National Tobacco Co., Ltd., there are various brands. If you like a very mild aromatic, ask for “Riverhead Gold,” “Navy Cut” is stronger, so is “Cavendish,” but if you want, a rich, dark, full-ilavoured sort got “Cut Plug No. 10.” These beautiful goods are on sale everywhere by tobacconists; many grocers and storekeepers also stock them. —Advt. 55. ■