NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40022, 12 November 1929, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

•Te Maire 'Station, Waii’oa district, lost between 300 and 400 sheep in a recent cold rainstorm, while Awametc (Station is reported to have lost about 1200 newly born sheep. 'Spence 'Bros., of Ruakituri, were also heavy losers. It is estimated that it costs the Hawke’s Bay Hospital 'Board over £SOOO a year for the treatment of tubercular patients, taking into account the patients treated in shelters in the hospital and those dispatched to sanatoria. Dunedinites are not now timid about cremation (says the Star). There have been 37 such funerals at the Anderson’s Bay Cemetery, the decorous carrying out of the arrangements now possible by the corporation’s adequate appointments meeting with the entii'e approval of all concerned. ' Several dozen applications have been received by the Auckland City Council for the position of city engineer (says the New Zealand Herald). Men with high academic qualifications have applied from distant parts of the world. Engineers in Cheat Britain, Australia, Canada, the United States, India and Malay States are among the applicants. '

A Manaia motorist, had an unusual experience this week while driving down Manaia Road after dusk. A cow and a heifer were standing on the side of the road, when the latter suddenly made to cross the road, but slipped on the tarred -surface and fell down in front of the approaching car. The vehicle passed over the'animal, but neither car nor beast appeared to he affected as a result.

The following remedy is guaranteed for trapping slugs, which are such a. pest to amateur gardeners at this season of the year: —Take a quantity of cabbage leaves, put them in the oven or wherei it is hot till they are quite soft; Then rub them with some fresh dripping and lay them in places infested with slugs. In a few hours the leaves will he found covered with snails and slugs, which can then be easily destroyed. How easy it is to make a mistake was instanced in Modrinsville recently, when a certain well-known resident was commenting with horror that the wife of a Cabinet Minister could sit in public smoking a cigarette, and “in a long cigarette holder at that.” His listener commented that in these days it was riot unladylike for women to smoke, and tlieire was no reason, if the Hon. H. Atmore’s wife wished to smoke that she should not. However, a, few'.minutes later it was found that the lady was not Mrs. Afcmore. Later in the day the statement was turned into a good joke, for one of the hearers -met the Minister and recited the story. “Well,” the Minister said, “fortunately or unfortunately, it cannot be true, for I have not yet met Mrs. Atmore.” The Minister is a bachelor.