Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40037, 10 December 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At last night’s Borough Council meeting' accounts amounting to £1363 4/6 were passed for payment.

The British Admiralty has prohibited the use of patent cigarette lighters in ships carrying aircraft.

Hector Gray, the well-known jockey, had his collar-bone broken owing to a horse he was riding falling in a race at the Tanmarnnui meeting on Saturday.

At last nights’ Borough Council meeting the pound-keeper reported that five head of stock was impounded during the month and driving fees amounting to 6/- collected.

At the local Police Court yesterday morning before Mr. J. Iv. Hornblow, JiP., two statutory first offending inebriates, arrested on Saturday night, were each convicted and fined 5/-.

Those present at last night’s Borough Council meeting were the Mayor (Mr. M. E. Perreau) and Crs. R. J. Thompson, A. Crowe, D. R. (Barron, C. Rand, R. Rangilieuea, F. Lucinsky, F. Robinson, John Ross, and S. E. Cowley.

At the conclusion of business at last night’s Borough Council meeting the Mayor (Mr. M. E'. Perreau) extended seasonal greetings to the Councillors which were heartily reciprocated.

A Stewart Island fisherman who frequently bags a deer when skirting the coast has a novel use for .part of the antlers. 'By sawing oil the sharp points about Din. long he discovered that they make excellent spikes for piercing tins of benzine. Moreover, lie says they are safer to use, foir there is no danger of friction causing a. spark, as is the case when using a tile, which most motorists are in the habit of doing.

Quite a good tale is told of one of the older members of the New .Zealand police force. He was giving evidence in a case in which bathing' regulations had allegedly 'been broken. Counsel asked if lie could tell the sex of the bathers from a short distance. He declared that lie could not. “You mean to tell me that you could not tell the sex of the bathers?” “How was I to tell without speaking to them,” he (replied, “whether they Avere Protestants or 'Catholics?”

Two Canterbury College students will leave with the Byrd Expedition ship City of New York for ■the explorer’s base on the Great Barrier Reef, early in January. Mr Gavin L. H. Samson, of Dunedin, an electrical engineering stujdent, lias been appointed assistant Avircless operator of the supply ship. He is a well-knoAvn Avirelcss amateur enthusiast. Mr Neeville H. Newbold, M'.Sc., also of Dunedin, an engineering student, is another student selected.

Speaking to St. Andrew’s congregation at Palmerston North on Sunday night, Rev. C. T. 'Brown, M.A., said: “During the past five years Ave have bad in Ncav Zealand as Governojr-General, Sir Charles Fergusson —a man every inch of him —a brave soldier, a Arise ruler, a perfect gentleman, and yet a humble Christian withal. Did you ever notice that he was ashamed of the faith that was in him or ashamed to acknowledge his Lord. Nay, in almost every public utterance hq has seemed eager to exalt Christ and to honour bis Lord. Why should avo be ashamed?”

The tender of Air. A. Craig of £52 per annum for the Avork of Borough gardener Avns accepted at last night’s Borough Council meeting.

'The name of All's. Warwick avds inadvertently omitted from the Dorcas Society’s list of names, published last week, of those avlio donated soup to the school during the winter months.

At last night’s Borough Council meeting dog registration fees for the ensuing year Avere fixed as follows :—All bona fide sheep and cattle working dogs, 2/6; all others, 10/-. The fees are to be paid by the 31st January, 1930, after which date proceedings Avill be taken.

The grant of £950 on wild pigs’ snouts in the district of which Palmerston N. is the centre has almost been exhausted. Since the first payment in the third .week of October no feAvitijr than 17,000 snouts have been certified to by field officers of the Forestry and Agriculture Departments, and this number at a shilling a snout represents £BSO. / At a cost of about £36,000 a sixstorey building to contain 36 flats, is to bo erected on the corner of Afontreal and Hereford Streets, Christchurch. A syndicate of Christchurch business men is behind the venture and a company is to he formed to finance if. A similar building is already under eontsruction on the opposite corner.

It. is very nice to know that the people of Foxton alre getting good water and there is no need to lie afraid to drink any amount of it, said the Mayor (Mr. M. E. Pefreau) at last night’s Broongh Council meeting after the Health Officer’s report relative to the matte:!' had been read. “And milk,” interjected Cr. R. J. Thompson, “Yes, and milk loo,” added Hie Alayor.

When an offer was placed before the (Borough Council last night to take over a section in an outlying part of the borough OAving lo the fact that (lie owner could not pay the rates, the Mayor said he Avns looking out for a section in a central position as lie had had it on good authority that if a section and about £3OO was available Foxton would be able to have a Maternity Home fully equipped, together Avith a malti-on Avithoul any further cost to the Borough.'

In connection with the accident to a petrol wagon, which occurred last week near Kai Iwi (says the “Wanganui Chronicle”) and resulted in the driver, Horace Alarker, being admitted to hospital suffering from abrasions and shock. It is learned that the cause of the mishap Avas due .to petrol fumes overcoming the driver. The wagon Avas proceeding on its correct side of the road on a. tarred surface, there being no loose metal sufficient to bring the trouble which occurred, and, from-an eye-Avitness’s account, the driver appeared to collapse and the vehicle SAverved at right angles.

The chief ranger reported lo the -last meeting of the Alount Egmont National Park Board that two men who had been engaged to kill goats in the (reserves had accounted for 136 goiqts in six days last week, bringing the total killed to date to 1012. The men, Avliom lie had accompanied at times, had been able to move freely about the Kaitakes as a result ,of the tracks that had been constructed there by the hoard’s honorary rangers. The area was found fairly free of goats, .only nine being encountered and killed. .The midergrowtlUwas again coming away, and if tjie goats were kept .out it Avould not be long before the busli was regenerated.

Richard Brophy, former seeondin- command of the Byrd Expedition, staged a, faked suicide at Coney Island last August, with the object of getting out of sight. He succeeded until an editor from Omaha, avlio had been looking over a Byrd expedition picture last Aveek, recognised a man working on his staff as Brophy. Upon discovery, Bfi'ophy agreed to return to his sick wife in New York, but overnight again disappeared. It was alleged that his friendship with a Broadway actress caused complications Avith Commander Byrd, and led to his dismissal in Dunedin. [The rumour is denied by the Dunedin agents of the Expedition, who assert that Captain Brophy was not dismissed, but resigned oavfing 'to a breakdown in health.

Even non-smokers must admit that tobacco is a splendid disinfectant. It was proved to be so in 1665 —the year of the great plague in England, and doctors to-day consider it invaluable in warding off infection. But it is in times of menial stress that so many rely on it. Every smoker knows lioav comforting it is in time of trouble. Inferior brands however are best avoided and it should of course be as free from nicotine as possible. The American tobaccos, by the Avay, are all loaded with nicotine. Our New Zealand brands (exclusively manufactured by the National Tobacco Co. : Ltd., pioneers of the N.Z. tobacco industry) on the other hand contain surprisingly little, because they are all toasted, and that kills the nicotine and rendoil's them harmless, no matter lioav freely you indulge. And SAveeter, cooler, or more fragrant tobaccos than these money cannot buy. Ask your tobacconist (or any tobacconist) for “Rivei'head Gold” (mild and aromatic); “Cavendish”- (famous sporting mixture, medium); “Navy Cut” (a delightful blend, medium); or “Cut Plug No. 10” (rich, dark and full-flavoured). — A dvt. 70;

Air. LI. Holland, Parliamentary leader of the Labour Party has left Westport to take part in the Hutt by-election contest. He expressed himself confident that Labour avould win the seat.

At Auckland yesterday 'Charles Henry Whitehead, a labourer, aged 29, Avas fined £lO, or as an alternative, one month’s imprisonment by Air. F. K. Hunt, S.AL, for posing as a detective.

During the Aveek-end, the premises of Messrs W. Bull and Co., at Levin, were broken into and a quantity of bottled ale and stout removed. The police have made an arrest.

On Saturday afternoon one of the heavy steel smoke stack cables at Whitaunui Mill, ATouton, came down and fouled three 11,000 volt wires on the main line from Alangahao to Foxton causing an interruption in (the poAve’r supply for about three hours while repairs aa ere being carried out.

A resolution Avas passed at last night’s Borough Council meeting authorising the borrowing from the bank by way of overdraft, the sum of £IOOO. The original authority to borrow Avas made in April when 'the sum was fixed at £6OO, but OAving to the fact that repayments of Avater and drainage loans were not being made as promptly as Avas anticipated, the ComiQil was compelled at last night’s meeting to extend the amount to £IOOO.

Last year the Herald made reference to the thrift of a young man in Wanganui Avho had a Avife and three children to support. He was a labourer and found it difficult to obtain employment, so made up his mind to forsake'the city and move out into the country. He succeeded in renting a small area of 18 acres and a house at 30s per iwcek, and Avolrked for various farmers in the district. In addition lie approached the manager of a local dair_v factory who let him luiA’c seven cows. These he paid off for last year, and then decided to launch out on a more ambitious scale. Noav he lias secured a farm of 'BO acres and is milking 25 cows. '“No more casual labour for me, if 1 can help .it,” he remarked to a Herald reporter.' N

A hedge in the l Rnikoura district iras found infested by jireblight in 1928 by the then Government orchard instructor at Christchurch, Air L. Faynter, who urged that a visit of inspetion should he paid to the locality about this time of the year to ascertain if the inftc--tion still existed, and if it had spread. Such a visit Avas paid recently by Air G. B>. Goodwill, Mr Pn voter's successor, and Mr S. Frew, assistant orchard instructor. Air Goodwin stated last Aveek that after, a careful examination of the liaAVth'orn hedges and pear trees in the locality AV.here fireblight Avas (discovered last, year they had .found no trace of fireblight. As far as they could see the district was absolutely free from it. The hedge in Avliieh it Avas discovered last year had been cut down, but hedges on the opposite side of the Load were inspected without any trace of it being- found.

From time Jo time comment has been made about the absence of a feeling' of optimism in'manufacturing industries in the Dominion, and of the difficulties which manufacturers encountered last, year in maintaining their output and in making reasonable profits. ring to this fact, Air J. AY. Collins, secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce, in a report Avliieh has just been issued, states that with the efforts that manufacturers over the greater and more important part of the field- of industry are making to employ the latest methods and machinery, and to make their plant and factories more efficient and up-to-date, and with the very favourable trade and banking returns, it seems reasonablc to suppose that our secondary industries should enjoys, during the year ended March 31st, 1930, a greater measure of prosperity than they enjoyed during the last year or so.