Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1929 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40041, 19 December 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1929 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The pub Lie are requested by local postmaster to call promptly for parcels after they receive notices.

A iboy eight years of age, who guessed the (correct weight of a cake in a competition at Waipukurau, received as his prize a cake of shaving’ soap.

The estate of the late Mrs. Helen. Baird, of Otahuhu, who died on December 2, leaving a. number of bequests to Presbyterian Church organisations, has been sworn for probate purposes at £70,005. We have to acknowledge Christmas greetings from Air. Pat S'kellen, who is an inmate of the Palmerston North hospital at the present time, which- we heartily reciprocate with the added wish that he may soon be restored to health.

What is claimed to be the biggest trout landed in Canterbury for a number of years was caught, at t lie No. 2 iSehvyn during the week-.-cnd. One of tiie bag of seven ca - light by Air. W. D. Berry, weighed 201 b. It was taken at night on a large fly under water. » The Hon. W. B. Taverner states that in State tree planting 1929 has seen the establishment in New Zealand of plantations constituting an Empire record., In fact, wijjji—tho exception of Japan, the 53,509 acres planted here this year are considored a world record. While harrowing with a span ot. 14 oxen during a thunderstorm a farmer named Vos, living near Ventersburg- in South Africa had all .14 rnimals struck by lightning. Ton oxen were killed. The native hoy who was in charge of the ploughing was also knocked down, hut, although he suffered from haemorrhage, has recovered.

An eldelrlv woman, poorly dressed', surprised a salesman at Olyinpa in London (by asking to see “a car about £500.” With little hope of doing business, the salesman showed a £SOO car. “I’ll take il,” said the woman, producing a bundle of £5 notes. “Here is the money. I have been saving it for 15 years.”

“Keep cats and avoid pneumo - oia,” was the advice given by Dr. E. Palieir at a meeting of the French Academy of Medicine held in Paris. The cat, he pointed out, was the deadliest foe of the mouse, which was one of the worst instruments for the spreading of all germs, ’especially pneumonic microbes.

For breaking, entering and theft at the 'Shannon Dairy Go’s, store, Gordon Max King and Algar R. D. Mason received two years’ Borstal detention and Daniel Gilchrist nine months’ (reformative detention at the Wellington / -Court ; yesterday. There is a recommendation to the Prisons Board to consider the release of King, and Gilchrist at a comparatively \enTly date if their behaviour is good.

At a meeting of directors of the Shannon Co-operative Dairy Company held last week, the tender or A. C. Schioler of Palmerston North, was accepted for the erection of the new factory. Thirteen tenders were received, they being-from ns far north as To Puke and Hamilton down to Wellington. The contract lias been signed up and the work is to-proceed directly after the holidays.

An inquiry instituted by the Post and Telegraph Department into the conduct of members of the operating room staff, against whom allegations of betting'* have been made, was opened in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland yestorday before Mr. Hunt, S.M. It is alleged that^nin e members of the staff used the office telephones in relation to betting on races at the Takapuna Jockey Chub’s meeting on November 30 and December 2. The inquiry is not- open to the Press.

At. a meeting of the Shannon Borough Council held last- week reference was made by Cr. Curran, jun., to the effort being made by the Fox ton Chamber of Commerce to get the Foxton business people to subsidise a. ’bus service to leave Whitaunui mill on Saturdays at 1.30 pan. to convey the flax hands to Foxton, a Invembor of the Foxton Chamber, Mr. G. F. Smith, who bad brought up the question having stated that during the time the bridge was down Foxton had heiieflt.ted from the Moutoa trade, hut since the completion of the bridge this trade was going hack to Shannon. Cr. Thwnites sajd this was the sort of question a Chamber of Commence could take up, hut in the case of the local Chamber the work had fallen on the shoulders of two or three and now it was practically dead. Business people, Ih*> said, v ere too apathetic. The Mayor intimated that he would call a meeting of business people. This meeting was held on Friday morning, when there was a fairly representntivc gathering. After discussing the question Mr. Ohlristie, of Wilkinson and Christie, stated that after reading about the movement by the Foxton people, they had decided to run a car to leave Whitaunui every Saturday afternoon returning again in the evening. At present he did not expect many passengers but no doubt the number would grow with a regular and reliable service. The meeting being of opinion that this arrangement would be satisfactory, it was decided that no action be taken.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure

For Children's Jlacking Congk

The pay-out by the Shannon Corporative Dairy Co., for the supply of butlerfat during-- the month of November will be 1/5 per lb. Claiming that .her one-time fiance had borrowed £SO in various sums from heft’, and had failed to return the money, Anna Cohr, spinster, of Palmerston North, on Tuesday at Palmerston North proceeded against George 'Clifford (Farmer, printer, of Palmerston North, to recover this amount. Plaintiff was unable to produce corroboration of the loans and was nonsuited. “I believe- that gradually the tendency will be to substitute the income tax for the land tax,” said the Hon. W. Downie Stewart, M.P., when replying to a question at the conclusion of his speech at Day’s Bay on Monday night. “At present i: would not be politically feasible, although two Commissions have recommended it.” The land tax, said Mr. Stewart, was a tax on capital. Instances had been pointed out io Hie late Government by farmers who were paying land tax, not out of revenue, but out- of capital ; they had no revenue out of which to pay the tax. The small farmers preferred the land tax, because it was fixed, and not very burdensome to them in notrmal years, and saved them the trouble of keeping hooks for income ’ tax purposes. They also knew that their neighbours could ilot evade paying the tax.