Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 1930 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4414, 13 February 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 1930 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Al Tuesday's meeting' ol‘ the Mnnnwalu ('minty Council, il was unanimously decided In lake proceedings for I lie recovery ol.‘ all rales outstanding.

A postmortem exnifiimt-l ion of I lie bod v of John Walker, who rolla|tsed and died in an liolel bedroom at Auckland while being interviewed by detectives,, revealed llial death was due .to poisoning. The Coroner delivered a verdicl of suicide by poisoning.

.-The Manawatu County Council has accepted a tender for sealing the Awaliuri-.Mounl Stewart higliway. There were a number of tenders submitted, and (bill of Messrs .lobii Towler (N'.Z.) Kid., was successful. The estimate IVr the work was 2s !h| per square yard, and the successful tender was 2s (id per square yard. A thoughtless act killed several hundred lish at the Port Chalmers wharves on a recent morning. A bucketful of- the chemicals which bad been used to fumigate the holds of the steamer was emptied into the harbour. The deadly eftect of chemicals was soon evidenced by the dead lish lion ting nround. Some of the smaller lish, such as young terekihi, appeared to la dead when they reached the sur face. Larger lish, such as red cod, wriggled about for a while after rising to,the surface. The 'Levin District High School opened on I‘Vbruary ilrd with a roll of TJ.'I, of which number 1.-17 are High School enrolments. The 'best figures in this division of the school recorded in the past have been 111 in 11)2-1, and 12(> last year. The exam, results are as follows: —University entrance (i, medical preliminary 2, public service entrance 15, senior free places on recommendation 271, lower leaving certificate-' <!,- Pitman’s shorthand 12. Of the public sendee pusses, !) were students in their .second year.

The hollow''!nj>- local compeliters were successful al I lie Apollo Swimming Club’s second annual carnival, which was held in the niunici))al baths, Palmerston North, last evening:—Men’s .33 1-3 yds. handicap: Second heat, K. Ball, 7 sees, 1. Time, 23 sees . Eighth heat: T. Bruns, Tsoes., 1, (I. Shaw 7 secs, 2. Time, 22 l-f> secs. Seniilinal: First heat, It. Ball I. Time, 22 3-5 secs. Second heat :T. Burns I. Time, 21-3-7) secs. Filial: 11. Ball 1, 11.l 1 . Burns 2. Time, 21 4-5 secs. .Men’s (ili 2-3 yards handicap: Fil'd heat, \Y. Harrison, scr., - 1. Time, 53 3-5 sees.

Tin* latest issue of Aussie Petrol Number. Contributors from all over New Zealand and Australia have found petrol a most entertaining subject and their pictures, jokes, short stories, verse, paragraphs and (piips reconcile us |.o motoring' and many other disappointments. We see in this number the dpv.il being held up by a t.raflir cop for not Inlying a fail light, the inebriated motorist who asks the bowser man for a ‘‘couple ,'gallonsh” being lirmly told be has

“bad enough,” and the swagnuui telling the motorist, that: the road ahead is pretty rough because be “ad to lie the lid on ’is billy coinin’ over if.”

The world produces hundreds of varieties of tobacco/ but; the only toasted brands are of New Zealand origin. And the toasting - it. is that difl'erenitiates them from all other tobaccos. It is toasting that imparts to them their well-lknown flavour, and boiKpiel —yes, and it. does more than thait, for it helps so materially to purify them that they are practically free from nicotine —a deadly poison. This is a point of t remeinloiis importance to .smokers. Nicotine cannot, lay absorbed into the system without, sooner or later seriously affecting heart, nerves, or eyesight. I'he imported brands are more or less Lull of it. Toasted tobaccos arc. not. 'You can smoko them with absolute safety as freely as you please. Of what other tobaccos can that be said? We do not know of a single one. Hence the constantly increasing demand for these goods which it has been truly said, are now “in everybody’s pipe.” There ax’e a lot of brands, those perhaps most in request being “Navy Cut,” “Riverhead Gold,” “Cavendish,” and “Cut Plug No. 10.”—Advt.^80.

A southern writer of sporting 1 1. pics i emnrks that the manner in which some professional racing people “select" winners would surprise many punters who poster them for ‘‘lnformation" and tips. One well-knownt North Island trainer hadkts horses on the simple plan of counting the number of magpies he sees when travelling to a meeting,

and putting his money on that number on the machine. The wile of a North Island owner has a system- for hacking horses in hurdle races when they are the opening events on the card. Her method is to count the number of Chinese within sight, and to support that number.