Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4417, 20 February 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A donation of Lon guineas was made to the Children's Health Camp by the I’nlmorston Norlli Hospital Board on Monday. Membei’s will visit the camp at an early 'data.

The agents report that the m.v. Foxtail made a smart, trip up from Lyttelton to Foxton this week. The vessel covered the distance in 22A hours. The Foxton is expected back in port on Saturday having .ailed yesterday for Wellington. The Yew Zealand sculling championship, under Australian and New Zealand rules, will be rowed on lTokiungn Harbour between James Mason, the present holder of the title, and Darcy Hadlioid, ex world's champion, for the New Zea - land championship title and a purse of £SOO, on Saturday, March 1.

A serious ease of potomaine poisoning traced to the midday meal on Sunday occurred at a Hastings boardinghouse on Sunday, six women being affected, four being sen! to hospital where they are progressing favourably. A lest of the food partaken is being made by the Health Inspector.

“Big business is all right in its way, but the strength of any country lies in a large number of small businesses. That is the conclusion 1 have come to after examining conditions in the United States and Canada," said Mr. W. Appleton, ol Wellington, who has jnsl returned from a trip abroad. Jessie Hansen, of Wellington, a boardinghouse proprietress, was successful in a breach of promise action against Janies Magyar Ottoway, a City Council employee on Tuesday. His Honour awarded £25, remarking that plaintiff was only entitled to relief for the injury to her feelings. The engage men'' arose from, an advertisement defendant inserted in a newspaper last May.

Charged with escaping from Paparna prison in .April, 1927, and with breaking, entering and theft at New Brighton on the same day, Roy Raymond_Whitling, aged 25, a carrier) appeared before Magistrate Mosley at iCbristchureb on Tuesday. Accused was recently extradited from New South Wales where lie bad built up a profitable carrying business. Witting pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

The balance of the Mnraeknkalto (Hawke’s Bay) estate of the late Sir Douglas Mac Lean was sold by auction at Hastings on Tuesday. The gross return from the sale and the sale on October 2.1 last was £244,54(3. The sections sold total 40 and the areas are from 30 In 900 acres, totalling 12,028 acres. Twenty-eight lots were sold at prices ranging from £3 25/- to £37 per acre.

During the course of a year many strangy things are cast up on the Oreti Beach (says the Southland Times), but probably the slrangcsi of all flotsam came ashore in the form of a. dead elephant —not .i sea elephant, bat a genuine elephant, with trunk and all. The car case was lying' on the sands in the vicinity of the wreck of the old Hindoo, and a local fisherman who saw the elephant states that it probably formed part of a travelling circus, and, taking ill at sea, was shot and dumped overboard flic tide has since reclaimed Hie carcase.

A tiny little girt baby, born at the McHarcly Home, Napier, three weeks ago, is the centre of interest there at present. Although she was not weighed at 'birth, it was estimated that she weighed only about l fibs, and weighs only 2lbs. now. She is therefore just, about the world's record for s)mall babies. Being so tiny, she was not expected to Jive, but surprised everyone by keeping a firm bold on her small thread of life, and with the great care and attention which she is receiving, is expected to grow into a line healthy child.

“The Foxton public have reason to be proud of the school’s success,” writes the parent of a matric. pupil, now resident in another district. “All the local candidates obtained clear passes —no just slipping through. I think: those parents who have decided to send their children to outside secondary schools, should reconsider such decision,” continues the writer, “as they will not get the same results as if their studies were prosecuted locally.”

There are at present 40 inmates ,f the Awapuni Old People’s Home.

When backing out of the parking area, in front of the C. M. Ross building at 9.45 o’clock last evening, a ear driven by Mr. .J. W. Hopcruft, of Aokautere, was struck by another car driven bv Miss B. M. Gower, of Foxton, who was proceeding from the direction, of Coleman Place. Minor damage to Mr. Hopcroft’s ear was the only result of tlm collision.

It was reported yesterday that Hie bag, containing Ihe pay roll for Moore's sawmill at Longwood, which was stolen from a. locomotive on Saturday last, had been recovered in the bush in the vicinity of the spot where it was believed to have been stolen. It was slated that a considerable sum of money was in the bag. Considerable interest is being evinced in the visit of the Island Bay Surf Club to Foxton during next week-end. Suitable billeting arrangements have been made by the local (dub and it is anticipated that there will be a large crowd on the beach to watch the demonstrations on Sunday. The visit should give the newly formed Foxton 'Chub a good boost, along.

Eileen Allerby met with severe injuries while riding to school yesterday morning. The horse on which she was mounted shied and threw the child and trod on her lace indicting severe facial abrasions and breaking the little girl’s nose. The little sufferer was removed to the Palmerston North Hospital yesterday after receiving medical treatment locally and is now reported to be progressing sa l isfaeloril v.

How doctors differ was mentionid in the Auckland Supreme Court: during the hearing of a claim by an elderly man for damages for an injury alleged to have been due to an accident. Mr. .Justice Herd man questioned the line of cross-ex-amination adopted by .counsel for plaintiff, and Hie biller replied that “lie wished to show how doctors differ.'” “That is fairly obvious, " said his Honour. “You have beard that when doctors make a mistake it is six feet under the ground, but when lawyers make mistakes it is six feet above the gioiind—they hang."

Wliat such an ordinary happening as a fall of rain can sometimes mean was mentioned to the Minister of Lands, the lion. ft. \Y. Forbes. during his tour of the Raglan County, by a settler at Kaawa (states an exchange). This settier. who has several miles of tortuous clay road to negotiate to the metalled outlet, said he intended to sell bis wool Ibis season at (lie first Auckland sale. lArrnngements were made to earl it out, but rain fell, and the road was in such a state that waiting was the only course. This meant that, although the wool arrived in Auckland, on the day of Hit* sale, it was 100 late to he cata - logued, and had to wait until the next sale. Prices wore then lower to an exlent flint meant a return of .£321 less than would have been received at tho first sale.

The danger of faking thermal waters indiscriminately and without medical advice was emphasised at a recent meeting of the New Zealand Tourist League, when it was reported that many visitors to Rotorua and other resorts were thoroughly catholic in their patronage of the waters from tin* various springs. Only people in the pink of health could afford to be so, reports an exchange. The speaker mentioned several cases where careless indulgence in mineral waters had proved disastrous. Tn one instance a. man and his wife, tourists from South Africa, both developed rheumatic complaints after three weeks at Rotorua, and were ' n the point of leaving tlm town in a very vexed frame of mind when their attention was directed to the <auso. After some persuasion he had them seek the advice of the balneologist, at. Rotorua, who found that the visitors had been imbibing water wholly unsuited to their health. They agreed to take different. treatment, and in two weeks were in perfect health, and very glad that they had gone to Rotorua.