NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4438, 10 April 1930, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

His three brothers, aged 74, 67, and 64, greeted George Harry Smith, the 78-year-old Dunedinite, on his landing at Southampton from the ftangitane. When Smith went to Hew Zealand from Bolton in the sailing ship Oamaru in 1877 he left six brothers and a sister. All are living, and their combined ages- total 566. Whether by accident or design, some of the Wellington traffic officers have been having an unpleasant experience while on duty at the Taranaki Street-Manners Street intersection recently, says the Dominion. The fact that a similar thing- happens about the same time almost daily—about 4.30 p.m. —suggests that it . is something more than accidental. Two at least

of ihe officers have had their clothes and hands spat upon by someone in a (ram passing to the eastern suburbs about the hour mentioned, and hut for the fact that they were on point duly and could not leave would have hoarded the tram.

The possibility of an airship service between England and Australia being in operation in (lie course r,C the next four or five, years was mentioned in Christchurch by Caplain J. D. Paul, who is chairman of directors of Boulton and Paul, Ltd., the constructors of the giant British dirigible RlOl. Tie expressed great faith in airships, and holds the view that I hey will eventually displace aeroplanes on long, journeys. The firm which Captain Boulton directs is soon to produce a light aeroplane which will he sold in New Zealand at a cost of about £(>so. It will have a. 40 li.p. engine and will have a top speed of 90 miles an hour and cruising’ speed of 70.

Among the humorous interludes of the maiden speech made by Mr. C. F. .Jones last week in the municipal by-election in Christchurch was the following explanation of the fame of (lie .Joneses: —“T am one of 15 brothers and sisters, and I can say we are known everywhere. I have 32 nephews and nieces. But I own up to just one child. And we fill more important places than Ihe telephone directory. You see (he Joneses are a pretty Tig family, and ii is time they wero represented. Recently George Smith rang me up and he told me (hat the Smiths have agreed for ihe Joneses to represent them. So 1 ought to have a pretty good majority.” Mr. Jones has since won Ihe seat.

“I had an interesting conversation with an old Maori woman at Jerusalem, in the Upper Wanganui River district,” said Mr. C. W. Baker, of Wanganui, recently. “She said that most of the young Maori girls who were living in town deriving a good education, and so forth, were really becoming ashamed of their older Maori habits and customs. She thought ‘the Maoris should remain (Maoris and (he pakeha, pakeha.’ It was her opinion that education was all right, hut it made them ashamed of being Maoris. She had lived in Wanganui and owned property in the suburbs. She preferred to be at Jerusalem, however, out in a canoe spearing eels. She also staled that the .Maoris were gradually adopting the English way of pronouncing (Maori words.” A valuable and pretty piece of hash, comprising about 70 acres, in the centre of the sawmill settlement at Whakanmrama, has been presented to the Government by the Whnknmarama. Land and Timber Company, through Mr. 11. H. Sharping, as a scenic reserve and game sanctuary. In accepting the gift on behalf of the Government, the Hon. G. W. Forbes, (Minister hi 'Charge of Scenery Preservation, in a recent letter to Mr. Sbarplin, said: “The reservation, for see.nie purposes, of suitable areas of native Imsh is rightly regarded as a most important matter, and it is most gratifying to me to bo in a position to accept your company’s public-spirited offer." They are also to be known as the (Puikeatoaki scenic reserve. (It is close to the historic Tin Track, and must in time be one of the most attractive picnic spots in the Taurangn, district.

1 J ipe—e iga r —e igarol.te ? Which is the least injurious form of smoking? Doctors mostly favour the pipe. But it really all depends on the tobacco. Imported brands are almost always so loaded with nicotine that their habitual use is attended with grave risk. The sight may suffer, so may the heart, or von may become "a mere bundle of nerves.” If you have any of these •symptoms (and you may have them all) change your ’baccy. Try the New Zealand. It's delightful smoking-. Pure, sweet, cool and fragrant. And it can’t hurt you even if you. over-iudulgc. That’s because —unlike all other tobaccos—it is toasted. Toasting- brings out flavour and aroma just as the toasting- (or roasting) of cocoa, or coll'ce beans does. You may smoke those line tobaccos (there are several brands, including “Biverhead Gold," “ICa.veiidi.sh," ‘‘Cut Plug No. 10,” and “Navy Cul,”) without the slightest fear of consequences. They are the world’s purest brands, and their growth and manufacture “now constitute one of the Dominion's most important secondary industries. —Advt. 1)8.