Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4449, 8 May 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

When in doubt or trouble consult a policeman is apparently the creed of a Plymouth girl, tor when she sun 1 lowed n lisli bone the other (J:IV she dashed ollt of Ihe house ami ran up to a policeman. lie look her lu ihe hospital and she was "jinn tod on at. once.

A grim sub,jeel caused a laugh at a meeting' addressed by Mr VV. I’. Pmloan, Reform Party candidate in (lie Parnell by-election, when ques-tion-time arrived. Lu view ol‘ the fact that a murderer had been tv jjj'ieved in 1928, whieli happened !■• be an election year, Ihe questionin' desired to know whether the enudidale thought I'nLure murderers should enjoy the same privilege. “I think that is hardly polities,” replied Mr Endeiin.

The Foxton Surf and Life Saving Club Hold their usual weekly euchre party in the Town Hall supper room last Tuesday evening, when there was the customary good aitendance of players, over seven ly being present. The prizes were won as follows: —Ladies: Ist Mrs Broad. 2nd Mrs Alsop. Gents: Ist Mr McAllister, 2nd Mr 11. Mitchell. During the evening a box of chocolates was won by Mrs Puller. Next-Tuesday nigh I will be Ihe last night of ihe aggregate. An interesting story is told bv postmarks on the hack of an envelope containing a loiter written at Patea lo be sent, to a person in New Plymouth. Tile, dales shown (says a Wanganui paper) are: Patea, 23rd July, 1.867; Wanganui, 2-11-h July, 1.867; Wellington, 2nd August, 1807, New Plymouth, llJh .August, 1807. The roundabout journey is explained by the fact that there was no railway to New Piymuolh in those days. The letter had to travel lo Wanganui, then to Wellington, and from thereto New Plviuoiith by boat

A copy of the Palmerston North Hospital Board’s financial estimates for the year ending March 31st, 1931 was received at the meeting of Ihe Levin Borough Council on Monday evening. The levy on the Borough is £617 (i/2, as against £596 3/7 for the previous year, “it is creeping up each year—we cannot help it,” was the Mayor’s observation. Gr. Goldsmith said that the Council should realise l-hal, after all the Borough was very much better off Ilian when it was joined to the Wellington Board. “The apportionment of the levy among the local bodies in the Wellington district,” he added, “shows that- u place the size of Levin, if in that district, would have paid CBBf> instead of 1617.”

Tin* lion. Ed waul Newman, M.L.C .Hid former "M'.l*. I’ov Manawatu, visited Poxlon on Tuesday. Mr N'cwmau is oi' opinion Uiai there is a 'bright future before Koxlon and district. He considers that llie poultry and pig industry has had a serious set back with consequent linnncial loss owing to t.he import duty imposed on grain products. Every encouragement, said Mr Newman, should be given to these industries by the Government and the small farmer encouraged. The future prosperity of this Dominion, he said, lay in the closer settlement of the land and the cutting- up of large estates. Closer settlement in his opinion, would overcome unemployment. Mr Newman has consented to speak at the local Lunch Club at a later date.

The Foxlon Football Club held a dance in the Masonic Hall last evening- but there was not a large atI endauee.

It was authoritatively si a ted last v.-eek in Greymoulh that 75 per cent of the sawmills on the West Coast were not averaging more than four days' work per week at preseut, while some of them have been idle for a month. The reason given is that the depression was a reflex on the existing eeonomie conditions >n Australia..

Carrying her swag, having walked In Wanganui from the North, via 11antorville, a woman called at a Wanganui residence last week m search of work. She was well-spok-en, apparently had had a good education, but was destitute. She refused the two or three shillings offered her, hut said her services were available as a domestic for Iho sum of 12/(1 per week. She said she. had had verv little success in finding work', domestics from Britain apparently having taken the positions v hioli otherwise would have been vacant at a smaller wage.

A verdict of not guilty was relumed in the Palmerston X. Snpre me Court yesterday against a Waverlev farmer, Baelie Wright Harvey, who was charged with causing the death of two motor cyclists through negligent and reckless driving id a ear on -January lSIli. The accident out of which the charge nroso, occurred at the intersection of Kangit ikei and Xo. -1 1 fines and I ala I injuries were sustained by I lector Clarence Egglefon and a pillion passenger, Bertram Cecil Hazelhurst. At tlie end of an hour’s retirement, the foreman returned to ask whether a majority verdict would he accepted, Iml His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Mv ers, intimated that unanimity must be reaehed, which was obtained after a further two and a-half hours.

Strong except.ion to statements made by Mr R. A. Wright, M.P. for Wellington Suburbs and to Mr T. Bloodworlh, Labour candidate in I In* Parnell by-elecetion, regarding übtil he termed his “virtues and follies,” was taken by the Minister of Heal ill (the lion. A. J. Stallworthy) in a speech at Auckland. “I may assure you I am not a bit disconcerted by any criticism of my virtues or follies,” declared Mr Si all wort by. “Pbronbly my virtues are not very apparent and if my follies are. such as to invite criticism, I hope. I will lake it in good heart. When I was placed in my present position, I confessed I believed Clod had a plan for every man and flint Tie had one for me. I spoke from llm hoi tom of my heart and I do not recant now. 1 do not brag about it, nor do 1 make apology. I have sincerity in Christian faith and lei them scoff who will.”

“Say bo’." be began, “what’s this 'toasted lerbneker in the window, any way / There's toasted cheese, an' toasted bread, toasted bacon and I ousted kidneys. Likewise i ousted coffee an’ coboabenns, I know, but blame my eats if ,-ver I beard lill now of loasLed lerbnrker, I>o tell!” The tobacconist smiled. “Well, be said, “you know 1 1 ow loUsling brings out the ilavoiir of Ihe lkings you’ve, mentioned, ami it's just the same with tobacco. Toasting develops flavour ami aroma as nothing else does. More — it kills Ihe nicotine in the weed. Smoke toa.sled all you want! It won't do you a haporth of harm. ITardlv any nicotine in toasted, but lots in oilier sorts.” “Then,” said the stranger, “1 guess it’s the goods all right. More than cue brand, boss/” “Pour,” replied the tobacconist, “tiiverhead Gold,'’ “Navy'Out," ‘‘Cavendish,” and “Cut Plug No. 1.0,” which is the strongest.” “Gimme a. lin of t-ha.l, then, and if f like if I’ll sure acme back.” “You’ll like if, alright, I sell more toasted than any other. “The stranger was as good as his word. Me “sure came hack!” —Advt. 107.

"The old days were very hail indeed titty years ago," said a veteran at a recent gathering where old colonists largely predominated. “When we used to come to town with our lirewood, • which we used to ‘scow’ down the gulf, there were whole rows of empty houses in many of the streets. People had little money and all we got for a toil of wood was -I ti, which to-day would not pay for the cost of bringing it here, not to mention Ihe cost of cutting. If we made only a. Irille out of the

-ale of our wood, it at least enabled us to buy salt for our potatoes, which wore one of the chief articles of diet. Many a. good meal was made of potatoes and salt washed down with buttermilk taken from one of Ihe old-fashioned ‘up a,ml down’ churns before ihe American ‘round about’ churns came into the country. Our time of fulness earne,” added the pioneer, “when the peach season began, and when the luscious wild cherries and Cape gooseberries grew in profusion. \Ye liver! tun'd, worked bard, but in the fruit seasons we lived like lords.” People did not run to the. Government for help in the old days; the Government was as poor as Ihe people. A good, healthy body, and a determined will, carried the. pioneers through.—Auckland Star.

Why worry thro’ the winter with a “grouch,” A sad-eyed Peever, sulky and morose; Why sit around, or by a fire crouch, While wise ones take “The Little Daily Dose.” Why not be “0.K.,” confident and gay, Instead of having lung-woes to endure; Why not begin the wiser way today, With Woods Great Peppermint Cure. —1.

“T saw Iho crest at the top of the Labour Party’s advertisement," said Mr McDonald, United candidate for Parnell. "That crest is ‘Agitate, Educate and Organise.' The keynote is agitate. Agitators are not wanted in New Zealand. They are a menace everywhere, and yon ns workers should have nothing to do with them. They are proceeding along wrong lines.”

■■Don’t think that T am Harry Holland, leader of the Labour Party,” said Mr 11. Holland, M.P. for Christchurch Xorlh, at St. TTelicr’s Hav in helping a Reform candidate for (lie Parnell seat. "A good deal of confusion has arisen from the similarity of our names. Several times the Union Co. has given us the same cabin in the trip across Cook Strait, and on at least one occasion the same berth."