Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4451, 13 May 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Birmingham, lias undertaken a £2,000,000 drainage scheme to prevent Hooding- )*y the Hirers Rea and Tame.

Those present al lasi night's Borough Council no-eling wore the Mayor (.Mr Al. I‘erreau), and Crs. li. -J. Thompson. don. li’uss, s. E. Cowley, ! C. Rand, A. R. Crowe, D. R. Barron, R. Enngihoiiea, E. Lm-insky f. Robinson and I In- Clen. (.Mr W. Trueman). The lotml number ul' mono vehicles registered in Xow Zeulnnd ai nisi Mareli lasi was 219,fi20. This iigmo was made up as follows: (Motor-ears, ]48,000; motor ii'fielcs, 20,218; molor omnibuses, 1288; motor-cycles, 3S,.'S(i7; oilier motor vehicles, 2(130. The number in the Wellington West highway district was 28,280, and the nundier in the Wellingloti East district was 7430. At last nielli’s Borough Conned meeting Ihe putindkceper repurled Ih.-ii during Ihe month three head ul.' si uric wore impounded and driving fees amount ing to 2- rolleeled.

Speaking in eonnec-tinn with the Box lon Harbour Board al lasi night's mealing of Ihe Borough Council, llie Mayor (Mr Berreau) said ihat il had been suggested on Severn I occasions I hat Ihe wharf be -•.hilled to Rush Elat and the ren -

,oi why I his suggest ion had not been taken up by the Board was I hut il was impossible to say ul present whal was going to happen in regard lo the proposed river ell Is.

The evening World, of Xewcasilron - Tyne has the following paragraph: Miss Eardslcy Wihnot, who is back from Prance where she has been for some lime, is still remembered by countless people as tin* woman who wrote the words of “Lillie Grey Home in the West”--one of the most popular sonlimenln! ballads ever written. She i* leaving- for New Zealand, where is in develop ihe community singingleadership. She is also a line leet liver. Although she has never been in New Zealand, she lias many friends there for sin- was a nurse in a base hospital during the war and for a time ministered to New Zealand wounded.

A bachelor, whose menage consists of four cals and a fox terrier, recently watched an amusing display of animal jealousy. A kitten, which had wandered into the house in search of a meal, joined the family, and the bne-helnr made unite a fuss of it. Next day, when he came home from work, the kitten was missing, hut the following morning he heard il mewing, and discovered it lost in a scrub-filled gully about, fill yeards from the house. He brought it back ami set it down in the kitchen with n saucer of milk, and turned to go on 'with lii.i, lost: of washing the plates. Looking round a few seconds later, lie saw the fox terrier pick up the kitten by the serul'i' of the neck and tiptoe outside, lie followed the terrier and watched him drop the kitten in densesi pari ot the scrub, obviously in Ihe hope of gelling rut 0.l a rival in his master's alfeet - ions. W hen the kitten was rescued a second time, the dug decided il would have lo pul up with it, and the kit leu is now an accepted member of the family.

Eeuinle inmates of Old People's Homes in England now get n qiiurter of a pound of -sweets each weekly. The men get a couple ol' ounces of tobacco. AwedS Would noi lie much good to these old chaps. Smoking is the only pleasure left lo m<>si of them. And how they enji.y their pipes! it’s good to see them puffing away in company, so happy and contented! < leensionally some visitor who i bailees to be a non-smoker lectures ihem on the folly of smoking. He might ns well save his breath! And why .should they be deprived ol what is a real joy to them/ Tobacco does no harm so long as it’s pure, and not poisonous with nicotine, us Lhe American tobaccos so often are. Our N.Z. 'baec.ies are practically free from nicotine. But that's because they are toasted. 1 his process renders them harmless. It also gives them their incomparable llayoiir and bouquet, flu-re are four brands: "Kivorhotui Gold,” AVavy Gut,” “Gavciulisb,’' and "Gut Plug No. It),” and they are the only toasted tobaccos manufactured. Wa re imitations ! Advt. 109.

Mere beauty does not always reign supreme, A till o’ in abstract still the poet’s theme; A Homely Syren oil secures “the palm,” W here languid beauty laeks a winning charm. Mere dosing for a cold may not suffice, for they who flout plaia commonsense advice; Beware relapses! and be always sure, Each dose is Woods’ Great Pepper - mint Luxe.—3.

Manufacturers of all kinds of goods from steel gales to jewellery now send I heir representatives to ihe London museums to study the exhibits and get new ideas.

Foxton's shave of heavy traffic fees collected for the quarter ended March 31st, .1930, amounted to £32 13/1 which amount was received at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council from the Kairanga County Council, the collecting anf.horif\. Last Friday a deer crossed over I lie eastern end of the borough and was pursued by Mr G. Wallhutton r-n to the Whirokino Road where it became entangled in a gorse hedge and was lassoed. Tf- was finally despatched by Afr R. Easton.

The number of Maoris in Now Zealand is increasing each year. Population figures published in the ahstraet of statistics for April show that since 1.924 the number of Afaoris has increased from 54,229

to fid,Go2. The figures are: 1924, 5-1,229; 1925: 55,154; 192 b: (44,138; 1027: 141,(189; .1928: (15,-ISo; 1.929: (>11,0(12. The total population of New Zealand on 31st December, 1929 was 1,485,594. An incident that ooenml at Hastings last week was somewhat reminiscent of Ihe air patrol service over Ihe forest areas in Canada, says the Hawke's Bay Tribune. A local pilot living over the forest it- -erva tion on ilu- Paki Baki Road hid iced a bell tent pitched in the centre of the plantation and saw

-moke rising. It would have been quite impossible for either the

smoke <o- I lie lent lo have been seen from the road. Ihe police were notified, hut when they nr lived i lie ini ruder had lefl. At the annual meeting of householders ni Carterton Mr. C. E. Jones staled that the meeting- consisted id' members ul the school committee, other householders being conspicuous bv l lit-i t* absence. In opening Mr. .Jones expressed extreme disappointment that there were no householders present. "Householders,'' lie said, " expect the school committee to carry on throiighom the year with work for rlie benefit of them and their child■ren, bur will nut turn out once n year to hear a report of whal has heen done.” He considered it a disgrace to householders that they did nol lake move interest in the education of their children. They had not even the decency to come along and say “thank you” for whal had heen done.

In commenting *-n the live which destroyed the Royal Hotel at ffveyliionlh last week the Grew Star

-ays: —"The outbreak again calls attention to the need for adequate measures lo facilitate the escape from bunting buildings at Greymontli. A sheet dangling from omul the upper windows of the Royal Hotel this morning was mute evidence of the lar-k of proper appliances in case of lire. The opinion is generally expressed that the time i long overdue when the regulation , should lie enforced ill Grey month, and, in lieu of more modern methods, a rope should at least he placed in every bedroom to enable the inmates to reach the ground in ease of emergency. Had the boarders been a little more unlucky early this morning, when the flames

were raging through the hotel, (here might have been several deaths, instead of merely injuries. It is con -

sidevod that there are many deathtraps in Greymonlh and that, when the buildings are inspected by the police, the-latter should he accompanied by the borough inspector and the health inspector, with a view to the enforcement.