Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4464, 12 June 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Airs. R. W. Loehhond, wife of a well-known Canterbury farmer, was killed at Christchurch yesterday as the result of a collision between a ear her husband was driving and a passenger 'bus.

A. reminder is given of the annual meeting of the Foxton Horticultural Society which will be held in Ross's looms at 7.30 to-morrow evening, H U tu lie hoped that there will he a large attendance. William Dow and Ernest- Henry Gardiner were each lined £-l<l hy ,\lr. A. -VI. .Mowlem, S.AL, in the Magistrate’s (Court, Hastings, yesterday on charges of frequent mg llerelaunga street for the purpose of betting.

The funeral of the late Mr. Thomas Lee was held yesterday niternoon and attended hy a large mtmber of friends and rein lives ol deceased. The pall hearers were Messrs Cr. and .1. Coley, !•’. Robin son, W. Brown, .J. Madden and I ■McCarthy.

There was a good attendance at the. Surf Club euchre loiirnninenl on Tuesday evening- Prizes were won as follows:—Ladies: Mis,. Brown 1, Airs. Ohaffey 2. Cents: Mr. K. Bar kin .1, Mr. -I- Broad The regale prizes went to Mr. EParkin' and Airs. Ohaffey respeet ively.

His Excellency has set. an ex ample hy wearing New /.calami made clothes, even to Ids boots and tie. The frocks worn by her Ex cellenoy at Wanganui yesterday were also maim fact tired in. New Zealand from wool grown in the Dominion. His Excellency h.t - stressed the advisability of New Zealanders following Ids example.

Monday’s Auckland Herald reproduces’ photographs of the mishap in front of the members stand at the Croat Northern meeting, when Mister Camp ridden by W - Bowden (the local horseman) fell and brought down Daylight and Ids Vidov. There is also A photograph ,-[• \v. Bowden being carried off the course hy a cousin hie and lirsl aid ollieial.

When Selwyn Llovd Redell, aged 2S vcai's. a. motor mechanic, was a t-i| it it tod in the Supreme Court at Hamilton on Tuesday on n serious charge against a girl of IT years, the girl's sister, who had ontotod the well of the Court as the jury returned, threw a handbag with lull .force at the prisoner and was then seized with hysteria. Site was escorted, screaming loudly, front the Court.

The abolition of political parties was strongly urged by Mr. 0. A. Wilkinson, ALP., in an address at Knpongn on Alondav utgld. TTe proposed to replace the present methods with a system under which a l nil house of eighty members would select a leader who in turn would

,-lioi.se the members of his government. The best Labour, Reform ami United .men should he called upon to sink their party pro,'indices and act jointly for the country's good.

At the bi-monthly mooting' of Iho Wanganui Presbytery, held at Morion nv Tuesday, a request was received from the Fox ton eongregu-' lion, asking I hat the past liabilities to the General Assembly for assembly expenses and heuetieiary funds be writ lan off, and that the liabilities to the lire insurance fund remain on the books of the eliureh, but be not pressed in the meantime. The Rev. J. Paterson moved that this request, along with an explanatory letter from Mr. Nicholas, be forwarded to the general treasurer. 'fills was agreed to. “The. inspector grades the teacher on his results. Tlijs begets the re suit-gel tor, not the educator," said Mr. P. M. Jackson in his presidential address to members of the Public Schools Assistant Masters’ Association at Wellington. “New Zealand swarms with result-getters. Educators are not encouraged. 'Thus the grading system is responsible for this iniquitous system. The lies! result-geltors are appointed inspectors, and thus the system is perpol unled. Inspection and grading go together, amt perpetuate what is the negation of all true education.”

“The test of time has proved his genius.”—-Watkins. The test of time is the most reliable proof. Sixty years of soothing and remedying coughs, colds and all throat and lung eompluinls has proved conclusively to New Zealanders the reliability of Baxter’s Lung Preserver. Right, throughout the Dominion this rich, red, soothing compound has become the popular family remedy, 'file new -crew <-ap preserves the contents. "Baxter’s” also arts as an excellent tonic, (let a bottle to-day -large, economical, family bottle, I li; generous sir.nl bottle, 2/0; •bachelor's size, 1 <i. ---2.

The ratepayers of YVoodville. have voted by 80 to 1 1 to have the Borough constituted a. Fire Board district. When addressing a public meeting the Mayor stated that at Fox ton the cost to the Borough Council for maintaining the Fire Brigade during 1028 was £ 175,. Ihe highest cost in any year being £2OO. At Waipukurau the maintenance cost was £144 in 1020, while at Pahiatua for the same year the cost was £l5O 15/-. All of these boroughs were under Fire Boards. The speaker stated that the average amount expended mi the Woodvjlle Brigade during the past four years was £lO7 per year.

Following a brisk discussion at ihe conclusion of yesterday’s meeting of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commen-e, it was decided lo write to the Palmerston North Borough Council drawing attention to the madked increase in the number of motor accidents reported and bringing under the councils notice the fact that many of these were line to improperly focussed headlights and speeding oil the part ot drivers.

At the Palmerston Police Court on Tuesday Robert Duprat Tosswill, a civil engineer, of Wanganui, was tine £2O for being in a state oi intoxication while in charge of a Senior-Sergeant Whitebonsc stated that two constables had found accused endeavouring to k bis ear out from the kerb. He had been experiencing great dif-Ib-nllv with his gears and the car bad been jumping a lot. They had .lupped the ear and had found that iho driver was so drunk he could mirdly stand on his feet. When .asked where he was, he had said was in Wanganui.

'Concluding his annual report to the lloriiwliruim County Council the elerk .-tail'd that the tinanees Of ihr- Council are in a fairly satisfactory positii.n. It would, however, be more satisfactory from the point of view of main highways if the portions remaining to be reeon-

-,l met ed ei oi 111 be completed at an ,airly dale, as the growing main i.en,a nee i-osis will so.m opera te against the success of the Conn eil'-s scheme. Steps will require to he taken in the near future to raise a further loan for main highway purposes and, in addition, to lina m e the Council's eonlrihuf ion towards the new Afana watu River bridge. The interest and sinking fund in Imi h cases will be a charge mi the general account.

“Must of the harm arising from pipes is due to their foulness," Thus wrote Sir Robert Jones, a distinguished authority, in the "British Medical Journal." Sir Robert might 1 1 nvc uilileil that the pritic.ipul cause of pipes becoming foul quickly is the use of tobacco heavily charged with nieotinu, as mos! (if not all) the imported brands are. Such brands frequently lead to lienrl, nerve or eyesight trouble. Happily, here in New Zealand, ailments occasioned by excess of nicotine arc becoming' rarer. This is chiefly due to the growing popularity of New Zealand toasted tobacco. The toasting works wonders with the leaf. It not only vastly improves flavour and bon 11111 ■ t, Ini! renders the tobacco ab-

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