Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4472, 1 July 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

TJie (wo-year-old soil of Ah*, and Mi s. S. Powell, of < 'huuiolamis, Hamilton, was found drowned in a (1 1'.-l ill near its parents’ home ye.-. ■ I eida v.

Af Hie Sydney Stadium on Sat urday nielli Jolnmy Peters (llu Englishman) 8.5 outpointed Yoon; Ciildo 8.5. Tit ere was fierce tiighi ing* in the early stages. Inn the ID lipino was not scientific. lie mad. many wild rushes and was uinhered.

Isahle Alahel Stanley, aged 43, a married \\wunan, was found dead in a gas-lllied room in her home at liicearlon on Saturday. In Fehru-

ary, I!)Jtt, .Mrs. Stanley was involved in a motor accident, and was tried for causing the death of Ste|iJieii ,tarnes dohnsoii, of Dargnville. She was convicted ami lined .0100.

It is reported from Iho Hillside (Dunedin) railway workshops that 50 casual employees were given a week’s on Friday. This is said lo be one of the measure's adopted by 1 lie department for the curtailment of expenditure, ll is also rumoured (hat it is proposed eventually to gel rid of llie whole of the easual staff.

"Prussic arid does not burn the mouths of dogs and eats on which it is used, hill merely slops the nelion of the heavl, dealt occurring in less Ilian a minute. During the past twelve mouths, 1870 dogs and eats have been destroyed by prussic acid, and I here lias never been a failure." iSiieh is the text of a report (Toni the inspector of the Christchurch hraneli of the- Society of Protection of Cruelly lo Animals (Mr. While).

A new era of enierlaiiinieni will dawn in Palmerston Xorih next Friday, when the muguiliccul new Regent- theatre will open wide its doors. The management of Pal merston. Theatres, Ltd., lia,ve been successful in securing for its .opening attraction,- Paramount’s bril haul talking-singing liil, ‘‘The Love Parade,” starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. Plans for the grand opening porformam'o will be on. view at I lie Central Hooking- Oflice, Hmiiihvfi v, on Tuesday. ’Phone 7.178.

A lire engine loaded with its <-rew proceeding to an outbreak at Linwoml, Christchurch, met with an accident at (he inferseciion of Fitzgerald a.vemie and Armagh Street mi Sunday. One wheel wen! into a deep gutter. This apparently deprived Die driver temporarily of rout rot and the machine, swung round and crashed through an iron I cnee on the south side of I lie road. One mail was thrown out hut none ol the occupants were injured. The windscreen of the. engine was Imilly smashed.

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The monthly meet ing of the Foxion Uhamher of ('omineree will he held in Itoss s rooms on Thursday evening. At Auckland last night, Reg Trowern defeated Hilly Riehards (t^ncenslaml) ompoinfs in a welterweight prol essiona I boxing eontest.

llie usual monthly meeting of the I oxlon Lmmh Ulnb will he held in W’hyle'-i Hotel on Thursday. There will he no appended speaker, but the lime will he deemed to anecdotes and reminiscences.

'The Pe.rniio parly is now actively engaged in whale chasing. Up to the present time this season, scum whales have been captured, which is in excess of the number for a similar period lasi year (says the .Pic.ton Press). During the month of .June rain fell locally on eight, days, a total of 3.17 Inches being recorded. The maximum fall was .7 of an inch mi Hie Dllli. The eoldesi day was llu* US Ili and the holiest day was the Jml, when the lhermomeier registered 3(i and 5S degrees respective-

Squadrou-Lemler l-.il I (lew from I iobsuiivillc (Auckland) to Wigram (Christchurch) on Saturday in a • Fairev machine which is to he used in the photographic survey of the Manilolo Plain mi behalf of the Public Works 'Departincut, lie left I loli-.nn ville at B.lit a.in. passing over Pox!on about. JJ a.in. and unlived -ii W'igram at 1.-to p.m., Hying against a slight southerly ail the way.

The impiesl on the late Mr. .Jesse .Job Wilton, of Paraparalimn, who was discovered in a dying enndiiimi on I lie hack portion of his properly on Friday evening, was held mi Saturday, before flic District (.'omnci' (Mr, T: Brown), who relit med a verdict that the deceased was killed at the farm, W'angatiitn, by an accidental fall down a sleep ami rock -covered hillside. 'The late Mr. Wilton, although 77 years of age, was healthy and active, and at ') o'clock on Friday morning lie left on horseback from his home to out scrub about two miles a wav. He

v as found after dusk, lying’ ill an injured condition, and died just be Cure the nnilnifanee arrived.

Recently a large shipment of American timber arrived in an American (iiiveriimenl subsidised steamer for an Auckland joinery firm. The firm in question required the materia] in a hurry, and sent some 'Jit of its own men down to the wharf to aid in the discharge. After a hectic day af the wharf unloading American limber for New Zealand homes, the men returned io timeworks, there In receive lln-jv ‘weekly pay, in envelopes hearing llie slogan: “Buy Now Zealand (foods!" The incident would lie highly ludicrous if it were not so tragic for the conn try sawniillrr ami the limber wobker.

r Purler, like other players (says “Dropkickj") does gel offside- at linicrf, hill llid'e i> lit < ill tiff* full - Scicntioiis player in Ilie ami 1.-- il likely llmi in an iiilernnlinna! maleli, lei alime in any oilier, lie will deliberately run I lie risk of losing' lbe game for his side! Me lakes all i lie eril.iei.Slii like IIIt; good sportsman that lie is, and nobody enjoyed llie “dig’” tineoiiseionsly made at him in a railway refreshment- room mure iliaii Porter. A special table bad been reserved for the team, and u lien a stranger look a seal, there lie was promptly I old by an attendant at the room to move to another seat. Porter was then sorled mil as an unlikely-looking tool bn Her. Touching' him on ilie shoulder the atlendanl said: “You l.ave.no rigid ul this -table; you’re not a footballer.”

(•'nil her regulations governing ll.e crossing ul' t ’oolc SI rail by aireral’t are now in operation, and an amendiiient lo the Notice in Airmen issued a few mon Mrs ago dealing with Ibis mailer has been issued by i lie Direclor of Air Ser- * ices ( Wing It'ouimainter S. (Irani: Dalton, D. 5.0., A.F.l'.) “Machines proceeding along the West Ooasl of i lie \ T orlli Island nor wishing to pass over or land at Rongotai Uiiisi circle over Pan ka'kariki station tin! iI given the all-elear signal, a v, ii ii e cross plaeed on Ihe ground .'■l Ibe eenirc of Ibe north plalloini between the slat ion building and I In- north .signal-box," stales the noliee. “The signal does not mean that, the weather ahead is L’a\oiiiable, hid merely iiulieat.es that the passing of I lie aeroplane has been noted as proeeeding to cross I lie Strait or having crossed the Strait."

What are the ouistnndng qualiI ies I be discriminating smoker looks lor in bis iobiieco- Well, lo begin villi llavour, of eonrse, also aroma. Likewise each “-11.11’' should burn away to Ihe lasi shred. It. should be possible, 100, (if desired) to -.moke for two or three hours at a. slivtgh wiiholil I lie smoker experit neing satiety—or a burned tongue. The lobaeeo, moreover, should have no ill a Per-effects. !.RuL where, it may be asked, is lobaeeo coiiibining so many excellencies Lo be found ! Well, yon may look for it in vain amongst the imported bra nils, poisonous with nicotian as most of them are. Yet it is proeiirable here in “New Zealand at any tobacconists! Our New Zealand toasted tobaccos answer alii; the above mentioned requirements and are probably the purest in the world. The toasting process to which they are subjected rids thorn <d' most of the nicotine, and makes them safe to smoke to*any extent. There are only four brands of toasted manufactured— “Riverhead Gold'.” “Cavendish,” “Navy Cut No. J," and “Cut Plug No. 10.” Pul beware of imitations!—Advl. 11(3.

Tin- indications are for variable anil moderate south easterly breezes prevailing and al times freshoniiirr. Expect (lull and showery weather with mis! and fog - in parts, mislv rain expected. Barometer Ims a falling tendency. Seas and tides moderate.

While travelling by ear from Dunedin to Timarii on Sunday, •fames Williamson, a married man, aged 72, residing a I St. Leonards, was killed about two miles north id' Waitkonaiii through the ear swerving in loose gravel and overturning. Deceased was killed almost. instantly, hut three others in the ear were uninjured. Deceased was formerly a Government marine surveyor. I>ev.ulting from a discussion in which a Paten resident, allegedly con iending Itml unemployed men would accept work only in suitable occupations, linally offered £1 for tlie task of wheeling - a barrow on foot, to ITawcrn and hack, 24 married unemployed men purl imputed in n ballot and A. .). MacDonald, aged fi2 years covered (tie 3ti miles m I I hours, lie gathered in the £1 and also a collection from the crowd who greeted him on his return.

Foil ding's air sense was captured a I a public meeting held on Saturday night when an Aero Club was formed; a provisional committee -ml up and mailers put in train for liili.-itiim with the Western Living (..'lulls’ Kederalioii. These delinile steps taken, backed by an enthusiastic public, Foil ding will shortly be a centre of aerial activity, for under the federalon organisnlion Hu* training of pilots will very shortly be taken in hand. The training ei'oiind will be at Caro-

"\\V are quite in favour of New Zealand being represented by the Crime Minister ul the Imperial Conference,” said Mr. IT. E. Holland, leader of the Labour Party, the ot her evening, when his aitenturn was called to the remarks of the Crime Minister, M.r. Forbes, on flic need for some assurance being

given him that the Government would not tie defeated while lie was away. ‘‘But, at: the same time/' added Mr. Holland, “we hold that there are quite a number of items of legislation which should he put llirough before Cnrlianien! rises, i \ ell if the work has to he done after the Crime Minister's depart lire. If the Crime Minister wanted To get I lie work Through .before his departure, then lie should have called Parliament together much earlier to cimlilc lha l to lie done."